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i cant believe i missed the Tokyo Game Show 06 this weekend, while im in Japan, when gaming is like inseparable from my life, but still not important enough for me to pay $300+ just to fly there and see… but look what i missed out on (img linked from Goo TGS coverage)

THOSE ppl shouldve been at the beaches i went, but jap ppl stops swimming at end of august, i thought it was so messed up b/c the weather starts to cool down a bit, and its like so nice, its like the time i rather go, but i found out its because jellyfishes are coming, and ya, theyd sting you and make you じくじく　(i think thats the word)

that being said, ya, i went biking on sun with my coworker, to keya (芥屋), its one of the nicest beach in fukuoka, it takes an hour+ to drive there, so i heard, there isnt even much to say about it, other than its SUPER ULTRA FAR, omfg its so far, it took about 5 hours to go, but we stopped on the way at futamigaura (二見ヶ浦) – a really cool beach area, with some funky island, and fukuoka’s own tori gate in water ;p, nogita (野北) – long stretch of nice untouched beach with spots to go surfing! and then stopped at this jamaican/rastafarian restaurant called Natty Dreads, and had bacon cheese egg burger+jerk chicken+onion rings/fries, it was soooo good, id say it took about 4hrs to get there (futamigaura, nogita, keya… really, same difference)

then we got to keya, and… thats it lol, all that work, and i said, so… whats so cool about this beach? lol, oi, there was like no one at the beach too, damn this non-beach-but-super-awesome-weather season, theres just some ppl walking their dogs, in fact, there were prbbly same amount of ppl as # of dogs, b/c this one couple brought 6 dogs, they were kinda hilarious, you can only differ them by their color leashes, and one of them keep running off, and another one just chilled on the sand, and another one keeps humping the rest of them, basically i just sat for like an hr, digged a few holes, took a shell as my omiyage, then left at 4 something, got home at 8 pretty much, non stopped almost (except you have to stop at the cyclist stop, cause it’s for ppl like me, if i dont use it, who else will – going there & coming back shot)

then last night, i keep trying to plot the biking map/route, closest i got was 42.9km, but i couldnt put in all the spots along the sea that i rode by, so id add like a few more km, thats my 90km, through all the beaches, cross the bridges, up/down some mtns, into a whole new world, biking trip (i was singing that song while riding)

for some stupid reason, the whole time, there and back, we were riding against the wind, it freakin sux

hmm its like biking from surrey to spanish banks or something

last week there’s hojoya, one of the 3 biggest festival in fukuoka, at the hakozaki miya(shrine) they say about a million ppl go within a day, and then im like a million? that’s like… a million… i mean, ya, so many ppl? i have to go see it, and then guess what, hello typhoon #13, it started to rain everyday, then on sun when the typhoon is here HERE, windows shaking, it goes huuuu huuuu outside, apparently the wind was 49m/s, it sounded scary, and fun, i shouldve gone outside at that time ;/ but instead, i sat home most of the time, played gw again, and watched bunch of movies – azumi, d.e.b.s (wow that was a random movie), this charlies angel ish chinese movie

anyway i still went twice over the week, cause im from canada, typhoon can’t stop me, we don’t even get them in back home! and also thurs night happened to be clear sky and awesome weather, and no rain on sat, so i biked there after work, despite what my coworkers said, “man it closes at like 8:30, by the time you get there, there’s gonna be nothing!” but eh, i biked there, so i can spend the money for subway, for food ;p and man, there’s like… a million ppl there, soooo crowded, like some super massive nightmarket, or taiwan, and it’s ALL FOOD! like you know those cartoon background that repeats to save them money? it’s like that, but with food stands, and real stands, you’ll get yakitori, takoyaki, yakisoba, okonomiyaki, choco bananas, pineapples, hokkaido yams (or something), famous gingers? chicken karaage, kakikori, fries, and repeat 20 times, on each side, and then you get the special stand per… iteration, like sasebo burgers, donairs (omfg they tasted soooo good b/c you cant get it anywhere else any other time), taiwanese food, chinese food, and i probably missed some, it takes like 2 hrs to walk the entire thing, oh oh and theres all these stands where you can catch stuff, like goldfish! i used to do that when i was a kid, and you can catch turtles too! and even tiny chickens! you like fish them, and they just run around hilariously, and eels! and crabs! but those you catch them, and then they cook them, and you eat it after, so you could eat like 5 crabs or eels for prbbly 300 or 500 yen, or eat none (pics in flickr)

speaking of kakikori, never explained what it is, but man, i wanna sell that next year at our night market, it’s like.. the best product ever, it’s basically shaved ice, with syrup, in a cool kakikori cup, and you sell it for $3, best for summer, and ppl love it, and variable cost of it? like 10 cents to make? cause it’s ice, you just buy syrup, many colors of syrup, it’s the colors that matters, sure strawberry = red, melon = green, pineapple = yellow, but i still dont know what blue hawaii is, that’s what they call it, and no one knows, as long as it’s pretty in blue

ive been getting comment-spammed pretty bad lately, like if you look back on the “been a while” post, theres like 15 comments now? those jerkfaces

*add* so i never really talked about my work ever, and i wont now, except theres this girl, like a year or 2 younger, shes like really cute and cool and stuff, and speaks a little eng too (but i never really talk to her, i dont know why, ちょっと残念ですね ;p), but ya, she just came back from a week off, and she said, she was doing training for karate club, and i was like… HUH? REALLY? WOW! cause i did not see that coming lol, and then after like 5 seconds, i have an image of Makoto from SF hahah