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Name: Brian
Country: United States
State: Washington
Birthday: 4/13/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Guitar, Ultimate Frisbee, Dave Matthews Band, eating, sleeping, playing video games, building Japanese models, lifting weights, Anime, Japanese
Expertise: Being an exercise-aholic, and staying skinny while eating exorbitant amounts of food
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  The Avenger016
Member Since:
12/17/2003
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| I think I have. The laziness has hit, especially with photos. I never want to spend the time these days to upload photos. So I just don't even bother writing anything. Oh well. I don't really care :D I just finished a week long vacation (minus one day where I had to go to work, tuesday) It was pretty dope. I went to Fuji City, Tokyo, Nagano (Shibu/Yudanaka Onsen) and toured around Mie with some of my brother's best buddies. Had Matsusaka Beef and just chilled out for the whole week. Spent more time in Onsens and Sento then I have in the past two months, bathed together with Monkeys, and learned how to do Kyudo, Japanese Archery. Ate and ate and ate and drank and ate some more. Fun times. I feel like I shouldn't take another vacation for a while, but I still have 18 days left this year...! Meaning I have to use them or lose them! I think Golden week = another week. I should take more vacations during times when there aren't already days off from national holidays. I usually get a week for only 3 days...! Good in general, but not when you're TRYING to use up your holidays. If I'm not too lazy I'll put up a few pics of monkeys and kyudo. But who knows. You might not see some for a while ;) | | |
| So this weekend I'm headed out to Fuji city to watch the Dream Cup, Japan's 2nd largest Ultimate Frisbee Tournament (biggest is the National Tournament, or so I presume - who knows, this could be bigger).
I'm actually going to be doing some translating and interpreting. Every year, the winner of the mens (open) and womens divisions are invited by Club Jr., kind of like the UPA of Japan, to play at the Dream Cup in March. This year, Sockeye is coming for the men. They are a Seattle based club frisbee team that my brother used to play for before he moved to LA to start grad school. All his good buddies are here - and guess who's gonna party it up with them? None other than yours truly.
After some picture taking and working, that is.
Today was a travel day. I'm going cheap, so I got the JR Seishun 18 Kippu. It lets you ride all JRs minus the express and Shinkansen for free. It took me 7 LONG hours to get out here, when it would have been 2.5 on the fast trains. I had to hop local trains that stop at every station, ride them to the last stop and then switch. Boohoo. AND it was pouring ALL DAY! Talk about thunder storms - all the poor college kids who had to play today (they have to fight for the right to advance, poor kids) must have been absolutely soaked. They're all inhabiting the hotel I'm in right now. I'm moving to a hotel a bit closer to the fields tomorrow that has a better internet connection - this one is spotty, seeing as I'm probably stealing the proprietor's wireless internet.
Anyway, here's a few pics of the stations I went to -
I brought this chair to sit on at the fields - but it came in handy in other places too! This is my gig at Toyohashi Staion - no bench? No problem! I even used it on the train! Handy dandy...
Waiting for the train to Okitsu at Hamatsu Station. Got off of one train, walked 10 feet, got in line for another one, along with about 50 other people...
WATCHING an express passing through...ah how I wish I could buy the JR rail pass...
Dinner - man was it good! Got to the hotel and just relaxed, did some translation work, took a bath, and now I'm off to bed.
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| I spent an hour the other day going back through my old posts on Xanga (from 2 years ago) trying to look for what the HELL my comps topic was (Math one). I think it was so traumatizing I blocked it out. Anyway, I found it under this heading -
"The Axiom of Choice: Vaguest Proof Ever"
Yeah pretty much.
I ended up reading about 20 or so other odd posts I'd written back then. I couldn't believe how childish and lovesick I was back then. It's kind of ridiculous. You keep reading and say "GET A LIFE! GET OVER IT!". And then you realize YOU wrote this!
Anyway, I'd like to think I've changed alot, but probably it's that I don't care to post much anymore, or maybe I'm just internalizing it, which is even worse. Who knows.
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| SO! Sony wins. I guess having the most money means something in the electronics industry :D HD DVD IS DEAD | | |
| So continuing my lucky streak, two days after I scored tickets (not free mind you I still have to pay for them) to one of Japan's up and coming indies bands, I then get my grubby little mitts on not one, not two, but FOUR TICKETS to see Japan's HOTTEST pop duo of the year (and I mean 2007 - of course they're going to rock 2008 too!).
That's right: 4 tickets to see KOBUKURO.
The date is April 29, in Nagoya, just an hour away from where I live. I get a sweet concert on April 2nd already (レミオロメン), but now I get to see コブクロ as well.
I think I'll just call it quits with my luck for now.
EDIT:
I also picked up this recently:
All for the low low price of $1,000 WITH bag, 2G CF card and a five year warranty. Saavy, if you consider that the newer 40D goes for $1500 for just the camera and the lens, and 180,000 yen in Japan. I also got the AMAZING 50mm 1.8 II. It's less than $100, but boy can that sucker take shots. Like these ones:
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