Thursday, April 30, 2009

Mexican Dinner


The restaurant looked cool, the food did not tasted that good, or it might have been last night's event that kept appetite to a minimum. And noone wanted tequila today.

She should be asleep



I'm bad and I know it...

That lighter is just too much... bigger is better and things...


But instead she is chatting with friends online... good or bad... you be the judge.. she'll be married to random Japanese man in a few months.. he had been dating a girl called Åsa from Eslöv.... do you know who you are? Ran into this couple at a Spanish resturant in Ebisu... 

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Previously UnBlogged

Found this photo of my main man Mint, when I was looking for a new profile photo for facebook. Did not find any and got annoyed, and put up the photo of me looking like a rape victim possibly murdered and necessarily not in that order. Should have used the photo of Mint instead, but then people using pictures of their pets, and/or children as profile photos are equally annoying. 


New shoes, one pair of shoes made for walking, and one pair of comfy office ladies shoes. Thanks Sara and the Martin! There might be photos of them later...

Today is public holiday in Japan, which is brilliant. Have been out for a walk in yoyogi then down to shibi and GAP. Got myself some pretty summer clothes. This might also get blogged later... now some relaxing on the sofa :).

Monday, April 27, 2009

There are good things about Sweden

First of all, my right arm hurts, and not due to some incident/accident due to violent boys (yes westergren you know who I mean) or intoxication + arm + random not-soft place, but due to too much computer usage... now I pretend to be left handed... 

Yes, good things about Sweden; besides desks in the office that you can raise and lower... first barbecue of the year, summer evenings when it getting cold and you have to curl under a blanket, morning mist in on the lawn, the smell of rape flowers in the evening, deers out in the field just after sun set....  I'm going to Sweden this summer... 

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Music Piracy

I like all music I like (redundant much); really meaning that my taste in music is quite open. New friends often gets robbed, often without knowing it. 


A few things come to mind here. 1) I know more people with cd-collections yet to be raided. 2) Why is it mostly boys that I get music from? 

Going through iTunes, I see that it is mostly dear ex-husband's music collection there, or more correctly the the part of it that I did like. And the list above could be linked to boys that I met and liked, apparently people you like listen to things you will like. This does however not explain why boys? Is boys more into music than girls? Or are girls in general like me, a bit indecisive when it comes to music? Or is it that I mostly hangout with boys?

And what have I been up to today (except stealing music), well not much. Woke up at 7 am, wanted to sleep more. Had a plan of going to the GAP to do some shopping, but did not really feel like it, so stayed in instead. Did some laundry and some reading. That worked too. 

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Rainy Day Happiness


The initial plan for today had been to go bring book, blanket and possibly a friend to Hamarikyu koen and enjoy a lazy day in the sun. Woke up at 8am to the sound of a calming rain on my window; park was no long an option. Stayed in bed to 11 am, and now preparing some soup, washing some clothes, done some dishes, will maybe do some vacuuming or not. I don't know, I don't care - or I will let the rhythmical dripping bring me back to sleep again. 

Friday, April 24, 2009

This and That

Contrary to what could have been expected after waking up this morning at 11.15 severely over snoozed, today have turned into a great day so far. 

Recently, have you stopped blogging? - No Miho, I haven't. Not on purpose at least. So here we go, I will do some serious blogging now instead to make up for my absence. 

My dear friend Kinga has a blog, a very readable blog called Pre-Tequila and I strongly recommed her to keep it that way; post-tequila is not an enjoyable state. Not knowing if you want to throw up or not, the shaking  and sweating and the over snoozing. However, last night was fun. Playing with Mathias, Tom and Olivier in Ebisu and Shibuya. 

And what always goes wrong, went wrong... and all of a sudden 5 am... 

Working 4.5 hours is something I could get used to. I'm very grateful it was moving day at the office today, and we had to leave early. My team is working great at the moment, the team leaders have grown into their new roles and today they seemed very happy because things are working well. I have realised lately that I do not really care about mobile phones, but I love working with people, seeing how they develop their skills and understands why, how and what need to be done, without me pointing it out to them. I like that I can influence what is happening, that people are listening to my opinions and value them. Little bit worried that I'm jinxing the situation by writing this, but for now I will just enjoy, because that I deserve. 

Old photos just uploaded by Isis to facebook. The memory of that evening makes me smile too. Black Marker Tattoos were popular back then. 


Beansoup is boiling in the kitchen, a weekend without any plans infront of me and a brand new episode of Vouge Nippon. Life is good... 

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Ikebukoro Walk

Nakameguro - Ikebukoro on foot. Step counter says 19970 steps and I say nice weather and fun to see other areas. 

This is not Kamakura, this is a balcony in Mejiro (twin-city / parallel universe city to Meguro). 

Hedra Helix, poison evy... pretty in green. 

And then some easily eaten indian food in Ikebukoro, very tasty, and strangly good, considering the shady enterance. A suspiciously maid cafe looking place was discovered one floor down on the way out; some regrets might have surfaced. 

He is indeed a looker my friend Martin :). 

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Lordi - Rocked the Hell out of me!!

10 min walk from my place, Shibuya AX. Lordi played there today and it was all good. Lordimakes me smile, un-pretentious and proud of being copy cats; theatrical music, 30 years after it was new. Then walking home, 17 C outside, summer night in April - life is good. I treasure every day I have here. 







Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Have I lost the ability to blog?



Or can I just not be bothered moving photos from my phone anymore? Here are at least some photos from Saturday. Was out on town with Mathias, Olivier and Tom.

Thursday, April 09, 2009

Hanami with the office crew

Cherry blossom viewing and shibuya crossing... there will be more photos because Honda has two really good once of me... one where I'm up in a tree :)... "have you ever been deported from Japan" moment...


Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Deep Purple at Tokyo Forum

Yngwie was there too...

Play list Yngwie: Lost of boring guitar solos, lots of fluffy hair, showers of pics and spinning of guitars... a typical "if zz top would have come by here, with their long beard, i would rather drive up to Barnenshus and work" moment... (for those of you who get that)

Deep Purple: Fun, playful, with songs like High-way star, My woman in Tokyo, Perfect Strangers, Sometimes I feel like screaming, Smoke on the water and Black Night, among others...

Sunday, April 05, 2009

Dinner with Parents in Meguro

Got introduced to a new indian place it was very tasty.


Guitar Hero - the way to star a long evening


Ebius with Fredrik and Martin

Old photos from this Wednesday. We showed bars in Ebisu to Fredik. This is the the aquarium at Luxus. The turtle was alone of his kind, I wonder it it feel lonely, or it is friends with the other fishes. 


Men, women and the middle rest room. I tried it, did not notice any difference. 

Shisamo (I think it is spelled that way); beer's second best friend according to Toshi-san. It's not my best friend, but I was brave and ate the whole thing, head first. 


Saturday, April 04, 2009

Playing on the new Carpet

Fun with daylight in the flat for once.



Anti-Sakura Movement

All sakura photos that need to be taken have already been taken years ago.

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Sakura and Cuddle

Accidental Hanami with the Jepster after dinner in Ebisu.

Followed by cuddling together with Beebaa-san and a rabbit called Brian Johnson. (You have to ask some one else about the name)

However, we need to seriously consider a Six Feet Under weekend to get through some more episodes, we are progressing really slowly at the moment.