It feels like strawberry flavour comes first and kiwi as an aftertaste.
Good job, Fanta!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Fanta beach
Interesting new flavour of Fanta has reached the UK market: Fanta beach! The flavour contains "strawberry and kiwi. What an interesting mix, but it sure tastes refreshing in this cold autumn.
It feels like strawberry flavour comes first and kiwi as an aftertaste.
Good job, Fanta!
It feels like strawberry flavour comes first and kiwi as an aftertaste.
Good job, Fanta!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Eneloop Mobile booster エネループ・スティック・ブースター
If you have ever run into a situation, where your gadgets are nearly out of battery and you don't have any chargers with you nor a change to charge in a long time, you may be interested in this. A while ago, I saw Jetdaisuke's videos about "Eneloop" rechargeable batteries, which claim to last for hours. Surprisingly, I found out that they have just updated their "mobile stick booster", which is a pencil-looking charger with two Eneloop batteries inside and usb port on the top. I surfed immeadiately to Amazon JP to look for this product, but it seemed to add up close to 4000円 with all the shipping and Tenso's fees. Pretty hefty price for a student.
Next step was to go on eBay and I couldn't believe my eyes, when I saw that you can get the Mobile booster for $25 including airmail shipping from Japan. I was little curious about the airmail shipping, but then again, I realized Japanese efficiency and it took only one week.
The value of the shipment was marked as only $10to avoid customs.
Finally to the point, what this Eneloop Mobile Booster actually is?
There you can see the size of it. Batteries included are the newer technology Eneloops, which will give you 90minutes of charging time for Nintendo DSi, iPhone, PSP and other mobile devices. It came with two adapters, micro-usb and "nintendo-ds style usb".
Next step was to go on eBay and I couldn't believe my eyes, when I saw that you can get the Mobile booster for $25 including airmail shipping from Japan. I was little curious about the airmail shipping, but then again, I realized Japanese efficiency and it took only one week.
The value of the shipment was marked as only $10
Finally to the point, what this Eneloop Mobile Booster actually is?
There you can see the size of it. Batteries included are the newer technology Eneloops, which will give you 90minutes of charging time for Nintendo DSi, iPhone, PSP and other mobile devices. It came with two adapters, micro-usb and "nintendo-ds style usb".
^ charging in progress
To conclude, I believe that this tiny little charger is easy to carry in a bag, just in case if the battery is running out. It will sure come handy especially, when traveling!
For further info:
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
iPhone 4S
iPhone 4S is now officially released and Apple sold 4 million in 3 days!
Well, I know, its just a phone (= personal preference/asset), so I'm not going to praise it anymore. You can check all the features from the original source The reason I got it, was that I already got a buyer for my old phone and got unlocked 4S for relatively cheap price.
However, the exciting part is that I finally own a portable camera, which allows me to take nicer pictures and ジェットダイスケ will probably introduce nice apps and lenses to go with it.
I have been keeping up a photoblog of "Wall of Energy drinks" on my private facebook page, but since it has rapidly become popular, I'm going to introduce a new blog, only for energy drinks. It will be kept apart from my カリカレー blog, so that I can focus more on Japanese things here (which I haven't done much in these days) :sadface
Anyways, here's a sample of future:
Well, I know, its just a phone (= personal preference/asset), so I'm not going to praise it anymore. You can check all the features from the original source The reason I got it, was that I already got a buyer for my old phone and got unlocked 4S for relatively cheap price.
However, the exciting part is that I finally own a portable camera, which allows me to take nicer pictures and ジェットダイスケ will probably introduce nice apps and lenses to go with it.
I have been keeping up a photoblog of "Wall of Energy drinks" on my private facebook page, but since it has rapidly become popular, I'm going to introduce a new blog, only for energy drinks. It will be kept apart from my カリカレー blog, so that I can focus more on Japanese things here (
Anyways, here's a sample of future:
Happy Halloween everyone!
Thursday, September 29, 2011
JLPT 2011
This year's second JLPT will be held in numerous countries on December the 11th. I will personally be attending at London's exam venue, at the N5 corner. The reason why I chose not to take N4, was that I'm currently having my final year in university as an undergraduate student, and in that sense, the workload needs to be balanced.
The exam will be held in University of London's school of Oriental and African studies department and the fee for all the levels of JLPT is £70. The closing date for all the applications is 6th October, nevertheless, a maximum of 900 candidates will be allowed.
Now I just need to get hold of my books, which were left in Finland, because of airlines' baggage weight limits.
Hopefully this time next year I will be studying for the N3 exam. But now, back to studies..
Friday, September 2, 2011
Paketti Amerikasta!
Jeah, elikkä Irenestä ja mahdollisesta konkurssista huolimatta Amerikan posti USPS jaksaa vieläkin toimittaa lähetykset perille saakka samalla luottamuksella kuin aina ennenkin. Halvin kansainvälinen vaihtoehto, eli First class International on erittäin kustannustehokas ja varma toimitustapa Amerikan tilauksiin. Eri osapuolilla on aina omat näkemyksensä toimitusajoista, mutta allekirjoittaneella kaikki lähetyksen ovat tulleet perille aina n. viikon kuluessa lähetyksestä.
Tässä paketin sisältöä:
Valitettavasti mitään näistä tuotteista ei ollut saatavilla Suomessa, joten tilasin alunperin tyttöystävän osoitteeseen Epic mealtime ja Deadmau5 t-paidat. Bonuksena hän oli lisännyt pakettiin Starbucks caramel sekä harvinaista Commonplacen Kolumbia kahvia.
Luvassa on siis mukavaa vaihtelua perinteisiin Suomalaisiin kahveihin. Caramel on luonnollisesti hieman makeutettua kahvia ja Kolumbialainen taas erittäin aromikasta luomukahvia. Suosittelen Amerikan matkaajille!
Tässä paketin sisältöä:
Valitettavasti mitään näistä tuotteista ei ollut saatavilla Suomessa, joten tilasin alunperin tyttöystävän osoitteeseen Epic mealtime ja Deadmau5 t-paidat. Bonuksena hän oli lisännyt pakettiin Starbucks caramel sekä harvinaista Commonplacen Kolumbia kahvia.
Luvassa on siis mukavaa vaihtelua perinteisiin Suomalaisiin kahveihin. Caramel on luonnollisesti hieman makeutettua kahvia ja Kolumbialainen taas erittäin aromikasta luomukahvia. Suosittelen Amerikan matkaajille!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Epic Mealtime shirt
Epic mealtime has now restocked all their shirts! I couldn't help myself anymore, and ordered one of their new designs, called: "crazy alcohol rainbow pig".
Friday, July 29, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thai Cube valmisateria
Olen jo pitkään nähnyt Thai Cube nimellä brandattyjä valmisruoka-aterioita kauppojen pakastealtaassa. Kuitenkaan varojen niukkuuden vuoksi en ole ennemmin päässyt kokeilemaan niitä ennenkuin nyt, kun ne olivat lidlissä hieman vajaat 3 euroa.
Makuja on saatavilla tällä hetkellä jo seitsemän erilaista, mutta päädyin kuitenkin ostamaan Sweet & Sour aterialla valmistetun kuution, sillä se on ollut jo pitkän ajan yksi parhaista Kiinalaisista aterioista ainakin näin omasta mielestäni.
Olin varsin yllättynyt kyseisen herkun mausta - tämähän oli ihan samanlaista kuin Kiinalaisissa ravintoloissa. Amerikassa vaihto-oppilaana ollessani tuli käytyä erittäin paljon Aasialaisissa ravintoloissa, sillä niitä löytyi melkein joka kaupungista varsin hyvään hintaan (yleensä 6 dollarin paikkeilla).
Annoskoko on suht sopiva keskivertonälkään, mutta suosittelen näitä ennemmin välipaloiksi. En ole varmaan koskaan ennemmin syönyt yhtä autenttisemman makuista valmisateriaa ja kaikenlisäksi riisikin on "oikeanlaista" eikä vain nopeasti kattilalla keitettyä!
Makuja on saatavilla tällä hetkellä jo seitsemän erilaista, mutta päädyin kuitenkin ostamaan Sweet & Sour aterialla valmistetun kuution, sillä se on ollut jo pitkän ajan yksi parhaista Kiinalaisista aterioista ainakin näin omasta mielestäni.
Annoskoko on suht sopiva keskivertonälkään, mutta suosittelen näitä ennemmin välipaloiksi. En ole varmaan koskaan ennemmin syönyt yhtä autenttisemman makuista valmisateriaa ja kaikenlisäksi riisikin on "oikeanlaista" eikä vain nopeasti kattilalla keitettyä!
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
New shipment of Amazon.co.jp Danbo's has been delayed
I pre-ordered a Amazon.co.jp edition of famous Danbo few weeks ago for 1000円.
As of today they have been sold out, but some more expensive ones are still available.
These Danbos were supposed to be shipped first by end of July, then it changed to 18-20th of July, but now they have been delayed. Sadly, I got this email today:
English follows Japanese（最後に英語でのご案内があります)Amazon.co.jpをご利用いただき、ありがとうございます。誠に申し訳ありませんが、ご注文いただいた以下の商品の入荷遅延により、お届け予定日を変更させていただきました。
当初予定していたお届け予定日までにお客様のご注文商品をお届けできなかったことをお詫びいたします。現時点での最新のお届け予定日は以下のとおりです。 "リボルテック ダンボー・ミニ Amazon.co.jpボックスバージョン" お届け予定日: 2011-08-01 - 2011-08-03 商品は引き続き入荷できるよう手配しますが、万が一、仕入先から入荷の見込みがないことが判明した場合、またはご注文数が入荷数を上回った場合、 やむを得ずご注文をキャンセルさせていただくこともありますので、ご了承ください。 ご注文商品のキャンセルをご希望の場合は、アカウントサービス( http://www.amazon.co.jp/your-account )にてお客様ご自身でお手続きいただくか、 カスタマーサービス( http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/help/contact-us/cancelling-changing.html )までご連絡ください。 アカウントサービスからのキャンセル方法につきましては、以下のURLからご確認ください。 http://www.amazon.co.jp/cancel-howto/ Dear Customer: We have learned that there has been a delay with some of the item(s) in your order indicated above. When your order is shipped you will receive an e-mail message confirming the date, contents and method of shipment. このＥメールアドレスは配信専用です。ご不明な点は、下記のURLからカスタマーサービスまでお問い合わせください。 http://www.amazon.co.jp/contact-us/ Amazon.co.jp カスタマーサービス
Well, now theres going to be a little longer wait, but I guess its fine, since Danbo is quaranteed for everyone, who preordered! PS. I'm using Tenso's services for this order also.Deadmau5 Speaker
Here's a brief Jetdaisuke style review of a random electronic gadget.
Deadmau5, the artist, is Canadian dj/electronic music producer. Along with his newest album, 4x4=12, he started to design his own fan gear, including the usual t-shirt line, but surprisingly, gadgets also.
Today, I received his Speaker, which looks like this:
[Click for bigger pic]
His design can clearly be seen from the box itself, as it is filled with his quotations.
But the most astonishing feature of this speaker is, that you will have to plug the 3.5mm speaker cord right into its butt.
Instructions promise a battery life from 4 to 8 hours, which is remarkably good for such a small speaker. I've had this thingie only for an hour, so cannot really comment on that yet. I was also very satisfied with the audio quality - it really doesn't sound like cheaply made shady speaker, which doesn't take high volume, it sure gives pretty good value for its size and price (20$).
[Click for bigger pic]
The speaker comes with two cords, one has 3.5mm audio jack in both sides for listening, and another one has usb on the other side and 3.5mm audio jack in the other. That's for charging the speaker.
Overall I'm happy with this tiny speaker, as it enhances my iphone's speaker and now I can finally listen to music without headphones in public places ^^
Deadmau5, the artist, is Canadian dj/electronic music producer. Along with his newest album, 4x4=12, he started to design his own fan gear, including the usual t-shirt line, but surprisingly, gadgets also.
Today, I received his Speaker, which looks like this:
His design can clearly be seen from the box itself, as it is filled with his quotations.
But the most astonishing feature of this speaker is, that you will have to plug the 3.5mm speaker cord right into its butt.
Instructions promise a battery life from 4 to 8 hours, which is remarkably good for such a small speaker. I've had this thingie only for an hour, so cannot really comment on that yet. I was also very satisfied with the audio quality - it really doesn't sound like cheaply made shady speaker, which doesn't take high volume, it sure gives pretty good value for its size and price (20$).
The speaker comes with two cords, one has 3.5mm audio jack in both sides for listening, and another one has usb on the other side and 3.5mm audio jack in the other. That's for charging the speaker.
Overall I'm happy with this tiny speaker, as it enhances my iphone's speaker and now I can finally listen to music without headphones in public places ^^
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Tenso.com Step by [Finnish]
1. Siirry Tenson internetsivuille klikkaamalla tätä tai menemällä osoitteeseen www.tenso.com
5. 〒140-0002 on postinumero ja seuraavalla rivillä on osoite, mihin voit tilata haluamasi tuotteet Japanissa. Huom! Älä unohda tuota TS-XXXXX kohtaa pois tilauksestasi, sillä Tenson työntekijät tarvitsevat tuota tunnusta, jotta he pystyvät lähettämään paketin tiedot oikealle käyttäjälle.
2. Klikkaa "Free registration" kohtaa, jossa luodaan ilmainen Tenson käyttäjätili.
3. Seuraa Tenson englannin kielisiä ohjeita käyttäjätilin luomiseksi. Huom! Muistathan rekisteröityä sillä katuosoitteella, minne haluat tilaamasi tuotteet lähetettävän.
4. Kirjaudu Tenso.comiin uusilla tunnuksillasi, ja sinun pitäisi nähdä vastaava teksti:
（ Shipping address for online shopping ）
〒140-0002
東京都品川区東品川４－１３－３４－ＴＳXXXXX
（ Telephone number for online shopping ）
03-5739-3341
6. Kun paketti saapuu Tensolle, niin työntekijät tarkastavat sen ja lähettävät sitten sähköpostia, jossa on Paypal linkki maksua varten. Tenson oma palvelumaksu on 490円 ensimmäistä kiloa kohden ja maksutaulukon näkee tästä. Postikulut määräytyvät painon mukaan ja lähetysmuotona käytetään vain Japanin postin EMS pikapostia.
7. Sain omaan pakettiini seurantakoodin maanantai iltapäivänä ja postimies toi paketin jo keskiviikkoaamuna ennen yhdeksää perille.
Sekä tässä linkki kaverini onnistuneeseen tilaukseen.
Tenso.com Step by Step guide
1. Go to Tenso.com
2. Click "Free registration"
3. Follow their instructions for creating your account.
4. Log into your account and you should see something like this:
（ Shipping address for online shopping ）
〒140-0002
東京都品川区東品川４－１３－３４－ＴＳXXXXX
（ Telephone number for online shopping ）
03-5739-3341
5. The "TS XXXXX" is your own account number and you always need to include it in your shipping address, so that Tenso employee will know that its your parcel.
For example, if you are ordering from Amazon Japan,
you need to do it like this:
you need to do it like this:
6. Now you are pretty much good to go, all you need to do is to order shipping to your Tenso address, and they will email you a paypal link, where you can pay for their Service fee (from 490円) and the shipping cost to your home address.
7. After paying, wait for Tenso to email you with a shipment tracking code. My parcel was sent on Monday evening from Japan to Finland, and it I got it Wednesday morning.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Welcome
Hello everybody and welcome to my blog!
This blog is going to cover mostly trends and facts about Japanese culture, in the same way as my friend's Finnish blog. Sometimes randomly (in example, one of my favorites: Jetdaisuke), sometimes more officially, but still more or less about Japanese culture and language. However, I might add some posts of my 3rd university year in England.
But to begin with, here is going to be "how to" tutorials about ordering from Japan, cooking recipes and general posts about studying Japanese language.
Thank you for reading and よろしく
- - - カリカレー (karikaree) - - -
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Little update
The blog is still in its introductory state, but will be officially "released" in its official form anytime soon..
Thursday, June 30, 2011
[Test] Let's begin with.. Tenso.com and Japanese forwarding [Test]
Hello everybody and welcome to my new blog!
I'm going to do introduction post later on, because today's news are too hot. So, let's begin..
Few weeks ago, I was one of the international shoppers, browsing Japan's Amazon, but came across with the sad fact, that all the products cannot be shipped overseas. Why, I asked my self many times, why "did you have to do this to me".
...
I was in need of an official JLPT practice book. I knew, that the next fully international JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) wasn't going to be before later this year, but my desire of learning most of the Kanjis during the summer break was too high.
Anyways, I noticed that some of the products sure can be shipped overseas from Amazon Japan's warehouse, but they have a base price of 2500円 for the overseas shipping (at least for Europe).
But then,
I once read about having a physical address in U.S. by a proxy forwarder company and I tried to google it, if there would be a possibility for same kind of service for Japanese goods.
I couldn't believe myself, how popular proxy forwarding seemed to be. I felt like the majority of the Japanese language, culture and manga forums had good posts and reviews of these. (SUCCESS!!)
Anyways, let's keep the long story short:
I found out that this company called Tenso provides one of the cheapest and most reliable proxy services. In addition, it seems to belong to Japanese auction and market site, Rakuten.
I will post a step-by-step guide on how to use Tenso later, but basically after free registration they sent me an email, containing their warehouse's address. The last part of the address contains user's personal account number, so that they know how to contact you.
So, I ordered the goods to Tenso's address from the Amazon Japan. Within few hours, Amazon emailed me, that my goods were shipped and I got a tracking code. The shipping was completely free and it reached Tenso's warehouse in 2 days. Again, within few hours Tenso emailed me about my parcel and they provided me with a paypal link , where to pay their service fee and shipping fees.
Tenso's service fee starts from as low as 490円 for parcels up to 1kg and the shipping fees are the standard EMS fees. Tenso ships ordered parcels on a daily basis (excluding weekends and Japanese holidays).
At the moment I'm feeling like my first post became too long and there's much to improve for future blogging. But to conclude, there are many different proxy companies in Japan, which will ship your goods overseas. Just remember, that some of them will order the goods for you (for extra cost), but the cheapest way is to order the goods by yourself and only pay for lowest service fee and shipping fees.
But now,
stay tuned for more from カリカレー
I'm going to do introduction post later on, because today's news are too hot. So, let's begin..
Few weeks ago, I was one of the international shoppers, browsing Japan's Amazon, but came across with the sad fact, that all the products cannot be shipped overseas. Why, I asked my self many times, why "did you have to do this to me".
...
I was in need of an official JLPT practice book. I knew, that the next fully international JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) wasn't going to be before later this year, but my desire of learning most of the Kanjis during the summer break was too high.
Anyways, I noticed that some of the products sure can be shipped overseas from Amazon Japan's warehouse, but they have a base price of 2500円 for the overseas shipping (at least for Europe).
But then,
I once read about having a physical address in U.S. by a proxy forwarder company and I tried to google it, if there would be a possibility for same kind of service for Japanese goods.
I couldn't believe myself, how popular proxy forwarding seemed to be. I felt like the majority of the Japanese language, culture and manga forums had good posts and reviews of these. (SUCCESS!!)
Anyways, let's keep the long story short:
I found out that this company called Tenso provides one of the cheapest and most reliable proxy services. In addition, it seems to belong to Japanese auction and market site, Rakuten.
So, I ordered the goods to Tenso's address from the Amazon Japan. Within few hours, Amazon emailed me, that my goods were shipped and I got a tracking code. The shipping was completely free and it reached Tenso's warehouse in 2 days. Again, within few hours Tenso emailed me about my parcel and they provided me with a paypal link , where to pay their service fee and shipping fees.
Tenso's service fee starts from as low as 490円 for parcels up to 1kg and the shipping fees are the standard EMS fees. Tenso ships ordered parcels on a daily basis (excluding weekends and Japanese holidays).
At the moment I'm feeling like my first post became too long and there's much to improve for future blogging. But to conclude, there are many different proxy companies in Japan, which will ship your goods overseas. Just remember, that some of them will order the goods for you (for extra cost), but the cheapest way is to order the goods by yourself and only pay for lowest service fee and shipping fees.
But now,
stay tuned for more from カリカレー
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