Merry Christmas!!!11 It's not like Christmas back home, but I'm still in a great mood. Which is always nice :) Today, it being Christmas and all as well as a Sunday, Shota and I went out to Namba for a little Christmas shopping. In the end, I wasn't able to convince him to get a Christmas present, but...
Is that a scary sky or what!? I saw that on my way to work last Friday, and was quite worried that a typhoon has just shown up as some sort of sick surprise Christmas present. Ohh mother nature~~ The way the sun hit the clouds was quite lovely though, so it wasn't all bad :) And before...
When the risen sun sets, the daytime, sightseeing filled Japan we know transforms into an electric playland sights and sounds. Some good, some bad, and some really ugly. But overall, somewhat tough to navigate. I don't know about anyone else, but I've had quite a time finding a suitable place for a little night time fun. I've done...
I know the Christmas season is here. I can see it in the shop windows and displays, it's apparent in grocery stores and on bottles of cider. But I don't feel it. And that's pretty sucky :[ It's only my second Christmas in Japan, but I'm ready to call it quits. I've already decided to spend next year's...
Well, it doesn't, as a matter of fact. As a general, and personal rule, I've wanted to keep complaints about the current society I live in at a minimum in terms of what I post here. I'm obviously living here by choice, so if I don't like it, I should just go home right? Except, it's just not...
Not too far beneath my spiked and studded outer shell, is the squishy flesh of a die-hard romantic. And I don't mean like melodramatic romance like that Twilight series or Degrassi, but stuff with a complete romantic aesthetic. Like the movie Marie Antoinette. It's not really the love between her and Louis, but the movie's entire aesthetic, from...