I was tagged by Jamaipanese in a game I have cleverly titled “blogtag”. Basically, I have to post eight interesting things about myself, before passing it on to a few other blog authors who’s secrets I dream of knowing. Usually I don’t really enjoy this sort of “Post your four favourite motorway signs” stuff, but I’ll give this one a go as it gives me an excuse to talk about some of the stuff I never wrote about on here.

1. Photographs
Every photograph that I have taken this year, aside from a few on my mobile phone, were taken with one of two cameras. From September to just before I went to Kyoto, I was using a tiny little black Olympus Mini Mju, which I still plan to use at concerts and so on. Nowadays I use a Nikon D80, a fantastic piece of kit with way too many buttons.

2. Music
I have a 60GB iPod Video, which is filled with all sorts of stuff. For a decent list of my music tastes, have a look at my Last.FM profile. I like listening to my iPod far too loud on the train, which lets people around me listen to music for free! I truly am a wonderful giver.

3. Japan Is Doomed
This blog is hosted by Dreamhost, powered by Wordpress and looks nice thanks to the Wordpress fSpring theme. The first post was written on August 25th. I average 7.9 updates a month, which suggests I will have around 84 updates at the end of my year, although the next two months are going to be the busiest I’ve ever had, so I am expecting to hit near 100, unless I can think of even more excuses not to post. I don’t think “My dog ate my blog” counts, does it? There are 264 comments currently on the blog, and if I let spammers post, I would have 15,591 comments. Curse you, spammers!

4. University
My first day at Sheffield University will be October 1st. I am taking Japanese language, which is a four year course, the third of which is at a university in Japan. I have no idea which university in Japan I will end up at or even which one I want to go to yet, I’m not even going to worry about that yet. Alongside Japanese I can take a variety of other subjects, I’m thinking of an English Teaching course (TOEFL) or possibly advanced drinking studies, although I heard the coursework for that is a nightmare.

5. Forgotten Things
Although I try to use this blog to remember everything I’ve done, there’s quite a bit of stuff I never updated about for various reasons. They include seeing Delta Goodrem (I’m not a fan but she is stunning) in HMV, eating Ostrich at Leon’s birthday party (it was delicious) and visiting the Edo museum in Tokyo but failing to get any photographs. Oops.

6. Vital Statistics
My blood type is A positive. I am 182cm tall (or so). Eating black licorice makes me sick. I am a huge fan of cold Kirin beer. My favourite movies are Shaun Of The Dead, Battle Royale and The Shawshank Redemption. I also love The Lion King and The Truman Show but people laugh at me when I say that. I am right handed.

7. The Future
I leave Japan on August 20th and start university, as I said, on October 1st. I plan to come back to Japan next summer to visit everyone. I don’t know what I will do with Japan Is Doomed, but it will stay online for people to read. I’ll probably move it over to another site when I decide what I want to do.

8. Contact
I always reply to emails so please do drop me an email sometime. I will always write back and be nice. This is a clever way to get out of thinking of an 8th point and nothing more.

I am going to “tag” the following people; Leon, Nate & Dafydd. Gentlemen, start your writing!

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