Land of the Rising Sun

Days are short in Tokyo this time of year. Sun rises just before 7am and sets around 5pm. In the summer I could swear it was bright at like 5am. From the view from our apt the sun rises behind the Tokyo tower, it's nice. It is super bright in Tokyo in the winter. It's sunny most of the time nowadays. Views of Mt Fuji from tall buildings including our office here are clear, it's a gorgeous mountain.

Kenn and I are planning to try to do a snowboarding trip this weekend. Either a day trip or spend one night. The closest mountains are only like an hour to an hour and a half away. We're just trying to figure out the details of how to get there and all that now. Excited for some snowbarding in Japan!


We have been cooking and eating in. It's so simple to make easy meals like stir frys. The rice comes out perfect a a little sticky, yummy. They have lots of sauce packets that you can choose from for different flavored seasonings. Add veggies and chicken or tofu and whip up a delicious healthy meal.

Work has been dull. Only the second day back though. I've been catching up on all my industry news and reading so much about advertising, marketing and the internet has gotten me bored. Just seems so unimportant to anything that really matters in life. I wish I had a fun craft or cool skill that I can apply to a useful job or at least something I was really passionate about. Don't get me wrong, I am passionate about my job and I am really interested in all this internet crap but when it comes down to it, I don't really believe I am really contributing much that's meaningful to society... I think I need to get back to doing some volunteer work. It's been a few years since I was last really involved in something.

Kenn and I have completed watching Seasons 1 and 2 of Entourage that my brother gave us for Christmas. We also watched one of the movies Kenn's brother gave us - Nacho Libre. TV in English has been uninteresting lately so I imageine we are going to burn through the plethora of DVDs we have.