Jonbu the baker

I had made a mental note of not going back to akihabara if I were to visit Tokyo again. But now that there’s a New humongous Yodobashi camera, I had to scrub that note off.

Watched Advent Children over the weekend. One thing that struck me about it: It’s FAST! I can tell they’re targeting the gamer audience who have developed millisecond reflexes from years of training. Either that or they’re expecting “normal” ppl to buy the dvd and watch it in slow motion.

I have decided I should get a ps2 this Christmas. (but its so outdated… hm)

i was driving through a school zone this morning and began thinking how i’m not a kid anymore. 10 years ago i’d be walking to school seeing people drive by slowly. now i’m the driver in the car (except i’m driving a bit faster than 30km/h).
the world hasn’t changed all that much but my world has changed.

it reminded me of a discussion i once had with a guy i met at ubc:

is it the flag that moves or is it the wind?

( gotta think like a university student here.. even tho practically they both move )

the question makes you think in circles because you can’t see the wind moving.
a good answer would be, who cares?
and that’d be the right answer. because it’s really your perception that moves.

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other things on my mind:
sony practically played “me-too” and released a new line of mp3 players today. They look ugly. I like it better when sony used to put out cool stuff that no one wants to afford. Now they’re just putting out ugliness that’s slightly affordable. it’s like they refuse to sell good designs cheap.
(those beans they released few weeks ago are cute tho. i was gonna blog about it)
Sony did release a good camera today. It’s the first non-dslr to have a dslr cmos sensor. So it can take dslr-quality pictures, and do live-preview (cuz it’s got no mirror). and it takes cf ^_^. it cost as much as a dslr tho (old habit).

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oh another thing i was gonna blog about:
i had a chance to drive the mercedes E-class this past Monday. Dad’s friend was here to visit, and asked me to take him used-car shopping, in the ride he’d prepared - the shiny grey-black ?E320?
It’s not a special sight. Mercedes are everywhere in richmond (seeing jon driving one is a sight tho). Obviously he doesn’t know how I drive, and he doesn’t know my road sense.
We came back in one piece, maybe with slightly shakened passengers. I couldn’t tell. He’s a guy that’d hold good composure, and his kid in the back probably had no idea what kind of edge-of-life experience he just went through.

Conclusion: It’s too smooth. you feel like someone had ripped away your living room, wrapped it in sponge and put two pairs of wheels on it. Stepping on the gas pedal is like stepping on cloud. The acceleration is silent.
Anyways I wouldn’t trade my toyota for it. Well, I would. Then i’d sell it and buy a new toyota.

I’m always happy when I find that I like cheaper things other than the fact that they cost less.

Go check out that iPod NANO.. its crazy

iPod Nano

knowing how apple stuff goes out of stock, i’d have ordered one right now.
but having a shuffle (tho not using it) leaves me no excuses to get this nano (something with the name i don’t like..) now i don’t even need to fight myself over getting either the white one or the black one.

Today is a special day.
I’m saying this not because I’m one of those ppl that thinks everyday is a special day.
Today’s last day of summer!
Back-to-School season. This weekend was shopping mall hell. Tomorrow is traffic hell.
I personally have no stake in this school business anymore, but I can still remember those days…

First day of school is the best day of school. Last day of school is the second best day of school, but by then the first day is over, so by default it becomes the best day of school.
(guess im writing out these thoughts before i forget)

First day is good because there’s no pile of homework.
Last day is good because you don’t need to care about that pile of homework anymore.
(working is good because there’s no homework to begin with. ahahah)

start with nothing being realized, with everything still existing near the realm of dreams.

what?
oh, this post was starting to get boring, so i put in a bit of randomness. just like adding pepper to cream soups.

now it’s just lame.

i think i used more vocab in this than my usual “i eat ramen. ramen goood. me happy” kinda post.
half the time entries like this won’t get posted. but my blog is too empty.

Same as online shopping. If you place the mouse cursor on the Submit button, and place your finger on the mouse long enough, it will get clicked. It’s totally OK to blame it on muscle spasms, if you’d like.

oo hungry. what to eat today..