I’m trying to be good and save dosh at the moment, but every so often I have a relapse and splurge on books. A couple of days ago I had just a moment of weakness in Junkudo, but at the last moment common sense kicked in and I whittled my shopping basket contents down from about 10 (inc. big glossy photo collections) to 3. I think I did pretty well.
Anyway, I just thought I’d share my 3 favourite places to buy books in English in Tokyo. (more…)
A mix-up with my old hosting meant my dr-rogg.co.uk domain didn’t get renewed this year, hence the outage for a couple of days. Ooops.
On the plus side, Nominet have Fool’s Gold by the Stone Roses as their hold music, which I first listened to on my first ever electronic album about 10 years ago. When they finally picked up I nearly told them to bugger off and never disturb me again mid-groove.
Last weekend, Paul, Laila, his mates Kaye and Dan, Yoko, Tomoe and I joined Yu-sama for her birthday in Ikebukuro. (more…)
Sometimes, the daily grind - especially when topped off with a healthy dose of fail - can induce one reach for the nearest handgun family-sized syringe of heroin large bar of chocolate, or other such mood-enhancer.
Today, my Prozac takes the form of this video.
Just a quick note to say that 1up has a great interview with Nobuo Uematsu, probably the most famous videogame composer IN TEH WORLD.
And who rather charmingly suggests the Super Mario Theme replace Kimigayo as Japan’s national anthem.
Aaaah, one of the very occasional joys of working for a large Japanese company: the annual grab bag of obligation chocolate on Valentine’s Day. Click the photo to see the annotated version on Flickr. nomnomnom
Ahh, cherry blossom season. How I love your pretty pink petals, obligatory work-related parties and subsequent liver damage, and seasonal product placement opportunities.
Fortunately, I’ll be able to cuddle a new pink Doreamon plushie to ease my battered guts. This two-tone pink and white “Sakura Doraemon” made his debut at the SK Japan booth at the AOU 2008 arcade game expo over the weekend, and also comes in keyring form. (more…)
Mantanweb has some new screenshots of King of Fighters 98 Ultimate Match, SNK’s 10-year anniversary update to tag team fist-o-rama King of Fighters 98, taken from the first day of the AOU 2008 expo at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Feb. 15, 2008. (more…)
While flicking around on the Mainichi’s Japanese site today, as I am wont to do, it occurred to me that there is some interesting geeky news on here, news that gets something in the range of bugger all exposure in English.
So here is my attempt to redress the situation. I’m going to try and translate articles a couple of times a week, taken from places like Mantanweb. Despite the fact that stuff in there is old. Hmmm.
