| June 8, 2001
Friday (cloudy)
woke up not too happy
because of the email I got last night. We finally went to Tokyo
tower today. On the way there, we ate at a gyuudon (beef bowl) place
again. It's almost like Japanese fast food (cheap, fast) I
forgot my sunglasses there but was able to retrieve it later. We
exchanged money at a bank, we spent much less money than I expected.
Between my brother and I, we spent only about a hundred dollars a
day. Only?!!! Maybe that's
including hotel and all, and transportation was quite expensive. Oh
wait, 100 dollars for the 2 of us, meaning 50 each, silly me
=P
Tokyo tower is quite
impressive. The views are gorgeous up on the toop. You can see
the entire city. The telescope is really powerful you can actually
see individual persons. I remember
you can even look into other people's house. I later watched this TV
series starring Kyoko Fukada where she played a store clerk working at
Tokyo tower and she used the telescope to spy on the guy she had a crush
on =] I bought some more postcards
and stamped them again. I also bought a gold coin (ok, maybe not
gold) with Dandan's name on it for her bday. I
think she liked it, much better
improvement from the "necklace" I got her the year b4 =]
Afterwards,
we went to Akihabara again. On our way there, we bought some really
cool shaped coke. Anywayz, I'm bad at drawing. I
can't even remember why it was so special due to the poor drawing I have
on my journal.... =[ We found out
that the best place to check emails is not internet cafe, but in
electronic stores. There's free internet because they have demos for
ADSL. More stuff about that email I
got which i'm deleting, yadda yadda yadda.
And I'm just going to leave the matter until I return to US. I saw
some electrical Japanese-English dictionaries. But I coulnd't find
one where they had furigana for the Japanese Kanji (the readings for the
Chinese characters), so I didn't get one. We left there w/o buying
anything again.
We went to Shinjuku for
dinner. We walked around a lot. Today was the most tiring day
for me. I was really hungry and my feet hurt like hell. Awww,
poor me =P My bro was persistent in
finding this tonkatsu (fried pork chop) restaurant which he actually found
this time =] It was pretty good . The waitress actually spoke
Chinese too.
We played a lil video
game. There's so many kinds of rhythm games in Japan (All
kinds of music instrument and button pressing, etc) Random
comment: can you think of a longer word than rhythm that contains no
vowel? =] I played this punching
game, it wasn't that fun cuz I didn't know the right timing at
all.
Shinkjuku
at night is full of sex shows, topless dancing, etc. A lot of girls
stand outside trying to get customers. We also went to Roppongi,
which had a lot of Caucasians. A lot of sex related business there
also. Some of these girls dressed really nicely too, like in prom
dresses. It's kinda sad to see really pretty girls in this kind of
business =(
We caught the last
subway home. Today was a very tiring day. I played the sniping
game again, I'm actually not bad at the game. Says
so himself, lol. It's really
fun. My hand shakes less now too (be like the stone - from enemy
at the gates) When we went back to the hotel, Andy talked
to me about my problem (concerning that email) which made me feel better
=] So I'm not going to check my emails anymore to keep this good
feeling going. Ah, ignorance is
bliss
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