This always happens, I sleep in too long and now I just can’t get to sleep….

Grrrr….. just made some Corn Cream Soup, hopefully this will help me nod off…

Well, that’s all my coding done for today, just finished putting the “paging” section on at the bottom, so you no longer scroll for miles and miles, it’s set to show 10 entries per page…

Of course, at the moment, due to the massive entries in place, you will still have to endure long scrolls (and page loading times) for a smidgen longer, but in a few days - everything should be cut down quite a bit
What else am I going to do here? Well, work on the gallery to make it a lot more user friendly / look a lot better. Probably Monday night for that. I’ve also got WinAmp tagging each music file I listen to, so will probably do something interesting (though ultimately pointless) with that data (most listened to, popular this week etc…)

Ok then, to the shower (where I hope it doesn’t power cut me today) and then, JAPANESE … w00t!

Well last night was an interesting clubbing experience
After making our “take out” drinks using an interesting array of alcohol..

[IMG=119]

.. it was time to brave the cold (it really has got freezing here) and head out to the usual weekend haunt of Roppongi (despite the fact that neither of us particuarly like it). So 3 trains later and we were there.

By now the bottle was finished, so of course I had now got hungry again - first stop a cheap izakaiya where we both ordered some more food (me a yakisoba and seiko what looked like the same as we had for dinner) and quite a few drinks.

A few hours later, we figured we should actually go somewhere, so headed for the high street….. looming in front of us was Don Quotie (or however you spell it) which gave us the alternate idea to go and buy a bottle of Moet and sit on Yukas roof drinking ….
£15 worse off (and a quick stop to McDonalds for me to get meal number 3) we were soon sitting on Yukas roof, all wrapped in blankets kindly supplied to us From here on is where my memory ends, I apparently drunk half the bottle or so then fell asleep!!!

The girls woke me up a few hours later (after Seiko had already now had her meal number 3 - ramen cooked by Yuka) as one of the neighbours had complained or something so we had to leave….

It was now 4am and *very* cold - it seemed the only sensible thing to do would be to go to a restaurant So First Kitchen it was: Cheeseburger with Bacon and Eggs plus a large chips please…. hurrah, meal number 4.

Then back home.

So that was last night, I’ve put some photos up but they’re not really so interesting, especially since the battery ran out (not that there would have been much to photo anyway).

Now, I’m just working on a few bits and pieces here, will have a shower in a moment then get on with Japanese.

Yumi is coming over later for dinner, pehaps a little inconvenient as I have to ring home and Gowry, but I’ve told her this, so she can’t be suprised when I kick her out … haha…

Wow, looking back at yesterdays post - sheesh, that was pretty bleak eh?

Last night, I stayed up until 4am or so until Gowry got home so was finally able to speak to her And after an hour or so on the phone, I felt so much better… hurrah!

Today was the traditional “spend all day in bed until Seiko comes home day” - so that’s exactly what happened… did a bit of work on this site (mood, listening to) and started work on my Japanese book.

At maybe 6pm or so, it seemed the right thing to do to take a shower, so braving the cold I escaped from the glass prison that is my bedroom and headed for places warmer.

To try and avoid the “waiting for the water to heat until you get into it” issues, I turned the bathroom clothes drying thing on, (which fills the shower room with steam so you can dry your stuff inside , clever eh) and put the shower on.

Everything was going good for the first 10 minutes or so, until the condensation of the shower (at least I assume this is what happened) reacted with the steam/heater thing and caused the power to trip lol..

Usually this wouldn’t be so much of a problem, but remember the shower room is an enclosed room, which in turn is in an enclosed room. Result - pitch black. And I am talking proper pitch black, I was waving my hand right in front of my face and I still couldn’t see it!!!

Figuring the power might come back on, I carried on with my shower, of course forgetting the electricity heats the water ….. Yup, a few seconds later and freezing cold water was shooting out, with me unable to find the off handle for ages due to the dark…. hahaha….

Anyway, back on here to keep programming until Seiko returned and cooked a really nice fried steak / potatoe wedge style combo on our okonimiyaki heater thing.

So plans for tonite? Well the usual I’m afraid Off to Roppongi in about 20 minutes or so, probably back to Hub then onto a club. I couldn’t find enough people to come to the club I could play at, so that will have to be posponed for now - but maybe next week or so…. let’s hope so!!!

Anyway, better get ready - Seiko is waiting…. w00t!

For some reason today I just don’t feel so happy…

I think I am really disillusioned with this apartment, it really sucks not having my own proper room. Last night, I was sleeping but Shiho had to get something from the front room, which woke me up, then I got woken up again this morning by all the school kids…. I would like to move I think, but would lose so much money doing so….
I’m also worried I’m not making the most of my time here, I’ve been here for 3 and a half months now, but not really achieved much, my Japanese is still really poor and it’s not as if I have hundreds of happy memories. All I feel like wanting to do now is to come home to Gowry and realisitically I can’t see that feeling getting any less…

Combine this with the fact I have now spent all my savings, no more safety money - so basically it just seems like I have wasted everything at the moment. I’ve shelled out £1600 for ONE MONTHS RENT on an apartment I don’t like, I used all my savings just to cover the month of me being ill and I now have to try and find another £600 just to come back to pick up my graduation certificate. Perhaps it would have been better to wait for graduation THEN come out here… stupid… oh and then my overdraft finishes it’s interest free period in June, so I need to have found another £600 by then.

Sucks hey…. well, to try and cheer myself up, I have bought a new notebook set (lol) for my Japanese All funky colours and a new pen… haha… simple things and all. I’ll take a photo later… lol…

I intend to categorise each thing I do (adjectives/verbs etc) so I can quickly find them in class and maybe use them a bit more.

Hmm.. this post really sucks hey, maybe I am just in a mass depressive state - this has happened a few times since here and usually something cheers me back up. I suppose I need to keep thinking “wow, I am in Japan and I AM going to achieve something” - it’s a once in a lifetime and all that.

I shall make more of an effort with everything (although this is still not going to help with the Gowry situation… ho hum…)