SOS団の活動として...

Let's hope I wont be shot by a beam rifle by some sensei we all know for writing this post!XD

I'm not a Gundam fan actually, but what I saw today made me "re-consider"!
As an activity to the new made SOS-dan (short for Sごい日本の文化　wO　Siるための団), today I went with two lab mates to Odaiba and met a real-life size Gundam!
The incredible detail level on this 1:1 model left me speechless!!!
It was built on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Gundam anime.
Pictures would have been much more nice if the weather was sunny...

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I wish I can ride on top of it

Makes me think if Japan really wants to build a real operational Gundam, nothing will stop it!
Here is the official website : http://www.gundam30th.net/event/real-g.html

We also went to a game center and I played 太鼓の達人to my heart's content!
I proudly won easily over the DAN members but was disastrously defeated by this little cute genius we met there !

Playing the ONI mode with an "uh, a piece of cake" face!

It was such a great day!!

アラブのお花見＠井の頭公園

井の頭公園はもう少しだけで満開って感じだったけど天気がよくて気持ちよかった〜

そうそう！Hさんもいました！
お茶さんも！！
真ん中の二人はレバノン人のLさんとNさん

私さん、Hさんの妹、Hさん

今度のポストもお楽しみに!
それでは、失礼しまーす。

Torture of another type!

YaY! Finally I found some time to play after I almost killed myself preparing for the research progress presentation...
Anyway..we entered this sweets heaven-like shop. Everything looks so yummy, so sweet..
Enjoy the pictures!

All kinds of sweets and cookies!

Noodles too!


Any food you can think of!


Any sweets you dream of!


Some sweets-land locals..

But!!!..

...BUT!!...But!!!!....

Take a deep breathe!

.....but!

...it's all plastic!! XD


*Update 1: Where?
A famous street called kappabashidori (合羽橋通り) full of shops for selling plastic food and other restaurant essentials. It is located between Ueno and Asakusa stations.
Kappabashi on Wikipedia

*Update 2: Why plastic food?

There are 2 main reasons.

1) Almost all restaurants here have very realistic plastic models for the food they offer. They usually place these in a glass box on the entrance. So these plastic foods are mainly bought by restaurant owners.
This way, when u go to a restaurant, you can see how the dish would look like before you actually order it.

2) Some of these plastic foods have magnets on the back. You can use these as kitchen decorations..on the fridge for example.

See these google image search results:
Japan plastic food

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Some pics taken today

Pizza in Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and English