My house is a small townhouse, my room is even smaller. About 2.5 square meter. You’d think that I’d yearn for bigger house, bigger room. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. I’m actually kinda scared of big open space, big house, big room. I prefer being in small space, I LIKE small space.
Japanese are genius when it comes to utilizing spaces and make the most of what little space they have. Necessity breeds creativity, I guess.
Triangle House. I have seen a photo of this type of building before, there’s even one like that in my town, but I never seen the inside. It’s really neat!
Tiny Tiny Italian Restaurant. (The owner is gaijin, but pretty sure he thinks like Japanese :D)
(both via Japanprobe)
Altho sometimes, things are taken too far, as demonstrated in this video, 50,000 Yen a month apartment in Tokyo:
(via dannychoo.com)
Compare to what westerner called ‘Tiny’:
That looks pretty damn spacious to me. (source)
Josou Paradise (女装パラダイス) is a Japanese tv show that take highschool boys, put them in woman’s clothes and make up, and (later) going around fooling people. It’s fun, it’s wacky (like most Japanese tv shows wont to be) and addictive, I watched all I could find on youtube, which wasn’t many, but still manage to steal half a day from me…
… and inspired me to draw this. 
(check it on DA for bigger size and also stroke my bruised DA ego, thanks!)




I’m learning Japanese, as a result, half of my rss roster are Japanese blogs (both in English and in Japanese) and I’m rediscovering all the wacky Japanese things. One of them is the obsession with Vocaloid girls (and one boy, apparently). Vocaloid is basically a synthetic singer program, but Miku (and the rest of the character) are more than just application mascot, they are idols in their own rights. Miku even came in at number 2 on the daily album of Japan’s national music sales charts, selling 20,000 copies in first day, and this is despite (or perhaps, because of) the fact that mp3 and video clip are freely distributed on their official site.
My current desktop, I actually didn’t changed my desktop wallpaper for a year, can’t bother since I never really get to see it anyway, but the power of Hatsune Miku can’t be resisted.

I have been listening to this song on loop, my brother hated me very much.
一番おひめさま! あっ!
I’m quite avid follower of dannychoo.com. It is sorta masochistic of me, seeing those figures and toys and couldn’t have them, seeing photo of Japan and couldn’t go there, mmmm delicious torture.
Anyway, Danny often took photo of meals he had while going around doing his things, and he ate out quite a lot too, now he put together the photo into youtube slideshow video. It is strangely hypnotising.
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