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Another interesting post by Japan Probe.  Biking over water on a floating flimsy bridge seems easy but…take a look yourself:

Via the Jamaipanese blog, I learned about another Japanese anime series titled Valkyria Chronicles.  Jamaipanese gives a good review of this anime series which already completed it’s first season of 26 clips.  I am currently watching the English subtitled episodes online at: animefreak.tv.

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Thanks to the Japan Probe blog again, I found out that there will be a live action movie titled Space Battleship Yamato, aka Star Blazers in the US, released this year.   The 30 second clip is really awesome.

(Space Battleship Yamato)

I was a huge fan of Star Blazers when I was a kid.  Seen most of the TV shows, minus the Bolar Wars series.  This film will definitely be popular in both Japan and the US.

More about the film in English from Wikipedia.  It looks like it will released in December, 2010.  I should be in Japan at that time.

Happy New “Western” Year 2010 everybody.  Thanks to the Japan Probe blog, I remembered that in Japan, it will be the start of the Year of the Tiger.  Most of Asia will not welcome the Year of the Tiger until February 14th, 2010.  For Nezumis (Japanese for Rat/Mouse) such as myself, the Year of the Tiger is supposed to be a good year.

Below is the changing of the guard from the Ox to the Tiger.  Enjoy!

Thanks to both Lawrence and Hiro, I now know there is a Japanese-style teashop in Saigon call MOF.  MOF is owned by a Singaporean from what I was told.  The cafe itself is nice an quiet.

MOF serves a large assortment of Japanese green tea including my favorite, genmaicha.  If you are hungry, get yourself a nice reasonably priced bento box.  MOF even offers desserts though on this particular day, I just settled for tea which was very good.  I am a fan of green tea.

MOF is located on 30 Le Loi Blvd in District 1 of Saigon.  There is motorbike parking available.

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