Saturday, April 19, 2008

Sunday 8 Hour Roller-Skate



My new rollerskates, I was so excited that I can finally go faster and farewell my Oxygen, purchased in big 5 on El Camino when living in California.

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We started from Ueno park every Sunday at 9:30 am, it was a bit of a struggle for me to get up today because of the strange hangover attack initiated by mixing Macoli and draft beer. Meeting those familiar faces again is very nice, though we just split after the party like 10 hours ago. Amanda was intoxicated and managed to put her pasmo (a touch on train pass) into the tiny opening for real train ticket. She had to get the station manager to retrieve her pasmo card, miraculously, undamaged.

We continued our journey through Tokyo station, passing prime minister's residence, having coffee break. Going through Asakasa, ending in Aoyama park where we usually picnic and practice tricks. I took another bad fall today, thankfully I have fatty tissues in good places.

We decided to rollerskate back to Akihabara, usually only Chin-san, Amanda and Teru-san would go with me. But today we have a rather large group, some crazy nut cases came, 8 of us were skating like mania again. So we skated another 2 hours on the street, and stopped by a famous taiyaki shop where we consumed the steamed hot cake filled with redbean paste. Then, more skating.

Went home so exhausted, I was only able to record this crazy journey after 3 hours of sleep. But funny that I had such a strange dream about my high school friends, her 2 year old daughter, her father, my parents and my brother's family were all hanging out together. So real that it tooke me a couple of minutes to figure out that I am in Tokyo alone after waking up.

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