July 3, 2006

  • Operation: Do Stuff! Part 1

    OK, its been over a week since my last post and people have been bugging me to update. I was pretty much waiting for this past weekend as the drudgery of class gave way to an action-packed weekend of karaoke and camping, 2 of our “to do list” requirements! (See Matt’s blog) The weekend kicked off with the a long overdue karaoke trip soon after classes were out on Friday. As the local place we were so fond of has finally done what its been threatening to do since March and closed for good, myself, Matt, CAlex, BAlex, Holly and Carter (later joined by Sarven and Fred) headed into Sakae to U-Style, aka. “The Ice-cream Karaoke Place” on account of the free ice-cream bar you get when you go there! Oh yeeeah! We lunched at Denny’s then hit the karaoke and spent the next 5 hours indulging in the usual throat-shredding antics we’ve all come to know and love.

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    U-Style Karaoke. Ready for action. Those little white cups have ice-cream! Free ice-cream!!!

    On Saturday, Mike and Matt headed out for our long planned camping excursion in Gifu. Sarven and I followed later, after Sarv was done with karate (he recently upgraded to 3rd kyu/brown belt! Congratulations should, nay must, be sent, via his blog) around 7:00pm. We arrived in Tajimi (in Gifu prefecture) around 8:45 and proceeded to explore the surrounding area for camping grounds. After a brief snack in a McDonalds (where Sarv changed out of his combats and wife-beater into his gi with shiny new brown belt, much to the confusion of the staff!) we headed into the hills where we navigated our way through creepy, spider-infested woods until finally settling down on the grounds of a shrine atop the hill. The mechanics of 4 guys sleeping in 1 small tent proved ….err… “challenging” but we managed…! Kinda…! After our night of (platonic) man-love, we headed out for some trekking round the Tajimi area before heading home around midday, tired and sweaty, but our quest for Gifu-based hiking adventures fulfilled.

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    Tajimi, 7:00am! Just before we removed our shirts and strutted about like we owned the place! Damn Gaijin!

    And then there were 2! Weeks left! I mean “Holy crap!” Its July already!!! At risk of gettin’ all whiny again, I’m gonna concentrate on the things we have planned between now and our departure. More karaoke, lightsaber fights, ninja runs, more karaoke… Gotta make it count!
    Anyways, couple more developments! I added a new pointless quiz to my earlier Pointless Quiz Post! I think the results will shock and surprise! I bet noone saw this coming!!! (Sarcasm face!) On a more epic scale, it looks like I’m gonna be flying out to Kentucky just 5 days after I return to the UK! Matt and Danielle invited a couple of peeps here to their wedding on July 22nd, sadly only I can make it, but happily, I can make it!!! Mwahahaa! I bought the tickets this past week. Unfortunately, without Sarven, any hope of singing “Addicted” at the wedding has died so we’ll just have to sing it to Matt at least 8, 9, maybe 10 more times at karaoke! On a slightly less epic scale, I’ve finally set up (and updated) my photoblog! As I’ve got so much to recap from this past year, I’m gonna do it in themed installments! (Wooah.. Themed installments!!) Up right now are “lightsabers”, “early days” and “halloween”! Next theme….? Karaoke, probably…
    Catcha on tha flip-siiiiide! (Err.. yeah!)        

Comments (17)

  • we DID own the place!

    yes, just think, in three weeks you will be in Kentucky! like whoa! that will be pretty awesome, except for the whole saying goodbye thing….GAH! not goodbye, more like…see you later. we still have good time til then, though. let’s take it to the MAX!

  • I’m the guy with the horrible sitting posture to the left!
    yes, those are my hairy legs!

  • Damn! You’ll be in north america!
    You need to come by my place before headed to the other side of the globe!
    We have the country house for the week of the 24th, in the forest, next to a lake.
    Canadian lake. So water you can see through (unlike here)!
    We shouldnt let this pass up!

    Sorry i cant make it for your wedding, matt :(

  • Aha!! You said pleutonic as opposed to platonic on purpose!
    What DID happen in that tent?
    Hmmm…?


    Wait.. I dont wanna know..

    :P

    (I should really finish reading an article before commenting. Else I just end up multi-posting as I read along.. Hmm..)

  • Arrrgh! I meant platonic! Its sorted now!

  • …it will be nice to get to meet you. i know it means a great deal to matt and dani that you would make the trip.

  • //_T

    you’re so fucking special.

  • You’re coming! YAYYAYAYA

  • mother-of-matt wants caricature!  caricature of matt’s mom, that is…’cause she knows you have nothing better to do than draw a cutesy picture of someone you do not even know!

  • thanks, yageneroustalentedjapanesespeakin’englishartistya!

  • wow. the true extent of CAlex’s Engrish just hit me. yea verily, his journey to the dark side is almost complete.

  • When and where will you arrive for the wedding?

  • I use engrish?

  • Yup… I think we all feel alone sometimes, ya know.  I slipped about a week ago,  I have went a few weeks without cutting, and then BAM i did.  I really dunno why, but to me pain feels good, i really dunno why i take it out on myself.  I guess we all have problems to overcome.

  • It sounds like you guys have been living it up. I miss all of ya’ll! And dude…Kentucky is like two states away from me and Andrew..we’d love to see you! How long are you staying in the states? Something must be done!

  • also! it’s been a week, time for another update!

  • I am somewhat busy at the moment, but thanks for leaving a comment. Oh, and by the way I did not end up going to play paintball. it is a semi-long story. I will try to read your update when I have the time. Take care and God bless.

    Yours truly,

    Matthew

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