Wow, has it really been 3.5 months since I last posted something here?? Well, I guess that means it's time to close this blog and move it over here.

I am being sent to Gifu. -_-; At least it's not a random island off Hokkaido, but...it's not exactly close to either KIX or NRT. Well, at least taking the regular train to Tokyo or Osaka won't be too bad. I hope. =P
On that note, this journal is now friends only. I've set up a separate Japan blog over at: Leave a comment

Vegas this weekend was...pretty intense. There were so many awesome things about it...but just as many wrong things about it. -_-; First off, I got to the airport to realize that my flight was not a direct one from SJC to LAS but it went from SJC to Burbank to LAS. Did I know this when I booked the flight? Nope. Did the email confirmation say ( Read more... )

One of my mom's aunts asked me that a couple years ago. She asked which parent I think I look like, and whether a lot of people ask me if I'm mixed. Awkward conversation that was.

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It's been a pretty busy past couple of weeks. I think I've been up to SF more times in the past 2 weeks combined than in the past few years. Ok, maybe not, but I've been to up to SF a good...4 or 5 times in the past 2 weeks alone. Each time for different reasons, of course, but I must say I have quite a love/hate relationship with that city. ( Read more... )

I'm home and I so have jet lag. It's about 10:35 am in Taiwan right now, which means I've been awake for about 29 hours now. I'd sleep, but that won't help me to adjust back to SF time because if I go to sleep now, I'd still end up waking up at 4am ( Read more... )

Greetings from 東京 (Tokyo)!! I came back from 京都 (Kyoto) via Shinkansen today. While I was in Kyoto I made side-trips to Himeji and Nara. It's so beautiful here. Seeing Mt. Fuji from the Shinkansen was amazing, I hope everyone gets to see that view at least once in their lives. Right now I'm sitting in Em's Hotel Room relaxing. I'll be here ( Read more... )

In 24 hours I will be in Japan...

Went to the Japantown Anime Faire with Jen today. It was pretty cool, but really small. The anime conventions I've been to have been progressively smaller and smaller. =P (Anime Expo, Anime Overdose and now JTAF). There weren't that many people at JTAF, and not a whole lot were dressed up, but it was still pretty cool to be recognized and to be ( Read more... )

With the help of my wonderful お姉さん, I reformatted my computer today. I finish installing the OS and the drivers and such, everything works fine, but I remind myself that I need to install Service Pack 2. So I do. After installing, it says to reboot my computer, so I do. And I get this error message: STOP: C0000221 {Bad Image Checksum}. ( Read more... )