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5月5日

Summary of 2007 Golden Week

Friday ( 4/27 )
- Apparently, everyone was smiling, heading for his lovely home. Not exceptional for me.
   Did a bit of cleanup, rearranging and transferring of Emule files. Add some Yoga, WestWing files.

Saturday
The first special day of the first public holiday was adorned by my sleepy little eye. It was due to spending extra 2-3 hours on watching fancy drame, Sex and the City the night before.
I did a little study before set off for shinjuku. Instead of taking train from takadanobaba, i took a walk. To my surprise, it is much nearer compared to the last time. Well, actually i sprinted a bit from time to time. Sweating all in the back of my shirts, i was totally obsessed with digging out the best frame i could, in a korean shop in shinokubo. While waiting for the glasses to be ready, as planned before last night, i headed towards the nearest "Bookoff", a local book recycle shop. Fortuitously, i managed to grab a good one. The first shopping in 2 months!

Tokyo weather is not unpredictable as the notorious London ones. The weather forecast was totally out of shot. The rain came down in buckets out of sudden. Everyone was so totally caught inside the subway station. It was a bit cold and some could not stop shivering. My shabby room finally shows its true colour. Dashing at full throttle took me about 30 seconds this time. A brand new record! Hooray !

Sunday
One of my colleague, hirose told me he used to play table-tennis during campus life. That was a half-year-old "old" story.  Finally, it was my chance to mark my words. We spent 3 hours in a sport center nearby. 2oo yen for 5 hours play. Pretty good deal!  Although i'm not more crazed for table-tennis as what i did in primary school( 4 hours of training after school) and haven't played it since the stone age, thanks to my primary school table-tennis coach, my basic is still there. As a way of showing my gratitude, could i spill the beans? My coach used to be  a national champions and national representative. A real reputable figure!
After the play, we had a lundin(lunch-dinner coined phrase?) in MOSBurger. We spent hours and hours bad-mouthing other colleagues.( kidding ! ^.^)

Monday
My host father was partially paralyzed. It was a real shocked one when host mom told me bout that. I could never imagine that mountain-climbing enthusiast would end up as a hemiplegic patient. One year later, determination and patience finally paid. Now he can walk with the help of a  crutch. We had a lunch in Yokohama Ukaitei as a celebration of my new life(Student Association's "secession") and his progress in rehabilitation.  Sitting in front of wide hot plate, we were totally enthralled by the topnotch performance of the chef. Needless to say, the taste is undoubtedly the top-flight one.

Tuesday
--Drama day--
I finished some episodes of WestWing1.

Wednesday
--Music day--
Recategorizing  my music  collection. 
 
--WinningElevenDay--
I had a good fight with ShyoShyo. The result was 3-2. I m leading.

Thursday
--Nabe day--
I did a bit of searching and was totally bombarded by the types of nabe.

Friday
--Quoted--
Kasai Rinkai Koen in Edogawa-ku is one of Tokyo's largest park, sprawling over 795,000 m2. Bordering the Tokyo Bay and separated from Tokyo Disneyland in Chiba prefecture by just the broad Edo River, it is an ideal place for a refreshing stroll, picnic or have fun with one's dogs.

The park can be seen from afar thanks to its huge 117m high Ferris wheel, the tallest in Japan.

The Flowers and Diamonds (admission 700yen, open from 10am to 8pm) as it is called carries 68 cars and the full rotation takes 17 minutes. The wheel offers great views on Disneyland, Tokyo Bay, Tokyo and even Mount Fuji on clear days (November to March being the clearest).

The other main attraction is the Kasai Rinkai Aquarium (admission 700yen, open from 9:30am to 4pm), one of Kanto's finest. The aquarium is famous for its gigantic tunas an bonitos swimming like silvery robots around a 360 degree room. Apart from them, there are hammerhead sharks, angelfishes, surgeonfishes, anemones, morays, giant crabs, deep sea fishes, and fishes from all seven oceans. The other stars of the place are the many penguins and other sea birds. --end--
As the park is 15-20 minutes on foot from where i live, everyone was surprised that i never landed in there. Now, My friends can no more make the monkey out of me.
The admission fee for the Aquarium was free today. Pushing through the crowd, i managed to catch few good shots. As i m well trained in 200% congestion degree of Japan's train, such crowd is just a piece of cake for me.


Saturday(5/5)

Going out these day 'idea' does not  impress me at all. Frankly speaking, it is more enjoyable by  staying at home, listening to  music loudly, reorganizing e-documents. Playing basketball is just as fantastic. Unluckily, it requires at least 5 more person. Nobody will stick around with me.

As today was the last practical day( i will definitely get a full rest before getting back to hectic life) of 2007 golden week, i decided to give myself a treat in ANA hotel(http://www.anaintercontinental-tokyo.jp/rest/index.html) which has been in my mind since the buyout by Morgan Stanley. (http://www.reuters.com/news/video/videoStory?videoId=48603)

Umm ... not bad ... steak is well served. You get to choose what you like as far as you are not fasting.  Cakes satisfied my appetite the most. It reminds me of the well served cakes of Silvermine Beach Hotel of LautauIsland(http://www.resort.com.hk/). I swore that i gulped down at least 10 pieces during the stay there. Suddenly, i realized that gastronomic delight serves as stimulus that pleased me.  A new way of refreshing myself? 3rd space promoting has long been a most successful tactic of those big gun of coffee brand like starbuck. May be someday in the future, i will own my 3rd space which i can share it with my lovely friends. Who  know?