I choose to buy figures. But here’s the thing, figure purchasing is a very expensive hobby so I warn you to watch out if you buy it. But I recently checked out a pretty cool place to buy figures for a pretty cheap price, if you live in the U.S. anyways. Figures I buy are about 50-70 USD which is pretty steep, but this site, Kidnemocompany, gives you 20% off if its an import figure that hasn’t come to the U.S. yet. I plan to buy quite a few figures and do reviews on them too. Now I need to buy a better camera…btw sorry for the late post, internet went down.
Archive for May, 2007
I always liked Japanese commercials more compared to American commercials for they go straight to the point after a very short demonstration or information about the product. I saw a rice au gratin commercial while I was in Japan that showed a woman eating the rice for about four to five seconds then straight to a picture of the product. In America its a commercial about 20 seconds long on demonstration that sometimes has no true relation that will direct you to the product, then they show the product. I think the Japanese are sadly picking up on this as they show these strange commercials that are exceedingly long, especially the pocky commercial that has almost no hint to the new “Pocky G,” but interesting nonetheless due to the kid head butting the dude that smashed his sand castle. I thought the “Boo Hoo For You” commercial was a bit discriminatory to those who’s phone isn’t as “functional” as those in Japan. I admit though that the English was great as the commercial was done by an English company I believe.
Well another end to another anime has come to pass. Manabi Straight was a pretty good anime that is about high school girls that is more of a serious anime about friendship. I really enjoyed the animation in this anime which made me interested in watching it. Well the school year is ending for the girls and they are graduating and going off into the real world. It’s a sad kind of ending where all the girls decided on what they were going to do with Mikan splitting the group by going to America for college to find her own way while everyone else stayed in Japan. Manabi decided to become a freeter, a person who goes around doing part time jobs, which I feel suits her for she never seems to able to want to stick to one thing but excel in all. Mucchi has gone off to join a professional sports group, though I don’t know which, as is her nature of being naturally talented at sports. Mei has gone off to college, probably some highly academic one, it was predictable. Momo has gone off to a digital journalist school, with all her video taping it was bound to happen.
Well this will be my last post on my first and hopefully not last trip to Hong Kong. My final reflections will be in this post. Hong Kong is a great place to travel to, if you don’t mind the humidity and really chemically induced air from garbage, cigarette smoke, and car fumes. My cousin told me it might be best to visit Hong Kong from November-February which is the winter season that will help with the humidity which is on the extreme side when I visited Hong Kong, worst in the summer. It’s a great place to shop, eat, play tourist, and more….did I mention eat? Yes, food…that was one of the highlights of the trip, to me anyways, for everything is super cheap when you eat there. About 3-8 USD will get you a great meal that will leave you feeling like you don’t have to eat for the rest of the day and most likely a drink to go along with it, usually tea or coffee. They have tons of food everywhere, expect most to be Chinese related though lol, but its definitely better than the Chinese I eat here in the U.S. lol. Here’s the interesting thing, you can eat like an American in Hong Kong with all the big meals but you burn it off walking everywhere that will leave you hungry for another great meal.
First of all big shout out to my cousin for showing me around Hong Kong. If it weren’t for him I would probably be lost in Hong Kong during my visit. He taught me the basics like riding the different transportations, showed me the landmarks, and of course where to shop in Hong Kong. Same goes to his family, my relatives, who also was there to take me to places to eat and such. Hong Kong is a place of real economic development compared to its mainland, China. But China itself is currently going through an economic boom itself and might emerge as a super power country. But enough about economics, I have to deal with it when I go back to school…now about why my neck hurts. Due to Hong Kong also being a major port for imports and exports, it also became a mecca for really tall buildings due to all the businesses that work there, so this resulted in me being the dumb tourist craning my neck to look at them while standing in the middle of the sidewalk blocking people while taking pics. But its not just buildings…apparently Buddha is up there as well as I visited the biggest Buddha statue in all of China (btw I am a non-religious person but Buddhism is a religion that I practice but only during those times of the year like Chinese New Year’s and when I visit my deceased relatives).
Well I kind of just came back from Hong Kong, fell asleep due to jet lag ^-^;. Well first of all, I went to JAPAN (pump fist in air), which this post is going to be about. I finally made it, I was in the Osaka airport the whole time though lol. I went first class to Japan, the only way to go…they stuffed me so much I was afraid of going to the bathroom constantly, turns out it was only a few times. Even though it was just an airport there were many different things for me there. I’ll explain with the pics.
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