[Happy]

Boys who really do look cuter with glasses on.

Grandfathers who spoil their grandkids.

The drunken salarymen who hug each other in the train.

The teenaged boy who feeds the stray cats by my house.

The goth girl who gives up her seat on the train for the elderly woman in front of her.

to be continued.

sometimes engrish t-shirts that i see on the morning train make me giggle, and cause all the obasans around me to shift an inch or two away from me. I'm sure they're all questioning my sanity. :P ( Read more... )

so the game shop i bought my ds lite in won't swap it unless it has a screen defect of more then one pixel. so i'll just have to deal with the black dot in the middle of my screen forever. grar ( Read more... )

I have been coveting the new Nintendo DS lite since i saw the non-working plastic model in Bic Camera, and tried playing the Animal crossing demo ( Read more... )

I am so tired today! I got up semi-early (9am) for once, and walked around my neighborhood for a while, trying to catch the last of the cherry blossoms while i can.

Last friday, I went to disneySea with a friend, and had a great time!
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so i got roped into MIXI, a japanese community site, not unlike facebook and myspace.Much better than myspace actually..it's definately more relaxed, and most people aren't hormone crazed 15 year old boys. It's also a good chance for me to practice writing in japanese!my profileYesterday I went to Seibu Yuenchi, home to Hello Kitty world with some ( Read more... )

So I finally get back to Tokyo, and I am sick! I have this cough that should not be cursed on anyone who HASN'T been smoking 5 packs a day for that last 30 years. And i am taking the nastiest cough medicine known to man. I went to the drug store yesterday, and specifically asked for cough medicine in capsules or pills. what did i get?? GRANULATED ( Read more... )

So I got back into Shinjuku Saturday night at 12ish, an promptly went to sleep, only to wake up at 10 to my host brother and 6 of his fiends next door playing video games. grar ( Read more... )

So yesterday, we did a whirlwind tour of Kyoto, hitting Kinkaju-ji, a gold foil covered temple, Sanjusangen, a temple with 1001 images of Kannon, and Kiyomizu-dera. in the rain ( Read more... )

So it's kinda sorta been internet silence over here...but good news, I'm holed up at the Kyoto Cheapest Inn, a hostel somewhere in the slightly seedier side of Kyoto, and they have free internet ( Read more... )