Category: Autobiography
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Contiki Tour in Italy – Pisa and Florence
This is the second part of my Contiki Europe tour diary.
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The Top 12 albums of my 20’s
Previously I posted the list of the 10 most significant albums in the first 18 years of my life. Here is the next instalment of my musical exploration of albums discovered between the ages of 18 and 27. I chose 12 albums because it was too hard to restrict the list to 10 albums.
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Countries I have visited in my life
Here is a Google map showing the places I have visited in my lifetime. You can explore the interactive map below.
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How I am improving my handwriting
In Primary school (Elementary School) I was taught cursive handwriting where letters are joined together. I also learnt to print letters separately, but cursive writing was normal for essay writing and notetaking. My handwriting has progressively got worst over the years and this month I took action to relearn cursive writing. Writing in cursive writing…
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The 10 most influential albums of my first 18 years
This article is a summary of 10 daily posts I made on Facebook sharing a milestone album from the first 18 years of my life. I also wrote some comments explaining each album’s significance to me.
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Why is my blog called charuzu
The reason is very simple – this is how a Japanese speaker would write and pronounce my name!
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A lifetime of Language Learning
I was thinking about the languages I have studied in my life and the reasons for learning. This article is an update of an earlier article. There are 9 languages which I have explored to varying degrees: French, German, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Italian, Korean, Vietnamese and Indonesian. I know how to introduce myself…
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Obsolete landline telephones
For the first twenty one years of my life the only telephone in my life was the “land line” phone in my home. This telephone looked something like the one shown above. The phone was usually in the lounge room and shared with my parents and brother. I had a phone number which was my…
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The obsolete library card catalogue
I am writing a series of posts about things which were an important part of my past but have been superseded by technology – telephone directories, encyclopedias, street directories , pocket calculator, rub-on lettering and the typewriter. I may write about things which are still in use but I rarely use – the landline telephone,…
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Music listening – Transistor radio to Internet jukebox
This is the story of my life of music-listening and the evolution of technology. I thought of calling this article “From Transistor Radio to CDs, iPhone, MP3s, streaming audio. and YouTube” but that title is a bit long. The technology of listening to music has changed enormously in my lifetime of over half a century.…
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