A Farewell
Posted by Quinn at October 29th, 2008 6:20pm under hearts 2 Comments Permalink
I just found out my friend Tim Dennis has left Japan and cruising on the Pacific ocean, heading to the American continent. Be aware my friends in Canada, he will be landing at Vancouver in a few weeks.
I met him in the beginning of September at my friend's house in neighborhood. He told me he came from Scotland. Well, that was not a big surprise yet. However, he said he drove all way to get here. What? He showed me the awesome vehicle, his RamblingRat expedition partner, the Toyota Landcruiser.
It has got so much everything in it like hot shower, a sleeping tent on roof, a freezer and a refrige. He started driving from his homeland, Scotland, then passing through Russia, and landed to Japan. He has been stopped by police men once because his car has only the British car lisence plate. Well, it's likely the first time seeing a car driven with a foregin lisence plate for many people in Japan, and even for those police men.
Tim is calling this adventure as Ramblingrat, trying to help funding for StreetKids.org. I think he has more plans on the way, but for now, I really love to see that he is doing for what he loves. That is very inspiring.
Even though he has got a website running and has got a black MacBook, he is quite new to these digital gadgets. While he stayed in Kyushu island, I was more than happy to help him out on his website and to share my knowledge about the internet and stuff.
It was all by the chance him meeting me in Japan to begin with. Another coincidence was that he made an arrangement to arrive to Vanvoucer after a while he was searching for possibilites to get him to the American continents. I already refer him to Robert Sanzalone since Tim was driving around Nagoya, also I thought they can have some productive relationships. I am also hoping that some of my other friends in Vancouver will catch up with this story before he arrives.
Sadly, it's not likely to happen to see him again in Japan though I would love to stay in touch with him for a long time. I will see his updates in Twitter, Facebook, Spot and his website. I love the technologies that we have now. Ciao my friend.
A Pop Star Who Speaks Japanese?
Posted by Quinn at September 5th, 2008 4:37pm under Japan 0 Comments Permalink
I know only a few Japanese blood who made it to American pop music scene. However, I didn't know anybody who actually speaks Japanese in the business. But it's changed. The singer is Marie Digby. She was speaking Japanese perfectly on a radio show in Japan the other day. I think it is very nice. Also, the story of her success was interesting. She was so frustrated with her label not promoting her enough, so she put a video on YouTube on her own. The video became so popular, which eventually led to her success. It leaves me a question; "what she needs a contract with her label for?" All she needed was YouTube.
How many?
Posted by Quinn at July 15th, 2008 2:26pm under hearts 0 Comments Permalink
It was fun to count this, how many states I have been in. Well, many comes from a trip to New York from California. It was a crazy driving trip with my best friend, celebrating his college graduation. There could be a few states I probably should not count in since I may only drove through, but I put them in anyway. So, mine came out as 20! How's yours?
Baking Tortillas
Posted by Quinn at July 12th, 2008 5:38pm under hearts 2 Comments Permalink
Oops, it's been quite awhile since the last post. Well, this story is also about a few weeks ago. Anyway, I finally learned to make tortillas, and I should give a big hug to this guy who inspired me with this awesome blog post.
Thanks Deas! This is the result. I enjoyed them so much.
Like Deas was saying in the video about his current situation, I also live in rural Japan myself. I really needed this kind of help. While I was living in the Southern California as a poor foreign student, I survived by eating lots of cheep Mexican food, and YES, 2-dollar burritos were my favorites! Now, I can make my own. It just feels great.
