So I'm testing a new format for organizing places I've eaten and food photos..! Nomnomnom, enjoy yes?

San Siro サンシーロ
Umeda, Osaka, Osaka, JP

Access:
〒530-0001
大阪府大阪市北区梅田1-11-4
大阪駅前第4ビルB1
TEL:050-5522-4031
 Hours: 11:00am til Midnight (last order is at 11pm)

The closest station to this lovely little hole in the wall is Higashi-Umeda on the Tanimachi Line. Of course, seeing as the whole of Umeda is connected by a myriad of underground tunnels, any of the other Umeda stations (JR Osaka, JR Kitashinchi, Hankyu Umeda, Hanshin Umeda, Nishi-Umeda on Yotsubashi Line, Umeda on Midosuji Line) will, as long as you can find your way to the Higashi-Umeda walkways. The hallways for the Tanimachi line should lead to a dead end of ticket gates, so from there you have to go up some stairs to your left, through some doors, and you'll find San Siro to your right.

 I'm not a real food enthusiast, so I won't go into any details about authenticity and such. I really don't care, as long as it tastes good and is CHEAP (I'm a simple person really).

San Siro, despite it's what-I-like-to-call-fancy trappings, is pretty reasonably price as far as bars go in Japan. It's definitely in the western-style, with large format TVs hanging about, but then there's usually opera music pouring from the speakers. To go with the whole "Italian" them I would suspect. :)

ALSO, one of the few places with Heineken. That itty-bitty one was 400 yen and the garlic bread-sticks were on the affordable side as well, and for those drinkers out there, they offer All-you-can-drink for an hour and a half.



But seeing as you can get alcohol literally everywhere, the biggest draw for me is the pizza. Hot DAMN is this pizza good. This one is the Margarita pizza which is only 780 yen and it's more than enough to enjoy all on it's lonesome. If I'm feeling particularly Hulky, I could be tricked into ordering two, but I would never make it through the second one~





Since everything was just so reasonable, we ordered this huge cream puff for desert. It was so goood ;w;...

This puff was probably 150 or 198 yen and so,so worth it.

On a separate trip, I also had their Ichiro Tart, 340yen, which was pretty good too!

Seems like a great place for throwing a party or going to each with a bunch of people. A shame it's not open later, but that might be connected to the fact that it is located within the bowels of some office building.

If you're in Umeda, and you really want some GOOD pizza, then go here. Unless you can find that place in Nakazaki-cho~ *mischievous giggle?*

No one told me you were here..! I was just off doing things, absolutely not in a effort to ignore you. Actually, I quite like you as far as months go, things have just been busy. Truly! How about we give it a retry next year??

Regards.

But seriously, September was an okay month..! A lot of learning, with bits of fun thrown in on the sides. :)

For starters, my band had it's first live on the 10th!!
And it was pretty okay! The only regret is not having a drummer in time for it :< So we had to do that part electronically. Also, we were sort of at odds with the genres of all the other bands there.

But the club's owner really dug us and wants us to come back for other shows, so that's a definite plus! :)

And we finally (this month) recruited a drummer (who is quite badass btw, I'm jealous of her mad skillz), so now we'll get serious or something.

Shota also snapped some nice photos of us..! Kudos to him seeing as he didn't really want to go (that's a whole other can of worms we won't open right now). My only grudge is that my arms look really.. gangly :<  I can't wait to get back into doing yoga every day so I can tone up a bit~

I told friends and fam back home I would share some video from it but.. I don't want toooo! Too shy/embarrassed/awkward?? I don't know, but I'm barely comfortable sharing my artwork, let alone things with me singing and moving around like some humanoid quad-o-pus. Someday *wistful sigh* :)

The rest of September has really just been working. Or rather, figuring out where I want to work until I take a small sojourn back to the States for Christmas. I applied for a billion jobs, went to 6 interviews and ended up giving it a go at 5 places (one place was a girls bar, which I wasn't aware until the end of the interview DD:).

But I'd like to do a separate post about that in detail, mostly talking about the dynamics of working at a shot bar (catch sales, which I hate or conversing with customers, which I sorta like), reactions from customers of a *GASP* married woman working in a bar (I guess bars just scream sleazy, when they really shouldn't, but that's also a different can of worms), and the overall kickass time I'm having at one place.

..When I was thinking about what to write, a billion and one things came to mind, but now that I've actually sat down to write, I've drawn a blank. How lame. :< Guess I better just end it here with a sunset photo! ♥

To a more proactive and interesting October! :)

★Peaces★

Fancy menu from an izakaya

And life was like 'OKAY, now do stuff.'
So I respectfully obliged, and got off my lazy bum. I've been to 3 successful interviews for part-time gigs, all of which I decided to take on, mostly because the first two were for English Conversation schools at an extremely part-time-type schedule. Which is good and bad. I won't lose my coveted and preciously held "time" however, I can't really make enough money to well.. anything. ;>

So I did the smart thing, and applied for some other stuff, mostly working late nights at bars, which is something I've always wanted to do (don't ask why, cuz I'm not really sure lol). This is, of course, impossible (the bar-tending part) stateside unless you are licensed/certified, however in Japan, you don't need one! You can just fumble around behind the bar and throw shit stuff into people's drinks. Not literally, obviously, because the Japanese take drinking very seriously because they do it all the time. Anyway, they'll be training me while I work, and there are no dress codes, bleached hair, piercings, whatever you want to wear (except for the shirt, which is black) are all fair game. I can choose my days as well, and how I get paid (daily or weekly). AND I lucked out, and applied to a Hip-hop & Reggae bar, so I get this weird feeling like this is the one time my ethnicity worked in my favor. I could get used to this ;)

Though I may have to get back into listening to hip-hip on a somewhat regular basis (the last new artist I picked up was Wale.. and he came out a few years back I think..).

The name of fancy menu izakaya.

So I get started this upcoming Monday night. I'm going to go into it with as much positivity as I can muster, because really, that's just the best way to go about things.

But then I also have an interview at another bar tomorrow!! I keep sort of forgetting. I should have canceled, but I feel really guilty about canceling after accepting the interview and all.. Besides! The guy in charge of recruiting was using emoticons in the e-mail. You can't cancel on that..!! :D

SO I just may be running around Umeda and Kyoubashi on late weeknights and weekends. I'll probably write about what a horrible idea that was around October or November (if I even make it that long).

One of many, many, many sunset photos.

I still want to apply for one more job though. JUST one more. Because this job is for working at events like concerts, festivals and the like, and I REALLY would like to try that. Though I don't know how good I would be at talking with the customers of those said events, I definitely think I could offer a lot of help in the background though.

And then I'm done, pinky swear. Damn, it is quite nice to have things to do. :3

I should have some decent posts coming up soon, some ancient burial grounds, the largest lake in Japan AAAND.. something else I can't quite remember. Bah, must not have been that important. ;)

Time to say goodbye to summer and .. nope, that's it, just summer. Bring it on autumn! >:D

★Peaces★

Check out Wale! PG County Represent!! ;D