Entries this day: Locked_phone Painting Yuuko

Locked phone

9:01am JST Tuesday 30 December 2003

For some reason my phone is locked and the code to unlock it is not the code it used to be. I don't know how it got locked; the phone was not turned off (I didn't turn it on when I found it locked) blah blah blah. So I'll go to vodafone to get it unlocked; I hope they are open today!

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Yay. They were open. Got the number recovered; it was 3873. I thought it was 3673. Hmmm. I don't usually forget such things.

Painting

11:47am JST Tuesday 30 December 2003

I've started working on a new painting. Really happy about that. Interesting is that Dan saw it when I only had green on the canvas and he asked if it was done, which makes me think that ... hmm; it could be done with just one color.

Nah.

Well maybe.

Yuuko

6:19pm JST Tuesday 30 December 2003

裕子 and I met at Starbucks in Cinecitta and then zoomed over to Shibuya to sit in Harajuku for a bit. Watched the bicycle guys, but they weren't as good as the time janette and I watched that one cat a long time ago.

Walked down おもてさんどう street, which I've been down before, but didn't know the name of it. Found a subway and headed toward Tokyo station to check out ミレナリオ (mirenario) a big light show thing that is pretty anticlimatic, but is basically pretty. Not quite as good vibes as the lights on West Gray, but still pretty good. What was REALLY amazing though was the Japanese crowds packed so tightly that we couldn't really walk with full steps and couldn't easily walk side by side; we kept getting mushed by the crowd. Tens of thousands of people crowded these few blocks and thousands all had their camera phones in the air, taking little piece of crap pictures to basically just, I dunno; prove that they had been there, but not only to someone who knew what they were looking at.

Insanity.

And cold, so we came to a Starbucks here in this rather fancy shmancy district. Does Starbucks have a frequent flyer card? Not a debit card, but a free stuff after multi purchase card.

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We walked around Roppongi (my first time to be there), the expensive night-lifeful area that I thought would have a lot of drunken revelry, but was pretty chill and beautiful. The most awesome fun thing was sitting on a glass chair reading the somewhat random numbers that were being displayed on a wall. Three large digits that would each independently count from 9 down to 1 and then blank (which I used as a zero) and I would pronounce the number in Japanese each time a digit changed.

Fun fun stuff.

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Rode my bike home in 30 minutes. Cold cold cold. Home around 11:30, bed around 12:30.