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azuriteHappy New Year 2007!
Well, it's already 12:38am here in Japan. I tried to post closer to midnight exactly, but the Ethernet was being stupid (or I was, considering I didn't think the router address was the same as the gateway address, and I kept trying to access the domain of the network login WHICH IS DOWN). In any case, the sentiment is the same.
I'm tired and I have a lousy stomachache, so I'm going to go to sleep soon, but at least tomorrow I get to sleep in. The area around here in Asakusa (Sennoji Temple... I thought it was a Shinto Shrine, but it's Buddhist! Or something...) is packed with people, tons of food stalls that aren't usually there, games, and souvenirs. But even though my mom was nice enough to help me out (and rather immediately, too... I owe her big-time), I'm back to being broke-ish, due to my self-imposed limit on what I withdrew from the bank (¥15,000 = $126.74 USD, which I spent on transportation, food, and the rare souvenir over the past 2 days). I never planned on going out tomorrow anyway- I wanted to use the time to work on one paper or another, but Bonnie really wants to go to the Imperial Palace. Alas, the Lotus & Strawberry NANA 2 Cafe and Museum is closed tomorrow, but if the Imperial Gardens are specially open tomorrow, I'll go... assuming I'm feeling better. Apparently everything closes at 3pm tomorrow, save for the shops, which are going crazy with New Year's Sales.
Despite a few misunderstandings with Bonnie, the past two days have been really fun, today moreso than any of the other days at Hong Kong or prior in Tokyo. So even though our expensive 2-day Disney passports weren't good for the New Year's Countdown tonight (that was what everyone sleeping near Maihama Station was waiting in line for... to buy the tickets), we still had fun-- we went to Harajuku again and saw SOME shops that were still open (I got a new sparkling silver belt for ¥315), and went to a recommended okonomiyaki restaurant in a converted private home in one of the darker back alleys of the neighborhood.
At Tokyo DisneySea, I'd had some popcorn shrimp and possibly questionable pasta salad, the latter of which I think gave me my stomachache; Bonnie thought it might have been the shrimp we had in the okonomiyaki or perhaps something else in it (or the alcohol I had, a rather juiced-down Raspberry Orange thing called a "Nable"), but I don't think it could have gone through me that quick. In any case, I popped a Clidinium/Librax, and I'm feeling a bit better now.
I just want to sleep... I'll recount the fun of all of this once I'm back in MY bed, in MY room, in MITO.
I hope everyone has a fun New Year's and stays safe, healthy, and happy. Don't get alcohol poisoning, anyone!
P.S. The guy sitting next to me said he was from Kentucky, but he SCARILY reminds me of Mike (Cooper). And earlier on my way back, I saw a guy who could have been either Ben Watson (R.I.P.) or Jason Cunningham, had he Botox'd lips and fluffier hair... then near the Thunder Gate, I saw a guy that could have been Joe C. in 20 years with the same fluffy hair thing and a slightly different body shape. It was creepy!
Well, it's already 12:38am here in Japan. I tried to post closer to midnight exactly, but the Ethernet was being stupid (or I was, considering I didn't think the router address was the same as the gateway address, and I kept trying to access the domain of the network login WHICH IS DOWN). In any case, the sentiment is the same.
I'm tired and I have a lousy stomachache, so I'm going to go to sleep soon, but at least tomorrow I get to sleep in. The area around here in Asakusa (Sennoji Temple... I thought it was a Shinto Shrine, but it's Buddhist! Or something...) is packed with people, tons of food stalls that aren't usually there, games, and souvenirs. But even though my mom was nice enough to help me out (and rather immediately, too... I owe her big-time), I'm back to being broke-ish, due to my self-imposed limit on what I withdrew from the bank (¥15,000 = $126.74 USD, which I spent on transportation, food, and the rare souvenir over the past 2 days). I never planned on going out tomorrow anyway- I wanted to use the time to work on one paper or another, but Bonnie really wants to go to the Imperial Palace. Alas, the Lotus & Strawberry NANA 2 Cafe and Museum is closed tomorrow, but if the Imperial Gardens are specially open tomorrow, I'll go... assuming I'm feeling better. Apparently everything closes at 3pm tomorrow, save for the shops, which are going crazy with New Year's Sales.
Despite a few misunderstandings with Bonnie, the past two days have been really fun, today moreso than any of the other days at Hong Kong or prior in Tokyo. So even though our expensive 2-day Disney passports weren't good for the New Year's Countdown tonight (that was what everyone sleeping near Maihama Station was waiting in line for... to buy the tickets), we still had fun-- we went to Harajuku again and saw SOME shops that were still open (I got a new sparkling silver belt for ¥315), and went to a recommended okonomiyaki restaurant in a converted private home in one of the darker back alleys of the neighborhood.
At Tokyo DisneySea, I'd had some popcorn shrimp and possibly questionable pasta salad, the latter of which I think gave me my stomachache; Bonnie thought it might have been the shrimp we had in the okonomiyaki or perhaps something else in it (or the alcohol I had, a rather juiced-down Raspberry Orange thing called a "Nable"), but I don't think it could have gone through me that quick. In any case, I popped a Clidinium/Librax, and I'm feeling a bit better now.
I just want to sleep... I'll recount the fun of all of this once I'm back in MY bed, in MY room, in MITO.
I hope everyone has a fun New Year's and stays safe, healthy, and happy. Don't get alcohol poisoning, anyone!
P.S. The guy sitting next to me said he was from Kentucky, but he SCARILY reminds me of Mike (Cooper). And earlier on my way back, I saw a guy who could have been either Ben Watson (R.I.P.) or Jason Cunningham, had he Botox'd lips and fluffier hair... then near the Thunder Gate, I saw a guy that could have been Joe C. in 20 years with the same fluffy hair thing and a slightly different body shape. It was creepy!
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Date: 2006-12-31 03:51 pm (UTC)I'm going to be a dork when I go to Tokyo DisneySea (hopefully during the summer?) and get that salty-sweet ice cream there.
xP
I'm glad that things worked out for you and you're having a great time there.
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Date: 2006-12-31 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-31 04:00 pm (UTC)Oh what a funny image-- XD
^.~ And bonnie knows why I'm a dork with the salty-sweet ice cream. XD
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