recliner

today my roomates and i took a little jaunt to a nearby town to check out what'sn rumoured to be one of the biggest and therefore most breathtaking (because big=breathtaking) Buddah statues in Japan. And indeed, it more that lived up to our expections.
check it!

























as we approached the Buddah proper, we came upon a little oasis in the woods....a series of little statues placed in rows around various shrines and larger statues. gorgeous.









check out the buddah himself. as my friend noted, he's something of a lazy bastard. is that blasphemous?

oishii ka ta!!!!!

BEHOLD!!!! My most recent cooking class delights: Veg and Shrimp Tempura; Green Tea Rice, Rolled Egg (Atsuyakitamago) and Veggies with Gomaae (Sesame) Dressing. Hot Diggity DAMN!!!




and my lovely cooking teacher: Taeko. She knows how to serve up some good eatins. And she's makin a baby too! Go Taeko!

mo hitotsu!

we

chin chin beioki

she was singing louder than a bat outta heck

don't let em getcha down...

...the Creaps, that is.

sloppy seconds

i've been here in good ol' japanland for almost 7 months now and while i haven't been taking advantage of nearly as many photo ops as i did in my frosher days, i've still got a stack of fotos that haven't yet seen the light of day. so now i shall unleash them on you, my patient, intrigued (and by the looks of it largely nonexistent)readers. ready? rub those palms together, grab some popcorn, or do whatever you normally do to prepare for momentous events.







anna fiddling with her camera and looking luminiscent











cherry blossoms erpution. a little death of blossoms against the sky.







my original roomies, rosies and anne marie. RIP.







hanabi food stalls. you can get squid on a stick!







kyushu national museum -- the sexiest piece of architecture in western nippon







i don't think this one needs a caption.

blow out

our neighbours hate foreigners so they knocked down the wall separating our balconies. look:
























haha. gotcha! the wall was actually blown out by the typhoon that hit on sunday. they called her "sham sham." it was almost as scary as its name betrays. almost.

life is a song
so sing from the top of your lungs,
let that hair down
pull up your leotards
do some eee-eee-oooohs
and let er ripppppp!


....um, can someone tell me how to post mp3s?

let's beguin at the beguining

because that's the only place you can begin. if you begin any where else, then you get lost.