Motomachi & Kamakura

Chinese temple in Motomachi & the Daibutsu in Kamakura.

Toyota City in Odaiba

Old race cars on display at Toyota City.

Roppongi with Stevo

Gotta do the old party in Roppongi with Steve, fun night.

Hainan chicken

Hainan chicken at Akasaka Biz Tower, thanks Steve for the recommendation.

Asakusa

Took dad on a tour of Asakusa.

Tokyo International Orchid Grand Prix 2009

Shots from the Dome orchid show, the white one with tea leaf looking leaves is this year's grand champion.

G35Driver.com Hawaii decal

Finally someone local has made this localized G35 forum decals. Washed the car this morning and put these on, now we can spot people that frequent the Hawaii section of the forum.

Purchase orders

Arm's brother wanted these Spyder3 things, it's supposedly used to fine tune TV or monitor screens, two of these cost over $300USD!!! I think we have a new gadget whore that's worse than Steve. Also picked up the usual Burt's Bees lip balms for Arm.

Yokohama S. Drive

Finally got new tires, the Yokohama S. Drive high performance tires. Tires cost $762 including $150 for shipping. Mounted them today at Eurosports, cost was $172. It's always expensive to get new tires, but these 20" tires are actually cheaper than my old 19", not sure why. Huge difference in ride quality, all those little bumps disappeared. Comparable to swapping a pair of flip flops with plain rubber soles for a pair of Nike basketball kicks with air cushion. Found myself feathering the throttle and enjoying the low RPM exhaust hum that was coverd by the tire noise before.

Short vid of Taipei 101 fireworks

A short video shot with my phone.

Here's a much more skill shot video:
2009 Taiwan Taipei 101 fireworks

Taipei 101 Firework!

Spent New Year's Eve with my childhood friend and his college buddies. We watched the fireworks display on the street near his house. Lots of people on the street, traffic is horrible near Taipei 101, heard it takes 2 hours just to walk out of the area. The white tiger doll belongs to my friend's Gf, apparently she's been taking it with her everywhere for the past 5 years.

Wedding

Attended a wedding in my dad's place, American styled ceremony, pretty good food.

Carnegie's Taipei

Read about this bar online, majority of the crowd are in their 30's, but everyone has fun. Notice the handle bars on the bar top, they allow people to dance on the non-slip material covered bar.

Beef Noodle

Taiwan's specialty, beef noodle, the shop is right around the corner from my apartment, a small mom & pop shop.

Small Concert in Taipei's Shibuya

Invited by a friend from UH days to a small concert in 西門町(Ximending), Taipei's version of Shibuya. The place looks and feels just like Shibuya, and is crowded with young kids even on week day/nights. The concert was held in the old style building. The artist's name is 藍又時(Lan Yo Shi), a really powerful singer. It's my first concert ever, really glad I got to go.