Arrived
Well, I'm home. Our new house in Bentong is weird because the bottom storey was designed to be a church, but the Bentong church never managed to get a permit to use it as such. Apparently my dog Max still remembers me, so that's all good.
Downtown Chicago, across from the Art Institute, there was a really big Panda Express (economy rice chain) restaurant. I commented on its size and EK said you could call it a giant Panda Express. *groan*
Said goodbye to EK at O'Hare. It was a good nine months. It's odd to know that we're officially not lovers any more. Although we do have some wicked/silly/funny things in the works, so there's still artistic collaboration.
Too lazy to call my siblings in Singapore. Sorry guys. Tomorrow maybe.
JAL's Hotel Nikko Narita is very nice, although downtown Narita (free shuttle bus from and to hotel) appears to have next to no nightlife after 8pm.
I was too chicken to walk into one of the sushi places so I got octopus mee goreng with an egg from a roadside stand for Y500. Back in Chicago's Chinatown I took EK to the Penang restaurant and we ended up having veggie curry since he's a vegetarian. I must have some talent for picking boring food in exotic places.
If anyone needs more proof that Japs are perverts, if you open the Yellow Pages to "Entertainment", it's all ads for whores (and I had just typed that as "wars" because my brain is kiok).
Spent a lot of time listening to the Iliad:
- The ancient Greeks had role-playing games, because Odysseus is referred to as "the equal of Zeus in WarCraft."
- I would really have hated to have my name immemorialized as "the short Ajax.
- Paris Alexandrus is a pretty boy wanker and I hope the Greeks cut his balls off when they took the city.
Wan tan mee tastes really good after a year of not having had any.
Pics from Chicago and Japan later.
posted by xenobiologista @ 10:53
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Welcome to my timezone!
Well, your timezone, since you were born here. Perhaps we can share it?
Odysseus is the equal of Zeus in WarCraft, but Zeus maintains his godhood by being godlike in CS. The Parthanon WoW guild has devine favor while playing, but the interpersonal politics are downright brutal.
Taikach! My dad stayed at Hotel Nikko, and then my mom and Audrey and I did when we visited him for a while. His room was small, though. What airline did you fly? Say hi to tanahair for me.
JAL. I think they *own* the Hotel Nikko or something, since there's a big JAL logo perched on top of the building. Small room, very nice though. I like how they have a dispenser full of Shiseido shampoo and conditioner on the wall. Much more sensible than those fiddly little bottles you find in other hotels.
You must feel good to have a break from the US =)I will miss you.
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