Quick (food) recap of Japan

It's been a busy few days as I try to finish up my pre-work, pack, play Wii Sports, and veg out in front of the TV, so I've haven't had a chance to recap my Japan trip. Well they say a picture's worth a thousand words, so here's a few thousand words... (SOOOO LAZY!!)












Ok so we did do a lot of other stuff other than eat, but I thought that I'd start with the food first to make you all jealous, and to show how much of a glutton I am! MORE FOOD!

I'm off to Rome, Venice, Paris, and then Mumbai and New Delhi now. I'll keep posting when I can get online. Cheers.

Awww yeah it's my birthday

Partying like it's my birthday... well just more food.

Back to home base

Just got back to HK last night and still suffering from withdrawal symptoms of not having my ChunSa around. Ah well, distance makes the heart grow fonder.



There's a ton of pictures from the trip, and I'll post up some later when I have a chance, but I'm trying to be productive today and work on the pre-work for my new job. Just finished the pre-assessments and now I have to go through all the individual study modules. They weren't kidding when they said it would take 35 - 80 hrs for all of this stuff. Lots of good finance stuff that's bringing back memories of accounting and finance back at school... nice...



Of course, once I start trying to do work, I end up also finding ways to distract myself from accomplishing the said work. As such, I've just started checking out Penny Arcade courtesy of an article in Time, and my wonderful sister has introduced me to Dlisted, as part of her education of websites NSFW (not suitable for work for the non-gen whatever we're on now).




This comic in particular caught my attention since this is the type of ridicule typically reserved for Microsoft services - and to be honest, the Xbox Live and Zune Marketplaces have pretty similar purchase processes - but it's pretty darn great to see someone else get smacked around for once.


Three cheers for crappy user experiences!

Age++

At what point does one stop celebrating birthdays and instead starts dreading them? I've finally reached the upper twenties and I must say, I didn't quite expect to be where I am doing what I'm doing at this point.

It's all about the next 8 years. Time to get those engines roaring - it's now or never.

(Of course, that can all start 5/4. I'm still on vacation travelling the world until then...)

Too much good food... must... stop.... ugh

The past 3 days have been a non-stop face-stuffing extravaganza. First sushi, then special McD burger, then curry, then yakitori, then more sushi, tako balls, beef skewers, okonomiyaki, more curry... omg.

Can't wait for the next 5 days of more food. Japan rocks.

Chinese Copycats

Went to Shenzhen today to make some clothes for my new job. Went to Luo Wu Shopping Center, which is 5 stories of about 100 little stores, all specializing in copying anything you can imagine. Movies, TV shows and video games are a given, but they also have purses, watches, and jewelry of pretty much any sort. What's even more amazing is that they can even copy clothes. Bring a picture of something you like, pick the fabric, take down your measurements, and viola, in a week, you have a custom tailored copy.

I am having 2 Western suits, 1 Chinese suit, 12 shirts, and 2 pairs of paints made for me. The suits are about US$200 each because I'm using some material from Italy. The shirts are US$20 each. And the pants, are about US$30. The shop keeper is going to come down to HK the week after for a fitting, and then have the clothes delivered the week after that. A friend of mine mentioned that he actually knew a lady who had 20 suits made, so she didn't have to repeat a suit for a whole month. I can see the attraction of doing that...

I also got 2 dresses made for my girl based on the pictures she sent. We'll see how that goes. If it actually turns out well, that may be the new avenue for shopping for her. I could see how it gets pretty fun, especially if you actually start designing your own clothes. Too bad I'm too old to wear any clothes that are more adventurous.

Talk about fanatic...

Can 300 fearless volunteers trained for battle really hold back a hundreds of thousands of unwilling foot soldiers? Doesn't that sound a lot like the troops in Iraq?



If 300 is any indication, the U.S. is in a world of hurt. Makes you think if this is what Frank Miller was thinking when he wrote the comic.