Comments on: Memoirs of a Gaijin http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/03/06/memoirs-of-a-gaijin/ sensitivitytothings.com Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:10:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: John Gillespie http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/03/06/memoirs-of-a-gaijin/#comment-32 John Gillespie Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:15:29 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/03/06/memoirs-of-a-gaijin/#comment-32 Thanks Alf. Yes, it may be true that I have spent a little more time on“for love” activities than my bank balance would appreciate recently, but happiness is seldom found through the lining of a wallet as someone may have once sort of said. I spent about half an hour in one of the best book stores I have ever been to (in Bangkok) recently, debating whether to pay a rather exorbitant price for a copy of Musashi, which I have been desperate to read ever since this rather good <a href="http://www.srichinmoycentre.org/Members/sumangali/blog/archive/2006/08/31/musashi/" rel="nofollow">review</a>. Financial sensibility got the better of me that day, although it doesn't always. I have yet to read The Pure Land, turning it over recently for a quite forgettable novel by a distinguished Chinese author during a recent round the world air trip (story of that <a href="http://www.srichinmoycentre.org/Members/john_gillespie/writings/prose/higher-plane-4/" rel="nofollow">here</a>). I must say with all of this blogging, one does wonder whether one is starting to live to blog, rather than actually live any more. It seems I can quote a previous blog entry now for just about anything I have to say... Thanks Alf. Yes, it may be true that I have spent a little more time on“for love” activities than my bank balance would appreciate recently, but happiness is seldom found through the lining of a wallet as someone may have once sort of said.

I spent about half an hour in one of the best book stores I have ever been to (in Bangkok) recently, debating whether to pay a rather exorbitant price for a copy of Musashi, which I have been desperate to read ever since this rather good review. Financial sensibility got the better of me that day, although it doesn’t always.

I have yet to read The Pure Land, turning it over recently for a quite forgettable novel by a distinguished Chinese author during a recent round the world air trip (story of that here).

I must say with all of this blogging, one does wonder whether one is starting to live to blog, rather than actually live any more. It seems I can quote a previous blog entry now for just about anything I have to say…

]]> By: alf http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/03/06/memoirs-of-a-gaijin/#comment-31 alf Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:33:30 +0000 http://sensitivitytothings.com/2007/03/06/memoirs-of-a-gaijin/#comment-31 Hi John, I know I have made it in the blogosphere now I am on your links. I will return the favour soon, when I remember how to update my links - as I am not so code savvy as you. May I add that I am really impressed by your prodigious output here, Seriously, you must be freelance now! I am intending to read a book about Japan soon called The Pure Land by Alan Spence. Do you know it? I still dip into the classic Mushashi every now and again, it is such a great tale. Alf Hi John, I know I have made it in the blogosphere now I am on your links. I will return the favour soon, when I remember how to update my links - as I am not so code savvy as you. May I add that I am really impressed by your prodigious output here, Seriously, you must be freelance now! I am intending to read a book about Japan soon called The Pure Land by Alan Spence. Do you know it? I still dip into the classic Mushashi every now and again, it is such a great tale.

Alf

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