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… from eating unhealthy food literally every day. Darn, I so love meat, oily and junk food!

Yep, flea market time again in Musashi-Koyama. I guess most of you will remember, I usually join the girls and participate twice a year (May and October). The one that was supposed to happen in May was cancelled due to bad weather therefore at todays market, most of us had quite a bit to sell. Sometimes I just wonder where all these things come from especially with the girls. They’re like here twice a year and each time, they have cases and cases of stuff to sell!?!

With it being a 3 day weekend coupled with nice weather, I guess most people are out of town hence todays sales was not as good as before. We were placed at our usual spot which is between the station and the shopping mall therefore a lot of people walk by and checkout our stuff. Biggest problem is, this area is not a posh area and most of the residents are pensioners. Also, there seems to be a lot of Chinese and Philipino shoppers. All this means, we cannot sell our stuff for a high price - we’ve always kept the pricing around ¥300-800.

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I was chilling this afternoon with Ulala at the usual spot cuz the weather was beautiful (after 2 days of solid rain). I decided to catch up with all my unread Metropolis magazines (a free foreigner magazine) there while Ulala hanged out beneath my feet. But as usual, he prefers to sit on my lap. And as you can see, he’s enjoying the magazine too and checking out the chick next to the huge Gundam… hahahaha! Anyway, I couldn’t get much reading done with him on my lap.

Suddenly, I spotted a cat appearing from beneath the bushes and sat down nearby staring at Ulala. Ulala also spotted the cat but he’s usually cool with cats because a few years ago, I had to go back to England for 2 weeks therefore I left him with a friend who owned 3 very old cats. I heard from my friend that Ulala would approach the cats face-to-face whenever he got his run-a-about. But obviously, with the cats being so old, they neglected him… hahahahaha… poor Ulala.

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… well, kinda. Yesterday while riding the local train home, I came across this overhead banner advertisement for the re-release of the Dr. Slump comics! Issues 1 and 2 came out yesterday and I wish I knew earlier as I was hanging out near a good few manga shops yesterday.

It seems like the comics are just reprints of the originals from the 80s but with a new cover design/illustration. If that is the case, I won’t be needing these cuz I have every issue of the 80s original anyway (bought them here in Tokyo from used book stores). I mean, these reprints cost ¥1,100 each - not so cheap.

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… and I touched it! Woohoo (no, I didn’t get close enough to it at the Tokyo Game Show)!!

Anyway, besides running a good handful of trailers for upcoming games, the PS3 unit is just sitting in the center of the booth with only the buttons/disc-slot area having a protection cover over it. The rest of the body is exposed in all it’s glory.

Now that I’ve gotten so close to it and touched it, I realise this thing is huge! I think it may even be comparable to the size of the original Xbox. The words PlayStation 3 is raised from the body, speaking of which, I hate the high-gloss material of the body - it looks cheesy and cheap. But the visuals produced by this beast are truly incredible, to say the least.

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