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So I wasn't going to post any more food pictures, but this was just too delicious to pass up. Last Sunday I woke up with the strange urge to buy the (Product)RED version of the iPod shuffle for some reason. (I wake up with the strangest urges at time...) Anyway, the only place they are sold in Japan is at the Apple store in Ginza (or over the internets, but I demand instant gratification and...
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Posted on: 04/20/2008 12:01 PM
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It seems like such a shame to spend 30 minutes dressing up nice and getting ready for work in the morning just to head out the door and have it all ruined by the combination of wind, rain and heat which conspires to turn one into a wet, tussled, sweaty mess in a matter of moments. Even if one does miraculously manage to avoid all three of the above and make it to work unscathed,...
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Posted on: 03/24/2008 08:28 PM
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Haha, in all the years I've kept this blog, I don't think I've posted as many photos of myself as I have in this entry (and the previous one). Is the panda blog turning into a venue for indulging my inner narcissisist panda? Oh my goodness, look, I can never spell that word. Narcissist. Ha. That's it. Thank goodness for spell check. Clearly the thing to do when surrounded by snow is to make a...
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Posted on: 03/09/2008 03:03 PM
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So the lovely Miss YJ sent me this equally lovely cashmere scarf out of the blue last month and I promised I would send her a picture of myself vamping deliciously for the camera with it. And now, since I haven't finished processing the pictures from last few weeks' worth of adventures, I am going to post it and pretend it counts as a blog update. Oh deliciously vain sun-dappled panda. What a silly way...
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Posted on: 02/26/2008 10:02 PM
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Alas, it's been a busy week so I've not had a chance to write a post yet. Maybe this weekend? That is, after I decide whether or not to apply to law school next year. A deadline that is literally penciled into my planner for Saturday: "-take out recyclables -decide about law school -buy windex*". *(my bathroom mirrors are kinda grungy) Bethann's mother, of all people, randomly made this supar dupar supar cuet beaded panda...
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Posted on: 01/25/2008 11:55 PM
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Mmmmm.... I could nap in this spot of sun forever. I'm going to Nekobukuro later on today for the hell of it, so I figured I might as well get my practice in cat-napping before I depart. What a beautiful Autumn day! And here's what's currently playing, if you want to recreate this incredibly lazy and relaxing Sunday in your own home: Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 (03'14" :: 160kbp vbr .mp3)...
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Posted on: 10/21/2007 11:27 AM
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A bit too busy to write a full length post today, but one will be forthcoming soon. In the interim, a picture of some creepy half-naked Kewpie Mayo Babies that suddenly appeared on my breakfast table the other day. And of course, I would be remiss if I didn't post a random picture of my less-than-healthy breakfast of champions earlier this week. Speaking of which, it's like 7:40 am on Saturday morning and I have...
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Posted on: 06/09/2007 08:53 AM
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So one of my lovely Kiwi readers (have I told yow how sexy I think the New Zealand accent is?) from the Land of the Long White Cloud left the following comment on my previous blog poast: this isn't really related, but can you post some more pics of your panda collection? the ones in the first photo of the post are soo cute :) Well, I've always been one to please the people, so...
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Posted on: 06/01/2007 01:39 PM
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That having been said, when there's cute pandas at stake, sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. So after asking/guilting/forcing my friends and/or co-workers to assist me in my great undertaking, I started making the rounds at the stores and in the end, when all was said and done, I ended up buying some 40+ bottles of namacha. Yeah. 40 bottles.
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Posted on: 05/15/2006 09:00 PM
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....until I saw these. Oh my god!! This was the first of what would soon spin into an incredibly propitious string of Yokohama Chinatown panda spottings! These are steamed dumplings with are stamped in the shape of cute little panda faces! I squealed like a school girl when I saw them and ran over to purchase one. They were pretty steep (like $3USD each) but I was all set to plop down for them, when I saw to my disappointment that they were filled with chocolate and bean paste instead of delicious steamed meat. (Actually there were ones filled with meat - the one in the topmost poster for example - but they weren't so cute so I didn't buy them). My disappointment was soon alleviated, however, when just around the corner I spied... Oh my goodness, an entire store devoted JUST TO SELLING PANDA GOODS!! I was in heaven!! I rushed over to the store, brusquely pushing aside a small 12 year old girl and two old women who were in my way (pandas are endangered, old women and little girls are not so it's all good in my book). Had I found my mecca? I think I had!!
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Posted on: 04/10/2006 08:27 PM
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"TSUMAAAANAAAIII YO...!!! KAERITAAAIIIII!!!!" (I'm sooo booorrreed! I wanna go back home...!!) I'm laying on the ground on my side, my hands held up on both sides of my face, fingers splayed out at both corners, eyes rolled towards the sky, my tongue hanging out as my feet kick around haphazardly in tune to the plaintive bleatings coming out of my parched mouth. A few feet in front of me, looking incredibly bored and like individuals...
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Posted on: 08/25/2004 04:28 PM
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Things have really been picking up lately - the last crop of JET newbies arrived in the prefecture about two weeks ago, and it's been hectic trying to get them where they need to be, preparing for all the various seminars and conferences they have to attend this month, and also get settled in my new school all at the same time. In a rare demonstration of pro-active extrovertedness, I decided to volunteer to help...
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Posted on: 08/17/2004 09:39 PM
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Super cute pandas just waiting to be GETS'd...! M came down to visit this past weekend, which happened to coincide with the coming of one of the worst snowstorms in recent history. After spending almost 8 hours on what is normally a 2.5 hour train ride (train got stuck due to snow), she was pretty pooped and we ended up spending most of the weekend inside, which was just as well seeing as how it...
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Posted on: 01/26/2004 03:31 PM
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A bit of panda news for all you Panda lovers out there. The baby panda born in the San Diego Zoo last August has officially been named! Awwww! Idn't he just the cutest itsy bitsy widdle panda!? The 100 day old boy panda has been named "Mei Sheng" which is supposed to mean "Born in the USA", but as Wantin or any of my other chinese friends can attest, I am probably horribly slaughtering that...
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Posted on: 12/17/2003 03:31 PM
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I shamelessly stole this off of poopreport.com. Don't even ask why I was surfing poopreport.com..... A Japanese scientist could soon become stinking rich with an invention to be ready by 2005 that would use Panda dung to create electricity. Fumiaki Taguchi, emeritus professor of Kitasato University in Tokyo, embarked on the project five years ago when he asked Ueno Zoo for a bucketful of one of their most popular residents' faeces. The team mixed the...
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Posted on: 05/11/2003 03:31 PM
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