Monday, 24 December 2007

Merry Christmas 2007!

Sorry I'm too busy to post a longer post! Am getting my place ready for the big day tomorrow! Hopefully this strange video makes up for the length of this post.

During my Christmas shopping the other day in Shibuya, Tokyo I came across a hoard of Santas congregating outside Donquiote. Bizzare, but fun.

Have a great Christmas everyone whether in Japan or elsewhere!

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Labels: christmas, home movies, japan

Friday, 21 December 2007

A Hello Kitty Christmas

A few weeks ago Katie invited me down to to Chiba to a shopping mall near Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea to watch a special Hello Kitty Christmas stage show.

Normally Japanese Christmas shows are weird to say the least, normally hosted by a patronising female bimbo with a voice that could give the Chipmunks a run for their money in the voice department. This show didn't let me down there plus we got two large mascots dancing on stage while singing familiar Christmas songs in nail-on-chalkboard-Japanese.

As the show drew to a close (actually even Katie had had enough) the three crazies on stage decided to do a flag dance to Jingle Bells.... how appropriate. Huh.

Unfortunately I didn't get to take a video of the bizarre Bingo game before the show where the crazy girl screamed out "BINGO...STARTO!!!" before "BINGO...STARTO!!!" drawing "BINGO...STARTO!!!" every "BINGO...STARTO!!!" damn "BINGO...STARTO!!!" number "BINGO...STARTO!!!" for "BINGO...STARTO!!!" half "BINGO...STARTO!!!" an "BINGO...STARTO!!!" hour "BINGO...STARTO!!!". Only in Japan.

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Labels: christmas, home movies, japan

Sunday, 29 July 2007

Australia, Cambodia and Okinawa, oh my!

While the Obon holidays will be pretty boring with me having next to no money (thank YOU city tax and health insurance!) my end of year holidays will be packed!

As of now I'll be staying in Tokyo for another "should be white but won't be" Christmas then off to Australia for my sister's wedding in Orange on New Years Eve, then after New Years up to Cambodia to help Koky with his orphanage/ school project and then working once more in Tokyo until about June 2008 when I will hopefully move down south the the beautiful Okinawa!

That's the plan anyway.

Tokyo's grown on me but I just don't want to spend a 5th year here. It's not a terrible city but well, recently in the news there was a woman who had defected from North Korea and after a few years in Tokyo decided to return to North Korea.

Kind of says it all really.

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Labels: Australia, Cambodia, christmas, japan, new year, Okinawa

Tuesday, 2 January 2007

Christmas Photos

Just uploaded the pics Masato took at my Christmas party HERE. Enjoy! And a special thanks to Masato for taking them for me (the rest of us were just too lazy I guess!)

Labels: christmas, photos

Happy New Year

Was finally motivated to blog something after watching the season finale of Torchwood (it's an anagram of Doctor Who! Who knew?) and then reading the latest entry at Hoshi's blog.

Anyway, Christmas was great! I threw a pot luck Christmas lunch at my place and was blessed with the presence of Masato, Finn and his brother Beau (who we thought was called Paul), Callie and Nickie and we kind of spent the whole day and night and Boxing Day drinking and watching Christmas cartoons (I never get tired of watching the Smurfs battle Satan with singing).

Will post photos soon.

I slept in until 4pm yesterday to recover from an all night Tokyo New Years celebration which I won't forget anytime soon.
What was really wierd was how there was noone was in Tokyo! There were no crowds at all! Everyone in Japan goes to visit their family for New Years and since no families appear to be from Tokyo 90% of the population up and left!

So we started the night out at the Ruby Room in Shibuya but after being bored but the atmosphere and deafened by a sound system that was turned up way too high for it's own good we swung by some conbini's and then headed for Arty Farty in Shinjuku and managed to find it literally minutes before the countdown started!

Lots of drinking, lots of dancing and lots of things that I don't want my family to find out about. ;)

Hope everyone else had as much fun as I did ringing in the new year.

Have a good one.

Labels: blog, christmas, clubbing, new year

Monday, 25 December 2006

Merry Christmas from Me and Sailor Moon!

Went to a Sailor Moon musical event yesterday and recorded a message with the main singer for all of my amazing visitors to my sites.

Have a great Christmas everyone!!!

Labels: christmas

Thursday, 21 December 2006

It's ALIVE!

My door's been flying today.

First I got a birthday (maybe Christmas) pressie from Dad which was pretty cool. Am looking forward to trying that coffee.

Secondly I got the net connected! (which you probably figured out by the fact there's actually a post on this site.) As usual with things in Japan, it wasn't as easy as just getting the net connected and then having instant access. I had to read through several pages of Kanji and then ring the number the guy told me to ring for English support but was shocked when it was an automated fax service (fax machines are huge in Japan. Them being eco friendly and all) which tried to send me a fax to my mobile (which incidently has zero reception in my new apartment).

I then called another random number among the Kanji and was told by the operator to ring another number....

... Long story short, and hour and a half later I got connected and I didn't even have to use that retarded Japanese software CD they gave me and told me I had to use.

Ah, and thirdly.... I got my TV delivered!!! It's sitting in it's box as I type this.

After having ordered a lounge the other day (getting delivered on Christmas morning no less!) and getting the TV today my apartment is really starting to feel homey. I can't wait for my Christmas lunch I'm having here on Christmas day with several friends. Have been Christmas shopping like crazy the last few weeks.

This will be my first Christmas away from my family let alone in Japan and I'm loving it! (no offense family) It's also my first winter Christmas (If anyone says how strange it is to have a hot Christmas I... will... lose it. 50% of the world isn't like American Christmas specials. Get over it already.) so am really getting into the spirit of things.

Was kind of screwed at first because I had no idea what to eat for a cold Christmas Day lunch but am on top of things now.

Labels: apartment, birthday, christmas, internet, japan, lounge, tv