About a month ago, we went to all-you-can-eat-sushi in Roppongi. I broke my old record, and ate over 30 pieces. I felt fine there and then, but oh my, I haven’t been this stuffed for a while. The sushi was actually quite decent quality for being at an all-you-can-eat-place, but for the price (almost 5000 yen pr. person) I could have had a lot of delicious sushi from the local sushi place up the street from where I live as well. So the conclusion is, it was a fun and delicious experience, but in the future I think I would prefer going to a regular sushiyasan.

I have 28 drafts filled with pictures ready to post, so I might as well just start. Here is a cute cafe I went to in Shinjuku together with one of my students, probably over a month ago. I love how they draw little animals in the coffee.

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.

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.