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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: temple

Temple stickers

Still in 大聖院 temple, this gate was covered in these paper stickers. I don’t exactly know what they are for, my girlfriend told me it had something to do with sumo… Anyways, it looked really neat.

temple stickers on flickr

Posted on February 28, 2007August 4, 2007Categories japan, photos, travelTags japan, miyajima, temple, torii, travel1 Comment on Temple stickers

Ultraman and friends

Taken in 大聖院 temple in Miyajima, I have no idea what they were doing there:

ultraman and friends
ultraman and friends
ultraman and friends

Posted on February 27, 2007August 4, 2007Categories Crazy shit, japan, photos, travelTags japan, miyajima, statue, temple, travel6 Comments on Ultraman and friends
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