spendin' time with pops
friday nite's dinner was really good. it was a small little restaurant near bunka hall where you cook your food on this hot stone. of course, they had grilled salmon, a bowl of rice and reishuu for my pops.
got to meet takasaki san, an erai hito (vip) with the board of education. i also requested to my boss on the schools i would like to go to next year. i think the situation was just right, my pops, his friends, the other city people and my boss' boss there. as tri put it, "the planets are in perfect alignment".
had to leave to early to go meet up with ko. was surprised to see that marty actually came out too. then headed out to meet up with nao and her friend tara, an alt from ottawa, canada. a little while later, reiko, another one of nao's friends came thru. this place that we went to is called sala. it's like a tent and i would probably say that 80% of the crowd were gaijin. miyazaki came thru later just after sendin' me a text askin' me if they were cute. it's always a pleasure to hang around miyazaki when he's a little yopparai...he becomes a very bold person with an increased ability to speak in english. btw, this was also the first time i saw ko drink a lot. he was almost hangin' with me, couldn't believe him. with ko, when starts drinkin', he becomes a ghetto comedian. pretty damn funny guy. crashed @ ko's house that night.
since it was pourin' rain the next day, ko's soccer game got cancelled so we planned on doin' the live draft at this house. him on his desktop, me on his ultra portable notebook. man, that notebook is dope. it's a dell and it's so light and thin. probably half the weight of my pb. before the draft, headed to the soba/udon place and then went to the convenience store for some snacks to last us thru the draft. i went with a new strategy with this draft, pickin' up a lot of japanese players. i tried not to draft the same guys but i ended up takin' about 4 of the same players from my other draft.
headed back home to shower and change, stopped by ikko cuz mama had some homemade snacks for me. then headed back to funabashi for the exchange student dinner. met up with my pops, ray & setsu @ sazanka satchan (the meetin' spot @ funabashi station). first student to arrive was noriko. she was one of the first students to come about 10 years ago. all i remember was that we were tryin' to hook her up with my bball coach. then came: nao, emi, mayumi, mariko, hiroki, mitsushiro, shinsuke, daisuke, yuta, asako, satchi, ono, junji, haruna and ken. the older students i don't remember that much but they all say that i've grown up a lot since they were there whereas the more recent students i remember. the dinner was really good...had all kinds of different food and got to catch up with a lot of the students i haven't seen in years. the funny thing about the night was when setsu gave a speech and announced her age to everybody! at first, the students didn't pick up on it, but a few moments later, in chorus, "eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!?!?!?". most of them...no, probably all of them didn't know her age. after all the food and drinks, pops came back with me to yakuendai/takinoi. we headed to serenade and was surprised to see ito san and mina san there. so i introduced them as well as mama and master san. partied there pretty late. somehow made it home and pops instantly passed out. tried to chat with peeps but it didn't really work out as planned, due to the inebriated state that i was in.
woke up to the sound of my father tellin' me he wanted to take a walk and get some coffee. it was way too early to be doin' any of that but i my pops seemed pretty determined. so i sucked it up even though i was futsuka yoi, i got dressed and we proceeded to walk to mcdonalds for some coffee and some food. as we were walkin', noticed that ikko's shutters were open so we went to check it out. kobi san was there cleanin' up. he told me that mama is out and bout and that i should give her a call. after mcdonalds, called mama and she said to meet up at the park. mama came with chi mama and ezure san and i introduced everybody and we then headed out to the keisei rose garden in yachiyo. since it's still a little early, the roses aren't close to bloomin', but they did have a lot of other plants, trees, bushes, etc... as usual, pops was able to tell by just lookin' at the plants what its latin name was. he even surprised me that he knew the japanese name as well. we went to get some ice cream and coffee there. didn't get any ice cream cuz my stomach was churnin' still but i will definitely try their rose flavored ice cream next time. we then headed back to yakuendai and had some tea @ mama's. found out that sensei and yuasa sensei came by to help clean ikko. they turned the place upside down...this all for when i bring my dad on tuesday. went back home to take a shower, didn't have much time cuz we were goin' to meet tomo @ mcdonalds @ 1300.
met up with tomo and she drove us to her house which is pretty close to my place actually. as tomo was tryin' to park the car, she totally scraped up the front as she was backin' in. finally got to meet tomo's father for the first time. their house is really nice. the livin' room is not like any room i've been in japan. it has all kinds of stuff from europe in it. they did live in london for 3 years so i guess that was probably the reason why. lunch was really good. we had some gyoza, marinated beef and yaki soba. i even tried this beer that tomo brought back from taiwan which was aite. the snack that she brought back was really mazui (nasty). after lunch, tomo's dad took us out to his garden and showed us all his plants. we stayed at chatted til about 1600 before tomo's mom drove us back to my place.
pops took a little powernap while i got all the omiyage ready to go to makuhari. @ yakuendai station, saw some of my students and told them my dad was with me. they told me that i don't look like my father, hmmm....everyone seems to say that.
sho picked us up from makuharihongo station and we were greeted by mama, ami and futoshi (ami's younger brother). mama had a feast lined up which consisted of sukiyaki, sashimi (mostly for sho and i cuz everyone else doesn't really eat it), tenpura soramame, salad and many other side dishes. futoshi and sho were really diggin' on the petit sirah and even mama liked it too. we had a very good conversation and pops seemed to be able to get along quite well.
it was interestin' to hear about mama and papa's trip to egypt. since they didn't serve any alcohol on the flight, they bought their own @ the airport so they could have something while in the air. papa came thru a little bit later cuz he had to go a memorial service in tokyo. we only stayed a little later before ami took us back to the station. pops was on his own cuz we took different trains home. but he got in just fine.
an interestin' thing this weekend that was a nice change was whenever we met people. since i'm always introduced as my father's son, it was nice to hear people saying that this is kevin's father.
i'm really fortunate and happy that my father was able to spend the weekend with me. i know that he's really, really busy but i hope now he knows that he doesn't really have to worry bout me (not that he did before, maybe for my mom's sake). i feel a little bit bad cuz i put my father thru a lot this weekend. with him bein' a little sick, all the drinkin' we did and being constantly on the go, he put all those aside in order to take hang out with his son.
let's just hope he survives tonite @ ikko ;b
kaz out....
friday nite's dinner was really good. it was a small little restaurant near bunka hall where you cook your food on this hot stone. of course, they had grilled salmon, a bowl of rice and reishuu for my pops.
got to meet takasaki san, an erai hito (vip) with the board of education. i also requested to my boss on the schools i would like to go to next year. i think the situation was just right, my pops, his friends, the other city people and my boss' boss there. as tri put it, "the planets are in perfect alignment".
had to leave to early to go meet up with ko. was surprised to see that marty actually came out too. then headed out to meet up with nao and her friend tara, an alt from ottawa, canada. a little while later, reiko, another one of nao's friends came thru. this place that we went to is called sala. it's like a tent and i would probably say that 80% of the crowd were gaijin. miyazaki came thru later just after sendin' me a text askin' me if they were cute. it's always a pleasure to hang around miyazaki when he's a little yopparai...he becomes a very bold person with an increased ability to speak in english. btw, this was also the first time i saw ko drink a lot. he was almost hangin' with me, couldn't believe him. with ko, when starts drinkin', he becomes a ghetto comedian. pretty damn funny guy. crashed @ ko's house that night.
since it was pourin' rain the next day, ko's soccer game got cancelled so we planned on doin' the live draft at this house. him on his desktop, me on his ultra portable notebook. man, that notebook is dope. it's a dell and it's so light and thin. probably half the weight of my pb. before the draft, headed to the soba/udon place and then went to the convenience store for some snacks to last us thru the draft. i went with a new strategy with this draft, pickin' up a lot of japanese players. i tried not to draft the same guys but i ended up takin' about 4 of the same players from my other draft.
headed back home to shower and change, stopped by ikko cuz mama had some homemade snacks for me. then headed back to funabashi for the exchange student dinner. met up with my pops, ray & setsu @ sazanka satchan (the meetin' spot @ funabashi station). first student to arrive was noriko. she was one of the first students to come about 10 years ago. all i remember was that we were tryin' to hook her up with my bball coach. then came: nao, emi, mayumi, mariko, hiroki, mitsushiro, shinsuke, daisuke, yuta, asako, satchi, ono, junji, haruna and ken. the older students i don't remember that much but they all say that i've grown up a lot since they were there whereas the more recent students i remember. the dinner was really good...had all kinds of different food and got to catch up with a lot of the students i haven't seen in years. the funny thing about the night was when setsu gave a speech and announced her age to everybody! at first, the students didn't pick up on it, but a few moments later, in chorus, "eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!?!?!?". most of them...no, probably all of them didn't know her age. after all the food and drinks, pops came back with me to yakuendai/takinoi. we headed to serenade and was surprised to see ito san and mina san there. so i introduced them as well as mama and master san. partied there pretty late. somehow made it home and pops instantly passed out. tried to chat with peeps but it didn't really work out as planned, due to the inebriated state that i was in.
woke up to the sound of my father tellin' me he wanted to take a walk and get some coffee. it was way too early to be doin' any of that but i my pops seemed pretty determined. so i sucked it up even though i was futsuka yoi, i got dressed and we proceeded to walk to mcdonalds for some coffee and some food. as we were walkin', noticed that ikko's shutters were open so we went to check it out. kobi san was there cleanin' up. he told me that mama is out and bout and that i should give her a call. after mcdonalds, called mama and she said to meet up at the park. mama came with chi mama and ezure san and i introduced everybody and we then headed out to the keisei rose garden in yachiyo. since it's still a little early, the roses aren't close to bloomin', but they did have a lot of other plants, trees, bushes, etc... as usual, pops was able to tell by just lookin' at the plants what its latin name was. he even surprised me that he knew the japanese name as well. we went to get some ice cream and coffee there. didn't get any ice cream cuz my stomach was churnin' still but i will definitely try their rose flavored ice cream next time. we then headed back to yakuendai and had some tea @ mama's. found out that sensei and yuasa sensei came by to help clean ikko. they turned the place upside down...this all for when i bring my dad on tuesday. went back home to take a shower, didn't have much time cuz we were goin' to meet tomo @ mcdonalds @ 1300.
met up with tomo and she drove us to her house which is pretty close to my place actually. as tomo was tryin' to park the car, she totally scraped up the front as she was backin' in. finally got to meet tomo's father for the first time. their house is really nice. the livin' room is not like any room i've been in japan. it has all kinds of stuff from europe in it. they did live in london for 3 years so i guess that was probably the reason why. lunch was really good. we had some gyoza, marinated beef and yaki soba. i even tried this beer that tomo brought back from taiwan which was aite. the snack that she brought back was really mazui (nasty). after lunch, tomo's dad took us out to his garden and showed us all his plants. we stayed at chatted til about 1600 before tomo's mom drove us back to my place.
pops took a little powernap while i got all the omiyage ready to go to makuhari. @ yakuendai station, saw some of my students and told them my dad was with me. they told me that i don't look like my father, hmmm....everyone seems to say that.
sho picked us up from makuharihongo station and we were greeted by mama, ami and futoshi (ami's younger brother). mama had a feast lined up which consisted of sukiyaki, sashimi (mostly for sho and i cuz everyone else doesn't really eat it), tenpura soramame, salad and many other side dishes. futoshi and sho were really diggin' on the petit sirah and even mama liked it too. we had a very good conversation and pops seemed to be able to get along quite well.
it was interestin' to hear about mama and papa's trip to egypt. since they didn't serve any alcohol on the flight, they bought their own @ the airport so they could have something while in the air. papa came thru a little bit later cuz he had to go a memorial service in tokyo. we only stayed a little later before ami took us back to the station. pops was on his own cuz we took different trains home. but he got in just fine.
an interestin' thing this weekend that was a nice change was whenever we met people. since i'm always introduced as my father's son, it was nice to hear people saying that this is kevin's father.
i'm really fortunate and happy that my father was able to spend the weekend with me. i know that he's really, really busy but i hope now he knows that he doesn't really have to worry bout me (not that he did before, maybe for my mom's sake). i feel a little bit bad cuz i put my father thru a lot this weekend. with him bein' a little sick, all the drinkin' we did and being constantly on the go, he put all those aside in order to take hang out with his son.
let's just hope he survives tonite @ ikko ;b
kaz out....
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月曜日, 3月 22, 2004.
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