today...

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Sempai*'s 29th

this is my Okamoto sempai.

My Okamoto sempai is a die-hard Hanshin fan.For most of you who doesn't know,here's some about Hanshin Tigers:

The Hanshin Tigers, one of the oldest professional clubs in Japan, was founded in 1935 with the team being formed in 1936. The team was first called the Osaka Tigers. In 1940, amid anti-foreign sentiment, the Tigers changed the name to Hanshin and in 1947 changed the name back to Osaka Tigers. The current team name was came in 1961.
The Tigers won four titles before the establishment of the two league system in 1950. Since the league was split into the Central League and the Pacific League, the Tigers have won the Central League pennant four times (1962, 1964, 1985, 2003) and the Japan Series once (1985).
When the 2004 Major League Baseball season opened in Japan, the Tigers played an exhibition game against the New York Yankees at the Tokyo Dome on March 29. The Tigers won 11-7.

There's a wacky fact about this Hanshin Tigers.It's about the 'Curse of the Colonel':

After their 1985 Japan Series win, fans celebrated by having people who looked like Tigers players jump into the Dotonbori*. According to legend, because none of the fans resembled first baseman Randy Bass(the pic on the left below), fans grabbed a life-sized statue of Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot Colonel Sanders and threw it into the river (like Bass, the Colonel had a beard and was not Japanese). The statue was never recovered. The Tigers are therefore doomed to never win again until the Colonel is rescued from the river.

Can you spot the difference?

In 2003, when the Tigers returned to the Japan Series after 18 years with one of the worst records in the Central League, many KFC outlets in Kobe and Osaka moved their Colonel Sanders statues inside until the series was over to protect them from Tiger fans.

today(Saturday) was his 29th birthday.

Happy Birthday Okamoto Sempai!

these are the crazy yet lovely people who celebrates his birthday.

how crazy we are,we still a great fan of Hanshin Tigers.

*:Dotonbori=canal in Osaka, Japan, known for its surrounding theatres, shops, and restaurants; above all, the area is famous for the colourful signs advertising neons.
*:sempai=senior

Maledict is dead

I love you...then you love me.
I miss you so much...and you miss me too.
BAM!!!BAM!!!

...eat this you hage* mother fxxker.

too bad the battle is over for me with Maledict is dead....leaving me thirst for more.

khatam lagi...

so what next?...the coming Area 51 or Pariah...or maybe I should finish my Chronicles Of Riddick first.
At least finally I could get a large partial of my brain back to figure out the long time problem of how to turn all my music in my MDs to MP3s so I can upload it to my Ipod.

any ideas?....

*:hage=botak

Hanami

Ehemm...I'm gonna make this as informational as possible.

Hanami literally means "flower viewing", however, it commonly refers only to cherry blossom viewing. Cherry blossom viewing is easy: Simply enjoy the intensity of the many blossoms by looking at a single tree or a group of trees. From a distance, the trees appear as beautiful clouds, while the beauty of single blossoms can be enjoyed from a close distance.

Hanami can be just a stroll in the park, but it traditionally also involves a picnic party under the blooming trees. Hanami parties have been held in Japan for many centuries, and today are held in public and private gardens and parks across the country. Famous cherry blossom spots can get very crowded, and the best picnic spots are hardly fought after.

Hanami picnic would not be complete without entertaiment and sake. People will bring forms of entertaiment like games(mahjong, fresbee, etc.), karaoke boxes and some even bringing their own wacky party constumes.

Last Sunday I went to 2 Hanami picnics. The first one I went to my office buddies Hanami picnic in Tamagawadai Park near Tamagawa. The picnic which supposed to be casual seemed to be more semi-formal with families and children coming, left me a bit 'uncomfortable' for 2 hours.

Tamagawadai Park with some high society peeps

After shaking hands and listening to conversation from somebody I hardly remember until now, I went off to the next Hanami picnic in Kinuta Park near Yoga and finally I could feel at home with my homies around.Unlike in Tamagawadai Park, there were neither poshy liquors nor exquisite gourmets, just cheap beers, sodas and dust covered riceballs.

Happy shiney people...in the beginning

We played party games and as usual, things got out off hand...dirty...then ouuuw gross(I think I should not tell you about this part).As a result in the end we got 1 who was totally knocked out(we thought of calling the ambulance but we sent him home by cab instead), 1 ended up sleeping in the station platform, 1 almost got beat up by a yakuza and several others who had to spend sometime in the toilet.

in the end...one of the better examples

I took the last train, arrived home with a bad stomach ache which made me ponteng work on the next day.

ain't no traitor

owned a PowerPC, 2 Ibooks, an Imac, an Emac and 2 Ipods,

I ain't no traitor...

my default browser is Safari,

I ain't no traitor...

Quicktime is making my future of video crystal clear,

I ain't no traitor...

two button mouse is a taboo,

I ain't no traitor...

The Oasis - Apple Store Ginza

believe the G5 processor is the number one of them all,

I ain't no traitor...

don't believe on "blue screen of death",

I ain't no traitor...

never believe in computer viruses either,

I ain't no traitor...

what the hell is spyware anyway...,

I ain't no traitor...

NON-MAC games

forgive me for this...I already died trying....

Boing!Boing!...

Say goodbye to down jackets.
Say goodbye to heaters.
Say goodbye to long nights.

sleep tight,where you should be...under my bed.Till next season.
(my snowboard gear)

Welcome wet feet.
Welcome body odour.
Welcome mating season.
...hormones,get ready for a roller coaster ride...

Spring here I come!!!....