abunai

12th of Sep, 2001ce* in: diary

Woah! Sitting outside eating my dinner and an accident between a bike and car happens right before me! Went to help but the guy was just a bit shaken not hurt, no Japanese came to help I saw as I ran through traffic to offer my assistance. His bike was in a thousand pieces, he was in one. Lucky guy, could have been worse from what I saw.

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smoke, theres fire

10th of Sep, 2001ce* in: diary

Back to work tomorrow, great. Had a huge argument with my girlfriend about consumerism and waste management, must have been the drink, she was like a whirlwind of personal gripes and stabs. Right, gotta find a damn supermarket this week, and not buy wasteful shit down at the local shop. But the smoking thing I won’t stop for no-one, soz :P

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rain

9th of Sep, 2001ce* in: diary

Caught in the rain again. It was although I had been swimming with my fucking clothes on.

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hakkone

8th of Sep, 2001ce* in: diary

Had a nice time on a train that goes up a mountain, only to find the cable car which we were meant to change onto was out of action, due to the typhoon.
We made do with our immediate surroundings and enjoyed walking in the woods and taking a weird train that was angled at around 35 degrees.

Time to get a hotel, wow! they are all out of season, big rooms = low price! lucky us. We tried two large hotels which were in western style, half way up a mountain this was welcomed. One smelt like a dentists the other smelt like a school trip. We also tried a traditional style Japanese hotel, where the staff didn’t smile or welcome us, the boss asked us how much we wanted to pay and there were geisha girls sitting about the place… then it dawned on my girlfriend. This was a business mans paradise, girls on tap. We made our exit quickly (although I didn’t mind too much).
We went to the dentist smelling hotel and had a nice sleep of nightmares.

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no holiday

7th of Sep, 2001ce* in: diary

No chance of going on holiday to the desired destination (a north japan island), a typhoon has just hit Japan. We decided to go to Hakkone instead, which is a mountain.

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wish you were here

6th of Sep, 2001ce* in: diary

Got to sagami ono station outside of Tokyo for the start of my little holiday adventure, only for me and my girly to find that her bike had been stolen. She was so confused looking and depressed that she just picked up the nearest bike, jumped on and pushed hard on the pedal breaking the lock clean off. All this happened in an instant, and as we hide our bikes round the back of the police station it was hysterically funny. Well, spose you had to be there.

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atami

18th of Aug, 2001ce* in: diary

Met up with Dave, sayuki and her pal at Sagami Ono. We were all kitted out in Japanese clothing as we were going to Atami that evening, to watch the fire works (hanabi).
Many Japanese women wear the traditional Kimono looking Yukata (a light summer version of the Kimono), less but some men also wear this, in sleek blue or black designs. The womens designs are usually colourful detailed with birds or flowers in silhouette.
A large population of the tractional Japanese clothing for men sticks with Jinbe though, which is what I was wearing, we were out shopping for one, for Dave!

It took us a few hours to get to Atami (which is a sharply descending seaside town), where we bought enough beer to last the evening and headed off to the beach! Our main reason for doing this is that its pretty much the end of summer now, last chance to wear our Japanese clothing.

Dave ran into the sea, when we were drunk and had our fill of fireworks, which were staggering. He soaked his dragon motif Jinbe down to the bone, funny, in a ridiculous way!
Habitual Karaoke ensued, with my epic take me down to paradise city taking the finale.

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quit

16th of Aug, 2001ce* in: diary

Almost quit. Almost got fired for my attitude too.

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the big issue

15th of Aug, 2001ce* in: diary

Yesterdays argument has gone full scale. So I ran out to buy a new phone/get my Gaijin residency card. Needless to say, I didn’t go back the office and spent some time talking over with my girlfriend the nature of the client problem at work.

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mac donaldoe

14th of Aug, 2001ce* in: diary

Back to work after my neat little holiday, damn!
Went out for a meal with furifuri, to welcome a new member called katsura. We got a little merry and ate some nice food, I’ve placed the images of this feast in the photos section.

Started a new argument about the type of work we are doing, its a pretty sour argument, which I hope no-one finds out the content/client! Anyways, its pretty serious.

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