Today is the start of the awaited “Golden Week” for many Japanese: the longest vacation period of the year! Happy ゴールデンウィーク!

More info on Golden Week holidays in Japan.

I wanted to echo Gonzague on this one, and give my list of the top 10 things I do when I’m bored online:

1. I keep waiting/refreshing Google Reader, hoping a new interesting post will arise somewhere
2. I refresh Twitter frenetically
3. I open Facebook, but as always, nothing really interesting in there
4. I dig inside my groups on Flickr
5. I indulge myself with some lolcats from I Can Has Cheezburger

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Welcome (back)! Maxasia has finally returned after a relatively long hiatus. I wasn’t sure what type of blog I wanted and had no time to devote to it. I’ve played with Tumblr for a while but found it too limiting, and thus decided to go back to my old love: Wordpress.

So here it is, the whole new Maxasia! But more than a regular blog, this will be the place where I post links, videos and photos. It has now became my “lifestream”. I hope you’ll enjoy it, thanks for reading!

Cross Borders Inc created a fun little flash program that let you generate your own QR-Code, and which you should definitely try! (it’s free)

Go to http://www.xbs.co.jp/PJ/qr/, enter your URL, click “Create” and enjoy the view while an army of robots is building your QR Code!

I’ve read many tales about farangs overstaying in the Kingdom who ended up in jail or were blacklisted for the country. The Web is full of these stories, which obviously weren’t written by “normal” people.
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