Toyota Aichi 豊田市

In Japan i will be in Toyota Aichi 豊田市 for 12days. This will be my 2nd time in Toyota Aichi since 1996. This city is full or Toyota and Lexus, is the main city where produce Toyata cars in Japan.
The town of Koromo (挙母市), the predecessor of present day Toyota, was a major producer of silk, and prospered in the Mikawa Region from the Meiji Era through the Taisho period. As the demand for raw silk declined in Japan and abroad, the town entered a period of gradual decline. That decline encouraged Kiichiro Toyoda, cousin of Eiji Toyoda, to look for manufacturing alternatives to the family's automatic loom manufacturing business. This in turn led to the founding of what became the Toyota Motor Corporation.
The town gained city status on March 1, 1951. The town changed its name to Toyota in 1959 and became the sister city of another automotive industry headquarters, Detroit, Michigan, one year later. Toyota-shi is also twinned with the County of Derbyshire, England.
On March 25, 2005, Expo 2005 opened with its main site being in Nagakute and additional activity in Seto and Toyota. The expo continued until September 25, 2005.

Ingredient to go Japan

It's been so long for us to get our Japan visa. Took us almost 2 weeks. Tons of supporting document to hand in. Finally we got our visa on Tuesday (18th Dec). So we are ready to fly.... all we need now is Passport, Japan Visa, Yen, flight tickets and Japanese dictionary ( for easy communication).

Char Aznable x Softbank

Softbank Mobile has made annoucement for the release of 913SH G-Type Char cellphone. It basically has the same function as the previous 913SH slider model, except that this model comes pre-installed with Sunrise & Sotsu Agency-supervised content (such as Char quotes & sound FX) and a design collaborated on by Bandai. It comes with a 1/12 Char’s Zaku head charging stand that, which you can open it up and place the phone inside, to display a monoeye screensaver that moves from one side to another randomly. If one gets bored with the monoeye screensaver, just flick a switch to watch TV instead as the phone has a digital one-seg TV built in.

Apart from the usual camera, internet browsers, 1GB of internal memory and also comes with pre-recorded Char phrases.

Scheduled to go on sale in coming December. Currently, there’s another 20 more days till it start accepting pre-orders. Would love to made a purchase on this if this could support GSM network, from what I know Japan phone network seems to be running on CDMA

Some professional modeller even repaint the Zaku head. It is a super cool gadget to have.... Is Japan 2007 coolest stuff.



Char’s Zaku head charging stand with hatch opened. Zaku head charging stand closed with mono-eye screensaver activated.

Softbank origianl 913SH / 913SH G-Type Char

Christmas Celebration

I will not be around on Christmas this year.... so i have organized a Christmas Celebration Dinner abit early... did it last night. So 'ngam' Shumin is back from Melbourne, so celebrate together lor. Jason, Innseng, Munyee and Fuifui is invited too. Thanks to Jason came early and help up. Is so fun, long time never organize this kind of dinner. We had 4 bottles of wine.... so high.
Chicken Burger Steak with cheese

Strawberry

Shumin

Fuifui

Jason

Innseng

Munyee.. busy eating, don't care take photo

Nihon.... いきます

After 11 years, this Dec 22nd i will be my second time go Nagoya, Japan. Hopefully this time i will have great time there. I will bring my full camera gears to Japan. Bring my 400D Canon, My Sony PNS Cyber-shot 7.2 m.pixel and a Sanyo Viewcam Xacti 5. So will take many many photos. Therefor, i will not able to update my blog from 22nd Dec till 3rd Jan 2008. So please stay tune for new update.

Wagashi わがし

Thanks to Angeline to reminds me to buy some Wagashi when i go Japan trip. Wagashi is a traditional sweets food in Japan. Wagashi have 5 types; Namagashi (beautiful crafted with theme sweets), Yokan ( Jelly type sweets), Monaka ( Filling in middle like sandwich type) , Manju (Steamed bun type) and Higashi (Dried sweets). Japanese normally serve Wagashi during the Japanese Cha-do (Green Tea Ceremony). Due to the bitterness of the tea, eating Wagashi will sweeten the mouth. All the Wagashi is crafted with a concept, so eating the wagashi is not only about the taste but also the art.
Namagashi

Yokan

Monaka

Manju

Higashi

Short clip of Wagashi

Back to SHARP

After 5 days waiting, finally i collected back my 400D from Canon Service Center. They have identified and readjust my camera due to the back focus problem. Now my 400D photo is SHARP and CLEAR. Tested it with my new DarthVader Casual figure last night.

Nice art work

Recently so many rape case in Malaysia.... more sad is.... those bastard not only rape women.. but also kids. I wonder is their mind F*ck-up or what. This photo i got from other forum, is pretty meaningful. The photos is from PuduRaya. Malaysia should have a rule that punish those people who rape..... cut of their cock..... and slot back to their mouth.... Ops.. i sounds so sick too.. hihihihih.. :P

Ah Beng with no taste!

Last week, i went KL with Uncle Lim to meet a client in Concorde Hotel. In the parking bay, i saw this Black Civic with a F**king ugly Honda badge on it's bonnet. I think the owner have treat his Honda as a Rolls Royce. I cannot tahan and take out my K750i to snap some photos.... and share it in my blog..... So Jason Tiew... don't do that with your Black Civic.

Reach the 100,000 marks

Only 4 years, my Kenari finally hits the 100,000 km. MY Kenari must be very tired. I wander when will hit the 200,000 km? By the time it hits 200,000 km. i think the car can throw oredi. So far, i think my Kenari is very reliable and very nice to drive car. I am happy with it and no regret buying it. Hahahahah........

Color of faces

A photos of Traditional Mask i took in Shanghai. So many designs... i should buy the plain white one on the left bottom. Then i can draw my design on it like Kubrick.

Kelana Jaya Nite Shots

Last night went to Kelana Jaya Putra LRT Station with AhTak. Full gears outing... gain some tips on photography but sad to know my camera have back focus problem. So need to send to service center to do some servicing on my 400D :(.
Anyway here are some of the homework i did last night.....

Cemaron Day

Thanks for George for company us to Cemaron Highland on Saturday. Too bad is rainy day, so we can't take much photos. Here are some of my Flora&Fauna photos in Cemaron.....






Special thanks to George for taking this nice photo of me and Huipeng. Cool......

The Dark Force Hauls

Thanks to Victor Chew for help me buy this Master Replica's Darth Vader Light Saber while i in Shanghai.... If not his help, most probably this beautiful item will sold out. And the Darth Vader bottle cap figure i bought it from Shanghai.

I can't believe my eyes....

My friend send me this photo. He got it from his facebook links.... He said at first he saw the photo, he got shock... coz how come Jeff have so much of hot chicks surrounding him... but never introduce to him. And my other friend keep on asking me do i have twin brother or not... What a funny topic.

PLEASE Santa Claus......

Mmmm... this year christmas.... hopefully Santa Claus will send me one of the item below as my christmas present. So what is your christmas wish list?
1st in list is 350Z:

2nd in list is Canon 10-22mm Lens:

3rd in list is Appleseed Hottous 12" figures:

4th in list is Yamato Poison:

Last in list is, If Santa can send his Sexy Assistant to deliver the presents will be great. Hihihihihi.......