These pictures are in no particular order and are also unbelievably tiny… but I think they convey a vague sense of good times? I don’t know why my mobile phone has suddenly started taking unbelievably small pictures. Must find out… That’s Nakano-kun, myself and Satoshi above. Below is Chie (her birthday last Friday) and Hyon Ju. We had a candle each.
So, it was my birthday last week. That would be me needing a haircut and standing next to a sign on which reads my birthdate. I turned 36. Whoop-dee-doo. Some nice people (Kumar, Chiara, Anne and my three sisters) actually remembered my birthday and sent me greetings (which was nice). I never remember anyone’s birthday… And I went to see Casanova
(see trailer here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/casanova/) at the Coccon Karasuma building. They have this tiny little cinema (kind of cute) where they show movies that aren’t so obviously popular but are a little bit more interesting. Anyway despite the nasty reviews (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/casanova/) I liked Casanova. Lots of fun. A bit of a “romp”. I think the subtitles may have been a bit crap tho, ‘cos I seemed to be the only one laughing. Nice scenes of Venice too. Fireworks and so forth.
Then last Saturday I celebrated properly with Chie and other chums ‘cos Chie had her birthday on Friday too… Dinner at Chikyuya, fireworks by the river followed by Luka’s magic tricks at Pagode. He not only looks like Merlin -
(see here http://mikeylambe.blogspot.com/2006_04_01_mikeylambe_archive.html and scroll down to Earth Days) but he can actually do magic!. Oh yeah and we had lots of beer… till 4 in the morning…. Oops.
And I’ve discovered that the recent incidence of pins puncturing my bicycle tyres is not actually the resposibility of crazy-bicycle-hating-neighbor-upstairs at all. No indeed. Somebody else hates me. It’s happening at my school and one of the students is doing it. As well as puncturing my tyre (with a really big pin) on Friday morning, she left one of those “Delivery Health” flyers with naked ladies on it in the basket for me too. (You can check here if you really want to know more about that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_health) So coincidentally, in two completely separate locations, two completely unconnected people have chosen to express anonymous feelings of venom (combined with sexual frustration) towards me in exactly the same way. Weird eh?
Vaguely upsetting too.
Now watch me rise above it.
