Happy Birthday To Me!

Actually, my birthday was last week..I think for the first time in my life I celebrated my birthday by myself. It was a rather sobering experience but at least I had a good night's sleep!

I'm going san nakji on ya'll

Few photos I took while visiting San Diego Wild Animal Park. The park was ok but man the place just stank so much..





















Pic of my neighborhood..

Pic of my car's nav system. Without the nav system, I would be utterly lost in San Diego..I probably won't make it from my work to my apt. I really have no sense of direction..

DonaldRumsfeld SquarePants

On Monday, Donald Rumsfeld basically reiterated that the war in Iraq is going well and he faults the media for showing only the negative images of the war.. Yes everyone, just use your imagination to pretend the war is going well..

Crime in Japan

Lately, there has been some rumbling in japan in regards to rise in crime rate among foreign residents. The japanese media has been relentless at portraying foreigners especially asian immigrants as the biggest contributor to rise in overall crime rate. This could be true but the media neglects to mention rise in crimes committed by good ol' nihonjin people. Then today, I came across this rather interesting site detailing crimes committed by foreigners and japanese in japan: http://www.jref.com/society/foreign_crime_in_japan.shtml

You'll be surprised to find out where those passive japanese rank in the data. Another case of japanese media ignoring the problems within their society by blaming them on something else or completely refusing to report them.. just like when a special u.n envoy to japan who was there at the behest of japan declared racism in japan is deep rooted, even 2 days after the announcement only one prominent japanese language news paper, yomiuri shimbun, had a small blurb on that matter.

Happy Holidays!

Too little, too late..