Plunging Into the Curry Bowl "in Style"

I found a site on the internet that makes custom suits. You measure everything yourself, choose the material, the style... and pray.

I ordered a linen suit (black), an irish linen suit (grey), and a rayon/polyester suit (pinstripe dark brown). The English on the site was a little different from NA English. When I looked at the company information, I discovered they are in India. That's OK because India has a long history wit fabric and tailors. The price blew me away. So I thought I would take a gamble and see what I get. (Yes, that cheap!) Last year I found some shops in Japan that would make a custom suit for me but I wasn't happy with the material (I need thin suits, never ever ever winter-weight material.) The Japanese price is about JPY70,000 for one custom suit. I dislike wearing the same thing a couple times a week so that price was out.

I'll keep you in the loop.

I love you!
Cam

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Friday's Menu

I'm on my way to Kobuchizawa. It's Friday, Not Monday so what the heck?! right? The schedule changed a bit and we juggled the 4th Monday to the 4th Friday instead.

And that means...

A different lunch menu!

No fry teishoku today so instead I'm having...

Oh! A lovely businesswoman just sat at my table for lunch ... so I chatted her up! Her husband studied English in Victoria BC, they went to Vancouver, Banff and Niagara Falls for their honeymoon, and she oks in sales in the food service industry. How did I start it all off? Well, knowing that she would think it was cold, I said to her, "It's finally starting to cool off..." and away we went from there talking about low pressure zones, typhoons, and nihongo ga jouzu desu ne conversations.

Sitting outside the station now enjoying the cool breeze as I wait a bit before heading into the pits of hell to catch my train for the mountains.

Ive got my (fake) leather jacket with me. I dont need it now so Im carrying it. But tonight waiting for the train the wind will be cold off the mountains on both sides, it will be strong, and the temperature will likely be about 8C or so therefore one layer won't quite cut it.

Have a great day!

I love you!
Cam

P.S. If you find some double yous W missing, just fill them in for me, will you, please? Ive done so much typing on this keitai over the year that that key seems to have gotten a wee bit... desensitized. It gets skipped a fair bit these days.

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Green Tea My Breast!

FINALLY the "powers that be" are admitting that green tea has NO breast cancer preventative abilities. It's ridiculous that they ever tried to pull that wool over our eyes.

The primary cause of cancer is a reduction of cellular oxygen by a mere 30%. That's it.

Once you get cancer, you can't "heal" the cells; you either cut them out, or you kill them with drugs. The problem is that this leads to massive other cellular complications. We have spent billions of dollars on the "war against cancer" and we have failed.

Why has this happened when Dr. Otto Warburg showed us the answer almost 70 years ago?!?!?

Wake up medical community and read the writing on the wall! Stop being brainwashed by industry!

Here is the article, followed by my comment in the comment section.

"Green tea has little breast cancer prevention effect: National Cancer Center" which you can get to by following this link:

http://tinyurl.com/GreenTeaBullshit

Enjoy your green tea, but don't for a minute be thinking it's going to prevent breast cancer, or any cancer for that moment!

I love you!

Cam

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News from the Home Front

Here is a little news that I happened to find on www.japantoday.com.

There are crazy people everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't one of those fucking "nationalists" who drive around in the black vans spouting nonsense...

'Foreign people GET OUT' sign on mosque as car torched in parking lot

Thursday 21st October, 04:20 PM JST

FUKUI —

A car parked in front of a mosque in Fukui City was torched early Wednesday in what police believe is an arson case, and a sign saying, ‘‘Foreign people GET OUT’’ was posted at the two-story building, police said Thursday.

Police also said that a flag at an Indian restaurant about 1.5 kilometers from the building was set on fire and a similar sign posted in September, they said.

The car, a Malaysian student’s station wagon, was set on fire at around 1:15 a.m. in the mosque’s parking lot, but no one was injured, according to police.

The mosque in the capital of Fukui Prefecture can accommodate up to 80 people to attend services, according to its website.

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A New Head Condom... with Taste!

This morning I left home for Shinjuku an hour earlier than usual. I went to the bike shop I fell in love with and returned the mudguards I had purchased for my folding bike. The tires I have on it are bigger than standard so the guards don't fit. I don't really want to pay for another pair of tires just for the guards to fit so I guess that bike will be for non-rainy day rides.

Then I headed over to another very cool cycling shop which is full of even cooler stuff but not for hardcore bikers. It does have really technical clothing as the main fare. In fact they also sell cyclocommuter business suits which are made of special material for cycling and sweating, have hidden zippers for ventilation and reflective tape in foldaway places. And of course designed for the Japanese bodysize so not for me.

The reason I went back was because I decided on Saturday when I saw it that I really do want another helmet, one I can wear with jeans and a sweater as I toodle around the city. I'll stick to the lycra and colourful jerseys while riding with Max and sweating up a storm. But as for this city life... it's time for some more change and that includes what I wear when I ride. As I have been reinventing myself on all fronts over the past two years, inside and outside are equally important to redesign. So it is just natural that my cycling attire too would undergo a fundamental shift as well.

I introduce you to my new, fully functional and totally safe helmet, a design coming from the French Foreign Legion or something! I love it. And I love that I can change the outer design to about 30 other varieties whenever I feel like doing so.

I love you!
Cam

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Listen to Your Stakeholders

Thank goodness The Gap decided to DUMP their new logo. Matt was right; it sucks! http://tinyurl.com/NewGapLogoSucks

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Diesel Fuel II, or I like it tied up with a belt

Here is the belt I fell in love with @ DIESEL. It goes with my kilt perfectly as it adds a rough & tumble edge to the brown kilt. The black and brushed steel on the belt goes perfectly with my kilt!

I just read that DIESEL's biggest market is Japan... the store was aesome!

I also went into the Abercrombie & Fitch flagship store for the first time. The boys and girls working there are stunningly gorgeous. The boys all had their shirts open and you could see excellent pecs, six-pack abs and more one each and every one. The perfume in the store is cloyingly pungent and you can smell the shop from blocks away. If you are sensitive to perfumes you will leave with a headache.

There are fourteen (14!) floors to this shop and the elevator stops ONLY on the 1st, 6th, 11th and 13th so you need to take the stairs if you want to see each floor.

It was a great experience and if I didn't already have too many winter jackets I would have gone home with one more before they start selling "Japan fit" and I can't get anything in my arm length any more (like so many of the popular American stores do here).

I'll keep searching for that man's knit shawl as it is perfect for my commute to work which is a short jaunt in the brisk air followed by a long, hot train ride.

I love you!
Cam

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Diesel Fuel, or Kickass Cute in Ginza

This evening I headed to Ginza. I don't usually come here because I still have the Bubble image in my head... a place where the uber rich shop.

It's still full of the uber rich but these days it is a lot more accessible. The shops are gorgeous and all the brands are here along with more affordable shops as well.

My goal today was to visit DIESEL and see if they had a man's shawl that I saw in Kanazawa. I'm a hotbody so wearing a jacket to and from work in the winter is difficult for me here in Tokyo. I'd prefer to go in just my dress shirt but the wind is cool so I need a little more and that shawl/wrap was perfect. I didn't geit it in Kanazawa and it wasn't in DIESEL, unfortunately. So... instead I left with these kickass leather boots an awesome belt that looks fantastic ith my kilt (black material with brown leather accessory strips and brushed matte steel rings (like you ould see as ringmail on a warrior in the SCA)) and a frikkin awesome minimal deep purple leather zip pouch to hold my train pass, alien registration card, apartment key and cash but nothing else. I also visited an aesome Belgian pub and had a delicious belgian beer (that cost a pretty yen) with some fantastic sausages, prosciutto crudo and a cool salad.

I think I'm going to have to get the new i-Touch too... *drool-to-dehydration*.

It's a good thing I brought my credit card...
Here is a shot of the boots. I've been walking in them for five hours and not a single rub or pinch anywhere! I am glad I brought them!

I love you!

P.S. I'm worried... I liked everything in DIESEL and everything I tried on looked good on me...

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A Gay Workplace is a Happy Workplace

"The strength of a business often depends on several factors: the core mission, how that mission is marketed, and who carries it out. When it comes to being profitable, studies show that the more diverse a company is, the more likely it is to succeed..."

Here's an interesting little article on the LGBT Workforce. I would love to hear the thoughts on the points in this article from my LGBT friends, or those who grew up with LGBT family members.

"Working While Gay" at:
http://tinyurl.com/LGBTBusinesses

I Love You!
Cam

P.S. The title of the article is a little bit weird...

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A Wagon Master Called Sue

Now that the Apple and Android phone systems are going head to head, and everyone wants in on the action, it looks like "suing" one another for patent infringements is going to keep the laywers in the black for a while to come. Let's all get on the bandwagon and Sue, sue, sue somebody!

Here's some news that looks like just one company suing another, but in fact there are three or four all intertwined with their lawsuits.

http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/10/04/daily60.html

Have a blast, and sue your asses off guys! In the end it all works out for the best for us, the consumer.

I love you!
Cam

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"Sweet" Dreams

Since I have been consuming a very low amount of carbohydrates for the past ten years along wit supplementing with YES supplement's correct blend of parent essential oils (Essentia Fatty Acids or EFAs) my body has become quite sensitive to the insulin spike that goes with the body trying to deal with sugars (Carbs).

I have done so much experimenting with foods and my body's response that I pretty much know what will happen when I consume certain kinds of carbs.

Take this one beer that I am pointing at for example. Beer is very high carb... the equivalent of eight tsp of sugar. Did you know your blood sugar is regulated strictly at about ONE tsp for the entire 4L of blood? Yep. Anything above that and you can die so the body protects you by pumping out insulin to remove the sugar before it enters the blood. How? It turns it to bodyfat. It makes you fat to save your life.

Now, after 10years I can drink very little beer compared to the earlier years. In most cases I simply dont want it. But if I DO drink it, it affects my mood by making me snarky. It affects my motor skills (one SMALL glass!), I get very dehydrated, my sleep is disrupted, I have bizarre insulin dreams and I wake up the next morning with cotton mouth.

Eating pasta has a completely different effect on me. Rice is again entirely different, and so on.

Did you ever stop to realize that food is actually a VERY powerful "hormone" that affects your body in a myriad of ways? Most people dont even realize that their moods are directly connected to the foods they eat. Go to Starbucks and watch a pair of calm, happy children consume a frappuccino and you will see exactly what I am saying. It happens to you and to me, too.

So the next time you are feeling irritated, sarcastic and grouchy just take a minute to step out of yourself and view you from a third person perspective. The chances are high that its not your partner, kids, friends who did something to piss you off, but rather your very own mood shift due to the carbohydrates you recently consumed.

I can say that I know for certain Stefnee and Jenny react this way on carbs, as do I. Check yourself and what you eat; you might just get a rude self-awakening.

Time to go home to weird dreams... Im having trouble typing already.

I love you!

Cam

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Double the NoRice & Decreace the LowPrice!

Today on my way up the stairs from Shinjuku Stn I stopped at my new protein & vegetable consumption place (no more Mac) and instead of ordering one lunch (hold theendless rice refill) I ordered two! That means two breaded chicken cutlets, two salads, two bowls of miso soup, two... you get the picture. But no delicious, white, succulent Japanese rice (it dehydrates, bloats, and groggies me).

One lunch is not enough for me to hold me over until I eat my obento on the way home, as I have discovered the last few times.

So I doubled up today and it feels just right!
Then on top of than instead of paying an amazingly cheap 500yen for each lunch of this volume (plenty for most mortals) I only had to pay 350yen each! Wow!! What a great price for a sufficient quantity of delicious food that I'm sure will go the full eight hours.

Come to Japan and I'll gladly show you how to eat cheaply without killing yourself on high carb meals.

Off to Kobuchizawa. I haven't been there for several (3) weeks. I'm looking forward to the fresh mountain air.

Have a great Sunday night and Monday.

I love you!
Cam

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