17. Mai

That time of the month again, blog time, and it's the 17th of May, Hooray for Norway......Yippi. I lost my Umbrella yesterday, I felt slightly bummed out about it, I dunno why, I didn't buy it, I only found it at my house, guess I grew attached to it. I discovered a video arcade with games for 50 yen, (yippi) not any of those lame dancing games, but old school ones, like I played when I was young, plus Mah Jong and 5000 versions of Street Fighter. The game I was most excited about is R-type, I used to play it everyday on the way home from my paper run when I was 12, slaving my afternoons away to earn enough money to buy a coke and play a game(plus other shit, like skateboards and t-shirts and crap). Anyway, I always envied the older geeks at the arcade who had enough money to play as much as they wanted without worrying, then when I got old enough for this all the games had turned to crap. But now my time has come, I can stop off everyday and play a game, I can play more, but R-type gets boring after one game. They have some other games like Wonderboy and the 1st Super Mario Bros., but no. I've never finished the game, never even gotten to the last level, though I've seen others do it, and I liken it to a Yngwie Malmsteen guitar solo, too hard for me, well any guitar solo would be too hard since I can't play a guitar. So I've decided to finish the game before I leave Japan, maybe. After playing yesterday I was so excited by how well I went that I got up and left without my Umbrella. So yes this blog has turned to geek shit.
I went to Kyoto last month, it was pretty cool, I wish I lived there, small enough to ride a bike round, and it has all the stuff stupid Tokyo lacks, like old buildings, architecture, a sense of history, nature, and 5ooo temples. I rented a bike and was stoked just riding back and forth across the city, cool. They have a cool river there which I rode up and down a few times, many folks practicing their instruments there, I checked some temples out as well as going for a bit of a walk in the forest. I took the night bus there, it was ok, but it's hard for me to get moving on these missions, I sloth around all day, the rain didn't help, so when I left it was 6pm, I booked the bus, which left at 11pm, giving me 4 hours to wait, I figured it wasn't worth going back home, so I hung around Tokyo station, most boring four hours of my life.... When I arrived in Kyoto at 5am it was raining and cold, I wasn't amused, tired from not getting much sleep on the bus, I sat in the station pissed off wishing I'd stayed home. I waited there for another 4 or so hours, waiting for the hostel to open so I could book in, when I did they told me I couldn't check in until 4pm. It was a torturous wet day, I was forced to wander round in the rain yearning for a bed, I was so tired yet I couldn't sleep, I sat in a cafe and tried to sleep while pretending to be reading, though every time I dozed off I started to keel over...... Anyway, after that day it all turned good, well the rain continued, but I didn't care, I just keep peddling the bike I rented. All in all it was cool, recommended to anyone, it kicks Tokyo's arse. Well, that just about does it, yep.