I saw Eastern Youth again tonite in Shibuya with my friends Nas and Yoichi. Nas and I decided to go drinking on Friday nite, Yoichi and I decided to form a band. I spent most of the day wandering around downtown Tokyo as the lone foreign wonder, and I plan on spending most of tomorrow too. I am happy now cuz finally i am off my ass, out of the ( Read more... )

The last few days have been spent doing a whole lot of just chillin'. I hung out with Nick（肉） and Paul （P-ちゃん）a couple of times... we did karaoke ( I'm working on memorizing an eastern youth song so I can sing at least one Japanese song!!), picture clubs, and ate at Johnathans (like a Denny's in the states) one day, and went to Shinjuku for ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! Its been a crazy week... and by crazy I mean LAZY! Yesterday was the mamemaki matsuri (bean throwing festival). Its where you throw beans to keep the devil out and bring good luck/fortune in. We said "Fuku wa uchi!" (good luck in the house) and "Oni wa soto!" (devil outside!) as we threw the beans either inside our house or outside ( Read more... )

School ended for me on Monday! I am soo excited... so far though I've been busy in that I haven't been busy kind of way. Monday nite after my one class (we got back our Jpn tests... 87% ohh yeah!) I went to Machida where I walked around for quite awhile. I went to Book Off and found an Eastern Youth CD, the awesome Face to Face CD (Don't Turn ( Read more... )

I havent updated anything I said I would lately, due mostly to the fact that Japan is stuck in some sort of weird time warp where everything moves at lightspeed preventing me from getting anything done. Hm, yup. Finals are tomorrow... all of them. Hello, Stress... my most unwelcomed friend ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas! I'm drunk! =)

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Okay by popular demand! A few KOREA pix!! Sorry for the wait, but my busyness has been keeping me from regular updates. There is soo much more going on, maybe i will get into that in a later post. But for now, enjoy these pictures! <3

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So, my computer works again! Thankfully the computer guy at Obirin is a genius and helped me reinstall windows and gave me some programs that I lost like Microsoft works. I got better virus software and ad-ware, so the problem shouldnt arise again. I just have to be more careful ( Read more... )

Today Chie and I went on a day trip to downtown Tokyo. We went to see the big lantern at Asakusa. It was pretty rad! Very touristy though... for good reason. you can buy all kinds of traditional Japanese wares there.. mom and dad: if/when you visit me I will take you here. There is also a buddhist shrine there, and a pagoda with 7 roofs. ( Read more... )