Monday, 22 November 2004

Hiroko, Shopping and more catchup!

Sorry I havn't written any entries lately! I've been busy with drinking, going out and sorting out work and life in general.

I finally met up with Hiroko on Saturday night! You might remember way back in my April entries that we emailed each other and were going to catch up and then we've rung each other several times between then and now but our work scheduels just got in our way; i.e. I have tues and weds off and she has sat and sun off. Anyway, we headed into Roppongi (my first trip in there) and spent most the night reminiscing in her favourite bar that she hasn't been to in half a year. Great staff and atmosphere. I'll definitly be heading back there.

I did some shopping in Harajuku and took in some lunch at a cafe which I will never go back to again. I've never had such rude service in my life! I took a whole of 10 seconds to decide what I wanted and the waiter, in a deliberately snide voice came over and asked "Are you ready to order yet?" and when he brought my pizza over to me and motioned with a pepper shaker to grind pepper on my pizza, I said "No thank you" to which he replied "I WAS going to ask you if wanted pepper on your pizza." The whole situation was rediculous! It was like a scene from a bad movie or something. I thought maybe he just didn't like me (maybe a racist thing) but three Japanese women sat on the table next to mine and he treated them with the same attitude. I'm really not the kind of person who complains but I was really tempted too, however I just wanted to pay and get the Hell out of there. Nice view by the window though.

After lunch I went to Yoyohi park for the first time. I didn't have time to walk around the whole park and visit the shrines but I'll definitly go back as it has a cafe in the park!!!