Days til I'm home!: 17
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Daily excerpt from The Paranoid's Pocket Guide:
Nearly a quarter of all lead exposure comes from drinking water. A toxic metal, lead can cause serious health hazards and even brain damage. The Environmental Protectino Agency revealed that over 10% of the U.S. populatino relies on water systems with unsafe levels of lead. The EPA carefully explained it would be wrong to assume that 30 million people always drink unsafe water; instead, 30 million people drink from sources that are unsafe from time to time. Outmoded pipes in older homes or apartment buildings pose an even higher risk of introducing lead into the water that runs through them.
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Woke up at: 1000
Mood: Still recovering
Listening to: Make You Feel That Way by Blackalicious
Weather Report: Overcast
Japanese Word/Phrase/Food of the Day: chuumon = order, request
Japan News: TOKYO - Roughly one in three Japanese, or 32.4%, surveyed said they do not want to see an increase in foreign tourists to Japan, with 90.2% of them citing as a reason a rise in crimes alleged to have been committed by foreign nationals, results of a government poll released Saturday showed. In contrast, 48.2% said they favor an increase in such tourists. Read more here.
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Fantasy Football Update (as of 11.02.03):
Record: 5-2-1
Week 9 matchup: Poopsie Liver Butts (Marty)
Picked up Marcel Shipp & Teyo Johnson. It's gonna be a tough matchup with the undefeated Poopsie.
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Fantasy Basketball Update (as of 11.02.03):
Week 1 Matchup - japanimal (Ko)
As of right now, I'm up 6-3.
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Current Book Status:
Cryptonomicon
The Best American Short Stories 1999: pg 15
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News:
- Final Fantasy XI Online was released on 10.28. It looks like a dope MMORPG. One of the features of this game allows people from the US to chat with people in Japan. They have a vast list of predefined common phrases. They call it the Auto-Translation Function. Check it out here.
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The Past Week
10.27.03
Woke up at around 6ish since I went to bed early the night before. It was a chillin' day, just stayed at home and chatted it up with folks.
For dinner headed to Ikko. Shacho treated me to dinner and drinks. Fukuoka Daiei Hawks beat the Hanshin Tigers in game 7 of the Japan World Series. Came home and crashed out.
10.28.03
Woke up again pretty early, worked out, made some maple/brown sugar oatmeal and chatted with Gee, Hooli and Jookie. Gee's pops sold the pimp daddy caddy and is replacin' it with...none other than a SL55! Was talkin' to Jookie about tradin' for AK-47. He needs big men and I have a lot of those. Also was talkin' to Hooli bout who the tops teams are in our league as well as the worst ones.
Got to school a tad bit late cuz it was rainin' pretty hard. Taught 7th & 8th grade today. For lunch, had some grubbin' saba and gave my grapes to Horiguchi kun, who collected about 15 or so from other 7th graders. Horiguchi kun is the 7th grade garbage disposal. We had an awards assembly for 5th period, so we didn't have the 9th grade elective class.
10.29.03
A normal day. Taught 2-5 with Takai again. Other than these 2 students, the class is dead quiet. It took a lot out of me to get them enthused. Taught the 8th grade elective class with Takahashi sensei...played a game that really didn't work too well. We prohibited them from talkin' in Japanese, hoping they would converse in English, but to no avail, it was silent during the whole game. These aren't the brightest of kids either. It was a matching game where each student had a card taped their back. Without looking at their card, they are to find their match amongst the students. When posed with a minor problem, they couldn't come up with an easy solution; lining up in a single file line and by process of elimination, determine who your match was. It was funny to see all of them walk around and looking at each other's backs.
Dinner consisted of some tonkatsu, shiro maguro and vegetables.
Some interestin' tv programs were on tonite. One starrin' one of my fav celebrities.
Spoke to Gee for a while. He has some major problems about the nba fantasy league and his team. He's almost given up on the season...and it JUST started.
Finished Crypto. Ending was kinda weak.
10.30.03
Saw Ikko no mama again this morning but this time I wasn't runnin' late.
So Mikami san went to Kumamoto with her family and brought back some cookies.
My sister's friend Louis called me today. We're supposed to hang out either tonite, tomorrow or this weekend.
I had to confiscate Hara kun's Harry Potter book cuz he was readin' in class. He was shocked that I hate Harry Potter.
Kicked it with Miyakawa sensei after lunch today. Found out that he can speak a little Russian and French. So we were havin' some fun with these 8th graders. Confusing them with a mix of Japanese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. They were so confused.
Now that I have an internet connection @ work, I've been at my desk more and more lately. I finally installed Macromedia MX. So I've been redoin' my website.
After school, headed to Ikko. The whole crew showed up. Had some grubbin' food, as always, but around 2130ish, Mama asked me to come outside. I was like, uhmmm...why? So she took me back to her apartment to introduce me to her...husband! He was such a cool guy. Descent english and we talked bout all kinds of stuff ranging from Niigata sake to my experiences in Japan. We ended up chattin' for about an hour! Came home, crashed out.
10.31.03
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
I hope all my friends have a good time at the Halloween party. Ya'll gots to take lots of pics to share the experience with me, aite!
Taught the dreaded 2-5 class again. Today was just too much for me. I almost blew up on them but kept it to myself until I got back the teacher's room. Then I vented my frustration to Takeuchi sensei. However, I'm not sure he fully understood what I said cuz I was in venting/frustration mode. Oh well...
Also taught 2-3. A much better class. Played a good game that Takai came up with. Yes, I did say Takai. She's gettin' a little bit better now.
Started readin' another book, The Best American Short Stories 1999, which was given to me by Ha san.
Did the game we tried to do in the 8th grade elective class with the 9th graders. It worked out better. The funny thing was that the 2 students who broke the rules by speakin' Japanese, ended up being a match and finishing first. Hmmm...sounds fishy to me.
During cleanin', this one 9th grader dried his wet hands on my back so I had to "discipline" him by putting water on his face by way of my hand. Then some other 9th graders thought they were tough shiet by steppin' up to me...not in a serious way. We then continued on seeing how hard we could hit eachother in the stomachs. Ahh...the games we play as kids.
Anyhow...
Got a call from Louis, meet up @ Shibuya station @ 2000. Got to meet Louis, Mark (31, finance, Louis' younger brother, lives in Irvine) and Mark's buddy Bryan (29, JET, ABC, from Texas/Irvine/SF, lives in Yokohama, comedian, married, wife is 8 months pregnant). On our way to gettin' a bite to eat @ Mos Burger, we had to walk through all kinds of these "sales" men tryin' to either get us to come to their store or into their "lounge". Anyhow, Bryan's new thing is whenever an African, who tries to pass out his fliers when we're clearly not interested, he challenges them to a freestyle battle. That usually gets a this weird look of surprise/amazement/shock. This one dude was hella persistant at me. If these "people" walk with you for longer than 5 seconds, it means that their persistant. But this dude, was walkin' with for like a minute! If you make me stop walkin' just to look at your face to get my idea across, then he was pretty close in gettin' bombed on. Which wasn't a problem, cuz I had my security of Korean body builder brothers! Got to Mos (finally), Lou had 2 spicy cheese burgers. I just got a plain one. We then headed to Tengu for some drinks and some snacks. Met up with one of Bryan's friends Kevin (26, JET, from Hawaii, lives in Yokohama, awesome singer). Chatted for a bit and met up with one of Mark and Bryan's friends, Yuka (29, former model, born in the mutherland but now lives in SoCal) Supposedly goin' to her friend's party and meet all of her model friends but that didn't work out cuz the club was whack. Met up with Rich (34, Works for Fidelity, my sister and ross' friend from down south, engaged, met him before while he was living in SF) and after we left that wack @$$ club, we headed to a karaoke place to pass some time. Kevin got down and was singin' like a pro. Durin' this time, a girl accidently came into our room thinkin' it was her room. She later brought her friend and we had Kevin sing a song for them. We got them some wine and after hearing Kevin put it down, they were instantly were sprung. One girl gave him her number right there. But they bounced out hella quick, so Bryan explains we got punked again. But it was all good, they were kinda wack anywayz. Around this time (roughly 2330), we have decided that it was gonna be an all nighter. We headed to Roppongi to meet up with one of Rich's buddies Bryan (32, MTV Japan web production manager, born n raised in SF, played bball for Troop 12 & Taisho, knows a lot of peeps in Tokyo, comedian) and some of his buddies: Sean (34, works for Accenture, from SF, played bball, knows Bryan Nose, married, koo kat) and Kentaro (28, born and raised in Japan, lived in NYC for 7 years, english is perfect). We then headed to Heartland (Tri, do you remember drinkin' this beer?) for a drink and to meet up with some other peeps. After a while, Amy, Hiroko and Miyuko came through. Daughters of diplomats, lived all over the world, perfect english. We headed to this place called Muse. It's an interesting place; bars, dance floor with a lounge on the bottom floor where you can play ping pong, pool or darts. Played Bryan in Long Island Ping Pong...takin' a sip after every point. This place had the best Long Islands that I've had in Japan. We kicked it there for a while, just chillin' and chattin' and headed out around 5ish. Decided to go to Tsukiji fish market (THE fish market in JAPAN). It would have been koo to see all the crazy fish, unfortunately, the state of mind that we were in made it just seem like the thing delayin' the time to eat sushi. We finally got to the place but there was a line. It's 0600 on Saturday morning! Damn!! What further made the situation worse was this one american dude was just blabbering away bout work. Bryan and I were bout to say something but luckily the we got seated. So...this was probably the best sushi I've ever had. Man, this stuff was so fresh and tasty. Nothin' like the americanized rolls ya'll be eatin' back home. This is the real deal. After we finished we headed home, Lou, Mark, Bryan and Kevin to Yokohama, me to Funabashi...or "Funbashi" as Rick says. Took me a while to get home but I did it somehow. Got home around 9ish and crashed. What a day...I mean night!
11.01.03
Got up around 1500ish...and chilled for a bit. Went to eat some food @ Ikko. Saw the crew there. When it was around 1830, jumped back on the train and headed back to Shibuya. Met up with the crew from last night with some new peeps: Scott (32, sis and ross' friend from LA, married, started his own english teachin' company), John (33, from SF, works for Bloomburg, another guy who's connected in Tokyo, marathon runner) and Kyoko (25, lives in Matsudo, born and raised in Japan, works for a PR firm, went to school in Michigan for 2 years, english is perfect, really cute) and we headed out tryin' to find a place to chill til 2300. We went to so many different places but never really went inside to any of them. Bryan and Kev got a little fed up, so they went to get 2 6-packs to drink through this whole time. After about an hour of walking and standin' around, John and Scott headed home while the rest us headed to his little isekaya to get some food. Found out it's where all the peeps that play ball go to. Met this koo kat named Timo (26, half german half japanese, 2 passports, 2 totally different names, baller, english is good, comedian) and we talked bout ball and this guy is really into ball and knows his stuff. Can't wait til play with him in 2 weeks! We got some grub there and headed to this other bar in the Cerulean hotel. Hung out there for a while, got to talk to Rick and Brian more. We then headed out to this club called Module (i think) but the place was kinda wack. This was way too loud...totally different from the place went to last night. It also was too crowded. I went to go chill in the corner to get out of the traffic and chatted with Kyoko for a bit. @ Around 0230ish...we decided to call it a night and Rick offered his place to kick it til first train. When we got to Rick's all I had to say was WHOAH!!! His place is dope! We watched Boyz n the Hood which was funny to see the subtitles in Japanese. When 0500 came around, we all headed home. Man...2 all nighters in a row...this can't be good for my body.
11.02.03
On the ride home, there was this group of peeps that went to a Halloween party. This one guy had this elaborate alien/insect costume which brought laughter from everyone. Guess ya'll had to see it. Anyhow...I gots home around 7ish but couldn't fall asleep til like 1000ish. Woke up around 1530ish and got a call from Lou to see if wanted to go to Akihabara with them but I declined so that I could rest some more. Rick called me to confirm to meet in Shibuya @ 1930. Got there, met up with the crew, plus Scott's wife Yasuko and minus Kev. We headed to this isekaya to eat dinner. Met Rick's fiancee, Mika and also Yasuko's sister. Had some grubbin' food and dessert. Said my farewells to Lou and Mark and headed home. Definitely built up a new network of friends and sempais. Now I know for sure, I'll be out here for awhile. Don't get me wrong, I'll be back to visit sometime...but for the years, Japan is gonna be my home.
11.03.03
Man...I'm pretty tired from all this partyin'. It's been tough, but hey, whenever somebody comes out to visit, ya gotta make those sacrifices. It's all good. Anyhow...I'm gonna get ready to go back to Shibuya again! 4 days in a row is tough yo! Gonna kick it with Yu's friends today at his college's festival. It looks as though it's gonna rain, but we'll see. Aite...I'm signing off.
Kaz out...
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Daily excerpt from The Paranoid's Pocket Guide:
Nearly a quarter of all lead exposure comes from drinking water. A toxic metal, lead can cause serious health hazards and even brain damage. The Environmental Protectino Agency revealed that over 10% of the U.S. populatino relies on water systems with unsafe levels of lead. The EPA carefully explained it would be wrong to assume that 30 million people always drink unsafe water; instead, 30 million people drink from sources that are unsafe from time to time. Outmoded pipes in older homes or apartment buildings pose an even higher risk of introducing lead into the water that runs through them.
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Woke up at: 1000
Mood: Still recovering
Listening to: Make You Feel That Way by Blackalicious
Weather Report: Overcast
Japanese Word/Phrase/Food of the Day: chuumon = order, request
Japan News: TOKYO - Roughly one in three Japanese, or 32.4%, surveyed said they do not want to see an increase in foreign tourists to Japan, with 90.2% of them citing as a reason a rise in crimes alleged to have been committed by foreign nationals, results of a government poll released Saturday showed. In contrast, 48.2% said they favor an increase in such tourists. Read more here.
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Fantasy Football Update (as of 11.02.03):
Record: 5-2-1
Week 9 matchup: Poopsie Liver Butts (Marty)
Picked up Marcel Shipp & Teyo Johnson. It's gonna be a tough matchup with the undefeated Poopsie.
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Fantasy Basketball Update (as of 11.02.03):
Week 1 Matchup - japanimal (Ko)
As of right now, I'm up 6-3.
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Current Book Status:
The Best American Short Stories 1999: pg 15
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News:
- Final Fantasy XI Online was released on 10.28. It looks like a dope MMORPG. One of the features of this game allows people from the US to chat with people in Japan. They have a vast list of predefined common phrases. They call it the Auto-Translation Function. Check it out here.
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The Past Week
10.27.03
Woke up at around 6ish since I went to bed early the night before. It was a chillin' day, just stayed at home and chatted it up with folks.
For dinner headed to Ikko. Shacho treated me to dinner and drinks. Fukuoka Daiei Hawks beat the Hanshin Tigers in game 7 of the Japan World Series. Came home and crashed out.
10.28.03
Woke up again pretty early, worked out, made some maple/brown sugar oatmeal and chatted with Gee, Hooli and Jookie. Gee's pops sold the pimp daddy caddy and is replacin' it with...none other than a SL55! Was talkin' to Jookie about tradin' for AK-47. He needs big men and I have a lot of those. Also was talkin' to Hooli bout who the tops teams are in our league as well as the worst ones.
Got to school a tad bit late cuz it was rainin' pretty hard. Taught 7th & 8th grade today. For lunch, had some grubbin' saba and gave my grapes to Horiguchi kun, who collected about 15 or so from other 7th graders. Horiguchi kun is the 7th grade garbage disposal. We had an awards assembly for 5th period, so we didn't have the 9th grade elective class.
10.29.03
A normal day. Taught 2-5 with Takai again. Other than these 2 students, the class is dead quiet. It took a lot out of me to get them enthused. Taught the 8th grade elective class with Takahashi sensei...played a game that really didn't work too well. We prohibited them from talkin' in Japanese, hoping they would converse in English, but to no avail, it was silent during the whole game. These aren't the brightest of kids either. It was a matching game where each student had a card taped their back. Without looking at their card, they are to find their match amongst the students. When posed with a minor problem, they couldn't come up with an easy solution; lining up in a single file line and by process of elimination, determine who your match was. It was funny to see all of them walk around and looking at each other's backs.
Dinner consisted of some tonkatsu, shiro maguro and vegetables.
Some interestin' tv programs were on tonite. One starrin' one of my fav celebrities.
Spoke to Gee for a while. He has some major problems about the nba fantasy league and his team. He's almost given up on the season...and it JUST started.
Finished Crypto. Ending was kinda weak.
10.30.03
Saw Ikko no mama again this morning but this time I wasn't runnin' late.
So Mikami san went to Kumamoto with her family and brought back some cookies.
My sister's friend Louis called me today. We're supposed to hang out either tonite, tomorrow or this weekend.
I had to confiscate Hara kun's Harry Potter book cuz he was readin' in class. He was shocked that I hate Harry Potter.
Kicked it with Miyakawa sensei after lunch today. Found out that he can speak a little Russian and French. So we were havin' some fun with these 8th graders. Confusing them with a mix of Japanese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. They were so confused.
Now that I have an internet connection @ work, I've been at my desk more and more lately. I finally installed Macromedia MX. So I've been redoin' my website.
After school, headed to Ikko. The whole crew showed up. Had some grubbin' food, as always, but around 2130ish, Mama asked me to come outside. I was like, uhmmm...why? So she took me back to her apartment to introduce me to her...husband! He was such a cool guy. Descent english and we talked bout all kinds of stuff ranging from Niigata sake to my experiences in Japan. We ended up chattin' for about an hour! Came home, crashed out.
10.31.03
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
I hope all my friends have a good time at the Halloween party. Ya'll gots to take lots of pics to share the experience with me, aite!
Taught the dreaded 2-5 class again. Today was just too much for me. I almost blew up on them but kept it to myself until I got back the teacher's room. Then I vented my frustration to Takeuchi sensei. However, I'm not sure he fully understood what I said cuz I was in venting/frustration mode. Oh well...
Also taught 2-3. A much better class. Played a good game that Takai came up with. Yes, I did say Takai. She's gettin' a little bit better now.
Started readin' another book, The Best American Short Stories 1999, which was given to me by Ha san.
Did the game we tried to do in the 8th grade elective class with the 9th graders. It worked out better. The funny thing was that the 2 students who broke the rules by speakin' Japanese, ended up being a match and finishing first. Hmmm...sounds fishy to me.
During cleanin', this one 9th grader dried his wet hands on my back so I had to "discipline" him by putting water on his face by way of my hand. Then some other 9th graders thought they were tough shiet by steppin' up to me...not in a serious way. We then continued on seeing how hard we could hit eachother in the stomachs. Ahh...the games we play as kids.
Anyhow...
Got a call from Louis, meet up @ Shibuya station @ 2000. Got to meet Louis, Mark (31, finance, Louis' younger brother, lives in Irvine) and Mark's buddy Bryan (29, JET, ABC, from Texas/Irvine/SF, lives in Yokohama, comedian, married, wife is 8 months pregnant). On our way to gettin' a bite to eat @ Mos Burger, we had to walk through all kinds of these "sales" men tryin' to either get us to come to their store or into their "lounge". Anyhow, Bryan's new thing is whenever an African, who tries to pass out his fliers when we're clearly not interested, he challenges them to a freestyle battle. That usually gets a this weird look of surprise/amazement/shock. This one dude was hella persistant at me. If these "people" walk with you for longer than 5 seconds, it means that their persistant. But this dude, was walkin' with for like a minute! If you make me stop walkin' just to look at your face to get my idea across, then he was pretty close in gettin' bombed on. Which wasn't a problem, cuz I had my security of Korean body builder brothers! Got to Mos (finally), Lou had 2 spicy cheese burgers. I just got a plain one. We then headed to Tengu for some drinks and some snacks. Met up with one of Bryan's friends Kevin (26, JET, from Hawaii, lives in Yokohama, awesome singer). Chatted for a bit and met up with one of Mark and Bryan's friends, Yuka (29, former model, born in the mutherland but now lives in SoCal) Supposedly goin' to her friend's party and meet all of her model friends but that didn't work out cuz the club was whack. Met up with Rich (34, Works for Fidelity, my sister and ross' friend from down south, engaged, met him before while he was living in SF) and after we left that wack @$$ club, we headed to a karaoke place to pass some time. Kevin got down and was singin' like a pro. Durin' this time, a girl accidently came into our room thinkin' it was her room. She later brought her friend and we had Kevin sing a song for them. We got them some wine and after hearing Kevin put it down, they were instantly were sprung. One girl gave him her number right there. But they bounced out hella quick, so Bryan explains we got punked again. But it was all good, they were kinda wack anywayz. Around this time (roughly 2330), we have decided that it was gonna be an all nighter. We headed to Roppongi to meet up with one of Rich's buddies Bryan (32, MTV Japan web production manager, born n raised in SF, played bball for Troop 12 & Taisho, knows a lot of peeps in Tokyo, comedian) and some of his buddies: Sean (34, works for Accenture, from SF, played bball, knows Bryan Nose, married, koo kat) and Kentaro (28, born and raised in Japan, lived in NYC for 7 years, english is perfect). We then headed to Heartland (Tri, do you remember drinkin' this beer?) for a drink and to meet up with some other peeps. After a while, Amy, Hiroko and Miyuko came through. Daughters of diplomats, lived all over the world, perfect english. We headed to this place called Muse. It's an interesting place; bars, dance floor with a lounge on the bottom floor where you can play ping pong, pool or darts. Played Bryan in Long Island Ping Pong...takin' a sip after every point. This place had the best Long Islands that I've had in Japan. We kicked it there for a while, just chillin' and chattin' and headed out around 5ish. Decided to go to Tsukiji fish market (THE fish market in JAPAN). It would have been koo to see all the crazy fish, unfortunately, the state of mind that we were in made it just seem like the thing delayin' the time to eat sushi. We finally got to the place but there was a line. It's 0600 on Saturday morning! Damn!! What further made the situation worse was this one american dude was just blabbering away bout work. Bryan and I were bout to say something but luckily the we got seated. So...this was probably the best sushi I've ever had. Man, this stuff was so fresh and tasty. Nothin' like the americanized rolls ya'll be eatin' back home. This is the real deal. After we finished we headed home, Lou, Mark, Bryan and Kevin to Yokohama, me to Funabashi...or "Funbashi" as Rick says. Took me a while to get home but I did it somehow. Got home around 9ish and crashed. What a day...I mean night!
11.01.03
Got up around 1500ish...and chilled for a bit. Went to eat some food @ Ikko. Saw the crew there. When it was around 1830, jumped back on the train and headed back to Shibuya. Met up with the crew from last night with some new peeps: Scott (32, sis and ross' friend from LA, married, started his own english teachin' company), John (33, from SF, works for Bloomburg, another guy who's connected in Tokyo, marathon runner) and Kyoko (25, lives in Matsudo, born and raised in Japan, works for a PR firm, went to school in Michigan for 2 years, english is perfect, really cute) and we headed out tryin' to find a place to chill til 2300. We went to so many different places but never really went inside to any of them. Bryan and Kev got a little fed up, so they went to get 2 6-packs to drink through this whole time. After about an hour of walking and standin' around, John and Scott headed home while the rest us headed to his little isekaya to get some food. Found out it's where all the peeps that play ball go to. Met this koo kat named Timo (26, half german half japanese, 2 passports, 2 totally different names, baller, english is good, comedian) and we talked bout ball and this guy is really into ball and knows his stuff. Can't wait til play with him in 2 weeks! We got some grub there and headed to this other bar in the Cerulean hotel. Hung out there for a while, got to talk to Rick and Brian more. We then headed out to this club called Module (i think) but the place was kinda wack. This was way too loud...totally different from the place went to last night. It also was too crowded. I went to go chill in the corner to get out of the traffic and chatted with Kyoko for a bit. @ Around 0230ish...we decided to call it a night and Rick offered his place to kick it til first train. When we got to Rick's all I had to say was WHOAH!!! His place is dope! We watched Boyz n the Hood which was funny to see the subtitles in Japanese. When 0500 came around, we all headed home. Man...2 all nighters in a row...this can't be good for my body.
11.02.03
On the ride home, there was this group of peeps that went to a Halloween party. This one guy had this elaborate alien/insect costume which brought laughter from everyone. Guess ya'll had to see it. Anyhow...I gots home around 7ish but couldn't fall asleep til like 1000ish. Woke up around 1530ish and got a call from Lou to see if wanted to go to Akihabara with them but I declined so that I could rest some more. Rick called me to confirm to meet in Shibuya @ 1930. Got there, met up with the crew, plus Scott's wife Yasuko and minus Kev. We headed to this isekaya to eat dinner. Met Rick's fiancee, Mika and also Yasuko's sister. Had some grubbin' food and dessert. Said my farewells to Lou and Mark and headed home. Definitely built up a new network of friends and sempais. Now I know for sure, I'll be out here for awhile. Don't get me wrong, I'll be back to visit sometime...but for the years, Japan is gonna be my home.
11.03.03
Man...I'm pretty tired from all this partyin'. It's been tough, but hey, whenever somebody comes out to visit, ya gotta make those sacrifices. It's all good. Anyhow...I'm gonna get ready to go back to Shibuya again! 4 days in a row is tough yo! Gonna kick it with Yu's friends today at his college's festival. It looks as though it's gonna rain, but we'll see. Aite...I'm signing off.
Kaz out...
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