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Spicy garlic vegetarian ramen at UBC 🌶 😋
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Replying to @bmychui
Are you like a UBC official kid visit planner!? Thank you so much for the suggestions! This will definitely the offset such scenic destinations as “Hey kids this is The Pit where Daddy used to eat cheap hamburgers 20 years ago!” 😅
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Very simple newsletter this month
https://buttondown.email/chadkoh/archive/sudden-goodbyes/
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Replying to @bmychui
Yes, we will wander around and check out all the new buildings and admire the architecture, then pop down to Spanish banks for a walk there. Then we will get some boba and eat some good food in the old Richmond neighbourhood like we always do when we come to the coast 😋🙌
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Replying to @bmychui
Thank you very much for the cool information! If I had of known about this beforehand I might have actually been able to turn this all into a “cool dad” move 😉
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Replying to @bmychui and @UBC
OMG I had no idea about this! I wish I had so I could have made a booking. It might not be as good as Harry Potter World at Universal Studios Japan, but is still impressive.
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Replying to @wesinjapan, @bigkamo and @matthew_stavros
John gave me a copy of that when he visited me in Iki! But I have been so focused on Kyushu I have not read it yet 😅
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Replying to @wesinjapan and @bigkamo
Actually you might be able to pick up on some cool urban design stuff in there. It won’t as deep as @matthew_stavros’s book on Kyoto (which I still have to read), but there are lots of cool “walking around Kyoto and pointing out details” type stuff. It’s fun.
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Replying to @bigkamo
Not a chapter I don’t think, but they definitely come up. I might me misremembering but I think he talks about the special ones in Nijo-jo
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If you want to know more about Another Kyoto, check my review http://chadkohalyk.com/2019/09/30/walking-and-talking-a-review-of-another-kyoto/ https://twitter.com/chadkoh/status/1410460018848112641
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Replying to @bigkamo
“Another Kyoto takes a novel approach to introducing the city, through chapters about the types of things you will see: gates, walls, floors, tatami, plaques, fusuma, and screens.”
http://chadkohalyk.com/2019/09/30/walking-and-talking-a-review-of-another-kyoto/
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Replying to @bigkamo
I haven’t read those for like a million years (and I liked them at the time) but I think AK is a different flavour. It is more like a celebration of Japanese material culture, and not so much with the criticism of you know what I mean. Totally worth tho 💫
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I loved Another Kyoto. It was like walking around the city with Alex Kerr.
I‘ve only been to Bangkok a couple of times, but I am looking forward to reading this and taking another walk with him, all the while gaining some unexpected and enjoyable insight. https://twitter.com/BooksOnAsia/status/1410457001679671296
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Replying to @chadkoh
We asked the kids where they wanted to go for a short holiday. They said Hogwarts 🧙♂️ so I brought them to @UBC. We are staying on campus for the next few days and I will take them around to show them all sorts of cool stuff here (did I mention they are 11 and 9? 😅🐯)
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Once we get settled in here at the University of British Columbia, my old alma mater, gonna send out an issue of my newsletter since it is the last day of the month. I missed last month, and this one will be a short catch-up edition. You can sign up here https://buttondown.email/chadkoh/
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Replying to @chadkoh
It is so cool here in Vancouver! Only 24! Here we are crossing the Port Mann bridge into the city
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Replying to @chadkoh
We are in Hope now and for the first time standing outside the wind is cool and does not feel like a red dragon breathing on you.
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Replying to @chadkoh
The MASSIVE smoke cloud over the fire near Kamloops, as seen from quite far away. Also some cooler mountain tops as we go over the pass and into Hope.
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Very hot day, big drive to Vancouver to take a little break from all the craziness. Here are some choppers coming in to fight a small forest fire by the highway
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Replying to @melissahblaine
Thanks Melissa. Hope you are doing well and staying healthy.
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Replying to @AnnaGHughes
That gif literally could be in the opening sequence of The Office. Perfect casting. That is a Dunder Mifflin Doggo 12/10
Oh, and congrats on the job! 🙌
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Replying to @hepomodeler
Thank you ありがとうございます😊
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RT @NHKWORLD_News: A Kyushu landmark rises from the rubble
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Replying to @hepomodeler
It is FLIPPING HOT HERE 🥵
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Replying to @kiwiyamabushi
I totally get why you are a yamabushi mate! Skux Lyf!
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NARRATOR: He immediately surrendered his freedom (provisionally) returning to the isolation house to take an ice cold shower. 🥶
Mr Cool! 😎 https://twitter.com/chadkoh/status/1409976365755994114
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Replying to @chadkoh
Who’s that dude
Walkin down the street
Mr Cool? 😎NO! It is 44 degs out man! 🥵
But that man is a free man after 19 days of quarantine! 🙌 😃
And THAT is pretty cool 😎
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Replying to @tired_bison
Totally. Here he is in Kagura form https://twitter.com/chadkoh/status/1321382827452108800?s=21
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There is a project on #ikijima #壱岐 to interview 100 residents about why they live on the island. We were supposed to be on it, but had to leave too quickly. But our neighbour is up with her cute kids! 😊
https://ikishimagurashi.jp/4183
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Replying to @Bec_Edo, @NewBooksNetwork, @NewBooksEAsia and @Brill_Asian
Ah, I didn’t walk in there. I was on a strict schedule so stuck to the castle and the art museum. I was surprised to hear Dr. Saaler say that Saga was low on the statues considering how many are sprinkled around that main street, but the economic argument makes sense.
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Replying to @Bec_Edo, @NewBooksNetwork, @NewBooksEAsia and @Brill_Asian
Really enjoyed this Jingyi! Glad you mentioned the statuary of Saga. Here are a couple pics from the 駅前まちかど広場。The first time I saw them was at night out of the corner of my eye. Creepy! 😅
Also Nabeshima in front of the castle, and “something” at the art museum. 🤷♂️
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Replying to @thejonotron
It is now Day 18 of quarantine. I am certainly in a pickle.
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Replying to @ArnoGermond
Thank you sir! 🤙🏽
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Replying to @camcavers
I am really surprised we haven’t had the fires yet. This summer is gonna be bad…
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Replying to @camcavers
Definitely a different kind of heat. I burn almost the instant I step outside! 🦞
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Replying to @camcavers
Gonna be toasty in Kelowna this week too…
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Replying to @SeanLotman
Thanks 😊
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Replying to @SeanLotman
Nice! I have seen so many Japan Twitter friends getting theirs. I totally thought I would be able to get mine in Canada wayyy before people in Japan but they really kicked it up a notch. I won’t be able to get mine for a few more day. Stay safe, stay healthy!
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Replying to @chadkoh
Day 17 of quarantine has just about come to a close. We played more rounds of boardgames and rewatched Hunt for the Wilderpeople🤘Skux lyf 🤘
It was 40+ outside, so we didn’t really want to go out tbh, but I really hope we get results overnight 🙏
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Replying to @ronanhand
Thanks for the words mate
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RT @chadkoh: Why I had to leave Japan, what happened afterwards, and what is happening next
https://chadkohalyk.com/2021/06/27/sudden-goodbyes/
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Replying to @anaturalstate
Oh YES. Pretty much every process/bureaucracy we have interacted with after leaving Japan has dropped the ball. And considering the results, it is like the Entity of Canada in all her snowy mapleleafness does not want me in this country 😖
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Replying to @1chancom
うわー印通寺のマリンパル懐かしい！
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Replying to @chadkoh
Day 17. Quarantine continues. Lost samples not found yet. New samples sent in on Fri so I am expecting a result today based on our last experience and the hope that they prioritize our analysis this time around. 🤷♂️
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Replying to @EyeOnKyoto
Thank you for your well wishes, and thanks for reading.
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Replying to @thejonotron
Thank you for reading sir!
Last Xmas my parents (and many others) were completely alone for what I think is the first time since having kids. They were very careful. We were looking forward to the next one post-covid with all the family.
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Replying to @LongjohnShorts1
Agree!
I have spent 20 years living and returning to Kyoto. It is my “hometown” in Japan. But now I have another hometown, and it is great one. We will be back for sure!
Thanks for reading!
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Replying to @DramaNippon
ありがとう and merci beaucoup🙇♂️
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Replying to @harerg_
Thank you for the praise and kind words! 🙇♂️
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Replying to @emi_well
ありがとうございました！I look forward to meeting up with you again someday. I promise it will happen! 🤞
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