Toyko Day Four

In a cat cafe! I'm so happy, been trying to pet the cats and get them
to play with me.

Japan Day Three #I've lost track

Vote Happiness Realization Party! Reminds me of a Time magazine
article I read about how there are more female politicians in the
parliament now, due to the unhappiness with the incumbent party and
its handling of the economic crisis.

Well the incumbent Democratic Party of Japan got kicked out in the
recent elections anyway.

Japan Day Three #4

Tommy Lee Jones as a spokesperson
for Boss Coffee. Possibly the most irrelevant celebrity ever.

Japan Day Three #3

Not much to blog about today, since it's mostly electronic shopping.
So posting up another photo from Kyoto of a statue of a famous geisha
against the sunset.

Japan Day Four

Second bowl of ramen on the trip

Japan Day Three #2

Sashimi on a stick!

Japan Day Three

At a temple / zen garden in pretty Kyoto.

Japan Day Two

Big tuna at Tsukiji market!!!

Japan Day One #5

The view from our restaurant, where I am currently stealing the wifi
from. :)

Japan Day One #5

First dinner in Japan!

Japan Day One #4

From what I gather, this seems to be a cat cafe!!!

Japan Day One #3

Japan Day One #2

Japan Day One

Toy camera

Trying out the camera app, toy camera, which I bought on Sio's
recommendation. But so far it hasn't produced photographs as pretty as
hers.. Hmm.

Pitstop #2

At Joshua's house, talking about an elite society and all that it
entails.

Christmas Day 2009

First stop: Jurong aunties' house

We have a tree!

Soren actually brought a tree out for our Christmas dinner!

You know readers have been dumbed down..

When Sarah Palin's memoirs actually makes it to the non-fiction
bestseller list.

Seriously?

A book about zombie raccoons and killer bunnies? What will they think of next?

Food for thought

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability
to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to
engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone
else's head - even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head
is not a place you'd really like to be.

- Malcolm Gladwell, What the dog saw

Branding FAIL

Chocolate bouquet

A chocolate bouquet that my intern, whose last day was today, made for
me. :)

3.04am

Still here in the office, listening to Camp Out on endless loop. I love it.

The waiting game

Just waiting for the designers and Mel to give me back my pages. I should be doing something productive, like replying to work emails. But fuck it, I'm half dead.

Also, the official news went out today. I haven't really thought about what it means for me, because firstly, I don't know what it means for me. I know what business objectives I have to achieve next year, but what does it really mean for me? I have no idea. Maybe I'll think about it over the break, that is, if I ever get there.

Give me my magazine pages now so I can get the fuck outta here! RAWR.

Heavy-duty listening: Camp out

I've heard about An Horse sometime ago but never paid them any attention until I chanced upon a video of Sara (from Tegan & Sara) interviewing the members of An Horse. Somehow, lead singer Kate Cooper came across as a really affable and chilled-out human being, which then led to me checking their music out on YouTube.

Camp Out is my favourite song so far, which is no surprise since it's now a single.

Holiday cuteness

The Christmas loot has been poor this year. Too many calendars (don't
need them anymore since I started using google cal), some notebooks
(very handy and practical) and a whole lotta sweets and cookies which
helped me make it through my 70-hour ordeal this week.

But the polar bear just arrived today, and I am smitten. He is so cute
with his big black nose! I wuff you little polar bear!

Car-free on North Bridge Road

Taken at 1.40am while standing in between the car lanes.

On parting ways with incompetent employees

Meh.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Things we <3

Shirts that start with 'I <3', obviously. And this was completely
unplanned and coincidental as well, since neither one of us stayed at
the other homes last night..

Lofi app

Just fooling around with a new 'lomo' app that I just downloaded for
my iPhone. So far so cool..

5 days

5 working days, 2.5 magazines to produce, namely the December issue, the Vendors of the Year special and half of the January issue.

I can't fucking wait for Saturday to roll around, I swear.

What?!

We're scaling THAT wall?! Eeps!

Itty bitty kitteh

I love how when this kitteh looked at me, it cocked it's head to the side wondering what the hell I was doing.

Naive

Waiting for the boy at Naive. I've always wanted to try this
vegetarian restaurant, especially after several people have raved to
be about the food here.

Naive has a really nice minimalist decor, too bad about the seating
space though. Right now my back is towards the glass panel where I
can't see people walking by.

But already this is my second seat as I initially chose the seat that
faces the passersby but has my back towards the rest of the restaurant
and the lovely decor. That unnerves me because then I can't see the
waiters coming up behind me.

Yea I'm finnicky like that..