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Last night, I met up for dinner with 2 friends whom are visiting from Hong Kong. One of them had this BlackBerry device (supposedly very popular with business people in US?) which has to be the least ugly model I have seen. It’s a little wide but its not so thick nor long and the screen is nice. But don’t ask me which model this is, I wouldn’t know to save my life (this is the first one I’ve ever touched).

Despite all models being… well… ugly, they do seem rather convenient having the whole keyboard layed out. But I’d very much prefer not having the keyboard just thrown onto the body like that - more thought should have went into the design. This brings me to the Japanese equivilents, namely Wilcom’s W-ZERO3 and Softbank’s X01HT. Much better thought out and sexier in appearance, don’t you think? This is design…

Apparently so, according to this poster on the train. The drama version came out on DVD on October 27. I’d love to watch one…

Update: 2006 November 3
Yes, a real-life drama does exist and I can’t believe I missed it! Here is the official website. And here are the opening and closing themes. Isn’t she kawaii?

… at train stations across Tokyo.

Picture taken at Shinjuku JR station (I also spotted in Ikebukuro)

… a new TV drama which aired from October 11 (though, I’ve never watched it).

I love this billboard poster design! How it depicts an overall image of a foetus with the 14yr old girl enclosed in the center depicting her suffocation, isolation, sadness, helpless-ness, worries, etc., all in this one shot! Absolutely great stuff!

Picture taken at Shibuya JR station

I only just found out about this new LaLaport shopping mall in Toyosu a week or so ago via a TV program. The TV program mainly focused on the Kidzania part of the shopping mall which happens to be a huge in-house theme park. Because I was busy cleaning Ulala’s cage at the time, I didn’t pay a great deal of attention to the program but I do clearly remember seeing kids with their families riding on small coasters, seeing facilities for kids to learn how to put out fires, construction cranes which kids can control, etc., etc. I think it’s more than your average kinda themepark clearly with educational purposes in mind too.

The program didn’t say too much about the shopping aspects, which is understandable since all shopping malls are cloned with the same shops, anyway.

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From yesterday, I am no longer a Maid Cafe virgin. That’s right! I went to a Maid Cafe for the first (and probably last) time. Me and a visiting friend went around Akiba to get some stuff until we saw lots of maids on the streets and realised that despite how popular Maid Cafes are, we have never been to one before. Since we were tired and thirsty, we thought “ah, why not? Might as well try-out a Maid Cafe” therefore we strolled into the nearest one which is in the Don Quijote building on the 5F.

Upon arriving, we realised that the people queuing to get in were not just the everyday geeks of Akiba, instead there were some trendy males, couples and girl groups. I guess due to the recent popularity of Maid Cafes, people from all-walks-of-life are a little curious, just like me and my friend (^_-;). To my friends delight, which was to my disappointment, no photo signs were splattered all over the entrance area! Damn, I so wanted to take some pics of my friend being served by a maid, something which he disapproved of well before we came anywhere near the building (he knows how reckless and dangerous I can be with a cam).

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