culturemash

I’m not bothering apologizing for a lack of blogs lately. Mainly, because I think you should have gotten used to this by now. But secondly, because I’ve just never figured out how to make my FlipCam work with the latest version of QuickTime on this Mac. So whatever… moving on!
I’m going to Stuttgart, Germany in […]

Well, we’re winding down our last few days here in Tokyo. Today, we actually get a free day and are spending it with David’s good friend Hiroko, a Tokyo native and her Finnish fiance, Juha.
The past couple of days have been busy at the Big Sight convention center at Tokyo Bay. We were presenting at […]

I know, I know. I skipped a day. But come on, I gotta leave a little mystery. Otherwise you’d never call.
So I’m way too exhausted to do any real writing or thinking. But here’s a video of me playing Rock Paper Scissors , or Jan Ken Po as they call it here, with our […]

It’s pretty late right now, and frankly, it’s a little too tiring to write a full blog. Instead, I will just post this video from visiting Tokyo Hands store today. Let’s just say everything you ever wanted is in this store, you just don’t know it yet. How I spent almost $30 just in pens […]

It’s been 3 steady days of chaos so far. Yesterday, David and I had our meeting with Sega …which lasted 3 hours. One thing about Japanese meetings, apparently you never wear your shoes. Thank God I got a pedicure. Also, thank God they replenish your green tea midway, because you get the slow sense of […]

What can I say, it’s been a really interesting trip thus far. Yesterday, David and I had to meet with our resellers to do some work for our upcoming meetings this week, but from about 5pm on we had the night to ourselves.
In trying to get to them, we learned a few “fun facts” about […]

Tokyo Arrival from Leyla Tirgari on Vimeo.

I’m beginning to do a lot of learning about the Japanese culture lately. Obviously, this is mostly in preparation for my trip to Tokyo, but also because I want to learn like I always do about cultures I know little about. Never mind that I did actually take a full semester in the language and […]

Ok, enough on that post about my breakup. It’s over, like all good things I suppose. Off to more interesting news. Like how the OC is spreading.
Yeah, and I’m not talking about the show. Why the hell has this part of our culture gained popularity in China?

My favorite part has to be :
“Orange County […]