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Friday, April 15, 2005

alright, so to continue with the last entry, I'm about to talk about the club and the whole all nighter we did in Tokyo on Sat night.

After the porno shop and all that shit, we go find a convenient store, to buy some alcohol.  Ryan kept telling me to get one of those mini kegs to drink right before the club, we went to hella stores but we couldn't find any so I ended up buying four of those tall cans of beer.  Besto bought a small bottle of whiskey, can you imagine that, buying a small bottle of whiskey from a convenient store.  So me with the four beers and Besto with the whiskey, we headed over to McDonalds to chill and drink before the club.

In front of McDonalds, we all played row sham bow to see who would take the first shot of whiskey.  Of course Ryan lost and he took the first shot, turned out the shit wasn't bad.  I don't know what type of cheapshit whiskey that was, but it was way better than JD or the shit they have here.  Who says you get what you pay for, this was cheap shit and it was pretty smooth.  While everyone else continued to finish off the small bottle of whiskey, I started drinking beers.  By the time I finished the first beer, I was feeling pretty full and I had to piss.  We all headed into the McDonalds so we could all piss and eat a little somehting before the club.  At this point, I don't know where the hell Ryan was, but me and Besto were eating fries at one of the tables while the two girls were changing in the bathroom in preparation for later that night.  What was funny was that while they were changing, a line started forming outside of the bathroom, I could tell one girl hella had to piss but she couldn't cause Irish and Kyoko were taking so long in the bathroom.  I didn't say anything about it to them that night, but I'm saying it now, that was kinda fucked up, I thinkt he girl ended up going in the guys bathroom.

Finally, the time has come to go to the club.  During the short walk over to Club Buenos, I drank two more of the four beers I had.  By the time I got there, I was feeling pretty decent, alright I was feeling damn good.  I was told that this club usually charges about 20 bucks to get in and you get two free drink tickets.  We were some of the first people there, and fuck, you'd think we were back in the city, they were all checking my ID and shit like they knew what they were fucking looking at.  I don't remember if the frisked us or not but they did check our bags and stuff.  If we had any sort of beverage on us, they took it.  I managed to take a big chug out of my water bottle before they took it, I'll admit though, dude was nice enough to let me drink some of the water before taking it away.  Hid the beer though, I wrapped it in my shirt and and put it at the bottom of my bag......smart me huh.  Turns out that since this was spring break, they were charging 30 bucks and giving out only 1 drink ticket.  30 bucks to get into a club, you'd think that it was fucking prom or something, shiiiit, that may have been more than what I payed at prom......scandelous.  Cool thing about this club is that they had lockers where you could put your bags until you left.....cost a good couple of bucks though, but whatever, it was worth it. 

I must say, this club was pretty cool, after you walk in, they have an upstairs area where they had tables where people can just chill.  Downstairs was where the dance floor, bar, stage, and DJ was.  At first it was pretty chill since we were some of the first people in there so we just chilled and had our first drink.  Oh yeah, we saw another dorky white guy with a cute japanese girl, motherfucker was trying to dress all sophisticated and shit.  Dood looked kinda old too to be hanging at a club like the one we were at.  Anyway, funnything is that Besto is the one that pointed him out.....I noticed that Besto pointed out alot of those dorky white guys with cute Japanese girls out to me, I"m not sure if I"ve mentioned this before, but Bestos white.....so it is kinda strange that he jokes with me about those dorky white guys....anyway, he's dude is still a cool guy.  After going off on a tangent, I'll continue with the club stuff.  They had a list of drinks to get, I think the only drink I recognized was a long island, this was cool since long islands are what I get when I'm back home.  Turns out the shit cost TWO drink tickets, if I had known that it would have cost that much, I wouldn't have got it.

So we're just chilling on the dance floor while the club is getting more packed.  Man, all those beers I had are really going right through me, I'd say within the first half hour, I took about four pisses.  I decide to get another drink and after looking at the drink menue for a while, I decided on getting a "blue hawaiian," I asked the bartender what it was made of and he showed me it was made of rum, some blue stuff, and orange juice.....so it's a fruity drink, whatever, at least it was good.  They got these weak ass rules at these clubs, although you can get drinks with you drink ticket, each drink is 500 yen, which is just under 5 bucks....not bad for alcohol at a club.  The kicker is that when you pay with cash, you can't just get one drink for 500 yen, you gotta get either two drinks for 1000 yen or give them 1000 yen and they give you one drink and one drink ticket.....again, scandelous.  Right by the bar they had this funnyass sign that said soemthing about the club is a place of drinking and dancing so please refrain from the act of dancing, what the fuck is that.  Go check out the picture of this sign at the picture site, I sent most of you the site with the pictures so go take a look at it.

A few blue hawaiians later I was feeling pretty damn good.  By now we're all dancing and me and Besto are scoping out these two Japanese girls who were just standing at the wall.  Let me say this again, in Japan, the dudes just practice their dance moves by themselves while the girls either just stand there or dance with eachother.  I kept telling Besto to talk to the one on the left and I"ll talk to the one on the right.  That night Besto wasn't feeling it or seomthing cause he was hella shy, this was strange cause I kept hearing how Besto be talking to hella girls out there.  Finally I guess I asked this one girl to dance, I gotta say, out of all the girls I danced with that night, this girl really stood out.  She seemed hella genuinely happy that I asked her to dance.  After a while she and her friends had to go, so right before she left she bowed to me, she FUCKING BOWED to me, damn, I admit, I felt kinda guilty and flattered by this action.  Chick was cool though, I gave her a hug and took a picture with her before she left.  F

Funny thing happened with Besto, I wasn't there to see it, but supposedly some Japanese dude came up to Shannon, who automatically thought that the dude wanted to dance with him.  Turns out the dude goes right past Shannon and tries to "battle" Besto on the dance floor.  Besto, who is just standing there holding his drink, just looked at him and continued to do his own thing.  Shannon, the whole time is looking for cute Japanese dudes to dance with, one guy she was thought was cute started to grind on her so Irish stopped dancing with him cause she was cool off that.  A couple of hours into the club the "guest" rappers started.  Fuck, I thought they we would get through the night without having all this bullshit.  So like the first club we went to, everyone stopped what they were doing and watched the guest rappers do their shit on the stage.  After a while they had dancers come up on the stage and dance......it felt like a fucking highschool talent show......pretty boring shit.  Finally, after they finish, the DJ starts playing music again, so everyone gets back to dancing and shit.  Alright, at this point, I'm there, I'm at that point that is so rare, I have the perfect buzz.  I've drunk enough to feel damn good, but not enough to the point where I start doing stupid things and forgetting details about the night.  I actually did try to get one more drink during this perfect buzz, but fortunately the line was hella long at the bar.....good thing I didn't drink more cause it may have ruined my night.  Unfortunately they started again with that guest rapper shit, they should have been called whack rapper cause their raps were weak.  It was a combo of Japanese and English, they should just fucking have the fucking DJ play music at these clubs.  We waited a bit longer after they started rapping but I guess it was time to go anyway.  Man, it felt like we were only in the club for like an hour, but when we left, it was already 4:30 in the morning.  Time flies when you're having fun.

We were all pretty hungry after we left the club so went to a ramen place not far away.  With the exception of me and Kyoko, everyone fell asleep at the table......some people just aren't made to party.  At about 5am, we all head to the train station, Besto parted ways with us here, damn I'm gonna miss that guy and his laidback humor.  Me, Irish, GB and Kyoko on the other hand, took a train to this 24 hour onsen place, if you don't know what an onsen is, look up Wednesdays entry.  Fuck it, it's a bathhouse where you can just chill, sleep, whatever.  At this point, we've been up all night in Tokyo, I'll continue with the story in another entry, too tired to finish up the day. 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Thursday, April 14, 2005

Sat, March 26
    Now here is when the entries are gonna start getting interesting, this is when we go to Tokyo to do the infamous "all nighters."  The day started pretty chill, jsut woke up, packed our stuff, took the bus to the bus station and got on the bus for a three hour ride to Tokyo. 
    Bus ride was cool, I slept for about an hour before I woke up with the bus in traffic.  Now I could not believe how fucking bad the traffic was, it was worse than that shit you see on the bay bridge around rush hour in SF.  What was suppose to be a three hour bus ride, turned into a four and a half hour bus ride.  When the bus finally reached the Tokyo train station, we put me and IRish's luggage in a train locker.  Now I was suppose to leave the next day on Sunday afternoon, but since we got to Tokyo around 4:30pm, I felt that I wasn't going to have much time to enjoy Tokyo, so I changed my flight from Sunday, to Monday....the same day Irish was leaving.  With an extra to spend in Japan, we left for Harajuko and Shibuya.
    Harajuko is a district for the young people, Irish was excited about seeing it cause she said Gwen Stephanie talked about it in one of her songs.  For the most part, it was like a tiney bopper town.  Hella kids that looked like they were in high school were all there going to the different stores and just hanging out.  I couldn't believe how packed it was, imagine downtown SF but replace everyone around you with high schoolers who came down there to hangout.  GB(Ryan) took me to something called a 380 yen store, at this store everything is only 380 yen.  This got me excited cause 380 yen is just over $3.50.  After going going to a couple of 380 yen stores, I was kinda disappointed, all the shit in those stores were used clothes that nobody would want in the US.  They had shit like free shirts that you would get in the US, like DARE shirts and old boyscout t shirts.  I did get one cool shirt though, so that made up for all the whack shit they had.  After going through the main shopping area, I see a Nathan's Hotdog stand.  Now Mari has been telling me for hella long that I gotta try a Nathan's Hotdog when I go to Japan, cause it's suppose to be the shit.  So I go buy a hotdog, and after I try it, I must admit Mari, that it tasted pretty much like a 711 hotdog....big letdown. 
    So after I finished the hotdog, me and Ryan chilled at a bench for a whiel before finally meeting up with Kyoko and Irish.  From there we met up with Besto and looked for a place to eat.  Kyoko was all like "I"ve been to a Sizzlers here, it has all you can eat seafood."  Now shit, that sounds like good stuff, so after we find this "sizzlers" we discover that it's now a sushi restaurant.  When we ask Kyoko when she went to the Sizzlers, she said it was like years ago, like many years ago, nice one Kyoko, way to get my hopes up then shoot them down.  After looking for a place to eat, which was pretty difficult cause it was Spring break in Japan and EVERYONE came down to Tokyo to party that weekend, we go to this place in SHibuya.  Before I talk about dinner, let me talk about Shibuya.
    Just by the name "SHIBUYA" is enough to give you an idea of what type of place this is.  Shibuya is kinda like Harajuku in the fact that it's a district for young people.  What's different about Shibuya is that it has an older crown thann Harajuku, the people there are in their late teens to late twenties.  THis is where the shit is at, everybody around you looks like they're on their way to a club or out to party, Shibuya is the shit.....pretty damn superficial, but it's the shit.  The whole area is seems like a place for partying and letting lose.  Kinda like vegas, but without all the old folks.
    So for dinner we go to this place where we all sit at a table with a computer screen on it.  ON the screen are all the different foods and drinks you can order.  To order it, all you gotta do is push what you want on the screen and how much of it you want.  This isn't a place where you get individual meals, you get appetizers to share with the whole table.  We got hella food, so much food that we ended up paying about 20 bucks a head.  Believe it or not, we didn't order much alcohol, I think only Ryan and Besto ordered alcohol, I was wondering why they ordered it, why drink a little now when you can drink alot later.....which we did.
    We headed out to check out Shibuya after dinner since we had some time to kill before going to a club.  Besto took me into this store where it had all these pictures of girl's faces, with their numbers, and their hourly rates.  Besto explained to me, that although this was illegal, the place work like this:  go in there, look at the pictures of the girls, call the phone number of the girl, and meet up with her in a location to do your shit with her.  It's illegal but cops turn their backs towards this practice, I don't know if it was cause it's widely practiced in Japan, or cause places like this one are owned by the Japanese mafia, the Yakuza.  What really tripped me out is that these girls, they didn't look hella skanky like you might expect, alot of them were pretty damn cute.  While me and Besto were in here, the others waited outside.  When we got outside, I guess Kyoko caught Ryan trying to peek inside the store.  So she told him to just go in there to take a look.  Ryan, trying to act all "goody goody" was like "nooooo, I don't want to go in there."  Kyoko on the otherhand said it was cool and started to drag him towards the entrance but Ryan started to struggle and shit and refused to go in.  Doooood Ryan, it's ok to just look to see what's in there, since you didn't go in the place when me and Besto went in, now you're gonna end up going there by yourself cause you're too embarrassed to have people see you go in a place like that.  You put too much on your "clean" reputation, but we all know Ryan is as dirty as they come, lets not forget that he tried to cop a feel on me in Vegas when he thought I was sleeping.........sick fuck.  N
    Next place we check out is a sex shop.  This place was fucking trippy, I"ve been to ones back home, but this place had all types of crazy shit.  If you look at the pictures taken from Japan, you'll see one of me hella cheesin with all these different colored objects in back of me......if you look closely, you'll notice that they're dildos.  Man this place had all kinda of shit that I wouldn't expect to have existed.  After we spent a good long time here we got ready for the club.  I'll put the preclub stuff and the club experience on the next entry, my ass and eyes are starting to hurt and I have class early tomorrow.


haven't updated this for a while, been pretty damn busy.  I'm almost done with all the entries about the trip but here's
Friday, March 25th

    After our previous night of drinking we all slept in till about the good ol time of about 10:30am......excpet for Kyoko, her lameass had work.  Guess she really didn't want to hang with her pal Shannon if she used work as an excuse to cut out on us.....pretty fucked up huh?  Anyway, the plan for that day was to go check out some waterfalls that was up towards Mt. Fuji.  Mr, Irish, and Ryan, who will now also be referred to as "GB," all took a six dollar bus ride for a half hour bus ride to the waterfalls.  When we get there, it's cold as fuck.  Not just chilly cold like it was for most of the trip but windy cold.....I fucking hate windy cold. 
    At the waterfalls, I have to admit, it was pretty nice.  The water fallsweren't hella huge or anything but they scene was nice and relaxing for a change. 
At the falls they had vendors selling food, I bought some grilled squid and sea snails, both were good.....snails were a big chewy though.  After we finisished with the falls we went back towards the bus stop, on the way we had wasabi ice cream.  I thought that shit would be pretty nasty, but it turned out to be alright.  After another six dollar bus ride back to the trainstation, we stopped at  a temple before going to the JUSCO to meet up Kyoko.  At Jusco we meet up with Kyoko and bought lunch there.  I bought, as you may have guessed, an ass load of fried seafood.  I'm telling you, if you go to Japan, you gotta go to Jusco, cheapass fried seafood, can't get any better than that.  Later, after we ate, we shopped around Jusco for a bit, didn't get shit though cause we had to meet Besto, his co worker, Ryan's co workers, and one of their friends for dinner. 
    That night we took the train to another city where we met up with the other people to eat.  Now originally, we were gonna eat at some kind of "Japanese fusion" place, but Ryan didn't get reservations early enough.  Now because we didn't get the reservations, Ryan started tripping and shit about how he didn't get the reservations on time and started getting all mad and himself.  Now Ryan, although it was interesting seeing you get all sad because you didn't get the reservations, nobody else had a problem with it.....hell, we could have gone to Jusco for dinner.  Since we didn't have reservations to eat dinner, we just found some random Japanese place, which I must say worked out fine.  But I gotta say the waitresses there were fucking cute.  This one chick, who was like the most booty of all the waitresses looked like the crazy Japanese chick from Kill Bill 1....you know, Lucy Lu's body guard with the chain and ball.  Damn, that waitresses was pretty cute even though she was the most whack out of all of them.  Food at the place was alright, we had alot better throughout the trip.  One plate that they had there, I forgot what it was called, something like the "forbidden dish" or soemthing, was just a bunch of chicken skin that was roasted.....nasty shit man, nasty shit.  Ryan's co workers and their friends were cool.  Two of them could speak English pretty decently so we were able to have conversation.  Turns out two of them will be visiting California in August so I told them to contact me when they would be here.  They'll be staying at Oxnard, for those of you that don't know where Oxnard is, it's jsut some shitty little place in Southern California.....I told them if they come up to Northern California, let me know, and for sure, I'll take them somewhere nice....maybe get buffalo wings or osemthing.  The other chick that Besto bought was one of his Japanese coworkers, turns out that he was trying to get with her.  She was cute, small little Japanese chick, but they all said that she had a take charge attitude when they were ordering food.  I bet she's one of those chicks that has to do everything her way and won't let her bf make any decisions, I didn't expect that from a Japanese chick.  Most of them seem so passive.  AT one point at dinner, she said that she didn't have a bf, and Besto said "I can help you with that," and do you know what she did?  SHe started laughing, poor Besto, sorry man.....maybe she'll dig you more aggressive around her.................in the bedroom....... I think she'd like that.
    When dinner finally ended, we took the train back to Kyoko's place.  Our taxi driver on the way back was fucking weird though.  I was sitting in the front seat and putting on the seat belt when he says in Japanese "don't put that on, it won't make a difference."  In my mind I'm like "fuck that, it won't make a difference for you if we crash but it'll make a difference to me." then he starts saying all this other shit, I couldn't understand what he was saying but I knew he was talking weird shit, I kinda expected him to do something crazy, like pull out a weapon, or put his hand on my leg, something nutty ya know.  I was glad when we finally got to Kyoko's house cause that dude was creeping me out.  At Kyoko's house, we didn't do shit, just wathed a little TV and went to sleep.  This was probably one of the most boring......no, that word would offend our good hosts in Japan, so I'll say "relaxing" day I spent in Japan.


Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Thurs, March 24th
damn, I can't find a way to stay awake in my 2pm class.  So far I"m 3 for 3, I"ve fallen asleep each time I attend that class.....maybe I should bring food to keep me awake.
    Thursday was suppose to be the day where me and Irish would be on our own since Ryan and Scruffy had to be at work for the full day.  Since we would be on our own I was planning to take the bus and spend the day at Jusco.  I'm thinking that since I don't have to wake up hella early for no fucking bus or train, I'm gonna sleep till 1:00, who cares if I"m wasting time in Japan sleeping, I need to fucking rest.  The plan was to get up, shit, shower, then be at Jusco at around 3, where I would then eat a good breakfeast of fried octopus and squid.....to which I then would spend the rest of the time looking around at Jusco until it was time to meet with our two hosts.
    So the next morning I'm trying to sleep in till my target time of 1 when I hear the phone ring.  Since it's not my place and I was nice and warm, I wasn't about to get up and answer the phone, if anything, Irish could answer it.  Irish picks up the phone and its Kyoko, next thing I know I hear Irish telling me to go to the table.  I"m thinking "fuck that, I'm sleeping in, it's MY day"........after she wouldn't let up, I got to the table to see a "sealed envelope."  After I saw the envelope, I knew something was up, the way it was all sealed up like it was mission impossible told me that I wasn't going to be sleeping in that morning.  We open the envelope and there's a message for us....it went something like :blah blah blah, it's 9:45 and Ryan and Kyoko have a mission for you to complete.  What it should have said is "James and Shannon, we're not gonna let you have one day to rest, we're intent on busting your chops as much as we can because you're such good guests."  After the message telling us that we would have to go through a scavenger hunt, it gave us a list of shit to do.  The had shit like

Find a Jamaican
How many star bucks in Shizuoka are there?
Find the Mexican place
Find the Boom Boom Room
Buy Kyoko a bagel
Buy Ryan a desert

    There must have been about 15 "missions" for us to complete.  So the first part of the mission was just getting to Shizuoka city from Kyoko's place.  The very FIRST thing on the list was to get to the bus stop by 11:10 so we could make it to the train station to make a certain train.  Now here is when we almost fucked up the first instruction........I'm ready by 10:45, I"m changed and I'm just waiting for Irish......she says that all she has to do is her hair.  I'm waiting and waiting, next thing you know it's 10:08......if you know me you'd know that by this time I'm flipping out and getting pretty pissy about not getting to the bus on time.  We power jog our way to the bus stop and of course, we miss the bus.  We wait about another 25 minutes for the next bus to come and the whole time we're waiting, I'm thinking, "she just had to wait till the last minute to dry her hair, fucking Irish."  Irish assures me that we're good and that we would just be late, so I"m thinking that she's probably right and I shouldn't be so pissy.  We barely make the train we're suppose to catch and we're on our way to Shizuoka city.
    As soon as we get out of the train station we start our search for all our shit we gotta do.  To prove that we did all the stuff we have to take pictures with Kyoko's camera.  Luckily for the two of us, I employed my old BS skills and we took care of the first couple of items off the list.  As we're walking, I ask this dorky German kid if he knew where some of the places that we had to go were.  Of course he doesn't and he starts getting into this long conversation with Shannon.  The whole time they're talking I"m just looking around for clues that would help us finish the scavenger hunt.  Up ahead of me, I see a lady with a camera crew and a microphone, I"m thinking "oh shit, am I gotta be on TV, I think she's looking at me."  Of course as we get closer I realize she's not looking at me, she's looking and Shannon and the dorky 18 year German kid.  So as I stand there, Shannon and the dork are on camera being asked questions about curry.  I thought that shit was kinda fucked up, out of the three of us, they interview the two whites......fucked up shit.  What makes it even worse is that Shannon and the Dork don't even eat curry while curry is in my top ten foods I love. 
    Towards the end of the day we go into a bagel shop searching for this specific bagel that Kyoko loves to eat.  As I'm buying the bagel, I decide to ask the worker if she knows where the Boom Boom Room is, since that was one of the few places that we couldn't find that was on the list.  She shakes her head and her co workers says in english....good english, that she knows where it is.  So she points out to me where the place is on Ryan's hand drawn map that he gave to.  We start bullshitting about whatever and I found out that she went to college in New York and that she's 29, twenty fucking nine, she looks like she's my age.....age is very deceiving in Japan.
    Right after the bagel store I we see a lingere store, is that how you spell it.....I'll just say underwear, that's easier to spell.  One of the missions was for me and Irish to take a picture wearing woman's underwear on the outside of our clothes.  I wonder who chose that mission RYAN.....you knew it was the only way for you to see me in womens underwear you sick fuck.  Anyway, me and IRish take some underwear, pack into a changing stall, and take the pictures. 
    At 5 we met up with Ryan and KYoko, and since we finished all the missions, they take us out to dinner.  Now the food at the place we ate at was alright, but what made a decent meal into a great meal was NOMIHODI.  Nomihodi is all you can drink.  So of course we have to get nomihodi and I have six of these drinks called calpis sours......it's good shit.  During dinner I tell them about the bagel girl and how she's hella flirtatious and how she added right before I left "I hope I see you again."  Turns out they know who this chick is, in fact, Besto has her number and has been trying to get something going with her.  What a fucking tease, I thought I was special.  So after those six drinks, I have a good buzz and everyone else is hella telling me to go back to the bagel place and ask that girl if she wants to go out with us tomorrow.  Normally I don't ahve the balls to do shit like that but after a couple of drinks, I think I can "whoop any motherfucker's ass in the club"......we march to the bagel place after dinner but the place is closed.....awwww too bad.
    On the way back we decide to stop at  a Karaoke place.  Normally I don't sing but after drinking, of course I'm fucking down for singing.  What was nice about this place is that it also had Nomihodi.  We planned to only stay for one hour but when you're having fun, time flies.  After the first hour was up, we decide to stay for the second hour, we would have stayed for a third but we had to make the last train back home.  Anyway, so after the six drinks at the restaurant I"m feeling good, then at the karaoke place, I have another three calpis sours and three shots of sake.....I was having a damn good time.  I go to the bathroom, piss, then yack in the urinal....but this time I didn't flood it.  After I get back, I have two more calpis sours just in time to finish our second hour. 
    Now before the trip, Irish was bragging to me about how she could out drink me and all that shit just cause she's Irish.  I'm thinking to my self how that was bullshit and that'd I'd bust her Irish ass out when we go drink.  Throughout the whole trip, Irish didn't drink much, she was always "tired" or some other shit like that.  But I must say, that night she drank my ass under the table.  She drank as much as I did, with the exception of the sake, and while I was pretty faded, she's saying "I'm not even buzzed."  Me, being such a good sportsman, accept that she drank me under the table and that I was no match for her Irish genes.  At the train station, we miss the train back to Kyoko's so we have to wait an additional 20 minutes for the next train.  So while we're waiting for the next train, I show them that I can yack on command by yacking near some plants......it's a given skill that I often show off.  Kyoko, who also had a bit too much to drink, one drink.........is feeling pretty good from the alcohol and is trying to some breakdancing.  When I see this, I"m thinking "hell nah, you weak"......so I drop a couple of moves of my own, and believe me when I say this, I busted her ass out.  Made her retire from breakdancing right on the spot.  This is about the end of the night, train comes, pay the weirdass taxi driver to drive us home, then we all crashed. 
    The reason I couldn't bring anything home for anyone was cause Ryan wouldn't let me shop at the Jusco as was planned.  You are all welcomed to leave him a nasty message about it on his xanga.....it's yutalk921.
   


Thursday, March 31, 2005

Wed, March 23rd
    Wednesday comes around and Ryan says he wants to go to the onsen.  The onsen is basically a public bath where you go to relax.......naked.  At first I was like "hell nah, I"m cool Ryan".......but he kept on saying how I shouldn't be a wuss and just do it.  That's easy for you to say Ryan, you've been living in Japan where bathing naked with other dudes is normal....... in the US is condsidered, for lack of better words "hella gay."  Eventually after much heckling I agree to go. 
    The train ride there took about an hour but when we got there, the onsen seemed like a resort.  It was located off a cliff overlooking the ocean.  Either you could pay 6 dollars for an hour or 12 dollars for the day....since we took that longass train ride over there, we spent 12 bucks for the day.  While Irish and Scruff went to the women's area on the 5th floor, me and RYan went to the dude's on the 4th floor. 
    Before you can get in the hot communal baths, you must first wash yourself at a stall......oh yeah, this ain't a place where you can go in with your swimming trunks, you gotta go butt naked.  Now before I start hearing all these gay jokes, this is what me and Ryan did, he went to one stall on one side and I went to another stall on the other side.  After we finished cleaning ourselves we both went into the baths.......of course from the stalls to the bath I held a towel around my waste cause I knew Ryan was trying to get a peek at me cause he's a perv.  I could not believe how hot the water was, after about 5 minutes it got too hot for us and we went to the outdoor bath.  I have to admit, this outdoor bath was fucking nice.  The water was hot and it had a view of the ocean.  We stayed there for about an hour and a half before meeting with the girls downstairs.  Turns out the girls were already done and waiting for us at the elevator. 
    Downstairs we just sat there for a while resting while eating the free samples of food in the loby.  One thing I love about Japan is that everywhere that sells food has free samples.  If you go to all the samples in a supermarket, you can have a full lunch.  So we did this for about a half hour, just sitting, sampling, and relaxing.  A cool thing about the onsen was that it had a whole floor in the building just to relax.  On this floor there were matts covering the floor, massage chairs, and blankets and pillows.  I tried a go on the massage machine for a dollar and that shit was more like a torture machines.  One dollar not well spent.  We slept there for about 45 minutes before we decided to go.  The trip back was alright, I had to piss for like an hour before I got a chance when we got back to Kyoko's city.
    Now, this is the cool part, in Kyoko's city, there's this huge target/walmart kinda place.  It has everything, clothes, toys, food, whatever.  Since we didn't have dinner we went to this shopping center, which was called Jusco, to pick up dinner.  The food area is like a supermarket format, you just pick what you want and pay at the register.  Fortunately, it's about 9pm, right before it's about to close.  Sooooooo, alot of the food that is made at the Jusco is sold at clearance costs, otherwise they throw it away.  With this in mind I go to the section with all the good stuff.....the fried section.  There I bought fried squid, octopus, fish, vegetables, and some other stuff.  After I finished buying my friend dinner and the next days fried breakfeast......I go and pay, can you believe the whole thing only came out to 8 bucks.....what a deal. 
    Anyway, after we all finished buying our dinner we took a taxi back to Scruff's house.  There we ate our dinner and watched Swingers, well the first half of it anyway.  I have to admit, this movie kinda reminded me of the guys....pretty funny shit.
    Yeah, I know I"m gonna hear about the gay jokes of me and Ryan bathing together...but whatever, I was in Japan, gotta experience Japan.........Jusco is the shit, if I lived by one, I"d go everyday before closing.



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