from nagano to akita pt2

wake up in the morning feeling refreshed. the sun in nagano were shining bright like it's trying to tell everyone that it's going to be a good day today.

after taking a nice warm bath, i put on my clothes and went downstairs to the jimusho to thank the jimu ojisan and the always smiling jimu obasan for their kindness and enthusiasm to help me all these years. jimu obasan gave me an ofuro towel to be used to scrub my back when i took a shower. it had frog illustrations on it.

at around 2p.m., i collected my bags and before i walk out of the yufuryo dormitory, i asked my kohai haiman to took a picture of me with the jimu ojisan whose name is still a mystery to me. i'm just horrible.

in the middle of going to the train station, i realized that i'm not going to make it in time so i sped up my way to the ticket counter, bought a 1110 yen ticket and barely boarded the train that took off seconds after i step my foot in it.

the train officer woke me up when i arrived at the last stop: naoetsu. then i joint zarul and he drove me to akita. arrived late at night.

tired and have to go and get some good night's sleep.

from nagano to akita

packed my bags and sent them to akita by kuroneko. damn these kuroneko guys work fast! it took them like 2 minutes to load all my stuff into the truck. man these guys have very STRONG arms! i wish i could carry heavy luggages with ease just like them.

with all my luggages being sent to akita, the last thing to do is to just wait for tomorrow. i just can't believe it that i'm leaving this place.

at night me, bak, seiha, haiman and the new mongolian kid LG went to asian kichen and we had our last dinner together. of course i paid for them. then we finished the night's outing with karaoke until 1a.m. i hurt my throat because i've been screaming into the microphone far too much that night.

it feels so empty. memories. these memories were playing in my head like a 3mm film projection. damn i will miss this place. tomorrow, it's good bye nagano and hello akita.

doki. doki. doki.

i'm busy packing stuff !

i'm sending my stuff over to my new room (it's the university dormitory) in akita tomorrow, so today i have to find and throw away all the things that i don't need and put my stuff in boxes and pack them up to be ready for transferring. there were so much dust in that room and i suddenly catch a flu or something; my nose is running wild and i can't stop sneezing! it's hard to work like in this kind of environment and with a condition like this.

i think i better get back to work, unplug the computer and start packing!

writing from tokyo pt2

today i went off to akihabara again to hunt for some weirdness. i did a lot of sight seeing until i got bored, so i went to shinjuku to put my luggage in a luggage storage rental facility. then i went to karachi, a pakistani restaurant and was a bit delighted to see that i'm their first costumer for their buffet lunch time. ate a lot of pakistani curries. delicious and cheap. what a fantastic combination; but my enjoyment was interrupted a little bit when the owner scolded the girl waitress in loud, not-understandable hindi language. damn, that poor girl must have fucked up so bad to make the restaurant owner so fucking mad.

whatever. got on the 1745 hours bus to nagano and arrived at my room at about 2200 hours. it was tiring but i'm satisfied because i did what i wanted to do and it was fun. pictures will follow soon.

writing from tokyo

i'm in tokyo right now, at rehet's place. i've been staying in his place for 2 nights now but tonight i'm going to be staying in a cheap hostel in asakusa or maybe in my senpai's house at shinagawa. i spent most of my first day at akihabara, just sightseeing.

played against a japanese gamer on virtua fighter 5.... and i lost. every fucking game. and it was just a little boy! after getting my gamer pride crushed, broken and burned by a little japanese boy, i went to a manga cafe for healing time. then i was back on my feet again. there are some things that i wanted to buy there but i decided to do it on the last day because i don't want to carry them all around. second day i spent going to asakusa. i always wanted to go there but i just didn't have the time. there were too many people that day but it's fun. the kaminarimon is HUGE! bought some souvenirs. then i went to harajuku and bought a cool japanese themed jacket. i also met the softbank's famous 予想GUY (yosou guy) there and we talked for 5 minutes and took pictures. i didn't know that he was THAT nice and friendly!
then i walked from the harajuku station to omotesando. i took me 30 minutes or more because i was walking in a very slow pace, sightseeing the shops on the street. from omotesando, i went to shibuya and bought a pair of jeans with dragon designs on the back at jeans mate. i don't know if i want to wear it myself or use it as a present. feeling tired, i went to starbucks, THE starbucks overlooking the most busiest crossroad in the world that is located just in front of the shibuya station. had to wait for 30 minutes to get a seat but seeing that many people (there must be thousands of them) crossing roads at the same time is fun. they really looked like little ants in a hurry.

but i don't understand why the american girls sitting beside me with her friends couldn't stop using the word 'fuck' every time she LOUDLY speaks and giggles. they were just talking about regular stuff like how bad the wasabi tastes and how cute this one shoe is at this one shop right across the street.... is listening to a conversation of a group of foul mouthed american girls wrong?