Amoeba

I had a little going away shindig before I came back to Tokyo. My big bro came and we had a little exchange that went something like this:

Big Bro: Are you still allergic to men?

Answer: No. Just to dating.

I should probably go on another one of Japan's finest group dates (goukon).

Odawara

First condom vending machine sighting!

I've got the Blues

I went to a place called Cafe Retro near Waseda with some friends for happy hour (50% off drinks! yes, please!). 

Some of the names on the menu were standard funny: 

-Angel Wind

-Angel Kiss

-Sidecar (is the color of a slug after you step on it)

And then there were the BLUES

-童貞Blues

-Virgin Blues

-Marriage Blues

-Maternity Blues

童貞 (Doutei) is a male virgin. How this is different from "virgin blues," I'm not exactly sure. Especially since none of these drinks came with descriptions of the actual drink. We didn't get around to ordering virgin blues. One of my friends ordered doutei blues and another got maternity blues. I'm pretty sure the waitress was blushing 100x more than the guys actually ordering them. 

Quick question: Who makes a drink called MATERNITY blues? 

Also, why were the "blues" drinks all RED? (see below)

unwanted attention

As many of you know, I recently went to India. Quick story I don't really want my parents to be reading:


In many areas, tourists get much unwelcome and unwanted attention from the local men... usually these tourists are the ones that are dressed horridly inappropriately and have fake blonde hair.. or so i thought... 


I was at the baby taj watching water buffalo frolic about and stood up to take a picture. As I was about to sit down, I looked down a little and saw a man and noticed that he was making this lip smacking noise at me. I HATE this noise... that's when I noticed that something was moving... like when you hold the end of a pencil and move your wrist up and down and the pencil looks like it's bending. That's when I realized that he was not only making this horrid sound at me, he was wagging his flacid penis while staring into my soul with his eyes. REALLY? REALLY? agh.


I'd heard some stories about my friends getting one whipped out on them, but never thought it would happen to me. I guess it's one of those things. I feel like I've gone through some initiation ritual and should now be an official member of "tourists who have seen too much" or some kind of similar club...

Thailand Edition

Of course they've prepared some condoms for you in Patong... I especially liked the the boxes that the condoms were in were clearly used over and over...

When we took the sky train, we always went to "On Nut" and we went "To Bang Sue" on the metro.

X-rated Vending Machines

All it really says is "open 24 hours" on the outside. Obviously, I had to check it out.

Vending machines lining either side selling all types of adult goods. The ones on the left only light up when you stand right in front of them! how high tech... yet wouldn't the internet be more high tech and convenient? I wonder what it would be like to run into someone you knew in one of these. awk starfish!

Club Atom

We went to Shibuya to go to a club- after kind of wandering around, we settled on Club Atom. 

Here are some awesome signs and etc that we took while in line:

The girls seemed to have heard about alcatraz er before. I have to say that it has never come up in my personal life. Still confused as to what it is.

After dancing all night, we went to McDonalds (at 5am) to get something to drink and a little snack. We liked the messages on the cups. Perhaps our minds just end up in the gutter after dancing the night away.

The people there were clapping together as part of the "dance" that goes with the song. It especially killed my soul when they were jumping up and down to rap music. sigh. I had lots of fun, though. Great for stress relief.