Paku regroups after devastating blow and adjusts to new reality in which the Patriots do not win Super Bowl XLI

Last Monday Paku awoke to a startling new reality for which he was totally unprepared. A reality in which the New England Patriots would not win a Super Bowl XLI rematch of Super Bowl XX against the Chicago Bears. Struggling to cope, Paku wandered without purpose or direction through his day. Realizing he could not continue in this pathetic state, Paku decided he needed to get away from it all to reflect on the past season and put things back in perspective.











Paku has returned with high hopes for the 2007 season and also notes with excitement that the Sox's pitchers & catchers report to spring training in less than three weeks!

Paku wants to know...

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Where should Paku go next?
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Paku corrects bizarre spelling error

Paku's expectations for a low key stress free semester were turned upside down when the New England Patriots began their playoff run this year. Paku nearly had to seek medical attention during the Pats game in San Diego last Sunday. One of Paku's favorite websites captured his analysis perfectly summarizing the game simply with "We Are Survive!!" Right now Paku is busy making preparations for the AFC Championship game against Indy.

Paku lunches famously in the city of brotherly love

Paku, like many of you, has long heard of the legendary cheesesteak sandwiches of Philadelphia, his temporary home city. To celebrate the occasion of another Paku pal visiting from Baltimore, the two decided to partake of these delicious lunch entities.

Immediately, our intrepid pandas were faced with a choice: Geno's or Pat's.
Paku evaluated this choice in the only way available to him: by examining their taglines. Pat's promised to be the king of steaks, and warned potential Geno's customers not to "eat a misteak." Geno's on the other hand, claimed merely to be "the best." In the end, Paku decided to go with Pat's, as he often considers himself the king of bears, he thought he might find himself in like company.

Paku had heard a lot about the intimidating ordering at Geno's, but he found the proprietor spoke excellent Japanese. Paku had a cheeseteak wit', with American cheese. (Paku did want to ask for Japanese cheese but decided at the last minute to adopt a 'when in Rome' attitude).

In the end, Paku was disappointed and saddened. The ribeye steak was a bit chewy, even for his bamboo munching teeth, and the cheese never melted. It was cold outside (even with his mittons on), which was the only dining option available, and the entire venture (including soda and fries) set him back more USD than he had anticipated.

However, Paku was game for this Philly tradition, and finished his entire cheesesteak, fries and diet Coke. In the end, he wondered if Geno's really could have been all that different than Pat's. He also pontificated on those food establishments that are so legendary and well known that they come to define a particular genre of food. For him, until he ate at Pat's, these two establishments were just such places. Afterwards, Paku wondered if these two places were past their prime, living on the fumes of old triumphs in the cheesesteak realm, mere shells of the legends they still claim to be. Paku was saddened, but felt as though he had to give these cheesesteaks a try. As he wandered off, he cast a glance askance at Geno's, thinking perhaps these sandwiches were probably on par with Pat's. He considered briefly stopping in and suggesting a new business plan, one that hinged on bamboo sandwiches with fruitcicle topping but considering the poor state of his english, and the likely equal state ofGeno's Japanese, our two Pakus sauntered off to spend the rest of their day touring about the city of brotherly love. What other adventures would find them?

Paku seeks answer to question "what's so great about Philadelphia?"; finds defective bell.

It's been nearly a year since Paku moved from Tokyo to Philadelphia and he recently decided that it was about time to explore the many wonders of America's fourth largest city. What did Paku find? A defective bell.


Upon close inspection, Paku discovered that not only is this bell broken, but also poorly edited.


Even Paku who is not a native English speaker knows that Pennsylvania is spelled with three Ns.

Paku visits the greatest city on Earth

According to Paku, the best thing to happen to San Francisco since the Gold Rush is the BART extension to San Francisco International Airport. It had been quite some time since Paku's last visit to San Francisco so he had to consult the route map to find his stop.


While in San Francisco, Paku stayed in the David Choe room at the Hotel Des Arts.

In addition to elaborately decorated walls, Paku's room featured one of the most annoying aspects of apartment life for many San Francisco residents: a sink with separate hot and cold water taps requiring the user to mix the scalding hot water coming out of one tap and the cold water coming out of the other tap in the basin. Like the British, for reasons not readily apparent to Paku, San Franciscans cling to this antiquated method of household water distributuion. Paku speculates that the people responsible for this sink design are on crack.

Unfortunately for Paku it rained most of the weekend he was in San Francisco, but he did manage to spend a little time outside enjoying the beautiful scenery. At one time in his life, Paku had a nice office with a view very similar to the one he is admiring here. Unfortunatley for Paku, it has been all down hill since then and he is on his way to a windowless cubicle after he graduates from business school.