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Jan. 8th, 2008 12:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
diamondlifeWelcome to another installment in my long-running Chronicles of Fail series (est. 1981). Aka, How I Nearly Ended Up On Japanese TV And Probably Didn't. (Working title: Me versus potatoes - the Revenge.)
Well. First, the good points about today: I bought a ton of old magazines that were actually pretty cheap, and a good number of doujinshi too. Of course, on the other hand, it involved me spending a large amount of money, but whatever.
...So that's the good part out of the way. OK. Even when I got to Nakano Broadway this morning, got there too early, Mandarake wasn't even open, but I didn't have a problem with lurking in the Excelsior Caffe for an hour. So, after I'd raided the relevant shops I thought I'd head down to Shibuya, to the other Mandarake. So I did that. I thought I'd attempt to eat the bread I'd bought for lunch in the Hachiko area outside the station, but as I was sitting there, some men approached with a video camera and a board. They spoke to me in English, and showed me the board and asked me to react to it. As it was a big fat naked man (thankfully shown only from the waist up) I said "...That's a bit scary!" They said "How does it make you feel?" I was nonplussed, so after a huge pause I was like "...I don't want to see that?" I said all this in English, even though I could've said it in Japanese to be honest, but it just didn't provoke that much of a reaction in me! So they were like "Er, thanks" and left me alone. -_-
Then after I'd shopped, I really wanted to find a Mister Donuts, because they do the best cup of tea in Japan, no word of a lie! But could I find one? Could I buggery! So it was back into another Excelsior Caffe, struggled to write a few sentences, pen ran out anyway. So I flicked through the guide book. Not far from Shibuya there's the Yebisu Beer Museum! So I thought I'd go have a look.
Could I find it? Could I etc. I walked for ages round Ebisu and... related districts, but by the time I realised it I'd walked all the way back to Shibuya. -_- At least Ebisu is a very nice area. One of the nicest bits of Tokyo I've seen, actually!
I keep trying to like Tokyo, give it another chance, but I don't think it likes me. I think it's surprisingly grubby, doesn't make any sense and it takes bloody ages to get anywhere. -_- Of course, these aren't necessarily things that make it different to any other capital city, but it does not endear it to me. The best thing about it, frankly, is the geek shops.
Oh yeah, I forgot the potatoes. *shudder* I went out to get food tonight, and wanted to be a bit more adventurous than the combini, so I went to a Chinese restaurant. I spent an age looking through the menu, cos it was massive, and I ordered something that I thought I could read.
Seems not. When it arrived, it turned out to be a plate full of battered potatoes in a sweet, thick black sauce. *headdesk, repeatedly* As my housemates well know, potatoes are sort of my mortal enemy. I'll *eat* them, but there was once an incident where I got really angry at some potatoes (I'd say don't ask, but you can if you want XD), and relations have cooled between us since. >:E In any case, I ate half of the bastards and asked if I could take the rest home. They were bloody expensive too! *weeps* At least the rice was damn fine.
[Edit] ...I#ve just eaten one of the leftover pieces, and it seems that all the pieces I left... are meat. XD I can't decide whether that makes it more or less of a failure... Well, less, because at least I have meat. And it's good. XD
AND NOW I AM DRINKING A BEER AND WRITING SOME PORN. And eating dried mango, just because everything I've eaten today has been STARCH. >:E
[Edit] Ahahaha, here's a drama I'll be watching! XD Now I have a name for us all too - fujoshi. XD
Well. First, the good points about today: I bought a ton of old magazines that were actually pretty cheap, and a good number of doujinshi too. Of course, on the other hand, it involved me spending a large amount of money, but whatever.
...So that's the good part out of the way. OK. Even when I got to Nakano Broadway this morning, got there too early, Mandarake wasn't even open, but I didn't have a problem with lurking in the Excelsior Caffe for an hour. So, after I'd raided the relevant shops I thought I'd head down to Shibuya, to the other Mandarake. So I did that. I thought I'd attempt to eat the bread I'd bought for lunch in the Hachiko area outside the station, but as I was sitting there, some men approached with a video camera and a board. They spoke to me in English, and showed me the board and asked me to react to it. As it was a big fat naked man (thankfully shown only from the waist up) I said "...That's a bit scary!" They said "How does it make you feel?" I was nonplussed, so after a huge pause I was like "...I don't want to see that?" I said all this in English, even though I could've said it in Japanese to be honest, but it just didn't provoke that much of a reaction in me! So they were like "Er, thanks" and left me alone. -_-
Then after I'd shopped, I really wanted to find a Mister Donuts, because they do the best cup of tea in Japan, no word of a lie! But could I find one? Could I buggery! So it was back into another Excelsior Caffe, struggled to write a few sentences, pen ran out anyway. So I flicked through the guide book. Not far from Shibuya there's the Yebisu Beer Museum! So I thought I'd go have a look.
Could I find it? Could I etc. I walked for ages round Ebisu and... related districts, but by the time I realised it I'd walked all the way back to Shibuya. -_- At least Ebisu is a very nice area. One of the nicest bits of Tokyo I've seen, actually!
I keep trying to like Tokyo, give it another chance, but I don't think it likes me. I think it's surprisingly grubby, doesn't make any sense and it takes bloody ages to get anywhere. -_- Of course, these aren't necessarily things that make it different to any other capital city, but it does not endear it to me. The best thing about it, frankly, is the geek shops.
Oh yeah, I forgot the potatoes. *shudder* I went out to get food tonight, and wanted to be a bit more adventurous than the combini, so I went to a Chinese restaurant. I spent an age looking through the menu, cos it was massive, and I ordered something that I thought I could read.
Seems not. When it arrived, it turned out to be a plate full of battered potatoes in a sweet, thick black sauce. *headdesk, repeatedly* As my housemates well know, potatoes are sort of my mortal enemy. I'll *eat* them, but there was once an incident where I got really angry at some potatoes (I'd say don't ask, but you can if you want XD), and relations have cooled between us since. >:E In any case, I ate half of the bastards and asked if I could take the rest home. They were bloody expensive too! *weeps* At least the rice was damn fine.
[Edit] ...I#ve just eaten one of the leftover pieces, and it seems that all the pieces I left... are meat. XD I can't decide whether that makes it more or less of a failure... Well, less, because at least I have meat. And it's good. XD
AND NOW I AM DRINKING A BEER AND WRITING SOME PORN. And eating dried mango, just because everything I've eaten today has been STARCH. >:E
[Edit] Ahahaha, here's a drama I'll be watching! XD Now I have a name for us all too - fujoshi. XD
