Nostalgia Manila: Nostalgia List #01

Nakaka-aliw talaga itong Nostalgia Manila. I discovered this at Leaflens
Nostalgia Manila: Nostalgia List #01
Sana may jukebox rin sila, 3 benchinco 3 tunog. Pero at least may Nostalgia Manila Radio naman sila.

Uy, maraming salamat Nostalgia Manila sa pagbisita dito at sa comment ninyo!

kwento ng 3 pulis

The local late night news was about 3 policemen who were injured, one seriously, by a knife-wielding man. The attacker was shot in the leg and eventually caught, most probably by their backup. What I found interesting was that these policemen tried to defend themselves with their batons, I think none of them were carrying guns at that time. Most policemen here do not carry guns, and it was just recently that some units started being issued a sidearm. Ang town patrols dito, you see one or 2 police on bicycles! Sa Manila naman ang pulis patrol, nakasakay sa kotse, kita mo yung shotgun sa loob, deterrent talaga pero, gaano ka-efficient sila sa crime prevention?

Imagine, pulis na walang baril! I think sa UK ganito pa rin sila pero dahil sa terrorist attacks dun eh they had to arm themselves, well I heard not all of them carry guns, still. Pero sa Pilipinas, kahit hindi pulis, nag pupulis-pulisan o kaya feeling cowboy/girl sila.

limbo rock

Muni-muni ko lang. I should read more on the matter.

quick and painless

I started my day to work with this on the front page.
This bullet train hit a man on the tracks, apparently it was a suicide. The options to end your life here in Japan... gun, naah what if it jams, hard to get a gun in the first place! poison, umm what if I survive? drugs, same as posion. Co2 poisoning? same..., jump off building, what if I change my mind on the way down? group suicide pact, too controversial, someone in the group might just blow it. aha! SHINKANSEN! something this huge coming at you at 262km/h or 164mph would not give you a chance to chicken out.

time capsule

Interesting project Yahoo has got going on, a time capsule in cyberspace. I posted one under HOPE , but it took a long time to upload my picture so I quit and did it again. As it turned out, the first one actually came through so I ended up with 2 posts. Luckily they were 2 different photos of this magical moment I experienced last fall. I hope that I get to experience that one again this year, walking on a thick carpet of freshly fallen gingko leaves!

There's also this gem of a blog called Nostalgia Manila.
It has this list of my favorite robot anime, like Voltes V, Daimos, UFO Grendaizer; all of which you can view on You Tube! Nostalgia overdrive ito, ang galing!

who cut the cheese?

Film Festival

I might get a chance to watch Kubrador at the Tokyo International Film Festival on the 24th, during my lunch break. Sayang talaga hindi naipalabas yung Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros noon sa TILGFF!

Nasobrahan...

Been moonlighting as a southpaw for a couple of weeks now and the keyboard is just driving me nuts! RSI! By the way, I did the splinting/bandaging by myself. That's the fun part.
ok, my left hand feels like sayonara now.

kakainin ko ba ito o tititigan ko na lang?

Behold, my dinner! This "chirashi-sushi" came in a tiny styrofoam box made to look like a "masu". Guess what made up my dinner? Ikura, ama-ebi, tamago, nama-maguro, nama-salmon, shiso strips, kuri, sushi rice and wasabi to taste! Kinain ko rin, nakakagutom titigan kasi.

a whale of a story

I bought canned Minke Whale tonight to experience it. (may aangal?!) A part of me told me to just return to the shelf that 468Y can of whale and a part of me was screaming... "THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!" Oh well...

So, that's that and whale meat tastes like beef, the dark red meat of beef. There was no fishy or gamey taste at all, though I think I would really enjoy it if it was cooked differently. This canned Minke was cooked in a kind of demi-glace sauce with ginger. Of course I had sake to drink, just in case! And it came in handy.

Bottom line, canned whale SUCK but let the tribes hunt whales but NO to commercial fishing!

Muni-muni

train spot

Thanks to Cone for the story!

beer fest

one of my favorite wheat beers...
Ginga Kogen









Delirium Tremens
aside from the 9% alc content, the taste blew my socks off!

what must it be like to be always happy?

Great weather this weekend, bright, cool and sunny! There was this community matsuri (fair) for kids where I won at the raffle.
I also saw in person this woman who was featured on TV one time. She's in her late 30s and years ago she had an accident while riding her bike. She hit her head on the curb and that damaged one part of her brain, the one that makes us recognize sadness. So now she does not get sad at all, no matter what. She feels no worry, nor grief. She is always happy and has no concept at all of what sadness feels like!

Doctors have given her a choice that she could either live that way or they can try to at least "repair" a damaged part of her brain and that it might make her recognize grief. So far she has chosen to stay "happy" because she does not know what that change would bring her. If you saw her on TV, she always had this permanent smile on her face and her reaction to almost anything was always a happy one. One time she got lost, due to a memory lapse, instead of worrying, she just laughed at her predicament.

I saw her today at the fair, in the flesh. She looked like everyone else unless you knew about her condition. She does wear that smile all the time, the only person I know who is 100% HAPPY.

Trip on these!

pink gloved feet!









this egg's got liver spots and
stretch marks on it!

at least no warts...















creepy!

Vintage Tokyo

This is a typical "gaado-shita", literally means under the tracks.
On my way to Hibiya Koen, I chanced upon an obscure part in this town, Yurakucho which is just next to swanky Ginza.

Most of these gaado-shita around Tokyo have been renovated into really boring bars, shops and restaurants with no distinct character at all since you'd also find them anywhere! I hope the city developers would not touch this nook!

You have these tiny bars all pressed together under the tracks with these treasures on the wall that will sort of tell you what was showing on the screens in those days. By looking at these posters, they might be from the 60s! Just as the Shinkansen (bullet train) debuted! The whole place rattles when a train thunders overhead, so it would not be hard to check on the last train if you go here on a nightout.


And this poster, I googled "Spawn of the North", a 1938 movie!



One more look at the gaado-shita as I emerged from the other end and into a modern part of Yurakucho where the Tokyo International Forum stands.

Jose Rizal in Tokyo

I was on my way to an appointment at Hibiya Park this afternoon when I passed by a bust of someone that made me stop, as if it said "pssst!" Pinoy-style.
Ay, si Ka Jose pala!






I know that Jose Rizal lived in Japan for sometime and that he
had a Japanese girlfriend and what's that other rumor about a love child?! I just hope that that boy did not turn out to be one of those who eventually had a hand in WWII. That would definitely make Ka Jose
roll like crazy in his grave then!