I don’t remember when I stopped doing this, but I know I haven’t woken up early to watch cartoons on a Saturday morning in years. I do remember how thrilling it was to go from one half hour to the next, watching Transformers, G.I. Joe, and whatever else happened onto the T.V. set. Now here […]

What a lovely morning! Waking up to the fresh smell of the summer breeze, the sunlight pouring through the curtains, the baseball teams yelling at the top of their lungs… AAAAAAAAAAH!!! Welcome to a Saturday morning living by the riverside. They’re aren’t so loud as to wake anyone up, thanks to the distance between our […]

I dished out for a new camera today, I’ve wanted this thing since Dheerna showed me a month ago. I got a Supersampler camera, the one that takes panoramic action shots by squeezing four frames of motion onto one photo. I know it’s been arround for a long time and it’s nothing really amazing to […]

After work today, I went to renew my train pass at Shibuya Station with the assistance of my coworker Akiyo(my Japanese ability is still low, so I need help sometimes at the ticket offices). On our way to the ticket office, we quickly passed by what looked like a farm stand in the middle of […]

Coming in on a Saturday to get work done is not so bad. The office was quite and I got a lot done today. I was working with one of my coworkers to finish some ads for a Monday deadline. For lunch we hit one of the best ramen joints in all of Tokyo, which […]

I finished work around 8:00PM today, left the office and got on the train, and after a packed, lengthy train ride, arrived in Mizunokuchi. Let the hunt begin! My target, a copy of the Gameboy Advance re-release of the classic NES game, “Adventure Island,” titled: “Takahashi Meijin no Boukenjima” in Japan, for my little sister […]

I’m sitting here, next to the TV, waiting to fall asleep and wake up to the sound of the typhoon which will start to nail Tokyo around 6:00AM. I had a nice talk with my sister on the phone, it had been a while since we spoke. Since it’s Nintendo’s 20th anniversary(I think), they’ve been […]