Monthly Archives: January 2010

Avatar IMAX 3D

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The latest hype in movie industry has been the Avatar movie. Especially the 3D version of it. When Chie and I saw the trailer for the first time a few months ago we both said “No, that is not a good movie”.

I stand by it after watching the movie… At least in the most important aspects. The story and the acting.

The imaginary world that has been created by means of digital animation and come alive by means of 3D is amazing. It was really wonderful to be able to see all the animals, trees, mosquitoes and what of the jungles of Pandora, in 3D. It gave a whole different sensation to the experience.

For a while you almost forgot that the story was non-existing, and the acting was so-so. But I am really looking forward to the next 3D movie… Alice in Wonderland. Just imagine the combination of Disney, Tim Burton (director), Johnny Depp (the Mad Hatter), Helena Bonham Carter (the Red Queen) etc.

A bunch of not so normal people usually doing quite strange movies mixed with a traditional saga and Disney, the ultimate be-safe-family movie company of the Universe. And all in 3D. As I said, I am looking forward to it already.

Yaki-Niku with Andreas

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First thing that happened at the office today was that my PC got stuck in trying to connect to our disk server. It needs the connection to synchronize my local documents with the server for backups. Usually there are some minor troubles slowing the PC down. But not like today.

I could not get anything done the first 1.5 hours. My plan was to finish up yesterday’s meeting notes within an hour and get to my Japanese lessen at 9 am. Now I had to cancel the lessons to finish the notes after my PC decided to work properly again… Around 9:30. After I restarted it a few time.

So the day did not start so great. But the ending was really nice.

Chie and I met Andreas at a yaki-niku restaurant in Meguro for dinner. We had a lot of different types of meat, which we grilled over a bed of charcoal. And talked about anything and everything.



We had enjoyed the dinner so much that once it ended it felt too early to end the evening. Instead of going home we took a short taxi ride to Red Pepper in Ebisu.

They are always so friendly at Red Pepper. And this night was not different. We got our own room in a kind of outdoor tent space connected to the kitchen heated by a kerosene heater. In the cosy heat by ourselves we had desert. Grappa for the ladies (sorry Andreas I could not resists it ;-)) and pancakes and ice cream for the man 😛

Looooong Day at the Office

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Headed out from the apartment at around 7:20 as usual to arrive at the office, as usual, around 8 o’clock in the morning. The day went along as usual. Until around 5:30 pm when I did not go home as usual.

Yesterday I was asked by one of the managers to take notes in a meeting starting at 10 pm 👿

So I did. It finished at 11 pm. I had prepared most of the notes prior to the meeting and rounded up most of the things I could not figure out before the meeting and left at 11:30 pm. I’ll finish the notes tomorrow.

Favorite Author Dies

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My favorite author died today 🙁 Robert B Parker died at the age of 77. It feels empty knowing that the book I bought in San Francisco in November was the last Spenser book ever.

Tokorozawa

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A short weekend in Tokorozawa. We arrived quite late on Staurday. But I still manage to take Coco for a walk. And have dinner at Musashi.

On Sunday we took Coco to the veterinarian to schedule a surgery. He is going to get his balls cut out. Sounds tough but if not then there is a much higher risk for cancer.



After the visit to the doctor Coco and I went for a walk. The walk and the visit to the vet probably exhausted Coco because once we got home he took is favorite position (in Chie’s lap) and fell asleep.