Japanese Charms and Straps

In Japan, people like to collect these charms and straps. There are SO many different kinds of straps with different characters, from different places, doing different things... I think these charms and straps are a good way of expressing one's interests and personalities... but that's jsut me. I am really into these these and have been collecting them for a while. Here is my Fukuoka collection :)

Edamame (soybean) Mameshiba
These animated beans talk and tell you very disturbing information.

Japanese gold

A man oogling over his Hakata mentai ko (cod roe).

A drunk salary man crying with his bottle of sake :)

A drunk salary man puking into a toilet :D

Nakasu Matsuri

This weekend we went to Nakasu, also known as the "red-light" district. There, there was a matsuri (festival) where the hosts and hostesses from the area have food and craft booths and march in a traditional Japanese parade. There were also performances of singing, dancing, and taiko (drumming).

Oh, Nakasu.

Taiko drumming.

Girls chanting on the female-carried float.

More girls and more marching.

All the people!

The dancers.

They were the best :)

Kids pushing a float.

Tako yaki.

Just a cat on an ice cream cart :)

The view from Nakasu.

Tenjin Central Park.

Tenjin Central Park

We went to this park to relax after an eventful matsuri.

Just Another Night of Clubbin

Last night was just another one of those clubbin nights. We went to Fubar, then tried to get into Infinity, but got rejected cus I was wearing slippers... or as they called them, beach sandals. I was thinking... "You'd get punched if you were in Hawaii and rejected someone for wearing slippers... That's all we wear!" Gaaah!

&Then there's the sake bomb. Sake bomb (sak'e baum) n. a drink made by pouring sake into a shot glass and dropping it into a glass of beer. Sometimes two chopsticks are placed parallel on top of the glass of beer, and the shot glass is balanced carefully between them. The drinker then slams the table with two balled fists and the sake drops into the beer. It is to be consumed immediately, and works best with warm sake. The Sake bomb is an entirely American concept and has been gaining popularity since its invention in college. - Wikipedia

Happy Birthday, Natsuko Sensei!

Today was my teacher's birthday, so I bought her flowers and drew her a picture. Flowers are so cheap here! $3.00 for this bouquet...

&This is for my mama!

this week

this week was a long week... did a lot of studying, a lot of eating, &a lot of clubbin! i made a new youtube account for those who want to see videos of me and my adventures in japan. my youtube name is wheremybabymamaat. :D im working on a new "project," having japanese people say, "where my baby mama at?!" it hilarious! it all started when the owner of my school's daughter was pushing a toy stroller around with 2black babies in it. hitomi and i were like, "wtf?! why does she have black babies?" then juno (the baby) gave us a stare and i was like, "look! she's walkin around like 'where my baby daddy at?" and we thought it was hilarious... so now im asking my new friends to say "where my baby mama at?!" :) well here's the pics from this weeks events...

my new spider man socks &color accents :)

my favorite restaurant in ijiiri, donburiko. i'll have my usual, oyakoudon. 105 yen sushi... can't get any better than that! my favorite sushi of all time, aburi salmon. midnight adventures, taking pics in the middle of the train tracks... getting trapped in the middle of the trin tracks :D
unexpected midnight takoyaki.

pregame food, the infamous yatai ramen.

oishikatta!

fubar!

my new friend, tinks.

anti-freeze.

club infinity.

i got my drink &my 2-step, my drink &my 2-step! good okonomiyaki, cute teachers, fun times!

okonomiyaki.

juno-chan!

"where my baby daddy at?!" :D

bye, hiroshi-san! :(

happy bday, jody &kenta!

happy birthday, jody &dj!

last night we celebrated 2bdays at the infamous fubar! it was a maquerade party &we partied til 6in the mornin! what a nite... now lemme show you how we do it in japan!