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Saturday, September 27, 2003
america america
today was a major gaijin-fest, my first one in a loooong time. i actually managed to go running this morning, and man, am i going to be in trouble come oct 4 at the terry fox run. i cannot be a disgrace to my nation, the nation of terry!!! but it felt nice to be able to run and breathe in sorta fresh air, a welcome change after horridly smuggy sessions earlier in the month. i also managed to vacuum, do the dishes and sort out laundry all before my aunties came over... i think i am starting to love vacuuming. what is going on??????? but that sweeping motion of cleanliness, purging surfaces and corners of dirtiness... hoooha! cleeeeean... goooooood....
afterwards, i went to shinsaibashi to meet up with matt, and then we went to amerimura. i was quite happy that i was actually able to find the place (thanks uegaki sensei!!) and on the way there, we saw a protest, and i was so surprised that people were protesting the american occupation of iraq... quite surprised, but it buoyed my perception of japanese involvement in global affairs. when i was taking a picture of the protesters, kano sensei came out of the group and said hello! wow, so random! but so cool!!! peace peace! it reminded me a bit of the demonstrations in TO, and i was really glad they were doing this so far after the fact.... good stuff.
amerimura was well, amerimura. gangstarr and nelly blasting out from random stores, a HUGE fubu store, and various black guys loitering around, paid to make certain establishments look more authentically American... only in Japan. we actually had mexican food for dinner since matt remembered this taco stand he passed by, and it was good eats. then onto namba where i found...
POPCORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and not that horrific shoyu and butter crap...
REAL AMERICAN MICROWAVE POPCORN WITH ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOURING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i could cry tears of joy. i have gone so long without popcorn, it is quite disturbing... but now, well now, i can do anything with a bag of popcorn by my side! wooohooooooooooooooo!!! and i am not sharing!!
anyways we went to Seattle`s Best for coffee, and i got some overpriced fruity thing.. sigh, reminds me of hours at second cup. they even had the same tables that the second cup on spadina has! *tear* =)
it was a good day my friends, pop-er-iffic if you will.
today was a major gaijin-fest, my first one in a loooong time. i actually managed to go running this morning, and man, am i going to be in trouble come oct 4 at the terry fox run. i cannot be a disgrace to my nation, the nation of terry!!! but it felt nice to be able to run and breathe in sorta fresh air, a welcome change after horridly smuggy sessions earlier in the month. i also managed to vacuum, do the dishes and sort out laundry all before my aunties came over... i think i am starting to love vacuuming. what is going on??????? but that sweeping motion of cleanliness, purging surfaces and corners of dirtiness... hoooha! cleeeeean... goooooood....
afterwards, i went to shinsaibashi to meet up with matt, and then we went to amerimura. i was quite happy that i was actually able to find the place (thanks uegaki sensei!!) and on the way there, we saw a protest, and i was so surprised that people were protesting the american occupation of iraq... quite surprised, but it buoyed my perception of japanese involvement in global affairs. when i was taking a picture of the protesters, kano sensei came out of the group and said hello! wow, so random! but so cool!!! peace peace! it reminded me a bit of the demonstrations in TO, and i was really glad they were doing this so far after the fact.... good stuff.
amerimura was well, amerimura. gangstarr and nelly blasting out from random stores, a HUGE fubu store, and various black guys loitering around, paid to make certain establishments look more authentically American... only in Japan. we actually had mexican food for dinner since matt remembered this taco stand he passed by, and it was good eats. then onto namba where i found...
POPCORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and not that horrific shoyu and butter crap...
REAL AMERICAN MICROWAVE POPCORN WITH ARTIFICIAL BUTTER FLAVOURING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i could cry tears of joy. i have gone so long without popcorn, it is quite disturbing... but now, well now, i can do anything with a bag of popcorn by my side! wooohooooooooooooooo!!! and i am not sharing!!
anyways we went to Seattle`s Best for coffee, and i got some overpriced fruity thing.. sigh, reminds me of hours at second cup. they even had the same tables that the second cup on spadina has! *tear* =)
it was a good day my friends, pop-er-iffic if you will.
// posted by naomi @ 9:38 a.m. 
