Japan it UP!Japan it UP!A blog by an guy living in Japan with pictures and first hand encounters, Articles
Homemade Japanese Bento
2008-01-19 04:07:00 Why do I love my fiancee? There are over a million reasons of course, but one of those million reasons is Bento ! Here’s a recent photo of the bento box lunch she made for me during a surprise picnic. She does this on every snowboarding trip too. So many delicious items perfectly placed in their ... More About: Japanese
Sleeping Chihuahua
2008-01-17 04:07:00 I think our chihuahua is a perfect fit for the family. I was able to snap this picture of her taking a power nap next to me today. Except when I woke up she didn’t move. I guess she felt she needed more beauty sleep. More About: Sleeping , Chihuahua
Care Package from the U.S.
2008-01-16 04:06:00 Have you ever craved something so bad you almost couldn’t stand it? I’m sure everybody has at one point or another. Chocolate, steak and potatoes, ice cream ramen… and recently we (as in me) have been craving some Skittles. Our friend Yumi pulled through with flying colors by sending not only a ton of Skittles ... More About: Care , Family and Friends , Package
My girls were sleeping during a movie!
2008-01-15 04:06:00 We were watching a movie the other day and my fiancee and our chihuahua LuLu fell asleep! I don’t know about you but when we say “No more late night movies!” it ends up like when we said in the U.S. “Next time no appetizers!” Yeah, movies and appetizers are always in the future. I ... More About: Movie , Girls , Sleeping
Bought my baby a Baby G
2008-01-14 04:57:00 My sweet baby needed a watch because of a misplaced older one. At first she bought an inexpensive watch that looked nice but I knew wouldn’t last. So we searched around for a few weeks at different watch shops and finally at The Loft we saw a sweet looking Casio Baby G with a unique ...
Detox And Lose Weight At Bathtime!
2008-01-13 01:43:00 So… I was watching one of my favorite channels - Shop Channel (It’s like QVC [they have it in Japan too] or Home Shopping Network in the U.S.). People are always working hard and I’ve seen quite a few awkward moments, it’s awesome, I kid you not! What’s the difference of Shop Channel and ... More About: Weight , Lose Weight , Detox
Recent Japan News
2008-01-11 02:42:00 I was reading the news today and came across a few articles I thought were worth mentioning. Reuters reports how Golf-Japan ’s ‘Tiger’ Ishikawa turns professional at 16 - Just turned 16 and he’s worth over $10 Million USD over the next 5 years. That’s pretty cool! Google/AFP reports Japan police receive 400th secret pledge to poor ... More About: News , Recent
Gran Turismo 5 in Japan & other stuff
2007-12-12 16:40:00 Here’s a recent update about me since my last post: One day I was sick. I blame the dust mite demons, but I had flu like symptoms. One morning I work up feeling like I was going to die. I slept for about 48 hours. I woke up at 100% health. Nice! I read every post on ... More About: Japan , Stuff , Turismo , Gran turismo
Command Prompt Disappears
2007-12-03 04:51:00 Here’s a solution to the problem of the command prompt disappearing. I use the command prompt to ping things etc and one day it just started to disappear when I went to start > run > cmd. Out of no where it just started to go away leaving me with a “WTF?” look on my ... More About: Command , Prompt
Etiquette 101 in Japan
2007-11-28 07:41:00 I read an interesting article today. It touches base on how to properly eat sushi in Japan , how not to handle your chopsticks, tips on business meetings, the art of bowing, how to give a gift, and a few other topics. Click here to check out the article. Here are a few that really stood out to ... More About: Etiquette
iTunes Skipping while playing Songs
2007-11-26 04:49:00 iTunes is a great piece of software in my opinion but it does have some disadvantages and some problems on occasion. One of the worst problems I’ve had with iTunes is after an upgrade it started skipping songs… what I mean is a song plays fine for a while and then gets all messed up ... More About: Songs , Itunes
Tiny Japanese Coca Cola
2007-11-25 07:57:00 I’ve seen some amazing and interesting things here in Japan so far and here are some photos of the smallest Coke I’ve ever seen in my life. Can you imagine drinking this with a Mega Mac? It’s 160ml (or 5.4 ounces), it cost 53 Yen, and it came in a heavy duty can. Speaking of ... More About: Food , Japanese , Coca-Cola , Tiny , Coca Cola
Japan has awesome butter!
2007-11-24 07:57:00 Why is Japan awesome? There are many reasons and here’s another one to add to the list. Already sliced butter! Who thinks of this stuff, seriously? They should give it it’s own name. I’d name it Awesome Butter . Pre-sliced butter has changed my life. More About: Food , Some
The Chihuahua Model Lulu
2007-11-23 07:56:00 It’s getting cold so it’s sweater time for Lulu . Here she is modeling her new threads. She’s a ball of energy so I was lucky to snap these photos. More About: Model , Chihuahua
Thanksgiving in Japan?
2007-11-22 07:56:00 This is my first year missing a Thanksgiving feast in the U.S. Do I care? Not so much. It’s always been a nice extended vacation from work or school and a chance to get drunk with friends and family while eating dry turkey… and then left over dry turkey for another week, bleh. That reminds ... More About: Food , Japan , Hank
Japanese Instant Coffee
2007-11-20 07:56:00 Running low on my regular coffee I decided to give some instant Japanese coffee a try. I didn’t have much hope because instant Folders coffee in the U.S. tastes like ass but my choices were slim so I went for it. The result: Pretty OK. Yep, it’s not terrible like the instant coffee I remember ... More About: Coffee
Microsoft Outlook Interface not registered error
2007-11-19 04:48:00 When I click on Send and Receive in Microsoft Outlook I started getting the error Interface Not Registered. This error started to appear after I installed some video editing software and also ran some updates to the software. I searched around the Internet and found this solution from Microsoft which fixed my problem. You receive the ... More About: Error , Microsoft Outlook
Basho The Sumo Wrestler Table
2007-11-18 08:25:00 I’ve read the SkyMall magazine over and over while waiting for a plane to take off and I’m sure I’m not alone! I’ve never bought anything from the magazine but I did see something that made me go ‘wtf’ the other day when checking out their site… for just $225 you can have your very ... More About: Table , Sumo , Basho
Back up your computer!
2007-11-17 06:32:00 When is the last time you backed up your computer? I’ve had friends that lost a ton of info including those prized digital family pictures. I’ve lost some email in the past. Today I’m backing up my computer. You might consider doing this when you have a free moment. Here are some backup related links: How ... More About: Computer , Back , Back-up
Missing America
2007-11-16 10:36:00 Today I’m going to talk about being home sick and one of the ultimate things Japan has to offer for foreigners. At times in your life when you’re on an extended vacation or living in another country there will be times when you’ll miss ‘back home.’ You’ll miss your friends and family, but on the ... More About: America , Missing , Missi
Dell Warranty for my Inspiron Laptop
2007-11-15 09:06:00 When I first purchased my laptop from Dell back in 2005 I decided to buy the complete care package warranty because my laptop was basically going to be my office. Today as I sit here in Japan I’m glad that I did! My headphone jack is failing, only the right headphone/speaker is working, and that’s ... More About: Laptop , Inspiron , Warranty , Spiro
Winter is coming!
2007-11-15 06:16:00 It’s getting cold outside and that leaves me with two options. Option 1 is heading to the store to buy a heater for the apartment. Option 2 is… More About: Winter
Blog Ideas
2007-11-14 11:33:00 When I started this site I figured I’d post some random stuff for a while and then when I had more time I’d talk about things I found hard to get information on. I’m going to do a little brainstorming and soon I hope to have some type of format for posting. Some sort of ... More About: Ideas , Blog
Heart Touching Japanese English
2007-11-14 02:56:00 The other day I bought this at the hyaku yen store (it’s basically like the Dollar Store or Dollar Tree in the U.S. but way more awesome). The quality of this 100 Yen notebook is great and I could see somebody paying 200-250 for it. The battery is dead in my camera so I used ... More About: English , Japanese , Heart
Japanese Capsule Hotel
2007-11-13 05:18:00 Akihabara = Otaku paradise… and now you can take a 4 minute walk from Akihabara for a good night sleep before hitting up the Maid Cafe in the morning. Nice! For just 4,000 Yen per night you can sleep in a capsule which looks like the size of a coffin. A coffin with a shit load ... More About: Videos , Travel , Hotel , Japanese
How to check free disk space on a linux server
2007-11-12 04:46:00 Question: How do I check the amount of free disk space on a Free BSD server? Answer: The best way to check how much free disk space your FreeBSD server has available is by using the df command. This works on linux/unix servers, not just FreeBSD. After you SSH into your server you can either type ... More About: Linux , Space , Disk , Check
Make it happen!
2007-11-12 03:26:00 I found this cool picture today while doing some research online. If you want to get a job some place, own your own business, if you’re in college, etc. this might be motivational for you. “Some people dream of success, others make it happen” Cowgate, Edinburgh, 2005 Source: Street Photography More About: Make , Make It Happen
Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan
2007-11-11 19:37:00 Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan for 1 week, and still gets beat by Wii. At first I thought it was amazing since PS3 and the Wii are both from Japanese companies. Then I got to thinking… it’s only 1 week of sales where this happened and everybody has their good and bad days with ... More About: Xbox , Xbox 360
Disney Cell Service in Japan
More articles from this author:2007-11-11 15:59:00 Today Reuters reported that Walt Disney Co. (the #2 U.S. entertainment company followed by Time Warner who is #1) is getting into mobile phone business in Japan in the spring of 2008. Disney plans on using the network of Japan’s #3 cell phone company, Softbank. The two companies will develop cell phones together and Disney ... More About: Cell , Service 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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