Some friends got some nice crabs sent all the way from Hokkaido, so we decided to have a crab-wine-and-cheese-party. Everything was delicious, even though I wouldn’t recommend eating crab on a first date, it was quite a messy experience to get all the crab meat out of the little buggers.

When I went to the Mori Tower a couple of weeks ago to take pictures of the view, I also saw a great exhibition by Lee Bul, “From me, belongs to you only”. I wish it was allowed to take pictures of the exhibition, I could spend hours taking pictures of her beautiful creations, but no pictures were allowed, so I only found these two to show here on the blog. If you are in Tokyo and like contemporary art and design, you should check out the exhibition. Really gorgeous work!

I have no idea why, but I have ended up in Shinjuku Gyoen several times lately. Here are some pictures I took when I walked for a stroll alone a couple of weeks back. It almost felt like spring 🙂

And lo and behold – I discovered that my camera had all sorts of fancy settings which probably equate to the lens-flare-filter in Photoshop. God damn awful but so much fun. Now I want to add stars to everything, despite my logical inner voice trying to tell me it doesn’t look fancy, only tacky. Whatever, it glitters.

(And yes, I know that the effects on the last one here is completely overkill, but how cool isn’t it that there are all kinds of whacky effects built into the camera? Got a little bit to trigger happy on the filter effects here though, but it was too much fun pushing all the buttons at once to see what happened.)

I don’t really celebrate valentines day, but this year I both gave and received chocolate. I won’t be in Japan for white day on March 14th, so I guess it was all good to get it over and done with in February.

& sorry for the major absence. I have had some amazing times lately, and time in front of the computer have been close to zero. Impromptu holiday to Osaka and Kyoto, a friend visiting from Norway, lots of walks in the parks, several parties, sightseeing, eating too much yakitori and tons and tons of pictures to edit.