after working late nights on a client's project to beat deadline, i have arrived here in tokyo for both business and pleasure trip. but mainly, i came here to do some business first, and then pleasure for the rest of the time. but it seems like once i got here, friends here in tokyo have come to celebrate my arrival last night.
anyway, i hope to get a well-deserved haircut today if i can ever find one! hope one of those stylists will give my hair a magical makeover!
today we were excited that we'd be getting 2-piece sofa today, but instead we found that the bigger sofa was little tad too big to fit into our narrow stairway leading up to our flat by 1 or 2 inch. we were disappointed to see that and it's back to square one in hunting our new sofa. :-(
on the positive note, we're off to tahoe tomorrow for a 2-day stay to do some damages on mountains!
from the movies, _back to the future_ series?
well, a so-called 'sneaker' advocate had contacted me about to support his campaign to have these mcfly sneakers made as soon as possible. i gladly signed his petition and hope you would do the same thing, too. check out this image of mcfly and his kicks:
it seems like the throwback of 1980s is starting to catch up here. 1970s is going down in the drain right now!
so if you'd like to sign this petition, check this blog out!
to make up for this lack of my blogging, i thought that you could help me decide if i should be wearing this pair of kicks - ray fong adidas designed by one of my fave artists, barry mcgee, aka twister and HUF or have them framed along with its tee and treat them as an art piece? here's the story:
earlier today, i had sporadically stopped by HUF shop to check out any cool kicks they have, and i spotted that they just have HUF adidas' yellow series signature brown shoe designed by barry mcgee. i knew in my heart that i had to buy this pair for that it has an asian cartoon guy on the shoe's tongue with its great extras. never mind its 3-figure price tag, i immediately bought it along with its brown 'ray fong' character tee.
afterwards, i went to the white walls gallery to pick up obey giant's poster and went home immediately. susie and i continued to paint at our new dining room and afterwards, i went online and checked out the big G to see if there's any concept behind this adidas kick. boy, little did i know that there was a huge stir in the public about this kick. many peepos wanted to boycott adidas because of this. (remember the A+F's incident?) i've known that barry mcgee was a hapa (he's half chinese) and i found a few blogs/news articles about this controversial kick. here's an example:
ray fong + comments
just google on 'em and you'll come up with great stuff.
sadly, i've been following the whole thing religiously. it's been eating lots of time here and i think i've been on it for about 4 hours or something.
because of the kicks' artsy sentimental value, i feel that i should box-frame them, and hang it out in my new apartment. this will definitely be one of those conversation starter for our future guests.
i've told my darling that i would definitely wear this brown 'ray fong' tee to chinatown along with my digicam just to take immediate reactions of these chinese peepos. but since i am american-chinese, they won't probably care that much as opposed to being a caucasian. i truly feel sorry for those peepos who find this 'ray fong' character offensive because they are totally missing the BIG PICTURE here. i would say that maybe 20% of americans here are not quite creative-educated, about the same as owning US passports. (perhaps only 5% of them actually travel out of north america!)
ok, enough of my late-night ranting here and i should be hitting the sack now.