Line up for Uniqlo

To celebrate its 26th anniversary Japanese value-priced retailer is having a Twitter-based promotion. Uncle Swint (aka @ListenLearnLead) is the 74756 person in the Uniqlo Lucky Line. That's me in the gray outfit.

Naohiko Umewaka--Noh Master

Naohiko Umewaka--Noh Master@TEDxTokyo

Photo: Flickr shugo01

Thank you for pot smoking

Taken by my friend Mance.

District 9

Uncle Swint saw District 9 on the way home from Cape Town. It's reminiscent of the 1985 movie Brazil, in that I didn't understand that either. Rent it, as you will want to replay some scenes. Shown here the Tokyo poster.

One World. One Dream. We are all Red now.

08.08.08

Eight being a lucky number, the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics began at 8:08PM on August 8, 2008. And what a beginning it was.

Uncle Swint is back

After a one year absence from this blog, Uncle Swint is back. AND... Uncle Swint has move to a new house, Roppongi Hills bandit no more.

This is a view of the sun setting behind Mt. Fuji, taken from my back window.