I'm celebrating Christmas this year by first of all working until 2:30 (stupid Japanese companies!) and then I will be going out on a date in the evening with a beautiful, super cute girl.
THATS what Christmas is all about! ( View formatted comment » )
I've not had pocket money since I was out of highschool. The highest I ever got was probably about £10 a week? Got my first proper job at CEX in Leeds at 18 nearly 4 years ago, and then quit there and moved to Japan in 2005 and have been pretty much self-sufficient since then (with a whole host of mad money making schemes along the way!). It seems like an age has passed since the days of pocket money!
When I have kids off in the future, I guess a decent secondary school pocket money would be about £5 or if it is still in Jap... ( View formatted comment » )
Those vending machines are the ones by the Brunswick bowling alley in Ikebukuro aren't they? There are a LOT there. ( View formatted comment » )
I'll be going to the Revoltech expo (buying a monitor in Akiba on Saturday anyway). Will we have the delight of Stormtrooper action there? ( View formatted comment » )
These are the trailers to the movie that has just come out by the way...
http://freemv.b-ch.com/view/eva/tr_01.html ( View formatted comment » )
I never really liked Evangelion after I saw it. The ending(s) (both of them) were pretty terrible, and the fans of Eva always seem to represent the worst of the worst fanboys. With that said, when I saw the trailer for the new Evangelion film at the cinema I was pretty much impressed by what I saw and I liked the Utuda Hikaru cover of fly me to the moon.
Perhaps you should check out the new movie as it covers the first half of the series (so I am told) so it might be a good way to get into the series without commiting bundles of time and ene... ( View formatted comment » )
I found a bunch of cockroaches when I stayed with my friend in Meguro for two weeks... every night I killed about five of the damn things and they always seemed to get bigger and bigger.
No cockroaches where I live though :) ( View formatted comment » )
So no mention of the ridiculous pronounciation issues of when certain characters (Ando, Ando, Ando) are given scripts in a language they do not speak and apparently have had little voice training in...? ( View formatted comment » )
I wouldn't mind seeing the Tokyo Dance Trooper some time :) Let us know when you are next doing it and I'll try to be free to see it! ( View formatted comment » )
I have to commute through the basement of that building every day to get to work. My building is the one behind it in the second picture. The underground connection from Yaesu Chikagai to the shin maru building is actually bigger than some airports, and I have to walk it every day :(
It is a very cool building, though the Marunouchi building next to it offers better views from the 35-36th floors which you can go up to for free! ( View formatted comment » )
The magazine that I like is Arcadia, but it's not readily available at convenience stores, so you have to either go to special hobby stores or book stores to buy it. It's very popular amongst game center fanatics though! ( View formatted comment » )