Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Written by Mike L., originally posted on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2003~2004)
Having spent 90% of 2003 in Japan, I have become quite accustomed to cool Japanese electronics, that are nothing more than pipe-dreams in other countries. Some of these include hard disk drive recorders (HDD), super tiny digital cameras, the new Playstation (PSX), and portable hard […]
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Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Originally posted on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2004. Note photos will be reuploaded to the server in the coming months.)
Hello, I hope everyone is doing well. I’ve finally gotten a chance to upload most of the photos taken during the past two months. I haven’t had a chance to post the photos […]
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Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Originally posted on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2005)
Ikumi and I are now in Hokkaido. We left Tokyo for Hanawa (near Morioka, Akita-ken) Friday evening after work. We spent a couple of days with her family and relatives for ‘Obon’. I believe in Chinese culture there’s a similar event where the ‘ghosts ancestors’ come back ? I […]
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Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Originally posted by Ferdinand on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2003~2004)
Hi, I justed wanted to let you know that I started a blog *on* contemporary Japanese photography with information on exhibitions in Japan or abroad, book reviews e.g.
http://japan-photo.info/blog/
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Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Originally posted on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2003~2004)
It all started on Wednesday evening. I had just finished a meeting with a client, and had gone on to look at a possible new office space with my colleagues. By the time we finished, it was around dinner time and I was quite hungry. I decided to head […]
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Filed under: Japan, Personal
Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Originally posted on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2003~2004)
Last night, a group of us had a ’sobbetsukai’ or ‘farewell party’ for a friend of ours who will be returning to Singapore this Sunday. Many of us who attended the party have known him for most of the duration of his stay in Tokyo - almost 3 years.
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Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Originally posted on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2003~2004)
Before even setting foot in Japan, I had already decided that I would buy myself an MD player. About 6 years ago, a friend of mine who had just returned from a 1-year stint in Japan told me about the MD player and all the neat things it could do. […]
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Filed under: Technology
Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Written by: TangoTown, Originally posted on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2003~2004)
TangoTown!!
Learn Japanese using your mobile phone (keitai). Dictionaries, phrasebooks, kanji searching and lessons like flashcards, quiz games and daily lessons emailed to your phone.. plus a heap more…
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Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Originally posted on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2003~2004)
Yesterday I went to Odawara by shinkansen with my cousin, his wife, and two adorable kids. We went to the castle - a huge wooden fortress - with a surrounding moat (which looked more like a large garden to me) - and even a zoo with monkeys, birds, and […]
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Posted on February 12th, 2007 by admin
(Originally posted on adventurasia.freezope.org around 2003~2004)
How are you doing? It’s rather unbelievable, but we’ve just had our 5th Annual Chimaki Party! For those of yous new to this, you may be wondering how this annual event was started? Well, about 4 years ago, a group of us Japanese + foreigners had met (through a […]
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Filed under: Japan, Taste of Asia