tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-288361052012-02-16T19:39:47.413+09:00Somewhere in Tokyo...macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-10019813510888830642010-05-28T22:29:00.005+09:002010-05-28T22:31:44.811+09:00

..Har du, som jag, fotointresset som kräver lite dyrare leksaker, så kommer du inte kunna undvika erbjudandet på smartson just nu!Kika:http://www.smartson.se/testpilot-550D.htmlJag o Jenk har anmält ett test-team, kommer bli sköna bilder i sommar! :)

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-23569940474013843392007-05-12T12:16:00.000+09:002007-05-12T12:19:24.443+09:00

Got this in my mailbox today:Dear Exchange Students: Sophia University has decided to cancel all classes (undergraduate and graduate) from Saturday May 12 to Saturday May 19 due to the spread of the measles. All club and circle activities(both on and off campus) will be suspended from today(May 11) through Sunday(May 20). For details, please refer to our university website. http://

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-77975264515433824072007-04-08T20:22:00.000+09:002007-04-08T20:57:35.381+09:00

Lovely cherry blossoms... I finally got to experience the famous Japanese cherry trees in full bloom. Gives me a special feeling to see those unusual colors all over. I can understand why the cherry blossom is the subject of so many Japanese poems, songs and other literary works.Spring is the best season in Japan, climate-wise at least. Unfortunately for all of us that are allergic to pollen,

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-17945008511120957342007-03-16T20:57:00.000+09:002007-03-16T21:37:30.396+09:00

Going out with okaasan to walk Totti, our dog. It was a nice, warm day and I wanted to have a look at a gym nearby.Not our house, thankfully. These are some seriously small houses.. can't be much space inside.There's a nice park close to our house. Perfect for walking a dog and lots of people do. Almost every dog I saw was wearing dog clothes... it wasn't even cold! People seem to put clothes on

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-86017047580862168952007-03-07T00:34:00.000+09:002007-03-07T02:25:19.411+09:00

One day I found a fancy-looking box of chocolates on our living room table...I discovered it's yet another "English sells" type of Japanese product; something that might just as well have text in Japanese but instead is covered in nonsensical Engrish, since anything with text in English becomes more "exotic" (I guess?) than the usual Japanese stuff. I can imagine things with text in English (

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-73872508337027414912007-02-15T16:18:00.000+09:002007-02-19T02:53:16.347+09:00

In January I took a bunch of photos of the neighborhood but forgot to post them here... let's have a look! This is the way I take to go to school every morning. Small houses and narrow streets. Beautiful winter day, probably over 10 degrees that day.Recently completed block of apartments, currently being visited by couples (newly weds?) and furniture is being moved into the rooms on display.Big

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-55777711871264575172007-02-14T01:06:00.000+09:002007-02-13T11:07:37.333+09:00

Was walking the streets of Shibuya one day... when suddenly I saw a group of people dressed in black leather shorts, hats and black sunglasses... It was the once-very-famous comedian known as Hard Gay delivering some hardcore gay action to the inhabitants of Tokyo. There were some more people dressed the same way as him, all foreigners though and one woman in leather gear too! The TV crew too

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-10474891962162820852007-02-03T21:29:00.000+09:002007-02-03T22:36:40.430+09:00

Hey! Last week I went to a little club in Shimokitazawa with some friends to see some rock bands play live! The "club" was surprisingly small, but hey I'm in Tokyo.. the bands were pretty good but the crowd (consisting of people's girlfriends mostly) barely moved a muscle.. everyone stood there, really listening... if this was in the UK for example, I bet the audience would be a bit more active,

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-60784676494679289452007-01-26T18:24:00.000+09:002007-01-27T00:51:47.967+09:00

Cool skyskraper in Odaiba.Today I had my last test for the autumn semester, I'm hereby a free man in Tokyo for a little more than two sweet months. How many times have people asked me about my plans for the "spring holidays?" Too many. And when I say that I most likely will stay right here in Tokyo, they ask me what I'm going to do here, like there was nothing to do in Tokyo... ehhh.. like

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-87369687722148148562006-12-29T12:53:00.000+09:002007-01-02T01:20:08.242+09:00

Like I said in the previous post, I had a lot of photos that until now remained unposted. Here they are! We start with my birthday, December 1st. I went to an Italian restaurant (in search of the finest pizza in Tokyo) with my good friends. The pizza was nice, although it can't compete with the fantastic Boat Quay pizza in Singapore.. nothing can..!Davide and Tomoko in Roppongi station (I hate

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-45210955130238743782006-12-20T19:14:00.000+09:002006-12-20T21:36:32.636+09:00

ok it's almost x-mas and a lot of things have happened. I will post about the K1 World GP event I went to see early this month as soon as I get the photos from our Icelandic friend.school is taking up much of my time.. Japanese homework everyday.. + meeting all kinds of people, going out eating, drinking, "normal life."went x-mas shopping today. found lots of nice things, for once. I can't stop

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-32637827335302774092006-11-19T21:45:00.000+09:002006-11-19T21:56:33.264+09:00

here she is! my host mother! yesterday was her 61st birthday so the kids and grandkids came over to celebrate. today we had this chocolate mousse cake. mighty tasty! sorry host mom.. i may not have captured her most charming smile.. however, she's the kindest person ever. super laidback and cool. i couldn't have found a better host family!here's Mr. host dad! as you can see, quite a laidback

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-50171180575990457652006-11-17T19:49:00.000+09:002006-11-17T20:03:42.164+09:00

ok what's this.. this is a guy from my university, in his coolest pose. ladies! tell me what you think of him! he is still available...Creap?makes you think of Creep? Crap? it's both! fantastic! creepy crap in a jar!my university.. autumn is definitely here now, but this day warm winds swept through the campus, reminding me that i don't need to worry about the long, dark winter going on in Sweden

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-68839674318297820422006-10-28T17:43:00.000+09:002006-10-28T17:50:16.087+09:00

Just a peek into my classroom, where I sit for 3 hours every weekday... It's a great class, around 20 students of varying ages and nationalities. There are three teachers, all very kind. We get homework almost every day, but it's easy stuff.

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-6830299220921018122006-10-16T00:48:00.000+09:002006-11-08T21:15:21.116+09:00

The last couple of weeks have been very busy, indeed. School took most of my time, but I managed to collect some material for yet another collage here on Tokyo Drifter!Here are some photos from around my area.. there's a park, with HUGE spider webs spanning from one tree to another. This spider is big, but not even close to the biggest ones I saw there... Two shop signs.. only funny if you know

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-6604907733139898002006-10-14T10:01:00.000+09:002006-10-14T10:07:26.629+09:00

I was in bed... I think it was around 06:38 in the morning. Suddenly my bed started rocking from side to side. I felt it! The Earthquake! Cool! Online newspapers say its magnitude was 4/7 on the Japanese scale. Cool! It was like a tiny vibration at first.. then some strong ones, then it sort of died out slowly, with smaller and smaller vibrations... all in all, things were rocking or vibration

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-89129080478881758292006-10-10T14:02:00.000+09:002006-10-10T14:33:43.820+09:00

07.10 - Mobile phone alarm rings, puts it on snooze07.20 - Gets up and takes a shower07.45 - Breakfast: toast, some fruit and tasteless cereals + yogurt, all prepared by his host mom who repeatedly asks if he has taken a shower08.10 - Rides his bicycle to the train station, takes about 20-25 minutes depending on traffic and on how carefully he drives through the narrow streets and countless

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-8742709397827360662006-09-30T19:26:00.000+09:002006-09-30T19:32:28.444+09:00

This is a monitor lizard ("varan" in Swedish) from Tioman, Malaysia. I forgot to post it before (got distracted from looking at all those photos of myself) but it's way too cool to leave out. Let's see what Alexandru has to say...

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-13433016309800622982006-09-29T19:00:00.000+09:002006-09-29T19:07:38.097+09:00

OK before I get started about the TGS, let me just show a couple of photos.This is the bicycle the host family gave me. I use it to get to the train station, then I park it in a special bicycle parking lot, for 100 yen per day. Kind of troublesome to pay 100 yen every time, but I can get a monthly card if I go there early in the morning on the first weekday of october.This if from Loft, a shop

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-88417162621305460302006-09-27T01:05:00.000+09:002006-09-27T01:08:05.063+09:00

Just a little audio clip I recorded late one night going home by bus... the bus driver was politely saying "thank you" everytime a passenger got on. It's so sad... listen!

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-36045212667034921732006-09-24T23:40:00.000+09:002006-09-25T00:01:11.421+09:00

So I finally moved in with the host family! It's great. Really beyond my expectations. My room is big, my bed is HUGE, got my own TV, air con, remote-controlled ceiling lights, telephone and... to my great great surprise, wireless broadband!!! I really like it. The host mom cooks and does laundry hyper-fast. Good food too. In the living room is the biggest TV I've ever seen outside of a shop. It

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-29315514591877917442006-09-24T22:57:00.000+09:002006-09-24T23:04:30.701+09:00

look at this huge car! in a place like japan, it's extra weird/useless. i don't know what kind of guy drives this one, but he may have the smallest penis mankind has ever seen.went to IKEA, like i told you before. it's all the same, exactly like in Sweden, Singapore, Hong Kong and every other IKEA in the world i suppose. they sell Swedish style hotdogs! and they make you do half the work yourself

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-5500792423933399552006-09-19T00:39:00.000+09:002006-09-19T01:25:09.227+09:00

Everything went according to plan... i did what i had to do: leave Japan and go to Singapore to fix my student visa. for some reason you can't do that stuff inside Japan, or so i was told. well, i did a few more things other than that... mostly eating.it just struck me that i don't have a lot of shirts. i travel light, what to do?the first two photos are from BreadTalk, a bakery chain selling

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-46031744667442036162006-09-19T00:33:00.000+09:002006-09-19T00:38:20.126+09:00

Saw this in a department store in Choufu. Interesting angle... I suppose they have these special models because Japanese people need to know how they look when they bow..

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-17634584888305958922006-09-15T02:08:00.000+09:002006-09-15T02:45:47.992+09:00

How many hours have I spent on board one of the thousand trains in the Tokyo/Yokohama area? No idea.. but I'm getting used to it, that's for sure. BREAKING NEWS: I bought a Nintendo DS Lite! The "Jet Black" one. Awesome!!! Excellent!!! Soooo small... Such a new feeling, too. I never had a Palm or PDA, so the whole touch-pad thing is a first for me. It's very responsive. Games that would otherwise

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-43082282820117634222006-09-12T21:01:00.000+09:002006-09-12T21:05:01.996+09:00

"Likt en klick margarin i stekpannan glider jag omkring"

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-20315860337533172006-09-01T10:14:00.000+09:002006-09-01T10:18:46.484+09:00

Here I am! I was very very tired that day.. please excuse my bad posture. That blonde guy in the white t-shirt next to me seemed quite happy though.. gaijin bastard! Always taking photos and talking loudly in the trains.. Follow a manner!!!

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-81781258931946719622006-09-01T09:38:00.000+09:002006-09-01T10:12:19.581+09:00

I recently went to the Fujikyu Highlands, an amusement park located approximately 2 hours from central Tokyo. We took the first bus in the morning (07.10) so that we'd get to ride as much as possible.. Japanese people seem to love waiting in line and rumour was that the waiting time could be up to seven hours for the new, hugely popular rollercoaster "Ee janaika". We had to wait 3 hours.. So even

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-15777403057825315952006-09-01T09:35:00.000+09:002006-09-01T09:38:08.740+09:00

As I was sitting in front of my computer, feeling almost disappointed that I hadn't experienced an earthquake so far, it happened... but... I didn't feel anything. I missed it somehow. I heard some kind of alarm outside.. but I didn't feel anything at all. Soooo disappointing.. 4.3 on the Richter! How could it just pass me by?

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-5117335791047102752006-08-23T18:11:00.000+09:002006-08-23T18:37:04.270+09:00

I went to a nice zoo the other day. It's called Zoorasia but it's more commonly known as Yokohama Zoo. Not far away from the train station where I got off, I saw a huge IKEA sign, indicating the location of IKEA's huge second outlet in Japan, opening later this year. Right now IKEA is located in Chiba, kind of far to the east of central Tokyo. The Yokohama branch will give people on the west-side

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-1155960871513528232006-08-19T12:33:00.000+09:002006-08-19T15:37:08.223+09:00

ok.. time to sit my busy ass down and tell y'all what's up. no more "Tokyo is crazy" .. it's no fun to read.. i've been here almost 3 weeks now. what have i done so far?EATING - noodles, rice, weird little pickle-like vegetables, rice, creepy baby squid, poop-like snacks made from pure brown sugar, rice, cold noodles, sushi, string cheese, boiled pumpkin (tastes a lot like potato actually, only

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-1155738690400864342006-08-16T20:57:00.000+09:002006-08-16T23:32:41.043+09:00

My friend having a gulp of fresh Tokyo metro station water...

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-1155456992312169272006-08-13T17:16:00.000+09:002006-08-13T17:16:32.320+09:00

Here I am.. In Tokyo. If you were in my shoes, what would you do? Feel free to comment here on my blog and inspire me!

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-1155095389553508842006-08-09T12:28:00.000+09:002006-08-10T11:42:02.366+09:00

Harajuku girl no. 563224Quite standard lah...This little man is helping my friend find Shinjuku...View of Tokyo from the Tokyo Government Metropolitan South Tower. It's such a ridiculously huge city..Nice assortment of sushi.. in a real sushi restaurant in Tsukiji, just by the harbor of Tokyo. Had the best sushi in my life here!Some kind of creature lurking in my miso soup.Sippin' on sake...

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-1154941871754116892006-08-07T18:09:00.000+09:002006-08-07T18:14:45.343+09:00

The Romanian Spanker Monkey filmed for the first time! Only on Tokyo Drifter!

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-1154941716153594852006-08-07T18:03:00.000+09:002006-08-07T18:14:19.756+09:00

Tokyo Drifter presents: Charlie the Monkey

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-1154935078612694172006-08-07T14:24:00.000+09:002006-08-07T17:09:01.456+09:00

I went to Mt. Fuji with some friends.. Japan's famous, and still ACTIVE volcano.. about 3770 m tall. This is the "base camp" at 2300 meters above the sea. I expected it to be an easy climb, but i was wrong.... The weather was nice... Right here it was about 25 degrees, nice breeze blowing.. quite perfect.. there were many groups .. this was our coordinator telling people what to do, what to bring

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-1154612455796451672006-08-03T21:50:00.000+09:002006-08-06T15:48:07.583+09:00

Ok here we go! First I'd like to show you my one-way ticket to Tokyo. I got it for 20 SEK from SL, Stockholms Lokaltrafik. They have a new system now, and tickets have indeed gotten cheaper, especially the long trips. Basically, you save more money the farther you go...On my way to meet a friend in Sophia University I saw this on a train platform... How many Japanese commuters do you think follow

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-1154571468300498192006-08-03T11:11:00.000+09:002006-08-03T11:17:48.783+09:00

Ok I'm in Tokyo! haven't been able to take any photos yet, but i can tell you that it's just as crazy as you'd think ,.. and then some! i've just been here for a couple of days and i've already seen hundreds of strange-looking harajuku girls, schoolgirls, ppl with masks, ppl reading dirty comics on the train, ppl sleeping on the train, callgirls and pimps..had really good food too.. more coming

macurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10163309060567164503noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28836105.post-1148858383186265202006-05-29T08:19:00.000+09:002006-06-05T22:16:50.736+09:00

Ok blog is up, everything seems to be working.. while we wait for things to happen (like me going to Tokyo), why not watch this drunk friend of mine sing...This was shot with a Casio Exilim EX-S500, April 31, the night of Valborg, the biggest party in Uppsala. The song reflects my feelings precisely!I'll be uploading all my movies like this, and I'm currently looking for a convenient way to post

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