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Watch my illicit little movie It's a traveling exhibition of individualized Moleskine notebooks by artsy types that you can fondle and admire - with white gloves. I've used a Moleskine for years - my favorite ones are the simple notebooks that come in packs of three and fit into the tightest jeans pocket. Guess what - they still tell you phone numbers and addresses even after your cellphone dies. The most memorable one - on fast glance because unbeknownst to me, you weren't supposed to photograph anything - was designer Julia Lohmann's glass (or was it crystal?) studded Moleskine. It gave me all kinds of ideas of what to do with the draw full of found objects I can't quite bring myself to trash ... More at http://www.galfromdownunder.com/japan I'll be wringing the most out of my $US330 (!!!) Japan Rail Pass from Oct 29-Nov 4, using internet cafes rather than lugging my precious MacBook Pro, so stand by ...

Above: Pink is the new pink in Japan - read about my adventures on the tikit at the link below I've barely managed to blog about my Singapore experiences and now I'm in Japan already. Am I losing my grip? For the sake of simplicity I'm multimediaclasting (that's blogging with words, images, video) on the Bike Friday website at this page: http://www.galfromdownunder.com/japan but feel free to leave comments here! Below: One of the 'greenspaces' in Tokyo - a small neighborhood park - yes, apart from a handful of established gardens like the Imperial Palace, real estate is *this* much of a premium