So, this year McDonald’s in Japan started a new campaign, called “Big America,” with a series of burgers themed after U.S. States. The first one, and the only one I’ve actually tried so far, to be honest, was the Texas burger. How is it? Well, I wouldn’t eat it again, but that’s just because I hate mustard. More…
Wow, it’s been almost two months since my last post. Sorry about that folks, I got busy. XD
I’ll have another post up shortly, one I meant to post at the beginning of February, but never got around to it.
Edit: Also, I wanted mention that I’ve started using Twitter now. You can follow me on twitter if you like: @stephentigner.
I’ve been fairly active on Twitter recently, and it lets me send off short thoughts that I feel are too small for a proper blog post.
Well, I had a donburi meal at a restaurant tonight with the temporary roomate I have for orientation and his friends from SH 4. The gyudon I blogged about earlier is a donburi dish, but I’m not sure exactly what kind of donburi dish it was. ^^; It was quite good, and was served with some kind of katsu, or fried cutlet. It looks like alot of food to some, but for me it didn’t even come close to filling me, but it did sate my hunger at least. ;)
I had gyudon (牛丼, also known as a “beef bowl”) yesterday at Yoshinoya. It was heavenly! For those who don’t know, it’s a bowl of rice served with strips of beef on top of it. Right now Yoshinoya (or at least the branch I went to) is having a “80 yen off” sale. So I got a large for 400 yen. They have three sizes, normal, large, and extra large. I think I’ll try the extra large the next time I go. :D The 80 yen-off sale is ’till the 21st. More photos in the January 18th gallery.
Happy Binary Day everyone! Yesterday and today are a couple of the binary dates this year.
What’s a binary date? Well, it’s when a date has only 0s and 1s in it. The last time this happened was in 2000 and 2001. There will be several more dates this year and in 2011, but those will be the last of the binary dates this century. Of course, this only works in the short form of the dates, when only two digits are used for the year. (List of dates after the jump.)
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Well, here’s the overdue next installment of my second Tokyo trip entries. おまたせ！ Sorry to make you wait. ^^; On the 29th of December, we headed out to do some shopping and sightseeing. Hitting Akihabara early on in the day, we were able to visit some shops that had been closed the last time we went there. The header picture is of the UDX building near one of the exits of the JR Akihabara station. Of course, we didn’t just hit Akihabara, but did quite a bit of other sightseeing as well. More pics after the jump.
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On Monday, the 28th, we decided to figure out exactly where Tokyo Big Sight, the venue for Comiket, was and how to get there via the subways. On this day and the next, we purchased 1,000 yen all-day passes, which allowed us to ride the subways as much as we wanted, and made our exploring go much smoother. Tokyo Big Sight is what is pictured in the header image. The crowd in the distance appeared to be there for some kind of anime/manga-related event. We couldn’t really tell for sure though, as neither of us was good enough at Japanese to pick out what the guy who was up front speaking was saying.
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So I took a second trip to Tokyo recently (the first being some months back for TGS), and was there for more than just one day, this time. ;) For the sake of readability and sanity (both mine and yours), it will be split up into multiple posts.
We left on Saturday night (Dec. 26th) after checking into Seminar House 2. (Yes, Seminar House 3 was closed for the break, so they made us move.) I went with my friend Taylor, who I mentioned in my previous post about Yodobashi Camera. The header pic for this post is a lovely bit of Engrish we found along the way during our night bus trip to Tokyo. Since my camera’s time and date were incorrect at that point, I had to guess and put it on the 27th. Please make sure to throw your trush into the proper bin, okay? XD
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So I took a trip to Yodobashi Camera in Umeda yesterday with my friend Taylor, and we ran into a couple of his other friends, Brett and Kaori, at the Yodoyabashi station. We decided to all go together, and ended up walking to Umeda from Yodoyabashi. The above picture was taken in the video games department at Yodobashi Camera in Umeda.
Yodobashi Camera is basically a huge, multi-story department store, and they have an incredible selection of stuff ranging from computers and home electronics; to games, toys, and figures; and even some clothes. You could probably get lost for hours in that store just looking at everything on just one floor… it’d probably take days to thoroughly explore the entirety of the store. n.n;
Afterwards, we stopped at a couple more shops, then ate at a very nice, and also fairly inexpensive, Italian restaurant in Namba. More pictures after the jump.
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Well, I know the number of posts has been a bit sparse, but I did want to mention that I am still alive and well here in Japan. ;) Finals are coming up this week and next, and I’ve been very busy with end of the semester stuff lately. Did my final presentation for my Entrepreneurship class on Tuesday, so thankful to have that over with. ^^;
I went on a trip to Mt. Hiei a couple of weeks ago with my Introduction to Japanese History class. That was fun, and hopefully I’ll get the pictures up for that soon. Though I didn’t take as many as I wanted to, thanks to running out of batteries. They had been charged up, but it had probably been to long since I last charged them, so they didn’t last very long. I really need to get a new camera too, sometime, one with a lens cover of some kind. I keep getting blurry pictures for two reasons. 1) I really just need a better camera. 2) The lens keeps getting smudged. >.>;
For those of you reading this that haven’t checked it out yet, I have a gallery of the pictures I’ve taken during my trip here. Please do take a look if you’re interested. n.n Unfortunately, though the early pictures are all labeled and have descriptions, most of the later ones do not. Hopefully I’ll be able to correct that somewhat later on.
So, this year McDonald’s in Japan started a new campaign, called “Big America,” with a series of burgers themed after U.S. States. The first one, and the only one I’ve actually tried so far, to be honest, was the Texas burger. How is it? Well, I wouldn’t eat it again, but that’s just because I hate mustard. More…
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