- Never Stop Dreaming -
さぁ、上のタイトルはお金の事にかけてだよ。皆もう同じと思うんでしょう、もっとお金が欲しいだ。僕ね最近この事をよく考えたけど、どうやてもっとお金をもらうはちょっと難しいなぁ！違うんの仕事を探すは良いなチョイスだと思うんけど、僕の日本語はまだって、金融の仕事に入らない。僕は金融業から卒業したが、もちろん金融とか、銀行とかの仕事をやるだろう。だって、僕は自分の夢を叶うんのために、日本で働く来た。今の仕事は簡単だし、給料もう高いし、本当には不満がないよね。ハハ、全部は多分僕自分の問題だろう、素敵な車が欲しいし、カッコいいな服が欲しいし、うまいな食べ物をたべたいし、可愛いな恋人に付きたいし、さぁどうしょうかなぁ？
今僕は仕事がある、それでいて僕もう始めたいろいろな仕事を捜してって、来年請負が終わったら新しいな仕事を変わってが欲しいだ。
Friday, February 29, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Susumu Mukai Mitts
- Never Stop Dreaming -
Recently, I have refunded my crappy Burton gloves to bet my YEN on other non-trash products and so I opted to go for SP-DESIGN's Perfection Mitts with gloves inserts. Well, given that SP-DESIGN's stuffs are from Japan to Japan only, I am pretty sure they are nothing like trash mentioned earlier.
The regular mitts are all sold out which further justifies my personal endorsement for this prduct and I needed a sweet pair of mitt desperately so I picked up the Susumu Mukai's pair. Well Mukai's a pretty famous designer who also happens to do Medicom's stuffs so I was pretty lucky to be once again affliated to my plastics instincts. The mitts were great with leather palm and a fantastic 2 layer Gore-Tex outter shell dabbed in one of Mukai's works. There was even a Medicom Toy tag on the side...! The inner gloves were made outta Gore-Tex Windstopper material and there were nonetheless awesome but a little thin.
Tried and tested, these mitts performed well as I had them on to build my frozen throne and scrapped uneven ice sheets off the car. No damages so far but since I chose a L size over the M size due to uncertainty, they were pretty roomy. I have since tried Thinsulate's gloves with the outter shells and the whole mitt simply puffed up like Fugu.
Well seriously I really have no complains about the mitts as they look great, work great and they come with a bunch of cool stickers, a Mukai's design fabric bag and of course the awesome mitts.
If you ever desire for uber cool mitts for all your snow conquests, I would recommend these but don't bother about looking for them in English, for they are all in Japanese only.
Cheers.
Recently, I have refunded my crappy Burton gloves to bet my YEN on other non-trash products and so I opted to go for SP-DESIGN's Perfection Mitts with gloves inserts. Well, given that SP-DESIGN's stuffs are from Japan to Japan only, I am pretty sure they are nothing like trash mentioned earlier.
The regular mitts are all sold out which further justifies my personal endorsement for this prduct and I needed a sweet pair of mitt desperately so I picked up the Susumu Mukai's pair. Well Mukai's a pretty famous designer who also happens to do Medicom's stuffs so I was pretty lucky to be once again affliated to my plastics instincts. The mitts were great with leather palm and a fantastic 2 layer Gore-Tex outter shell dabbed in one of Mukai's works. There was even a Medicom Toy tag on the side...! The inner gloves were made outta Gore-Tex Windstopper material and there were nonetheless awesome but a little thin.
Tried and tested, these mitts performed well as I had them on to build my frozen throne and scrapped uneven ice sheets off the car. No damages so far but since I chose a L size over the M size due to uncertainty, they were pretty roomy. I have since tried Thinsulate's gloves with the outter shells and the whole mitt simply puffed up like Fugu.
Well seriously I really have no complains about the mitts as they look great, work great and they come with a bunch of cool stickers, a Mukai's design fabric bag and of course the awesome mitts.
If you ever desire for uber cool mitts for all your snow conquests, I would recommend these but don't bother about looking for them in English, for they are all in Japanese only.
Cheers.
楽しい見に待ってる！
- Never Stop Dreaming -
やっぱり、僕慎重なアプローチは良いと思うだよね。もし毎日ずっと彼女のメーセージが待てる、じゃ仕事とか何でもできないだ。だが自分の気持ちは彼女のメーセージが欲しいだけど、それはやっだぁやっだぁ！恋愛の事は本当に難しいだと、気をつけほうが良いよね。さあ、自分が欲しいな物とできるの物はいつも違うんだろう。僕が夢に存在するの事はいつも嬉しいって、時々現実に起こされるなぁ。
今週の土曜日は僕と彼女２回の会うことって、僕はとても緊張するよね。心はずっとずっとどきどきの声を出して、僕は段々あの彼女の世界に引かれると思う。本当は好きかどうかもう答えを捜すけど、僕はこのまだ未定の道にゆっくり歩いて。この新鮮の感じは久しぶりで、また戻るはラッキーだね。
今頭でいろいろ美しいな画像が見えるよ、一緒に買い物するし、一緒に食事するし、一緒に遊びし...本当に完璧な夢見たいだ。じゃ土曜日を楽しい見に待ってるよ！
やっぱり、僕慎重なアプローチは良いと思うだよね。もし毎日ずっと彼女のメーセージが待てる、じゃ仕事とか何でもできないだ。だが自分の気持ちは彼女のメーセージが欲しいだけど、それはやっだぁやっだぁ！恋愛の事は本当に難しいだと、気をつけほうが良いよね。さあ、自分が欲しいな物とできるの物はいつも違うんだろう。僕が夢に存在するの事はいつも嬉しいって、時々現実に起こされるなぁ。
今週の土曜日は僕と彼女２回の会うことって、僕はとても緊張するよね。心はずっとずっとどきどきの声を出して、僕は段々あの彼女の世界に引かれると思う。本当は好きかどうかもう答えを捜すけど、僕はこのまだ未定の道にゆっくり歩いて。この新鮮の感じは久しぶりで、また戻るはラッキーだね。
今頭でいろいろ美しいな画像が見えるよ、一緒に買い物するし、一緒に食事するし、一緒に遊びし...本当に完璧な夢見たいだ。じゃ土曜日を楽しい見に待ってるよ！
Monday, February 25, 2008
Frozen Throne
- Never Stop Dreaming -
If you are thinking World of Warcraft then you will be badly disappointed and misled by the title. Nope this ain't Warcraft or anything related to the game but rather it's my colossal master piece made entirely outta snow with my bare hands, a shovel and a flat piece of broken wood off the door frame. Since I do not have any proper tools, the edges were shabby. The original concept was far from this and numerous modifications were made. The "crown" was inspired by my favorite Stussy designs.
Since that weird idea dawn upon me sometime ago and that I had ample snow outside my house, why not test the potential of my creativity. No prior experience so being the only maiden project, this is probably the worst I could do.
Alrite let the pictures speak for themselves...as this is the REAL frozen throne.
If you are thinking World of Warcraft then you will be badly disappointed and misled by the title. Nope this ain't Warcraft or anything related to the game but rather it's my colossal master piece made entirely outta snow with my bare hands, a shovel and a flat piece of broken wood off the door frame. Since I do not have any proper tools, the edges were shabby. The original concept was far from this and numerous modifications were made. The "crown" was inspired by my favorite Stussy designs.
Since that weird idea dawn upon me sometime ago and that I had ample snow outside my house, why not test the potential of my creativity. No prior experience so being the only maiden project, this is probably the worst I could do.
Alrite let the pictures speak for themselves...as this is the REAL frozen throne.
Nozawa Pics
- Never Stop Dreaming -
Ever wondered how Nozawa Onsen ski resort that I had mentioned before looks like? Well I don't have the pics of the runs or gondolas but here's the pics of the carpark in the midst of a passing blizzard to infer the full experience.
My car had been "beautifully" crafted out before I was able to retrieve the camera so that explains the missing pieces.
Ever wondered how Nozawa Onsen ski resort that I had mentioned before looks like? Well I don't have the pics of the runs or gondolas but here's the pics of the carpark in the midst of a passing blizzard to infer the full experience.
My car had been "beautifully" crafted out before I was able to retrieve the camera so that explains the missing pieces.
これは何なんだ？
- Never Stop Dreaming -
最初日本語ができないな皆さんちょっとあやまる、ごめんね。このポストはすべて日本語でって、もし日本語が解からないのばいは、仕方なぁ。実ね僕は去年七月日本へ来たして以来、今までもうそろそろ七月なっただろう。全部の事もう同じだと、心配しないで。だが多分２週間前に僕と友達と一緒住宅近くのパブで遊ぶの時、あの彼女に初めて会った。僕ね中国の服を着たが、日本人の中でとてもかっこいいと思えた。実はかっこいいな事は僕の言葉じゃなくて、本当かどうか僕もうわからないなぁ。とにかくあの彼女は僕の事を知りたいって、僕は帰る前に携帯番号を交換した。
さぁ、僕ねその日から何も考えない、全部の事もうすべて同じだろう。初めメールを貰ったから、段々あの彼女は僕の事が好きだと思う。これはもちろん幸せって、悪くないだけど、僕はどうすればいいのって言う事よくわからない。寂しいかも、恋人が欲しいかも、いろいろ理由が存在なので、どうちらは一番大切な理由か？それは困ったなぁ...だが最近僕の友達は皆新しい恋人に付き合ったら、僕は熱意かな！
ここから僕は何をするもう考えて、まだ決める。恋愛の道に歩くて、自分の答えを探す。
最初日本語ができないな皆さんちょっとあやまる、ごめんね。このポストはすべて日本語でって、もし日本語が解からないのばいは、仕方なぁ。実ね僕は去年七月日本へ来たして以来、今までもうそろそろ七月なっただろう。全部の事もう同じだと、心配しないで。だが多分２週間前に僕と友達と一緒住宅近くのパブで遊ぶの時、あの彼女に初めて会った。僕ね中国の服を着たが、日本人の中でとてもかっこいいと思えた。実はかっこいいな事は僕の言葉じゃなくて、本当かどうか僕もうわからないなぁ。とにかくあの彼女は僕の事を知りたいって、僕は帰る前に携帯番号を交換した。
さぁ、僕ねその日から何も考えない、全部の事もうすべて同じだろう。初めメールを貰ったから、段々あの彼女は僕の事が好きだと思う。これはもちろん幸せって、悪くないだけど、僕はどうすればいいのって言う事よくわからない。寂しいかも、恋人が欲しいかも、いろいろ理由が存在なので、どうちらは一番大切な理由か？それは困ったなぁ...だが最近僕の友達は皆新しい恋人に付き合ったら、僕は熱意かな！
ここから僕は何をするもう考えて、まだ決める。恋愛の道に歩くて、自分の答えを探す。
Stormriders Revenge
- Never Stop Dreaming -
The past weekend was quite extraordinary I must say. Friday nite was a little harmless gathering of some friends and their friends (Jacky and Peter) who were here in Japan for holidays. Jacky was a cool lady whom I hit off pretty well and even made a pact about going to Antartica in 2 years time along with Grant as we all share the same passion of that God forsaken ice continent.
Along with Eric and Ashley, Grant and Nigel, Jacky and Peter, we had our dinner at Genki Sushi which was I personally think tasted bad (fish bones were present in their sushi...) but nonetheless, the rest simply loved it. Upon leaving, had a cute high school girl who served us in the sushi store coming out and talking to us and the reason, she just wanted to speak English! My my how weird was that...alrite moving on. Headed to Kuroshishi and had the second round of partying which I had skipped booze altogether for the sake of my sweet Starlet which never leaves me wherever I go. Adam and Shino came along and a new face Ben was there too. Some other Japanese that Grant and I had partied earlier was there and so the party grew bigger and noisier and finally things went outta control with a cute Japanese dude who was 26 hitting on Jacky who was 46 because she was blonde and had blue eyes. Grant and Peter were dancing and talking about their life stories (yeah rite...), Ben who was from England and had lived in Singapore for 6 years was talking in Singlish spewing words like "shiok lah" "cannot meh" and the rest, God knows what they were doing.
In the midst of all these unglamourous partying, alcohol intoxication and gibberish language, a trip up to Shiga Kogen was actually planned on Friday nite, well Saturday morning literally as it was already 3am. So the itinerary was to head up to Shiga and catch the snow monkeys bathing in the onsen and then do a half day of snowboarding at Nozawa Onsen, stay for the nite and go for a full second day of snowboarding on Sunday. Everything looks good, backup plans in placed and then it's back to our sleeping dens.
I got everything set before I go to bed on Friday nite and so when I woke up on Sat morning, I was surprised to notice the bright sun peering into my room. Hmmm I was supposed to wake up at 0530 hours to the sound of the alarm ringing but it didn't actually rang and it was already 0705 hours. I knew I was late and couldn't make it for the trip, next thing I knew, the phone was set to silent and I went back to sleep. Woke up at 1750 hours when the alarm rang. Blasted alarm...it was actually set at 1200 hours late. By this time the scorching sun was replaced by a ravaging blizzard tearing up the lands. Whoooo...I thought and I got myself prepared to go out but not sure where when Adam invited me to a GEOS party at Eric's place. Driving there took me 20 minutes longer than usual as I had to carefully navigate through the almost impossible blizzard.
So before leaving, another snowboarding trip was in place for Sunday with Eric and the gang going up to Nozawa Onsen. I was delighted as this could salvage my guilt for missing out on Saturday.
Sunday, 24th Feb, the alarm clock went off as planned, no screw ups and I was cruising in the blizzard from the day before. It was still bad, road conditions were ridiculous and visibility was peeking at a mere 5%. Upon arrival at the designated point of contact, I learned that the trip was actually cancelled due to bad weather. I was not convinced so I drove back home to grab the free lift ticket to Asama2000 to try my luck.
Badly trying to curb the erupting snowboarding enthusiasm in me, I drove in the insane blizzard up the windy mountain pass up Asama only to find that my luck ran out when I got to the top. The weather condition was so bad, the lifts were closed and all winter activities were stopped. Everyone simply stayed in the ski lodge to escape the blizzard of doom. Snow was the size of marbles and wind was so strong they would knock you over. Well, at least for me, I am loving every second of it.
So without much luck and after hours of waiting, I decided to decend and get back to town. With the mountain passes covered in snow and cars were creeping at snail pace, I decided to try my luck once more. DRIFTING! Yeap, in a 4WD full auto car...haha it's almost as close as you can get to the real thing. Acceleration upon entering corners and hard over steering would send the car's tail sliding out and counter steering at the precise moment would put the car back on tracks. Arcade, games and simulation, back in the basement for me as this had to be the closest drifing experience to date. All the way down from the top on that mountain pass was simply insane but carefully done until the last 30% of the course where the speed demon took over my sanity. Lost it and the car bump into a snow pile by the corners at 30km/h and I was stuck.
Cars that I had overtook were passing me scrawled with sinister smiles and "Serves you right!" written all over those smiles. Yeah I know it sucks have the fun ended abruptly but in the end, some kind souls who had no idea of my insane stint stopped and we dug my precious Starlet out. After like 20 minutes, the car was freed and once again I continued that sick stunt down and eventually completed my downhill rally training. Boy I would love to do that again anytime but it would be recommended to bring a co-driver and spades just in case. Seems like the "feel" of rally driving was pretty intense...
Alrite in the evening when I got back home, there was so much snow outside my house that I decided to complete my "snow throne" project that was halted for a while. It looks great I must say because even the neighbours were impressed by it and passing cars stop just to catch a glimpse of it.
The past weekend was quite extraordinary I must say. Friday nite was a little harmless gathering of some friends and their friends (Jacky and Peter) who were here in Japan for holidays. Jacky was a cool lady whom I hit off pretty well and even made a pact about going to Antartica in 2 years time along with Grant as we all share the same passion of that God forsaken ice continent.
Along with Eric and Ashley, Grant and Nigel, Jacky and Peter, we had our dinner at Genki Sushi which was I personally think tasted bad (fish bones were present in their sushi...) but nonetheless, the rest simply loved it. Upon leaving, had a cute high school girl who served us in the sushi store coming out and talking to us and the reason, she just wanted to speak English! My my how weird was that...alrite moving on. Headed to Kuroshishi and had the second round of partying which I had skipped booze altogether for the sake of my sweet Starlet which never leaves me wherever I go. Adam and Shino came along and a new face Ben was there too. Some other Japanese that Grant and I had partied earlier was there and so the party grew bigger and noisier and finally things went outta control with a cute Japanese dude who was 26 hitting on Jacky who was 46 because she was blonde and had blue eyes. Grant and Peter were dancing and talking about their life stories (yeah rite...), Ben who was from England and had lived in Singapore for 6 years was talking in Singlish spewing words like "shiok lah" "cannot meh" and the rest, God knows what they were doing.
In the midst of all these unglamourous partying, alcohol intoxication and gibberish language, a trip up to Shiga Kogen was actually planned on Friday nite, well Saturday morning literally as it was already 3am. So the itinerary was to head up to Shiga and catch the snow monkeys bathing in the onsen and then do a half day of snowboarding at Nozawa Onsen, stay for the nite and go for a full second day of snowboarding on Sunday. Everything looks good, backup plans in placed and then it's back to our sleeping dens.
I got everything set before I go to bed on Friday nite and so when I woke up on Sat morning, I was surprised to notice the bright sun peering into my room. Hmmm I was supposed to wake up at 0530 hours to the sound of the alarm ringing but it didn't actually rang and it was already 0705 hours. I knew I was late and couldn't make it for the trip, next thing I knew, the phone was set to silent and I went back to sleep. Woke up at 1750 hours when the alarm rang. Blasted alarm...it was actually set at 1200 hours late. By this time the scorching sun was replaced by a ravaging blizzard tearing up the lands. Whoooo...I thought and I got myself prepared to go out but not sure where when Adam invited me to a GEOS party at Eric's place. Driving there took me 20 minutes longer than usual as I had to carefully navigate through the almost impossible blizzard.
So before leaving, another snowboarding trip was in place for Sunday with Eric and the gang going up to Nozawa Onsen. I was delighted as this could salvage my guilt for missing out on Saturday.
Sunday, 24th Feb, the alarm clock went off as planned, no screw ups and I was cruising in the blizzard from the day before. It was still bad, road conditions were ridiculous and visibility was peeking at a mere 5%. Upon arrival at the designated point of contact, I learned that the trip was actually cancelled due to bad weather. I was not convinced so I drove back home to grab the free lift ticket to Asama2000 to try my luck.
Badly trying to curb the erupting snowboarding enthusiasm in me, I drove in the insane blizzard up the windy mountain pass up Asama only to find that my luck ran out when I got to the top. The weather condition was so bad, the lifts were closed and all winter activities were stopped. Everyone simply stayed in the ski lodge to escape the blizzard of doom. Snow was the size of marbles and wind was so strong they would knock you over. Well, at least for me, I am loving every second of it.
So without much luck and after hours of waiting, I decided to decend and get back to town. With the mountain passes covered in snow and cars were creeping at snail pace, I decided to try my luck once more. DRIFTING! Yeap, in a 4WD full auto car...haha it's almost as close as you can get to the real thing. Acceleration upon entering corners and hard over steering would send the car's tail sliding out and counter steering at the precise moment would put the car back on tracks. Arcade, games and simulation, back in the basement for me as this had to be the closest drifing experience to date. All the way down from the top on that mountain pass was simply insane but carefully done until the last 30% of the course where the speed demon took over my sanity. Lost it and the car bump into a snow pile by the corners at 30km/h and I was stuck.
Cars that I had overtook were passing me scrawled with sinister smiles and "Serves you right!" written all over those smiles. Yeah I know it sucks have the fun ended abruptly but in the end, some kind souls who had no idea of my insane stint stopped and we dug my precious Starlet out. After like 20 minutes, the car was freed and once again I continued that sick stunt down and eventually completed my downhill rally training. Boy I would love to do that again anytime but it would be recommended to bring a co-driver and spades just in case. Seems like the "feel" of rally driving was pretty intense...
Alrite in the evening when I got back home, there was so much snow outside my house that I decided to complete my "snow throne" project that was halted for a while. It looks great I must say because even the neighbours were impressed by it and passing cars stop just to catch a glimpse of it.
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