My Busy Saturday [december 6th, 2009 @ 03:21am] starkodama [ mood | blah ] [ music | Britney Spears-- Amnesia ] Today I woke up kinda early so I could meet my student M-san for a lesson. M-san was my very first private student and we used to meet nearly every weekend without fail, but recently he found out he was being transferred to Hong Kong. He's happy to go-- he's been asking for an international transfer for a while-- and I think it'll be a really good experience for him. But since he leaves next weekend, today was our last lesson. A little sad. He's awesome. Then I took the train to Tokyo-- Awajichi to be exact-- to teach a corporate class at a glass manufacturer. The students are three dudes in their 30s or 40s. Their level's a little low but they try hard and see to enjoy the class. Which is good, cos I enjoy teaching it! I had an hour to kill and an empty tummy, so I hit up Freshness Burger and got a cheeseburger. OM NOM NOM. Delicious!! It had raw onions and lots of em, which was yummy when I was eating it, but I couldn't get the taste of onion out of my mouth the rest of the day. I chewed three pieces of gum and drank lots of fluids, but no change. Oh well. D: Then I went back to Yokohama to teach another class-- three folks in their 40s and 50s who learn English just a hobby. I've been teaching them twice a month since August. They're a really good group and very kind-- next week they say they'll take me out to dinner! Yippee! My job involves a lot of time on trains, but I don't mind so much if I've got a good book. And I do-- Lost Japan by Alex Kerr. Super interesting! Now it's almost 4 AM and I can't sleep. RooG woke me up when he came home from the Kanagawa dojo bounenkai (end of the year party). waaaahhhh read 1, &/or add

Must be Saturday [december 5th, 2009 @ 01:30am] _postsecret_ [lemonsqueezy] Anything read 211, &/or add

[december 4th, 2009 @ 11:55pm] robselden i need to get out of my fucking house. add

Secrets #1024 [december 4th, 2009 @ 01:22pm] ljsecret [loveshannon] ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) read 248, &/or add

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[december 2nd, 2009 @ 10:58pm] lizziemoore We say what we feel, Then we stop ourselves, And just walk away. Never looking back, Loving every second of it, We just walk away. add

[december 2nd, 2009 @ 10:42pm] lizziemoore i dont get it at all. shit was going so well. like so so well. like i texted you for three weeks straight. and then all of the sudden you couldnt hang out at the last minute, which was alright it really was. but i dont understand why you just stopped talking to me afterwards. and youve been avoiding me for three weeks. whatever, im on to bigger and better things. add

Secrets #1023 [december 2nd, 2009 @ 02:27pm] ljsecret [loveshannon] ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) read 284, &/or add

[november 11th, 2009 @ 10:05am] _postsecret_ [sunkistfriend] [ mood | calm ] What is one thing you wish you could do without any consquences? read 90, &/or add

Oh, Japan! [december 2nd, 2009 @ 10:03pm] starkodama [ mood | happy ] [ music | Depeche Mode-- Ghost ] I was walking home tonight along a really narrow road. It's so narrow you have to walk single-file down it. I was walking behind this old dude, who suddenly decided to whip out his junk and start peeing on the wall!!!!! I got really pissed off and was like "What the hell is wrong with you?! Aren't you embarrassed?!" He continued peeing, but looked me right in the eye and meekly said, "No." I had to admire his honesty, but I still called him a kuso jijii and got the hell out of there. Oh, Japan! Seeing older men (drunk or sober) peeing on the walls is a fairly common occurrence in Japan. Because Japanese people are soooooooooooo polite, all the time. Yeah. Oh well. I had a good time at karate class today, followed by an excellent lunch at Afternoon Tea, and then I taught an awesome English class. Can't complain. :) More party pics.... here's Roxy teaching RooG some grappling <3 Wario Ware: Smooth Moves is such an awesome game to play with a big group!! Mohawk Stance! read 3, &/or add

Where to find us: Jux [november 30th, 2009 @ 06:57pm] best_thing_ever [juxtapose_42] I can be found here. I've also been known to post songs at this MySpace page. Jux's Favorite: Poll - [Year 3 / Week 34] Immortality Through Song and Story defeats Ted Koppel Gets Accidentally Knocked Out And At the Hospital They Discover He Is Actually A Robot Being Driven By a Tiny Mouse Post - [Year 4 / Week 11] xaverie assists us with an illustration. Losing Contender - [Year 1 / Week 39] Receiving The Congressional Medal of Awesome. One or two more odds and ends to come. <3, - Jux read 4, &/or add

Secrets #1022 [november 30th, 2009 @ 05:45pm] ljsecret [hollywood] [ mood | drained ] ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) read 434, &/or add

Thanksgiving potluck at our pad [november 29th, 2009 @ 11:15pm] starkodama [ mood | happy ] [ music | Akumajo Dracula Best-- Dwelling of Doom (Yakata BGM) ] RooG and I have lived in this apartment for a year and a half now, and we've never had a party or anything here. In fact, the only people who've been in our place is RooG's sister and her husband and her daughter, and Amy and Ganesh. That's it. Five people in twenty months. Our place is always so dirty and horrible that we can't have people over!! So RooG and I got up early and cleaned the whole place from top to bottom!!! We worked really hard. And we also got our cook on, with the help of the DS Oryouri Navi-- I made chicken tikka masala with turmeric rice, and he made guacamole dip and some Italian dessert called "bone". Annie brought over homemade gratin and broccoli, and she brought a cake AND flowers!! Khalil took over my kitchen and made spring rolls and a crazy cheese/turkey/pepper combo hors d'oureve (sp?) thingie that was awesome!! Tan brought drinks and Roxy brought snacks. We were ready to PARTAY! Annie (rakugo_report and RooG are ready to EET LET'S EAT!!! Roxy (chichiri) and Tan (montydrei) are having a deep conversation. It's ROACH TIME!! I'll post the rest of the pics later. It was so great to see everybody! We had the best time and as it turns out, our house is pretty good for hosting parties (if I may say so myself). We'll definitely have everyone over again! =D (Plus, it gives us really good motivation to actually clean the place every once in a while...) read 7, &/or add

[november 28th, 2009 @ 11:19am] _postsecret_ [lemonsqueezy] Anything! read 372, &/or add

Secrets #1021 [november 27th, 2009 @ 11:39am] ljsecret [loveshannon] ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) read 324, &/or add

No dojo [november 27th, 2009 @ 01:21pm] starkodama [ mood | sleepy ] [ music | The Beatles-- Taxman ] Yesterday I showed up at the Kanagawa dojo, all set for class. But when I got there, Yasumoto-senpai was just like "Yo Barerii, there's no class today, but you can go work out by yourself if you want!" No class?! So I got all gi-d up and just did kihon and kata for a little while. Here I am workin hard! I feel sleeeeeeeeepy now... read 1, &/or add

Happy Turkey Day [november 26th, 2009 @ 11:50am] _postsecret_ [lemonsqueezy] Tell me something you're thankful for, even if you don't celebrate the holiday. Or, if you do, tell me what you're doing for Thanksgiving. read 29, &/or add

Thanksgiving [november 26th, 2009 @ 10:05am] starkodama [ mood | good ] [ music | Tori Amos-- God ] I haven't had a Thanksgiving in five years... not counting that time three years ago when Irene and Steve and I went out to Good Honest Grub for a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner. That doesn't count. ;D I'd pretty much given up on it... until Roxy (chichiri) invited us to her house on Monday for a good old fashioned Thanksgiving dinner!! Roxy is a superhero. She brought a suitcase to Costco, loaded it up, brought it back to her house, and prepared us an amazing Thanksgiving feast with ALL the trimmings! She made turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, carrots, mashed potatoes n gravy, AND she bought a sweet potato pie for dessert!! The food was AMAZING and I enjoyed hanging out with her and her friends too. Here's the lady herself with the FOOD!! Other than that, nothing to report. Just doing my thang. I finally saw the movie Okuribito (English title is Departures), which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film last year. It was really interesting to see the Japanese funeral customs, and it was a good, well-made movie too, but there was one character in particular that just really got on my nerves. D: Other than that, it was really good. It was cool to hear the crazy Yamagata dialect too. Yokohama doesn't have a dialect (with the possible exception of "be", a manly way of saying "deshou"), but I digress........ Also, Annie posted this pic of us at the Lebanese resturant we hit up in Kannai last month. The food was amazing (hummus!! falafel!! baklava!!), but the highlight was the mizutabako!! I am VERY VERY anti-smoking, but I will happily make an exception for the occassional hookah, shared with good friends. As you can see, the hookah's strange powers made me feel very... happy. read 4, &/or add

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Secrets #1019 [november 23rd, 2009 @ 06:29pm] ljsecret [epic_cathedral] [ mood | tired ] [ music | Adam Lambert - Soaked | Powered by Last.fm ] ( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. ) read 455, &/or add

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