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Location: Tokyo, Japan

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Catfish mush



I made some good friends at the Japanese-teaching school and still keep in touch.
Been asked to go out for Salvador Dali's exhibition entitled 'Dali centennial retrospective'.
The standing-out advertisment had told me about the exhibithion but I thought I wouldn't go because I had gone to another Dali exhibition years ago in Tokyo and also gone to one in London. I thought that it was a sort of similar thing but I was wrong. Dali is a quite popular artist in Japan and there were so many people making long queue.

We felt like eating Thai food after that so went to Ebisu where there are many international food restaurants around to look for a good Thai restaurant. Short after, both of us remembered that we saw a Thai restaurant the other day when we walk around there. We went to a right place "Mai-Thai". The food was excellent. We didn't particularly mentioned about the restaurant the other day while walking but we both remembered it. It seems that our interests and thoughts are always the same...

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Masayoshi Yamazaki's Gig



Went to Masayoshi Yamazaki's Gig in Ginza with my friend. He writes and sings songs and also plays acoustic guiter, harmonica and piano. But his voice is the best.
Our seats were soooo far from the stage and we forgot a binocular but that didn't bother us to enjoy the gig as far as we could hear his voice.
The Stage set was also well-planed. They put sofa and table like a mockup living room on the stage and picked up some audience, let them sit down on the sofa, have a talk, then he sang sitting on the same sofa with the lucky audience like having party with his friends.

On the way to the hall, I spotted a man on the metro who looked familiar to me from TV news. He was an ex-criminal. He used to run Totsuka Yacht school and he got arrested for having his students drown at the school by too much physical punishment. He spent some years in jail and has come out from there just some monthes ago, according to the TV news.
I sometimes see famous stars in Tokyo but never have seen ex-criminal...