Post for Posterity

It's been a long while. In fact, this will be the first time I've posted something since I've been back from Japan. What brought about this? I was looking through some old papers and found a list of "Things to Accomplish in Japan". I no longer need the paper (or feel compelled to continue this list), as my tastes and experiences now will change this list drastically. But I thought it was amusing enough to put up here for everyone to see. Some of this is crazy (former) weeaboo-sounding stuff, but it was mainly all for the lulz.

 "List of things to accomplish in Japan" (circa 2006):
 1. Become better at listening and responding in the language.
2. Do well in my studies at Hakuoh. 
"Minigames!!" (not in particular order):
1. Take a picture of a panty-vending machine and put it on the web.
2. Meditate under a waterfall.
3. Sing "Ride on Shooting Star", "Sukiyaki", or "I am turning Japanese" at a karaoke booth.
4. Dress up as some random Japanese pop-culture related figure.
5. Blow $50+ at a gatcha gatcha [machine] place (like in DenDen Town in Osaka).
6. Meet the Pillows [I was obsessed with FLCL and the Pillows at this point in my life].
7. Meet former prime minister [Junichiro] Koizumi and talk about Elvis.
 8. Meet Shigeru Miyamoto and also catch him riding his bike into work in Kyoto.
9 Go to a Aya Hirano, [The] Pillows, or Do As Infinity Concert.
10. Go to a Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra performance.
11. Go to and take lots of pictures of Akibahara.
12. Invent new トレンデイー　[trendy; popular] Japanese slang and introduce it in Shinjuku.
 13. "Reenact scenes from [the movie] Lost in Translation
14. Create [a] 素晴らしい外人 [wonderful foreigner; a webseries I seriously wanted to make at the time] costume.
15. Go to a Con[vention] in Japan and film [an] episode of 素晴らしい外人.
16. DDR Hardcore; Taiko no Tatsujin.