today’s photos

mostly written on palm again, and since we got home at 12:30, i dont really have time to edit hax. enjoy

Today we went into central tokyo after our fair share of dodgy jdrama ;p. i was hoping to go look at the minami-gardens in the imperial palace, but as we didn’t end up making it through the heavily guarded gates, this turned into a stroll around the outskirts.

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we visited the sony building just for a look around. no photos of inside, but it basically consisted of 4 floor demonstrating sony’s newest displaus, notebooks, car entertainment systems. there were a couple of nice uber sized lcd displays, but mmm. the building design was nice at least.

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the weather is being pretty random, starting off with a 20c sunny day that could pass as a perth winter day, only to be covered by clouds during a 50minute train ride, then pouring with rain…

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i spotted 100yen on a huge road crossing, so made three passes to pick it up unsuspiciously ;d we had a bit of spare time before having to return home, so i decided we’d walk from ginza/yuurakusho to the closest we could to ueno, our train exchange point. we made it to akihabara. and saved 150yen!

we then went with mao to meet some peoples from his high school at a reunion kind of dinner. this was at a traditional japanese style restaurant with all-you-can-drink and a nice range of food to go. was quite fun and we had quite a bit of interesting half-english half-japanese conversation. we were going to go for some karaoke afterwards, but the girls got distracted by wanting to take a purikura (picture in arcade machines thingy). so we took one instead, and it was too late affterwards to do karaoke. but OMG we found a mario kart arcade machine!@!!111 winnnnnn. looked like so much hax – have to go back and play it tomorrow. 200y a play though :/ you could put your own face on theplayer in the kart, and it had nice m usic graphics and adjustable seats!

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vaios tomorrow. hooray
emergency trip to akihabara in the morning to get components for an instant upgrade.

peppy out

today’s photox0rs

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spent today at home watching the last half of engine, some japanese tv and eating random お菓子 while ds recovered from an unknown sickness. if only he bought his FFXII collectors potion a bit earlier and drank it last night… (oh it tastes like shit but yeah)

we went out for a bit in ther afternoon to the Animate store in Kashiwa, and although it was a lot smaller, found a lot of stuff which wasn’t in the Akihabara store. ds went off and bought his usual selection of otohime and negima fan stuffs while i searched through the cd selection for My Pace – a song from bleach we’ve been after for a while. no luck on that — but it was on Music Station tonight live, which made me happy . momusu were also on with some crappy song called “sexy boy”. it sucked………. yeah…… really really really sucked.

okonomiyaki for dinner – 最高！

today’s photos

written on my palm with double stylus micro styles!!1

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12:40 Today we were invited to attend akira’s language school graduation in hibiya. there was a nice park just outside the hll, which was quickly flooded by thousands of screaming female students. while it is understandable they haven’t seen each other for a couple of months over the holidays, it really did sound like they had just seen a dead body — screams of terror rather than excitement.

of course, if ds had it his way and climbed some dodgy tree to take a photo, the screams might have really been of terror..

14:01 there sure are a few characters amongst the students that go out of their way to look stupid when its their turn to go up on the stage. ds said this one non-jp teacher looked strange, and that was confirmed when it was her turn to announce her studens names.. she fscking yelles her lungs out >.>

i didn’t mention that we saw a “big camera”, one of the huge electronic chain stores, running the release event of ffxii. and what else would sell better than giant towers of thos potion drinks — available in packs of 6 or individually, bundled with the game itself. i’ve started to wonder if mybe ps2s can detect their presence nearby and reward you by healing your characters. now that would own ;p

we made it to singapore!1

using a reallydodgy freeinternet laptop witha broken keyboard andmouse;(

the flight wentnice and smoothly with a bitof uber turbulance.  took lo0ts of nice4 pictures but will havetowaituntil we get to narita forthose…

ds is tryingto hax wireless but failing(they makeyou pay for wireless in this airport, butnot wired…

time to go relax in the nice plush chairswhilewe watch two plasma screens rotate on a stick(each oneprobably worth more money we’ve seen.)