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Boys II Men Concert

I attended a Boys to Men concert last night at the The Rose Theatre in Brampton. As you can imagine it was amazing. It’s so refreshing attending a concert that is sung live and sung well! How sad is it that this is now the exception? We had great seats too – right above the [...]

Shoe Museum Part 3

The Bata Shoe Museum had a collection of celebrity shoes in two sections. One was for pop culture celebrities and the other was in their sports section with various sport footwear. Here are the ones I took. They are semi-decent shots. I was rushing since there were many people around me at times.

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Kim Hyun Joong

Kpop celebrity endorsements are all over Seoul. Well at least the places in Seoul I went to. Everywhere you go there is some sort of advertisement of a celebrity trying to convince you to purchase soju, cellphones, eye creme, etc. There were many around but I took a picture with a life-size version of Kim [...]

Look Alikes

When we were in the sushi restaurant at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, we encountered a very enthusiastic Japanese man. He was one of the chefs there and was preparing our sushi for us. If you’ve ever watched those Japanese shows where the guests, MCs, and/or audience members have overly exaggerated surprised reactions to [...]

Yatsuhashi

Kyoto had some of the best traditional snacks, and they make great souvenirs. We mostly just had yatsuhashi. We brought back a bunch as souvenirs but I’m tempted to eat them all for myself. At once stand that we were stocking up at I took a picture with an Otabe-chan statue. She’s the symbolic figurehead [...]