Protocol Snow

I had planned to post about the Toto Washlet a few weeks ago when I returned to my Los Angeles home. These washlets aren’t that common in the U.S. and are probably best known as those “crazy Japanese toilets that spray water at your butt”. They’re everywhere in Japan restrooms, of course, but they’re also fairly common in Taiwan and I’m sure in other Asian countries. My uncle has had these toilets in his Taiwan house for a few years, which was an inspiration for my family to install them.

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2nd year of med school is no joke. This is the last preclinical year and the amount of material we’re cramming in is ridiculous. Adding to the pressure is the ominous USMLE Step 1 looming at the end of the school year that is pretty much the most important test in my life. Forget SAT or MCAT, this is the big one.

Still, I got this awesome keyboard a while back and have been meaning to take pictures so here’s my first post in a few weeks.

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If my life were a Xbox 360 game, an achievement would have just unlocked because I am now finished with college! All that’s left for me is the graduation ceremony itself. In the meantime, I’m busy packing up my things and getting ready to move out.

My itinerary for the next couple months: after my graduation ceremony, I’m headed up to Cambridge, MA to visit Harvard University and to help my brother move out of his dorm. Following that, I’m headed to Taiwan for a month. While I’m in Asia, I’ll be going on a tour of Hokkaido, Japan, which should be pretty neat, but my personal highlight of the whole trip is a self-guided, 4 day stop in Tokyo. I’m currently busy planning out what places I want to see and shops I want to visit. From what I hear, Tokyo should be pretty English friendly but somehow I don’t believe that and have a feeling there’ll be many times when I’m going to be completely lost with no English speakers around. It’ll be interesting to see how much I’ve actually learned after 2.5 years of Japanese classes…

I was planning on typing up a review of the iRiver Clix 2, but the one at Pocketables.net is so good I’m not even going to bother. It’s a fantastic review for a phenomenal product with tons of photos, so go read it.

I’ve had my eye on the iRiver clix 2 ever since it was shown at CES 2007 this past January. My beloved iRiver H320 had conked out in the fall, and I’ve been using an Olympus voice recorder (WS-300M) for my music needs while biding my time and waiting for the next killer mp3 player. That moment has finally arrived with the U.S. launch of the iRiver clix 2 last week.

I just placed my order ten minutes ago, but in the meantime here’s a couple pics from an unboxing gallery by Jenn K. Lee at Pocketables.net (which by the way is one of my new favorite sites). I should be holding my very own clix2 next week, check for my thoughts sometime around then.