I hope people enjoy the new look to my blog. Its been a year since I started it, so I really need to have it changed. I toyed with various ideas but I felt that it was better to revert to a two column affair. It looks a lot nicer now anyway. The only things I need to change are the links on the side and also some icons on the bottom of the page. Hopefully I'll get these done soon. At the moment, the contact page is not functioning but you can still access my twitter feed and flickr account.

First post, so its probably a big HELLO to anyone who is sad enough to read this. My name is Richard, I am 23 years old going on 13 and am currently studying Japanese at the University of Sheffield.

Sadly despite my nerdish appearance (most of which is remembering information about world football) I still struggle to understand how you turn my PS3 off let alone messing about with a blog. I hope to write in both Japanese and English (if I can!)

じゃね。☆