wanichan's English blog

Just blogging in English from Osaka, Japan. Technology, Diary and Life Style.

North Osaka Earthquake this morning - M6.1

Osaka earthquake happened at 7:58 am, but I live in the south of Osaka city so I am okay. I live on the top floor (6 stories) so some stuff fell down to the floor at that time, but nothing was broken. www.theguardian.com Electric bulletin …

Do you think I should watch out for GDPR?

You know, I am Japanese, and most of my websites users are Japanese. But, I have this English blog and English website at wanichan.jp. What is GDPR in the first place? General Data Protection Regulation - Wikipedia Google Cookie Choices I …

How to kill time while you are in the hospital?

I mentioned about my dad in the hospital, but I got an unfortunate news. He got CT scan yesterday and they found some spine damage by bacteria. If there were no problems he could have been discharged from the hospital next Monday. He has b…

Lack of accommodations

Nowadays there are so many Chinese and Korean tourists in Osaka. Japanese government invites a lot of foreign tourist in order to get more money, but there are very limited hotels or lodgings. Airbnb removes 80% of Japan home-share listing…

Do you think I have to look at EU User Consent Policy?

Every time I check out my AdSense dashboard, I see the notice like this. To support publishers in complying with Google's updated EU User Consent Policy, EU user consent settings are now available. Actually I am Japanese and 98.5% of my we…

Deli Box at Starbucks

I go to the Starbucks before English class to prepare. I always do that very last minutes. When I am hungry at lunch time, I pick up Delibox - sales release on April 18th. Basil Noodle & Roast Chicken Tom Yum Noodle & Roast Chicken I don't…

One more pink alligator

When I checked the mail box yesterday evening, I got an undeliverable item notice from post office. It was a non-standard-size international mail from my friend in Ohio. I asked him what it was. He said it's a small version of me. I asked …