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I am in Sapporo attending this year’s iSummit. I guess I am supposed to liveblog but I have never done it and don’t even know how so decided not to even try and waste time.
I caught some interesting speeches during the keynote session. The highlight of Day 1 for was an intriguing keynote speech given [...]

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I don’t know what it is but I have certain obsession with 3-way junctions and Tokyo is full of them.

3-way junction near Dentsu-in, Bunkyo

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Haven’t got around to updating this blog for quite a while…
While I was away for two weeks last month, my little niwa was backhacked by miscellaneous biological organisms…
Here is the evidential photo↓

What can I say… I think it’s a little too late to do anything. There is a 2 metre tall bamboo right in the [...]

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Tokyo summers are unbearably hot if you only spend a whole day thinking about the heat. But if you know all the good stuff happening in Tokyo that distracts you from the heat, Tokyo is a cool place.
I went to the famous morning glory market in Iriya in the morning and then to Bunkyo’s hozuki [...]

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I went down to a nearby grocery store, Seiyu, to grab some food for lunch, and I found sliced Nile perch in the seafood section. This is the first time I ever saw Nile perch sold in a store. They were selling it for 97 yen a piece. It’s less than a dollar (US or [...]

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When Chris left for Hong Kong in March last year when he met Oiwan by fluky chance, we had no idea where the outcome of this trip would lead us to. Even when we met Boris for the first time for a nice and spicy lunch, we had no clue what we were getting into. [...]

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