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expats

Google+!

12:28 AM
It's the wave of the future, here today..!! :D It's been touted as the new facebook, and I'm not so sure about that, but for now, I'm willing to dive into it and give it a try. If any of yous guys are using Google+, feel free to add me! Apparently, you can have webcam hangouts (which sounds...

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events

Event: Osaka Girl's Free Market

3:12 AM
This just going to be a quick post about the Osaka Girl's Free Market being held in Osaka next weekend, October 9th!! You can check out the Japanese website here, and I'll put up some information in English in this post. What is Girl's Free Market?? It's an open market, for women (and they babies ;D) only, being...

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beauty

Web: Kiraria キラリアKansai Area Beauty Site

2:20 PM
Kiraria is a kansai-based beauty website that provides information, reviews, and links to hundreds of beauty, nail, and hair salons in the kansai area. I first found this site through their TV program that runs at some time in the middle of the nightヽ(°▽、°)ノ But it's really nice because they review salons on TV and it really helps...

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good days

Life: Today was a Good Day

12:25 AM
Day's aren't usually bad or anything, but I rarely have a day where I sit down and go "damn.. today was a good day." Today was one of those days though. :) Check out that caaaandy! :D I'm such a big kid... I started it off by sleeping in pretty late. I do that on most days when...

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family

Life: Me v. The Big Bad Virus

12:23 AM
A few weeks ago, I had the unfortunate pleasure of contracting a virus. Well, it ended up not being a virus, but I'll get to that later. It all started with an innocent dinner with dad-in-law. He likes eating, but he really likes drinking, so we usually end up at a bar or izakaya. This day, however, Shota...

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bullet train

Shinkansen Video & Traveling out of kansai :O

11:39 PM
I've haven't been completely idle this week..! I finish some portfolio work, and also edited up this video! It's from a trip I took back in May (so long ago..!ヽ(=´Д`=)ノ) on the Nozomi shinkansen from Osaka to Tokyo. The Nozomi train the fastest bullet train in service I think. It can get you to Tokyo in 2.5 hours!...

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Absent

12:27 AM
I was incapacitated for a week or so, so I haven't been able to update on anything..! Shameful I know, but since I was in a hospital alone for a lot of the time, I did get to study some more kansai-ben. :) Anyway, I'm back home, pretty much whole, and with a nice story about my time...

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