Hiroko Mima has won the 2008 Miss Universe Japan. Hiroko, a university student and athlete from Tokushima in Western Japan, was selected from amongst 9 other beautiful ladies to represent Japan at the Miss Universe competition in Hanoi, Vietnam on July 14 later this year.
Having had the pleasure of meeting Hiroko, and two of the [...]
Went to the Tokyo Motor Show in Makuhari Messe today and met up with Hiro and Kesava. The new concept cars range from extremely cool to butt ugly. Check out more photos here.
IT had a mid-project party in Andys Bar in Yurakucho. We set out to beat the budget of ¥500,000.
The 8 pint Guiness was popular – we went through at least 3 of them.
This 103″ TFT is amazing. I was looking at it for about 15 minutes in Yodobashi Camera in Ginza today while looking for a TV stand for my 15 year old 27″ TV which has been sitting on the floor for 2 years.
At 1.3 million yen the Viera was kinda over of my budget.
Sorry about the [...]
The Panawave Laboratory cult predicted that the world would end on May 15th. They postponed it until May 22nd when it failed to end on schedule. They’re still travelling around in white vans, wrapping up trees and fences in white cloth while they figure out why the world isn’t cooperating with them.
Episode II started in Japan today. I’ll go see it when the queues to get in are less than 2 hours long.
I passed the Japanese driving test! Thanks to Matt who lent me the text books and sample papers, and Ga-chan who let me use his car on the Samezu test course for a couple of weekends, I passed the infamous Ippatsu Shobu. It only cost about ¥30,000 – not bad compared to the ¥350,000 it [...]
For Yukie’s birthday we planned to take her to an Italian restaurant for a nice quiet meal with just a couple of close friends.
Or so she thought….
For months before the actual event, Reiko, Yuka, Junko and Yasuko had planned something completely different. Bugger the small dinner party! Lets invite EVERYONE! To Velfarre, one of the [...]
Went windsurfing with Itoh-san and Pon-chan after a heavy night out with Quadruple.
Even with a Quadruple hangover, I had a great day windsurfing. Itoh “Ku”, Pon and I got the train down to Zushi. Abe-san followed us down a bit later.
We jumped into our wetsuits and hit the beach. The teacher showed us how to [...]
Went paragliding with Itoh-san and the gang.
After disasterous (but fun) first and second paragliding trips, we had an excellent weekend on our third attempt.
The weather was perfect (I got sunburnt again). After a quick explaination by the instructor, we climbed up the hill and started jumping. The wind wasn’t all that strong so half the [...]
Ack! No updates since August 99??? Damn Everquest!
Went windsurfing with Itoh-san and friends. No photos Gotta get a waterproof camera!
22 of us went to Shikinejima for the weekend. The weather was good for a change.
Santa Belgica organised a trip to Shikinejima island. We met at Hamamatsu harbour on Friday evening and hopped on the ship at 11pm. Sebastian’s and Eddie’s love songs kept the girls away. We landed at 7am in the middle of [...]
We had a picnic down by the river and watched the Fireworks. There were fireworks in Ireland when Meath and Dublin met in the Gaelic football Leinster championship final and Cormac got his photo in the e-papers like the Independant and even in the Denver Gaels.
BATTLE ROYALE . . . Dublin’s Ian Robertson is confronted [...]
Went back to Ireland for two weeks summer holidays. Saw Mike Oldfield in concert in Wembley Arena, and then again in the Point in Dublin.
We went back to Ireland for the summer holidays. On the way we stopped in Wales to visit Fiachra and family for a few days. The weather was great – 26C [...]