Tuesday, December 06, 2005
tokyo my love town #2
so i forgot to write last night, that i had something in my eye all day yesterday and that it is all red and irritated and puffy. i hoped it might get better overnight but i woke up at 4 am and my eye had swollen virtually cloed (rocky eat ur heart out) but it is better now.... sort of. so the moral of the story is, i will meet the ambassador looking rather weird. fabulous.
tokyo my love town
can i just reiterate how much i love this place??? the title refers to a tshirt that can be bought here^ kinda cheesy-but when i find one- i am buying!!!! hehe.
so today we went to the tokyo municipal govt offices and took a tour. it was quite interesting especially considering that the area they are administering is two thirds the size of our national govt with a tiny fraction of the geographic size!! we also visited ntt docomo which is the biggest telecom company in japan. all i can say is - the future is now people!!! their internet is 50 times faster than our fastest. a 2 hour movie downloaded in living colour in just 5 mins!!! hello! but alas, the technology will not be coming to australia- docomo have the patent, and methinks they aint sharing!!!!!
we went out for dinnmer in harajuku tonight which is the young trendy part of town, well another one of them! the clothes and accessories are amazing, but despite my diet of fish and rice (and asahi....!), i still cant fit. actually i havent tried. might save that for my free day in my love town- thursday!!!!!
tomorrow we are meeting the australian ambassador to japan which is huge really.... hopefully my mind wont be on karaoke later that night with the awesome mitsui students the whole time i am disussing our bilateral relationship with japan...... hmmm
thursday i will be going to see harry potter, which will set me back about double the australian admission, but i consider pennies well spent.
speaking of pennies- it seems that i am burning money here even in spite of mitsui picking up virtually every tab. but with 3 days left i think i am in decent shape. might not be when i get home though..... )-: i still have one extravagant purchase to make with my mitsui travellers cheques!!! i intend to splurge on an anna sui purse. very hot! if i could find shoes to fit my clodhopping feet i would also splurge on them too, but all the girly ones are tiny... so it might have to be converse chuck taylors!!! at least the japanese designs will be unique (-:
so today we went to the tokyo municipal govt offices and took a tour. it was quite interesting especially considering that the area they are administering is two thirds the size of our national govt with a tiny fraction of the geographic size!! we also visited ntt docomo which is the biggest telecom company in japan. all i can say is - the future is now people!!! their internet is 50 times faster than our fastest. a 2 hour movie downloaded in living colour in just 5 mins!!! hello! but alas, the technology will not be coming to australia- docomo have the patent, and methinks they aint sharing!!!!!
we went out for dinnmer in harajuku tonight which is the young trendy part of town, well another one of them! the clothes and accessories are amazing, but despite my diet of fish and rice (and asahi....!), i still cant fit. actually i havent tried. might save that for my free day in my love town- thursday!!!!!
tomorrow we are meeting the australian ambassador to japan which is huge really.... hopefully my mind wont be on karaoke later that night with the awesome mitsui students the whole time i am disussing our bilateral relationship with japan...... hmmm
thursday i will be going to see harry potter, which will set me back about double the australian admission, but i consider pennies well spent.
speaking of pennies- it seems that i am burning money here even in spite of mitsui picking up virtually every tab. but with 3 days left i think i am in decent shape. might not be when i get home though..... )-: i still have one extravagant purchase to make with my mitsui travellers cheques!!! i intend to splurge on an anna sui purse. very hot! if i could find shoes to fit my clodhopping feet i would also splurge on them too, but all the girly ones are tiny... so it might have to be converse chuck taylors!!! at least the japanese designs will be unique (-:
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