woke up a bit late, we went to eat some yakiniku. this place is a bit like korean bbq but the grill is like… advanced. there are air filters built into the grill so none of the smoke goes up. you order a plate of meat, and the rest of the salad/fruit bar is free. it doesn’t sound like much but it fills you. was pretty good too 😛
the rest of the day we relaxed some more and explored the near-by mall called you me. or… you and me… but in japanese, you me would be pronounced as yume which would mean dream o.o oooo clever… anyways. we walk in and its a weird experience. there are like… no walls separating the shops. it’s like one massive store. pretty cool… we just looked around, tried to find stuff to buy… there was only 2 floors and the 3 upper floors were… parking. yea. and theres a lot of parking around the mall too. a bit crazy. the only thing i bought was a ruler, that folds out to 30cm, and has degrees on it… and has holes at the CM mark (altho i’ve been using inches for the past couple years :S… didn’t think of that till now…)
we were about to leave when we saw… o.o there’s another building. this time the first floor was parking, the 2nd was the ‘mall’ and the 3rd (and more?) was a theatre. first thing i found was the hobby store, hahaha… had some (very very limited) vinyl toys, and a bunch of anime stuff, whee. spent most of my time there looking for random stuff to buy 😛
after thaaat… we came back to david’s and i took a nap while he and michelle went to pick up a cake later on. tonight was to be yuko’s ‘going away’ party, she’ll be in south carolina (as i mentioned before) for about 3 months. they came back with the cake, and we left to pick up yuko. she has a big fat cat called chii, as in chiisai (small), because it… used to be chiisai. haha… and a small dog out in the front yard who only seems to be nice to yuko… it started growling once we got a little bit closer… scary.
anyways, we met up with a bunch of ppl in front of the parco, rotating marble thingy… nolan, 23? 24? yr old jewish guy, francois, 22 guy from quebec, jarod 23 from somewhere in the states… cant remember… takao from the night before, and the girls, ayako (maru-chan is what yuko calls her cause of her last name), hotaru (which means firefly), and kazue, those are the only names i remember… they speak limited english, so they got to ‘practice’. hahaha… after we all met up, we walked to the restaurant, ninoni. and the logo is a pig. o.o… when we were walking somewho kazue read michelle’s life line and told her she’d live until she was about 60 yrs old… but apparently michelle got that reading before 0.o… and when she saw my life line, wow, that’s longer! at least 100! hurray~ david’s life line was a lot longer tho, too long, proportional with his huge hands i guess 😛
we sat on the floor again, and since david’s a really tall guy, he was cramped most of the night 😛 everyone’s surprised when i sorta reply to their questions in japanese, you understood?! hehe, it’s fun to surprise ppl… lol. too bad i don’t know more tho… anyways, michelle talked to francois for a while, takao, kazue and hotaru were in front of us. and we sorta talked about… the usual: why we’re in japan, where we’ve been, etc… we used david’s phone to take some pictures from francois’ phone (which david has to send us o.o!)… random funny signs from places in japan, crazy english :P…
for some reason hotaru called me cute, i cant remember y… 😛 anyways. after a while david and takao started helping kazue learn some english phrases for her job as a secretary and assistant at a legal office… the name was something and chiba. o well. but i pointed out that…. if she speaks to the caller in english… they’ll continue talking to her in english, and she won’t understand… 0.o lol. good luck to her. lol…
afterwards hotaru and kazue went home (it was a sunday night afterall) and the rest of us went to a small cafe, cafe switch, for dessert. it was crazy how obvious and stupid the spelling errors were for the NAME of the place – -;… the name is spelt right on the carpet and other stuff but the menu board written in chalk is spelt wrong, but placed right in the front. if they looked up a little, they’d be able to spell it right… *sigh*… i guess i’d do the same if it was japanese tho… meh. we ordered then sat at the outside table.
jarod, who’s leaving japan in august, is teaching english with the JET company that my brother was going to join, but decided not to… he didn’t say how it was but it seemed to like japan a lot, altho the japanese seem to not have the concept of ‘chilling’ everything was always planned in like a week in advance, unable to just call someone and meet up. when we saw the cafe switch menu and signs, we started to critique it, like any graphic designer would, and jarod went… did you guys take graphic design?! which was surprising for us cause he actually knew of it. he said he took some liberal arts courses and learnt some ‘graphic design’ stuff… he’s more of a programmer like me, which is pretty cool, but i guess he’s more programmer-y than me and my actionscript 😛 cause he knew and liked how it was more similar to other languages. blahblahblah… but yea, that was cool to meet someone that’s going to go into the same field.
nolan, who we’ve been warned is very blunt and… mean? likes yuko, but when he was asked “where he liked her from” in japanese, it’s sorta literal or colloquial, depending on how it’s said… could be, asking what he likes about her, or how he came to like her, or what you like about her.. or somethin… anyways, his answer was, her legs. lol… they were expecting him to say her personality or something, which he mentioned wasn’t that great 0.o… and then he went on to say that a new teacher at his school has a larger chest and that he likes the teacher from the waist up and yuko from the waist down. lol…. then yuko argued how he hasn’t even seen her chest… lalala… apparently this conversation wasn’t anything too out of the ordinary for them… lol.
and soon after, people started to disperse. nolan and francois sorta argued about who would take yuko home… lol… and nolan ended up going that. after we did get back to david’s, he got a call from nolan, his car got stuck somewhere – -;… and… i don’t know how that story ended… 0.o meh.
our yakiniku.. sorta. pork and chicken.. mmm
dinner at ninoni…
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