ok...sorry for the laggy update. just know that i'm typin' this entry on my brand new powerbook 12" 1ghz, 768mb ram, 60gb, super drive, airport extreme and bluetooth mouse!
friday
pops came in today and yu did too. met up with yu @ funabashi eki so he can give me my "baby". his parents gave me a ride to tajima's. met up with pops, ray and setsu. kazue and atsuko were there too. ate some food while we tried to schedule the dinners that he needs come to. brought pops a bottle of glenfiddich and had to pay him for my pb. kazue also made for me this kind of ramen that i've never seen before. tajima came home a little bit later and we continued to drink and figure out their schedule. so far i'm penciled in for 3-4 days. atsuko took me home and i went to sleep right when i got in.
saturday
woke up @ 0430 so i have time to get ready for the live draft in eric's work league. when 0500 hit, no draft. i was chattin' with eric about it and i guess there weren't enough ppl logged in, plus we had an odd number of guys. so he rescheduled it for 0730! man...do i go to sleep and run the risk of not bein' able to get up or just stay up and tough it out. i decided on the latter and the extra research i did in that time helped out a lot durin' the draft. 0730 comes around and i got the 1st pick. here's my team:
1. a.rodriguez
2. v.guerrero
3. m.tejada
4. j.posada
5. m.mulder
6. r.oswalt
7. o.dotel
8. m.giles
9. c.sabathia
10. a.rhodes
11. c.zambrano
12. m.cabrera
13. c.crawford
14. a.berroa
15. r.baldelli
16. g.meche
17. m.lecroy
18. m.teixeira
19. je.gonzalez
20. j.burnitz
21. s.burroughs
22. s.chacon
23. r.klesko
24. e.jackson
25. r.wagner
thought i did quite well even though i had the 1st pick. we'll see how the season goes...i'm in 2 head-to-head leagues and a market based leauge. after the draft, took a 2 hour nap and then headed to shibuya sports center for bball. met up with ai-chan who wanted to play, but she didn't bring any shoes. the regulars were there with the exception of this new guy name hide. he's half flip/half so his english was really good. his game complements mine really well. he's a big guy who's game resembles lawrence funderburke. the highlight of the day was when the old guys (sean, bryan & ken = 32+), hide (28) and me(26) took on the young guys who's average age is 26. we shut them down 7-0 in da beginnin'. we brought out this solid zone d that they didn't know how to react to. we ended up winnin' 11-5.
afterwards, headed to shibuya to meet up with a-chan. we headed over to torikaku for some food and drink. dogma joined us later as well as ai-chan. makko came around 2200ish and then we headed over to doma doma. was surprised to find out that a-chan has her own bottle of tantakatan there. dogma and ai-chan we puttin' it down on the desserts. yu and hide came a little bit later. i had a-chan spike yu's oolong tea = oolong hi. hee hee. yu and i had to take off to catch the last train. good thing we caught the sobu sen in shinagawa. had seats the whole way.
on my way home, i noticed ikko had only one slide rail down and the lights were still on. this was around 0030ish. so i went in and to see what was up. there were three peeps with mama: an old guy and a boy & girl around 20ish. found out that the man "hangs out" with otsuka sensei and that the kids' parents are mama's friends. ended up stayin' there til like 0130ish and then went home.
sunday
today is the exchange student interviews @ city hall. the other alt that was goin' to interview with me was this girl named mehves. she's from turkey but her english is good and her so is her japanese. if i were to close my eyes, i would guess that she was japanese. she even got props from setsu & miyazaki. of the 4 girls, 2 of them didn't get a high enough toefl score, so we ended up just interviewin' 2. the first girl was really nervous. she seems very majime though and since she studied spanish in college as well, she would easily get used to livin' in hayward. the second girl's english was very good. i think they'll both have a good experience in hayward.
afterwards, we had a sushi bento and afterwards headed back to tajima's house in miyazaki's new car. well..not really new car, but he won this contest to test drive the new audi a3 for one month. all he has to do is pay the insurance for 1 month and write a summary of the whole experience. the a3 is a pretty dope car. clean inside and out. on our way to tajima's, it started to snow a bit but it was the kind of snow that melts right as it touches the ground.
pops and ray made lunch. ray's ramen looked more like chow mein. since miyazaki wants to drive as much as he can, he volunteered to take my pops, ray and setsu to tokyo. i declined cuz i wanted to go home and relax.
on my way back home, stopped off @ laox and picked up a zeroshock sleeve for my pb. came home and did some cleanin' and laundry and i even set up the webcam tri (packaged with my pb). showed nikki, rita and tony my place...well as far as my usb cord could go. headed to ikko for dinner. came home and crashed out.
monday
school was pretty slack today. there were only 2 classes and then graduation practice. played bball and durin' the full court scrimmage...i subplexed my bad shoulder again. all my students were surprised and they didn't really know what to do. at first thought, i was like...oh man...it's been a long time since i've reset my shoulder myself. of course, abiru sensei asked me if i needed to go the hospital and he even called wakamoto sensei to come and check things out. after about 5 min of bein' paralyzed and gainin' the confidence, i reset my shoulder but held my agony in 'til i went outside the gym.
went to ikko for some kusuri (medicine) and was surprised to see that mama put up this flyer for my dad's reception party. it's gonna be a big thing i guess...dancing, food and drinks. ni-chan (sakamoto san) came thru cuz he worked in matsudo. it was the first time i seen him in a suit! looks like your normal sarari man. the whole crew came thru last night. there was a cople that committed suicide in kyoto so i asked everyone, if you wanted to committ suicide, how would you do it? sensei and yoko both said that they would want to go to the forests at the foot of mt. fujii. that forest is famous for people to commit suicide. for some reason, cell phones to get any signal there and there's quite a few ppl every year that go there to commit suicide. crazy japanese...
tuesday
it was another light day. pretty much just preparin' for the graduation ceremony tomorrow. we had a full scale cleanin' and a teacher's pep talk/assessment meetin'. should be really fun tomorrow. hope all goes as planned.
well..i'm dedicatin' tonite to my pb and of course my tuesday nite tv shows.
oh yeah...btw...ya'll get on yim (yahoo instant messenger)...i gots my webcam now...so we can video chat
aite...i'm off to do some other stuff now.
kaz out...
friday
pops came in today and yu did too. met up with yu @ funabashi eki so he can give me my "baby". his parents gave me a ride to tajima's. met up with pops, ray and setsu. kazue and atsuko were there too. ate some food while we tried to schedule the dinners that he needs come to. brought pops a bottle of glenfiddich and had to pay him for my pb. kazue also made for me this kind of ramen that i've never seen before. tajima came home a little bit later and we continued to drink and figure out their schedule. so far i'm penciled in for 3-4 days. atsuko took me home and i went to sleep right when i got in.
saturday
woke up @ 0430 so i have time to get ready for the live draft in eric's work league. when 0500 hit, no draft. i was chattin' with eric about it and i guess there weren't enough ppl logged in, plus we had an odd number of guys. so he rescheduled it for 0730! man...do i go to sleep and run the risk of not bein' able to get up or just stay up and tough it out. i decided on the latter and the extra research i did in that time helped out a lot durin' the draft. 0730 comes around and i got the 1st pick. here's my team:
1. a.rodriguez
2. v.guerrero
3. m.tejada
4. j.posada
5. m.mulder
6. r.oswalt
7. o.dotel
8. m.giles
9. c.sabathia
10. a.rhodes
11. c.zambrano
12. m.cabrera
13. c.crawford
14. a.berroa
15. r.baldelli
16. g.meche
17. m.lecroy
18. m.teixeira
19. je.gonzalez
20. j.burnitz
21. s.burroughs
22. s.chacon
23. r.klesko
24. e.jackson
25. r.wagner
thought i did quite well even though i had the 1st pick. we'll see how the season goes...i'm in 2 head-to-head leagues and a market based leauge. after the draft, took a 2 hour nap and then headed to shibuya sports center for bball. met up with ai-chan who wanted to play, but she didn't bring any shoes. the regulars were there with the exception of this new guy name hide. he's half flip/half so his english was really good. his game complements mine really well. he's a big guy who's game resembles lawrence funderburke. the highlight of the day was when the old guys (sean, bryan & ken = 32+), hide (28) and me(26) took on the young guys who's average age is 26. we shut them down 7-0 in da beginnin'. we brought out this solid zone d that they didn't know how to react to. we ended up winnin' 11-5.
afterwards, headed to shibuya to meet up with a-chan. we headed over to torikaku for some food and drink. dogma joined us later as well as ai-chan. makko came around 2200ish and then we headed over to doma doma. was surprised to find out that a-chan has her own bottle of tantakatan there. dogma and ai-chan we puttin' it down on the desserts. yu and hide came a little bit later. i had a-chan spike yu's oolong tea = oolong hi. hee hee. yu and i had to take off to catch the last train. good thing we caught the sobu sen in shinagawa. had seats the whole way.
on my way home, i noticed ikko had only one slide rail down and the lights were still on. this was around 0030ish. so i went in and to see what was up. there were three peeps with mama: an old guy and a boy & girl around 20ish. found out that the man "hangs out" with otsuka sensei and that the kids' parents are mama's friends. ended up stayin' there til like 0130ish and then went home.
sunday
today is the exchange student interviews @ city hall. the other alt that was goin' to interview with me was this girl named mehves. she's from turkey but her english is good and her so is her japanese. if i were to close my eyes, i would guess that she was japanese. she even got props from setsu & miyazaki. of the 4 girls, 2 of them didn't get a high enough toefl score, so we ended up just interviewin' 2. the first girl was really nervous. she seems very majime though and since she studied spanish in college as well, she would easily get used to livin' in hayward. the second girl's english was very good. i think they'll both have a good experience in hayward.
afterwards, we had a sushi bento and afterwards headed back to tajima's house in miyazaki's new car. well..not really new car, but he won this contest to test drive the new audi a3 for one month. all he has to do is pay the insurance for 1 month and write a summary of the whole experience. the a3 is a pretty dope car. clean inside and out. on our way to tajima's, it started to snow a bit but it was the kind of snow that melts right as it touches the ground.
pops and ray made lunch. ray's ramen looked more like chow mein. since miyazaki wants to drive as much as he can, he volunteered to take my pops, ray and setsu to tokyo. i declined cuz i wanted to go home and relax.
on my way back home, stopped off @ laox and picked up a zeroshock sleeve for my pb. came home and did some cleanin' and laundry and i even set up the webcam tri (packaged with my pb). showed nikki, rita and tony my place...well as far as my usb cord could go. headed to ikko for dinner. came home and crashed out.
monday
school was pretty slack today. there were only 2 classes and then graduation practice. played bball and durin' the full court scrimmage...i subplexed my bad shoulder again. all my students were surprised and they didn't really know what to do. at first thought, i was like...oh man...it's been a long time since i've reset my shoulder myself. of course, abiru sensei asked me if i needed to go the hospital and he even called wakamoto sensei to come and check things out. after about 5 min of bein' paralyzed and gainin' the confidence, i reset my shoulder but held my agony in 'til i went outside the gym.
went to ikko for some kusuri (medicine) and was surprised to see that mama put up this flyer for my dad's reception party. it's gonna be a big thing i guess...dancing, food and drinks. ni-chan (sakamoto san) came thru cuz he worked in matsudo. it was the first time i seen him in a suit! looks like your normal sarari man. the whole crew came thru last night. there was a cople that committed suicide in kyoto so i asked everyone, if you wanted to committ suicide, how would you do it? sensei and yoko both said that they would want to go to the forests at the foot of mt. fujii. that forest is famous for people to commit suicide. for some reason, cell phones to get any signal there and there's quite a few ppl every year that go there to commit suicide. crazy japanese...
tuesday
it was another light day. pretty much just preparin' for the graduation ceremony tomorrow. we had a full scale cleanin' and a teacher's pep talk/assessment meetin'. should be really fun tomorrow. hope all goes as planned.
well..i'm dedicatin' tonite to my pb and of course my tuesday nite tv shows.
oh yeah...btw...ya'll get on yim (yahoo instant messenger)...i gots my webcam now...so we can video chat
aite...i'm off to do some other stuff now.
kaz out...
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火曜日, 3月 09, 2004.
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