Super Predicament!

Just in case a there were some people out there living under a freaking rock on Mars. The amazing game called the "SUPER BOWL" is on Sunday. This game is going to be awesome. And what makes it that much better is that my favorite team the New York football GIANTS are playing. So in order for me to watch this game that starts at 7:30am on Monday morning in Japan. I had to make a "super" decision! So I asked for the day off! haha So I will be watching the game live along with you in my apartment! So do me a favor and root for those underdogs the NY Giants! Just to pump you up a bit, here are a few videos about the Giants this season. Enjoy and comment por favor. Actually if you are a Patriots fan don't comment because I don't care haha. J/k See ya :)

peace

vince

p.s. no shout outs haha ;)

p.s.s. neil i think you will love the ridiculously epic songs on these videos. they send chills up my spine. i feel like i am about to enter the dungeon of the great sorcerer of azeroth, fully equipped with my righteous blade of destiny. lol

No Love!

Hello everybody! So it has just come to my attention that I have not been spreading the "love" on my blog to many faithful readers. I have to use this really old school response "my bad". I didn't realize that I had not been busting shout outs to my peeps. So I'm sorry about that y'all. I will try to give "shout outs" more often. In the mean time keep on reading my amateur blog and comment! :P

p.s. lynn - how about them pineapples, stop listening to power 102!

mar - red rings suck, did ya get burnout paradise? oh man?

manny - you stopped reading? sad times? btw i hate the cowboys :)

familia - hi, i've been in japan for almost 7 months and had like 3 comments wow haha :)

neil - hey are you getting cold feet yet ?? j/k :D

june - thx for the email

val - hey if i dont go home for spring break then you can expect me in tokyo to see you WOOT!!!

Cooking Papa

Have you ever played the Nintendo DS game called cooking mama? Well I think that you could make a new game called "cooking papa" with me in it. The only problem is that the will probably suck... Today I made my first real attempt to make some "japanese" food. I attempt to make...Curry Rice! It didn't come out so well, so I think I will give up on making anything except spaghetti! haha

Anyway, I had a pretty good weekend. There were some interesting moments and some pretty dull ones. But hey that's just the way things go sometimes. I had a lesson this morning with a teacher that I will just name "jackie". Well Jackie never talks to me or asks me what is going on in the class. Last week Jackie was absent twice and she didn't even ask me what I did for the class those two days. So lately I have just been going into the class and doing whatever I want. Now, I'm having my students create a dialogue. It is really fun and they are enjoying it. It's so hard to understand how mediocrity is excepted so much in Japan. Ok check this out. Do you know what the minimum passing grade at my school is? A 40! Yes that's right 40! In the USA, a passing score is 70. So basically a student can pretty much fail everything except 1 test and they can pass. Unbelievable... anyway enough of my bitching... I hope you are having a great week. Take care

peace

vince

Computer Love

This week my buddy Tom and I went to the oh so famous DenDen town in Namba. If I translated this to Japanese, it basically means Electric Town. Unlike the monstrosity that is Akihabara in Tokyo, DenDen town is like a poor mans Akihabara. But I digress, the whole point of the trip was to find a new hard drive for my notebook. After strolling through a few "geek filled" shops. We landed on this beauty of a shop called Takumoto (or something like that). I found myself a nice 160 gb hard drive for my notebook. I was set back a bit of cash but I was able to fix my computer. Well obviously since I am writing in my blog right now. Afterwards, we went walking around Namba in search of something very delicious to eat. In Osaka, there are so many restaurants that it becomes difficult to find somewhere to eat. Simply because there are too many choices. We made a random swift turn onto a street and looked up and saw a restaurant called "HUB". This discovery made us slightly sad. You see, when we went to Tokyo we went to this really cool English Style pub. We thought it was really cool that we found a cool original place in Tokyo by ourselves. This "pub" was called "HUB". So basically we found out that it is like a Applebee's back in the states...sad times...

Anyway, this week has been quite rainy and cold. I've been hard at work downloading all sorts of music to build up my library again. Losing 6,000 songs really sucks by the way.

I have a holiday from March 15 to April 7. It looks like I will be heading back to El Paso if I can afford the ticket. So I'll let you all know whats going on in a few weeks. Well I will be back soon with some new pics hopefully and more stories.

peace

vince

p.s. Nobody is giving the Giants a chance, but that is good. They will surprise everybody.

p.s. Mr.driller is not dig dug!

Happy and Sad

Ok everybody, I have a bunch of news! First off I'm really really happy that my favorite team the New York Football Giants made it to the SUPER BOWL!!! Finally going to take down those damn Patriots!! GO GMEN!!!

Anyway, I had a good weekend until Saturday night. I went out with this really sweet and nice girl. We had a great time, but when I got home from the day I turned on my computer and it didn't work. My freaking Hard Drive is shot! I have no idea how that happened but all my information is gone! All my pics of japan, all my music 6000songs, all my lesson plans EVERYTHING!!! My friend Tom and I are going to try and recover the information. I have to send my computer back to HP in the USA. This really sucks, but they will fix it for free! I will be without a computer and skype for a while guys!

OK thats not the end, last night I decided I wanted to play some Call of Duty 4 on my xbox 360. I started to play and about 5 mins in, my xbox just gave out. Then when I turned it back on, I got what all xbox owners fear... Three flashing red lights!! The red ring of DEATH!!!! My fucking XBOX died too!!!!!!! So basically in a period of less than 24 hours almost 3000 dollars worth of equipment were rendered useless. Damn I just couldnt believe it! Insane.... well anyway I will have to send my xbox back to the usa, and they will also fix that for free! I hope that it will be done very fast. Well I hope you are all doing fine, and if you want talk or email just send it to my phone. vnovoa@softbank.ne.jp because I dont have anything... well talk to you soon I hope you are doing good. see you later

peace

vince

Cloverfield in theaters Friday!

Please go see this movie for me, since I can't see it. I hope it will be so awesome. Eventually I will see it though, so come back and talk about it on my blog! :) see ya

peace

vince

Good times!

Well the Giants beat the pesky Cowboys. I'm pretty happy about it. Next week is going to be a good game. If the Giants lose to the Packers I actually won't mind because I would like to see Brett Favre win! That doesn't mean I am going to be all nice though! YOUR GOING DOWN PACK! ... I hope :) Well back to work tomorrow, see you!

peace

vince

p.s sorry mrs. joyce :)

Come on Giants!

Big games this Sunday (Monday for me)! Come on NY Giants, beat those pesky Cowboys! Be back later with post game reaction! :)

peace

vince

weekend!

Hello! Well it's Friday night here in Osaka. I had a pretty good week. There was some unfortunate news but everything is going to be ok.

Today was nice because the senior students at MHS had their final presentations. I went to all of my students presentations. I was running around the whole school to see them! :) They were so happy to see that I took the time to see them. I was noticing while listening to their speeches, I know a lot of Japanese. Well my listening ability is quite high. When I try to speak I forget it all, but with a few more months of practice I will be good I hope. I even answered a few questions that they were asking to me in Japanese. One of my students presentations was on the different type of bicycles. I was so suprised how great it was. He did an awesome job. Another student talked about Jazz music and played a song with his guitar after. I was very impressed today. The only thing that sucked was right when I was about to go home it started to pour rain! :) haha of course I had no umbrellas but I did have my trusty LL Bean jacket.

This weekend will be pretty quiet. I don't have anything to do. I will probably head to my friend Tom's place to play some Rock Band on 360. Next week is the return of Happy Time party. I am excited about it. Me and Tom have a plan to start going out more and meeting new people. We are going to start going into random places that are out of our comfort zone! Kinda like what we did in Tokyo! :) We'll see how that goes. Anyway that is it for now. I don't have much to talk about. Glad you continue to stop by and read the blog, I appreciate it you know. Well talk to you soon

peace

vince

p.s. val- i'm not sure if i have spring break but i will definitely meet u in japan just keep me informed.
p.s.s. june - yeah it was, but i was told the "friend" line so thats just the luck i usually have. how was ep? メール　ください

Questions

Hello everybody! How are you all doing on this fine week?

I am trying to adjust to being back at work after what felt like an eternal vacation or holiday. I'm sure many of you are getting back to work as well. I guess it takes a few days to readjust. I hope you all do great!

Well lately I have been thinking about my life in Japan. I really like it here, but after my trip to Tokyo I have a few questions. I feel like after my contract is up in July, I want to move to the Tokyo area. If I can find a good job of course, but if not I will most likely stay in Osaka. Yes, I know some of you will probably think I'm crazy. Of course this is all up in the air. I'm just giving some thought into it. If I don't end up moving to Tokyo, then I want to move into Osaka city.

Anyway, I've been trying to study Japanese lately. Probably because I have nothing better to do with my time than sit around at my desk. Sometimes it makes my head start to hurt! (~-~) Well I hope all is well with you all. I don't really have much to say today. Thanks for all the comment lately. It is nice to see! Oh and Val, yes I'll meet you in Japan. It's messed up you picked your friend over me though!! j/k hahah Hey maybe I can check out Taiwan!! Let me know your plans k. Goodbye everybody and I will talk to you soon. FTW!!! Oh yeah and Dad good luck with the paint job! Your el camino is going to look so awesome! FINALLY! :)

peace

vince


p.s. mom unfortunately back to work and school, but hey in 5 months it will be all over !! WOOT!!!

Back from Tokyo

Hey everybody! So I just got back from my little trip with tom and jackie that was unfortunately too short to Tokyo. I didn't want to leave for various reasons, but there was a one big reason.(^_^) Anyway, I had a wonderful time. I saw Mai and we did a lot of fun things. We even went to a "maid cafe" it was very bizarre, but it was an experience. I think I was able to appreciate Tokyo more because I can actually read the signs. If you don't know I went to Tokyo about 3.5 years ago. It was my first time back since that time. It only took about 2.5 hours to get there from Osaka, on the famous Shinkansen bullet train. There are so many pics here. Please enjoy, I will call some of you soon. I miss you!

peace

vince

Off to Tokyo

I hope you all are having a great week. My week has been pretty good. I watched the Sugar Bowl yesterday. I was rooting for Hawaii but damn they got destroyed, oh well they still had a good season.

I just wanted to let you know that I am going to Tokyo this morning. I will go to visit my friend Mai. I am so excited! I'm not taking my computer so I will not be able to post or call until I get back on Sunday night. I might send a post through my cell phone so perhaps look for that. Have a great week and I will talk to you soon. Pics will be up soon ok! :)

peace

vince

Happy New Year Everybody!

Hey everybody! I'm sorry I haven't been posting much. I guess you could call me a slacker. Anyway, I wanted to wish everybody a Happy New Year. Japan is one of the first places in the world to celebrate the new year. I hope that 2008 brings you health, happiness, and prosperity. I still can't believe that it's already 2008. I remember I used to talk with my little brother back in the day about how I would buy a "hover-board" in 2008. Haha Time goes by really fast.

Last night was really great. I went with a few of my friends to a bar called tin's hall. There was a countdown party with music and just good times. If someone had told me that for the new years eve 2008 I would be hanging out in Japan with 2 South Africans and a Japanese girl in Osaka, I would have laughed. That's exactly what happened! The really awesome thing was that the trains ran all night. Normally they stop around 12am, but last night they ran 24hrs. I came home about 2:30am, and it was so freezing. Anyway, we drank a lot and listened to good music.

Well, this is the first of hopefully many posts in 2008. I hope to see you all coming back to the blog. This should be a good year, I sure hope so. Take care tonight with whatever you are doing. Remember, take a taxi! BYE!!!!

peace
vince

vinceinosaka FIRST!!!!! your going to love this! my friends and I made this video of the rafting trip we had in Tokushima Japan. Enjoy !!!!











here is a vid of the band last night



i love this song




here is a little video montage of music from japan of december 2007 enjoy

Merry New Year! :)

Hello everybody! It's been a while since I have posted but the past few days have been a bit dull. Oh before I start I put some new songs in the music player at the bottom. The new ones are the songs after the Halo song.....anyway

I hope everybody had a great Christmas, or Festivus or whatever you celebrate. Mine was ok, I just went to eat turkey dinner at a foreigner restaurant. The funny thing was that there were almost no foreigners! :) This weekend I am going out with this gir l named Mayuka. I met her at (of all places) Starbucks. I'm looking forward to that ;). There really is not any elaborate celebrations for Christmas like back in the states. So there was really nothing to do. It's ok though I talked to my family and friends and played a lot of xbox.

Let me know the details on how your holiday was! What are you doing for New Years? As for me probably nothing but I will try and find something going.

I want to say thanks to all the people who have consistently viewed my blog, left comments and just been a fan. I appreciate it! Sometimes I think that nobody is really even reading this thing, and that my attempt at making a cool blog is completely futile. Your comments help me think otherwise. If you have any suggestions shoot them my way please. I want this to be somewhere cool, so please give me some ideas. Well take care everybody, listen to some of the music and just be careful. I miss you all! SEE YA!

peace

vince


ps: who's coming to visit me? anybody?

Good times!

Hey all! I had a good Friday! It was the last day of school for this year. We took some pics of my classes. I also went to the end of year school party downtown for all the teachers! I had such a good time. The food was awesome and I drank a bunch of beer. Actually everybody drank a bunch of beer. Afterwards we went to a bar that I know. It was so much fun. Tonight I'm going with my buddy Tom from New York to eat a burger. I hope you all are doing good, take care! Miss you!

peace

vince

Plain Day

Well this week is really going by fast! Payday was Monday so thats great. I had a great dinner last night and today I only have 1 class. So I guess it's all good right now. Thanks to everybody for the virtual presents as I said before. I have been getting a bunch lately!

This Friday is the end of year party at work. There is a bunch of hype about this party going around the school. Well at least I think it's hype, I can't exactly understand everything. haha Last night I was playing a game mass effect. Oh man I started to play about 6pm after dinner. I was so engrossed in the game that I didn't finish until about 12am. I had no clue what time it was while I was playing it was pretty funny. Well there is nothing exciting going on right now, so I will be back soon with some more updates ok! I promise!

peace

vince

**good luck mom on you exam, you will kick that exam's ass!
**lynn and mar~good luck haha
**cynthia ~ finally made it on the website! thanks! (^-^)
**hi julia haha
**thanks dan i got an email about the shipping
**hi everybody else! how are you doing?

Karaoke time

Hey everybody! I just got home from karaoke with my neighbor, her kids and a friend of mine! It was so much fun. Afterwards we went to eat dinner, and after that we went to play arcade games. We all took pictures in a Print Club machine. Here are some of the pics! Well I hope you all are doing good! Thanks to lynn and marcel for putting me on webcam to see the party. I hope it was really nice! Talk to you all soon ok! BYE!!!!

peace

vince

Hi sorry for the long delay

Hello everybody! I'm really sorry for not writing anything lately. The honest truth is that there really hasn't been anything worth writing about. It's been really bone chilling cold out here lately. Every morning I ride my bike to school which is a bit unpleasant, but I have gloves and other gear so it's not so bad. School is going pretty good. Next week is the last week this year. The students are ready for a break. Frankly, so am I. Although I'm not really looking forward to the break because I don't think I'm doing anything. It's going to suck this Christmas. I don't really think that Japanese people want to invite foreigners to hang out with them on Christmas. Well at least I haven't got any invitations or anything. Oh well whatever, it's all good.

Next Friday there is a party for my work, called a bonenkai. It's apparently a party for the end of the year. It will be held at this fancy hotel in downtown Osaka. It should be pretty fun I guess. I will be going with one of the Japanese teachers, she is new and by some bizarre reason we got set up. It will be cool, I'm looking forward to it. Tomorrow I will be going to Karaoke and dinner with my neighbor and her friends. I really need to do some Karaoke, you can get a lot of stress out by singing some good songs.

What are some of your plans for the holidays? Let me know what some of you are going to be doing? I'd be thrilled to know! :)

I wanted to say congratulations to my cousins Lynn and Melanie. They are graduating Saturday December 15, 2007 from UTEP! I'm so proud of them for their achievements! You rock! Oh and also to Lynn for dealing with all sorts barricades put in her life and not letting them stop her!!! YAY! Two more special family members will be graduating in May 08! So that rocks too!!

Oh yeah, thanks again to everybody for my virtual Christmas presents! I'm really enjoying them. OK well I will be going now, I will see some of you on web cam soon at my cousins graduation party back in El Paso! I can't wait! See you all I miss you!

peace

vince

p.s. Happy BIRTHDAY TERESA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

p.s.s. Hi Millie and jigga I freaking miss you guys! :`(

Back from a good day!

Well today was great! I went to my co workers house to eat lunch. It was great we ate SOOOOOOO MUCH! Talked, played games, and just had a great time. Here are some pics of today! I will be back soon with some more stuff! See you! :)

peace

vince

thanks for the presents everybody! very nice of you :)