Tuesday May 03, 2005

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Spring is here and the humidity is back. We have another month to still experience and enjoy Japan (going to the Fuji Five Lakes region this weekend... yes I will post pictures this time...) before (1) it gets to the point where one can stick to even cloth train seats, and (2) everybody and their cousins and their cousins's mailmen go out to the Fuji...
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luckyp:
Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!
If I could say it in Japanese, I would... but I lent my phrase book to a friend.
Hope you had a great day!
kiss
--l*P
kenyon:
that's amazing - i have no gag reflex either! for used bookstores, there's a good one on broadway in newport, though i haven't a clue as to the actual address (it's sort of on a diagonal from a bakery) - as for providence, myopic books and cellar stories are great.

what do you write?

Tuesday Mar 22, 2005

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Tuesday, 22 March, though I think the internal clock will register it as the 21st, still. Damn time differences. It's the little things in this country that have impressed me today... I spent an hour and a half trying to make a piece of paper look like a kangaroo (I've been addicted to origami for two years, ever since I was told that if I...
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Saturday Mar 19, 2005

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Still in Japan. Need to update this thing more. It's Sunday, a week after walking on hot coals at Takao-san, a mountain about an hour west of Tokyo. It actually wasn't as hot as I thought it would be, seeing as how the whole thing was a three-meter-high conflagaration (bad spelling? oh well) of pine branches ten minutes before I set my bare little tootsies...
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hellosushi:
whose jealous of who? YOU are in JAPAN!! i am totally green with envy!
yeah...i went to that store momoko in austin and i didnt even buy anything hello kitty because there was sooo much other cool kitty things from japan!
also, we had some tea with PEARLS in it??? what in the world is that about? it was pretty freaky! eeek
chickenlips:
The pearl tea is I think Chinese... at least, I've had it in Hong Kong and especially in a really awesome tea shop in Zhangjiang (near Hainan Island, on the mainland). Pearls are sometimes associated with long life and beauty, which is why the Chinese do that, at least.

Sunday Dec 12, 2004

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12 Dec 04... Rode my bike down the hill through autumn and cold Japanese businessmen for Tandoori chicken and an Ebisu beer... washed it down with Rento Sho-chu (if you ever come to Japan, have one... no more than one, trust me...) and tried to ignore the fact that the bar I normally love and adore was playing the greatest hits of the Carpenters. But,...
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luckyp:
Hi! Are you still in Japan?
kiss
--l*P