Last last Friday was the memorable �Tokyo Tower Day� for me and my officemates. We spent much of our free time after work in the Main observatory (we no longer went to the top floor because we had to pay extra bucks, and it won�t really be worth it unless we had more time in our hands), together with our lucky birthday-celebrant ex-officemate who�s staying in Japan for her post-graduate studies. She�s one lucky dawg because she gets a free pass and a free cake c/o Tokyo Tower, so yay! Anyways, so there we were, five young ladies, kids at heart, decided to go silly and do things people don�t normally do in there.

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It’s been a few days since I went to Tokyo for a very short business trip (I’m already back!), and the very first thing my officemates and I did after checking in our hotel: Find a place with lotsa gashapons, because I’ll totally FAIL AT LIFE if I never get to buy even one of ‘em throughout my stay here. I wasn’t sure if we’ll have time to go out and buy stuff on the weekdays after work so we made the most out of our free time. Luckily enough, there was a Yodobashi near our place, which had zomg soo many gashapons! It’s the most gashapons I’ve seen in all my life, though I know very well that other Yodobashi stores has TONS MORE, like the one in Akihabara which I failed to visit because of lack of time (caused by my ’sleeping beauty’ blues), something I’m both regretful and thankful for.

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Sigh, I�m missing Japan, particularly the foodies. It�s been more than a year since my business trip, summer of 2007, and double�s recent post made me reminisce the time I spent in the wonderful place that is Fukuoka. I still wasn�t attached to the blog / blogging community / readers when my lucky trip happened, so I didn�t get to share about it in public. Only to Seleria and other close friends IRL ^^;

I already talked about the loot I bought during my trip, so I won�t talk about that clich� topic anymore. Instead, I�ll show you some of the foods I fell in love with during my 3-week business trip.

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A pizza fat CC is fine too.

From NY Times:

Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups. That represents more than 56 million waistlines, or about 44 percent of the entire population.

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I, along with my friend, whom we shall call Bernice, decided to add a spin to our Valentine�s and celebrate it like how a Japanese girl would. Instead of waiting for guys to give us chocolates and flowers during this day of hearts, we were the ones giving out some sweet tokens to the guys in our project.

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(Obviously, I’m uber delayed for this Christmas Countdown… but oh well, better late than never! >3)

Since I wasn’t able to mention much about the Japan trip I had last July, I guess this is but the time to look back and share more about my lucky Fukuoka escapade~ The only thing I seem to have shared about it is… the pile of loot I bought amidst the Hare-Raising Storm, in this post. My entire trip was far more exciting than that, filled with random interesting sightings and discoveries~

The “mystery” bunny

First, look at this bunny over here. Guess what its true identity is…

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We interrupt our normal programming and bring you a retrospective news about the typhoon that struck Japan, particularly some events on the 14th of July 2007. Amidst the storm on that day�

Japan in the brink of the Storm

�one little bunny stormed her way to Kinokuniya and Mandarake instead, overcoming the hurling winds just to get her dose of anime / manga delicacies (note: she was able to do this despite her bad coughs) :p The casualty? Nothing else but her pouch of yens (yes she�s a special bunny with a large pouch XD). It does of course have its merits as well, such as THESE�

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