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News from that tech guy
Finally, this is working, but it took a Manga cafe (which I find to be very good and great value – free coffee, soft drink, manga to read and QUIET – I love it). The dumb Dell ain’t very good at sending 100k e-mails d’oh! It could be the servers = but I reckon it is Windows Mobile.
So here it is.
(1) Liveblog – we upload mobile phone photos as they happen (and perhaps Helen adds text afterwards(
(2) Real blog entries done on the dell but probably uploaded at an internet cafe. I might try smaller sized pictures – but that may compromised quality.
(3) Full size photos uploaded to flickr go – http://flickr.com/photos/hmkdt
For Chris A….
Finally found the shop nearly at the end of our first full day in Tokyo. Chris – just for the record, officeworks pales into comparison. It just wont be the same when I come home.
We were there for over an hour. I loved every minute.
Expensive pens, cheap pens, clips, paper [cheap and handmade] stamps and things I haven’t even seen before. Unfortunately Kym was there… “do you realy that. ohh… no…” 9 floors of heaven. When we went inside the store it was daylight, when we finished it was nighttime. :)
I need to think of a reason to go back before we go home.
-HK
Library…
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Lost in translation fans…this picture is not on the way to the pool. Just a corridor from one set of lifts to another.
It does look great in real-life :)
– HK
Gunzels’ Dream
We could not help ourselves. We needed a dose of Lost in
Translation. We went to Shibuya for that famours massive
crossing and like all tourists we crossed whie randomly
taking photos! Then hopped a peak hour train (yes there was
a sold mass of people moving as one) to Shinjuku to visit
the spirtual heart of Lost in Translation to Park Hyatt
Hotel to eat in the New York Grill. It had pretty impressive
toilets!
The photo actually came from the Tokyou Metropolitan
Government observation deck (complete with cute stuff
shops). It’s true Tokyo’s skyline truly comes alive at
night.
KDT
tokyo night.jpg
We could not help ourselves. We needed a dose of Lost in
Translation. We went to Shibuya for that famours massive
crossing and like all tourists we crossed whie randomly
taking photos! Then hopped a peak hour train (yes there was
a sold mass of people moving as one) to Shinjuku to visit
the spirtual heart of Lost in Translation to Park Hyatt
Hotel to eat in the New York Grill. It had pretty impressive
toilets!
The photo actually came from the Tokyou Metropolitan
Government observation deck (complete with cute stuff
shops). It’s true Tokyo’s skyline truly comes alive at
night.
KDT
How is this working….
Darn good question! Prior to leaving Kym purchased a PDA and wireless keyboard. Yes well be able to upload our entries during the day… no problem. It is Tokyo after all…. technological capital of the world.
HA! Wifi hot spots are not easy to find.. dominant technology here is the telephone, everyone has one and uses it. Every so often we stop and Kym spends about a minute or so staring at the PDA… if we could read Japanese maybe the chance of finding a wifi spot would increase.
So we have done a number of posts… and Kym is uploading them now. Although it does involve a lot of sighing. However, please keep in mind that I have to create them using his account…so some of them are by him, but have my name at the end of the entry so you know who wrote what. Okay Ill admit we stuffed up there.. but it is working … well some of the time.
Internet cafes are even harder to find. Just to do these few enteries and use the internet we joined the Internet Cafe.. paid 3000yen for membership plus the time that we use. Theyhave free drinks, books you can read, watch DVDs listen to music… and is very quiet ]except for me complaining about the darn keyboard} humm… does this type of environment it sound familiar to anyone? Okay so libraries don’t have free drinks… Cureently having some pink slushy thing… tastes okay, not that I would buy it.
Some of the photos we will publish will be direct from the phone we have to the blog… at least some thing is working.
Coffee in a can…
When I first heard about coffee in a can from Belinda and Tim, I’ll admit that part of me was skeptical. Iced coffee in a can.. Yes I can accept.. But hot coffee…. Doesn’t seem logical really.
However, I am pleased to say that I am no longer skeptical. Once we cleared customs, collected our bag, picked up the mobile telephone, train tickets, and used the ATM, we came across our first vending machine while waiting for the train to Tokyo. 120yen later coffee in a can was purchased. The moment I touched the can it was hot – and it tasted great!
Okay I know it doesn’t replace my regular mocha… But as they say “when in Tokyo…”. We are only at the end of our first full day in Tokyo, and so far I’ve had two of these cans… How many can I make it before the end of the trip…? :)
– Helen
