29 January 2009

Regrets... (2009.1.29 23:46)

It was just a day trip to Mie, so I didn't get any Matsusaka beef... (T_T)

Aah... I was brought back to Plabo, that time of bliss... (^_^)

And in the vicinity of the hotel...


A solitary drink~♫ A self-serve drink~♫...

And so I chugged a quiet drink. (^_^)

So it was wait-and-see on yesterday's maintenence, and somehow I got to have some curry. (^_^)


Really, I was bursting with the desire to go take some pictures of Nagoya Castle and stuff, but I was down with complete exhaustion... (^^;)

Truly, a real Old Man... (major (^^;) )

We safely complete another first nighter, and three days of road hell!! We'll fly through every time at full throttle!!

26 January 2009

Every day and every night... (2009.1.27 01:39)

Man~ I cannot even hold myself up... Overdrinking... (bwahahah)

Well, putting the jokes aside... (^_^) With the day trips came the Sea of Japan side being charmed by the back of my head...


But that was one su-per snowy landscape. (^_^) I wanted to snowboard... I wanted to take pictures... (T_T)


There was a stopover at Matsumoto... And this unexpectedly at the store I went to...


Smack, there was a little pig. (^_^) Man oh man, it was so cute!

It could sit! (*surprise*)

So, after my kindly encounter with the little pig, I casually headed off to take a peek at the menu.

I mustered my courage and took my first bit of a delicacy...


Well... I should say first, to people who dislike insects and people who are eating, my apologies...








I feel like I should point this out (^^;) but this, is some kind of 'hornet larva.'

I steeled myself, closed my eyes, and took a bite...

'That? Is pretty good...'

Well, if you think about it, the locals eat them all the time, so it's natural that they be tasty...

And thus began the conquest of the 'hornet larva' !! (^_^)

Both of our lives over there were hot ones, and I was even able to conquer the hornet larva. Man, that was a good trip. (^_^)

The dawn breaks, and today is Mie... You say Mie, I say Matsusaka Beef... (^_^)

Let's make tonight another hot night. (bwahahah) Well then everyone, let's meet on the field of battle~

P.S. Gunze, daikon, above all, gay ... (^^;) After the tour, what kind of personality should I be as an MC? (^_^)


[ thanks to Emi for a little help on the p.s.! (i swear, one day i'll get my skillz up. (^^;) ]

25 January 2009

[admin interruption] in the meanwhile..

alright, while there's a brief lull in postings as YOUkun attempts not to pass out on stage (by the way, i was reading a post on some LJ community today (that i really cannot remember which one it was) and some girl said she had had a ticket to the feb 9er concert. i was like SUPER JEALOUS. she doesn't happen to be any of you, does she? i'd love a first-hand report!) anyway, while there's a lull, i'm going to Borrow This Space, as the man himself often says, to ask everyone a question. i've been toying w/ the idea of moving this blog-a-blog to a different system, complete w/ its own full-fledged URL. i've thought of doing this before, but i've never done it, coz i never had a way to properly wrangle comments. i recently switched my personal HP to this blogging system called Serendipity (my HP is here, for anyone who cares to try it out, and serendipity's HP is here, for anyone who cares to learn anything more about it) and i am liking it. it's got templates, like blogger, but instead of creepy blogger code, it uses php. not that i'm any more familiar w/ php i guess, but the part i really like it the ability to directly reply to comments. the more i think about it, the more bothered i am about blogger's lack of skillz in that arena. it's a blog for crying out loud, shouldn't i be able to reply directly to people who comment on my posts? yes i should.

anyhow, my question (yes, i swear, we'll get to it eventually here) is what does everyone think about it? the backend on serendipity's not really that much prettier than bloggers, maybe even less so (although it does have some awesome plugins), and i think i'll be re-skinning the blog to look more like YOUkun's current theme whether i switch to serendipity or not, so the only real benefit from the user end i think would be the replying to comments thing. anyhow, let me know how you think, if you care, if you don't care, if you're attached to blogger, if you think replying to comments is a dumb thing anyway, if there's some way to do that already that i'm just to stupid to have noticed yet (^_^) whatever.

nota bena - comments on this blog are moderated (because even one spam comment is one too many) so if it appears at first as if your comment has not gone through, please do not fret. they are merely awaiting moderation.

23 January 2009

We were house sitters (2009.1.23 23:04)

Everyone at Kanagawa, that was a seriously exhausting second day. (^_^) That was a really really hot night. Thanks.

Thanks to you guys, today was, you know... completely spent at home. (^^;) I was thinking of watching a live broadcast at long last.

Yeah... Crashed right out under the kotatsu. (major (^^;) )

Also, the surging waves of travel start again tomorrow...


Every day is Here's the Best! but... (^_^)

Well then well then I'll eventually make some preparations for the journey, I guess.

Safely done~ (2009.1.19 02:47)

Huu, somehow we completely the second day. Of course, after the last tune, I passed straight out. (^^;)

In reward for my hard work...


Momiji Majuu~ (^_^) *

Ahahah... It was an appointment? (^_^)

For now, the murderous schedule continues from here on in, so somehow I'll have to put on my fighting spirit and hold tight until the landscape photos. (^^;)

It's getting colder and colder, so to everybody who participates from hear on out, please please be careful of colds.

So then maintenance, maintenance... (^_^)

P.S. This trip... Plus 2 kg... Actually, a shade of the rebound king...

Man oh man~ still, oysters in Okayamana, oysters in Hiroshima, I've been eating way too much oysters. (^_^)

This year of the oysters is a good year~ Really, the ones with the big bodies are delicious. (*joy*)

Everybody, really, try some. (^_^)


[ it's a maple-flavored confectionary thing. ]

17 January 2009

in Hiroshima (2009.1.18 00:47)

The Okayama performance finished with another great success, and we have safely completed the first day of the Hiroshima tour. Man oh man, as expected, the west is hot~ It was a really good feeling.

Everyone, I know I keep saying this, but, thank you for the hot night. Let's get all riled up again tonight.

So, everyone, actually, in the days that we've been removed to Hiroshima, I went to Itsukushima Shrine. Eh? I'm full of travel stories? Well... I've said this before, but I'm collecting data for MGG. It's work. (^_^)

So I say, but I'm pushing that shutter button and getting all excited with the SLR in my one hand. (^^;)

Oh yeah, I pulled an oracle at the shrine...


WHAAAAAAAAAAA!! Excellent luck!! Finally, I get it in Hiroshima of all places. (^_^)

Man~ I'm really feeling good. (^_^) So, after that...


Oysters, persimmons, Japanese persimmons. (^_^) Well, around here, what we enjoy is MGG, but man oh man, you really get nice stuff.

Well then well then, in preparation for this evening, I shall gradually crash out. (^_^)

Let's meet once again on the battlefield~


[ the title might look a little oddly spaced, but that's because YOUkun typed "in" just like that, in english, so i decided to leave the spacing. also, for those of you interested in wtf MGG might be, i have scoured the web, i have found the following page, and i still have no idea. (^_^) MGG ]

On the Shinkansen (2009.1.15 00:26)

We got off the train here and the evening sun was so beautiful.


Being on the train and getting off and getting on again, you get some exciting pictures from the window of the Shinkansen. (^_^) They're more or less blurry, but with the speed of the Shinkansen I guess...

Really, I wanted to go to Kurashiki and all the gardens, but when we arrived it was the middle of the night, so we'll just wait and see on sleep tonight. (^_^)

However, the cold gets considerably colder at night... Let's have a hot night in the middle of the cold winds again, okay.

In preparation for tomorrow (today) I'm off to the bath. (^_^)

Well then well then

Travel Diary (2009.1.13 15:16)

Thanks to everyone in Niigata and Kanazawa for the hot night. Really, that was a ho~t live for such a cold night. (^_^)

That was the first trip of the tour, and it's only with trouble that I would have carted my Mac along, so things were a little slow around here... My apologies. (^^;)

Actually, in Kanazawa I rode ahead by myself. To see Kenroku-en. (^_^)

I'd been on a plane since early morning, so I was too exhausted to take too many laandscape photos, but I spent about five hours wandering around Kenroku-en and Kanazawa Castle park, so when I finally made it back to the hotel, I passed right out. (^^;)

We had all kinds of food, chankare, 8 cups of ramen, white gyoza, etc... (T_T)

But from the company on the bus into Niigata,


I got this bowl of pork belly that looks like an alien house! (*joy*) First off, this is a new B-Class gourmet GET! (^_^)

Also, in Niigata, we had some delicious hegisoba.


Um... We're messy eaters. (^^;)

The soba we saved for after the live was great, too. You might say it's aborbed into the body with a slurp this way, and of course meals after all that movement are good.

The morning we got back from Niigata, the snow was piling up, and the world looked silver, so I was forced to remain quite local. (^_^)

Yeah, today too with work things, I came back with the thought that people could be charmed by the hair of the back of my head.

Aaah... Better drink some more sake... (^_^)

P.S. End-of-year 5 kg gain -> New Year's 5 kg loss -> Current trip 3 kg gain. (^^;) Man~ Trip flab. (bwhahah)

08 January 2009

I bought a TV. (^_^) (2009.1.7 19:59)

Everyone, thank you for the hot night yesterday again.

I was so exhausted I couldn't even appear at the launch. (^^;) I went home and went straight to bed.

Thanks to that, I've been up since early this morning. (^_^)

Mm? This really is an old man's lifestyle? (^^;) Yeah yeah, I'm usually a super nocturnal person you know. (^_^)

I went to great lenghts to have a hip bath again from the morning (^_^) and I went to get a massage, and I went to the acuputurists, I am heading into the live the day after tomorrow on strict maintenance. For dinner I'm having pork cutlets. (^_^)


So, not to change the subject, but,

I just happened to get into a conversation with the first day's MC about the passage of my own TV, so I bought the living room TV of my heart's desire.

Plus I put up the BS antenna for terrestrial digital broadcasting by myself. (^_^) Yeah, a consumer electronics otaku by nature. (^_^)


The quality of image on TVs has gotten really good recently. I absolutely can't go back to analogue any more.

The LCD and the plasma flat-panel TVs have gotten down to about 20~30 thousand yen per inch, so they're really affordable~. Man oh man it is a nice era to live in. (^_^)


Mm? Watching TV is a bad habit you say?

Well, isn't it okay though if you watch it every once in a while, when your friends come over? (^_^)

Next I'll need a blu-ray recorder... (bwahahah) The greedy days continue. (^_^)


[ as was correctly pointed out below, i tried to spell it blue-ray. wow, i'm out of touch, ne? (^_^) ]

06 January 2009

Second Day!! (2009.1.6 08:46)

I completely winked out last night... (^^;) Thanks to being awake so early. (^_^)

Man oh man, even as long as I've been disciplining myself, two straight mornings is INTENSE... (*major (^^;)*)

I've been carefully hip-bathing since morning, and my whole body is a solid block of relaxation,

and also, today, I'm thinking I'd like to go back to the battlefield.


I'll have to drink a big gulp and get my fight ON~ (^_^) Of course, everyone's smiling faces are the best source of nutrients. (^_^)

Well then well then~ Let's make tonight another hot night.


[oh yeah, someone asked a while ago if i was going to translate YOUkun's interview from ene-tan's page? i /am/ working on it, i promise. a brand new college quarter is eating my brains this week, but i haven't forgotten about it, i swear! ]

05 January 2009

Fortune (2009.1.5 10:02)

Early yesterday morning, since I wasn't sleeping, I went for my first temple visit of the year.


'Good Luck' Yeah... Not likely...

Today is the first live of the year. Let's make tonight another hot night.

Until later.

01 January 2009

sukiyaki~ (2009.1.1 23:52)

At the end of last year, I got some beef for sukiyaki from a friend, and completely forgot about it. (^^;)

Marbled beef~ Marbled beef~ (^_^)


So today, it was gentle sukiyaki with a small number of people.


Man~ It's been a long time since I had sukiyaki. What a good year this is gonna be. (^_^)

Plus...


Ene-tan came back for another play date~ (*joy*) He's asleep on my knee right now. (^_^)

Huu~ Again, a full stomach a full stomach. (^_^)

Ah, I don't remember my first dream of the year... (^^;)

It's here~ (2009.1.1 00:01)

Happy New Year everybody.

Let's have another good year.

Last year was nothing but a gloomy basement lifestyle (^^;) but this year I'd like to flip the live and private times~

Really, I'm beyone busy, so I don't have any good feelings about this year...

For now, it's still to come.

Everyone, have a good first dream of the year~


[ today's japanese lesson: akemashite omedetou gozaimasu. it means happy new year. well, literally, it means something like, congratulations on the dawning of a new year, but since we don't say anything like that in english, we can usually translate it as Happy New Year! ]

New Year's Eve... (2008.12.31 23:03)

I caught sight of this fun thing in town.


Without thinking, I cried out, "Dad!!' (^_^)

And if you're thinking What the heck are you doing in this kind of place?? It's the Shibuya LABI right across from the SoftBank.

Yeah, it's New Year's Eve, but I'm a home telephone otaku, so my presence around the electric appliance store is required. (^_^)

So, my major cleanup still isn't done, (^^;) but today, without the annual tomfoolery (^_^) we're having a gentle New Year's Eve soba dinner with friends.


And if you're gonna do New Year's Eve pasta (^_^)


Reluctantly filling the stomach, filling the stomach. (^_^)


Gradually, the year dawns, so everybody have a good New Year~