More pics on the tour around Kagawa prefecture.
Takamatsu is the main city in the prefecture, and differs a lot from Tokyo in that it has lots of open spaces, stores are much bigger and people use bikes and cars to travel around instead of using the train.
The Sea of Seto.
A few weeks ago I went with Kazumi to Kagawa prefecture in Shikoku. During our trip, we visited the Konpira Shrine, the most famous one in the region.
In front of the station…
Back on February, we held some sort of cultist gathering to call forth spirits from the next realm. The result was something extremely bizarre that hopefully won’t be repeated ever again.
One of many foul spirits that were released on that fateful night… 
These are pics from back in January when we celebrated Akira’s birthday at his place in Odaiba.
Thiago scolding Baska for stealing his party hat…
These are some pictures from four months ago. I didn’t really have the time to upload them until now, so please forgive me.
In any case, for Christmas Eve we decided to go see Christmas decorations around Shinjuku. The place was nicely decorated, but it was pretty much the same as the previous year.
For some reason, there was a huge queue of couples trying to get into that thing. 
Last week, we could finally take a break and find some time to have some fun, so we decided to go to karaoke. Well… there’s really nothing much to say about this night, except that it was a lot of fun. Enjoy the pics. 
Yesterday, me and the rest of the kids went to have lots of fun and celebrate Baska’s birthday at Balloon Playland in Odaiba (Akira’s room at Tokyo International Exchange Center). The place, which looks like the presidential suite of a five star hotel (you damn Odaiba bastards!! 
), was very nice and balloons gradually filled the entire room during the next three hours.
Little Nam was sad because the other kids were teasing her too much. 
No, it’s not misspelled… and no, it has nothing to do with food. This weekend we went to Zushi beach to celebrate Sourav’s, Vikram’s and Caroline’s birthdays, the end of summer and any other excuses we had to just go to the beach.
I had a bit of a cold and was sort of dizzy due to side effects of cold medication (please forgive me if I said or did anything too weird), but I still managed to enjoy the trip a lot.
Well, anyway, thanks a lot for the invitation guys!!
Most of my pics turned out pretty dark like this, so please bear with it.
This weekend was this year’s Brazilian festival at Yoyogi Park. Despite the rain and everything, it was still very enjoyable and I managed to eat some nice pastel and coxinha so I was sort of satisfied. I was kind of missing the Latin American atmosphere already, so it was good for a change I guess.
These are whole bunch of old guys wearing leather clothing we found in the park…
Well… It’s 7:30 am and I’ve been just writing reports and stuff non-stop since yesterday. It’s not like I’m being enslaved by the reports or anything. Actually I could’ve finished the reports several days ago already, is just that these reports are particularly… fun (yeah… call me weird ), and I feel like making them as good as possible. Anyway, no matter how much I like my reports, it’s also important to take a break every once in a while. So I’m taking this chance to get some stuff that has been bugging me for a while out of my head.
I’m in Japan as you know already, and life is great here; got lots of good friends, got a nice apartment near the university, have enough money to survive, etc… In other words, so far so good. If you were to ask me, I would say that this country is just awesome. Some stuff could be better of course, but… it’s awesome still. Yet, even though life is so much fun… there are a couple of things that make me regret the fact I ever came here.
One of the things I regret… are weddings. No, I’m not getting married or anything, and there’re no plans for that… at least not for now that is (don’t worry mom, I’m just teasing you a bit ). But, since I came here, I’ve already missed five weddings of friends/relatives. It’s like… everybody was just waiting for me to leave, so that they could get married once and for all or something. It’s not like it’s such a big deal or anything to miss 5 or 10 weddings while I’m here, but it would’ve been nice to share those moments with family and friends on such unique occasions you know? Those moments will never come back… and I just missed them.
There are many other things I regret… failing the entrance exam the first time, not being able to see or talk with my family and friends in my country, etc… But probably the one I regret the most is not having been able to be at my grandpa’s funeral. It’s been almost one year since that day… and I still haven’t paid my respects. With all that was going on with the entrance exams and the high price of the plane tickets, I just couldn’t afford to go… and still can’t. My grandpa was a very special person to me… He would often complain about things, like most old men do, but would always help you if you asked him. Harsh… but gentle, that’s probably the best way to describe him. Yet, for such a person who helped me and taught me so much, I still haven’t gone to his grave even once… as if I was being oblivious to his death.
There are so many words I wish I had said… so many things I wish I had done… so many moments I wish I could’ve shared… and I just couldn’t… Will God ever forgive such impotence?
Even so… after one whole year… I still remember you grandpa… in every single day… and every single smile. Even though you are no longer around… I’ll make sure I make it up to you somehow… someday… I promise.
Rene’s birthday was a few days ago, and to celebrate it, we had a nice trip around Tokyo Bay in his yacht (yeah sure ). The evening was full of nice sights, lots of people in yukata and horrible-tasting beer (I didn’t drink any, but was told it sucked as hell).
We all met at Hamamatsucho station and then walked for about 10 minutes to the harbor.
Here’s the guy in person at the station. He came awfully late by the way.
About two or three weeks ago, Hui told me about the idea of climbing Mt. Fuji, one of Japan’s most famous symbols. This is a feat that not even 1/4 of the Japanese population has actually done.
Since it sounded like a really nice idea, I decided to go for it. (Actually I had been wanting to do that for quite a while already)
Here we are at the fifth station in Mt. Fuji, where the bus left us. We arrived at around 7:00 pm more or less.
The idea: climb the damn mountain for 9 hours before sunrise.
It was that time of the year… The day of my birthday, and incidentally Hui’s, Hoon’s and Toh’s birthday as well, so we decided to celebrate them all together!!! (like last year) Then some stuff happened and we ended up celebrating it along with Paulo’s housewarming party as well (the more excuses we have to celebrate, the better… I guess).
We could even watch some hanabi (fireworks) over there.
So here we are at the beginning of the party.
From left to right: Paulo, Hande (is it written that way?), Toh, Luke, Fernando (me), Hui and Ahn.
It’s summer and I had been dying to go to the beach but didn’t have the time. That is, until I got invited by Thiago, Ahn and Eliza around two weeks ago (thanks a lot guys!!).
The day was not really that sunny, which is great because otherwise I would’ve suffered some serious burns without any sunblock cream (I hate when that happens).
Eliza and Ahn getting themselves prepared.
Last month we got a small visit from our friend Naoki, who came to visit Japan for a while. It had been about one year since he left, so it was a really nice surprise.
After having some “sort of” pizza, we went all together to karaoke like in the “old times”. (read previous posts to see what I mean)
I’ve got no additional comments for this…
OK… here’s a picture that I forgot to post for about a year or so….
It’s not so strange at all… coming from me (my memory is pretty crappy).
Try and see if you can find me (or yourselves… whatever).
I’ll give you a hint: I’m not on the first row.
Sorry for not writing for so long, but since I have been pretty much busy these days I just haven’t had the time to come here and post anything new.
In the next few days (hopefully), I’ll be doing some maintenance on the blog (removing stuff, adding stuff, etc…), especially on the photos section.
You might have noticed that if you go to the Photos page there’s several photo pages missing. Also, some photo pages have no pictures at all because my previous online storage service, MediaMax, changed its service from free storage to monthly paid (first was extremely bad service and now this… damn you bastards!! DAMN YOU!!!).
I’ve managed to upload several picture sets to Flickr instead (thank God I switched before it was too late… friggin’ MediaMax bastards 
), but there’s still lots of stuff to do. There are even some pictures I won’t be able to reupload because I don’t have a backup of them at the moment (Screw you MEDIAMAX!!!!).
Best way to learn Photoshop ever!!
I personally like numbers 3 and 4.
Hope you don’t suck too much at Photoshop anymore after watching this
Well, since most of us are moving out of the dorm this month (our period of stay was of only one year sadly), someone decided to throw a party for the occasion.
The party itself was pretty much fun, but filled with really emotional moments as you can see.
I guess I will miss these strange parties. 
Natasha was trying to hide the tears (oddly enough, with a potato chip). She is only covering her right eye because Moldavians have been trained to cry in that way, and thus, using body liquids more efficiently.
Name: Fernando Wong
Age: 24
Country: Panama
Marital Status: Single
Currently in Japan
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