I went to Osaka with Shell and Miki chan for having a fun night at Pure. Last time I went there I just followed my friends, so I had no idea where I went. It was near Doutonbori, just behind the yellow big ferris wheel. We met up Ben, Ben's Kasai friend and Joji near there. We didn't drink and take pictures so much, but we danced and had fun. I went to beside Dotonbori river accidentally, it was a nice place for chilling out. We should go there next time. 

We drank, danced and chatted until 5 am, then headed to MacDonald as usual, then caught the first train to go home. I slept at Shell's place in the morning (sounds funny!) and spent lazy day there. We didn't have a hungover but were so tired. Are we too old for clubing? Oh, I don't wanna hear that.

My mandolin orchestra had a concert, it was more casual than last time, we played classical music and film music. This time I didn't have a seat in a first row on a stage, so I couldn't see whole audience. I tried to find my friends, but I couldn't find anybody on the first stage. On the next stage I tried again and I found Jennifer, Kanako and brandon sitting next to each other behind the podium. It was easy because of Jen's RED hair! I smiled at them, but they didn't notice me, Jen looked getting worried, then suddenly she stood up, looked around the stage and waved her hand at me with a big smile. OMG! I waved my hand back to her, but I was embarrassed that people were laughing at us! I was really glad that she tried to find me on the stage tho. Last time Jo and Shell planed to wave a hand at me, but they didn't. This time Jen did by herself, brave girl, haahaa

After the play I met my friends at the lobby, then headed to starbucks with Shell, Ben Miki chan, Jon and Kazuko chan. I was so tired and couldn't wait to have drinks. Coffee couldn't make me refreshed. Yes, I really wanted ALCHOLE! haha So I enjoyed drinks at the after party. I like playing at the concert and drinking after that.:)

May 30th was our Shell's birthday, we had her birthday party on that weekend. Usually she organized parties for us, but this time she was a birthday girl, so it was my job. It was so hard to do that, people sent mails a lot and changed their plans a lot. So I got confused and called and went to the restrant which I booked many times. I can't believe Shell did that for every single party. Funny thing was people asked me if the party was secret for her or not. Everyone thought about that, so we can't plan a party secretly any more. haha

 We went to the restrant to celebrate her. The restrant was so nice. We drank, ate, gave her presents and had fun there. And I made a cake for her. When a waitress served it to her, she got surprised because I made it the day before that day and I brought it to the restrant in advance. She didn't know about that at all. hehe The only thing that I was worring about was its taste, but it was not so bad. phew!

After the restrant we went to Tiger and met up othrer friends. She got a beer mug of wine from Mike and Tomas, and of course she got drank. We went to a new bar called B's bar afterward, it was also a nice place, but she couldn't drink any more. I hadn't seen such drank shell. haha It was a good time. Happy birthday Shell. :)

I like going to Okayama villa. This time I went to Ushimado, same place as last time, with Shell, Miki, Sakane-san, Ben, Makoto, Ryuji, Jon, Mike and Stfan. We went to see the world's second best view and had a jelati on the hill. After checking in the villa, we went out to find the place for playing frisbee. We went up and down the hill and finally found a nice place. 10 of us played togather, it was nice.

At the villa Miki and I could have the best room that had the best view from the window because I knew it. hehe  Sorry people.  We cooked tacos. (yummy!!) I didn't know tacos had 2 styles, hard one and soft one, I tried both, now I prefer hard one. After dinner I was impressed that BOYS cleaned it and did dishes!! I haven't seen that kind of fabulous scene in Japan. I loved it! We played with fireworks, saw a strange animal like a racoon (what was that??) and played Ben's plain plane game and UNO. I also showed them my pictures in Doha. They looked interested in that.

Next morning we cooked pan cakes for breakfast. I liked Shell's banana caramel sauce. Then boys did dishes again so that we got ready to leave before 10 am. Last time we couldn't do that. Well done people! After that we went to a nice small beach, Hinase festival and Akashi Kaihin Park for playing frisbee and hacky sac. I played a lot and took a nap under the sun. It was really nice time.

Shell has already set next villa trip, can't wait!!

Almost a month ago Ling Li, my Chinese colleague, came to Japan for a business trip for one week and I took her around the city on Friday. We went to Shosha mountain, a restrant (Mongolian chop), then we went shopping and saw Aboshi lantern festival at Otemae park. She had been so busy in China. She is a manager of a big section, works 6 days a week and had just got married last month. So she enjoyed hiking, soaking fresh air and having fun in a city. She complained about Chinese life. Most Chinese people gets married at young age, so they don't have a time to have fun with their friends. She liked Japanese life.   

She enjoyed so much but had one dissapointing thing. She wanted to buy a pair of Japanese watch, and we found SEIKO's one in a shop. But it was MADE IN CHINA. They also had SEIKO's watches which is made in Japan, but it cost over 50,000 yen. She said it would be cheaper to get the watch made in China after going back to China. It's true. It's difficult to find the stuff made in Japan here today, especially electric appliances. :(