Recently, Iron Chef Morimoto was in town. He had a few public appearances, among them, book signings for his cookbook, Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking. AS and I both enjoy the original and current Iron Chef shows on the Food Network, so we decided to go. Originally we had only heard about one book signing in an area where parking was pretty bad, but luckily, the night before, I found out he was going to be at a mall that had better parking and was also closer to us. We couldn’t not go after that. xD
Feena Fam Earthlight
Aug 24th, 10
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It must have been more than 50 years ago when I met her. I was a fighter pilot for the governments navy at the time when I was out on a routine flight test during the day when something went wrong. My B82-F’s engine was giving off huge clouds of black smoke as my plane was going towards a nose dive into the ocean. I tried to gain control of the plane but to no avail. I ejected out of the cockpit right before my plane crashed right into ocean with a huge noise of crunching metal of the wings ripping off from the fuselage and flying in both directions 60 meters away from where the impact point. A huge splash followed as my seat soon landed on the ocean surface. I quickly unbelted myself before I sank with the heavy seat and swam to a few floating pieces of metal to stay afloat as my water soaked clothes weighed me down. It wasn’t long before a huge wave came along and pushed me for what seemed like forever into the water, I thought I was going to die that day as the world around me grew dark.
I awoke, cold and wet to a darkening sky and palm tree leaves overhead with the moon starting to show, and sand beneath my body. I felt a warmth coming from my right and turned my head to see a fire and some fish roasting on a stick near the fire. I could barely move my body but the scent of the fish cooking made me drag my weakened body to the fire. Right as I was to reach for a stick stuck in the fish I hear something moving in the forest was and I turned my head towards the direction to find a cute girl coming out of the forest.
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Meeting Kago Ai
Aug 18th, 10
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Some time early June, I got word through Twitter that Kago Ai was in the area, so I convinced AS that we had to go down and get pictures and autographs. Unfortunately, due to the last minute nature, I was quite unprepared and in the end, I dislike how I look in my picture and we didn’t get anything autographed because we didn’t have anything good to get her signature on. I didn’t want it on a random napkin, so I didn’t ask for one. I’m regretting that now. ~_~
If her name sounds familiar, she was formerly a part of the machine known as Hello! Project, performing as a part of Morning Musume, Minimoni and W. She was dropped from her agency after a scandal (underage smoking) and is now making a comeback with her new album, AI KAGO meets JAZZ.
I’m not sure if she had any anime tie-ins herself when she was with Hello! Project, but Tanemura Arina has stated that the hairstyle Kago Ai often sported during her Minimoni days was the inspiration for Mitsuki’s hairstyle in Full Moon wo Sagashite.
The day the world became flat
Aug 15th, 10
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The other day I was hit by an avalanche. But this wasn’t a ordinary avalanche, it was a avalanche consisting of boxes ^^;;. The boxes I’m referring to was my figure boxes that have accumulated at the top of my closet for years now that decided they had enough of their unusual stacking and came tumbling down on top of me. Until a few years back, I still had them at the top of closet but it was a quiet and serene place up there as each box was nicely stacked on top of each other. Then the collection grew and I started having to play tetris with the boxes, fitting them anywhere that had space. Finally, that mountain of figure boxes couldn’t take it anymore and decided to come falling down on me.
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Addicted to Curry-Manga Review
Aug 12th, 10
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As many of you may know, Tomoyo and I like to take pictures of food and post them for your pleasure, just always make sure you eat before you look at them lol.
But have you ever read a manga about food itself? There are actually a few mangas out there where the story revolves around food. This manga review will focus on curry, one of my favorite foods xD.
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Youtube Video of Interest 5
Aug 10th, 10
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Ever wonder how they built that huge cannon that Black Rock Shooter uses that was displayed at Wonderfest this year? Now your questions can be answered with this video. Complete with a catchy tune to go along with it as well.
Narita Airport, my home for a day
Aug 5th, 10
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Japan is a pretty awesome place. I’m sure many of you feel the same way about it. But there are a few things about Japan that will make you think “uguu~.” For me, I haven’t found such a thing on all my trips to Japan except this past trip. You may find it funny but for me it was Narita Airport.
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Japan Trip January 2010 Part 5
Aug 2nd, 10
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This was my last day in Japan and since the zoo was closed the day before I decided to spend my last day at the zoo as I haven’t been to many zoos in my life and I like animals. I hope you like pictures of animals lol.
What I didn’t expect to find that day was something white scattered all over Tokyo.
Note: Picture intensive post.
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Japan Trip January 2010 Part 4
Jul 27th, 10
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This was my second to last day in Tokyo and I wanted to do some exploring again which would take me to different places around Tokyo. There are a ton of pictures in this post so I’ll be commenting every now and then and let the pictures tell the story.
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