So just when you thought I'd take forever pulling together another post and had given up hope, I prove my critics wrong once again with a bigger, better post full of wit, charm and great pictures! Take that, suckers!
This will be broken into 3 parts:
- Spending a day with my Mother's friend who was in town from Finland
- More interesting & unique things I have seen in-and-about Tokyo, and..
- Pictures and some light commentary from my first House Party!
Without further ado.....
My Mother's close friend Eeva and her friend were on a tour Japan of and happened to be in Tokyo for one day. We proceeded to get together on a Sunday morning to visit a modern art museum in Roppongi Hills on the 53rd floor of Mori Tower, take pictures from the roof, eat Italian for lunch, blueberry waffles and ice-cream for dinner, and explore a bit of the extreme fashion styles that flourish on the streets of Tokyo.
Let's start with the museum, where we were kindly allowed to take pictures of everything except 3 secret exhibits that you may never see o.0! The show was entitled: 'Can there be art?' (and you will soon see why...)
Some.. interesting sculptures..
It's a tree! This is actually really cool & creative
Entering the 5th dimension..
Um... yeah. What? It's "Art," dude..
Crazy highway in the sky
Bulgy building
This building reminds me of the military skyscraper in Akira that they brought Tetsuo to at the start.
Wavy building
Amazing in real-time, like the blood-stream of the city.
Me, Eeva & friend at the top of Muri Tower in RoppongiMoving on to phase 2 of this post, here are some interesting things I've seen in Tokyo in the past month that I happened to catch on camera.
Something I'm testing at work shared from MIT's CSAIL..
A totally waterproof phone! So cool (if not really useful)
Fashion never sleeps, especially at the women's fashion university right next to my office (Claudia, this is for you!)Here's a video (Facebook link) showing how baseball hitting cages work in Japan -- they actually have video simulating various windups, the release point, etc. So cool to watch in person, it was like there were real pitchers out there!
Funky sculpture
They dropped by from another planet, but had to go... got a couple numbers though ;)
4 stories underground in the Tokyo station on the metro, people still need their butts! Amazing...
This is cool, you can try different shoes on in the streets through Augmented Reality at the Gucci sneaker store
White Lotus (I like fancy cars, what can I say! Saw a Ferrari too but it was too fast for me..)And finally, pictures I snapped at my very first house party, which I spent quite a while preparing and planning for in my attempt to make a good first impression on my guests. Thanks to everyone who came by, I look forward to hosting all of you again someday soon =)
Sunset from my deck before guests arrive
My co-worker James and his gal
Early arrivals!
Now the party's started..
On the deck
Random shot
Hey, close the fridge dang it! Electricity bills, grumble grumble... (j/k!)
The fine cheeses we sampled that night
Hey hay hey!
Suzuki san (my co-worker) and his voice actress friend
Leave your shoes at the door, please!
Peace y'all!
Sarah & Jennie
Me and my guests
Okay, parties over I'm drunk... (but still having a great time!)Well that's it for now, but there's plenty more to follow -- thanks for dropping by and don't be shy about clicking on the 'comment' link below!
Thanks for your new post! Tokyo certainly is a far cry from the "Old Country" where I'm heading tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing family and friends (= Eeva and Sane) and just relaxing while there. They've had great weather for the past several weeks, so much so that some folks are growing tired of the heat (which btw is dry and stays below 85)!
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Hi Arun,
ReplyDeleteThanks for spending the day with my Mom and her friend! It´s been really nice to follow you blog, I´m always excited to read the latest discoveries from Japan : ) I´m back at work from my summer holiday in Eastern Finland, it was the hottest summer in Finland for 100 years... Cool! Take care! Anne
Hey write another post already!
ReplyDeleteAND are you excited that I will be with you in Tokyo in 4 short weeks??
sis xo
Yo man! It seems as though art is odd no matter which hemisphere you find yourself in. But fashion and architecture seems to take the blue ribbon for prize for eclectic over in your neck of the woods. I am really looking forward to your first visit home since it is more likely I will see you stateside before I can get my act together and purchase a ticket out there.
ReplyDeleteRed Sox season is more stressful this season than in any other of recent memory. Plagued with injuries we are coming into the home stretch of a highly contested race with half our team on the DL. Things got so desperate we even tried to claim Johnny Damon off waivers from the Tigers (Johnny ultimately vetoed the claim, but the buzz was fun).
Summer is also coming to an end here in Beantown. Students are filing back into town, which means the T has become an annoying form of transport as I stare at freshman yokels trying to figure out the Charlie Card system. They should consider making kiosks and 'turnstiles' just for out-of-towners so I dont have to wait forever while some d-bag learns about the magic gate that lets you onto the train with the simple wave of a card.
I've said it before and I will say it again: things just aren't the same here in Cambridge without you. But next time you throw a house party though, you should think about e-viting me as well. It's an outside chance, but I just might show up....stranger things have happened.
I cant wait for us to get a chance to kick it again.
Sayonara, guy!