my weekend.

saturday.
intentions to go to portobello market.
but that didn't happen as we both woke up after lunch.
this is normal for us. so no worry there.

end up trawling the busy streets of london.
when did the planes dump all the tourists on oxford street?
so packed that shopping feels like a burden.

tapas for dinner is a dark and noisy bar in soho.
it's called meza.
and they're octopus and waxy potatoes are the best.
i miss jarmon and chorizo!

after dinner drinks with the kosakas.





we go to this little japanese restaurant.
which is closed.
but shin says "just go in dai".
walk down the stairs, and go through a few doors that have "PRIVATE" plates on them.
and somewhere next to the toilet, behind one of those "PRIVATE" doors, there's a bar.
with lots of other japanese merry makers.
who have discovered alcohol without a sale license.
and sat at the next table is junichi inamoto.





i know.
who??
apparently some japanese national footballer.
who looks like a little boy.
and does have dyed hair.
and really, doesn't look like the 180cm that the websites claim that he is.

so there i am. sipping my nonethanolic drinks, saying
"Naaaamotoh? who's zat? Naaaamotoh. is he famous?"
yoshi and shin were very embaressed.
and didn't want to make eye contact with me.

daiko-chan + shin-chan

(shin drank so much. he had to down his last pint.

but not sure if he downed it so that we could leave quickly and i would stop shouting about inamoto, are you sure he is famous, not? and west bromwich, and isn't that a shit team?)

sunday.
dance rehearsals for RAG Fashion Show 2006 have started.
at outrageous 9-frickin-thirty in the morning.
in whitechapel.
it is far far away from the luxuries of central london.

dance like a maniac, and cannot believe i'm doing it for a third year.
i'm an old nag.
i shouldn't be allowed near music + cheography.
it's missy elliot's lose control.
too many 8s, too fast.

but, hello!
i've got rhythm.

lunch at out favourite little organic pizza place in brick lane.
story deli!
went for salad, including:

couscous and aubergine

cold courgettes and lentils

roast pumpkin and feta

spinach and pine nut salad

beets and grilled garlic

aaand

some yummy rosemary and olive oil drenched spuds.

pizza was:

parma ham, aubergines and olives

divine!

dessert:

waiting for our crepes

the whippet look

with chocolate crepe

and doggy paw

shin's whippet look

walked all around brick lane and to hackney and old street.

supposed to buy xiang a christmas present, but didn't happen.

it's so hard to shop for men.

seriously, if you have any ideas men pressies, please let me know.

shin + d

unfruitful shopping

stole a candy cane from a store

coz shin said i could

but think he was lying

x D