sorry it's been a while since da last update. be prepared for a long read...
sat, 09.11.04: taiikusai (sports day)
the weather the past couple of days has been kinda crazy. luckily the weather on saturday was great! not too hot, nice little breeze.
when i got to school, mishima san tells me that we're runnin' in a relay race with utsumi sensei and saito sensei. i was like ok...whatever...
the taiikusai openin' ceremony went well. the kids did a good job. i was surprised to see many parents and other people that came. even saw miyamoto-san who only had 3 hours of sleep after workin' 12 hours. i was surprised to see him fumblin' with this ketai in his hand. it turns out that he finaly got a new cell phone!!!
startin' off the day was the 100m for the girls and the 200m for the boys. next was the kyari kyari race, which was kinda strange. each time, a group of 6 (2 from each team) would run up and pick up this card, and on this card would be instructions. first would be to get an item that's somewhere on the school grounds, sometimes it meant gettin' a certain student or even a teacher. probably the funniest items were a wheelbarrow and teapot. then they would have to bring that item to the second station and carry out the next set of instructions which was: do the baseball bat spinnin' thing and then run, run backwards, skip or jump rope to the finish line.
just a random pic of 9th grade boys
the next good event was the boys tug-of-war. our team went undefeated! the other teams had no chance!!
next up was the relay for each class and then we broke for lunch. i was so happy to find out that the bento we ordered came from miyagokoro! since i was gonna run in the first event after lunch, i scarfed down my food and then began to warm up. i couldn't look like a foo out there, ya know?
luckily for me, i found out that the first event consisted of 2 parts. it was the club sports performance/speed relay. representatives from each club team dressed up in their uniforms. the performance part of the event was so funny. first off was the guys club team performance, the baseball team pair were had their legs tied together, ie. both right feet together and both left together with about 1m between them and had to
the soccer club pair had to juggle the ball the whole way, the team was lucky cuz they didn't have to pair up, but for some reason, they had to push a weight bar on the ground the whole lap, then they had to curl dumbells on the next. but the funniest was the table tennis team, a 9th grader had a paddle and ball and had to keep volleyin' it as he ran around (w/some strong winds), but here's the catch, he had to piggy back the smallest 7th grader!!! man, it was comedy!
next up, was the girls club team performance event. the vball girls pair did a 3-legged run but with duck beaks that quack when you blow thru them. they also had to carry a ball with them. the other sports teams also had to do the 3-legged race. the soft tennis girls pair had to volley a ball while the track team girls pair had to jump rope. man, that must've been tough!
after that, was the guys speed relay. the soccer team easily beat the track team. the baseball team had a tough time cuz they were in their uniforms but it was funny to see as the anchor for the baseball team approached the final 20m, the whole team slid ran with him and they all slid thru the finish line together! also, they had 4 dads also run in this race. one dad was hella fast! however, there was one dad who ate it hard!!!
so...the time we've all been waitin' for has come. the girls club speed relay. utsumi sensei started it off for us, then mishima-san ran the second leg, then saito-sensei the third and me the anchor. i was surprised to see that miyamoto-san was the anchoor for the dad's 2nd relay team. anyhow, at the start of the race, utsumi sensei had the lead. we kinda lost a little ground when mishima-san ran, but she tried her best which i totally respect. then saito sensei picks up the slack a lot. we had a good handoff and @ that time we were third and about maybe 30m from the lead. i moved into second and gained a lot of ground but couldn't overtake the track team girls' anchor. she had to big of a lead...and all my energy was depleted by the time i hit the final 30m or so. i'm totally not conditioned for these long sprints. since i don't play bball that much anymore and vball is more like short, quick movements, my stamina for long races is just not there. it was kinda nice to hear from all the teachers and students, "kebin, sugoku hayakatta!" (kevin, you're hella fast!)
the event that all the teams have been practicin' so hard was the mukade (centipede) race. our team won the 7th grade race, got second in the 8th grade and came in last in the 9th grade. the 9th grade race was kinda crazy. the girls started off and not even 30m, they all fall. i would say that 90% of the time, when teams fall, it's like a domino effect. but this was the first time i'd ever seen a dogpile. this was a real football dogpile!! think 15 girls, all piled up! crazy!!! i felt bad for yukino, cuz she was the first person (the most dangerous spot for mukade) and everyone piled on top of her. after all the girls finally got up, i would say that 80% had some sort of ailment. but they finished and passed to the guys. the guys fell almostly instantly. they just couldn't get the rhythm. plus it didn't help that the other teams already finished. the thing that surprised me was that the other teams, after finishin', came up next to our team and ran & cheered them all the way to the finish line. it was very touchin' moment.
the 7th grade mukade race
the final girls' team event was the tug-of-war. what was nice was that everyone got first place.
the final team event was the boys' horse battle which we won!
the final event was the best of the best relay race between the three teams. we got 2nd place, but it wasn't enough for us to get out of the bottom. :(
the 7th grade yellow team
the 9th grade white team
the 9th grade blue team
the 9th grade yellow team
i couldn't believe toita sensei made the girls have a short practice after sports day. it was only serve practice but still. i joined them for a bit to practice my serve. everytime we practice our serves, we set up 3 chairs in: deep right, deep left and deep middle. i wasn't leavin' til i hit one and the girls kept on shaggin' my serves and were instantly there to give me another ball.
around 1800ish, the sensei nomikai started at this place near kita narashino. had some grubbin' food and it was good to see the teachers get a little twisted. i was surprised to see kuwada sensei (music teacher) get drunk. like nio sensei from my last year's school, when they get drunk, for some reason, they can speak english. so kuwada sensei was just crackin' me up the whole night. oshino san tried to get into our conversation about the prefectures in kyushuu but what she said wasn't even a prefecture. so we kept callin' her strange which she took both jokingly as well as a little serious. all of the teachers' speeches were funny. they were some comedians. somehow blood type came into the conversation and it was interestin' to see who was what. there was a good balance between a's, b's and o's with only 1 ab. after we finished up there, about 10 of us went to the nijikai. had a few drinks and some snacks. then toita sensei offers to us about the sanjikai where there's some mita jhs teachers. kawada sensei goes (he taught there last year) and i go. got there, met the principal of the mita jhs and a young english teacher. the principal was some character. was constantly crackin' me up the whole time. the english teacher too was fun to talk too. had some good food there too. the ochazuke was especially good. afterwards, we headed to another place! it was really dark there, so i was startin' to doze off a bit. it was kinda blurry from that point on. not sure how i got home but i did.
sunday
slept in for a long time. headed out to akihabara, to meet up with tamawa to check out dvd players. saw some koo new stuff out there. there were a bunch of dvd players, but we're tryin' to find a portable, region free which is kinda hard. saw the new mgs trailer playin'. man, it looks dope! hangin' from trees and takin' out foos. headed out to omotesando for dinner. went to this hong kong style restaurant which was surprisingly pretty good. since it was a nice cool day, we walked all around urahara and stopped over at this little lounge to have some wine and chat. caught my train home and stopped over @ chacha to kick it with mama. saw mi-chan there and somehow the conversation turned into talkin' bout personalities, blood types and relationships. mi-chan and i differ on a lot of things but mama always seems to know where i'm comin' from. we talked til almost 0400...
monday
aww...it was nice havin' another monday off. stayed home and chilled for most of the day. did tons of laundry and prepared my lesson plan for the next day. was supposed to go to kaoru's bday, but was way too tired to party again, especially when i have elementary school the next day. so i just had some food @ ikko, came home and was out by 2300.
tuesday
it was probably a good idea not to go out last night. cuz i got all my lesson plan done and got lots of sleep. the day went by so fast. my lesson rocked! the kids had a great time. i think it's also because this week was week b which means 5th & 6th graders.
came home and decided to make an italian dinner. it was vegetables & pollo in a butter, herb and olive oil sauce. it was grubbin'. then watched my tv programs and talked to my 'big sis'.
wednesday
another day at school.
had 4 classes and 3 of those were 8th graders. every wednesday is listenin' practice with t/f or q/a. i spoke about how the japanese school year and the american school year are different. most of the students were shocked that we didn't have any homework over the summer.
today was also chukyokyo, so classes were short. i didn't go to the meetin' cuz i had to much work to do...kinda sorta, but i'm not a big fan of the chukyokyo anyways...but i did have lots of work. finally finished the diaries for 2-2. i still have 2 more classes to grade...
came home and cut my hair. decided to not touch the top this time and also do more of a lower fade. turned out better than i thought it would.
after that, headed to ikko for dinner. mama hooked up some grubbin' nasu miso and yakisoba. chatted with sensei for a bit. only 10 more days til he meets the girl that mama is hookin' him up with. he's so happy...
thursday
i guess utsumi sensei learned something @ the chukyokyo cuz he wanted me to be the main teacher and him be the assistant. i was like ok...luckily it was for the 9th graders whose english is the best.
toita sensei asked me to help out at the practice, so i did that for like 45 min. my hittin' has digressed so much since i haven't been practicin' that much lately. i was really surprised of how the level of the 7th graders have improved so much. as for the 8th graders, chinami-chan and mami-chan were diggin' up some of my best stuff, so of course i continued to bring it and they continued to surprise me.
since lark is in tokyo now, we decided to go out for dinner in shinjuku. as always, whenever i go to shinjuku station and have to meet somebody outside...it always turns out bad. i'm fine with shibuya, roppongi, ueno and even azabu. but shinjuku...no way!
anyhow, finally met up with lark @ her hotel and then we went to the watami for drinks and dinner. it's kinda hard to eat with her cuz she's a vegetarian. luckily the food in japan is by nature, kinda catered to vegetarians. bry met up with us later and we all chatted til about 2300ish cuz i had to catch the last train home.
friday
man, it was a tough mornin'. got to school on time and after drinkin' a coffee, i was koo. fortunately i had only 2 classes today. the principal came up to talk to me on the balcony today. it's very rare that he does that. tho he was kinda hard to understand, i got the gist of what he was sayin'. i also finally got connected to the school lan. it was just plug in and surf away. i love my mac!
miura sensei and i went to the supermarket across the street to get a bento for lunch, but we got there 5 min before they opened, so we had to wait a bit. when they opened, they didn't have any bentos ready!? luckily i had some food i picked up in da mornin' from 7-11 that tided me over.
had vball practice and did the normal drill with the girls. me spikin' @ them and then toita sensei came and they did hittin' drills, a's (quick sets from toita sensei) and outside sets from various girls takin' turns. i officially feel that i hit quick sets, whether they're 1's, huts or reds. when the set was good, i was consistently poundin' inside 3m. since i haven't hit in about a month, after about 30 or so hits, my legs began to cramp up.
went to ikko for dinner and then came home to relax for a bit. then i headed out to meet up with b, jt and lark.
met up with b @ the gate, then jt and junji came thru. junji gave us our passes and headed out while we waited for lark. lark was a little late, cuz she kinda took the wrong train, but all good, cuz she got there in one piece. we all headed off to ageha. chilled outside for a bit before goin' in. we lined up for the wrong line at first but was quickly directed to the mtv guest list line. got inside, met some of b's ex-coworkers and got some drinks. since this event was also sponsered by bmw mini, all the bartenders were wearin' black shirts with the words mini in white on them. everytime i looked at them, i would just see the nine in nails logo instead... they didn't have the gyros roach coach like last time so i was a little disappointed. anyhow, wasn't feelin' da music at all...since it was house/trance. i thought after a few drinks, i would start to feel da music, but it didn't happen. we decided to take the shuttle bus (it was one of the best buses i've been on) back to shibuya and head to b's friend's party @ nutz. way too many dudes there, wasn't feelin' da music and i was gettin' pretty tired. we bounced outta there and went to eat @ duffy duck. had some indonesian dish that was grubbin' and had some of jon's pasta which was pretty good too. went back to shinjuku with lark and what was funny was that we ended up @ her exit! that's a first!!! anyhow, said goodbye and i headed home. on my way from shin-tsudanuma from jr tsudanuma, as i was walkin' down the steps, i noticed these 2 hs girls, walkin' up the steps, tiltin' their heads and as we approach each other, i hear "kebin!". i was in no mood to talk to them so i just said "ohayo" and walked away...
lark and me
saturday
recoverin' from a long night/mornin' of partyin'. my body is achin' also from playin' vball yesterday. made some somen for lunch and headed out to ebisu for shintaro's bday. met up with eugene and jt there. it was kinda weird to be around nothin' but college girls so i kno the other guys were feelin' even more out of place. b and steve swung threw later. we had some good food, drinks were ok. i headed home on the last train.
sunday
talked with the guys back home thru yim webcam and skype. saw some pics from eric's bday and even got a video of ben serenadin' the sink.
headed out to yoyogi park to yu's event. there was this big concert goin', so it was pretty packed in that area. as for yu's event, it was koo. just chilled, listened to reggae, had some drinks, some bbq chicken and finally yu performed right near the end. after that, headed to eifukucho to kick it with b. rick even came thru after comin' back from hakone. we chilled and then i headed home on last train.
yu on da mic
monday
thank god i had the day off. 2 mondays in a row. went shoppin' and finally picked up a wi-fi router and some other stuff that i've been puttin' off for some time now. met up with tomo for dinner and we went to ikko. mama made some natto gyoza which was off da hook!!! after walkin' tomo home, came home and crashed out.
tuesday
back to work. teachin' the 3rd and 4th graders were tough, as usual. came home, cooked dinner and watched this one tv show that was really interestin'. it was a quiz type show where they would show a short video and the detective would figure out the case in a matter of seconds. then the entertainers tried to figure out the solution and then go into a makeshift phonebooth and call the host with the answer. i think it was a special show, so it won't be on next week.
wednesday
back to jhs. a busy day with 4 classes. it was really fun to mess with the 9th graders with my tricky questions. had to seek shelter in the office cuz it was just way too humid in the teachers' room. got a lot of work done and it actually got a bit cold in there.
headed out @ 1700, to go home and then meet up with takeuchi and takahashi sensei @ nanabayashi. before even gettin' to school, i was constantly stopped by "kebin da!" s. it was nice to see my old students and chat with them a bit. my, some of them have grown quite a bit. got to see some of the teachers which was nice. after chillin' there for a bit, we headed to kita narashino for dinner and drinks. takeuchi sensei insisted that we go this one way, but i knew for a fact that it was a longer way and there was hella slopes. even the students said that my way was better...but oh well. so we finally get to the restaurant and guess what....it was closed!! so we just went to watami. it was good to hang out with all of them again. we talked bout all kinds of stuff. found out that one of my old students will be in the latest san nen, b gumi drama. cgrats natsumi-chan! after dinner, walked takahashi sensei back to nanabayashi. then i headed to serenade for a bit and then to chacha. came home and went to sleep.
thursday
it's another holiday!!! still recoverin' from a long night.
news & links
- 8bit d&d, same dialog as the old starship troopers version but this one is all in 8bit. quite funny...
- apple's profit for the 3rd quarter
- ghost in the shell 2: innocence, an anime for deep thinkers...
- researchers find that humans produce their own morphine.
- oakley comes out with the thump. kinda brings new meanin' to high tech sunglasses...
- the new, redesigned ps2.
sat, 09.11.04: taiikusai (sports day)
the weather the past couple of days has been kinda crazy. luckily the weather on saturday was great! not too hot, nice little breeze.
when i got to school, mishima san tells me that we're runnin' in a relay race with utsumi sensei and saito sensei. i was like ok...whatever...
the taiikusai openin' ceremony went well. the kids did a good job. i was surprised to see many parents and other people that came. even saw miyamoto-san who only had 3 hours of sleep after workin' 12 hours. i was surprised to see him fumblin' with this ketai in his hand. it turns out that he finaly got a new cell phone!!!
startin' off the day was the 100m for the girls and the 200m for the boys. next was the kyari kyari race, which was kinda strange. each time, a group of 6 (2 from each team) would run up and pick up this card, and on this card would be instructions. first would be to get an item that's somewhere on the school grounds, sometimes it meant gettin' a certain student or even a teacher. probably the funniest items were a wheelbarrow and teapot. then they would have to bring that item to the second station and carry out the next set of instructions which was: do the baseball bat spinnin' thing and then run, run backwards, skip or jump rope to the finish line.
just a random pic of 9th grade boys
the next good event was the boys tug-of-war. our team went undefeated! the other teams had no chance!!
next up was the relay for each class and then we broke for lunch. i was so happy to find out that the bento we ordered came from miyagokoro! since i was gonna run in the first event after lunch, i scarfed down my food and then began to warm up. i couldn't look like a foo out there, ya know?
luckily for me, i found out that the first event consisted of 2 parts. it was the club sports performance/speed relay. representatives from each club team dressed up in their uniforms. the performance part of the event was so funny. first off was the guys club team performance, the baseball team pair were had their legs tied together, ie. both right feet together and both left together with about 1m between them and had to
the soccer club pair had to juggle the ball the whole way, the team was lucky cuz they didn't have to pair up, but for some reason, they had to push a weight bar on the ground the whole lap, then they had to curl dumbells on the next. but the funniest was the table tennis team, a 9th grader had a paddle and ball and had to keep volleyin' it as he ran around (w/some strong winds), but here's the catch, he had to piggy back the smallest 7th grader!!! man, it was comedy!
next up, was the girls club team performance event. the vball girls pair did a 3-legged run but with duck beaks that quack when you blow thru them. they also had to carry a ball with them. the other sports teams also had to do the 3-legged race. the soft tennis girls pair had to volley a ball while the track team girls pair had to jump rope. man, that must've been tough!
after that, was the guys speed relay. the soccer team easily beat the track team. the baseball team had a tough time cuz they were in their uniforms but it was funny to see as the anchor for the baseball team approached the final 20m, the whole team slid ran with him and they all slid thru the finish line together! also, they had 4 dads also run in this race. one dad was hella fast! however, there was one dad who ate it hard!!!
so...the time we've all been waitin' for has come. the girls club speed relay. utsumi sensei started it off for us, then mishima-san ran the second leg, then saito-sensei the third and me the anchor. i was surprised to see that miyamoto-san was the anchoor for the dad's 2nd relay team. anyhow, at the start of the race, utsumi sensei had the lead. we kinda lost a little ground when mishima-san ran, but she tried her best which i totally respect. then saito sensei picks up the slack a lot. we had a good handoff and @ that time we were third and about maybe 30m from the lead. i moved into second and gained a lot of ground but couldn't overtake the track team girls' anchor. she had to big of a lead...and all my energy was depleted by the time i hit the final 30m or so. i'm totally not conditioned for these long sprints. since i don't play bball that much anymore and vball is more like short, quick movements, my stamina for long races is just not there. it was kinda nice to hear from all the teachers and students, "kebin, sugoku hayakatta!" (kevin, you're hella fast!)
the event that all the teams have been practicin' so hard was the mukade (centipede) race. our team won the 7th grade race, got second in the 8th grade and came in last in the 9th grade. the 9th grade race was kinda crazy. the girls started off and not even 30m, they all fall. i would say that 90% of the time, when teams fall, it's like a domino effect. but this was the first time i'd ever seen a dogpile. this was a real football dogpile!! think 15 girls, all piled up! crazy!!! i felt bad for yukino, cuz she was the first person (the most dangerous spot for mukade) and everyone piled on top of her. after all the girls finally got up, i would say that 80% had some sort of ailment. but they finished and passed to the guys. the guys fell almostly instantly. they just couldn't get the rhythm. plus it didn't help that the other teams already finished. the thing that surprised me was that the other teams, after finishin', came up next to our team and ran & cheered them all the way to the finish line. it was very touchin' moment.
the 7th grade mukade race
the final girls' team event was the tug-of-war. what was nice was that everyone got first place.
the final team event was the boys' horse battle which we won!
the final event was the best of the best relay race between the three teams. we got 2nd place, but it wasn't enough for us to get out of the bottom. :(
the 7th grade yellow team
the 9th grade white team
the 9th grade blue team
the 9th grade yellow team
i couldn't believe toita sensei made the girls have a short practice after sports day. it was only serve practice but still. i joined them for a bit to practice my serve. everytime we practice our serves, we set up 3 chairs in: deep right, deep left and deep middle. i wasn't leavin' til i hit one and the girls kept on shaggin' my serves and were instantly there to give me another ball.
around 1800ish, the sensei nomikai started at this place near kita narashino. had some grubbin' food and it was good to see the teachers get a little twisted. i was surprised to see kuwada sensei (music teacher) get drunk. like nio sensei from my last year's school, when they get drunk, for some reason, they can speak english. so kuwada sensei was just crackin' me up the whole night. oshino san tried to get into our conversation about the prefectures in kyushuu but what she said wasn't even a prefecture. so we kept callin' her strange which she took both jokingly as well as a little serious. all of the teachers' speeches were funny. they were some comedians. somehow blood type came into the conversation and it was interestin' to see who was what. there was a good balance between a's, b's and o's with only 1 ab. after we finished up there, about 10 of us went to the nijikai. had a few drinks and some snacks. then toita sensei offers to us about the sanjikai where there's some mita jhs teachers. kawada sensei goes (he taught there last year) and i go. got there, met the principal of the mita jhs and a young english teacher. the principal was some character. was constantly crackin' me up the whole time. the english teacher too was fun to talk too. had some good food there too. the ochazuke was especially good. afterwards, we headed to another place! it was really dark there, so i was startin' to doze off a bit. it was kinda blurry from that point on. not sure how i got home but i did.
sunday
slept in for a long time. headed out to akihabara, to meet up with tamawa to check out dvd players. saw some koo new stuff out there. there were a bunch of dvd players, but we're tryin' to find a portable, region free which is kinda hard. saw the new mgs trailer playin'. man, it looks dope! hangin' from trees and takin' out foos. headed out to omotesando for dinner. went to this hong kong style restaurant which was surprisingly pretty good. since it was a nice cool day, we walked all around urahara and stopped over at this little lounge to have some wine and chat. caught my train home and stopped over @ chacha to kick it with mama. saw mi-chan there and somehow the conversation turned into talkin' bout personalities, blood types and relationships. mi-chan and i differ on a lot of things but mama always seems to know where i'm comin' from. we talked til almost 0400...
monday
aww...it was nice havin' another monday off. stayed home and chilled for most of the day. did tons of laundry and prepared my lesson plan for the next day. was supposed to go to kaoru's bday, but was way too tired to party again, especially when i have elementary school the next day. so i just had some food @ ikko, came home and was out by 2300.
tuesday
it was probably a good idea not to go out last night. cuz i got all my lesson plan done and got lots of sleep. the day went by so fast. my lesson rocked! the kids had a great time. i think it's also because this week was week b which means 5th & 6th graders.
came home and decided to make an italian dinner. it was vegetables & pollo in a butter, herb and olive oil sauce. it was grubbin'. then watched my tv programs and talked to my 'big sis'.
wednesday
another day at school.
had 4 classes and 3 of those were 8th graders. every wednesday is listenin' practice with t/f or q/a. i spoke about how the japanese school year and the american school year are different. most of the students were shocked that we didn't have any homework over the summer.
today was also chukyokyo, so classes were short. i didn't go to the meetin' cuz i had to much work to do...kinda sorta, but i'm not a big fan of the chukyokyo anyways...but i did have lots of work. finally finished the diaries for 2-2. i still have 2 more classes to grade...
came home and cut my hair. decided to not touch the top this time and also do more of a lower fade. turned out better than i thought it would.
after that, headed to ikko for dinner. mama hooked up some grubbin' nasu miso and yakisoba. chatted with sensei for a bit. only 10 more days til he meets the girl that mama is hookin' him up with. he's so happy...
thursday
i guess utsumi sensei learned something @ the chukyokyo cuz he wanted me to be the main teacher and him be the assistant. i was like ok...luckily it was for the 9th graders whose english is the best.
toita sensei asked me to help out at the practice, so i did that for like 45 min. my hittin' has digressed so much since i haven't been practicin' that much lately. i was really surprised of how the level of the 7th graders have improved so much. as for the 8th graders, chinami-chan and mami-chan were diggin' up some of my best stuff, so of course i continued to bring it and they continued to surprise me.
since lark is in tokyo now, we decided to go out for dinner in shinjuku. as always, whenever i go to shinjuku station and have to meet somebody outside...it always turns out bad. i'm fine with shibuya, roppongi, ueno and even azabu. but shinjuku...no way!
anyhow, finally met up with lark @ her hotel and then we went to the watami for drinks and dinner. it's kinda hard to eat with her cuz she's a vegetarian. luckily the food in japan is by nature, kinda catered to vegetarians. bry met up with us later and we all chatted til about 2300ish cuz i had to catch the last train home.
friday
man, it was a tough mornin'. got to school on time and after drinkin' a coffee, i was koo. fortunately i had only 2 classes today. the principal came up to talk to me on the balcony today. it's very rare that he does that. tho he was kinda hard to understand, i got the gist of what he was sayin'. i also finally got connected to the school lan. it was just plug in and surf away. i love my mac!
miura sensei and i went to the supermarket across the street to get a bento for lunch, but we got there 5 min before they opened, so we had to wait a bit. when they opened, they didn't have any bentos ready!? luckily i had some food i picked up in da mornin' from 7-11 that tided me over.
had vball practice and did the normal drill with the girls. me spikin' @ them and then toita sensei came and they did hittin' drills, a's (quick sets from toita sensei) and outside sets from various girls takin' turns. i officially feel that i hit quick sets, whether they're 1's, huts or reds. when the set was good, i was consistently poundin' inside 3m. since i haven't hit in about a month, after about 30 or so hits, my legs began to cramp up.
went to ikko for dinner and then came home to relax for a bit. then i headed out to meet up with b, jt and lark.
met up with b @ the gate, then jt and junji came thru. junji gave us our passes and headed out while we waited for lark. lark was a little late, cuz she kinda took the wrong train, but all good, cuz she got there in one piece. we all headed off to ageha. chilled outside for a bit before goin' in. we lined up for the wrong line at first but was quickly directed to the mtv guest list line. got inside, met some of b's ex-coworkers and got some drinks. since this event was also sponsered by bmw mini, all the bartenders were wearin' black shirts with the words mini in white on them. everytime i looked at them, i would just see the nine in nails logo instead... they didn't have the gyros roach coach like last time so i was a little disappointed. anyhow, wasn't feelin' da music at all...since it was house/trance. i thought after a few drinks, i would start to feel da music, but it didn't happen. we decided to take the shuttle bus (it was one of the best buses i've been on) back to shibuya and head to b's friend's party @ nutz. way too many dudes there, wasn't feelin' da music and i was gettin' pretty tired. we bounced outta there and went to eat @ duffy duck. had some indonesian dish that was grubbin' and had some of jon's pasta which was pretty good too. went back to shinjuku with lark and what was funny was that we ended up @ her exit! that's a first!!! anyhow, said goodbye and i headed home. on my way from shin-tsudanuma from jr tsudanuma, as i was walkin' down the steps, i noticed these 2 hs girls, walkin' up the steps, tiltin' their heads and as we approach each other, i hear "kebin!". i was in no mood to talk to them so i just said "ohayo" and walked away...
lark and me
saturday
recoverin' from a long night/mornin' of partyin'. my body is achin' also from playin' vball yesterday. made some somen for lunch and headed out to ebisu for shintaro's bday. met up with eugene and jt there. it was kinda weird to be around nothin' but college girls so i kno the other guys were feelin' even more out of place. b and steve swung threw later. we had some good food, drinks were ok. i headed home on the last train.
sunday
talked with the guys back home thru yim webcam and skype. saw some pics from eric's bday and even got a video of ben serenadin' the sink.
headed out to yoyogi park to yu's event. there was this big concert goin', so it was pretty packed in that area. as for yu's event, it was koo. just chilled, listened to reggae, had some drinks, some bbq chicken and finally yu performed right near the end. after that, headed to eifukucho to kick it with b. rick even came thru after comin' back from hakone. we chilled and then i headed home on last train.
yu on da mic
monday
thank god i had the day off. 2 mondays in a row. went shoppin' and finally picked up a wi-fi router and some other stuff that i've been puttin' off for some time now. met up with tomo for dinner and we went to ikko. mama made some natto gyoza which was off da hook!!! after walkin' tomo home, came home and crashed out.
tuesday
back to work. teachin' the 3rd and 4th graders were tough, as usual. came home, cooked dinner and watched this one tv show that was really interestin'. it was a quiz type show where they would show a short video and the detective would figure out the case in a matter of seconds. then the entertainers tried to figure out the solution and then go into a makeshift phonebooth and call the host with the answer. i think it was a special show, so it won't be on next week.
wednesday
back to jhs. a busy day with 4 classes. it was really fun to mess with the 9th graders with my tricky questions. had to seek shelter in the office cuz it was just way too humid in the teachers' room. got a lot of work done and it actually got a bit cold in there.
headed out @ 1700, to go home and then meet up with takeuchi and takahashi sensei @ nanabayashi. before even gettin' to school, i was constantly stopped by "kebin da!" s. it was nice to see my old students and chat with them a bit. my, some of them have grown quite a bit. got to see some of the teachers which was nice. after chillin' there for a bit, we headed to kita narashino for dinner and drinks. takeuchi sensei insisted that we go this one way, but i knew for a fact that it was a longer way and there was hella slopes. even the students said that my way was better...but oh well. so we finally get to the restaurant and guess what....it was closed!! so we just went to watami. it was good to hang out with all of them again. we talked bout all kinds of stuff. found out that one of my old students will be in the latest san nen, b gumi drama. cgrats natsumi-chan! after dinner, walked takahashi sensei back to nanabayashi. then i headed to serenade for a bit and then to chacha. came home and went to sleep.
thursday
it's another holiday!!! still recoverin' from a long night.
news & links
- 8bit d&d, same dialog as the old starship troopers version but this one is all in 8bit. quite funny...
- apple's profit for the 3rd quarter
- ghost in the shell 2: innocence, an anime for deep thinkers...
- researchers find that humans produce their own morphine.
- oakley comes out with the thump. kinda brings new meanin' to high tech sunglasses...
- the new, redesigned ps2.
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木曜日, 9月 23, 2004.
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