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• # days of travel: 6
• # photos taken: 200 – 300
• # of trains+subways taken: 20+, cost: 45000yen+
• best place visited: harajuku, best place shopped: akihabara, most expensive place went: mt fuji
• # of harajuku girls saw: 5-10 =(
• # beers drank at nomihodai: enough to puke 3 times
• number of times caught the waves and surfed: 5+
• amount of riding time in FujiQ: 10min or less? from 10am – 5pm
• hours taken to hike up mt fuji: 6? hike down: 2
• most expensive items bought: 2100yen for 7 sticks yakitori, 22500yen shinkansen, 700yen instant ramen, 4500yen ayu beach towel
• amount of $$$ spent on avex goodies: 4500yen + 6000yen
• longest stretch of no showering: 48hrs?
• amount of $$$ spent: $700 – 900

*aug 25: super update on flickr, stupid 200 pics limit that erased my old pics

im going to write the most condensed blog ever

obon week is a week long holiday, one of my friend Kelvin came down to fukuoka from tokyo to sightsee on Sunday, took him to Dazaifu and Fukuoka Tower, and then ate at a Yattai, like a night market food stand, for some sexpensive dinner, then we left on Tues, and i head to Tokyo, stayed at my friends place in Oimachi, went around Yoyogi, Harajuku, Akihabara on weds, Akihabara has maid on the street and 6-floor hentai store, and Harajuku is so cool, but the funky girls only comes out on Sun, then had nomihodai at night, and then went to Gaspanic with Clement and Neil in super gaijin town Roppongi, and then puked and trained home at 530am

few hrs after drunkness, went with the same drunk ppl, to Enoshima, and i finally went surfing for the first time, i had a near death situation (seems to happen everytime when i try new sport), but man, surfing is pwnage, even though its like THE hardest sport ive ever tried so far

walked around all day on friday – Shinjuku, Harajuku, Shibuya, Shibuya is like the biggest place ever, with a billion ppl everywhere, like fireworks everyday in Vancouver, but regular day, and then at 8pm omw to Mt Fuji at night, Lynn missed the bus, GG… she came next day though, so ya next day errbody went to FujiQ Highland, for the best rides in my life: super ultra ride with flipping/rotating chairs (14times, world record), 80 meter uber tall ride (another record i think?), and super rail gun ride that goes up to 172km/h, you cant even put your hands up in the air b/c itll just fly off or something

after all that in the day, we climbed mt fuji at night (such awesome planning ;p), where they have 0 garbage can and the most expensive instant noodles ($7cdn for a bowl) and everything else ever, and it was so freeaakin cold at the top, i stopped watching the sunrise for some heat, then i rushed down the mountain from 530am in 2 hours, and non-stop transit all the way to kobe to see janet at 2:30pm, and all my fav jpopers, i saw sowelu, ai otsuka, koda kumi, boa, elt, trf, ayumi hamasaki etc, but they were all 1cm tall b/c somehow we had the worst of the WORST spot for the concert, and kinda ruined it for me, so i made it up by spending $$$ on avex goodies (btw janet i bought the ayu beach towel and boa hat off the web ;p)

i took the night bus home at 11pm and got back at 7am monday, did the biggest load of laundry (even threw my shoes in there), and then went to work, where i pretty much did no work, but my boss said i totally looked like i worked all day, kewl