Nowadays, I get my retro gaming fix via emulators on the PC and Android... To be honest I did not have my own gaming console till I bought it myself (Nintendo DS) during University life. When I was young I remember borrowing my neighbour's huge bric...
3 small pieces of fruit doesn't seem quite "generous" to me, but I suppose as usual the Japanese make up for quantity with awesome quality - bet these taste delicious...
Self service checkout is something I miss experiencing...I used this all the time when shopping alone as a student in the UK. Too bad the Aeon supermarkets here in Malaysia have yet to bring this in...
It's usually the case with hawker food: looks like **** but tastes great. Also, in Malaysia most of the time the external appearance of the hawker stall (e.g. location, hygiene etc) can be deceiving - you might be surprised to taste what's available...
2.5 tonnes?? lol I think the most difficult piece to move about is probably the glass panel itself... I have an Ikea Vika table at home too, but with a 2m long table top. Had to use delivery to get that piece back home...
I think they add a bit of local twist to the food available on the ground floor - for example Ikea Malaysia has curry puffs, and they are cheap and fantastic too :3
In Malaysia, they use a real mannequin with a moving arm. This gets scary when you're driving alone along a stretch of an unlit highway late at night....
Am I the only person who instantly converts this number into "number of nendos that I could potentially buy"? Anyway....on-topic: yes this is definitely expensive for an average dinner for 4 in Malaysia.
Well I guess your trooper video on Youtube started it all for me... and what that made me linger on was the fact that your have loads of photos in your posts (picture speak a thousand words, after all), plus your blog entries about living in Japan an...