Archive for September, 2008

Welcome to Tokyo.

Incense, tourists, weird shrines… oh my!

Must at all shrines: Yakatori!

Trains – the ultimate transport of Tokyo.

My father having some freshly-caught sushi (mere hours ago) at the Tsukiji fish market.

The infamous tuna – sadly, we had missed the auctioning frenzy for them.

AAAAAAAAAH TOOOOOOOOKYOOOOO TOOOOOOOOOYS

The yakuza tengu of the skies… EVERYWHERE.

Adverts for Host Clubs – [...]

Hmmm, first things first – it was rather disappointing, but that may be due to a really lousy tourist map – note: in the future, buy a decent map with JAPANESE characters on them. I ended up leading my father a hour south of where we were supposed to go to… in the end, I [...]

As you may have heard or this might come as a bit of surprise, but well, here I am, in Tokyo.
 
I’m in the Electric City That Never Sleeps with my dear father, who was so kind to surprise me with a ticket to Tokyo, as he was going to be there for four days before [...]

After aikido tonight (my kneecaps feel like they’ve been rotated a few rounds of the dial under the flesh), sensei pointed me out and said that I’m going to be tested the next class for a red stripe – aka ukkei, meaning falling.
Though aikido is strictly white belt deshi or black hakama (instead of belt, [...]

On Saturday, the day before Fathers Day, I dragged myself out of my lovely bed and onto public transport for the hubbhub of Queen Victoria Market…
I brought a batch of vegetables and herbs from the organic produce section, next to the deli section, and brought some authentic polish kabana (mmmmmmmm delicious) and csabai salami, before [...]

So I was at the Little Creatures Brewing Hall with some mates – (I highly recommend the place; you can even hop on a red bike and go riding about fitzroy for free! Food and beer are copious and delicious!)
- and all of sudden, I spied a guy across the hall, and waved myself around [...]