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w00kie's ramblings

w00kie's ramblings

Living the good life in Japan

  • About me
    My name is Francois, I’m a french guy living in Japan, working for a big french company as an System Analyst/Engineer somewhere deep in Saitama. Here are a few facts about me: I’m a co-founder of the successful french website MacBidouille.com It has spawned an english version at HardMac.com I’m bilingual in french and english thanks to studying at EABJM in Paris as a kid There, I also studied japanese for 9 years, but I could barely make a sentence before coming to Japan I graduated with an Engineering degree (major in Information Systems) in September 2004 After that I worked as a freelance web application developer to pay for my numerous travels around the world, all the while looking for a good job in Japan I finally found it and moved to Japan in November 2005 with a 2 year contract I was hired in Nov. 2007 in that same big French company, working on R&D Information Systems Other links of interest: My web presence portal (fancy word for “links to my profiles around the web”) A post I made describing my job as of February 2009
  • My Web Portal
  • Some of my photos

Important Events

  • Arrival in Japan:
    17 years, 4 months, 16 days ago

Time Machine

Japan Blogs

  • UnknownGenius

Other Websites

  • Chuchulu
  • Imagine Science Film NYC
  • MacBidouille

Tag: matsuri

Cat Street matsuri

Taken with my iPhone on Cat Street, the street that connects Shibuya to Omotesando. I’m pretty impressed by the picture quality of my iPhone, I should take more photos with it…

Posted on October 2, 2009Categories japan, photosTags japan, matsuri, photos, shibuya, tokyoLeave a comment on Cat Street matsuri

Matsuri Food

This weekend I went to the Kawagoe Matsuri, one of the biggest in this part of Saitama, and I ate 鮎塩焼き.

鮎塩焼き - ayu shio yaki

They are little fresh-water fish, stuck on a skewer, dipped in salt and fried around a fire. You eat the whole thing, except the head, bones and scales included.

Posted on October 22, 2007Categories japan, photosTags fish, food, japan, kawagoe, matsuri, saitama1 Comment on Matsuri Food
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