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Can that be?  Has it really been 7 years since I started blogging? CRAZY!!! But it’s TRUE!  I started on this day back in 2003.  Back then I use to be on Xanga and boy was I a dork (still am, actually).   Back then, blogging was just a way for me to write stupid things and complain.  I still complain and write stupid things but now I’m on wordpress AND I have my own domain.  Can we all say “ooooo”? Yea, I’m all grown up. Yea… This year, for my blogging anniversary, I’m going to do something special.  I’m going to have a giveaway.Read More →

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Another day, another random conversation. This afternoon, we were on a train that was predominantly covered in ads for HIS (the travel agency).  They are trying to promote some summer travel package for France.  I made another comment about wanting to see France which then somehow led into this conversation about the volcano in Iceland that erupted recently. If your curious about the eruption at Eyjafjallajokull (I kid you not on the name), here are a few places of interest: A news article Photos of the activity A great blog with an open letter to Eyjafjallajokull. If I were you, I’d go and check outRead More →

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I’ve been sidetracked a tad lately. I joined swap-bots.com and have been busy playing with it lately. The idea is that you make something and then you send them to random people and get things from other random people in return. Pretty fun idea if you ask me. Anyway, I was playing around with Google’s suggestion thingy. I’ve read about how you can type in “[your name] needs” and you’ll get a list of suggestions. I tried that with my name but I didn’t get anything other than “to” and “a” so I just clicked “to” just to see what I get. This is myRead More →

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J, E and I went out to Odaiba yesterday to check out the 1:1 scale gundam that has been the talk of the town here. We were expecting to see a humongous gundam from far away but what we got was much smaller than we had hoped. It’s not tiny per se but still…we had higher hopes. Actually, come to think of it, it’s probably at the correct size as the one portrayed in the gundam series. I mean, it’s suppose to be big enough to destroy things but yet small enough for a normal human being to climb into it and pilot it. Anyway,Read More →

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We went to Akiba yesterday for some dinner and to also pick up something from Yodobashi. As we were standing on the street waiting to cross the intersection, we were looking at some games on sale in the front of some store. Jason’s jokingly pointed out the Disney Princess DS game and said that he knows I want to get that. I told him not to joke around because he knows that one day Ellie is going to want to buy that and we’ll see who’s laughing then. Then our conversation took a strange turn. We both agreed that we would both cry if sheRead More →

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Trying to decide if I should move my blog from xanga to wordpress. It’s hard since I’ve been with Xanga for 6 years now and it’s a relatively easy to use blogging platform.  On the other hand, I have my own hosted site with wordpress that’s just sitting there waiting for me to update. It was originally meant to be a hamster blog but given how little time I have these days, I’m thinking of combining the two.  Hmm, xanga or wordpress…  For now I’ll just use posterous to post to both sites until I make up my mind.Read More →