Danny's "Motivational" Categorized Photo Articles (21)

Has been a while since the last Photo Walk. Todays walk includes photos from Ebisu, Nishikoyama, Musashikoyama and Gakugei Daigaku. First photo taken at a newly built park nearby. The Lumix LX3 is incredibly good at taking pics at low light. This shot was f/2.0, ISO 100 with a 1 se...(more)

Went to Ikea to pick up your table, chair and lamp today. Now that the office is ready for the 4th staff member, all that remains is to find you. Qualifications written up towards the end of the photo article. The first step was to rearrange the office w...(more)

Disclaimer: This installment of Tokyo Photo Walk includes a few shots taken from the car. Maybe I need to start a "Tokyo Drive" category too ^^; The first pic today is my fave out of the whole bunch. Most of these taken on the Lumix LX3. A load of new r...(more)

A stock of photos taken by night that were being back logged so this article contains pics from all over Tokyo. As we take a walk around the metropolis, I wanted to cover one of the most important topics to be covered in the motivational series so far. ...(more)

Spent Christmas evening at Roppongi Hills. After grabbing din dins, we headed to the Sky Deck to enjoy the most awesome views of Tokyo we've ever seen in the open air - photos soon. Then after chucking out time at 11pm, we wandered around the grounds of Roppongi Hills. ...(more)

Its a lovely evening so thought we would go walkies around the Lalaport area at Toyosu - a nice place for shopping, food and an evening stroll. While we're out n about, I thought we'd have the usual chit chat. Tonight I'd like to talk about 'haters'. I've encountered quite a few in...(more)

The earlier announcement of my talk at Promax BDA Asia reminded me about the "Trend Day" folder in my "Blog This" folder which was getting dusty. Earlier in May, I was invited to speak at the Trend Day 2008 conference in Hamburg to an audience of about 600 marketing type/executives...(more)

Found an office nearby which allows folks to go up to the roof and take in the views of Tokyo. Thought we would go up to have a look and have a quick chat. While we enjoy the view, I'd like to talk about the importance of "asking." As we go about our da...(more)

Been sorting through many years of photos recently and have been having nostalgic trips down memory lane which I thought I'd share with you. This photo of our first apartment was taken in the Summer of 1999 - the year when we finally purchased a one way ticket to Japan. The top lef...(more)

While we take a walk around Ueno station, I thought we'd talk about what sort of occupation you want to be in. A survey listed at Livedoor shows that Japanese high school students most want to be a "talent" or "actor/actress." The Japanese meaning of "ta...(more)

I completely forgot to pre-order this and by the time I remembered she had sold out *everywhere*. *none* of the online figure dealers or stores had her in stock. Comrades at Kid Nemo took pity and sent me one - another figure to add to my bunch of SAFS ...(more)

Today we go for a photo walk around Akarenga in Yokohama. Akarenga is a warehouse built by a port in Yokohama back in 1911. Until 1989 it was used as a bonded warehouse. It wasn't until 2002 when it started to be used as an event space and today its been refurbished and is full O s...(more)

Is there anybody out there that does not want this figure? Will talk about this figure at the end of the article but thought we'd talk about other stuff as we look at the photos. Today I thought we'd talk about recognizing ou...(more)

This time we go for walkies around the Musashikoyama area which is home to the longest indoor shopping mall in Japan. But we are not going to walk around the mall today and instead go catch some of the cool breeze on this war...(more)

Mamamia! More free SAFS (Suddenly Acquired FigureS) which materialize out of thin air. Hmmmmm. I love my job even more than I did yesterday ^^; In the bullying in Japan article, I mentioned briefly that I had zero fond memories as a child and only mentioned the bullying I received....(more)

In a previous article I spoke about looking for work in Japan and today thought I should talk about the typical work benefits by taking the current opening position at Good Smile Company and my past experience as examples. Good Smile Company are looking for a general administ...(more)

It gives me great pleasure in announcing that Hector Garcia has joined Mirai Inc as our Chief Technologist. Hector brings to Mirai many years of technical experience and know-how on delivering high traffic sites like Technorati and Kakaku.com at the Digital Garage Group. Before he...(more)

The new up n coming design of dannychoo.com... Not. The screenshot below is of the first version of this site back in the year 2000. The site was set up as an experimental ground for me to play with technologies like PHP and MYSQL. The first version of the site was called "DCOS" or "Danny Choo Operati...(more)

So why did I choose Japanese? Back in the UK, I remember watching a children’s program called Blue Peter where the presenters came to Japan to cover Tokyo culture. Cant remember what age I was but I swore to myself that I would live and work in Japan someday. It all started with my interest in gami...(more)

Question : What day of the week do you dislike the most? I hear this question from time to time and I would always hear "Monday" as the answer. When asked the reason, most would say "because I have to go back to work/school." Personally I find this answer typical yet interesting. If one dislikes Monda...(more)

Quality, not Quantity I was looking for information on using CSS instead of tables (as one does) and for some reason came across the Death Test which I know you will take for just for a laugh. According to my test results, I am going to die at 80 ( and got this rather naff icon). I could be wrong but I gu...(more)