Archive for August, 2007
I’ve always been awed by what Google Earth can do. Playing with it nowadays, brings about emotional stress… it’s making me terribly homesick! Especially if I look at the image below:
Near Seishin Chuo train station:Women and children donning their yukatas is the sight I love most here in Japan. Plus, seeing them dancing beneath the paper lanterns … what a refreshing sight! These are some of the “positive” indicators that I am really here in the Land of the Rising Sun. (I consider the unreadable [...]
What did I have for dinner? Pork curry! I also had curry for breakfast and lunch… then curry for the next 6 meals! You see, I really don’t like cooking and curry is a bit easier to prepare, especially with the abundance of curry mix here. I usually prepare large quantities so that I wouldn’t [...]
Taken from Wikipedia: We were supposed to witness this rare event but the clouds covered the skies and did not go away until around 10:00PM! Indeed we saw the moon so round and so huge… but the lunar eclipse was already over. So, I have no choice but to wait for pictures and videos from [...]
I saw this interesting article from Kerygma Magazine (May 2006 Issue): A Closer Look at the Differences between Men and Women: Grapefruit scent will make middle aged women appear six years younger than men. The perception is not reciprocal and the grapefruit scent on men has no effect on women’s perception. Women blink twice as [...]
There are lots of cafes and restaurants near our apartment. There’s Starbucks and Yebisu Cafe which I usually pass by on my way home. Yebisu? Actually, it’s the only Yebisu Cafe I’ve ever seen but as I’ve expected, it’s a very good place to hang out… probably better than Starbucks. ^-^The Yebisu cafe…inside, there’s an [...]
Yatta! I’ve just finished reading the real HP7 book early this evening! And I give it 5/5 stars! The best HP series book ever and I hope they would make the best HP movie from this! I know I couldn’t make a good spoiler on this so I recommend Grace’s and I’ll just continue with [...]
It may appear safe here but I always make sure that the door is locked. And if everyone’s already inside, I always check if the door is chained. I got even more paranoid because of an incident which happened almost a year ago. A guy entered our apartment using a copy of our key! We [...]
The 9-day summer vacation is finally over and I am back here in the office fighting off the urge to fall asleep. Now, what have I accomplished during the 9-day break? Apparently, none of those career-beneficial things and zero personal growth attempts ^-^. So, I’ll just list the things I should have done but did [...]
Months before the official release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, a friend gave me a copy of the supposed book. I was 100% doubtful of its authenticity but I still gave it a go. As I read through it, I was really bothered by how the book focused more on the intimate relationships [...]
There are a lot of things I have been doing back at home that I still do here in Japan but for different reasons… At home, I would chain my bike to something stationary, or else I wouldn’t see my bike again. In here, I chain my bike to something stationary for fear that the [...]
Weeks ago, I said my sayonara to GMail and Yahoo! Mail. After over a week of summer vacation, I tried accessing my blog in the office… and the shout box was replaced with a disturbing display that it was blocked! I’m afraid that soon they’ll also block blogspot or even wordpress so I have to [...]
