Inspiration!

 Cooking and Food  No Responses »
Sep 292008
 

So apparently words can trigger desires in one’s brain?

Fuck you, Marketing class!

But seriously, I am about to start up a Dreamcast game called Eldorodo Gate. And now I want Doritos?

This is some kind of cruel trick by my bastard of a brain, I am sure. I decided to sate it’s foul desires and I came back less handed than I had hoped.

For in this country of Japan I couldn’t find Doritos this time. But I did find Dontacos, which, sound almost like Doritos?

I mean, they are corn flavored corn chips. So how can I go wrong?

ADDENDUM:

Good lord, can I ever go wrong. They do taste like corn soup, like promised. But this is just too weird for even me.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 8:15 pm

Balls of all Sizes

 Japan, Musings  No Responses »
Sep 232008
 

So in an effort to increase my Japanese reading ability, I have been shuffling through a lot of different manga.

I loved Yotsuba&, but really it has been the only one that grabbed me. Berserk didn’t. Neither did GTO or Hale nochi Guu. I’m kinda digging Azumanga but the lack of furigana is teaming up with my laziness to slow down the reading process. I’m poking through Cromartie but the anime is just much better.

On a whim, I read the first few chapters of Dragonball today, and I have been having a, well, ball.

I kinda ignored the thought of reading it because it’s so… classic? I mean to say, you begin to wonder if it is good because everyone says it is good or because it actually is good.

While I never really enjoyed the shows, I am finding the manga to so far be a hilarious romp. The story is rolling along at a good speed and the events are interesting. It is injected with more humor that I expected, but that’s hardly a complaint. If I had to complain about anything it’s that sometimes the font in this collection for the chapter opening and closing parts is a tad blurry and hard to read but I think I’ll get by.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 11:09 pm

Money, Money, Money

 Gaming, Musings  No Responses »
Sep 222008
 

Capcom is releasing Mega Man 9 this week, which is totally fucking awesome. The old style of graphics and probably no horrendous voice acting? And maybe some difficulty up in there? Awesome!

What they have done wrong is announced some downloadable content far too soon.
Continue reading »

 Posted by revenantkioku at 9:16 am

Brain Training in Japanese for the White Man

 Gaming  1 Response »
Sep 202008
 

For the dual reason of having my brain become less than complete mush and perhaps increase my Japanese abilities, I have purchased the Japanese version of Brain Age 2.

So as a non-native speaker of Japanese working with software designed for not-me how have I been faring?
Continue reading »

 Posted by revenantkioku at 10:08 am

Disappointments

 Cooking and Food  No Responses »
Sep 202008
 

I went and tired to conquer the level ten curry at CoCo Ichibanya last night.

Level 9 left me shivering and in a state of near hallucination. I braced myself for the coming storm.

Like the typhoon that never hit, the promises of blindingly spicy food also did not. I cannot attest to what happened in the kitchen, but my tastebuds may be so dead at this point I cannot register the pain.

I will do it again and hope.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 8:00 am

Convenience

 Musings  No Responses »
Sep 192008
 

I believe my problem with the iPhone is that it adds a whole new level of convenience to my life without suiting all of my needs. I guess it is not my white… knightess? Is there a feminine form of knight? Do we need one?

 Posted by revenantkioku at 8:16 am

iPhone Test

 Random  No Responses »
Sep 182008
 

So, I broke down and got an iPhone. Will write up my opinions on the thing in a bit but wanted to do a test first.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 8:05 am

Isn’t it Ironic?

 Movies/TV, Musings  1 Response »
Sep 082008
 

Well, no. It is not ironic.

But I just watched Season 3 Episode 8 of LOST in Japanese. Now besides it being a fucking awesome episode, I remember it well for reasons other than its quality.

See, this episode aired February 13, 2007. The night before my interview for JET.

I had driven what took far too many hours to get to New Jersey to drive again to NYC for my Thursday interview. I was exhausted and nervous as hell. I was crashing at Josh‘s dorm and I remember we were frantically trying to get two pairs of headphones working on his computer to watch the feed going through his TV tuner as speakers were lacking.

I guess it just seems funny to me that an episode about memories got solidified with solid memories of my own.

 Posted by revenantkioku at 5:31 pm
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