Stories from this week and the last week...

My favorite salad 

in Thailand.

SOMTUM!!!
YUM YUM!!!

According to Evan,

the key to eat 

spicy food 

is to eat 

QUICK!!

...eat before

the spiciness crawls 

up on your tongue.

Personally,

I don't think 

that 

'EAT QUICK!'

strategy is working 

very well.... 

I thought 
it was going to rain
but the clouds
decided to 
have fun 
at somewhere else.

Thank you for 
posing.

I think this 

kitty hates me...

Or is it 

a devilish clown smile?? 

I love 
finding different 
doors and windows
...and door knobs.


Have I told you
that 
I want to collect
antique door knobs? 


But the thing is 
I don't have 
much desire to 
live in a huge house 
so I don't know what 
I am going to do 
with those knobs.


Put 4 knobs 
on each door, perhaps?

Beautiful night 
at Chedi Luang.

It's always Sunny after a Storm

A hurricane has passed Tokyo

over the night

so the sky today was

just so gorgeous.

Not only that but it was really warm

compared to the cold and wet yesterday.

Evan and I went to pick up our

Thai visas...

and here they are!

Tada!

After picking up the visas,

we were planning on going to see

a museum exhibit on Art Nouveau

but reckless somebody (me) couldn't find

the tickets we bought.

So instead, we decided to go to

the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum(日本民藝館）

in Komaba.

It was nice that I got to walk around my high school.

The museum was really nice.

Some of the things, from Edo period and older,

weren't even in a glass case

and that definitely made those things speak to you differently.

It's not about being able to touch or anything

(though I could have, if I wanted to be scolded)

but it made everything feel a lot closer and real.

After spending some time at the museum

we walked to Shimokitazawa.

I love going to Shimokitazawa

on the week days when most people are at work.

It's such a relaxing place

and I hope it keeps its place that way

...though I could feel that it has changed a lot

compared to my high school days.

We had dinner with Wakana.

She took us to this really fun Showa-period-themed place.

The food was good and I LOVED the decor.

The music was lovely too.

Thanks thanks thanks

so so so

much

WAKANA!!!!

...for taking us there.

(You really better come visit us in Thailand.)

I found a magic star in my cocktail.

Yipeeee.

Wakana looks like a super woman

...I mean, she is.

Evan Alexander-GIZMO Gilman.

P.S.

After looking through pretty much everything

I did find the tickets to the museum,

so don't you worry.

sheeesh, I better watch out though,

I'm way too reckless.

(I found it in a trash can.)

Harajuku-Sky

Evan and I went back to

the Thai embassy again.

This time I think we didn't forget anything.

The visa is ready to be picked up

anytime after tomorrow.

EXCITING!!

WOOO!!

Such beautiful clouds....

A little bit of significance just for us.

Nice face, yo.

After we walked around and had ramen in Harajuku,

we went to Meiji Shrine.

I've been feeling very centered these days

though I sometimes get worried

that I'm only going to be spending money

from now on for a while.

Another thing I've been feeling...

'I love Tokyo.'


This is one thing I've never felt

until recently.

This place got its own problem and ugliness

but that goes for any place

but it's a beautiful place.

I'm really glad that I'm finally feeling this way

about my home-city.




Tomorrow, we will leave for Kyoto.

9 hours train ride is going to be interesting

but it's okay

we bought a lot of Chu-hi :)