I didnt go

As you can see from the title of this post i didn't go on the trip and i'm kinda glad  i didnt but also at the same time i feel bad for not going ....... Oh well what's done is done instead  after being here (Japan) for a month and a bit i have bought myself a rice cooker so i can finally have rice the normal way. Also today i have ticked  off  another thing off my "coming to Japan things to do list"  this is as i am now a proud and happy  owner of a Elmo kigurumi, yes ELMO whoop whoop! I will post pictures some other time when more happens so till next time.

English trip on the weekend?

Wont be posting on this Saturday or Sunday, as I should be or will be on a trip with the university to the next prefecture. Should be partaking in an English weekend where a couple of the international exchange students will be helping the English (Japanese learning English) students to try and converse. I say should because at the moment I'm feeling slightly ill and very lethargic i believe its the changing of season affects most people and me no matter anywhere on the globe.

Kyusan (9-3) International part

Last night it was the 9-3 (in japanese the reading for 9 3 sounds like the word Kyusan which is the name of the University) party which one of Megumis friends Lisa/Risa organised as a get together for a few Japanese people and other  exchange students at  Kysuan to mingle (yes mingle). The Izakaya we went to was pretty good this time with our own room and plentiful amount of food and drink consumed. Well we all made a couple of new friends and i actually tried to speak so Japanese with some sort of success, main word here is some. We stayed till around the Izakaya/ Restaurant's closing time and after that a most of us moved onto.......yes you guessed it  more Karaoke and prettymuch stayed to closing time there aswell which is about 5. Karaoke has become a staple place to end up  after a night out in Japan so far.

Here a few pictures:

Look at them apples and other things......

So being bored I thought lets post something random:

seriously like the title said look at the size of this apple;

Look at them apples

look at the size man huge compared to my Nano and 500 yen piece

also some Ultraman Daikaiju lemonade cans because they look cool;

Ultraman Daikaiju lemonade Windam [Front] apparently part of the second set of cans Dydo is bringing out

Ultraman Daikaiju lemonade Windam [Back]

Ultraman Daikaiju lemonade Pigmon (Monster base on pygmy not pigs) [Front]

Ultraman Daikaiju lemonade Pigmon [Back]

Ultraman Daikaiju lemonade Dada and Alien Metron [Front]

Ultraman Daikaiju lemonade Dada and Alien Metron  [Back]

and yeah baked beans in Japan whoohoo!

Okay so not quite heinz and not just beans but pork and beans but come on its close enough 

Drinking Pains??????? I dunno ........ Maybe

Music night at  Maki's bar The Undergroud  (you remember Maki right? Chris' GF (You read the previous posts right? i'm assuming you did any way)). Well yeah music night was last night basically Maki had a reunion sort of thing with her  University friends (i'm guessing) at the bar. We met quite a few of them and they were all pretty sound people (when i said  we i forgot to mention that was Me, Joel, Katy, Coline, Benny and Patrick).

It was a good night everybody got speaking in the bar maki and her friends played a few tunes and chris even got to play with his synth equipment. I reckon everyone was sufficiently tipsy maybe bordering a light drunk but me I just felt ill  maybe it was the smoke; maybe it was the alcohol maybe  i just wasnt  feeling right, but anyhows i felt light a pile of  crap. I would like to say that ruined the night for me which was actually a good night.

but not to dwell on ill times lets look at some photos:

ULTRA COLA set # 2 (Dydo Drinks)

I know. I know. I know. Yes I said in my last post  that my next update will be in next couple days when i actually do something but well i couldn't help but post this I think i may have  completed the collection of Ultra cola cans now (i think).  I believe this to be worthy enough for its own post so here enjoy the pictures guys.
Ok so time to get all the Kamen cider and the ultra kaiju lemonade..... (Saying this i especially love the Kamen rider >Kamen Cider Pun)
This set of drinks and the designs are a second collaboration of Dydo with the Ultra series..... The first set,  i unfortunately was not in Japan or else i would have collected those as well.

Here's the first set :

Here's some photos of what i have collected there are a few pics of Kamen Cider too:

Ultraman king [Front]

Ultraman King [Back]

Ultraman Max [Front]

Ultraman Max [Back]

Ultraman Seven [Front]

Ultraman Seven [Back]

Kamen Rider Black and Ultraman Belia [Front]

Kamen Rider Black and Ultraman Belia [Back]

Ultraman Leo and Crew Guys [Front]

Ultraman Leo and Crew Guys [Back]

M.A.T. and Ultraman 80 [Front] 

M.A.T. and Ultraman 80 [Back] 

Ultraman Hikari [Front]

Ultraman Hikari [Back]

Kamen Rider No.1 [Front]

Kamen Rider No.1 [Back]

slow times.....

Well obviously  life here has been boring this week well that's to be expected it's university life.  Work, eat, sleep and maybe some internet but that's it so cut it short  will be posting again soon, when something has happened.
PS I killed another centipede in the flat horrible things and apparently quite  dangerous too

Horrible horrible thing

Tenjin and canal city shopping

Ok finally something to do on a free day. Well we (Me, Katy, Joel and Megumi (Meg)) went in to Tenjin and Hakata on Sunday to do something which was  productive compared to sitting in our apartments and watching cartoons and films.

So we planned to go to the Amano exhibition today, I mentioned it in the last post, but  we did not go in the end due to me and Katy both losing the address of where it was being held so  that was a shame. 

Instead Joel took us to this Otaku store:

It was 4 floors of all things anime and manga related oh god the mint condition collection figures in the store were far from cheap but there was some awesome  things which were cheap enough but was still cool/awesome for example this:

Krillin Chillin'

But saying this there was a slightly dodgy floor in this shop housing all things porn  which was  anime/ manga related so that meant eroge (erotic games) and doujinshi (fan fiction of the porn variety)

So after we went about in town looking around and went to Canal city in Hakata. Canal City is a large mall with some funky architecture compared to most shopping areas in Britain. this place was also pretty epic with many trendy stores, an arcade, a lot of  restaurants and i mean a lot.  There is also a Pokemon center and a JUMP store which was pretty epic.

Yeah nice architecture and a canal running through it hence the name Canal City

WHOOOOO EPIC POKEMON CENTER

Short Mundane Post

So as the title says i'm  just gonna write a little today because seriously  nothing has happened  that is  blog worthy, so far it has been a very mundane week university, sleep, homework and the internet has been the  4 main factors  in my week. But....... hopefully i will do something blog worthy this weekend and will report on it soon. E.g. maybe go to the Yoshitaka Amano 天野 喜孝 exhibition in town (for those of you who don't know who he is, he's the illustrator of most the character art in earlier final fantasy games and in the more recent  games  the logo designer and  other concept art as well )

This  is from  FF dissidia and is promotional poster as well as a cover  image for  certain release of the PSP game

Finally i just wanna say i'm sorry for not posting and updating i haven't given up on this little project yet but will hopefully post something in the coming days. Something interesting  and  yeah  you guys have fun over the weekend too.

P.s. I am 1 can away from my Ultra Cola can collection  i just got  Ultra king can yesterday and so yeah till next time guys.

Uni and bowling

So yeah i am sorry for not posting  for a couple of days but i guess i was just lazy and  nothing much has really happened.
Well on Sunday i managed to recuperate from my deathly hangover on Saturday, but still my sleep pattern was, is and will remain pretty messed up.Carrying on with what happened on Sunday, well  i woke up in the afternoon  and thought i was gonna have a quiet night in with tv dinner and  the internet watching stupid people on youtube maybe. Around about 6pm i think Joel phoned me up asking if i wanted to go to a game center and maybe some bowling and see where we end up. So i said "yeah why not"

About 7pm-ish we met Yuki and Syuco (Yuki's friend) and drove to  the game center and had some food before deciding to go bowling after meeting  Yuki's other friends Yusuke and mao (Yeah her name is mao but i'm not sure if this is the spelling or if its short for anything). But yeah any how bowling was fun even though i was coming last and everything, man japanese bowling shoes are soooooo comfortable.

From left: Yuki, Syuco, Yusuke and Joel

Fireworks oh fireworks well  Yuki wanted to go and set fireworks off so before bowling we bought a small  variety pack and that was it and off to kashii beach we went. What a dissapointment that was  not the beach but the fireworks somehow because we bought a fairly cheap pack  it meant that most of the fireworks were Roman candles (well the one that is basically an over glorified sparkler). the sparklers in Japan were not to disappoint though as they are like  mini rockets but the fact they are like mini rockets mean they burn out far quicker than  you want them too. also  through out this time Joel and Katy were drinking Chu-hi well since bowling any way.

LE PLAGE

Joel lighting a sparkler like a ciggy and Syuco posing like all Japanese people do 

Ok onto Kashii town we go  well  as a mandatory stop. we went and said hi to Chris and Maki at her bar after that we went to......................yes you got  kareoke!!

Photos a bit blurry but yh karaoke again and i keep on spelling karaoke as kareoke and i dont know why

On that note recently Uni life is slowly becoming  mediocre like i expected it to be, but  should be fine after a little more getting used to. One more thing i got my electric bill today and paid at a convenience store  that was kinda surreal for me  I'm guessing they didn't name convenience stores convenient for nothing right.