Playing with Apertures

I’ve been re-exploring my interest in playing with apertures. I’ve even activated my flickr account to host my favorite shots.

Vista is Coming

Last week. I ordered me a Dell XPS M1330. After much consideration, I decided not to wait for OS X Leopard and just get me the latest and greatest Vista. Ultimate no less. Why Ultimate? So it can support downloading the English pack and switching everything to English. I also customized it to come with…

One Year in Tokyo

Woohoo! Since I am currently on a list-writing spree… here is a list of things I remember about my first year in Tokyo, in no particular order. Not a bad year after all.

Information Overload

In just a matter of a three days, I was able to… Cable TV is good for the brains but not for the body.

Blow-out

One thing my non-Filipino friends find extremely weird about Filipinos is our little birthday tradition of “blow-out“. Aside from our definition of “blow-out” not being internationally recognized, they just don’t feel right about the idea of the birthday boy/girl having to dish out money (sometimes lots of money) to pay for his/her guests’ food. I…

130 km/h serve

Today we had a radar gun to measure the speed of our serves. Mine clocked at 130 km/h, which would put me top 2 in my class of 14. In comparison, the fastest serves in the professional tour would measure 149 (Greg Rusedski and Andy Roddick) for the men’s tour and 129 (Venus Williams) for…

Big Problem

This problem has been bothering me since this afternoon and I might not be able to sleep because of this. I can’t find the English word for “makunat”!

Escaping Tokyo

Well not really. We were still in Tokyo but the scenery is very unlike Tokyo. Today, we conquered Mount Takao (599m), which is probably the most accessible mountain err hill from Tokyo. Brought me back wonderful memories of my hiking trips in Kagoshima… up Mount Kaimon (922m) and the beautiful mountains of Kirishima… Mount Naka…

Off to the Cleaners

My business shirts are off to the cleaners for some proper washing and ironing. 160 yen is now a price I am willing to pay to save me from all the hassles of washing and ironing. They just don’t make non-iron shirts like they used to.

A Stranger Comes To Me

A stranger comes to me, showing me his badge. Asks me where I’m going. Roppongi. Asks me what I’m doing there. Work. Asks me for my passport. Alien Registration Card. Thank you. Weird.

More

Something we all want.Something we all get.But no matter how much we get,We will still want some. More.