I’m going to be in Japan with my wife for a couple of days (extended layover) and I have no idea what to do there. Since Gulliver’s Kingdom is closed now, I can only think of going to Akihabara. Anyone[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comics
And now, after two weeks of absence, you’ll have to put up with my slides from my Japan-Malaysia trip. Gather round, children, and kill the lights. A very, very recent update for the Wacom Intuos4 drivers finally addressed some awful[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We could’ve bathed with the elephant but decided it was a bit of a hassle for the 5 seconds the turn lasts. Before we could second-guess our decision, our pachyderm friend did its deed. –P.A.
We didn’t mind everything being fun size in Japan (in fact, it made me think of how unnecessarily large some things are), but the huge bathroom window in the hotel room made me giggle a bit (you could cover it with a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As the movie Lost In Translation can attest, it’s easy to fall into the trap of tackling culture clash in a “us vs. them” fashion, subtly hinting that “we” are right and “they” are wrong, all the while making a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There were dimmers in the first hotel too but, I don’t know… a lot of small details like those are so charming to me. That’s it for comics about my trip. There were other great moments, like how I went[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…