Diary

Happy New Year!

I did it…I got a cold on the new year’s eve. It’s been a bit tough since a few days ago but I had to work, and was planning to clean my room on 31th…but I couldn’t. I got a medicine, was sleeping for afternoon, and just ate “toshikoshi-soba” (Japanese noodle for new year’s eve), and went to bed. Today I’m feeling slightly better but still not well enough. But my landlady cooked Japanese new year’s meal for me! Ahhhhh I appreciate it. OK, I’m gonna start by writing 2009 review… the last year was [a receptive year] Last year […]

Life in London

Xmas 2009

Thanks to everyone, I had a wonderful Xmas this year too.For the eve, my friend kindly invited me to the dinner with her family, and I could enjoy very “proper” Xmas atmosphere. (Sometimes how we cerebrate Xmas is a bit wrong in Japan.)My friend is always good at cooking… and now I know why, because her mother is so good at cooking!Her parsley sauce was sooooooo yummy. And I really enjoyed British family Xmas time. I appreciate their kindness.On the Xmas day, my landlady (Japanese) cooked dinner for us. Now this time, it was more like “Japanized western” tastes which […]

Digital products & Design

Lupin the Third and Social Media

A Japanese animation called “Lupin the third” is doing a massive scale promotion in Japan. (Lupin the thrid, the main character is a heroic phantom theft, like the original “Lupin”) And they are using social media a lot! At the beginning, a official account of “Lupin” was created on mixi, and they let users to become “friends”. And they collected opinions of what the users want him to steal. I thought maybe they would use these opinions for the idea to make another animation, but actually a famous statue in Shibuya in Tokyo has gone. Seems the actual police force […]

Diary

Witnessed Google phone?

I often see articles about Google phone recently, but I think I witnessed it today. When I was on the tube, a man sit down next to me. He looked to be in a hurry, and was fumbling about in his bag. And then he took out a box which looked like to contain a new mobile. Oh yeah, he got a new smartphone? Thinking like that, I found a word on the box, saying “Nexus one”. Nexus One…? Was it the name of the Google phone? …or was it just a name of another Android phone? Google phone is […]

Life in London

Confidence in your career workshop

Ok, I’m always complaining about the service at UAL , so I would like to write about a good thing today! I went to attend a workshop by creative career. They provide service like advice on career issues, freelancers issue etc., but the workshop was about “confidence in your career”. I’m not a confident person and everyone else looks always imposing and self-confident, so I thought I needed to learn to be like that a bit more in order to survive in competitions! It was about 1.5 hours session, and was like self-analysis. Ar first, we brainstormed about what I’m […]

Digital products & Design

Using social media

So everyone says “Twitter, “Twitter”, “Twitter” recently for social media stories, but how do you use them? These are what I use: Mixi (SNS/J): Japanese friendsFacebook (SNS/E): Other friends + some Japanese friendsLinkedIn (SNS/E): Career networkingSeminar SNS (SNS/J): Members of the seminar at UniUK Alumni Network (SNS/J): Importing blog onlyTwitter (Micro-blog/E&J): Small story and real-time storyBlog (Blog/E&J,separated): Bigger story and self-logBooklog（Book blog/J): Not oftenDelicious (Bookmark/E&J): Partially sharingLast.fm (Music SNS/E&J): Auto-feeding from iTunes I wish I could send Twitter feeds to all SNS at the same time, but Tweetdeck that I use now is only compatible with English, which means is […]