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  • Post-holiday blues

    Post-holiday blues

    2nd August 2010 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

    Back from holiday and since landing all I’ve done is complain that Tokyo isn’t Hawaii. I am a whining five-year-old wanting to time travel back to the beach paradise I left behind. I don’t want to deal with all the stuff that magically disappears when away, namely paying bills, unclogging drains, deleting spam and er, work. Put simply, get me out of here!

    I know I’ve got to leave the sand...

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  • What I’d give for a decent scone

    What I’d give for a decent scone

    9th November 2009 | 5 comments | 2 people like this


    A scone has the power to heal my soul. Even more so when it’s part of a decadent afternoon tea at a fine hotel, but also on its own, with its favoured companions, strawberry jam and clotted cream.
    To me a scone means leisure. It means choice in what I’m doing. Freedom. And definitely no guilt.
    It means being idle and enjoying life. It means it’s 4pm and there’s nothing better to...

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  • Summer Sonic Review

    Summer Sonic Review

    13th August 2009 | 5 comments | 1 person likes this


    Expanded from two to three days for its 10th anniversary, the biggest international acts in the world just played the Summer Sonic music festival in Japan last weekend. Held simultaneously at sites in Tokyo and Osaka, the festival is seen as one of the highlights of the Japanese summer, and here’s why.
    DAY ONE
    Sliimy is the first artist signed under celebrity blogger Perez Hilton’s new record label, Perezcious Music. Dressed in...

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  • Pictures of the latest interior design project by Masaru Ito

    Pictures of the latest interior design project by Masaru Ito

    15th June 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

    The & ROLLS retail store in Daikanyama, Tokyo was designed in the image of one word: neo minimalism.

    This concept shop for the company that distributes general goods - mainly belts - oozes contemporary simplicity. Age-old materials like plaster, mortar, tin, steel and glass are combined with renovated antique furniture to give the space a new and nostalgic feel.

    As designer Masaru Ito says, “While we are in the unprecedented...

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