A Week in Tokyo 43
Time passes so quickly. Before I know it, I will be 6 foot underground being eaten by earthworms, sprinkled in the ocean being swallowed by some sea snake or sitting in a jar sharing the remaining space with a lurking cockroach.
Want to make sure that I not only enjoy life while I still can but also contribute somehow to the lives of people who I care about - the people around me and you the reader.
My talk on death should be up soon together with a night time photo walk.
Starting off with comrades from Kotobukiya around to take photos of the office for the Otacool book. And yes I do wash that T-shirt ^^;
The weather has been a bit off but the clear blue sky hot sunny days are just gorgeous.
At the Wonder Festival which was held in Makuhari for the first time. The report can be seen in the figure portal.
Mirai-chan figma at the Tokyo Figure Show.
The Tokyo Figure Show was my first figure show in collaboration with Good Smile Company. Was a great learning experience and am working on getting hold of a venue for TFS2.
TFS was on for a week and we had two nights for networking events. The evening events were called TFS Night.
And this was our gorgeous view of Tokyo with Shinjuku in the background.
At TFS Night 2, Good Smile gave out a load of goodies and here you can see folks being unleashed on the Nendoroids.
The only downer about the evening events was that they didn't allow us to bring in food.
But they had free as-much-as-you-want alcoholic or soft drinks.
Daughters of Cut A News and GDR. More pics at Steve Nagata's Flickr Pool.
My sweet Saber.
And this is how I carry Saber out n about. Doesn't she have gorgeous green eyes?
No food at TFS Night so came home close to midnight to fill up with some peanut sandwiches from Seven Eleven. Don't usually eat at this time of night.
This weeks office. In the mornings its usually cool enough to get by with the fan but requires the cooler for the rest of the afternoon.
A Tony Taka shower poster sample from Kotobukiya.
Spend a lot of my time working with terminal windows. I love Aoi-chan's new sitting pose. She's sitting on some concrete-like polystyrene blocks that I got from Tokyo Hands. Would love to have this chair though.
Speaking of dolls, the Miss Dollfie Summer 2009 contest has been extended until the 17th of August. You can see all entries so far at figure.fm.
Didn't end up using the iMac for a server and will probably sell it.
Chris at the controls working on Puchi Blurbs for Mirai Gaia as we speak. That should be rolled out to figure.fm first. Follow him on Twitter.
Also need to get rid of some Mac Mini's too now that we are using cloud hosting.
Naruto still going strong. How many of you are into the series?
Unisex brolleys. Hmmmm. Would love to have one for my daughters. Something like this.
Puchi Kyoka can eat a whole piece of sushi.
We now have PG Tips imported into Japan! 598 yen for a box of 40 bags. Nice to see the monkeys still in the ads back in the UK.
Would usually wear the trooper helmet when picking up folks by bicycle.
Hmmm. Nice car.
Dont know much about Ferraris but like this bit. Is that where the missiles are loaded?
Lovely evening in Tokyo.
Riding around on the bicycle in the evenings with a warm breeze through the balding hair is most pleasing.
Yet another temple discovered nearby.
Watching my fave business and trends program Gaia no Yoake. This week they talk about how lighting and color affects consumers buying patterns in retail stores.
Here they are trying out different lights showing how food looks different according to the light being used.
There has been previous coverage about lighting in Japanese stores too and how bright lighting increases users tendency to pick up and buy. This is one of the reasons why you may have noticed that many Japanese food stores and pharmacies are brightly lit.
Tomato mince burger at Matsuya.
Vegetable Yuba rolls.
Some cheesy fried ball thingy.
Grew up on potatoes back in the UK and love em.
Katsu filled with something or other.
In the middle of my morning duties - polishing n dusting.
In the middle of dusting down the shelves on the second floor.
Some Mr Donuts for an after lunch snack.
If you eat a load of Mr Donuts and are still alive after all the sugar then you can spend your points on some goodies. My fave is Pon de Ring.
Puchi construction vehicle.
Kyoka eats sushi for lunch too.
So far we have seen collaboration portals with Kotobukiya (Otacool) and Good Smile (TFS) and this month I look forward to announcing yet another collaboration with a huge maker.
If you want to be close to the figure makers and get your work noticed by them then figure.fm is probably a good place to start posting stuff ^o^
On a hot Saturday afternoon, there is nothing better than a cold salad to cool off.
Evening dinner in Gotanda.
PG tips seems to be getting more popular.
A cockroach ran across the table before this dish arrived ^^;
If you get served a dish that looks like this, pour the red sauce in the bowl with the red spice and veggies. Then dip the udon noodles in the sauce.
Richard Gere stars in the movie showing now called Hachi.
The Yamanote Pokemon train. I chuckled when I heard my younger sister pronounce Pokemon as "Pohkeemon" ^^;
Spend a lot of the past week at Harajuku but kept forgetting to go to the Tenshi no Sumika Dollfie store.
More construction work nearby.
Having some lunch at the local Omusubi store.
"Omusubi" was apparently the feminine word for "Onigiri" which are rice balls with a filling. The balls are shaped in a triangle and wrapped in seaweed. Today I split the tea on the floor ^^; At least I didn't spill it *on* anybody like I did when I was working part time at a restaurant. Have you had any embarrassing moments in a restaurant?
MMMM! Taiyaki. These are baked pastry with a filling - commonly red beans or custard. 150 yen.
Extremely heavy rain when I got to Harajuku station one day. Folks waited by the windows for the rain to die down.
Something for Miku fans. 158 yen each.
Trying out Pepsi Shiso flavor. Tastes like...shiso...
Apparently called Perilla which I didn't know until I done a google.
More sushi for lunch.
Yakiniku at Matsuya. 650 yen.
Passing by the hair dyes. When I started learning Japanese, I was influenced by the idol magazines which I used to read at the time and dyed my hair brown for a few years.
You may notice that a large number of Japanese folks (especially girls) dye their hair brown too.
Don't think I can be bothered to do it again. I hear that dying ones hair is bad for the body.
Anybody here currently dye or dyed their hair before?
SMAP chooses Softbank. Tsuyoshi is back in action as you can see.
Taken this afternoon.
Eaten this afternoon.
Iron man has a new shield.
Finishing off with some photos taken on the way to Makurari for the Wonfes - listening to Ridge Racer R4 as usual.
