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爆裂肉食女子草食撲滅年末大夜会

My buddy Mike and I went to a concert in Tokyo on Saturday night. "...an all-night girl band thrash-punk rock extravaganza entitled 爆裂肉食女子草食撲滅年末大夜会 (Roughly translating to 'Explosive Carnivorous Girls End-of-Year Extermination Party')" Needless to say, it was a lot of fun.

Shake, Rattle and Roll

Last week there was a small earthquake here. Our house started to shake quite bit.

In my bedroom, I have a HUGE wooden dresser at my head, another huge one at my feet and a medium sized on my right side. If any of these fell on top of me they would either kill me or at least break some bones. Time to re-arrange the furniture...

Random Photos during my walks

Whenever the weather is good Leo and I go our for a walk. Here are some things we've come across....
Japanese are not religious at all so seeing this was quite a shock....and the fact that it's in English...WTF?

Life size bonzai trees

A small temple attached to a cemetary

Japanese style cemetary

Parking takes up too much valuable land....so they created vertical car parking. You punch in your pin and your car comes down.

Japan vs. North America

Japan could learn a few things from North America and vice versa. For example, we should adopt Japan's bath tubs. Tubs in Japan are short and deep so you end up being almost entirely submerged. Plus, the water is constantly heated and circulated so it never gets cold. In Canada, I'm not much of a bath fan but in Japan I take one almost daily. The only problem, and this is where Japan should adopt something, is that there is no central heating in most Japanese homes. They use space heaters in each and every room they want to keep warm. Our house is freezing!

Seven Months

Leo recently had his 7 month birthday. He'll probably start crawling soon.

My New Routine

Spontaneity is good but on a daily basis I prefer a routine ... preferably of my choosing. By day I play the role of Mr. Mom - Junior and I go for walks exploring our little town, I help prepare and feed our ravenous little boy, house cleaning, etc. Come five o'clock, I jump on my mother-in-laws bicycle and head to the train station. I train at the dojo for two hours and then rush back home. If I make all my connections and no one has jumped in front of a train I make it back home by around ten o'clock. That's my routine from Tuesday to Friday.