Went to Naeba in Niigata this weekend for some skiing with the guys from work. The weather was miserable on Saturday, but it warmed up a bit on Sunday. The Noobs were getting pretty good at skiing by Sunday, but not before I got some video of Pats faceplant and Endas wipeout [...]
Hiroko Mima has won the 2008 Miss Universe Japan. Hiroko, a university student and athlete from Tokushima in Western Japan, was selected from amongst 9 other beautiful ladies to represent Japan at the Miss Universe competition in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 14 later this year.
Having had the pleasure of meeting Hiroko, and two of the [...]
The Panawave Laboratory cult predicted that the world would end on May 15th. They postponed it until May 22nd when it failed to end on schedule. They’re still travelling around in white vans, wrapping up trees and fences in white cloth while they figure out why the world isn’t cooperating with them.
Episode II started in Japan today. I’ll go see it when the queues to get in are less than 2 hours long.
I passed the Japanese driving test! Thanks to Matt who lent me the text books and sample papers, and Ga-chan who let me use his car on the Samezu test course for a couple of weekends, I passed the infamous Ippatsu Shobu. It only cost about ¥30,000 – not bad compared to the ¥350,000 it [...]
For Yukie’s birthday we planned to take her to an Italian restaurant for a nice quiet meal with just a couple of close friends.
Or so she thought….
For months before the actual event, Reiko, Yuka, Junko and Yasuko had planned something completely different. Bugger the small dinner party! Lets invite EVERYONE! To Velfarre, one of the [...]
Went windsurfing with Itoh-san and Pon-chan after a heavy night out with Quadruple.
Even with a Quadruple hangover, I had a great day windsurfing. Itoh “Ku”, Pon and I got the train down to Zushi. Abe-san followed us down a bit later.
We jumped into our wetsuits and hit the beach. The teacher showed us how to [...]
Went paragliding with Itoh-san and the gang.
After disasterous (but fun) first and second paragliding trips, we had an excellent weekend on our third attempt.
The weather was perfect (I got sunburnt again). After a quick explaination by the instructor, we climbed up the hill and started jumping. The wind wasn’t all that strong so half the [...]
Ack! No updates since August 99??? Damn Everquest!
Went windsurfing with Itoh-san and friends. No photos Gotta get a waterproof camera!
22 of us went to Shikinejima for the weekend. The weather was good for a change.
Santa Belgica organised a trip to Shikinejima island. We met at Hamamatsu harbour on Friday evening and hopped on the ship at 11pm. Sebastian’s and Eddie’s love songs kept the girls away. We landed at 7am in the middle of [...]