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Friday, July 07, 2006
Barry White
There was something rather surreal about zipping through Lima at midnight, with the cab driver playing Barry White at full volume. But I'm almost in the jungle... Just one more flight tomorrow.
San Francisco is a fine city. Better than most American cities, as it has old buildings, hills, and a relaxed feeling. I fell victim to trends, and bought a Timbuk2 and a Moleskin. Then went to H&M and bought some clothes, just to taper that God What a Ripoff feeling. But they look pretty....
No real stories to tell about America, other than eating a fantastic burrito, watching Fat People, starting and almost finishing a book entitled Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, watching some kids break into dance when a car with a loud stereo pulled up at the lights next to them, some cool stencilling (flickr shortly) and witnessing the extreme poverty that I have come to expect from the US: accidentally stumbling through an area that looked to be filled with crackheads.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Pants
And who wears them. For example, Dom does not.
So i've moved into a house which is split into 2 apartments, each 3 bedroom. The people in each apartment get on well with each other and yabber a lot. Turns out they are all girls. So i'm kinda worried about living with so much oestrogen, but shogenai. Girls talk about relationships. A lot. Or maybe it's because they see me as a probable 'safe-guy' (read: homosexual) who they can have these kind of conversations with. God knows. Anyway, you get the picture. So after moving in with so many girls, you get to know very quickly who the Mother Hen is. I reckon - despite her denials - it's Haruka. And so I explained to her that I reckon she Wears The Pants with respect to her boyfriend. It was a pill not swallowed lightly.
In fact, two weeks later, the retort arrived. Mina cooked dinner for us all, and as I tried to share out the Scotch, explaining that I had lived in Scotland for far too many years, Haruka seized the moment to break into a humiliating and rascist; yet congenial impression of a skirt wearing bagpipe playing Scotsman. Hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Apparently, I wear the skirt. I'm too nice. If she says Go, I say OK. Followed up with a description of how, when deciding to let me live with them, they said to themselves "we share apartment, why dont we share the guy?". Kowai. And so I know that it's the right moment to be lasooing a plane heading East. Great Scott, Marty, i'm flying backwards over the international dateline. I land before I fly.
Summer is here
and it feels good to be sitting in a balcony in shibuya, sipping beer and watching the girls go by.
and later that week, split work on saturday at about 20:00, following an absolutely disastrous disaster recovery test, and headed down to PK's for a rooftop party. I wish i had my camera. woke up at 9am, still on the roof, sweating in the blazing heat, sharing a futon with 3 other people, one of which had a split (lizard man style) tongue. I seem to recall him hurling over the side of the roof earlier in the evening. Pigeons aren't the only danger the sky has to offer.
Finished with Citi on Monday, no emotional goodbyes....and now today is free. Or sorta. Managed to book another flight, another hotel, some travel insurance, and wash some clothes. Tomorrow I embark on journey which is highly likely to see me get eaten by an Anaconda or chased off a cliff by Llama. This is fine, because I owe the Japanese taxman money.
so now it's 19:00 and the only thing left to do is fill in a job application, so that i have some way of earning a living upon return, and, i guess, pack.NRT-SFO United Airlines depart 05th July 18:00 - arrive 05th July 11:25
SFO-IAH Continental depart 06th July 08:15 - arrive 06th July 14:05
IAH-LIM Continental depart 06th July 16:05 - arrive 06th July 22:46
LIM-TPP Lan Peru depart 07th July 18:20 - arrive 07th July 19:40
LIM-IAH Continental depart 26th July 23:55 - arrive 27th July 06:29
IAH-SFO Continental depart 27th July 07:28 - arrive 27th July 09:38
SFO-AKL Air New Zealand depart 27th July 21:30 - arrive 28th July 05:30
AKL-NRT Air New Zealand depart 31st July 08:30 - arrive 31st July 16:40
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