watashi to tokyo

PUYO and Yawaraka Tank

The Tokyo Motor Show will start this month. Here is the official web site. I found a post about Honda's concept car "PUYO" design. They say PUYO has a soft body. The famous game PUYO POP is called "PUYO PUYO" in Japan. "PUYO PUYO" means soft touch like jelly or slime originally in Japanese. When I saw the PUYO first, I remembered "YAWARAKA TANK." "YAWARAKA TANK" is a short flash movie series about a soft and cowardly tank. It became popular on the Internet a few years ago because of its ironic messege for the war.

This is great art work using the plastic train toy "Pla Rail" of Takara Tomy (they are famous for the mini car collection "Tomica") . This is Pla Rail's official site and they used only rail parts. It's beautiful.

Here is the page "Cramped City Living: 10 of the Narrowest Houses in the World." Interesting post, I am glad to see they didn't miss Japanese houses (last one). But maybe they are not the narrowest. My favorite site "Thin Buildings" has narrower houses :-), check more...

Talking about buildings, I love these topics: Thomason, Small House, Strange Rent, Strange Room layout, Ugly Building! I don't write such topics recently, ah, I find a good topic to write!! (yes yes I am in topic slump now) okay I will pick some soon :-).

I picked this one in Meguro as the ugliest building. We call it the Umeboshi building. People who know the taste (I think all Japanese) have to have saliva in our mouth seeing the Umeboshi like you do with a lemon; it's very sour, but very delicious. I found a blog part of Umeboshi today. Since making saliva is good for health, using and seeing this part will be good. If you don't react to them, try an Umeboshi first. :-)

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can't cleaning

. This game looks interesting: "Escape from the Phone Booth."

I didn't have enough time for lunch so I took a light meal at "Soup Stock Tokyo." They serve various types of soup and simple bread. I ate onion cream today. Since there are many shops in Tokyo, try one when you find it in Tokyo.　Ah they have soup wall papers, they are good because soups make us smile always.

National has released a new model of the Horse Riding Exercise Machine "Joba." The exercise level has been increased to a maximum of 120kg. I think this would be good for obesity treatment. I want one too; I will ride it while watching videos.

We had a blog book boom before, and some interesting blogs were published as books. Recently another interesting blog has been published as a book. It's "Katazuke rarenai Onna Damashi." She is single, in her 30s and she calls herself "Makeinu =loser." Most of all she is a "person who can't clean."　She didn't clean up her room for over 10 years. But one day she decided to clean up her room. This was the room before she started. Dust, mold, dead insects, living insects, old fashioned clothes, embarrassing posters and pin-ups of idol singers, sake bottles, sometimes she found several types of the same thing (she found a few types of hair remover: sheet, cream, Lazar), etc. The more she cleaned, the more she found old because she could be close to the deep inside of the things. She threw away 112 bags of garbage but she hasn't finished cleaning up. It's okay, her blog was really fun to read.

I am the opposite type, I can't be patient in a crowded room and my family says I am a person who can't keep things. I can count what is in the living room just right now. Sofa, four cushions, table, TV cabinet, TV, DVD, CATV tuner, Floor light, one pot of selloum, that's all. My kitchen is very clean but non functional because I put every tool onto shelves. There is no food, seasoning, pots, pans, tools. Not just that, I hate having too many colors. Especially kitchen items have strong colors usually, so I buy a white sponge, white clothes, white packages of dish soap (of course remove its package). Maybe I am too much too. But I can relax in such a place with less things, less colors.

By the way, I read the best Feng Shui is cleaning; you don't need to do anything special if you clean up the room and change the air often. "Clear Your Clutters with Feng Sui" by Karen Kingston, she said the same thing I think.

Topic slump :-) ネタ不足ですね

I didn't know about this "Hybrid image". This site has some sample hybrid images. Wow great.

A small collection of Japan related sites:
Make your desktop wa-fu (Japanese taste)! A Japanese icon set.
Mt Fuji on old post cards. Japan has changed, Mt Fuji hasn't changed.
Noren (Japanese curtain) collection site. Most Japanese food shops and restaurants have Noren even now.
I think I picked this site before. I was born in Tokyo but even for me a "hometown in Japan" means this type of landscape: Rice fields, mountains, small rivers.

I wrote "cafe" are becoming more multifaceted. I read the new trend is "healing" and a new type service is getting popular. It is ear cleaning. You can get ear cleaning service on some pretty girls's lap. I wrote most Japanese have dry type ear wax and an ear cleaner looks like a small spoon. The ear cleaner is a good collecters item. Here is a site; he has collected 2630 ear cleaners. T2 ear cleaner will be a rare item :-)

Ig nobel

Good for next April Fool!! "Anti-Theft Bike/Car Device".

Finally!! I could　watch bravia new rabbit ad on the web. SUGO-I!! KAWAII!

Ig Nobel Prize 2007 was released. Here is the winners list. In the Chemistry part, a Japanese got the awards again : Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla fragrance and flavoring -- from cow poop. Dr. Nakamatsu, Bowlingual almost every year Japanese get some awards. I am very proud.

No topic today anymore...Have a nice weekend!!*

Unique Japanese items

This is the work of Japanese gay artist Naomichi. Traditional mood is good.

This is a nice sticky note, you can see the level of importance at glance. Talking about sticky notes, I remember Slice and leafusen of KOKUYO design award 2006. Since I have never seen it on the shop, they wouldn't be products for sale. I don't use paper at work anymore, and so I didn't know sticky notes had such good designs. I found butterfly, flowers. And this online shop sells Japanese sweet motif sticky notes, odango, sakura mochi, etc. It's good for a souvenir.

I found some unique Kitchen stuff. This is "lettuce pattern aluminum." It will work as a divider in an Obento box, the products from Obento culture :-). My favorite obento site is this. Don't you think this is art!? Rabbit obento. The brown part is soy sauce. This "one push moyo dropper" comes from Obento culture too. I like this idea "Tofu cutter." To make miso soup, we need to cut tofu into small cubes. This will be nice for foreign people too. "Soy sauce dropper chopstick." Talking about soy sauce, Kikkoman has its 50th anniversay in the U.S and some people in the Congress introduced resolutions "Honoring Kikkoman Foods, Inc. and its 50 years of commitment to providing quality products to the United States." It's here and here. Hmm, interesting.

This is a Japanese topic site "the cscountjapan com". I got a mail from Michael a few days ago. Thanks, Michael. I am very glad to know you like my blog.

Murder of Death Note

Hello I am 'Destitute' Milly Weston... I love this joke very much.

Wow....In Belgium, Severed body parts were found in Park, near the parts there were two paper messages. The messages were written in Japanese in Romanized spelling : "Watashi ha Kira desu". It means "I am Kira". The murderer imitated "the Death Note". Here is the original article from Belgium.

Next spring, the spin-off movie "L- his last 23 days" will be released. This is the teaser. If the murders continue, will Warner Japan shelve the movie release? Not sure, but we are nervous about this type of news recently. To be honest with you, I didn't see any TV or the movies. The manga was the best, I don't think I would like the movies and animation.

NOVA was the big language school, but because of their company trouble, they can't pay for foreign English teachers. I always hear about their bad reputation; aggressive bid to the schools and impose penalties for breaking a lease etc,. but the craze for English study won't go down at any rate in Japan. After NOVA, now I see ads for "gaba". However they seem to have some problem too. Here is the post in English. I have no interest in the school, but I liked their ads using baloon (thinking image)" (can you see that?) I know I have seen a similar one, now I remember it was "this"

It was from My favorite site "sasapong's room". Sasapong has great sense to pick nice, cute good sense sites from around the world. Since I don't have any other good topic, I will pick some sellections from his site. The theme is comparison and collection.
Isolated Building Studies : Cute cute, it reminds me of the book "a small house " that I loved to read when I was kid.

Breakfast : I talked about traditional breakfast with Brian today. You can eat traditional breakfast like this in Ryokan, but now many Japanese eat toast and coffee. So that Nagoya area has "morning set war".

Peoples' faces and their shoes: I am nervous about buying shoes. I am not sure you can read this; I am joining the WoW (woman on window) site now. I wrote about the shoes and handbag, check it out.

Couples : I suppose people love someone who has a similer face. It is the same as pet and owner

Boxer: cute, cute, cute. The photos show all spirit of boys: reckless, innocence, strength, weakness etc.

Trim : The moment after a trim is always a little bit embarrassing.

Daily photo project: The project seems to be over.

Norton fighter

Did you know we can buy meat, vegetables, eggs and such foods on amazon Japan.　Those foods are organic or such special foods, that's good though, but I am not sure I will buy bean sprout on amazon, the price is 61yen. But delivery fee is 750yen and it will take one or two weeks to deliver.

It's Pink Ribbon Campaign week in Tokyo now. Some places are lighting up in Pink. Yesterday, Tokyo Tower was lit up in pink..

What anti virus program are you using? I was using AOL's free program "Active Virus Shield", when I get a new PC, I was going to use it again. However!! they stopped service!! I used Norton before, but it was too heavy for my PC. I read that symantec has new Norton campaign. It's called Norton Fighter.　They have Norton Fighter events in Akihabara. Hmm Look at their ad. it's chilly. What a cheesy! they do this on purpose?

Hard Skin remover

200 people rallied demanding an end to the military junta in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. It was pretty shocked to see those pictures on Sunday morning. CATEGORY。

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I had a interview from Daily J which is the blog part of Nipponster. Thank you very much! In the interview, I said I like our EngRish mistakes. Timely!! I found a great one. I have no idea who/why can make such mistakes...It should be "Hard Skin Remover"... why Horny Remover?.....orz The site has many embarrassing pictures of Japan. I know foreign people love to take pictures of drunk people. :-) But the last one doesn't look like it's from Japan, it looks Korean.

I am not sure if Nintendo knows about this game machine power stick (威力棒) "vii" in China. DONDAKE!!.

I like this idea a poster of ArtFoco, you try hard to see the smallest one. In Japan, Landolt C (this circle one) is the most popular eyesight test. But sometimes we see this Hiragana type. Talking about eyes, I like to see visual tricks like this, this, this, but I think this is the greatest one I have ever seen "castle".

By the way, I couldn't find any good topics on Japanese sites today, but I found an interesting one on foreign sites. A makeover competition in the U.S. - It's a great job, but I love to read people's comments on digg.
This is a really great ad of orange allons plus loin ensemble (I am not sure what it is - an insurance company or something? What a happy mood, I really hope the day will come when we can do the global cute prank. (maybe to Aliens!)