Almost there - Ikura deska?

(Poster for Detroit Metal City, Japanese film based on a popular manga that aired at the TIFF last year)

One more exam to go and the experiment that was becoming a Hong Kong exchange student comes to an end. Time definitely flew here, and now with a good friend and one of my roommates leaving, it's starting to hit home. At the same time, this means that my long-term dream of visiting Japan is that much closer to fruition! T-minus 5 days and I will be alighting to Tokyo for a 19-day sojourn throughout several parts of the country. I will attempt to increase my blog frequency while I'm over there as I'm sure I'll be experiencing sensory overload and short of buying a fancy minimalistic leather-bound journal/notebook and getting all bohemian up in here (my chicken scratch isn't condusive to worldly hand-written scripture) this form of publishing might be the best form of media to chronicle the trip. First up: Tokyo for 5 nights, wherein 4 will be spent in a hostel (named NUTS) in Shinjuku, a major commercial and transit hub, and one in a capsule hotel along with other drunken businessmen. It is also where I intend to have experiences such as the infamous early-morning Fish Market trip, Fugu (blowfish) consumption, sake bar-hopping, taking in the May Sumo Wrestling tournament at the Ryogoku Kokugikan arena, checking out a baseball game (likely Daisuke Matsuzaka's old team the Seibu Lions), and sufficient amounts of shopping for all of those things that I'd never find back home. Oh, and of course the requisite sight-seeing: luckily we'll be staying next to one of the better parks in the city (Shinjuku Gyoen). But of course, the blog will hopefully tell the tale on a day-to-day basis in sufficient detail.

Peace. Next update will likely be on a frustratingly difficult keyboard somewhere in Tokyo.

MUSIC

Doman and Gooding - Runnin' (Ian Carey Remix)
http://www2.zippyshare.com/v/73458577/file.html
Here's a nice pop-house track remixed by the funky American genius Ian Carey. Just love the sampled strings reminiscent of those in Armand Van Helden's "You Don't Know Me". Uplifting, romantic and dayum funky, with sufficient electro-grooves after the breakdowns.