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After 2 days in Tokyo (Disney and Mother Farm), we went to Hakone 箱根 for a 2 night stay in a hot spring hotel. It was 13 years ago when I went to Hakone, this trip is totally different and tailored just for my son. My happiness is no longer about myself but sprang from my son's.
Accumulated 5 years of mileage and I'd finally redeemed them for a few tickets for our family trip. Not exactly my type of vacation but it is still great (I've never done that but my dream vacation is very long and slow, beach and people, sunshine and camera, aircon and writing). I love the first day's visit to Mother Farm, we had very close encounter with animals and I was really surprised that the lambs are so kind and innocent to people even though they can be rude to each other. Many of the species there have huge scrotums too, almost like the size of your head! Almost every one of them looks like smiling all the time. One of them even liked me so much he/she marked me with his/her gland secretion repeatedly.
Tomorrow I'm flying to Tokyo, so today is my keyboard cleaning day at home. Luckily I took picture of the original key arrangement, otherwise I would have a hard time putting them back correctly. Yes you touch it more than touching your wife, but don't think you know it that well.
I was drooling over Russell Stutler's collection of the Legendary Pilot Murex and particularly fond of the 1973 black striped MYU. Amazing technology ahead of its time, launched in the same year I was born in 1971. My budget only allowed me to get the 90th anniversary limited 9000pcs edition. It was launched last year but Pilot Hong Kong didn't carry this pen until recently, so here it is.
Not long ago I said PoGo is No Go, particularly for serious photo journaling people. I decided to use up all the ZINK photo paper and sell the unit fast. Then 5 days ago when I received the self-inking stamps for the Travel Photo Cafe 2009, I played with the stamps on the opposite page of 2 PoGo prints I sticked on my notebook. 3 days later, I found that the colors on the PoGo print faded in areas in direct contact with the stamps!
I wish I made them smaller, but they are still cool. 4 stamps to be put in Festival Walk LOG-ON store tomorrow for customer to play with their postcard in Travel Photo Cafe 2009!
One of the cool thing about KOLO's refillable travel book called Essex is that you can actually archive the thinner refill onto a larger album. This way you will have an album showing selected photos as well as the actual journal you used when you were traveling.
- Stationery and photography travel gears (19th June - 2nd July 2009): Canon, Fuji, Lomo, Moleskine, Midori, KOLO, MT-tapes, LUXE, Kodomo stamps, Staz-on inkpads, etc
- Travel Talks: 3 different sessions on 20th June 2009 presented by traveler and photographers. Learn how to steal time and write better on your journal, life hack tricks included. Why a trip to Cambodia changed a portrait photographer's view on life and how a traveler's mindset is different from a tourist's. How imagery and text combined can create lasting memory through photo journaling. Only a few days left for registration!
- Mini Game with interesting prizes: Follow the instruction on the postcard and go to Festival Walk LOG-ON store, find the hidden message which is a travel quote written by G.K. Chesterton, write it down and submit. You get a chance to win nice gifts from great brands (check out this Flickr photo and move your mouse over to see what they are)
- Stamp your notebook/postcard: Yes stamps, bring your notebook or use our postcard. I've made these icons into self inking stamps for your fun: Moleskine, LCA, Travel Cafe logo, fountain pen. They sort of summarized what this event is all about. Also, Designphil (Midori) in Japan made these two stamps for our event too! They are only available in Hong Kong during this period, so collect them while you can!
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In my future flat, there will be a wall.
I don't know about you but my first exposure to Bokeh was through porns. Yes, Japanese porns. Back in university days in Canada, I discovered the huge difference between Hustler and Japanese porn photography. When an object is presented to you in full details, creativity and imagination are lost. Much like the idea that cropping a photo to show only a portion actually tells a story far more tempting than a full view.
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