Good eeeevening every body! In todays tale, I will be exploring the advantages of cool things from Akiba and breifly delving into the world unhealthy, unknown supermarket brand drinks which are far from soft. Its a double post, you, dear reader have been blessed! (or cursed, depends on what you think of the blog really, heh).
Gift from Akiba
Recently legendary blogger Zer0 had partaken on a trip to Japan and during his stay passed the sacred grounds of Akihabara. Just a while ago, I was contacted by Zer0 through the wonder of email and he said something about sending a gift from Akihabara. This Saturday the gift arrived (Singapore airmail is very fast!), unfortunately due to problems with the English postal service, the package was brought to my door at 8:30 on a Saturday and due to me being fast asleep at the time and unable to give a signature, it was stored at my local holding office. The office placed a 4 hour wait, but by bizarre coincidence, the end of the wait would signal the closing time of the holding office on a Saturday… OTZ.
At about 9:40 this morning I got to the sorting office and received my glorious package! I was surprised that the postman didn’t just slip it through the letterbox, but I guess since its airmail they need a signature. I was so excited about this gift from Zer0 that I decided to open it at the sorting office instead of waiting till I walked home.
ゲーマーズのデジコ
I was pleased to see that this fine piece of merchandise featured Dejiko, popular mascot of the landmark store Gamers and character from Digi Charat (which was originally an abridged anime with the purpose of advertising Gamers). The original Degi Charat is an anime that I really enjoy and one of the first I started watching near the start of my Otaku awakening. So I was really pleased with this great key chain. I said it once and I’ll say it again キター！(Kita)
To me, the keychain defines the current moe/maid culture which is all the rage among many Otaku (myself included, bring on the maids!) in a humorous and perhaps super flat way. I noticed the Gundam V headset, which is a nice feature because its a strange adition to a maid outfit (although I’m not sure if it’s an accessory which appears in cosplay cafes). If you look closely, that isn’t green tea that shes serving, no, it is actualy Oden in a can (a fast food snack which I am hoping to find in my travels in Japan)! Dejiko appears to be schemeing something judgeing by the look on her face. To her right you can see the Kanji for Akihabara. Something Ironic about Akiba’s kanji is that each of them symbolize natural things such as Autum, Leafs and medows, yet this is the electric town!
ゲーマーズ ｇｅｅｍａｚｕ （ｇａｍｅｒｓ） ご当地 （ｐｌａｃｅ? I think thats what the kanji mean, but I’m not sure about the “go”) キーホルダー （ｋｅｙｈｏｌｄｅｒ）. It is a keychain, but I’m thinking of either attaching it to my bag so my Otaku status is noticeable in public or to my mp3 player to signify the kind of songs it contains, アニソン. Thanks a lot Zer0, I really like it! I’ll need to pick you up something from Kouchi when I’m in Japan in return, even I don’t know what I’ll find.
Although most of you probably do check out Zer0s blog already, I highly recommend it to those who haven’t seen it yet.
Iron Kick
I’m a fond drinker of the stimulant drink “Red Bull” but the other day I tried something very similar at a friends house. Red Bull tends to get me energetic but after a couple of hours put me in an irritable mood so I tend to steer clear from it and only drink it when I can, but this similar drink merely drains me of energy after its stimulation wears off and tastes pretty much the same as Red Bull so its practically win win. The drink is known as “Kick” and is a drink specially made for the chain of UK supermarkets, Tesco. Since Tesco was just across the road from the post sorting office and I had heard that the drink was cheap I decided to pick some up on the way to the office. Managed to get 2 bottles at 1.50, which was a steal considering each bottle was one litre and one 250ml can of Red Bull costs 1.20.
Due to all of that “lovely” acidity regulator, articifial colouring, taurine and Niacin (I don’t even know what Niacin is but my guess is it Isn’t healthy) it looks like urine, but if you can look past this horrible sentance I have typed, it’s a pretty nice tasting drink. I decided to go for diet, but I fear for the contents of regular. Due to the drinks high caffine count, it can make me very hyperactive and allow me to talk for ages and ages, so it is a useful tool to use for calling talk radio (which is a hobby of mine). I belive it will be a useful tool for school, but when hyper I do occasionally act a bit flipant, so I’d probably get in trouble quite a bit. My energy is sure to crash and burn later, but I’m happy with the drink for now. I have a feeling I’ll have to drink a LOT of green tea to negate its effects…
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Its a couple of hours later now and I’m posting this and correcting errors, and I feel like shit, I’m never drinking a litre of this stuff in a day ever again. It feels like I haven’t slept in 3 days, while this is self induced, just thought I’d complain because I enjoy complaining…. ^_^
August 14, 2007 at 12:58 am
Glad you liked it
Let that be your lucky charm when you’re over in Japan.
When you’re there, there’s a new item on a geek’s diet – not just canned oden, but canned ramen too! (Will write an entry about that later…)
August 15, 2007 at 11:43 am
>>Zer0
It shall indeed be my lucky charm. Canned ramen? I will have to get my hands on that!! Most perplexing.
November 11, 2007 at 3:27 pm
wow i really didn’t know that degiko was originally the mascot before an anime character I mean I thought it was funny seeing her on the sign as I thought to my self how did they get rights to do that lol