Japanese Mouse Mats

In case you can’t see properly, there are wrist rests of some description on these mouse mats. I’m not sure you’d want to use these at work…

Mic

This guy was guiding cars in and out of a car park in Shibuya, Tokyo. Check out that headset/mic to top off his uniform.

Belated Greetings

Though it’s a bit late, I hope you had a good festive season and I wish you a happy New Year.

For various reasons, I haven’t really been able to blog of late. I’ll try to update the site for at least the next few months as I believe it will be a full 10 years the site has been going by spring. After that, we shall see.

[I've added a Federer vs Tsonga photo to my last post as promised.]

ATP World Tour Finals 2011

Yesterday I was at the O2 Arena in London to see Roger Federer’s record-breaking sixth ATP World Tour Finals victory. It was a fantastic match! Commiserations to Tsonga.

[Updated 28/01/12]

Glory Money Changer

You’ve just got to love Japan. :)

TFL Engineering Works

For a Saturday, today was chaotic on the London Underground. Maybe I’m exaggerating slightly put travelling across London and then back again later in the evening, it seemed as though it was rush day not rush hour – not that there should be a rush hour at the weekend.

Perhaps people have started their Christmas shopping? The engineering works certainly weren’t helping – how long have they been going on for?! Every train I got on was packed and to make matters worse there was a signal failure at Covent Garden. This meant that travelling from Holborn to Covent Garden took at least 15-20 minutes – bearing in mind it takes about 5 min to walk the same distance!

Just thinking about my annual season ticket soon just makes me feel sick! Worth way over £1000? No.

Ryuichi Sakamoto 2011

For any Ryuichi Sakamoto fans out there who don’t know, Sakamoto-san is on a trio tour and his live performances, as well as archived ones, can be seen on uStream.

Two weeks ago I attended the London concert and really enjoyed it. Needless to say, the Southbank Centre was packed with Japanese people excited to see Sakamoto-san.

Student Protests

  

Fleet St in London was closed to traffic earlier today and a huge number of police were on the streets for the student protests.

Hanging Decorations

Looking up at hanging decorations. Kyushu, Japan.

Docomo Mail

Why does Docomo block mails from .com addresses?! Also, why isn’t ‘Docomo’ actually ‘Dokomo’?!