Nice weekend

Not having internet access is highly annoying -.-" And with my phone charger being broken it also means I'm effectively cut off from any direct communication with Finland, which sucks :(

On the bright side there's still Wired cafee wee =)

The weekend went by nicely, on Saturday we checked out a larger area for redevelopment in Shinjuku -.- and on the side checked out some more Disc Union stores in Shinjuku, along with a quick walk through Kabukicho during daytime. Gonna have to go back there at night to do some photography. Sunday was more fun, first 2 museums, one with western art including Monet, Van Gogh etc etc. and one with japanese and asian stuff, including swords and the likes. And one cool building. I even got another shot of a skateboarder on almost the exact same spot as last year =)

After that I headed back to Asakusa, where I stayed for 2 weeks last time, so it was a cool reunion with a place that hadn't changed at all from last time. Knowing the place meant I sort of knew where people go and where the different places are so I was at leasure to do alot of photography without concern for getting lost. So about 100 pictures later I got rather fed up when nothing really worked, must be somekinda slump in shooting or so. Sensoji, the largest temple and an awesome place to do lots of shots of people in their natural enviroment praying, doing the smokething and the waterthing at the temple entrance aswell as busy shopping streets would usually mean you should get atleast 1 shot thats atleast ok. Oh well, from there I met up with Nano and we headed up north along the Sumida river, past the Asahi beer hall and main HQ on the other side of the river and abit further north to an apartment/studio for a couple young architects.

It's Gyoza time. I guess it's basically chinese dumplings, i.e. round pieces of thin dough with different kinds of fillings, we had hambuga aka minced meat, minced chicken and nattou. The first fun part is ofc making the gyoza. Since we had about 20 people coming it meant alot of folding gyoza together. Once we got those done we first fried them, then put some water on them and put the lid on until the water had evaporated. Then lots of eating and drinking ensued.

So overall the weekend was cool and the gyozaparty was a great highlight =) This week'll be abit more traveling around, weather permitting. Kamakura and Nikko should be awesome with good weather, both being places where you can see Temples and more temples. Then there's Yokohama with a huge chinatown, aswell as todays plan of heading to Roppongi to check out 2 BIG skyscraper sights with stores, museums, cafees etc etc. And on thursday there's once again Pecha Kucha, which'll be cool to revisit a year later, just to see the various speeches.

Next week was supposed to be concerts and clubs, but that's still somewhat open, Autechre's live gig at Liquidroom was sold out in the Lawson ticketmachines, so unless I can find tickets elsewhere that'll not happen. :( On the bright side there's a huge techno thing happening the day before I leave, however there's also a big rock festival at the same day, so we'll see if I can manage to go to both :P