Stellar Melon

An account of Michael's thoughts in Japan.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Not much longer

My class ends in less than a week, and I'll be moving to my new home on the 14th.
To think that my room here is smaller than my bedroom back home is very strange. I think that I will really enjoy living in my room back home while I finish out my stint at UCSD.
My collection of juice cartons is growing with each day, I still haven't decided what to do with them all. Tomorrow, I plan to drink milk, just for fun.

Yesterday I was invited to go get korean food in shinookubo, a korean area. Me and seth went, and jay treated us. He had won a jackpot at pachinko, believe it or not. We had yakiniku, some chicken stew type dish that he described as sweet and korean alcohol called souju (i think) for those who were drinking. It was all tasty.

We then moved on to part 2, another korean restaurant, where we ate live octopus. It was only the sliced up tentacles of a small octopus, but still quite an experience. Those suctions are pretty amazing.

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Part three was a classy bar on the 25th floor of the prince hotel in downtown shinjuku (the business center of tokyo). He had a $200 (retail $30) bottle of whiskey that they were holding onto for him since he had not finished it during previous visits. I really enjoyed walking into that classy establishment dressed in my traditional encinitas garb.

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The view was very impessive, and the fruit platter delicious. The mango was particularly tasty. Jay is a very interesting guy, a hard worker and a bit of a high-roller with his mind set on entering korea's parliament and reforming international trade agreements. Seth is also good people, a cs major who is serious about comedy. I think he'd like to pursue some sort of performance career, but i'm not sure.

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If I never go back to a bar like that, I won't mind at all. Classy isn't really my scene. But still, it was quite enjoyable, and I'm very glad that I went.



ha, i think she saw me take this picture.