Had a show in the morning, quite good. It took a long time to get the kids going, but once they did it was fine. Actually they were good, I guess I’m just judging them from the shows we’ve had recently where the kids are just fantastic!! You can really tell the difference between a…

Spent the morning preparing the DVD inlay again, in our Shinjuku office i.e. the Starbucks. Oh I love Gingerbread lattes! Then a 3 hour train up to Kita Ibaraki Shi. I got a lot of audio work done on the train, then we met our host for the next three days. She had prepared a…

Bed at 4AM, up at 6AM – I need to take a break from Japan!! Mind you for all the moaning I might do and however tired I might be, I had a look around at all the people on the subway in their suits and ties and felt really grateful that I’m my own…

I’m on the road for the next 2 weeks, then I’m off to England so I had to backup all my data today – all 300Gb of it. I also started the design of the DVD cover, which I did until 4 AM when I got a bit tired.

I got back last night at midnight and found out that my computer had crashed again. Argh!!! So I had no choice but to encode all the video files one at a time. There are over 20 and they take 45 minutes each. Hence I didn’t get much sleep as I set a file going,…

Woke up this morning and the computer had crashed. Hmm. 12 hours wasted so I set it rendering again. And hence couldn’t do any work so went shopping. But some great news is that the Genki English materials will be featured in yet another national TV Drama series! Nice! This year our stuff was featured…