Tokyo January 2006 |
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Tuesday 3rd - Sunday 22nd January 2006. Assorted pictures from daily life in Tokyo.
Tuesday 3rd (journal entry) |
Tuesday 03 January |
Tuesday 03 January |
Tuesday 03 January |
Tuesday 03 January |
Tuesday 03 January |
Tuesday 03 January |
Tuesday 03 January |
Tuesday 03 January |
Tuesday 03 January |
Tuesday 03 January |
Tuesday 03 January |
Wednesday 4th (journal entry) |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Wednesday 04 January |
Friday 6th to Monday 9th |
Spent a long weekend in Hiroshima.
Wednesday 11th - Saturday 14th (journal entry) |
A few random midweek pictures taken with my new mobile (and thus the quality being a bit naff!)
Wednesday 12:53 This is my lunch! Tomatoes, an umeboshi onigiri, some atsuage, a mushroom salad, some ginger (to go on the atsuage) and a KitKat! |
Wednesday 19:33 The last little dribble of the Caol Ila 18 year old, which I'd bought a couple of months back. |
Friday 08:41 The big crossroads near our apartment block. |
Saturday 12:51 The balcony, as seen through the bedroom window. |
Sunday 11:09 A "usual suspects" lineup of plants. |
Saturday 14th (journal entry) |
Saturday 14 January |
Saturday 14 January |
Saturday 14 January |
Saturday 14 January |
Saturday 14 January |
Saturday 14 January |
Saturday 14 January |
Saturday 14 January |
Sunday 15th (journal entry) |
Sunday 15 January |
Sunday 15 January |
Sunday 15 January |
Sunday 15 January |
Sunday 15 January |
Sunday 15 January |
Sunday 15 January |
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Monday 16th (journal entry) |
Monday 21:40 Yuka and Chie digging into dinner. We only have two stools at the moment, so Chie was relegated to sitting on her big red exercise ball thing. |
Monday 21:41 My "plated lasagne". It could have really benefitted from a while longer under the grill, but time was unfortunately somewhat pressing. |
Monday 21:41 ...a good helping of black pepper is of course essential. |
Monday 21:53 A blurry picture of me and Yuka. |
Friday 20th (journal entry) |
Friday 22:31 The view from the 47th Floor of the Keio Plaza Hotel in Shinjuku. It was much nicer than this picture from the terrible quality camera in my phone suggests! |
Friday 22:31 ...and another one. Hopefully you get the idea at least! |
Saturday 00:17 A couple of colleagues, in my manager's favourite bar in Shinjuku. |
Saturday 01:56 You can barely make this out at all - it is a picture of a picture. On my previous visit we'd had our picture taken, and I was really pleased to find it on the wall! |
Saturday 21st (journal entry) |
Saturday 11:56 I awoke this morning to find snow everywhere! |
Saturday 11:56 This helped to make my normally ugly view somewhat more pleasant. |
Saturday 12:33 ...I'm not sure this is good for my little collection of plants though! |
Saturday 12:33 For some reason I don't really associate olive trees with snow... |
Saturday 16:34 Footsteps in the snow. |
Sunday 22nd (journal entry) |
Sunday 13:19 Allow me to introduce you to Geoff the snowman. |
Sunday 13:19 Our large balcony provided ample snow to enable Geoff's construction. When we were first deciding on a place to live, this added benefit never crossed my mind! |
Sunday 13:19 In this picture, Geoff appears to be performing some kind of ritual. Probably he is attempting to hide the sun. |
Sunday 13:20 A close up on Geoff's face. Note the 5 Yen coins used for eyes. |
Sunday 13:20 There he is, in his little corner. |
Sunday 13:26 Me and Geoff enjoying a cup of coffee (in Geoff's case, iced coffee of course). |
Sunday 13:26 Geoff demonstrating that he is not only of ornamental benefit to the balcony, but also has a practical application. |
Sunday 13:26 Me and Geoff again. |
Sunday 13:33 Geoff temporarily sported a Mohican. |
Sunday 13:38 The cigar, pictured here, was also one of Geoff's more short lived additions (i.e. it fell off). |
Sunday 13:38 Hard to make out the cigar here. |
Sunday 13:39 There's a touch of mafia boss about him here, don't you think? |
Sunday 13:46 Here he is a little later, sans cigar. |
Sunday 13:55 I wanted to make sure I'd got shots of him from lots of different angles. |
Sunday 14:00 Me taking a picture of Chie through the doors leading out onto the blacony. Slightly interesting effect of reflection here. |
Sunday 14:03 I did ask Geoff if he'd like to come inside, but he politely declined. |
Sunday 14:32 I think the sun must have gone in here, as it suddenly looks a bit gloomy. Obviously Geoff's earlier ritual must have succeeded, and he's clearly quite happy about it. |
Sunday 14:32 Last picture of Geoff from the doorway, taken before heading out for the day. |
Sunday 14:49 One of the two stations close to our aparment, I thought it looked sort of scenic with all the snow on the tracks. |
Monday 23rd (journal entry) |
Monday 07:48 Geoff still looking fine one day on! |
Monday 07:48 Oh and the trees are looking OK too. |
Monday 20:58 Later on that, Geoff looking slightly depleted, but still holding up. |
Monday 20:58 Can almost see some lights of buildings in the background. |
Tuesday 07:38 Last picture of Geoff (it would be painful to watch his demise in its full gory detail!)... |
Saturday 28th (journal entry) |
Saturday 14:26 Chie and I had burgers for lunch at Standard Deli in Shibuya... |
Saturday 14:26 ...kind of a rarity to find a vegetarian burger in Japan. This was really good - the avocado was a particularly nice touch. |
Saturday 17:23 A failed attempt to take a picture of a sunset over the train tracks. |
Saturday 18:53 Me and Chie sitting at our new table and chairs! |
Saturday 18:53 Errr, not much point to this picture...! I think I was just trying to give an impression of the living/dining room, but it hasn't really come out that well! |