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Yeah, yeah, I know. I’m slacking. Actually, I’m just really enjoying life here in Tokyo and because of the rain lately, I’ve been keeping my camera at home. Two Sundays ago, I made my way out to Ikebukuro in which myself and two friends ended up buying the most expensive meal of my life. This is why it pays to 1) read Japanese carefully, 2) ask questions if you aren’t sure about something. What we thought was going to be a 10 dollar meal (per person) ended up being a 90 dollar meal (about 30 bucks per person). Needless to say, I was horrified but the food was DELICIOUS, so I can’t complain too much.  Last Saturday night, I went out to a House club/lounge in Roppongi. It was the LONGEST night of my life. We left at around eleven and got back home Sunday morning, around seven, and it was COLD out. Fall is finally here in Japanland!

At any rate, I’ve got quite the scheduel lined up for the next few weeks, sheesh, for this month in general. This Saturday, I’m heading out to the Festival of Nations at Seisen International School. If you read Metropolis, you know what I’m talking about. It should be a lot of fun and I haven’t been to Setagaya-ku (home of Shimokitazawa, which I will most DEF be checking out) — I’m excited. Next weekend, I’m hitting up Nikko for some fall foliage photographing and R&R — college is *so* hard! But what I’m most excited about will be happening at the end of the month

I’M SEEING JUSTIN NOZUKA LIVE AT ASTRO HALL IN HARAJUKU!!! I am a hardcore Nozuka fangirl, minus the teenybopper posters and rabid foaming of the mouth when I see him on tv (well, youtube mostly). This kid put out one of the most solid albums I’ve heard this entire year. He can SANG, he can write (the entire album was written by him between the ages of 15-17; the maturity of the lyrics is suprising), and he plays the guitar. Oh yes, he’s SUPER gorgeous too. Enough said. (Please ignore the fangirl who is near passing out on the video)

Lest I forget, shout out to Black Tokyo for all the interwebz love. I truly appreciate it! On that note, please do youself a favor and check out Suzi Analog’s Mad Baby Blog. She’s DOPE, fuureal. She’s getting pretty deep into the Tokyo Hip hop scene as she’s a great vocalist/beat maker/brown girl soldier so it’s great perspective of that scene from the view of another brown girl in Tokyoland.