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At the point of writing this, there have been 285 page views, and 8 comments.

This all looks a little pathetic really… don’t you think?  Especially when one of the comments was me.

So… I know you are there, the page counter clicks over each time you visit.  Please leave me a comment!

I am beginning to feel a little bit like I am talking to myself…  

I promise I will go back and upload all the pictures into the posts I transferred from Vox, and generally try harder to make things more interesting and much prettier. 

I will even write “what do you think?” at the end of new posts if that makes you more comfortable…

I am just learning, show me some support people!

Thank-you!  xoxoxox

What do you think?  Are comments on blogs a good idea?

Tokyo, originally uploaded by lijunlaopo.

I have just discovered a “blog this” button on Flickr, so am testing it out.
This interweb thing is so clever….

Photo above is taken by Patrick, the second most talented photographer in the household.

I have added another link to my blogroll.

Ayako gave me her web address today so I could see her lovely creations.  I am enormously envious because she works from home and makes a living from her online store.  I want an online store too!

I must develop a talent….

I grew up thinking I was creative.  It has only been recently that I have come to realise I am not at all creative, just kind of good at recreating pretty things.  Not such a useful talent really.

I can see what works and what doesn’t work in other peoples efforts, but don’t seem to be able to come up with anything original myself… only modifications of all the things that appear around me.  How boring.

Maybe Patrick has some good ideas.

I have been a little lazy with the blog this week.Over the weekend it was 35 degrees and humid. A good excuse, I think, for me to do little but work and then pass out. Strangely enough it was colder than it has been for weeks this evening so I have no excuse for continued laziness.

I did discover a whole world of blogs out there written by people who are not only excellent photographers, but fantastic cooks as well. Where did they get all that talent? Not fair! Share it around a little!

Some of my favourites are listed in the links on my sidebar, and this picture is stolen from Dessert First.

I began a lovely little dream of becoming really good at baking when we move to China and I take up my housewife role, but Patrick put a swift end to that when he reminded me Chinese houses have no oven. Hmm.

I guess I’ll just have to buy an ice-cream maker or something to make up for the deficit.

Part of me is really looking forward to going back to Hefei and wants to leave immediately, another part of me can’t bear to leave Tokyo and the lovely little life we have built here. It seems every city we live just adds to the places we will miss when we leave…. but thats just a bit too negative.

Quite possibly by then end of the rainy season and when the summer hits, we will be more than ready to leave.

We went to Wang’s Shanghai dumpling restaurant again this evening. I always miss China more when we are there because it reminds me how friendly Chinese are, far more so than Tokyoites.

I had heard before we arrived in Japan how visitors here will always be considered visitors, no matter how long they have stayed. Now I can understand how true this is. I definately feel like a guest here, and not always a particularly welcome one at that.

I wonder how people feel upon coming to live in Melbourne?

So, I have spent the evening cutting and pasting little bits of code.  I am glad to have managed to do half of what I set out to do.

At the moment this is all just too frustrating because I am not sure what I am doing.  I hope it gets easier soon.

Why wont my flickr photos align??