35 posts tagged “holiday”
I was surprised to receive a Merry Christmas Greeting in my work E-mail account from fellow Vox member Horia. Thanks for the greeting, and hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Here's the song that was attached to the greeting:
Happy 2009 fellow Voxers!
Last week was Obon Season in Japan. My wife and I took the Shinkansen to Iwate on Saturday 9th and returned Wednesday 13th. We had a nice relaxing time while there. During the holiday vacation I got the opportunity to try Baba Hera icecream, eat at Pizzeria Piace one of my favorite pizza restaurants, and go to a Summer Matsuri! Not to mention got to see family that I hadn't seen since New Year's. Here are some photos from the the trip to Iwate that I took with my Nokia N82.
I'm flying from Narita over to NY today, that is quite a long flight (12+ hours!) to spend the next 2 weeks on vacation, visiting family, attending a friend's wedding where I am the best man, and enjoying yummy food. I've prepared my N82 for the flight with lots of Podcasts (Accident Hash, LUGRadio, and some MacBreak Tech) to listen to, and I have the the S60 MobiPocket E-book reader installed. Currently I'm reading a SciFi book based on the Mass Effect video game. Anyway I might not be posting very much during the next 2 weeks and now you know why. But I'll be sure to upload the photos I take during the trip on Flickr. See you in 2 weeks!
The Tokyo St. Patrick's Day Parade took place today in Omote-sando, Harajuku, Tokyo. The parade was scheduled from 2-4 PM but it was shorter than that. The parade today started a little after 2 and was over by 3 PM. But it was still great. Nice to see lots of people showing their spirit by wearing green and Irish style clothes. Below are some photos from the parade taken with my Nokia N82. There are lots more on my Flickr account if you want to see more of them.
Today was the last working day for both my wife and I, now our holiday starts. Tomorrow morning my wife and I are taking the Shinkansen to Iwate where my in-laws live. The next few days will be occupied with plenty of yummy home cooked food, plates of sushi, soda, fried chicken, onsen, and visiting family. Of course I'll be bringing my N82 to take photos of family, not to mention the delicious food. When I get the chance I'll upload the photos to Flickr but I don't expect to be blogging much from Iwate so this might be my last post until next year when I return from the holiday.
Happy New Year everybody!
Fun holiday inspired videos - Did you get an old Fruitcake or a Nokia?
To celebrate Japan's National Holiday, Sports Day, my wife and I played Wii Sports. =)
I'm in Iwate at my In-laws for the traditional Japanese Obon Holiday. I took the Shinkansen Saturday morning and arrived 2 quick hours later in the capital of Iwate named Morioka. Another short ride on a local train and I arrived in Shiwa Town where my In-laws live. Plenty of food, relaxing, and visiting other family and friends during this holiday. I got to meet my new nephew that is just 2 months old now. Also got to see my neice that is 2 years old. I'll be in Iwate until Wednesday when I take the Shinkansen back to Saitama, then it's back to work on Thursday.
I am definitely glad I decided to bring the N95 on my vacation trip to Hawaii. First off I listened to several TWiT Netcasts during the plane and car rides that helped pass the time. My parents rented a car for transportation and a few times I used GPS with the Maps application to find out where we were and find the place where we were trying to get to. The AGPS in the newer N95 firmware helped quickly find the GPS position even while driving in the car.
The S60 Browser in N95 also came in very handy when we arrived to the airport for luggage checkin. You see North West Airlines has a line for customers that pre-checked in on the web and a separate line for those that did not yet checkin. The line for customers that checked in on the web before hand was much shorter than the other line. So my wife and I went and sat down on a bench for a couple minutes while I checked in using the S60 Browser on N95 to checkin on the NWA website. Then we went on the quicker/shorter line since we had checked in already on the web. =)
Another time the S60 Browser came in very handy was when my wife and I wanted to buy tickets for a flight from Maui to Honolulu then back to Maui again for a day trip to Honolulu. There was a WiFi/WLAN access point at the house we rented but nobody had brought a PC, fortunately the N95 Multimedia Computer has WiFi support and a good browser. So I used the WiFi connection and the S60 Browser to book our flight the night before we went to Honolulu. If I didn't have that I would have had to try to find a phone number to call for booking a flight and have to tell them all of my information needed for buying the ticket over the phone, booking the flight on the web is easier for me.
Lastly as you can see from my earlier photo blog posts I took many photos with the N95 during my vacation. I also brought my Panasonic DMC-FZ8 but instead of pulling that out of my backpack most of the time I used the N95, except for those photos where I wanted to use optical zoom or a stronger flash then I used the FZ8.
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