Hamster Central

I love using Adobe Photoshop. I use it most of the time to edit the RAW files from my dSLR (or at least when I’m not too lazy). It helps me color correct and brighten up dark photos, etc. Such a wonderful product…..consumes my computers resources like crazy but still a good program nonetheless. Last semester, I took a computer imaging class that mainly used Adobe Illustrator. Seeing how I only had photoshop for my dell laptop, I decided to buy a copy of Adobe CS3 suite (at student price which is really cheap compared to retail price) for my macbook (on loan from myRead More →

The semester was officially over on Wednesday….so what did I do the past 3 days of freedom? I worked, I cooked…and sorta cleaned… Since Jason has night shift right now, I would either eat dinner alone or I’d trek over to Roppongi Hills to eat dinner with him somewhere. Since I have the cooking itch, I figure the next best thing to a homemade dinner is a homemade lunch. So, tada!! This was my attempt to be a little bit healthier. This meal was meatless and the patties were made with tofu. Today we had… Just like ampm’s egg salad sandwich but with way moreRead More →

We really like this soda. It’s cherry flavored. Unfortunately, it’s only a seasonal soda and it’s no longer available at the combini’s we go to. Solution? Found it at rakuten. Each case was 2,000 yen and had 24 bottles. As of right now, we’ve already gone through a box and a half. Hey man, we’re trying to savor the flavor.Read More →

For my Japanese final presentation, we had two choices. 1. Make up a survey and ask 10 Japanese people. Put together the data and present it in class.2. Choose any video of your liking, learn 2-3 minutes of the dialogue and then mute it and do a voice over of the dialogue you just learned (which you can read if you want). Not really feeling like doing a survey, I chose option 2. There were only several of us who chose to do the 2nd option because it’s actually really hard to do. Most people chose a movie, jdrama or anime. Not wanting to doRead More →

Yay! After months of waiting for conditions to be fulfilled, Jason and I finally found time to go out and add 2 new members to our hamster family. Everyone, meet Gigantic Brother and Gigantic Sister!!! To show how much bigger they are compared to the rest of the gang, here is a photo of Gigantic Brother with Jason.. And here are two with the rest of the gang… Hopefully after finals, I can update the hamster website….Read More →

Cherry blossoms bloomed and died between my March post and my last post. I’ll put up photos of the cherry blossoms in a later post. For now, I’ll put up photos of these freakishly neon colored flowers that I walk by everyday on my way home from work. It’s really amazing how such a brightly colored field exists. I think it’s the contrast between this color and the green grass. Maybe….Read More →

*Takes a deep breath and stretches* AHHHHHH!!!!! I’ve been MIA for a month huh? Yea, I have lots to post but because finals attacked me, I haven’t had much chance to do much else other than schoolwork. I spent the past 2 weeks with very, very little sleep in order to get several pieces ready for a student exhibition this past Monday. I’m happy with the work I put into my pieces. I’ll probably put up some pictures of those later. All this lack of sleep has taken a toll on me though since I’ve been nodding off to sleep quite often. Hopefully I canRead More →