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A triumphant or not so triumphant return to LJ. I blame being quite hideously busy for not having posted in almost a year... oh well.
I've been in Japan for almost 15 months now. It's really rather astonishing how fast the time has flown and I have barely felt pangs of homesickness, quite unlike the feelings I often experienced in Hong Kong. I wonder if its age or simply that life out here suits me...
I visited the UK at Christmas time, as I am sure a few people may have noticed when I invaded their lives for the briefest of moments again. It was a lot of fun to be home, good to see people again and 'touch base' as it were. That was almost 8 weeks ago now. I wondered how the first trip home would make me feel, especially on my return to Japan. The first week was admittedly hard, harder than I had expected. Despite filling my time with a whirlwind of lives and meetings with friends the homesickness and odd longing for the UK came on rather strong. This has somewhat passed now and I am back into the everyday of Tokyo life.
The past two months have been, unsurprisingly, busy. January was packed with live reports, concerts attended as a fan and one of my best friends leaving the country. As one living in a foreign country you get used to the comings and goings of friends more than one would if, say, living in the UK. Some have long stays abroad, but the majority are only for a year or two. Last year I had to wave good bye to Alison, Lindsey, Kirsty and Lauren.
This year, Sarah's working holiday visa expired in January and she had to go. Our last night was so sad. Rei and I went to the German restaurant, Bernd's, where Sarah had been working all year for dinner. It was fun. Sarah wasn't working so the three of us ate tasty German food and drank until the last train. I don't think I have cried so much in a while when I had to hug Sarah goodbye. From meeting at a live last March we became ridiculously close and shared many experiences including a fabulous trip to Kyoto. We always went to DELUHI, NoGoD and Awoi lives together, no idea why those three in particular though! At Sarah's last Awoi live (her particular indies favourite), Polina and a lovely Awoi fan helped Sarah into the saizen (front row). She was so happy :D
Lives are how I spend much of my free time. Whether this is a good thing or not I don't know. It is an expensive hobby though! The pace picked up since I gathered a neat little bundle of friends who shared the obsession. Polina for example, a fellow JaME girl who I met when we were sent to cover a YOSHIKI press conference and subsequently became good friends. Then there is Saya, a German girl who I met through Sarah and Leela, an Aussie who I met at Stylish Wave in August. They're all super awesome, although sadly Leela has now also left. My birthday was spent with live friends and workmates... well my workmates went home after the meal but together with Leela, Polina, Rei and Kaie I got to do all night karaoke. We screamed our lungs out being crazy bangyaru. There was a lot of Kagerou and MUCC, each one greeted with roars of 'natsukashiii' from Rei and Kaie.
I went to a live tonight with Polina, actually. Hucci organised an event that featured two of my loves, Tokyo Michael and DELUHI. DELU's setlist was dull but eh they took some chances. DELUHI are my continuing love from 2008. They formed in February last year, I first saw them in April and became a big fan from summer onwards. For a while, Polina, Sarah and I were the only foreigners at every DELUHI live. Now a few seem to appear randomly but then I never see them at the next one. The band kinda recognise us now I think and twice Leda threw his pick at me - one I managed to get. When I saw them at O-East on 23rd, the lead jouren allowed Polina and I to enter the front row. It was awesome being saizen. My ticket numbers haven't been so good but I'm seeing them again on Thursday and we band reserved so chance of asking chief jouren and getting a result seems quite high.
It probably seems quite boring to some people, just lives and shopping. I need to go clubbing again soon, or to a nice restaurant for dinner. My workmate, Steve and I were saying how we want to go to Peter, the posh bar atop the Peninsula Hotel. I was doing at those things before Xmas but since then it's been 15 lives and nowt much else XD
Beyond that, I just have normal men-related mental issues in my head. Ah kinda. :/ 分からない I try not to dwell on those things and just live out this fantasy world in my head that revolves around stupid amounts of live music and my friends.
Tomorrow brings the joys of privates to teach from 9am >.< then work in the evening. On Tuesday if there is time, Suzan and I plan to head to Ginza for tea. :D Oh yeah that's the other thing I do a lot. Tea. Suzan and I go to many teashops to catch up and have a natter. Expensive ones where they have 200 varieties and a pot costs £6. <3 Japan is AMAZING for tea. They do it better than the British, I swear. I am deeply in love with Ma'riage Freres in Ginza and Lupicia in Jiyuugaoka. I drink Lupicia's The au chocolat before bed every night. It is just beautiful and out of my Peter Rabbit teacup in my newly redecorated white and pink room, it makes me feel terribly English and girly. On Tuesday I think we will go to Laduree. I bought some macarons there for a birthday treat to myself (Lydia told me she thought the mango-jasmine flavour was heavenly). Aaah tea~ you can never have too much tea~ Or macarons. Or L'occitane Roses de 4 Reines hand cream.
So yeah, end of long post and in a quick summary: Japan has made me super girly and I go to more lives than is healthy.
Oh but I might be moving soon. If I pass my interviews and get the job I applied for.
Then it's back to HK. Or maybe India, or Sydney, or the US.
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