Already August

First off, it's August. That means I've already been in Japan for almost four months now. What the hell??!? Where is the time going? As cliché as it sounds.. "It seems like only yesterday when..." I was tying up loose ends back in Toronto before getting ready for my departure. At least the good news is I'll have an entire week off next week for summer vacation.

While I would prefer not to invest too much money into new assets there will always be a few items here that I simply can't pass up (Super Famicom being one of them). I finally settled on an awesome new pair of headphones, and it was surely a purchase I didn't regret.


They cost ￥3990 and the really cool thing about them is how compact they can get. In my experience traditional earmuff style headphones always take up too much space and can be rather bulky when you need to put them away in your bag. The JVC Victor HP-S550's however can be folded up neatly to create a compact storage form. Next, the headphone wire is actually retractable and it is stored within the left ear piece. Very, very awesome in my opinion. Most importantly the sound quality is quite amazing. While they aren't officially noise cancelling headphones they virtually block out a lot of exterior sound while I'm wearing them.


Since picking up the headphones I'm actually in the market for a new portable audio player as well. It's actually a bit tougher finding something here since most mp3 players I've seen are only supported by Japanese OS Windows. If this really is the verdict I may actually cave and get an i-Pod. Hopefully this isn't the case though since I haven't had the best experiences with i-Pods in the past.