Finally, at long last! I made it to the green island of Yakushima, tucked snugly away below Kyushu in the South of Japan. It’s a chunk of land covered mostly in sugi (cedar) trees, and awesomely huge ones at that, with sage-old weathered limbs gnarled and warped bearing thickets of leaves, all the way up [...]

Filed under: English, Japan, Japan-eng, Photography on October 5th, 2008 | 9 Comments » | Trackback

Underwear! In vending machines! I’d heard the stories for years, at how select dodgy locations in Akihabara and other districts are home to the peculiarity of vending machines that dispense underwear. Particularly infamous are the tales of the machines that dispense *used* underwear… Thankfully this was just your ’standard’ machine, throwing out fresh panties and [...]

Filed under: English, Japan, Japan-eng, Photography on September 12th, 2008 | 4 Comments » | Trackback

So I finally succumbed and bought a new camera in preparation for my next adventure in Japan. I very had nearly forsaken my photographic preferences for a P&S camera (that’s ‘Point and Shoot’ to all those who don’t really care much for the likes of AE Lock and Aperture Priorities), but luckily at the last [...]

Filed under: English, Photography on June 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments » | Trackback

On a recent trip to London, I decided to give one of the popular ‘London Walks‘ I’d heard about a try. Amongst a variety of interesting themes, London Walks offer a ‘Ghost Walk‘, where you as part of a small group are guided around a particular part of London and told dark and creepy stories [...]

Filed under: English, Photography on April 2nd, 2008 | No Comments » | Trackback