Jonbu the baker

That blue dragon picture looks nice on the front page, so I kinda wanted to leave it there for a while by not blogging.
Update: I just progressed onto disc 3.
Update 2: I decided to be done with the game w/o finishing it. It’s getting too repetitive.

I’ve always (mistakenly) used categories as tags, so it’s an easy transition for me to go to tags. Got my tag cloud set up and “japan” is so big! It will always overshadow whatever else I write on this blog.

Was browsing around for cameras for my next trip, and saw this: Sony’s Smile Shutter

Basically the camera takes the picture whenever it detects a *smile*. Pretty neat. You can adjust the “strength” of the smile so that it takes the picture on a slight smile, or have it be strict and only take pictures when it sees a strong smile. So with this camera, you tell a joke instead of getting the person to say jeez.
I think it’s great for happy people.

Got it on sale too. Zellers is great. Right before I left home for some shopping, I read it up on metacritics and decided I won’t get it. score of 78. Meh. But when I saw that it’s in stock, auto-drive kicked in and I bought it within a minute.

Hironobu Sakaguchi’s latest masterpiece. Not an epic but still a pretty high quality game. Plus, it’s a good break from the American-designed shooters I’ve been playing. Lots of repetitive game play at the beginning (fight the same type of robot 10+ times? Individually?) But somehow it didn’t bore me out. 1.5hrs in. We’ll see how it goes.

Since I installed that blog-stats plug-in, I’ve been able to see what search terms lead people to my site. I thought it’d be a nice gesture to answer some of these searches, since, you came here looking for these things.

aluminum imac review

I’ve also seen Aluminium with an i, which I think is the right spelling, since the new iMac does look very European to me.
Aside from what I’ve already wrote, Here’re some more tidbits:
- One day my mac woke up for no apparant reason. Later on I found out it’s because of my neighbour cousin’s bluetooth device.
- The speakers sound better after breaking in (If you believe the “breaking-in” business), but I use seperate speakers.
- I really have no problems with the reflections at all. Some people say they get headaches.

japanese spelling for the name baker

ベーカー

funny teacher stories

My Japanese teacher drove like a maniac. She drove a Lexus.

keyaki tatami room

Japanese zelkova. Nice. Keyaki is also the name of the famouse ramen place in Hokkaido. Go try their Chashu Ramen.

Kudos for everyone that refuses to use the Shift key.

Recently I bump into coworkers a lot. It’s like work never ends. I suppose since I live near work, I’m bound to bump into people that live here for work too.

Go to IKEA driving around for parking spot? coworker. Scroll around the kids section of IKEA? same coworker.
Go down to Gary Point park to catch some fish, I mean sunset? DOUBLE coworkers separately with their families. One called me by the wrong name, and the other one I called by the wrong name two days ago.

My office mate lives half a block from me. I’m bound to see him somewhere someday.

Saw 3 guys with dSLRs there. They were all there for the sunset I bet.

Spell-check is great. I mis-type words all the time now. And I don’t care because anywhere I type, there’s a spellchecker working. I google with the wrong words, I type emails with bad spelling, IMs, blog, … So it becomes very frustrating when there’s no spellchecker, like, the TERMINAL, cuz technology has molded me into a person unable to spell. And with words I spell, I make typos all tje time.

The firefox spellchecker has “add to dictionary” right below the corrected word choice, so if you’re not careful, or have shaky hands like me, you’d be mis-spelling words forever once you add it to the dictionary. Luckily this
guy has the solution in case it ever happens.