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The weather in Tokyo has been truly terrific recently. Well, today is actually pretty windy but the sun is shining and the temperature is great. After going to the supermarket, on my way back, I decided to take the route that leads to the mini garden where I often chilled out with Ulala on nice days. As you can see, more flowers have grown and its pretty dense now compared with last month when I was here with Ulala last. Ulala would be estatic to see all these flowers - he’d probably trample all over them.

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I was at Toyosu’s Lalaport shopping mall yesterday and ate lunch in the food court. Before you get to enter the food court, the staff at the entrance will first explain the system to you, something which felt like it took forever…

Basically, you are given a ‘reserved sign’ and an ‘order card’ as you enter. First, you go to find a table you like and you put your ‘reserved sign’ on the table (your belongings too if you want). You then take the ‘order card’ with you in search for grub. In this food court, you get a choice of cuisines from either Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand or America. Once you’ve decide what you want to order, you hand over the card to the staff at whichever one of the cuisine counters and they will beep the barcode on the reverse side of the card. Then you just stand there and wait for your food to be prepared before you take it back to your table and munch away. When you’re ready to leave, you take your ‘order card’ with you to the exit where there are multiple counters waiting to charge you. Your ‘order card’ will have recorded everything you ordered (unless the staff forgot to beep your card) - its basically your bill.

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Starting from May 7th’s entry, I have/will host all my blog pics on Flickr linked to/from my blog. I’ve actually had a Flickr account for a while now but I hardly use it (in the beginning, the usability was horrible. But it got better with each update). By hosting on Flickr, and since I paid for a pro-account, I can have much larger pics on it. Of course, I could if I wanted, have huge pics on my blog server but since it’s my friends server and he is letting me use it for ‘free’ (and he maintains my site too), I just don’t feel so hot about using up a lot of his space. So yeah, all pics on Flickr starting from this month.

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Ulala (XX Nov 2001 - 18 Apr 2007) has beautiful, big and sparkling eyes.

Date taken: Feb 2007
Ulala’s age: approx. 5yrs 3mths
Format: digital

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Have you had enough of me covering Spidey yet? There’s just so much promo and merchandising stuff going on here, it’s beginning to get to me. Checkout Blister in Tokyo as pictured above. I spotted this life size black Spidey at the entrance of the store before I was even anywhere near the place. As I got closer, the Spidey trailer, posters and toys came into focus from behind the statue. As soon as I stepped into the store, to my horror, the whole floor is decked out with Spidey stuff! And I mean the ‘whole floor’! Not just Spider-Man 3 merchandises, but also stuff from Spidey 1 and 2, comic version Spidey stuff, 80’s Spidey toys, Spidey candy, etc., etc. You name it, they have it.

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Yesterday, after the World Hobby Festival event, on our way out we spotted a poster for some Spider-Man 3 promo that is going on in the Aqua City shopping mall in Odaiba which runs from April 28 - May 6. Since I and Tony had nothing better to do after the hobby event, we headed off to check it while while Danny headed for home.

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Only learnt about this event yesterday after Danny invited me along. Right after chatting with Danny, Tony called me and I thought I’d invite him along. So yeah, the three of us went to the World Hobby Festival today at the Tokyo Big Sight International Exhibition Center in Odaiba.

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Back home in England, my sister’s youngest kid is pretty hyped up about the Spider-Man 3 movie and has been dying to see it but England will not get the movie until May 4th, the same release date as the US.

Since I’ve already seen the movie and am well aware that he is excited about it and can’t wait for its release, I decided to mess with him by making something up about the movie and fed it to him as a spoiler. As predicted, he totally didn’t want to know about the movie and threw a big fit! Hahahahaha! Poor kid… he makes me laugh sometimes…

Here’s our chat transcript (warning: contains foul language) :

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… in the finals for the 2007 Champions League! During the Champions League final in 2005, AC Milan got totally humiliated for getting trashed by Liverpool who were actually 3 goals down but fought back to claim the title! No doubt, that must have been hard to swallow and AC Milan must have been praying for a chance to revenge ever since. Well, May 23…

Ulala (XX Nov 2001 - 18 Apr 2007) not looking too happy.

Date taken: Mar 2007
Ulala’s age: 5yrs 4mths
Format: digital