I just had the worst dream.
I was flirting with a Japanese high school girl, and finally got her to give me her e-mail address.
And out of nowhere, some teacher of her came up, and started scolding me for flirting with high school girls lol.
Damn. My dream is to get a Japanese high school girl^^lol.

Asian movies with great sex scenes

I've watched two "artistic" (not porn?) movies that are worth mention. They were very hard to find (being that the only asian language I speak is Japanese and all...) so I'm just gonna put them here in case in I forget^^.

The first one, is called A good lawyer's wife, it's a Korean movie. It's very long and not so much fun to watch (well, I only watch this kind of movies just for the sex scenes so your opinion may differ^^). And there's one great scene when some guy's wife has sex with her neighbor's teenager son.

That single scene is a lot better than most of the porn out there...

And another movie that's worth mention, is Jan Dara. It's very annoying to hear (it's in thai! almost as bad as hearing chinese...) and it's story is one of the most depressing sick stuffs you're gonna find around... But it's filled with great sex scenes!!:D

I've always seen Thai girls as not so elegant (cheap^^) but sometimes hot. Nothing like the women in this movie... especially the actress Christy Chung (although she is Canadian-Chinese so I guess that's what makes her so damn hot...) who is one of the main characters and has very good sex scenes.

That's it! Just for the record, I watched these movies first by having some free internet-television for a while, and a nice adult selection channel:D. Who doesn't like foreign chicks.

make auto play dvd (pictures and movies) for windows in linux

Ah, every time I have to use windows, my head starts hurting just with the thought of it...

But when you have friends/relatives who don't know/want to use real computers, what can you do.

I burned a dvd with an Autorun.inf file (to auto play in windows) that runs a batch file to:

1. View all pictures in the disk
2. Play all the movies in the disk

In linux,

 find . -name "*jpg" -print0 | xargs -0 xzgv ; find . -name "*avi" -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer -fs

would have been pretty much all what I'd need.

Yeah, I know, blaming windows for not having a pipe (or a decent set of commands...) wouldn't be too fair, being that only unix type operating systems do and all... But you can guess how annoying it is when you are used to something this simple.

Anyway, this is what I did:

1. Output all the picture files (including subdirectories) in a file, and change the "/"s to "\"s so windows can read it...
   

    find * -name "*JPG" -o -name "*jpg"|sed 's/\//\\/g' > pics_list.txt
   

2. Do the same with the video files (3g2 is a cell phone format... apparently not many windows players can play it, so I ended up using linux's mplayer program's windows' version)
   

   find * -name "*3[Gg]2"|sed 's/\//\\/g' > vids_list.txt
   

3. Got IrfanView (a picture/video viewer), because it can accept input from a file (step 1 can be used as a list for the files to view).
   You'll have to do this in windows... zip the IrfanView's directory and use ftp or something to get it into your linux computer.
   
   IrfanView can also be used to create a binary (a program) of a slideshow of all the pictures you choose in case you want a simple way. However doing this won't allow you to rotate/zoom the picture, etc.
   
   
4. Got SMplayer (a video player---this has to be done in windows too...) but didn't work, so I ended up using the binaries of mplayer that came with that annoying GUI, and using it just like in linux. As above, put it in the directory you are creating the disk.
   
   
5. With all this done I can write the batch file:
   

   set FILES=%CD%\pics_list.txt
   IrfanView\i_view32.exe /filelist=%FILES%
   mplayer\mplayer.exe -fs -vf scale=320:240 -playlist vids_list.txt

6. Then make an icon file (optional). Use Gimp to resize any picture to 16x16 pixels, and save it as png.
   Use pngtopnm to change the file's format png->ppm.
   Use ppmtowinicon to make the .ico file.
   

    pngtopnm file.png > file.ppm
   ppmtowinicon file.ppm >file.ico
   #rm file.png file.ppm  

7. Write the Autorun.inf file with the name of the batch file to run, and the icon file as icon. This file has to be at the top of burned DVD's directory tree.
   

    [autorun]
   open=playme.bat
   icon=icon.ico
   

8. Change all the text files written in windows to a DOS format. If you don't understand why, read here.
   

    #in the directory where all the text files are
   #Autorun.inf  =auto play file
   # playme.bat =the file containing the viewer to view pictures and the player to play the movies.
   # pics_list.txt  =list of pictures made by linux' find and sed
   # vids_list.txt  =list of vids made by same as above
   for FILE in Autorun.inf pics_list.txt vids_list.txt playme.bat ; do unix2dos $FILE; done
   

9. Burn the disk with your favorite program. growisofs example:
   

    #in the wanted to be top of the dvd's tree structure (where Autorun.inf is)
   growisofs -Z /dev/scd0 -R -J -V "pics2010" .
   

I did change the scale in order to be able to view some vids with very small screens, but that's about it.

The directory tree would result something like:

• Autorun.inf
• pics_list.txt
• vids_list.txt
• icon.ico
• playme.bat
• IrfanView #the directory containing IrfanView (viewer program)
• mplayer #the directory containing windows version of mplayer (vid player)
• pics #the directory containing the pictures
• vids #the directory containing the vids

At least, after doing all this, there's like no way the person you want the contents to see is not going to be able to!

I think you can just let the OS to kinda guess the dvd's contents, and choose a program to read it. But having strange formats (like 3G2, I don't know if it's a world-wide thing, but in Japan all cell phones use this annoying format, and having so much of them using mencoder to change them to avi wasn't a good option) putting a player in the same dvd needs to be done.

Rakuten's initiation ceremony

I went to the Rakuten's initiation ceremony the other day.

There were a bit over 500 people including the staff and TV cameras taking the event.

I was a bit nervous. Especially since, even though the ceremony itself was in English, it was a Japanese style one! So, like, you have to image the army, because it's something like that. In the first five minutes nobody did anything but stay quiet looking straight ahead; that's right, five hundred people in the same room, and nobody was speaking...

Well, I'm actually quite accustomed to that kind of ceremony so it wasn't that hard for me, but since Rakuten is even doing the ceremony in English and all, I thought a more "American-like" ceremony would have been more welcome.

In Japanese ceremonies, you have to respond in a loud voice, and then go to the front of everyone. In this ceremony you had to do that too, however in English, and you had to say like "here" and then go forward, which I found rather unnatural.

But still, it was a great ceremony.

Except maybe for a chinese guy who did a brief speech. I don't get why chinese people can't get well-fitted size suits. Or stand up straight... or don't behave like assholes when on ceremonies... but I guess they're just not to good with formalities...

Anyway, the best part was after the ceremony, when we got a team get together kinda meeting. All the new guys (obviously including me) were there. And I just gotta tell you, nowhere in Japan have I seen such beautiful Japanese girls. They are all extremely beautiful, cute, and they're like from the Universities of Japan!! The best of the best if you ask me.

Obviously I was a bit shy because of that and couldn't speak very much, but knowing that I'm gonna work with such beautiful ladies just really makes me want to work as soon as possible!!^^

Hooah for Japanese women!!!

installing apk files to your android phone from linux

This was done in the IS01 (a Japanese android). And my debian GNU/Linux machine.

Obviously the first step is to get the application (apk) file.

In this example I'm using "Piano_Play_7.0.apk", a crappy piano application.

In your android:

Go to Settings -> Application Settings, and "check" Unknown Sources.

Then, in Settings -> Applications Settings -> Development, check USB debug.

With this done, all you need to is get the android's SDK (linux doesn't need any extra divers). It's very small, and brings mostly binary (doesn't need to install!!) so it's pretty straight forward.

You'll get a file like: android-sdk_r07-linux_x86.tgz.tar

So put that in some rational directory, untar it

tar xvf android-sdk_r07-linux_x86.tgz.tar

and

cd android-sdk-linux_x86/tools

From this point you'll have to become root

su
adb kill-server #in case you tried without being root
sudo adb start-server
adb install /home/myusername/Piano_Play_7.0.apk 
# to install all the apk Apps in /home/myusername for example #(using bash) for FILE in /home/myusername/*apk ; do ./adb install $FILE ; done

If you mounted your device remember to unmount it first.

And then remove the usb cable, and give your new application a try!

Haunted spots in Japan

Place: Kiryu 3th Tunnel (Gunma prefecture, Kiryu city)

I took these pictures with my friend Tamotsu (his site here/nothing to do with haunted spots).

The scariest one, is obviously the one at the top!

After coming back from the "3th Kiryu Tunnel" (as it's called) in Umeda, Kiryu, we took a picture to the car. No one realized we had taken that picture after we checked those pictures out in our computers.

Tamotsu took the liberty of adding some "nice" comments around, but nothing but the comments have been added to the original pictures.

In the top picture you can clearly see the face of a woman/girl in the front seat. I didn't believe in ghosts much until I saw this picture... which got me doubtful.

All the rest of the pictures didn't have anything interesting. Tamotsu thinks we had some "orbs" in some pics, but I don't really know that much about photography nor paranormal stuff to tell.

The last pictures were taken in an abandoned elementary school in Umeda, Kiryu.

Nothing that fun here either (Tamotsu is really enjoying himself though^^).

We put together some vids we took over there, and lately in some abandoned shrine (a rather famous haunted spot apparently). Take a look at our vids if you want.

By the time this was posted, the latest vid is the one of the abandoned shrine. We actually took one at night too, but was too dark to see anything... maybe gonna post those pics too though.

biohazard 4

I went to see biohazard 4 yesterday.

The only 3D version available was the one dubbed into Japanese... but well, I really wanted to see the 3D version so I saw it in Japanese.

I think next time I'm gonna stay with the 2D version... 3D is not that bad (I guess...), rain, looked kind nice in 3D but I really think it wasn't worth it. Not many zombies in 3D and, well, it didn't have the impact I thought it would have. Especially, the movie quality was very low. 2D in High Definition has to look a lot better than that.

On my way back I saw a girl wearing an incredibly tiny skirt, yeah!! Usually, no matter how tiny they are, you can't see girl's underwear, but this girl was showing it all:D and she was so cute. Of course not on purpose, I think she was like in high school, and didn't seem to be very used to wearing skirts, which made her look even cuter.

I love Japan^^.