I have decided that I will learn Japanese, why? Well, I want to understand anime that I watch... I find that it's better when it's in the original language... My next step is to find a school where I can go this fall... Wow! I can beleive I have decided on something! Yah!!! Plus the language is really nice and the stuff that I want to see is too cute not to do it! Yah! Heee... Tackling one thing at a time is easier then filling out my basket and doing none of them... I realize that I want to do more with my life then sit and surf the net!

Came upon Apple Japanse trailer site looking for Utada Hikaru's husband (Kiriya Taniwa - Japanese version of McG of music video) photo and the director to this movie too!

Places:
roppongi hills, JP - Monument - TONGARI-KUN –Mr. Pointy & the Four Guards by pop artist Takashi Murakami, who designed Louis Vuitton's highly popular "Cherry Blossom" and "Eye Love" lines. Set up in the lotus-filled pond, statue painted w/ 400 colors represents a modernized Buddha.

Movie:
Shinobi

Int'l News:
Kanako Otsuji (30 yr old) - A female member (first four-year term) of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly is set to declare that she is homosexual (extremely rare for an incumbent assembly member or Diet member to confess). She will annouce it during the Tokyo Lesbian and Gay Parade 2005 to be held in Tokyo Saturday. Has an utobiography, confessing her homosexuality, coming out that has been published by Kodansha Ltd.

Champagne Bubble - An art object designed after a bubble of champagne at a Tokyo museum. Commissioned by French champagne maker Krug, Japanese architect Kengo Kuma created the "bubble" that changes its shape with the temperature using a shape-memory alloy covered with elastic ethylene vinyl acetate. When the temperature goes down the alloy is softened and the bubble shrinks.

i-unit - Reinventing the wheel, a futuristic environment-friendly vehicle developed by Toyota within the "Mobility Extending Human Ability" concept, which is put on show at Expo 2005 in Aichi. Paroubek.