Plunging Into the Curry Bowl "in Style"

I found a site on the internet that makes custom suits. You measure everything yourself, choose the material, the style... and pray.

I ordered a linen suit (black), an irish linen suit (grey), and a rayon/polyester suit (pinstripe dark brown).

The English on the site was a little different from NA English. When I looked at the company information, I discovered they are in India. That's OK because India has a long history wit fabric and tailors.

The price blew me away. So I thought I would take a gamble and see what I get. (Yes, that cheap!) Last year I found some shops in Japan that would make a custom suit for me but I wasn't happy with the material (I need thin suits, never ever ever winter-weight material.) The Japanese price is about JPY70,000 for one custom suit. I dislike wearing the same thing a couple times a week so that price was out.

I'll keep you in the loop.

I love you!
Cam

Friday's Menu

I'm on my way to Kobuchizawa. It's Friday, Not Monday so what the heck?! right? The schedule changed a bit and we juggled the 4th Monday to the 4th Friday instead.

And that means...

A different lunch menu!

No fry teishoku today so instead I'm having...

Oh! A lovely businesswoman just sat at my table for lunch ... so I chatted her up! Her husband studied English in Victoria BC, they went to Vancouver, Banff and Niagara Falls for their honeymoon, and she oks in sales in the food service industry.

How did I start it all off? Well, knowing that she would think it was cold, I said to her, "It's finally starting to cool off..." and away we went from there talking about low pressure zones, typhoons, and nihongo ga jouzu desu ne conversations.

Sitting outside the station now enjoying the cool breeze as I wait a bit before heading into the pits of hell to catch my train for the mountains.

Ive got my (fake) leather jacket with me. I dont need it now so Im carrying it. But tonight waiting for the train the wind will be cold off the mountains on both sides, it will be strong, and the temperature will likely be about 8C or so therefore one layer won't quite cut it.

Have a great day!

I love you!
Cam

P.S. If you find some double yous W missing, just fill them in for me, will you, please? Ive done so much typing on this keitai over the year that that key seems to have gotten a wee bit... desensitized. It gets skipped a fair bit these days.

Interested in spending a month living in Tokyo? Get an idea on "monthly mansions for foreigners" prices by watching my new YouTube Video: "The Big Question: How much?" @ http://youtu.be/bNb4X9tnRzA. You can probably find more expensive and cheaper places, but I thought I would share two options with you!

All My YouTube Videos (& Jen Birthday Greeting)

I think this is really cool.

A fellow on YouTube actually just finished watching ALL of my videos (all 450 - 447 actually!). Let me say that again... He just finished watching ALL 447 of my videos on my YouTube Channel!!!!

He wrote me today to tell me that it took months, but he finally finished.

That's really really cool.

He plans to come to Japan and tour around for three weeks at some time in the not too distant future. He said he loves my channel because of all the other videos on Japan, I seem to show life here from a completely different and very captivating angle. He loves the way things look in "My Japan".

Then he asked exactly where I lived in Fukui so I pulled up a link on Google Maps (it's been updated since the last time I looked; updated quite a bit!) I grabbed that link, and then also grabbed a link to where I live now (unfortunately it looks like I live in an empty lot now).

If you want to get a good idea of how different my life is, visit this Google Map Link to see where I live now:  http://goo.gl/maps/Qp6Q, and then visit THIS Google Map Link to see where I lived for the past 20 years before coming to Tokyo: http://goo.gl/maps/OSwM

You can zoom in or out as you like to get a better idea of how vastly different life is. Just by looking at these two maps you will see that EVERYTHING has changed. EVERYTHING.

I love you!

Have a wonderful Jen's Birthday October 23rd day!

Happy Birthday, Jen!
I love you!

The Fish Oil Wars

Fish Oil Supplements... Not good.  

The problem is, that in spite of all of the actual negative results with fish oil, many doctors and nutritionists continue to tout it as the be all to end all.

My mentor, Brian Peskin, over the years has been presenting a lot of research on the negative aspects of fish oil. But of course very few people listen. You can visit his Facebook page and become a fan, here, if you wish.

Here is a very current study with humans showing how fish oil DHA does NOT improve depression or cognition as many nutritionists and doctors claim.

Effect of DHA Supplementation During Pregnancy on Maternal Depression and Neurodevelopment of Young Children

The New York Times (thanks, Rob) posted an article leading to this result.

Fish Oil Use in Pregnancy Didn’t Make Babies Smart

However they also posted the opinions of doctors who resist this, and say they will continue to recommend.

They say in the news article above that, “There’s no harm that we know of at all, in contrast to many antidepressants,” and “And it might be of some help.”

Well, if you have read any of Professor Peskins work you KNOW the damage that fish oils can cause!

I will attach two of his recent PDFs for you to read and learn a bit more. Then you can do your own research if it interests you to look further. AND you can make your own decisions, but this time, they will be educated decisions. <-- Key Point!!

Time for dinner. I'm hungry!

I love you!
Cam

Attachment: App XIV Fish Oil and Cancer-3.pdf
Attachment: CAMB-Fish-Oil-Fallacies-Report.pdf

A New Head Condom... with Taste!

This morning I left home for Shinjuku an hour earlier than usual. I went to the bike shop I fell in love with and returned the mudguards I had purchased for my folding bike. The tires I have on it are bigger than standard so the guards don't fit. I don't really want to pay for another pair of tires just for the guards to fit so I guess that bike will be for non-rainy day rides.

Then I headed over to another very cool cycling shop which is full of even cooler stuff but not for hardcore bikers. It does have really technical clothing as the main fare. In fact they also sell cyclocommuter business suits which are made of special material for cycling and sweating, have hidden zippers for ventilation and reflective tape in foldaway places. And of course designed for the Japanese bodysize so not for me.

The reason I went back was because I decided on Saturday when I saw it that I really do want another helmet, one I can wear with jeans and a sweater as I toodle around the city. I'll stick to the lycra and colourful jerseys while riding with Max and sweating up a storm. But as for this city life... it's time for some more change and that includes what I wear when I ride. As I have been reinventing myself on all fronts over the past two years, inside and outside are equally important to redesign. So it is just natural that my cycling attire too would undergo a fundamental shift as well.

I introduce you to my new, fully functional and totally safe helmet, a design coming from the French Foreign Legion or something! I love it. And I love that I can change the outer design to about 30 other varieties whenever I feel like doing so.

I love you!
Cam

Seeking Serenity 7: Hamarikyu Onshi Teien, Part 2 http://t.co/2Bt5m74 is now showing!

Updated News on Colon Cancer

Are you interested in updating your ammunition chamber so that you can talk to people about the dangers of omega 3 fatty acids (eg. fish oil) and how taking large doses as the medical community and our governments are now recommending (WRONGLY) will actually lead to an INCREASE in cancer, rathre than good health?

Brian Peskin just published his most recent addition to his "The Hidden Story of Cancer" book which you can get at his website on www.brianpeskin.com.

Without going into details here, I'll let you download this EXCELLENT three page explanation of why everyone has got it wrong. Again.

And I hope this will sink in and be stronger than the indoctrination we are now starting to receive..

Good luck.

Attachment: App XIV Fish Oil and Cancer-3.pdf

Globalized Futon III Update: Upon following the tracking number, we see that it has been in Belgian customs for three days. All news ends on October 11th.

Listen to Your Stakeholders

Thank goodness The Gap decided to DUMP their new logo. Matt was right; it sucks! http://tinyurl.com/NewGapLogoSucks

Seeking Serenity VII: Hamarikyu Park, Part 1 now on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/camswitzer. Stay tuned for Part 2.

Rock Action Hero Matt ... Willis?

Don't you think that Bruce Willis in the latest super action guy movie is the spittin' image of our very own Rock Action Hero, Matt?

I do!

I love you, man!
Cam

Diesel Fuel II, or I like it tied up with a belt

Here is the belt I fell in love with @ DIESEL. It goes with my kilt perfectly as it adds a rough & tumble edge to the brown kilt. The black and brushed steel on the belt goes perfectly with my kilt!

I just read that DIESEL's biggest market is Japan... the store was aesome!

I also went into the Abercrombie & Fitch flagship store for the first time. The boys and girls working there are stunningly gorgeous. The boys all had their shirts open and you could see excellent pecs, six-pack abs and more one each and every one.

The perfume in the store is cloyingly pungent and you can smell the shop from blocks away. If you are sensitive to perfumes you will leave with a headache.

There are fourteen (14!) floors to this shop and the elevator stops ONLY on the 1st, 6th, 11th and 13th so you need to take the stairs if you want to see each floor.

It was a great experience and if I didn't already have too many winter jackets I would have gone home with one more before they start selling "Japan fit" and I can't get anything in my arm length any more (like so many of the popular American stores do here).

I'll keep searching for that man's knit shawl as it is perfect for my commute to work which is a short jaunt in the brisk air followed by a long, hot train ride.

I love you!
Cam

Diesel Fuel, or Kickass Cute in Ginza

This evening I headed to Ginza. I don't usually come here because I still have the Bubble image in my head... a place where the uber rich shop.

It's still full of the uber rich but these days it is a lot more accessible. The shops are gorgeous and all the brands are here along with more affordable shops as well.

My goal today was to visit DIESEL and see if they had a man's shawl that I saw in Kanazawa. I'm a hotbody so wearing a jacket to and from work in the winter is difficult for me here in Tokyo. I'd prefer to go in just my dress shirt but the wind is cool so I need a little more and that shawl/wrap was perfect. I didn't geit it in Kanazawa and it wasn't in DIESEL, unfortunately.

So... instead I left with these kickass leather boots an awesome belt that looks fantastic ith my kilt (black material with brown leather accessory strips and brushed matte steel rings (like you ould see as ringmail on a warrior in the SCA)) and a frikkin awesome minimal deep purple leather zip pouch to hold my train pass, alien registration card, apartment key and cash but nothing else.

I also visited an aesome Belgian pub and had a delicious belgian beer (that cost a pretty yen) with some fantastic sausages, prosciutto crudo and a cool salad.

I think I'm going to have to get the new i-Touch too... *drool-to-dehydration*.

It's a good thing I brought my credit card...
Here is a shot of the boots. I've been walking in them for five hours and not a single rub or pinch anywhere! I am glad I brought them!

I love you!

P.S. I'm worried... I liked everything in DIESEL and everything I tried on looked good on me...

Looking at the new iTouch.... OMG I want！

Has anybody read any thought-provoking, bust-a-gut hilarious books lately? I've been reading classics on my kindle until they are coming out of my wazoo. I need a break, but I'm not looking for fluff.

The 6kg (14lbs) of THE best cheese in the multiverse (Stravecchio) that I ordered from SOX in Italy after several years arrived tonight with no trouble at all! I am currently airing it out to bring it back to life. And then... in a few days... if I can last that long... I'm going to enjoy my first slice of something that truly rivals, if not bests... *gasp* Bacon!

A Gay Workplace is a Happy Workplace

"The strength of a business often depends on several factors: the core mission, how that mission is marketed, and who carries it out. When it comes to being profitable, studies show that the more diverse a company is, the more likely it is to succeed..."

Here's an interesting little article on the LGBT Workforce. I would love to hear the thoughts on the points in this article from my LGBT friends, or those who grew up with LGBT family members.

"Working While Gay" at: http://tinyurl.com/LGBTBusinesses

I Love You!
Cam

P.S. The title of the article is a little bit weird...

A Wagon Master Called Sue

Now that the Apple and Android phone systems are going head to head, and everyone wants in on the action, it looks like "suing" one another for patent infringements is going to keep the laywers in the black for a while to come. Let's all get on the bandwagon and Sue, sue, sue somebody!



Here's some news that looks like just one company suing another, but in fact there are three or four all intertwined with their lawsuits.



http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/10/04/daily60.html



Have a blast, and sue your asses off guys! In the end it all works out for the best for us, the consumer.



I love you!

Cam

"Sweet" Dreams

Since I have been consuming a very low amount of carbohydrates for the past ten years along with supplementing with YES supplement's correct blend of parent essential oils (Essentia Fatty Acids or EFAs) my body has become quite sensitive to the insulin spike that goes with the body trying to deal with sugars (Carbs).

I have done so much experimenting with foods and my body's response that I pretty much know what will happen when I consume certain kinds of carbs.

Take this one beer that I am pointing at for example. Beer is very high carb... the equivalent of eight tsp of sugar. Did you know your blood sugar is regulated strictly at about ONE tsp for the entire 4L of blood? Yep. Anything above that and you can die so the body protects you by pumping out insulin to remove the sugar before it enters the blood. How? It turns it to bodyfat. It makes you fat to save your life.

Now, after 10years I can drink very little beer compared to the earlier years. In most cases I simply dont want it. But if I DO drink it, it affects my mood by making me snarky. It affects my motor skills (one SMALL glass!), I get very dehydrated, my sleep is disrupted, I have bizarre insulin dreams and I wake up the next morning with cotton mouth.

Eating pasta has a completely different effect on me. Rice is again entirely different, and so on.

Did you ever stop to realize that food is actually a VERY powerful "hormone" that affects your body in a myriad of ways? Most people dont even realize that their moods are directly connected to the foods they eat. Go to Starbucks and watch a pair of calm, happy children consume a frappuccino and you will see exactly what I am saying. It happens to you and to me, too.

So the next time you are feeling irritated, sarcastic and grouchy just take a minute to step out of yourself and view you from a third person perspective. The chances are high that its not your partner, kids, friends who did something to piss you off, but rather your very own mood shift due to the carbohydrates you recently consumed.

I can say that I know for certain Stefnee and Jenny react this way on carbs, as do I. Check yourself and what you eat; you might just get a rude self-awakening.

Time to go home to weird dreams... Im having trouble typing already.

I love you!

Cam

Double the NoRice & Decreace the LowPrice!

Today on my way up the stairs from Shinjuku Stn I stopped at my new protein & vegetable consumption place (no more Mac) and instead of ordering one lunch (hold theendless rice refill) I ordered two! That means two breaded chicken cutlets, two salads, two bowls of miso soup, two... you get the picture. But no delicious, white, succulent Japanese rice (it dehydrates, bloats, and groggies me).

One lunch is not enough for me to hold me over until I eat my obento on the way home, as I have discovered the last few times.

So I doubled up today and it feels just right!
Then on top of than instead of paying an amazingly cheap 500yen for each lunch of this volume (plenty for most mortals) I only had to pay 350yen each! Wow!! What a great price for a sufficient quantity of delicious food that I'm sure will go the full eight hours.

Come to Japan and I'll gladly show you how to eat cheaply without killing yourself on high carb meals.

Off to Kobuchizawa. I haven't been there for several (3) weeks. I'm looking forward to the fresh mountain air.

Have a great Sunday night and Monday.

I love you!
Cam

My Third Globalized Futon video has been published. "Globalized Futon III: A shrinking world" can be viewed on my YouTube Channel here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdagnxR3sa8