all things d@vidb
I may or may not have forgot to upload pictures from my camera while I had the chance.
So this may or may not be filler.
We may or may not be heading back to J-pan in a few days 🙁
Look
how
cute he is!
and as promised… (I spent a good 2 hours training him)
he loves it! (he can almost say “E.T. too!)
ok… so it’s more of a “Deh bweh (insert dribble noise here)”
I see that my book post wasn’t very popular. dann you. go out and buy everything that I recommend. Since you have made Noa angry, I asked him to give you all the look of death. (Please click here for the original death look)
And now back by popular demand. More Noa closeups.
松井 秀喜! In Toronto! Hanging out with me!
So… I was with Tracy and Thomas sitting in Pho Hung eating some pho (Ok, I lied. I was eating the vermecelli) when my good friend Hide walked in.
You might not know who Hide is (only his close friends (like me) call him that), but his full name is Hideki Matsui (aka Godzilla). He is (by far!) the most famous Japanese baseball player and his more popular in Japan than even Ichiro.
We had a conversation:
Matsui: Hey Dave!
Me: Hey Hide. What’s up?
Matsui: Not much. You are cool. And your kid is cute. And your wife is hot.
Me: Yeah… I know.
And then he whipped out his camera and took a picture of us hanging out.
Hmm… funny…. that picture looks like someone snapped a photo from underneath the table while trying not to pee himself.
Ok… so me and Hide aren’t that close. But that doesn’t change the fact that we hungout (by proximity), at Pho Hung, I did almost pee myself, and we are best friends friends acquaintances strangers stalker/stalkee.
I did work up the courage to ask for an autograph though. We had a polite little conversation (in Japanese b/c I am cool), but it was clear that he was trying to not be recognized.
Look at the swell autograph.
Thanks to my big sister Tracy for saving my life by having her cellphone w/camera handy. I had forgot my camera and was prepared to be very sad.
weird… I was waiting for this post to go up a few days ago and decided to check it out. Apparently I didn’t actually post it.
oops.
It turns out I am not perfect. Just pretty damn close. (my stomach hurts and its making me delirious.)
I have some exciting news about me and my good friend Hideki, but watch for that in an upcoming post.
For today, I would like to share some photos of my good friends that made the long trip all the way out to the B-dot to visit. Dan, Graham, Marc, Matt, it was great to see you guys. Noa had a blast and it was great just to hang out. Like I said, Dan & Graham (not to mention Franky!) it’s about time you make the trip to Japan.
Thanks again boys.
Love David, Kiko & Noa.
Some of you may have noticed my nifty little book reading thingy on the side. It shows what I have been reading recently, what I want to read, and what I have read (recommendations.)
I haven’t been updating it as much as I want to, so I will take this time to show off a few books that I have really enjoyed recently.
#1
Now… I don’t read a lot any comics or manga. I kept hearing all these great things about this book (Chris & Franz!) and it lived up to everything I heard about it. I won’t bother explaining it. go get it. read it. It’s cheap and a quick read. You won’t regret it. A lot of fun! I believe it has been optioned as a movie with the director of Shaun of The Dead attached to it, so expect big things!
Go get it here.
#2
disclaimer… I haven’t actually read this book yet. That being said, I have enjoyed all of Jasper Fforde‘s stuff, so I am very much looking forward to reading this (looking at you Chris!)
Go get it here.
That is all for now!
Back by popular demand…. miscellaenous Noa photos.
(When Noa is bad we Kiko I make him stare into the sun.)
Has Noa got the ghey?
That one is still up in the air, but I don’t really know how to describe Hard Gay, aka Crazy-Japanese-Comedian?-Man, other than by saying he is very very not gay. If there was a gayness competition, Noa would win hands down.
Anyways, to summarize, Hard Gay is a Japanese comedian that goes around thrusting his hips at small children. Hmm… weird. At any rate, his trademark move is to say something and then scream “Fo—!” really loud. (Teaching was great when we got to the number 4 and I had all the children of Japan screaming at me while raising there hands in a Hard Gay pose.)
… I just realized I am writing about Hard Gay so I will cut this short here. Anyways, the day before we left Hard Gay was brought to Takamatsu for the Takamatsu Festival. We stood in a huge crowd just so we could get a picture of Hard Gay screaming “Takamatsu Fo—!” which made everyone in Takamatsu feel special.
I don’t think Noa was that impressed that we made him sit through that.
But at least we were able to get this…
(people complained about the irrelevance of this post. So here is a picture of Noa destroying some fruit with dagger #1 and #2… and obviously feeling bad for the destruction that he brought upon the poor orange.)
I’m sorry Mr. Orange.
It’s too late Noa…. too late.
We have been very busy here in Canada seeing family and hanging out with friends when we can squeeze some time in between (wish it could be more often and for longer periods of time!! 🙁 ). We have a ton of photos and videos that we would like to get up, but as our computer is in a box somewhere between Kagawa and Tokyo, updating hasn’t been as smooth as we would have liked.
As busy as we have been, Noa has been equally as busy! While maintaining solid growth of dagger #1 and #2, Noa has also mastered a few other things like standing, reading, and dancing.
Some of you may question Noa’s reading ability… he actually loves books. A lot. He enjoys us reading to him, but also likes to go through the books himself and “read.” Take a look…
DOWNLOAD NOA READING TO HIMSELF
希空くんのビデオ (本を読む)
Noa has also mastered the art of dancing.
This is the aftermath of the beating I gave Noa for being too cute.
And then he got stuck in a corner (he couldn’t reverse.) we laughed.
Sorry about the delay in posting…
oh wait. I update the site like 10 times a week. are you guys crazy!?!?! just can’t get enough of us? that’s what I thought.
In case you didn’t remember, I forgot my flash card reader, so I have no way of getting my pictures off my camera until I am somewhere with a reader. Hence the delay between posting and between events and pictures (look for a great visit from some good friends in a few days!)
In the meantime, Kiko, Noa and I were really lucky to have some good friends from Kagawa come to Canada to visit. Ishikawa-sensei (my supervisor) and his family came to Toronto to visit. We got some Toronto, Niagara and Ottawa action in. The tri-fecta of tourism. A big thanks to Tray, Thomas, Chris, Franz and Shane for all your help.
Speaking of Shane… here is a picture.
(Just so you know, and I’m not making this up, the previous picture in the series shows Noa poking his own eye out.)
Here are some pictures from Ishikawa-sensei’s family trip to Canada.
We took them to Asian Legend (the best Chinese food in Toronto!) with Thomas, Tracy, and Shane, as well as a trip to Brampton to see Mom and the dogs.
As I mentioned, we got most of the major tourism points down. Some Ottawa,
some Toronto, some Niagara, and a whole bunch of excitement at Tracy’s in Hamilton.
Thank you everyone for your help, and a big thanks to the Ishikawa family for coming all the way to Canada!
