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Yeah you heard right!
It was planned that i go back to Osaka in May and it still is. Meanwhile i decided yesterday morning at around 4am in the morning that i want to go to Osaka to see my girl.
Well i didn’t think much about it and just did the necessary things:
I checked with my work if it’s ok to take 3 days off: OK
Asked my girl if she has some free time: OK
Bought a ticket: OK
Checked my bank account ( yes, after buying the ticket ): Hmmmm should be ok

So to make it short, today after my nightshift, i go home… relax and take the train to the airport at 11am.
Plane will take off around 14:40h from Zürich to Dubai.
After a short stop in Dubai ( almost 4hours ) i’ll take a plane to osaka.
Costs of the flight ticket: 1074CHF all incl.
Costs of hotel or similar: Free!!! Haha, it helps to have a girl with her own apartment
Costs of living: Hmmmm, mainly spending cash for booze when i will be drinking with my friends at my fav. bar in amerikamura. ~400CHF

I’m so f***ing happy right now about my little unplanned trip to see my girl and friends that i could jump up and down the whole night

Photos of my trip coming shortly…

jya naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa~

Hello~

I’m finally posting something new… after a long long time. Blogging is, well, kind of boring.
I decided to blog only if i feel like doing it and not trying to force my self to do it.

Today, is one of those day where i feel like blogging a little bit

Here are a few of my best photos taken during my 5 months in japan. It’s not in high-res, sort of a little preview.

If you want the full-res photos, please let me know and i will write a follow-up post with all my 1920*1280 photos.

Jya ne~

Hi everybody,

i won’t talk about my lack of updates, no excuses.
In 3 days i will be back home in switzerland after almost 5months in japan. It’s feels good to know going back home but at the same time i don’t know anymore where my home is.
Since i moved to osaka 1 month ago i think i started to experience more of the “real” japan, travelling to the countryside, meeting tons and tons of japanese people and spending time with my lovely girlfriend kyoko.

I will miss everything, it’s really tough for me right now. That’s life and i will deal with it.

So, i promise to write about all my experiences the past few months once i’m back in switzerland and survived the probably coming little depression

cheers minna!

your neko

Sorry everybody for the lack of updates…

I was not in blogging mood at all.. and i still aren’t right now.
I keep my facebook updated with pictures and comments etc. so i don’t feel the need to update my blog, especially uploading pictures is a pain in the A**.

Well, now for the short update:

My school is over, that means i already stayed 3 months here. I’m living in my own apartment in Sangenjaya, near Shibuya since 20.September and i like it. FREEDOM!

What else… i got a new phone, Panasonic P822. Also a prepaid phone from softbank but a pretty decent one.
I met a lot of nice people the last few weeks since my update, espacially a nice girl from Osaka… during my short trip in the south region of japan.
So yes, i have a new girlfriend, down in osaka…

Soooo i’m not going to stay in tokyo, girlfriend or not, i move to osaka on the 19th October and stay till 26th November if everything converges like i wish

Oh holy shit, i almmost forgot!!!!! I got a bike, a foldable chevy bike. How nice is that!?

Ok i’m done for a while… i’ll try to update my blog next week.

sorry everybody

peace out

Neko

Sorry everybody or the few persons who drop buy here from time to time but i’m not really into blogging mood.

I’ve shot a few low-quality pictures with my jp-keitai the last few weeks… so i’ll post them instead of writing a bunch of nonsense.

I’ve done the following stuff and more:

• Visited the aquarium in shinagawa
• Ate a lot of japanese and non japanese food
• Went clubbing 2 times at club atom
• Drank in shibuya, roppongi, shinjuku and other places
• Drank an Iced almond caramel latte @excelsior caffee almost everyday
• Met a lot of cool people
• Let cute girls and cool guys sign my backpack
• Learned a lot of japanese
• Watched the biggest firework of tokyo
• Took the shinkansen
• Went to Shizuoka
• Watched the new ghibli movie called “Ponyo”, all in japanese
• Played pachinko, Tekken and other arcade games
• Played darts and pool in shibuya
• Slept a few hours in a mac donalds
• Created a new group on facebook called “Shibuya backstreet Boys”
• …

Enjoy!

yosh!
My first week at school and hostfamily is already over, tomorrow i start the 2nd week.
School is fine, we learned a few basic phrases in japanese and the first 20 hiragana.
We are around 15-20 ppl in our class, almost all of them are cool… almost

The cool and nice guys already found together so now we are a team of 5-7 mostly guys, hanging around after school together. It’s always fun! tanoshimi~

Our Team-members:

Nas-kun ( igirisu-jin )
Patrick-kun ( suweeden-jin )
Sermet-kun ( doitsu-jin )
V-kun ( czeko-jin ) and also my hostfamily-buddy
Nick-kun ( amerika-jin ) the youngest… turned 18 yesterday
Rob-kun aka robocop ( amerika-jin )
and finally me

We went to karaoke in shibuya on friday… it was sooo fun! 2500yen per pers. for 2 hours karaoke with unlimited booze! hehe

Saturday we went to my friends bar in roppongi where another friend of me held a trance and rock party. Afterwards we checked out Club Atom, awesome place but too crowded on saturday.

That’s all for this week.
I’ll try to make photos the oncoming week.

jya

Ohayou gozaimasu!

I started school today… nothing interesting to report so far. More later. Let’s take a look at some j-food i ate the last few days:

garlic pizza@timesquare building, Shinjuku, don’t remember which JR-Exit

fried chicken with cheese@coco ichiban, ikebukuro JR-West exit

and today: sushi@sushiya somewhere near my school in jimbocho

That’s all for today. Maybe morning a little bit more about my school and the guys i met today.

jya ne~

My time living in a hotel in ikebukuro and enjoying holidays are coming to an end.
Tomorrow 17:00h i will meet my host-family at kajigaya station. I will live in kawasaki the next 3 months if everything goes right. Kawasaki is divided into 7 districts. I will live in the takatsu district.
Kawasaki is located 19min away from Shibuya on the tokyo-den-entoshi line. I’m quite happy to live near shibuya

My travel time to school will be around 40 minutes that’s not bad at all. I heard that it’s possible to have up to 1 hour and 30 minutes travel time, one-way, to the school.

If someone wants to get more informations about kawasaki go take a look here: Official Website

My address valid from 5th July 2008 on:

removed for privacy reasons. if you want to send me something ask me via mail

Tonight the last big party… then probably tomorrow morning after check out from the hotel at 10am i will go sleep in yoyogi-koen

mata ne

I took a photo everytime i went eating somewhere, meal and how the places looks outisde.
Now here’s the small list from the last 2 days. Don’t ask me for the names of the restaurants, i simply don’t know it but i will write where they are located.

curry@akihabara, next to the JR Exit “Electric Town”

lotteria@ikebukuro, east JR Exit

gomen ne i forgot to shoot the front of the store

ramen@ueno, JR Exit “shinobazu”, ameyoko-chô

tonkatsu@ikebukuro, small side street, JR West Exit

Didn’t eat sushi yet because i couldn’t find a sushi with a conveyorbelt

Minasan, itadakimasu!

Nice post title huh?

About the food: I love japanese food, there’s nothing i can do against it. Of course i don’t like everything but i found way too much kind of food i like here.
From today i will start a new food-serie. I’ll post everytime a photo of the restaurant from the outside and one or two pictures of the meal.

On the first picture it’s japanese curry with vegetables. Eaten at Curry House C&C next to the West Exit of Ikebukuro Station.
2nd picture: Kotsuteri (こつてり) ramen. Ate that 6.30am sunday morning. I have no idea about the name of the restaurant. It’s on the opposite side of the street from Bar Mania in Roppongi.

The last few days i was struggling getting a nihon keitai…
Softbank sells the best prepaid phones so far, that’s why i tried to get one of them. No luck for me and everyone else because softbank’s prepaid phones are sold out everywhere
Saturday i felt a bit down because i still wasn’t able to get a phone but neko never gives up and tried the store in omotesando. They have english speaking staff and all are very friendly.
Same story here “almost” : we’re sorry but it’s sold out, did he say to me. BUT you can get a prepaid usim-card and order the prepaid phone. We call you when your phone arrives at our store.

Oh and no need for an ARC ( Alien registration Card ) I showed them my passport, Confirmation Letter of the School and explained that i will extend my current “visa” from 90 days to 180 days.

If you would like to call me then please do so Here’s the number: +818033571275

I hope my keitai will arrive soon because with the prepaid usim-card i cannot send emails with my swiss phone, that’s the only bad thing…

and finally a few words about the parties:
Friday i wanted to go to Club Atom. Well i went there but couldn’t enter because i was wearing 3/4 pants…
Big turn-off. I took the train back to ikebukuro and stayed at the hotel drinking chu-hi.
Saturday i met with Yuki-chan in roppongi, Bar Mania.
bar-Mania is definitely my favorite bar in Roppongi. The Bar-staff and the boss are very cool and easy. The music is ok.
Yuki had to leave around 22:00h so i went to Club Flower. 1000Yen entrance fee with 2 drinks. I had already a nice party at club flower last year but this time it was boring. Only Hip-Hop and RnB at both floors… and 90% of the crowd: GUYS
So went back to Bar Mania and stayed the night there. Met a lot of nice people: Eddie Murphy (the real one i swear!), Watanabe-kun ( the japanese Silent Bob ), Chihiro ( sweet girl… i called her “aho” that means “stupid”. She had a funny looking strain of hair and i was thinking you call that “aho”… don’t ask me why.
Oh and there was Mister Rob! Polska Power It’s cool to meet someone who is also interested in photography. I think i could learn a lot from Rob, he has done some awesome photos.

Ok OVER and OUT.
More news soon.