Notes from the Tigers Cave

After a busy day spent at home promoting my Internet marketing start-up business, I like to crack open a can or two of beer in the evening. As I live in Hiroshima, my preferred Japanese beer tends to be Kirin.

However, if my Internet marketing start-up business is to take off like a space rocket, I think I might have to switch to a different brew, namely, Sapporo.

Sapporo Holdings recently announced that it is planning to brew the first “space beer,” using barley grown from grain that was stored on the International Space Station in 2006.

The brewery has enough space grain to brew up to 100 bottles of beer. It is more of a publicity stunt than a commercial enterprise, but the company suggested that in the future, when humans spend long periods of time in space, they might like a cold beer after a space walk.

That’s great, but as there is no gravity I guess they’d have to drink it through a straw, which might not be the best of ideas when you have a space station to run.

I know that after a day spent walking my website or related articles and stuff into as much web-space as possible, I can always do with a drink, preferably poured into a tankard that has spent an hour or so in the freezer.

David Hurley
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I’m British and my wife is Japanese. Our daughter is referred to as a “haafu” in Japanese. No offense is intended in the term, and none, as of yet, has been taken.

After all, half a loaf is better than none. In our household, both Japanese and English are spoken, usually both together since it is easier to say what you think in your own language and less excruciating to hear what somebody else has to say if she says it in her language and does not screw it up in yours, er mine. So, the question is, what rules do we lay down for our daughter as she learns two languages?

Er… rules? The fewer the better. The only rule I have is that the first DVD my daughter watches in my company must be in English. That’s it! She can mix up her languages as much as she likes and be as playful with them as she wishes.We try out a new DVD every so often, and last week I found Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on the shelves of our local DVD rental shop, and for the last few days that has been our chief form of English entertainment.

I never knew that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was based on a children’s novel by Ian Fleming – I never knew Ian Fleming wrote a children’s novel. As one of my English mates said to me over mahjong last Friday, it is a pretty good legacy really, James Bond and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

Here in Japan, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is called “Chiki Chiki Ban Ban” which sounds quite cute, or kawaii don’t you think?

Anyway, the point of all this, if there is one, is that one of the songs in the film struck me as being ideal for motivating struggling Internet marketers whose websites have just blown up, or who have just wasted a lot of mula and months of effort on promoting a product that turns out to be a stinker.

So without further ado, here are the lyrics, kindly supplied by http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/499705.html:

Every bursted bubble has a glory!

Success!

Here’s to you Internet business success!

David Hurley
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