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It SNOWED!!!! Today was a much-awaited holiday -- mid-week -- but it was spent in great leasure and exploration. I woke up at 9 to hit the streets of Shibuya to make my once and for all purchase of the good ol' keitai. The great thing of being a foreigner here is that you always have an ID, while if you roam about the city without a driver's license -- a 2000USD +wasted time Identification card -- you're really up the creek as a Japanese. I still hate cars and vow never to own one... so it took much effort to make this binding purchase. Never did I think I'll need it in coincidence with work... but without one... you get blank stares of silence and isolation. for this very reason, I might be better off with an alien registeration card... as not owning a keitai was more or less equivalent to be treated as an alien. not really intending to make a real issue out of this, but 90s Tokyo is a world of Keitais. green screens with smily faces, if not a buzzing tune of "It's a small world" churn out in the middle of nowhere. Shibuya... despite the snow... was all keitais. It might have been just me noticing this little toy... but the new keitais have features with 10 different tunes. Perhaps more!? Carrying on, Kory was in Japan the past two weeks. We caught up on the weekends, and the plan was to write a good ol' common room mail together -- right Kory? -- but I guess we were a bit too busy here shopping for fundamentals that'll bring me back into midernity. Didn't hit too many of the old scenes, but thanks for the dora-yaki. I had them for breakfast the day after... coupled with my new Doraemon necktie.... my colleagues thought I was nuts. :) anyhow, I'm checking out. I've got another crazy day ahead of me tommorow...
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