NO ???, NO LIFE

All of you patriotic Americans who cares about the future of our country, don't forget to vote next Tuesday! Unfortunately I didn't have enough time and resources to arrange my absentee ballot, so if Obama loses by one vote, it would be my fault. Watch the video below to encourage yourself to vote! It's actually a good strategy to make people vote for Obama...



Tower Records, a retail music chain based in Sacramento, California, had a great marketing success in Japan by using the phrase "no music, no life." It is a simple yet brilliant phrase to make people go crazy about music (and buy CDs from them). Recently there was an interesting internet-based survey done, asking people what they would put into this phrase instead of music. Here is the result.

1. No Music, No Life
2. No Money, No Life
3. No Love, No Life
4. No Internet, No Life
5. No Rice, No Life
6. No Sweets, No Life
6. No Book, No Life
8. No Coffee, No Life
9. No Trip, No Life
10. No Mobile, No Life
11. No Sports, No Life
12. No Pet, No Life
13. No Game, No Life
14. No Meat, No Life
15. No Curry, No Life
16. No Anime, No Life
17. No Ramen, No Life
18. No Karaoke, No Life
19. No Dress, No Life
20. No 2Channel, No Life (2 channel is an infamous Japanese internet forum for any topics that you can think of)

Personally, I am surprised by the fact that curry (15th) beat ramen (17th)...I would definitely vote for ramen in this case. For those of you who never even heard about ramen, it's an extremely tasty yet inexpensive Japanese noodle soup, which originated in China. Instant ramens sold in American supermarkets taste absolutely terrible, but the kind you can get from a good ramen restaurant in Japan is priceless. I'm even considering to go back to Japan for my future career only to gain an easy access to tasty Japanese food like ramen.

And it's kinda sad that Money took the second place over Love, isn't it?