I have only been updating like once a week for the past month or so but hopefully it should change soon since I should have a lot to post about in the coming few weeks.

So, remember I said that I am going to Thailand? Well I am not going anymore. It kinda fell through. But it is all good. Kind of like a timely reminder to follow my cardinal rool of not relying on other people to do stuff.

But have no fear, while I am no longer bound for Thailand, a new adventure awaits our hero. I am going to Hong Kong on Thrusday

I am looking forward to it. To tell the truth I don’t know anything about Hong Kong and have no idea what to expect. It was between that and Singapore but I decided to save Singapore for next year.

I will be gone from the 16th-21st arriving late night on the 16th and leave early morning on the 21st. This leaves me with 4 full days to run wild and tear up the city. It should be epic

The only plans I have thus far is to go to Macau hit the MGM casino and gamboool it up a bit.

Anybody been to HK before? Any tips or cool spots you want to share?

So yeah thats about it. Oh yeah, was going to get some Vietnam with me chick on sunday when we found ourself walking through Uniqlo. Uniqlo being one of the few shops that actually have clothes that fit me I decided to check if they had any cheap decent T-shirts. Ended up buying like 4 or so.  They had a theme called Japan Games which had old school video game prints. I decided to be geeky and get a few

Sup peoples. Had a pretty shitty week. But meh ill get into that some other time. This is a photo entry based on a concept created by Michael Flux called “Around the Neighborhood”.

The path directly outside of my house once you come out of the elevator area.

A little play ground on our estate for the kids to play in.

A warning about having cats and dogs.

10 seconds later she comes out of the elevator -_-

Can you guess which of the three building I live in?

Crossing of death. Becareful at night, retards never stop Also the 6s are pretty scary…

One of those grasslessless dirt parks that are everywhere…

A cute man hole

My Gym! zz need to go there in about 20mins

The main road.

A Japanese multi story cark park. Can you guess how the car on top got up there? lol

Another Japanese style carpark…

Entrance to Hikarigaoka park. Biggest park in Tokyo!

A look down the never ending park trail… (It really has no end :P)

Two birds..

The main road that the park is on.

zzz a politician. Think some elections are going on.

One of those cool wooden houses

Cake and ice cream shop. I might treat myself this weekend (drools)

A cigarette vending machine and payphone for those of you who have never been to Japan.

A ridiculously coloured building??

Oh well thats all this time round. Feel free to let me know what you liked and/or disliked and to praise or berate me!

Peace!

If you are a gamer or internet geek you might be aware of the phrase “The Cake is a Lie”. If not, then never mind. Today I bring to you a new truth, “The reflection is a lie!”

I would like to quickly share a weird/dumb thing that I think about sometimes. I remembered it after I got home from the gym yesterday.

So I was at the gym, and if you have spent any time in a gym you know that there are big mirrors everywhere. I walked up to the mirror and started doing some muscle man poses. It felt pretty good. I looked at my reflection and thought to myself, “Yup, I am a few steps away from reaching incredible hulk status”.

I went home later that day and did the same pose in front of the mirror in my house.

Hmm, not quite the same effect. I looked skinnier than a 9 year old school girl…

I bought a few pair of jeans last week. If you are in Japan then no doubt you would have heard of a 24 hour shop called JeansMate. I am pretty sure the mirrors there made me look a bit slimmer and taller. But that’s what clothes shops do right? They have those mirrors to try to make you look better in the clothes and trick you into buying them.

I then went to a bathroom, looked at the mirror and felt sad because my eyes were not parallel. It looked like the left one was 2 or 3cm below the right @_@

It kinda makes me wonder what % of mirrors in the world can actually give you a 100% true representation of what you look like. Or are all the mirrors the same and it’s just the angles and lights? Any mirror experts in the house?

Anyway moving on swiftly!!

So over the next few months I might be doing a bit of travelling. I am planning a super last minute trip to Thailand for a few days around the 18^th of next month. I probably will end up going. But it won’t be decided till literally the last minute. I am also planning a trip to Okinawa to a friend’s wedding in September and a trip back home in December.

I have never actually been to a wedding before. Apparently in Japan you have to pay about 30,000 yen (300usd) as a wedding gift if you attend.

At first I was pretty excited about going. People always say that Okinawa is like Hawaii. But after doing some math and adding up money for the plane ticket, wedding money, hotel money, food money, spending money and money for a pimp suit and pimp hat for the ceremony I am starting to worry about how much of a dent this 4-5 day trip is going put on my wallet. The dude is a cool guy and everything, but I might I just have to plead ignorance and not pay any wedding money LOL.

Or I can just be responsible, not go and save myself a ton of money…. But I really wanna go …:(

Sigh, decisions, decisions @_@

Anybody been to Thailand or Okinawa before? Summer is coming yo. Where is everybody going? Or are people calling off their holidays because of the credit crunchers?

So, went bowling last week with the dudes from work. Here is some highlight reel of me bowling.

Me hitting a gutterball then hitting the deck out of frustration

Another gutterball…

Zomg not another gutterball….

AND FINALLY A STRIKE!!!!!

I guess if work doesnt go well I can always bowl professionally

 Lunch was really good. Some kind of ramen variation. I will definitely go back again.

Work finished early. It was actually still bright when I left. I got to my station and skipped down the road feeling elated. I was feeling happy and lucky so I decided to play the slots. I walked up to the nearest vending machine and put my fingers in the slot and wiggled it around. Nothing, nada, empty. Oh well, that’s gambling for you. The odds of winning are always stacked against you. The odds of someone buying something from a machine, forgetting their change, and you being at the right place at the right time to capitalize are really low…

I walked into my house and there was a weird smell. What the..? Something smelled pretty foul. A dead rat? Well I certainly hope not!

It was coming from the bin area. I walked over and took a look. Mental note to self, “You don’t have to wait for the bin to start literally overflowing before you throw it out..”

I live on the 8^th floor. I had just got in and really couldn’t be bothered to go all the way back down to throw it out.  I tied it up and left it by the door so I would not forget to throw it out on the way out the next day. You see I am kind of forgetful. I would say my long term and mid-term. But my short and super short term memory is pretty awful. Does this make any sense? I don’t really know the scientific terms for the types of memory.

For example, since I live alone I normally just chill by myself and think about stuff. Have you ever been by yourself thinking about/remembering something so awesome that you are on the verge of cracking a smile even though you are all by yourself?

What I hate is when I am thinking about something awesome and feeling happy then the phone goes off or I hear a noise, and then bang the thing I was thinking about literally 1 second ago is gone. I can’t remember what I was thinking about that was making me feel all happy and shit. I have spent anything from a few minutes to a few days trying to remember what I was thinking about.

Why does this happen so often? And how can it be prevented? I guess it is what is called “losing your train of thought”? It might be worth looking into.

Anyway back to the story. So I leave for work the next day. Have a shitty day at work. Get home late. Open the front door and trip over and hit my head on the floor. I look behind me and see the bin from last night. I left it at the front door so that I wouldn’t forget to throw it out. How did I somehow manage to walk past it and not throw it out??

Oh yeah thanks Rachel. I went on Amazon today and they had a campaign saying that if I order within 22 minutes I can get Derren Brown’s book on the same day of ordering. I am going to try get off work early today so I can be there when delivery dude comes