Month: May 2010

Hachinohe he kimasu…

Means “we’re in Hachinohe”.  We rode one of the shinkansen (bullet trains) from Ueno up to Hachinohe, which took about 3 1/2 hours.  We had to take a non-JR train from Narita to Ueno because of a tragic accident on the JR line.  Apparently someone jumped in front of a train committing suicide.  Very bad, and unfortunately very common.

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Remember Nashville

This past weekend, Nashville, middle Tennessee, and parts of Kentucky and Mississippi suffered catastrophic weather, especially flooding around Nashville. So far 27 people have been taken from us, and more bodies are being found, most trapped in their homes or cars by the suddenness of the flood. The fact that I talked to several people at work the day after the flood, who had no idea that such a devastating thing had happened, makes me angry at the media who sat on the story for days.

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The “Real” Avatar.. “Last Airbender”

I’ve been waiting for this movie ever since I saw the first trailer! I’ve watched the series (“Avatar, the Last Airbender”), I highly recommend it for kids, and it’s not something that adults will get bored with while they watch with them! The series has just the right mix of humor and seriousness, and the world the creators wrote is both different enough to be intriguing, and familiar enough to be accessible, based on various Asian influences rather than the traditional European stories. If Shyamalan can capture the humor as well as the drama from the series, this will be an excellent trilogy of movies. C’mon, July!