It reads "half of life is a game". So enjoy your life! I only wish it came with continues and ways to get extra lives. ^^.
I know avatars are pretty popular. Does yours really look like you? If not, what determines your avatar's looks?
Archive for September, 2008
Life, Games and Avatars
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008Jin-Roh
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Here’s my second Revoltech! My first was the purplish EVA01.
If you’ve seen Jin-Roh, then you probably would recognize this suit of armor, the Protect Gear. Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade or simply Jin-Roh (人狼) is a 9 year old animated movie. I think I saw it in 2000 or 2001. The story’s dark, but it’s quite the animated movie. Not really for kids because there the themes in the movie are rather deep, even though Jin-Roh borrows heavily from the tale of Little Red Riding Hood (the darker version, yes, there are 2 versions).
Namaste India 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Neil attended the Vietnamese Festival the week before. You can read about this experience here. I had wanted to go, but when I had time, the weather decided otherwise… but last week was a different matter.
Last weekend there was an India festival. The whole section of Yoyogi Park right opposite NHK Studio Park was cornered off and dedicated to this event. Stores were set up and many were promoting tours to India, Indian wares, arts and craft etc. Basically almost everything Indian. There were also movies from Bollywood. I grew up in a multi-racial and multi-ethnic environment, so I’ve been exposed to Indian culture. Indian movies are quite interesting, provided they come with subtitles. ^^. Long movies though, with lots of singing and dancing. I find it fascinating that whenever a song starts, dancers just pop out from thin air. ^^.
1Gbps fiber-optic service
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Forget that 160Mbps I talked about earlier. I want me some 1Gbps lovin’!
KDDI Corp will launch a fiber-optic communications service with upload and download speeds each of up to one gigabit per second on Oct 1. The new service will target people living in single-family homes and low-rise apartment buildings. The traffic speeds will be the fastest in eastern Japan, up drastically from the current 100 megabits per second.
With the service, KDDI aims to catch up with Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp, which has a share of over 70% in the market for fiber-optic broadband services for single-family houses.
KDDI will charge 5,985 yen in basic monthly fees for Internet and telephone services, down 1,155 yen from the current price, if a user subscribes for two consecutive years.
KDDI will start offering its fiber-optic services, which are now available only in six prefectures in the Kanto region and nearby Yamanashi Prefecture, in four cities in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido.
From Japan Today.
How Japanese female figurines are made.
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Panther told me of these series of vids detailing the creation of his latest figure in YouTube uploaded by sleepylafiel. It details the creation of a Japanese figurine. The vids are from a DVD whose cover is pictured here….
It’s a rather long vid, about 90 minutes total and it’s all in Japanese. Despite the language barrier (if you don’t understand Japanese), I’m sure you’ll be able to understand the techniques and attention to detail that is given to make just one of these figures just from watching the videos. It’s like a documentary really.
Although I recommend watching the whole thing, you can always start off with part 2 and part 8 to wet your appetite. In part 2, you see how the whole figure come into being and in part 8, see the attention to detail when it comes to painting the “cat’s ear”, the techniques used to make it look realistic under different lighting.
Here are the vids
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Enjoy.
Please do it on the mountain
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Found another one of these “Please do it at somewhere else” posters around Tokyo Metro. These posters are supposed to educate commuters on certain “do-s” and “do not-s” when using the trains. This particular one tells us to “please do it at the mountain”; be considerate of others when holding bulky belongings. Here’s another one “Please do it at the beach”.
I think posters like these are quite helpful. At least it helps raise awareness to certain issues. I would like to know how effective they are though.
Miscellaneous iPhone Photos
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Just some miscellaneous pictures I took with the iPhone while out and about today. I think the majority of consumer keitai (mobile phones) have cameras built-in. Does yours have a camera and do you use it? If so, how often and what makes you whip out your camera to snap a picture?
About you see the travel-size version of twister, Finger Twister! I wonder if there’s any issue with hand cramps. ^^
Not on my MSc either 
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