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I’ve always adored BNR32s, but every time I see one on the streets, I smile. I’m pleased that I purchased one.
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A Lot of Moving Parts
I’d like to thank everyone that is supporting Ryukyu Soul since the launch earlier today. I’d also like to encourage you to go follow the tumblr if you aren’t already. Currently, I’m in Thailand so I’m going to relying on my growing staff to keep content coming until I return. It shouldn’t be too much of a headache but it sucks that I can’t be everywhere at once.
This lifestyle of my day job (if you know what it is) is killing me. It’s time for a career change. This may seem like an ambitious goal, but I would like some legitimacy behind the site itself that can translate into a work visa. It’s possible.
This time around in Thailand isn’t like my last trip. We were staying in a relatively nice hotel on an all-expense-paid political trip to tapdance around the U.S. aid to Thailand during the flood relief operations. It sucked but in a different way. Now, I’m in the field. The field is what reminds me why I chose this life, but the personnel I’m with make it all the more apparent that I need to move on.
Mosquitoes, 100 degree weather, sleeping outside in a tent, lack of proper hygiene (what are showers), and a complete clusterfuck of unorganized happenings sums this trip up. I have three weeks until I’m back to working on the GT-R and wandering about the island of Okinawa taking photos. When I return, I promise, yes, promise, that stickers and window decals will be taken care of. Depending on the leftover cash I have, I might even open a bigcartel store on the site.
We’ll see.
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driftcraze asked: heyyy, i have a question for you haha. my friends and me are planning a trip to japan soon and i'm wondering if it's expensive for food and travel there. we're mostly gonna be in tokyo. we also have a place to stay also cuz one of our buddies has an apartment for us.
The biggest expenses will always be meals and lodging. If you already have a place to stay, you’re straight. Food prices can vary. I pretty much survive off of bento from convenience stores because it’s cheap and I can’t cook. Still, you should be good as long as you’re not looking to eat nice restaurants all the time.
Utilize the train system if you don’t have any other transportation. Cabs get expensive really fast. Currently, the exchange rate doesn’t favor USD too much. It’s like 75 JPY to the dollar. It adds up.
Other than that, hit up Yokohama, go to the wangan if you get the chance, venture out to Saitama and see some real touge, check the street drifting in Odaiba. Tokyo is pretty epic.
RYUKYU SOUL IS OFFICIALLY UP!
Feel free to follow the tumblr photoblog where we repost anyone on tumblr repping car culture in Okinawa.
Peace.
Be creative with your car, don’t follow everyone else with what’s “IN..” Be different, stick out.. Don’t blend in(;
But most of all, do what you want.. And less of what others say not to do.
Ryukyu Soul Site Launch (Hours Away)
If all goes well, the Ryukyu Soul should be up and published by the end of the day, right before my flight to Thailand.
I’m looking forward to the feedback (good or bad).
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fameONE: 2012 and Beyond
Normally when I go on an unplanned hiatus for a such a long time, I have something going on in my life that tragically keeps me away from the computer and the world of tumblr. That’s not the case these days. I haven’t been on the computer much, but I’ve been on twitter and Google+ like it’s going out of style. Simply put, I haven’t been home. The operational tempo of my day job has picked up to the point where I’m not in the office much, and after a while, I forgot that I have a bunch of social networking sites and blogs that I update. Good things are happening, though. fameONE is pleased.
I haven’t logged into Facebook in over a week and it feels good. It seems as though Facebook is this obnoxious tool that puts you in a position to appease others. It’s a world where there are always friends who have nothing to offer you whatsoever, and even though they aren’t friends at all, they linger around because of whatever connection you two may have had at whatever point in your life. That’s pretty fucking ridiculous, if I say so myself. Fuck you, Facebook. I don’t care that Google+ hasn’t picked up the same way, or that my mother can’t figure out how to use it. I prefer it.
I like this twitter thing. I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to really start using it. I don’t necessarily mean to neglect my tumblr, but the tumblr app on my phone crashes all the time. I can’t get it to update for the life of me. I’ve uninstalled the app, contacted tech support, went to a few different Android forums and to no avail, shit don’t work. That’s a bit of a disappointment. But not enough of a disappointment for me to care because other things in my life have taken priority.
My love life isn’t non-existent anymore. I won’t say anything beyond that because I really don’t want to jinx myself. Shorty right. I may have just found myself a good woman. This just in: bad bitches are upset.
So remember how I had all these elaborate plans to restore a AE86 and dump a ridiculous amount of money into the car just to get it stock? Remember how I was going to do this and use it as my daily driver despite the fact that parts for the car are expensive and difficult to come by, but I was going to do it anyway because I’m fucking stubborn and hard-headed? Well, I’m still going to restore the AE86 but I’m going about the entire thing far differently. No, she won’t be my daily, and no, I probably won’t be so focused in making her pretty. Instead of obsessing over every little nuance of the interior, I’ll make sure the engine, chassis and transmission are good so I can drive the shit out of it.
Oh, and I’ve been shamelessly listening to perhaps the most arrogant body of ‘work’ since Watch the Throne; Rick Ross’ Rich Forever. It’s amazingly well produced trash. That’s the best way I can describe it. And yet, I’m really enjoying listening to it over and over again.
Instead, I made an investment in Godzilla. I bought a GTR; BNR32GTR to be exact. I had a dream and it kind of went from there. In fact, there’s a lot more to it but I have a feeling that a lot of people would think I’m crazy if they knew that, me of all people, went after this car based off emotion and not logic or reason. That’s pretty unlike me, but after working on it, I feel as though I made the right choice. Getting it ready for the initial inspection is a pain in the ass, though. I wonder if I’ll pass with the welded rollcage? We’ll see.
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