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pictures &travel &video &yusuke ranjeet on 25 Jan 2010
Stranger in a Strange Land, November 2009
Back in November, I used up some of my vacation days and visited Japan. Not just on a whim, mind you; when I travel, I travel to visit people. In this case, it’s my good friends Yusuke and Tomoko, old compatriots from High School (Yusuke) and undergrad (Tomoko). While I flew in from San Francisco, another friend from undergrad, Becky, flew in from Boston along with her boyfriend Steve. So in many ways, it was a little reunion with a lot of my favorite people.
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pictures &travel &video &yusuke ranjeet on 14 Apr 2009
Japanese Invasion 2008
I feel really bad, but I’ve actually been sitting on these pictures for months. Specifically, since about Christmas. That’s when my good friend Yusuke visited with his wife (Megumi), kid (Itsuki), and sister-in-law (Kaori), and Yusuke’s parents visited from the Chicagoland area, converging on the West Coast in a compromise that benefited me (and Cameron) greatly. I’ve spent a lot of travelling time with Yusuke’s family, since they were in Japan for both of my visits (in 2003 and 2006), and they more or less treat me like a member of the Nakane’s, so I’m totally up for a road trip when they’re in the area. We spent our time mostly in San Francisco and the Monterey Bay area. Here are a bunch of pictures and videos that I’d taken at the time. I always start these trips thinking I’ll take a lot of memorable pictures, but true to my anti-social nature, afterwards I look through my pictures and realize that I didn’t really take a lot of pictures of people. Mostly, I hate herding people together to get their picture. Luckily, Yusuke and his dad, Masaki, sent me their pictures, which has made up for things somewhat.
Hit the jump for the pictures; you can also hit my Flickr Set and YouTube Page for the individual pictures and videos, with the requisite geotagging. Continue Reading »
pictures &yusuke ranjeet on 06 Feb 2007
In Memoriam
Update 2/14/2007: More Memories!
It is one of life’s most bitter lessons that all things must come to an end, someday. Even mountains, monoliths of cold and unyielding stone, will eventually be worn down by wind and rain. The Earth that we all know will one day be a casualty of the inevitable death of our sun. But that knowledge doesn’t make it any easier when people that we have known for the majority of our lives pass into the night. Today, we mourn the eminent death of Bachelor Yusuke. Continue Reading »