Dead blog zone coming up? :)

Pushing the no-write record even further. Main problem lies with my laziness in sorting my photos; I like to post the images around the same time I post something here, but unfortunately I haven't sorted any pictures since middle of July.

However!

In the secret web site (hah hah), there are some pictures for select few. The only one I want to advertise publicly is the www.address.org/~my-username/events/2006-08-12-tokyo-bay-fireworks/ - replace the address with the website name, and my-username with my username if you know them!

I'll try to post few pictures here in day or two once I have sorted through the 700 pictures I have in my "to sort" pile.

Happened recently:

- Late July / Early August went to 3 different fireworks (Sumidagawa, Iidabashi, Tokyo bay)
- Been finally evaluating some Japanese language schools, and finally chose J's language school, but the bureaucracy is still in progress (the company hopefully pays most of the fees)
- Experienced Japanese bicycling culture at it's finest. When doing about 10km circuit around a lake, saw the lake total of 4 times (the rest of the time fence/woods blocked the sight). Also, bicycle paths in Japan SUCK - in 6 km of one, there was total of about 20 places where you almost had to stop to pass through (explanatory picture coming in later)
- Went to movies for first time in Japan - saw Ged, Mi:3, Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and United 93(?). The Mi:3 was crappiest of the movies, but in digital theater unbelievably pretty (8 megapixel display!)
- One death march to the mountains bit over 2 weeks ago, knee didn't seem too good then
- Some shopping at Ikea - bedcovers, towel, and assorted swedish gourmet delicacies ;)
- Last Saturday bicycled to base of mount Takao and back (93km), and naturally ran to the top from the bottom as well. Not as tiring as it could be.
- Last Sunday, went to wander around Tokyo with camera, as the day looked nice. Walked down to Harajuku from home via Yoyogi park (see the spider picture), took some pictures of the girls showing off there, and then went to burger place called Arms west of Yoyogi for a burger. Finally, walked home.

Greenery in Yoyogi park on Sunday.

Paper lanterns when wandering home from Yoyogi park on Sunday.

Lightning storm last night (about 3am? :p)