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Back from Sapporo. A bit behind in the work, so no posts. Until then, enjoy first a review of Suntory Boss coffee, and then the webpage itself. Oh! Wikipedia too! Suntory is my boss.

Better than the french foreign legion

After many gatherings with people have been thwarted I have decided to get a phone. Is it not nifty?

a taste and it is eggy!

I should be asleep. Instead, I shall post random photos of weird shit in Japan. Enjoy.


MEAT! A shirt in Harajuka.


From Hanashiki in Asakusa.





Perna should enjoy this message of wisdom from an arcade in the alleyway of awesomeness.


Me with my mega-awesome new tie. Yes, I'm happy, over a fucking tie, what of it? Fuck you. I got it in harajuku. It's metal.


more great shirts in harajuku


pink rotary phone in the bento box place


Creepy coke ad, also in the bento place.


Do you think I ever know what's really going on? this was in the subway

incoming post

Hey kids, sorry for the lack of posts lately. Excuses: 1) I've been busy. a) I have been avoiding spending too much time with my computer. b) I've been out having fun 2) I have lots of photos. I don't want to tell the stories without the photos. Finally found the cord.
So I'll be updating soon!

Fun and games.

Have I mentioned how much I love this country? The pictures below show some cheap purchases made. Except the 5 flavor pocky, which I won.
Suddenly, I find myself in the mood for Mongolian BBQ. Weird. Enjoy.

Cup sake


Crush pocky- Cookie


Crush pocky- almond


Grape pocky!


Five flavor Pocky fruit


5 flavor pocky black

Decorative Apple Custard


Decorative Grape

tori amos vs. the men from mars part 3

So once again I owe a few days worth of updates. Let's start with Sunday. On Sunday I went to a Media Cafe. More to the point, I went to one of a chain of media cafe's called "Popeye." Oooh. A wonderful link in Japanese. Great, right? It's a really weird experience. I went in, and at the desk arranged the service I want. They offer three different packages. A level is just an open computer. B level is a booth with a fucking awesome lazyboy, and a computer and what not. The C package gives a nice mini-sofa, with a computer, a ps2, a dvd player...and a little mini locker. some slippers to put on come with it as well. Here's where it gets weird (scroll down folks)...the place has some stuff you'd expect a media cafe to have. It's got munchies, drinks, books, blah blah pretty normal. Here's where it gets weird. It has a shower facility and a tanning booth. The place is also 24 hours. This is clearly meant for a 24-25 hour a day lifestyle. This is the kinda place you go to between 12-5 while the metros are closed, and you don't feel like paying $60 for a cab back to Toshima. yeah. So enough about that. Post that, I went to Namcoland and played the crane game (Taiko drum master was full). This was an example of eep strategy in action. I limited myself to 500YEN. The prize was a 4 pack of special 5 flavor pocky. It had both Goka pocky and Kurogo pocky. I know for a fact that these pocky usually go for about 200YEN+ a box. So I knew it was worth the 500YEN to try. Lo and behold, using my ninja crane game skills, I was able to win a 4 pack. In eep tradition, I gave a box to the first mädchen I saw (in this case the employee giving me a bag for my winings) and walked off. As a side note, the Goka is much better than the Kurogo. Go eeps though! As a side note, let's cross these off on Eep's list of pocky. Truly, my goal is to try as many as possible. I rule.
Today was pretty low key. I overslept again. I really did try to wake up. No. Waking up isn't the problem Getting out of bed is the problem! I am jack's lack of motivation. I really need to start getting out of bed earlier. I should be able to easily tomorrow. I have work to do, and my first day of Japanese. I finally got out of bed, showered, and went to Lawson's for some salmon sashimi! YUM!
IP tonight was ok. The big thing tonight was going to the Alley of Awesomeness with my friends to a place Sarah and Leslie found called Doma Doma. I very much enjoyed the food here! The place was almost like a tapas place. All of the dishes were small, and low priced. Let's explore the menu a bit, shall we? From the cheese menu, we ordered several things. Leslie and I split some delicious fried Cheese Mochi (left side, 3rd picture down. the 380 yen thing). Really yummy stuff. The cheese melted right out of it. It was a nice twist on the cheese stick idea. The group of us split some nan bread with melted Gorgonzola cheese and honey. Tres yummo. In addition, Amanda and I got Doma Doma's mini pizza. I was shocked! The pizza was fucking delicious! Not bad for 490YEN. Also on the cheese menu, I got the "Doma Doma Russian Roulette." That's the item on the bottom left. Basically, it was 6 ball like items that looked like takoyaki, but were actually melted cheese filed balls. So what was with the name? Well, 5 of the balls were filled with a delicious sweet cheese. But one of the balls was filled with a super spicy melted goo. Tasty, but damn it was hot! From the egg menu, Sarah got a delicious omelette. Finally, Leslie got some fried pumpkin fritters from the fried menu (Second to bottom row, center). Delicious!
After that, we left Doma-Doma and went to our respective metro stops. They took the mita line, and I took the JR back to oji.
That's about it. I've gotta work!
hopefully more photos soon!

change of flans

So we ended up not going to goth night. Juliana, Amanda, and I met up at Azabu-juban station around 8PM. From there, we went to Shibuya, where we would have gone for goth night anyways. It seemed to be a relatively quiet night in Shibuya. We were still burned out from last night, so we decided to take it easy. So we nerded around Shibuya for a while, going to a good curry place...an Indian curry house! SO YUM! It was great to have some curry that wasn't that british-style curry for a change! LUCK-EEP! We ended up going to TAITOland (I forgot the name of the place) to play some games first. I played that Taito drum game again. It's really addictive. We then nerded over to a Sega where I played a really neat dragon ball z fighting game. After that, went out to the metro and went back home. Yeps. That's it. Time for some photos.

Amanda and Juliana ala goth.


I actually have no idea what this is an advert for.


Mmm! Pasta Cube!


Shibuya at night.


Again, I have no idea what they're selling.


Everything in Japan is uber cute, even the bus mascot.