Cherry blossom eye candy

No time for a wordy post, but here are a few choice pictures from yesterday’s morning stroll through Ueno Park. Click to enlarge.
Note that the sakura aren’t in full bloom yet; give them a few more days or so. My hope is that they’ll have opened up more by the time I reach [...]

Care to guess where I am right now?

Here’s a hint.

More later.
UPDATE (26 March 2009): Sorry for the lack of a follow-up to this post. Sightseeing and its after-effects (sore feet, weary legs, fingers ready to drop off from the chilly spring air) took up most of my time, leaving very little room for updates. I’ll see if [...]

Four more days . . .

. . . before Diego jets off to the land of Tsuruya-sama’s birth for a two-week holiday.
(NB: I am studiously avoiding the use of the trite appellation “Land of the Bright Yellow Orb Cresting the Horizon” [hackneyed section deleted and replaced], which annoys me to no end from sheer overuse. Be prepared for [...]

JLPT 2008 debriefing

I was out of town for a couple of days and returned at an unholy hour early this morning. With nearly every muscle in my body crying out in protest over a punishing eight-hour nighttime bus ride (sleep was impossible thanks to a lethal cocktail of boredom, onboard videoke equipment and rowdy travelling companions [...]

Studio Rikka all-night screening on 28 March – more details now available

So, you lads couldn’t get tickets either, huh? Guess there’s nothing left for us to do but juice up on Evlend, stay up all night and listen to myself babble like a broken record.
More details have emerged about the all-night screening of Studio Rikka films scheduled to take place at Theatre Shinjuku on Saturday, [...]

Global Shinkai Day report

Here’s a bald account of how I spent the first annual Global Shinkai Day.