mondays are tough
so the sony psp came out yesterday. one of my buddies stood in line and got one. pretty hard odds when there's only 200,000 units for about 5 million ppl who want one. i've been readin' reviews on it and there's been a lot of comments about the battery life. i might get the nintendo ds instead.
bein' in tokyo the whole weekend and havin' to come back to work on monday is always a struggle. i must say this past weekend went rather well. had lunch with meg and she got me a xmas gift which consisted of a lego bball set and nike towel. then headed to hatagaya for bball. lisa came and brought a friend. my team went undefeated. we had a well balanced squad: me @ da 1, craig (41) @ da 2, sean (34) @ da 3, derrick @ da 4 (stalky happa from vegas) & peter @ da 5 (tall lanky easter european/russian). the highlight of the day was on the first play, derrick got the steal and i broke out with him. he passed me da rock it was 2-on-1. i quickly thought to myself, is d gonna be able to run this play with me? but within milliseconds i decided to give it a go. we ran a text book passin' drill with me givin' it back to him and vice versa twice before he drew the defender to him and gave it back to me again. i kinda lost the ball at first but gained control @ the last second and put it up. playin' with peter was also a treat cuz he moved without the ball and ran the floor. if you're a big man that does that on my team, u can be sure that i'm gonna get ya the ball. he also had a pretty good j too. his game reminded me of dirk. craig and sean got a lot of hussle plays and we shut down pretty much every team.
after bball, we headed to rick's to help setup for the xmas party. went with rick to pick up some ice and drinks. i picked up some kome sho chu and tantakatan & rick requested tequila, so i got sauza instead of cuervo, cuz cuervo made me black out last time. met a friend of rick's named yolande. she's australian, president of a company, speaks pretty damn good nihongo and can drink. this was a special time cuz it was the first time since all da fellas have been together since sapporo in march! i also got to meet ko's wife, naomi, and their kids hayato 'foster', tatsumi 'hunter'. i also got to meet eugene's wife, satomi. the food was also great. mika hooked up a feast and other ppl brought food too. it was just the right amount and combination. tho, i have little problem. above the food table, there's this hangin' light. i must've tee'd off on that thing like 4 times!?! now i have a little bruise on my forehead. we aslo had a white elephant gift exchange which was pretty fun. everyone's gift was supposed to be around 2000yen ($20). there were some interestin' gifts: picture frame coasters, self-sustained environment, mini-optical mouse, fitness ball, neck cooler, portable picture frame, etc. but junji, bein' mr. big shot salesman @ mtv japan decides to bring something that he got free from one of his sponsers: a 20gb iriver mp3 player! wtf!?! but it did make things interestin' with everyone eyein' that gift. i ended up with the fitness ball. what was kinda weak about the game, rick, scotty and yas all chose the gifts that they brought. how frickin' cheezy is that? you can steal the gift you brought, but to open it up...come on man! the rest of the time, we all just chilled and took off @ a little after midnite.
next day, we met up with kyoko in 'buya and went to kua aina. after lunch, headed to go play darts (my first time). man, darts is pretty fun. once you get the technique down and can aim for specific pts, it becomes a totally different game. sean came thru and met up with us since his wife and kid went to osaka for the week. rick also came thru after the weddin' he went to in ibaraki. by the end of the day, kyoko had won 3 games (well...more like 2.5 cuz b accidently hit the board when he showed her how much she needed to get), i won 3 games, b won 1 and sean won 1. we went to eat afterwards at this one yakitori/kame meshi place. it was pretty good and rick & sean enlightened me about thailand.
kaz out...
so the sony psp came out yesterday. one of my buddies stood in line and got one. pretty hard odds when there's only 200,000 units for about 5 million ppl who want one. i've been readin' reviews on it and there's been a lot of comments about the battery life. i might get the nintendo ds instead.
bein' in tokyo the whole weekend and havin' to come back to work on monday is always a struggle. i must say this past weekend went rather well. had lunch with meg and she got me a xmas gift which consisted of a lego bball set and nike towel. then headed to hatagaya for bball. lisa came and brought a friend. my team went undefeated. we had a well balanced squad: me @ da 1, craig (41) @ da 2, sean (34) @ da 3, derrick @ da 4 (stalky happa from vegas) & peter @ da 5 (tall lanky easter european/russian). the highlight of the day was on the first play, derrick got the steal and i broke out with him. he passed me da rock it was 2-on-1. i quickly thought to myself, is d gonna be able to run this play with me? but within milliseconds i decided to give it a go. we ran a text book passin' drill with me givin' it back to him and vice versa twice before he drew the defender to him and gave it back to me again. i kinda lost the ball at first but gained control @ the last second and put it up. playin' with peter was also a treat cuz he moved without the ball and ran the floor. if you're a big man that does that on my team, u can be sure that i'm gonna get ya the ball. he also had a pretty good j too. his game reminded me of dirk. craig and sean got a lot of hussle plays and we shut down pretty much every team.
after bball, we headed to rick's to help setup for the xmas party. went with rick to pick up some ice and drinks. i picked up some kome sho chu and tantakatan & rick requested tequila, so i got sauza instead of cuervo, cuz cuervo made me black out last time. met a friend of rick's named yolande. she's australian, president of a company, speaks pretty damn good nihongo and can drink. this was a special time cuz it was the first time since all da fellas have been together since sapporo in march! i also got to meet ko's wife, naomi, and their kids hayato 'foster', tatsumi 'hunter'. i also got to meet eugene's wife, satomi. the food was also great. mika hooked up a feast and other ppl brought food too. it was just the right amount and combination. tho, i have little problem. above the food table, there's this hangin' light. i must've tee'd off on that thing like 4 times!?! now i have a little bruise on my forehead. we aslo had a white elephant gift exchange which was pretty fun. everyone's gift was supposed to be around 2000yen ($20). there were some interestin' gifts: picture frame coasters, self-sustained environment, mini-optical mouse, fitness ball, neck cooler, portable picture frame, etc. but junji, bein' mr. big shot salesman @ mtv japan decides to bring something that he got free from one of his sponsers: a 20gb iriver mp3 player! wtf!?! but it did make things interestin' with everyone eyein' that gift. i ended up with the fitness ball. what was kinda weak about the game, rick, scotty and yas all chose the gifts that they brought. how frickin' cheezy is that? you can steal the gift you brought, but to open it up...come on man! the rest of the time, we all just chilled and took off @ a little after midnite.
next day, we met up with kyoko in 'buya and went to kua aina. after lunch, headed to go play darts (my first time). man, darts is pretty fun. once you get the technique down and can aim for specific pts, it becomes a totally different game. sean came thru and met up with us since his wife and kid went to osaka for the week. rick also came thru after the weddin' he went to in ibaraki. by the end of the day, kyoko had won 3 games (well...more like 2.5 cuz b accidently hit the board when he showed her how much she needed to get), i won 3 games, b won 1 and sean won 1. we went to eat afterwards at this one yakitori/kame meshi place. it was pretty good and rick & sean enlightened me about thailand.
kaz out...
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月曜日, 12月 13, 2004.
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