The password is the city I live in.

“CLICK ME FOR PICTURES”

Also, here are the videos we took during our trip. Enjoy.

This first batch of vids are from the Hong Kong leg of the trip.

This was on a day trip to china, where we went to visit Elena’s cousin and uncle.

Our hotel room in Tokyo.

Taking a stroll on a sunday in Tokyo

The fish market in Tokyo early in the morning. All the restaurants come here to buy their fish for the day.

In a department store where they have all these fancy desserts.

Tokyo at night

At a park near the Harajuku area. Lots of street performing bands line the side walks and try to sell their CD’s.

These were videos we took at a super fancy sushi bar we went to. There weren’t too many shots of food because we just kept eating it right after the chef served it to us. It was really good.

This was a more down to earth restaurant we stumbled across. It was more for busy business men that needed a quick place to eat. When we got there it was pretty empty though.

Waiting for our train to Kyoto.

On our way to a whole bunch of temples, we had to walk through this bamboo forest.

Walking back from visiting the temples, Elena gets snappy with me.

We also visited this castle in Kyoto called the Nijo-jo castle. Inside were floors that squeaked when you walked on it, to detect intruders.

I’d say, Animal 1, Man -1, for watching this.

Sumo vs. Oranagutan in a tug o war

Little People vs. Elephant in towing a plane

Runner vs. Giraffe and Zebra

Although he’s lost his world title, i have faith that he will regain it one day.

For more Kobayashi action, here are more vids of him in his element (note: they are mostly in japanese, but who cares, it’s just a guy eating a lot of food, how much understanding do you need):

Him eating against some nerdy looking girl (feel kinda bad for her, cuz he just ripped her apart):

Here he drank 25 bottles of coffee:

and in this one he’s just eating whatever:

Well, i vaguely remembered this, but then i came across this:

I don’t know if this is cool, or sad.  But nonetheless, it’s a catchy song.

Well this lead to some more digging, and well, i’ll just let you watch:

US Presidents

Universe Song 

Ballad of Magellan 

Variety Speak

While searching for some old pinky and the brain episodes, I came across this interview with the voice actors of pinky and the brain, discussing how they came up with their voices, and the episode which won them an emmy (which i did not know about, but now that i do, it makes them that much better).

part 1:

part 2:

part 3:

Honestly, the last good cartoon i remember were ones from fox, like spider man, x-men and batman.  And i’m talking about the first edition ones, not the new spiderman and xmen cartoons, which by the way, suck ass in my opinion.

Well, in some twisted need in myself to relive my childhood, here are some of my favorite cartoons.

He-man: I don’t care what you think now, but back then, He-man was the shit.  I had the whole fucking mountain skeletor lived in and played with it for hours, but for some reason, i lost it over the years.  To this day, that is probably the toy i regret loosing the most.

Thundercats: I really don’t know why i liked this so much.  I just thought the sword and glove that Lion-O had was so badass.

Prostars: This one was an obscure one, but I really liked it when it first came out.  It was basically about a team of superstars, Micheal Jordon, Wayne Gretzky, and Bo Jackson, who went around saving kids from danger, using cool gadgets.  The one thing i remember the most was that Wayne Gretzky ate alot.

Ducktales: This was like the “Price is Right” of cartoons.  It’s what you watched when nothing else was on.

Animaniacs: Pinky and the Brain.  ’nuff said.

best line = “When gymnastics and karate are fused, the combustion becomes an explosion…”

Japanese developers find way to create hot rice with cold water

Turn “COLD” water into “HOT” rice?! You’ve seriously gotta give them props for this, i mean, not only do they provide us with entertainment westernized media will not touch with a 10 foot pole, but now they’ve gone ahead and created something that could help people in emergencies? Bravo Japan, Bravo.

As a Canadian, you may remember a few years ago when quarters with a red poppy in the middle were being put into curculation. When I first saw them, i thought they were pretty cool, and definetly a nice gesture for the commemoration of Rememberence Day. Well, turns out our “buddies” from the south did not share the same sentiment.

An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a U.S. Defense Department false espionage warning earlier this year about mysterious coin-like objects with radio frequency transmitters
Link to source

That’s right, the American Defense Department thought that us “Canadians” were putting out quarters with radio transmitters in them, in the hopes of what?! I mean, come on, we’re Canadians. It seems like our neighbors south of the border may be a bit more paranoid than we thought.