Monthly Archives: October 2010

Spicy recommendation XIII

Almost one year ago I have written a recommendation for Mitra II, stating that the mother restaurant i.e. Mitra is not as good as the outlet. Things have really changed in the meantime, and Mitra changed to a new menu

Posted in Japanese, Spicy recommendation

Procrastination

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The bears are coming

In the last months, all over Japan reports about bears inside or close to cities have been reported. Several people have been attacked and injured by them as the list of incidents in the last month ( mentioning 13 attacks!!)

Posted in Japanese

Do gears need to be perfectly round?

Not necessarily. Watch this

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Hotel room with model railroad

Did you ever want to play with a model railroad when you say overnight in a hotel room? Here is the solution. Book the room with a huge model railroad inside. For roughly 2000 EUR per night! Here’s the hotel’s

Posted in Japanese, travel

The beauty of autumn

Like at any other place, autumn changes the colour of the leaves and turns landscapes into a mix of brown, red and green which no artist could better create. Here in Japan, autumn seems to do a very good job

Posted in Japanese

Time for a new badminton racket …

About a year ago I purchased my YONEX Nanospeed 4500 racket and since this time I used to play twice a week exclusively with this racket. I like the balance of the racket and the control is quite nice, given

Posted in sports

Rubik’s cube art

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New shower head

This week we had the hose in our shower replaced by the facility manager and by mistake he also put a new (quite simple) shower head there. Thus, we have to get a new one this weekend if we don’t

Posted in Japanese

Sweat like a pig with “Shweeb”

The Google initiated project named Shweeb should solve some (or all?) of the transport problems of the next centuries. The idea of the inventors was to put bicycles on a kind of track and let people ride in transparent plastic

Posted in sports, travel
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