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A long weekend review.

So this past weekend was a long weekend. ANd I did plenty of stuff to make it seem even longer!

Friday night I went to Rob's to play poker with the boys. I ended up losing about $100, which kinda sucked. But seeing as I have won big the last few times we have played, it evens out. That's all that happens when you play poker with the same group of people. The same money just keeps changing hands. After poker, I went to Dolphin with Pommy Mark, and organised my birthday party!

28th of Oct: Richard's Crappy Costume Halloween/Birthday Party.
@ Dolphin from 7:30pm.

The rules: You may not spend more than 1000 yen on your costume.

This way, you will have more money to buy me beer.


You're all invited.

Saturday, I went to Tokyo to hang out with Lee, his new girlf Itsuki, and her friend Chika.

We went to the Hard Rock Cafe in Ueno, and had an awesome time. We all laughed and laughed and laughed. Then we went to sing karaoke, and had a great time there too. I honestly haven't had so much fun, in a very very long time.

Chika is the smallest, cutest thing ever invented. She looks about 12, but is actually 29 (Same as me!) We got along really really well, and both decided it is a sad thing that we just met, and she is moving to Brisbane this coming weekend.

We have been emailing each other every day since, and she decided she is going to try to get down to Sydney for a few days while I am there over the Christmas/New Year break.

Looking forward to that!


Chika thinks I'm a Loser?
Chika and myself at karaoke. (crappy phone photo, because we all forgot to bring our cameras)




I went back home at about six on Saturday evening. My friend Katsumi came over with her PS2 and we played games. I beat her in the Kanji knowledge one. Which was awesome, because she is Japanese. Hahah! She left about midnight.

I went to sleep, and got up at about nine, and was on the train back to Tokyo by ten, for my date with Midori. Which was a shitty time, Midori is small and cute too, she looks about 14, but is 29 also (I am concerned... I think Japan is turning me into a peadophile!) Unlike Chika, she is not fun. She is annoying and jealous/crazy. We went to the movies. (Movies are good, because you don't have to talk to the person). She wanted to see "World Trade Center." But I said I wouldn't see that, so we ended up watching X-Men 3 instead. Unfortunately we had to wait for three hours for the movie to start, so we ended up having lunch, and then just wandering around the shops. (I spent a good half hour in the Lego shop though).

Somehow, we "randomly" ran into one of her friends and her new boyfriend. So we had to have coffee with them. I was a bit pissed off, because instead of talking to me, they just talked about me, in Japanese. At one point Midori's friend asked her how old I am, Midori said how old to do you think he is? She answered, somewhere around 35? I looked at her and said (In Japanese) "No, you are very wrong! I am 29!" Then they all realised that I was able to understand everything they were saying, and they were rightly embarrassed.

So then we went to see the movie. Sunday evening I was meant to go to the Cosmos Festival in Okabe, with Katsumi and Megumi. But it was very windy, so Katsumi called me to tell me that it had been canceled, and that they were going to go to the movies instead. To see X-Men 3. I explained that I had just seen it, so I would catch up with them another time.

Midori got the shits because another girl had called me. By this stage it was dinner time, so we had dinner together, and that was very boring.

I won't see her again.

Yesterday was a public holiday, so I slept in, then I played computer games at Lee's house, and after that I went out to dinner with Yukako.

Yukako and I are getting along better than ever now. We had a lovely time, and both ended up in fits of laughter several times over. We went to our usual cafe, and I'm sure the staff there now think we are the weirdest couple in all of Honjo.

Oh well, I don't care!

The End.
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Thoughts

So I went on the date with Chiho last night, we went to a nice izakaya called Wa, and we had a pretty good time. We just chatted about stuff, like our jobs, and what I used to do in Australia, and what we like to eat, and stuff like that. It was fun to practice our foreign languages out, and we certainly had more to talk about than Megumi and I did, when I went on a date with her.

While we were having dinner, Yukako called my phone. I didn't answer, so she called again, and again. Chiho was telling me to just answer it, so I did, and we talked for a few seconds.

Yukako: Hiya! Where are you are you at home?
Me: No, I'm out having dinner.
Yukako: Oh, by yourself?
Me: No, I'm with someone.
Yukako: With Lee?
Me: No, I'm with someone else.
Yukako: ............ YOU ARE ON A DATE!!! Oh no! I'm so sorry for calling and interrupting! Gomenne! I'm really sorry, Bye bye.

*hang up*

Chiho had to work early this morning, so I walked to her car, and we said our goodbyes at around 10pm.

Then I called Yukako, who said I was really cute on the phone before. She wanted to know if I was with "Goldfish Girl" (Megumi), and seemed quite surprised when I said I was with someone else. I think she was happy that I had actually gone out with someone, and we chatted for about an hour and a half.

Rob emailed me this morning to ask how the date went. So I told him we had a lot of fun, but I was disappointed that Chiho had to leave my place so early this morning so she could go to work. Hehehehe.

Oooh, here are the weekend photos from Kaori's birthday party, and the Honjo Matsuri (festival).



Click on Kaori to see photos from her party






Click on my Kodama students to see photos of the Honjo Matsuri


(Incidentally, the girl in the front and the girl on the right are the girls I am talking about in this post. The one on the right is Yu, the one who was knocked out).


Oh yeah! I almost forgot! The other day, on my one year in Japanniversary, Hiromi (who cut my hair, and can be seen in the Kaori's birthday photos), became the first person ever to notice I have some grey hairs.

:-/

I didn't even notice before.