Watching CNN the other day when they featured a story about shirt rivalries in Thailand. It’s the red shirts versus the yellow shirts, with the red shirts supporting their former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. To all Filipinos watching this, it all looks very familiar. We had our own version of these shirt rivalries during the…
Tilt-shifting Minamisenju
I’ve always been impressed with tilt-shift photography and here are my first attempts at cheating tilt-shift photography. Took some pictures from a high place, blurred some areas, and increased the saturation. Not sure if it worked but will try some more. If you guys have tips on how to improve this, let me know. Taken…
Back to Reality
I’ve done it! I’ve gotten rid of my addiction (!) to all these social networking sites! I’ve gotten rid of Friendster a few months ago and now, I think I’ve started getting rid of Facebook and Twitter. For a while there, all I did was check (spy) on people, look at pictures, reply to statuses…
Fear of Touching Metal
I think I’ve recently developed this fear of touching metal. It’s weird I know. I think it started a few weeks ago when I get static almost every time I touch anything metallic… the door knob… the hand rail… even my window pane. At times, it feels powerful too, it’s scary. Now, every time I…
Second Childhood
On March 24th, I ordered two PlayStation 3 games from Play-Asia. The same day, I received an email saying my games were dispatched already from their Hong Kong center. Free delivery to anywhere in Japan. Today, March 31st, I got the games. One week of waiting may be a little too long but I guess…
Yosi Kadiri
Just as when I was close to considering smoking as another social networking tool, JR East decided that starting April 1, they will no longer allow smoking and all smoking areas will be removed from their platforms. Goodbye smokers. Good riddance. I hope more establishments follow suit, especially that McDonald’s store near my station. I…
My Favorite Social Networking Tool
I’ve tried a lot of social networking tools – Blogger, Friendster, Facebook, Multiply, and more recently,Twitter. They all have their unique features that allowed me to socialize and to network. In the end though, I realized I have one favorite. And no, it’s not Blogger. It’s coffee. Nothing beats a good conversation with a friend…
YouTube Overdose
Just realized I’ve been watching too many YouTube videos. My counter is at 6666, a very good number. I’m not watching any videos for a while just to keep that number. If only I was paid a dollar for every video I watch… In my defense, this number also includes all the views from people…
Nitori vs Ikea
Nitori is a Japanese furniture shop while Ikea, as most of you might know, is Swedish. I buy stuff from both although for a long while, I preferred Nitori because it is more accessible, there are less people, and they offer free delivery. I didn’t really like the first time we went to Ikea because…
Facebook Is The New Friendster
And I didn’t mean that in a positive way. Not at all. I used to love Friendster. It allowed me to keep in touch with friends I haven’t seen in years. All was well until people started customizing the colors and backgrounds of their profiles to the point that they became unreadable. People started sending…
Blogging For Money
You might notice some changes in my blog site. You will notice ads below the banner and on top of the sidebar. I tried to make them as discreet as possible so as not to scare off all my readers… all both of you. 😀 In theory, if you would click on those links, I…
Enrico in Tokyo 