Last night was a great farewell to Hamamatsu. Amit and Tomer offered to prepare a Middle Eastern feast for me and my friends at their house, as a special favour to me, since I'm leaving. I invited everyone I wanted to see and they were all there, in one house. The food was incredible - the best meal I've had in Japan. I don't know the names of ( Read more... )

So that's it: the Hamamatsu Matsuri has finished, for me, at least. It's actually still going on, but Mel's mum was losing steam so they both wanted to leave. JP had slipped away early in the evening and Pete didn't go at all because Sarah was sick. I would have loved to have stayed, but I didn't want Kengo to feel responsible for me. The whole ( Read more... )

I've been watching waaaaaaay too much Sex and the City.

I hardly slept last night, sleeping in a different place, wondering about all the sounds, having a dream where someone was on the balcony looking in, adjusting to the closer sounds of the elevator, adjusting to the different sounds of the parkade next door, waking up at 6am to the local cho practicing (or starting out) for the festival today ( Read more... )

I'm starting to realise what's actually happening in my life at the ( Read more... )

just bought the new iPod photo 60GB

who have I become and what happened to the techno-phobe we used to know and love?

it should arrive tomorrow, on my last day of work for F*&% S@#%&*s

go, freedom!

Got that sexy Brazilian boy all to myself last night. So fucking sexy! Did I mention that he was sexy?

Just booked a ticket online. I have to wait up to four hours to see if it went through. They're going to send me a confirmation e-mail. If it didn't go through, I'll have to start all over again, but I'm hoping the system hasn't cracked under the pressure of hundreds of thousands of music-lovers and I'll get the best automatically-generated e- ( Read more... )

I couldn't sleep last night. I dreamt a lot about teaching English, so I obviously did sleep, but it wasn't restful. I then completely woke up at about 6am and couldn't stop going over all possibilities for my backpacking trip through Japan. Should I walk and hitchhike or cycle? What equipment would I need? Where should I get it? What kind of ( Read more... )