Category Archives: Fun

Fun

Old Ronald McDonald commercials

Ronald McDonald has always looked a little disturbing to me (maybe I’m just not that fond of clowns), but these early ads make him look positively freaky!
One thing the ad gets right though: the hamburgers Ronald produces out of thin air look just like the ACTUAL burger that’s sold – soggy and slightly deflated, unlike the pictures of juicy full-sized hamburgers that they use for advertising (and always end up disappointing).

Fun Humor

Photography and daschunds don’t always mix + plus 1 more

I came across this video on a photography site that I was browsing and as one who has recently started in photography and has always loved dogs, I thought it was too funny not to share!


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Also came across this music clip via Stuckincustoms – a violinist (Charles Yang) and a ukulele player (Jake Shimabukuro) duet. From what I understand, they had just met the day before, but they really mesh well together and look like they’re having a ton of fun! (you can see at the end that the violinist has literally shredded his bowstrings!)

Fun

Awww…

Experiences Fun

Congratulations!

Yesterday I attended the wedding of a close friend – in fact, I was best man!  Though I did not have to do too much, I think I felt more nervous than Leon (the groom)!  Leon’s been a good friend of mine for… heck, I guess over 10 years now.  We both attended the same introductory courses when starting university, and I have fond memories of us doodling (when admittedly we should have been paying attention to the teacher) during the less exciting sections of the lesson.  I still have some of those doodles stored away amongst my old papers… Leon was also my go-to guy for math/stats courses *shudder*.

He graduated before I did since he had already taken some university courses prior to TUJ, but we still kept in touch over the years.  It’s odd to see how we’re getting older, and (hopefully) more mature.  How time passes…

Anyway, his wedding was a great success – an absolutely lovely day, and everything went off without a hitch.  I’ve created a separate section to upload the pictures that I managed to snap after the ceremony.  For now I’ve only uploaded the black and white versions, but I’ll upload the color versions after I’ve had a chance to go through them – hopefully by this weekend.

shashin.njmatsuya.com/lmwedding

Omedetou Leon and Machiko! 🙂

Challenges Fun Photography

Just for fun challenge – “Evanescence”

It’s nearly 3 weeks overdue, but here are the submissions for the “Evanescence” challenge!

Submitted in the order they were received:

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-submitted by mom

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-submitted by J4

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-submitted by JS!

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-submitted by J3

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-submitted by yours truly

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I think I’m the one to come up with the next challenge, so since I already have a fun pic I want to submit, I’m going to make the next theme: “Spooky”! 😉

As usual, please send any submissions to justforfun@njmatsuya.com – have fun!

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Challenges Fun

Just for fun challenge – “Hello my name is (name) and I’m addicted to (photo)”

Last week’s photo challenge was suggested by Tet and while it was a tougher challenge than we’ve been used to, I think it made it that much more fun!

Here are the submissions presented in the order they were received (click to embiggen):

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Hello, my name is Tet and I’m addicted to:

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-submitted by… Tet

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Hello, my name Jack, and I’m addicted to the “all you can eat buffet”:

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-submitted by Mom

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Hello, my name is KW and I’m addicted to “people”:

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-submitted by J4

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This one’s self-explanatory:

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-submitted by J3

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Hello, my name is NJ, and I’m addicted to books/reading:

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-submitted by… me.

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This week it’s back to me to come up with a theme – “Reflection”, to be interpreted however you wish. 🙂

Experiences Fun

Metallica Live in Japan 2010 (pictures)

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Finally managed to go through all the 500+ pictures I took of the concert, and whittled them down to about 150.

As usual, all pictures are at http://shashin.njmatsuya.com

Fun

Orion performance (Metallica)

A former university classmate started taking guitar lessons early this year, and today he had a small performance to show off his new skills.  He played 2 songs (though I only recorded one of them – I took pictures of the other one).  This is a Metallica instrumental, in which he plays with his instructor.  He think he did really well!

(will upload pictures within the next day or two as well)

Challenges Fun

Just for fun challenge – Dog(s)

Here are the submissions for last week’s challenge “theme” – Dog(s).  Presented in the order they were received (click to embiggen):

Tet

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J3

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Mom

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J4

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NJ/Me

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Next week’s theme has been chosen by J4 – “Fall” (feel free to interpret that however you will) – please send any submissions to justforfun@njmatsuya.com – have fun! 🙂