Woke up at: 7:30
Mood: Tired
Listening to: The Meaning of Peace (Tatsumaki remix) by Koda Kumi & BoA
Weather Report: Yesterday and today were frickin' humid!
Japanese Food: Yaki Soba = Yaki = grilled : Soba = noodles. Basically it's Japanese style chow mein
Japanese Word/Phrase of the Day: Yopparatta = drunk
Night Cruise, Karaoke & Lost Keys
The past 34 hours have been pretty crazy!
Met up with Hide @ Ueno eki and we went to go see Matrix Reloaded. It was his first time and my second. I noticed a lot of little things that I missed the in the first view.
After the movie, went to eat some ramen. Hide ordered some super spicy ramen that didn't even look appetizing. Drink Count: 2 beers; total: 2
Kaoru met us up at the restaurant. We then went to 0I0I (Marui) department store cuz Hide needed to find a bday gift for his g/f. After about 30 min of looking around, he didn't find a thing! Iko then met us up outside Marui and then we headed to Takeshiba by way of the Yurikamome. The Yurikamome is a monorail that's fully automatic, no driver.
Takeshiba pier is where we get on for the night cruise around Tokyo Bay. From the pier we could see the Rainbow Bridge (I'll upload the pics tomorrow). The view is sorta similar to the bay bridge along with the huge cranes in the background. Aki met us up there and we kicked it for awhile before gettin' onto the ship. Aki asked me to help her with a letter she got from her host family while she was in Canada a few years ago. It was a letter from her host mother about the passing of her husband's father. Aki thought it was her host father that passed away. The rough draft letter she prepared showed that, so she was totally shocked and relieved to find out that it wasn't her host father.
We had to wait in a pretty long line but as we got the entrance I found out it was worth the wait. This ship was like a party boat! With American pop, hip-hop and soul music playin'! Bars everywhere and even waitresses to take drink orders. Plus, there were all kinds of grubbin' fold like yakisoba. We set up camp at the back of the boat. Other than the noisde from the ship's engine, the view was great. Seeing Tokyo @ night with all the lights from buildings and the Rainbow Bridge is awesome! We even got to see airplanes fly right over us as they headed to Haneda airport. Iko came prepared. Not only did she bring mats for us to sit on, she brought all kinds of food she prepared for us to eat. Fruit salad w/Prosciutto, sandwiches and other sweets. Hide, Aki and Iko went to get drinks. We had beer, wine, lemon sours and oolong cha. Drink Count: 4 beers, 2 cups of wine, half lemon sour; total: 8.5
Aki opened up her bday gifts. Kaoru, Iko and Yoshi got her this Princess Jasmine pendant that comes with a pearl. The weird thing here is that the pearl came WITH the oyster! Maybe I'm not up to speed on the latest Disney gifts, but doesn't it seem a little weird? Aki then opened up my gift. Can you guess what I got her? A Buddhapparel shirt!!! Shortly thereafter, both us and the people around us were sprayed by some beer from the deck above us! After the cruise ended, we were all a little tipsy. Hide decided to start posing on this pillar thinga majiggy. So I had to bust out the camera.
After takin' the Yurikamome back to Shimbashi...the girls, for some reason wanted to go dancing...but we ended up just going to sing karaoke. We went to this place right near the JR Shimbashi eki. Kaoru had her lemon sour and Hide had a beer. While I was figuring out what to drink, Aki and Iko decided without me that we'll be drinking sake. At that time, it was koo with me. We also ordered some appetizers and Iko ordered Pocky for me. It was chocolate and strawberry Pocky in a glass of Blue Curacao. Hide started off the karaoke with a song by Mr. Children. Kaoru followed with her favorite song and Iko sang my favorite Nakayama Miho song, Tadanakitakunaruno. Drink Count: 2 glasses of sake; total: 10.5
Aki doesn't really like karaoke but I guess drinks change all that. She persuaded me to sing Top of World by the Carpenters with her (I only know this song because the 9th grade english teacher makes his classes listen to it). Drink Count: 2 glasses of sake; total: 12.5
For some reason (I think it was Iko) someone picked all these dance tracks. Aki and Hide all got up on the couch and started to dance. Is what interesting hearing songs that I knew. Aside from the fact that Aki keep hitting me in the head, it was fun. Drink Count: 1 glass of sake on da rocks; total: 13.5
After the first set of dance tracks, Aki spilled her sake and then proceeded to finish mine! I have never seen her this drunk before. After a while, it didn't matter if it was a dance song or not, Hide and Aki would get up and dance, every single time. Around the same time, Iko almost fell down from dancing on the couch. Drink Count: 0.5 glass of sake; total: 14
Aki then proceeded to "share" Pocky with Kaoru which started a chain reaction with everybody. Hide then wanted to sing Shape of My Heart by BSB. Let me set the record by saying I could have only sang that song in that current state.
I wanted to change up my drink so I decided to get a lemon sour. Things are starting to get a little fuzzy at around this time. My last songs were However and Beloved by Glay. I did a lot better this time cuz I didn't need as much help from Kaoru w/the kanji. Drink Count: 2 lemon sours; total: 16
We then headed out to catch cabs home. Since Aki lives in Shinjuku, she had to take a cab by herself. We made sure that Aki had enough of money and told the taxi driver the destination. Iko, Kaoru, Hide and me then headed back to Ueno eki to pick up Kaoru and Iko's bikes. We stopped off at a convience store for some ice cream and then headed home. Hide let me crash at his place. Hide prepared my futon and before he could get me a pillow, I was out like a light.
Woke up, took a shower and watched some morning anime. As I was going through my stuff...I realized that I didn't have my keys!!! The only place I could think of was the Karaoke bar. I remember taking them out to use my photon lights cuz I couldn't see the song book. Since it was early, the place was closed. Iko met us up at Kaoru's restaurant for lunch. We had Kaoru's pizza and I tried Hiyashi Chuu Ka (A Japanese style Chinese cold noodles. It was da bomb!). After lunch, Hide called the place and they have my keys! Whheeeewwww!!! So Hide took me to the place to get them. Iko came along and we went shopping after gettin' my keys. Then I hopped on the subway back home.
Got home and quickly got ready for yaki niku with Suga san. On my way to the station, I saw some of my students dressed in yukatas. They went to the Kita Narashino festival which is only 2 stations down from mine. Suga (whose English isn't that good) told me that his Korean friends he invited don't speak any English....so I was a little reluctant about going. The situation in the beginning of dinner was a little awkward. Felt kinda weird cuz they were speaking not only fast Japanese but Korean too! Towards the end of the dinner, for some reason, we were able to communicate better. They do in fact speak a little, tiny bit of english and the guy lived in the US for a little while! For some reason I was able to understand the Koreans' Japanese better than Suga's! They even understood my broken Japanese better than Suga! The food was of course grubbin' and it's nice not having to worry about cooking your own food when there are girls present. They do all the cookin' and make sure everyone has food on their plate.
Anyhow...I hope ya'll can picture what I went through. It would've been better if ya'll were there. Check my online album in a day or so.
Gotta get some sleep now...I have the school volleyball team picnic tomorrow. Need to rest my body for it. Aite Peace!
Kaz out...
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月曜日, 8月 04, 2003.
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