This past year I’ve become a pretty big fan of the Japanese rock band SCANDAL. My good friend Mikey introduced me to them a few years back, but I never got into them until last year. But I started listening to them more early in 2014 and now they are one of my favorite bands! I knew they play a…
Factory Reset
I’ve had my current phone – a Samsung Galaxy S3 – for 2.5 years now and it developed a glitch that has become unbearable annoying. Basically, every few seconds the phone would freeze for a moment, then continue. In Instagram, the phone would pause while scrolling, and the Instagram title bar would appear. After a couple seconds I could scroll again, only…
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Just a couple of weeks into the new year, and I have finished reading my first book! South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami has been sitting on my shelf for a long time now (the receipt I found in the book showed that I bought it at Borders 14 years ago!). Actually I sort of…
65th Kouhaku Uta Gassen
This year’s annual Kouhaku was sorta ho-hum. I liked that Yoshitaka Yuriko led the red team, but am a little tired of Arashi leading the white team (five straight times!). They are pretty good (and their musical performance was great) but I would like to see more variety! Another disappointment was that Aiko is no longer on the red team.…
Jazztronik – Estar com Você
How about some music to kick off the new year? Hope you all have a wonderful 2015!
Skateboarding on Vacation
After getting our new skateboards last summer, Bay and I decided that we should take our boards when we travel and go skateboarding on vacation. So for our Christmas trip to visit my family in Los Angeles, we packed up the boards and brought them. Actually, I only brought over my trucks and wheels since I had an old deck…
Quickie
It’s almost Christmas, and like most people, we’re so busy getting ready! This year we’re visiting my folks in Southern California. I’m really looking forward to hanging out and having my mom’s home cooking!
Anyways, that is just a quick status update… I haven’t had much time to post here lately! ごめんね！
