Jonbu the baker

I’ve always wanted to justify working here (in BC, Canada). Cuz life here is too boring.
You get less salary working in Asia, that’s one. But everything else is cheaper (not talking about japan)..(and more delicous)
My cousin, who has an architect degree from McGill , works in tw with bad pay, 10+hour workdays, and he refuses to come back to Canada..

I did a calculation, to see how often I can go back with the “extra” money I’m making here..

work in japan:
car/ and or apartment
possibly lower salary / overtime
net monthly loss – 700

one trip to tokyo:
1300 plane
500 hotel
400 food
2200

700 x 4 = 2800
Conclusion:
(I can afford to) go every four months.

Doesn’t have to be tokyo.. i can travel the world!
(i do these (highly flawed) calculations for every big spending…)

of course, i’m blinding myself from all the higher-paying jobs elsewhere.

ooh, i made BBQ ribs last night in my back yard. my bbq “machine” is too old, all the holes on the burner are getting too big for making the flame small (ie ribs got a little charred before they got cooked) but it was still delicious.. next time im gonna try to find good cuts of beef, thinly sliced. (Karubi and whats the other one?)

so that’s it. if the inner traveller don’t die before i get to go anywhere, im gonna try for a trip, at least in 2005.

Yesterday I did nothing.
Went to the chinese resturaunt that ben pointed me to when he drove me back a while ago. (the one with the yellow sign on #3 road)
(My cousin took me there one day and we started going once in a while) I haven’t figure out which dish is that tender pork.. but their steamed small soup buns are good.

Today I plan to do nothing. No mood… not even shopping..

I wondered what I was doing last year, and found this picture (taken by my mobile sony cam, last year today.)
(update: just realized this is 2 years ago !)

check out those neatly folded shirts and omiyage.. oh i miss travelling.
(thats a bottle of vitamin C.. ended up not using much of it.)

ooh, more!

that’s the drive to the airport… my parents.

mandy and joy.. at the gate. did I post this b4? i might have..
me and mandy checked in together. her parents were telling me, “u guys can take care of each other”
that plane was nice and empty.. i don’t remember much of it.. don’t think i was sleeping either tho (?)

(“took one step onto memory lane and the conveyer belt takes you further”)

“tada!”

that should be tokyo, cuz after that everything got crazy and i didn’t take any more pictures. (that’s shyaarii!)

dorm entrance

i took this while waiting for my boss to get the keys. it was raining hard, i remember. and hot.
the first thing my boss told me was, “japan is very humid. Hot. And humid”.

my room

before i messed it up. the beginning of everything. ooh! that’s my old watch on the bed.

so after i promised myself to not buy any game machines till they’re cheap, i couldn’t resist but watch the E3 presentation sony put out for their ps3.

too bad I can’t put the real movie up here.. but everything looks so amazing when it moves realistically.

maybe i’ll get it when i can afford an hdtv.
until then, i play with nes emulator (if you have recommendations for good old games, let me know)

check out that cute frog! the big frog spits them out, and they jump around you.. (it hurts if you touch it)

the traffic was so bad.
we only have access to #6 and it was chuck full for some reason.
it’s hot and nothing’s moving, so i took a turn when i could, and came back to work.

.. it better clear up by 6..

another new/cute thing coming out of japan..

and here

hm. this gave me urge to make some tonkotsu ramen