kenleewrites in 日本

For those who took today off, Golden Week started yesterday. My Golden Week starts now! We in Japan have an extremely long weekend – all the way till next Wednesday. What most people did was to take today and next week’s Thursday and Friday off. That gives a total of 11 holidays! In Japanese, a long holiday is referred to as 連休（れんきゅう, renkyu). I’ll probably just hang around Tokyo. Plan get some work done so that I can escape and enjoy a holiday during the off peak season. ^^.

What would you do with 11 consecutive rest days.

Anyone visiting the world expo at Shanghai?

Was reading up Sony VAIO on wikipedia today. Do you know what VAIO means? It was originally an acronym for Video Audio Integrated Operation. But during the brand’s 10th anniversary, they renamed it to Visual Audio Intelligence Organiser. In addition to being an acronym, the VAIO logo also represents the integration of analog and digital technology. The ‘VA’ represents an analog wave and the ‘IO’ represents digital binary code, thus some would call it VA10 or Va-ten. I’ll try using Va-ten at the office. See if anyone gets it.

Anyhoo. I found it interesting that the top half of the page had, not 1 but 2(!!) references to “Sony’s Products are easy to break”.

hmmmm…

One of the things I lurve about Japan is the abundance of magazines. There is a magazine for almost everything you want to learn/read about. From current affairs to fashion to sneakers to girls to guys to “how to twitter” to Hackintosh.

A whole magazine dedicated to the art of hackintoshing!

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When buses in Sydney have reached their sitting and standing capacity, the driver puts up his hand, tells you to wait for the next bus, closes the door and drives off. That happened to me that night. I only realized this when visiting Sydney after living for a while in Japan. Sydneysiders squeeze and push to get on first. You seldom see an orderly line waiting for the bus.

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I met a man who could bend a fork.

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