Wednesday, September 30, 2009

What Would Pokemon Looklike With Genitals

The answer is: Japan (again!)

The few who tried to guess we were not taken. That of the previous photo was not a Buddha but the Thai Dai-Butsu, the largest Buddha statue in Japan which is located in Kamakura, an hour south of Tokyo. And where else could we go in this time of year? The work calls, the Tokyo Game Show has been increasingly active (although less and less full of news) e tutte le scuse sono buone per abbuffarsi di cibo giapponese nella madrepatria. Questa volta gli impegni di lavoro erano minori e ho avuto la possibilità di incontrare amici sia e nuovi con cui mi sono divertita a esplorare posti che da turista non avrei probabilmente visto. Volevo aggiornare il blog quotidianamente da lì, ma la pessima connessione e un improvviso rallentamento del mio portatile (che sembra intenzionato ad abbandonarmi presto) non me lo hanno permesso. Ecco quindi un riassuntone completamente a casaccio.

Shibuya: Il quartiere dove eravamo quest'anno. Enorme, affollatissimo sia di giorno che di notte e pieno di negozi. Non poteva ovviamente mancare il campo di calcetto in cima a uno degli edifici station.

Crepes Japanese They underwent a parallel evolution compared to the original French and now provide a bit of everything from pieces of cheesecake with fruit and ice cream. They're great!

Small kimono: The girl was fantastic in her colorful kimono, her mother a little less in his clothing occidentalissimo ...

Kamakura: edge of one of the main temple there was a pond with water lilies worthy of an impressionist painting.

Penelope and coffee: Every year a celebrity West can to infiltrate Japan to advertise a brand of coffee at random. Last year was the turn of Tommy Lee Jones, but this year it was up to Penelope Cruz.

Hama-Rikyu-Teien: was once the private residence of the shogun, is now a public park not too crowded, from which several ferries.

Okonomiyaki - first stage: ingredients arrive at the table in different bowls, customers will mix and cook them on the grill staff. There are various types of okonomiyaki: this was in Hiroshima style, ie with the noodles, and it was very different from those that occasionally appear in the United States.

Okonomiyaki - finals: Fired "frittatone" you can put on different types of sauces, for example, a ton of mayonnaise.

Odaiba: on the island of Odaiba (appropriately built on garbage) before loomed a colossal statue of Gundam. Now that we have removed there remained only this replica of the Statue of Liberty has honestly left me a little puzzled. What does he mean?

Akihabara: excellence in the district for the electronic video game retailers and game rooms are not lacking. This shows I could not photograph it, because he has a ghost from Pac-Man con il cappello di Mario. Credevo fosse permanentemente incollato alla testa di Mario ormai da decenni...

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Close Up Of A Brazilian Wax

Where are we?


Una pacca sulla spalla virtuale a chi indovina per primo. (E vabbè che è facile e che molti di voi lo sanno già...)

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

How To Unlock Vip Suitcase Combination Lock

In fact I have not ever gone ...


Ho ricevuto un paio di email preoccupate da parte di amici che abitano lontano e che non mi vedono su questo blog da un paio di mesi, perciò ho deciso di riprendere la tastiera per scrivere qualcosa... cosa esattamente non lo so nemmeno io. Se non aggiorno il blog da un pò di tempo non è perchè mi siano successe chissà quali disgrazie. Al contrario, se non scrivo è perchè non anything happens to me. The sedentary lifestyle and lack of travel bore me to death, but that is precisely what is happening in this period. Of course, we moved recently to a new city and we are still trying to acclimate and (soprattutto!) to buy a car, which would make our lives a little more varied. While waiting for the turn, however, we do life and neighborhood pool. I can not call myself unsatisfied, no, but I miss the variety of scenarios and humanity to which I was accustomed to San Francisco. Our neighborhood of Los Angeles is a bit too white and western for my taste, although it does what it can to give himself a shot of multicultural diversity (a Korean concert hall, a Mexican-Indian fusion restaurant, a cute little Japanese cafe on the corner). In this city very accessible to a pedestrian I also lost my daily points of reference: I would not know where to buy trivial things like yeast, the pillow for a carbonara or cheese that has the consistency of Yocca. I know, it takes patience, but I am a person known to be devoid of this virtue. One thing, however, I can tell completely satisfied with the Italians I met in LA definitely give a track to that of San Francisco. It will be in the Bay Area that were almost all a bit highbrow and with phenomenal scholarships, so all in all little interest in friendship with a freelance journalist who writes (horrors!) video games. Now that Fabrizio prepares to leave the Bay, I would feel really short of interesting Italian to attend if I lived there again. Here, however, the archetype of the university researcher is replaced by the waiter aspiring actor. It 'a category that does not attend, but outside of this area have known blogger and regular commentator with whom I went immediately agreed. I saw availability, kindness and wanted to go without the initiative always went away from me, I participated in conversations that would go beyond the formality of the usual questions like "How long have you lived in United States? How come you moved here? ". I saw the daily reality of people who live here and there that are more or less struggling to build a life, a career and a family. I found support and desire to open up and I felt a little closer to the "good" parts of Italy that I miss a little, especially after having had to skip the traditional annual visit to the family. On this basis I think I can bear even a temporary lack of own transport (and on those public sooner or later I'll write a separate post, that there is to tell!).