kickeye

^ this is truth.they have a tacky dress sense but are hot. i was told hot women are romania's biggest export....expats who come and fall for and marry a local.

beautyfake, are you still in bucharest?

probably too late but...

this is the one i was talking about

it was former President 'Ceausescu'. sorry for the mispell before.

and with regards to your other questions, no its not that bad.what you hear is just elaborative rumours. obviously there are gypsies that steal your shit and im sure bad shit goes down more than in other countries but as long as you are reasonably aware it will be fine.

anyways, hope your loving it. looking forward to stories and pics. (and if you got pickpocketed or not )

romania is one of the coolest places ive been to.

my parents used to live there...ive been there a few times and every time i went was always an experience. this was just before they got into the EU though, so its definitely alot more tourist friendly now. yes, having a friend there who knows all the local places etc., will be a great help.

recommend transylvania. its well worth it. although a bit of a drive, alot of the romanian countryside is really scenic (even if it is the middle of a fucking cold winter)

also recommend a quick tour of Chausesku's (former) palace in Bucharest. its only like 30 mins or so but shit is mind blowing.

So you are staying in Bucharest? I also went to timisoara which is 3-4 (?) hours away. not worth it for such a short trip, but can't stress how camera friendly romanian landscape, architecture...and everything else is.

only thing i didnt really enjoy was romanian food. abit too strong...salty...pungent for my liking..

not sure if any of you guys check out the "what are you eating" thread in superculture, but I've been posting a few amount of restaurants which I've reviewed in sydney for my blog...so here's a shameless plug for it in the sydney thread

http://herecomesthefood.blogspot.com/

nice blog.

recently been recommended these japanese joints...anyone been to either of these? will be going to one of these this weekend.

Azuma Japanese Restaurant

Shoroku Kabuki Japanese Restaurant

i find alot of the japanese restaurants are non-japanese owned and although a decent tasting meal is available, usually isn't that authentic.

does anyone know any brand that produced canvas backpack like this? or maybe an online shop that sells something similar ?

i've been obsessed with canvas rucksacks/packs etc. in the past. what about something like this:

seen here

probably shitty quality canvas material and build but cant complain for the price. They also have a few other pretty workable packs floating around on their site.

i like this.

Ting of London

kinda ugly i guess but the recycled belt makes for some interesting detail...

has anyone seen the CdG bag that looks sort of like a briefcase...cant seem to find a pic but looks similar to this but in an all black leather.no zip.

only seen it in the ginza CdG...want to kop.

Brideshead Revisited movie.

anything depicting this era or thereabouts has alot to work with.

also, not a movie with steez per se, but Baraka represents various cultural tastes and influences well.

you nukkas notice that Tokyo got put on the Michelin map today, and trumped pretty much everywhere, except Paris with the number of 3 star restaurants...

what do you think of that...

so i know there are seperate threads about this but right now where is everyone fav places to dine out in? I know mine in Sydney, but yeh not that it matters..

also anyone want to donate a really nice mobile phone for me to use whilst i'm in Japan so i don't have ot buy some junk.. can't be on Docomo caus they don't do prepaid anymore which was my first choice. prefs softbank.. stupd request i know...oh well.

ye softbank prepaids arent anything special but they do the job...not too sure if many places do them anymore though.

how long are you in japan anyways, few weeks?? you will probably find it hard to get a mobile legitimately through a combini/phone store without a permanent japanese address etc. best to go with a friend.

i would have lent you mine but its already being lent.

first waywt... shitty digi cam + shitty lighting + laziness= shitty pic. meh.

geller

uniqlo

marchercher??

mimco tote

^lol

this be exactly what my parents are doing as well..

herp, id take that geller shirt off your hands if it wasnt for this fucked up market. shit would end up being ~ AUD 260

It's much worse being a pound.

its much worse being an australian dollar.

although good converting to it. shit is in red no matter whatever currency you look at it from...

close yesterday was AUD 1 = JPY 55.74

and constantly gets pumped overnight by americans.

by the way, how do i get to odaiba?

they have frequent monorail service from shinbashi eki, which is on the yamanote sen. thats probably the easiest way.

recently bought a ps3 and loving it. pretty much turned my living room into a small entertainment centre.

set up networks so it can play movies/other shit of my computer which is pretty nice too... also syncing it with the psp is pretty handy as well..haven't done this yet but i hear if the ps3 is on, you can play shit off the 3 onto your psp...

games are lacking though i agree...trying to source out time crisis.

lolol good suggestions.argyle then jacksons..which is probably why...

sorry to shit on your food topics...

just back from a night out in the shitty city. havent been out in sydney in ages and ages. such a depressing night. nearly every single man i seen is in either a billabong or dc or some other lame teeshirt or ghey tootight or tentlike buttonup. fucking disgusting. definitely the places i went...what is everyone else seeing?!?!?!

...meh i guess people can wear what they want. /rant. kthnxbye

i cant believethe pricing on the play stuff ^ its like 2/3 times retail in tokyo.better to just proxy.shit is ugly anyways.on another note, anyone seen gladiator sandals being sold in sydney anywhere.desperate for some.cheers.

dunno bout gp

as i have banned going in there but a77 not on sale in incu. im pretty sure all a77 stuff is new season in there....plus its more than likely that gp will have similar price points anyways. incu had price drops on heaps of stock though. like 50% off now stuff that has been on sale. if your in the city/paddo worth checking out.

is the dark

knight out in states yet? anyone seen it? ...i just read reviews about how heath is amazing in it and how he should get oscar for it and shit.but i dunno, if he wasnt dead and so much controversy surrounding his death, surely there wouldn't be as much sympathy for him and his family, or hype about him and the movie for that matter, which i think is subconsciously altering peoples views about the movie...any opinions...i dunno...

fuck, and i

like a77 too. i wanted a pair of them 07 johnny thunder joints. still might cop but fuck thats annoying... they will be hyped up on every sydney teen hipster in a couple months. thanks gp. btw did they have much range of it? and whats price points? cheers.

Ok first off

this is like the million dollar question…every man and his dog wants to gain abit of size and strength without putting on any fat. Truth is, to gain weight most effectively; you HAVE to put on abit of fat. You have to eat a shitload of calories. Then you can cut back.

10lbs isn’t really that much weight to put on though, so you can kinda do it without eating shit/getting sloppy. The exercises your currently doing for strength you mentioned earlier…bench, chins, overhead press, squat, dead are all good, key exercises. However, what sort of reps/sets are you doing on these? For bigger strength gains, (but not so much size) try lowering down reps to like 5 and below. Repping out won’t give you major strength gains, you want to be feeling really heavy weight, not fucking around with 10 reps.

So for example on bench, start off really light for a couple sets of 10, then maybe a couple sets of 8/6 on a bit heavier weight, then from here, you want to do like 4-5 sets working down to like 1 or 2 reps of a weight which is like 90% or above of your 1RM.

Also as a suggestion, and what has worked for me in the past, is picking two exercises per session that you really want to hit hard, then the rest are just supplementary exercises, still relatively hard but not max effort shit. For example, on a max effort upper day, you could do bench, and weighted chins hard, and go real heavy on these as above. Then after you could do bis, tris, shoulder/delt work for sets of 10 or whatever, to get a burn as this will put on size. I found this puts on strength really well, plus it’s easy in the long run going to the gym knowing you have to only perform/focus on two things.

for your size, try just upping your (clean) calorie intake abit, this should get you bigger but not sloppy. and having like 4-5 protein shakes a day helps.

Anyways hope this helps abit. I’m sure kunk or whoever can probably suggest other shit as well…im open to any suggestions myself.

dumbell curls + bench press = win

yes.

curls get the gurls.

I went from 10 pulls up to 20 in about 2 weeks (installing a pull up bar in my laundry room was the GREATEST idea ever). For about half a year I would do 5 sets of 10 to get to 50 (that was my magic number). My friend suggested getting the rep up, and using less sets. So I managed to get to 20 on my first set, after two weeks of training.

I went to failure at 24, and have not tried to get there since.

I am starting to wear a backpack, and can do about 10 with 10lbs on. Sadly, my back is probably the strongest part of my body, and thus I would like advice for everything else (including back).

do you actually

want to get stronger, lift more weight on the bench, squat, dead that you mentioned, or do you want to get bigger/heavier. from experience there are a couple of differences between these. getting bigger is probably the easiest...simple equation, just lift weight, no cardio, and eat a shitload. if you want a huge b,s,d, you can make alot of gains just from looking at your technique. trying to get extremely strong kinda comes from a combination of everything.

sorry about the vagueness of above, if you get abit more specific with what you actually want, i can suggest a few things.

Didn't realize a little person like him could even have sex. Always thought it was just 2 finger jackin for life. Sounds like being a midget isn't all that terrible. I guess he wasn't kidding in austin powers about the kick stand. Still isn't as cool as the midget in "in bruges" though...

word. some bird

once told me midgets get mad pussy, whenever ther out, bitches all over them (0). something bout ther dicks being normal size but body real small so it makes them look/feel well endowed.no homo.

Ramones at the Warfield - 94

Jane's Addiction at the Hollywood Bowl - 01

Pixies doubleheader at the Wiltern - 05

fuck what i

would do to see the ramones.you one lucky bastard. and pixies sweet too saw them at a festival here and they were pretty good.

best ones iv been to...daft punk. shit was insane, don't think anything comes close to the show they put on. light show and pyramid shit is crazy...pics dont do them justice though...

other best was iron maiden earlier in the year.no pics but...those guys really know how to put on a show.

drug free powerlifting is rough, but i can't anymore. wife threw out gear 2 years ago so i gave up.

ye girls are

annoying.and yes drug free is very rough.

in re to ordering off elite, iv done it a couple times with bands and stuff but fuck postage to aust is expensive. proxy anyone? haha.

thats a pretty

decent total kunk.have you ever competed at all? with me just started to get serious with the powerlifting and abit of strongman this year.not much going on in aust with it all though...

also have you ever tried doing reverse hypers for your back. i don't know how fragile it is, but for me i found after max effort lower sessions with like either squat,dead or good mornings etc, doing a few sets of these really 'loosened' the discs up.

515/565/675

squat is compromised by 2 disc ruptures and 2 severe herniations. same w/dead

oh and for all of you who want more info/real into it, i dont often peddle shit much but elitefts is probably one of the best sites out there for powerlifting etc. some of you may have probably heard of it anyways.

fuck, powerlifting is probably the furthest you can get from rocking diors...

had some eel today. delicious.

yes, unagi is

the shit.gives you superpowers.

Hey guys.im

actually heading to tokyo mid july and would be very keen if you have anymore of these meetups. oh im Japanese too, though lived most of my life overseas so don’t really know much about places etc. plus have weird accents but so keen to immerse. Would be pretty interesting chatting with you all...