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Bubble Tea in Mountain View: Verde Tea Lounge

I swear not *everything* I do lately is tea. For example, on Friday we went out to dinner and to the beach. On Saturday, we spent all day at the beach. But tonight, we experienced some really good bubble tea.
Taken by Wit’s suggestion, we ventured to Mountain View, which has many good [...]

Teacrawl in Santa Cruz

So two years into college, we’ve gotten the whole barcrawl thing down. Some random Tuesday, we all wear matching shirts, 1 bar per hour until closing time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, old news.
But last night, I embarked on a new kind of nighttime journey: the teacrawl. Same principle of course, but replace the [...]

welcome to my genkan

This week I moved into my new room in Santa Cruz and unpacked my 67 pounds of luggage for the summer.
My bookcase came in handy, and I documented it with my iPhone:

These happen to be right in the entry to my room in my apartment — so if you could say a single room has [...]

Dekichatta Kekkon: Shotgun Marriage

There are about 12 million dramas about marriage. But the one with a combination of the most funny moments and intense stares, would have to be Dekichatta Kekkon (Shotgun Marriage) from 2001.
Starring:

Chiyo-chan (Hirosue Ryoko), sleeps with Ryuunosuke (Takenouchi Yutaka) one night, and they don’t talk again… until she realizes she’s pregnant. Ryuunosuke [...]

Use the Mac OSX built-in Japanese Dictionary!

This is perhaps one of the best-kept secrets of Mac OSX (10.5 or later) that any Japanese student should know about: the Dictionary app, inside your Applications folder, has a built-in Japanese Dictionary.
Koichi over at Tofugu just wrote an article about Why you should use a Mac to study Japanese, but I think [...]



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