週末

I had a lovely weekend and I'm already wishing that there will be many more weekends like that to come! I'm crossing my fingers that my work schedule won't be affecting my social life THAT much. Anyhow - i started off the day early, as i was awoken up by my neighbours. Not that they were especially rowdy, it's just too bright to sleep at 9am and the noise didn't help to put me back into lalaland. I had brunch and then went to Don Quijote (department store with marked down prices) with Gustav, my friendly neighbour/housemate to do some proper grocery shopping. It was fascinating to find a litre can of Asahi beer, and a towel with plush tits on them, just for people who likes the feeling of tits rubbing your back in the shower...

So we left with our arms full and dropped by the bridge across the local stream. We saw HUGE-ASS koi fishes who were being fed by the nicest japanese family. They offered us a slice of bread to feed the fishes too. Undoubtedly, we caused a feeding frenzy. The mom also taught her daughter to say "welcome" and "goodbye" in English, in response to us. I really appreciated their kind gesture, as it reawakens the hope that the world can always become a better place since kind and open-minded people like them still do exist after all!

Since clubbing at Roppongi will be pretty late at night, I joined my housemates for the regular weekend drinking chilled out session after dinner. We were sitting outside on the bench, on the front porch, having some beer and snacking on dorito chips. Nomimashyo (let's drink)! It was a wonderful atmosphere where people spoke in a mixture of japanese, english and even swedish. They were teaching me some useful japanese phrases - so difficult to remember and I always mix them up. I hope I learn a lot quicker as I really want to communicate properly with the people living here. Anyhow, the highlight was them teaching me how to speak in the girlish kawaii manner and the boys' demonstrations just put me into a laughing fit for the next 5 minutes. haha.

So eventually Gustav & I left for shinjuku to meet his friends, before heading to Roppongi. It was alright, but mostly everyone was rather clique-ish. (His friends mostly pangsehed him!) We were also led on a wild goose chase for at least 2 hours before we eventually stepped into the club called MORPH. The music was good at the start and at the end, when DJ Satoshi was playing. They played all sorts of music from R&B to house, trance, techno, eurodance, rock & roll & random strange japanese songs. From my virgin night out, I think that Jap girls usually don't dance like you see in our clubs, they just shift their weight gently on their furry boots clothed chopstick legs... until much later into the night when the alcohol takes over. (That's probably how they all manage to look picture perfect no matter how late it is... Seriously!) Jap boys are split into 2 camps - the overly active ones and the ones which just stand in the corner to chain smoke. Well, which is pretty much like the local scene, isn't it? haha.

Only in Japan, that you can have a song entirely made up of the DJ grunting "Jägermeister" throughout the whole song. It's a song in its own right. Similarly with the phrases, "arigato gozaimasu" and "sumimasen"... DAME (That's bad). That was the final straw. We escaped the boiling hot club and went in search of a thirst quenching drink from the konbini (convenience store).

So anyway, as a taxi ride home would be obscenely expensive, we had to stay out the whole night until the first train runs again at 5am in the morning. We managed to stagger our way home at dawn, which was AWFULLY COLD by the way!!! Catching the first train was another interesting experience as EVERYONE was sitting around on the platform, waiting for the train to arrive. It was probably something which I would never see in Singapore.

Just as I was starting on my blog entry, I received an invitation to join my housemates for a special "Fika", a swedish tradition leading up to Christmas. So it will take place every sunday starting today, for last 4 sundays till Christmas. We'll light a candle and sit around, drinking tea or coffee, munching on some biscuits. What a gorgeous way to spend cold wintry nights, while expecting Christmas to arrive. Even William, our resident cranky and strange cleaner looked quite happy this evening. :)