woah.
jibber jabber 
a collection of run on sentences mostly about travel, fashion, technology, formula 1, design and anything else that this worker bee in the vancouver ad industry feels like rambling on about
black lodges
diggin it. linky
stranger in a strange land
one thing i had problems with in japan was finding all those misty little boutiques we were looking for. google maps is a long time favorite of mine and unfortunately unless you can understand and type kanji, you’re not going to get a real result out of google maps.
luckily while over there we discovered an indispensable tool. diddlefinger.com
just click on the “English Address Search” option and it lets you enter in the english version of a japanese address via a process of drop down menus and displays the results in google map. i tested it out tons and it never let me down. stoked.
and they have an iphone version!
rant and rave
one more thing before i go to bed.
Little Big Planet is the best frickin’ game ever!
home
on another note, the day we got back from tokyo, we picked up the keys to our new place and the movers moved all our crap in the next day. we’ve been settling in and unpacking ever since. eventually i will post some pics of the new joint. its damn nice to settle in after being homeless for almost six months.
(also part of the reason why updates of been lacking)
i’m a failure
yeah yeah so i promised to photoblog and twitter from japan. i didn’t. but its not for lack of trying. turns out free wifi is not very prolific in japan. seems their cell network is just too damn good. i brought my 2G iphone as my sole connection to the internet. so that meant no 3G connection and no wifi connection. if i hadn’t preloaded the iphone with subway maps and other travel resources it would have been a brick.
japan was freakin’ amazing though. love tokyo. we were there for two weeks then left to travel around for a week and then one last day in tokyo before flying back to van. when we arrived back in tokyo for that last day, it felt like coming home.
i was pretty apprehensive on the way over about getting around but man once you figure it out its so frickin’ easy. you can go anywhere you want so quick and if you get a Suica card you don’t even have to think about what the correct fare is. which is good cause your brain so so busy taking in everything there is to see and do over there.
did a bunch of shopping and wandering around just soaking it all in. shibuya and shinjuku (our home base) are awesome little areas to hang out in. so many experiences i don’t think i can remember them all or put them to paper.
perhaps more will dribble out over time. definitely need to go back sometime soon.
a couple pics are up on my flickr.
oh and my new favourite dish can be found here. i think it was number 22 from the vending machine.