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Travel as a profession and misconceptions
1. I frequently get comments from people about travel opportunities being tied solely to the amount of money one possesses.
That could not be farther from the truth.
A lot of people travel as part...
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Weapons Research Lab
Welcome to the Weapons Research Division of Lands From Afar
Science applied for a safer tomorrow!
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Machine Girl
Description: Schoolgirl with a machine gun for an arm
Video of prototype in...
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Blogging: Part 1
After 13 months of blogging, I have had exposure to various aspects of the blogosphere and have decided to write a series of posts on blogging for beginners.
Why Blog?
Why write? Some do it because...
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Airi Suzuki
Airi Suzuki (鈴木 愛理) is a Japanese pop singer and currently member of idol groups ℃-ute and Hello! Project Kids. In 2002, Suzuki participated and passed, along with 14 other girls, the audition of...
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If Today Was Your Last Day
A song from Nickelback really got to me today.
My best friend gave me
The best advice
He said each day's a gift
And not a given rightWe could die at any given moment, your every breath may be your...
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One Year On
Through Eyes From Afar is now one year into its existence. 39638 visitors later from 6 continents and 131 countries, this blog has traveled quite a distance away from its original intent as an...
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Mother's Day
I wish every mother out there a Happy Mother's Day! My pictures from Naminara Republic Island in Korea illustrates her roles:
Mother is the most important person for the father and...
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Chronophilia
Chronophilia are sexual preferences involving partners of differing ages.
Different types of chronophilia
Infantophilia - sexual preference for infants:
Pedophilia - sexual preference for...
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The Three Worlds We Live In
Writer Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) summed up our lives to be of three separate worlds.
The first was the world of our imagination: the fantasy worlds we create and the characters we populate it...
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Afgan
Afghanis-tan (あふがにすタン, Afuganisu-tan) is a Japanese webcomic by Timaking (ちまきing). It is also the name of the manga's heroine, nicknamed Afgan (あふがん).
The characters:
Afghanis-tan illustrates the...
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Song Time!
A cover song sung by youtube personas YouLessThanThreeMe and NAGARU16:
KATARITSUGU KOTO 語り継ぐこと by hajime chitose 元 ちとせ (one of the ending songs in BLOOD+).
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INTJ: Freethinker or Psycho?
Marina Margaret Heiss's description of my personality:
To outsiders, INTJs may appear to project an aura of "definiteness", of self-confidence. This self-confidence, sometimes mistaken for simple...
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Guro
Ero Guro Nansensu (エログロナンセンス), or more popularly know as Guro (グロ) describes literature and art that focuses on eroticism, sexual corruption and decadence.
It began in 1920s and 1930s Japan as a...
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Nozomi Kurahashi
Nozomi Kurahashi (倉橋のぞみ, born 1975) is an alias chosen by Yoshizawa Ayumi (吉沢 あゆみ) following her debut as a nude gravure idol. She published nude photo collections every year mainly during her time...
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History Through Eyes Of Karl Marx #2
Continued from the previous article:
Stage 4: Capitalism
Capitalism appears after the bourgeois revolution when the capitalists overthrow the feudal system. In Japan, this occurred during the Meiji...
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History Through Eyes Of Karl Marx
The Japanese sense of homogeneity has been present for a very long time. This collectivist cultural value has long been integral to the identity of being Japanese. Looking into this, I stumbled upon...
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Lothlorien
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium chronicled in the novel series Lord of the Rings, Lothlórien is the fairest forest realm of the Elves remaining in Middle-earth during the Third Age.
The nature of...
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Riko Narumi
Riko Narumi (成海 璃子, Narumi Riko, born Riko Tsukamoto (塚本 璃子, Tsukamoto Riko) on August 18, 1992 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese actress and model.
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Get The Milky Way On Your Browser
Serge Brunier, a french photographer, offers you a navigable map of the Milky Way on your browser.
A time-lapse video of the Atacama Desert on his site:
Links:
Milky Way MapSergei's site
About...
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5 Most Intriguing Japan Matsuris
A top 5 list of the most intriguing Japan related matsuris known to me:
1. Penis Matsuri
A phallic centered festival celebrating fertility. Riding and sucking the object of worship may form part of...
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Year Of The Tiger
Wishing all Chinese readers a prosperous Chinese New Year! Rawr!
Chinese New Year (农历新年) or Spring Festival (春节) is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is often called the...
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Orgasm Patchwork
One night, having nothing better to do, I put together a patchwork image of the faces of various girls in the throes of orgasm.
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Time Out
Mono no aware (物の哀れ, lit. "the pathos of things") is a Japanese term used to describe the transience of things and a bittersweet sadness at their passing.
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Sanctuary
The sanctuary of the kami - the holiest room in the shrine - looms before you.
About the Honden (本殿):
The honden (本殿), also called shinden (神殿) is the most sacred building at a shinto shrine,...
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Hall of Worship
You hear chanting in the hall up ahead and approach...
To give an image offering to the Schoolgirl Shrine, send them to theenvoyoftefa@yahoo.com
About the Haiden (拝殿):
A...
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Yukio Mishima
Writer. Samurai. Lunatic.
It is hard to find a single word to fully sum up Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫), a celebrated Japanese writer in the 1950s and 1960s, widely known today not foremost for his words,...
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Hall of Sacred Dance and Music
You approach what appears to be an open air hall, and notice several performances scheduled for the year:
Miko kagura
Dances performed by shrine maidens - miko (巫女). The miko channels the god -...
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Water Purification
The trickling of water can be heard nearby. The fresh smell of moisture permeates the air.You approach the chōzuya (手水舎) and pause a while, listening to its water flow.
Instructions: Washing your...
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Courtyard
You pass under the torii and are now in the courtyard of the shrine. Where do you go next?
Temizuya (手水舎 - Water Purification)
Kaguraden (神楽殿 - Hall of Sacred Dance and Music)
Haiden (拝殿 - Hall of...
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Schoolgirl Shinto Shrine
You approach a time worn site. The sound of bells ringing brings a chime of calm to the mind.
"Torii and mountains greener, the waters and skies bluer, and besides, the human soul intenser" - Yone...
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2010
Happy new year and best wishes for 2010, dear readers!
The embassy of TEFA declares 2010 to be the Year Of The Schoolgirl and will dedicate a shinto shrine (known as jinja (神社) in Japanese) to the...
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End Of A Decade
With the year 2010 nearly upon us and 2009 breathing its last, one cannot help but look back at the decade we shall no longer be part of. As we gather for this momentous end, I will write of not one,...
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A Pinch of Salt
Ajinomoto, MSG, monosodium glutamate - these are all names for the flavor enhancing salt that was a brainchild of the Meiji era. Though not as visually awing as the modern Japanese innovations in...
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Ring! goes the phone
Do you just let the phone ring when you are otherwise engaged, or are you compelled to answer it?
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Dromomania
Dromomania (travelling fugue) is an uncontrollable psychological urge to wander.
People with this condition spontaneously depart from their routine, travel long distances and assume different...
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It's Raining
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