monkey eats banana
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suzuran ramen
suzuran ramen
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P finally took me to the most excellent Suzuran Ramen in Shibuya. Oh. My. OHMY. I have a new favourite noodleage! They have four kinds of noodle, one of which is great big ribbony style. All the ramen comes separate from the soup so that you can dip as you like, which is great because I'm a noodle kinda guy not a soup man. And topped with the tenderest stewed pork kakuni that absolutely melts in your mouth...so very, very good.
rambo
rambo
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(That's Graham, Sly, and Julie Benz)
Managed to get out of work early enough to catch the premiere of Rambo. Wow. That is one violent movie. I mean, body parts and guts and exploding heads violent. Must have been SO much fun to make.
After the flick we had the killer meat and veggies fest at Oak Door. Ahh, sausages!
graham @ peninsula
graham @ peninsula
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Met Graham at the loverly Peninsula and we grabbed some typical lunch -- tuna sashimi bowl -- in the basement of the office building across the way, then checked out cool digital cameras at Bic Camera. Rambo premiere opens tomorrow and he gave me a couple tix (thanks!) -- hope I can get out of work in time to check it out; should be a hoot!
bread with mama and baba
bread with mama and baba
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Baba spent the night so the next day, after going to the slide park and taking a quick nap at Starbucks,we all got some healthy lunch at Eat Your Greens and then hit the bread store.
I've walked about 25 kilometers in the past 4 days, keeping Tonchalizer occupied as she is weened from The Breast Milk. She's actually doing well and, not surprisingly, eating alot more too. She wakes up a couple times during the night, but it's easy enough to get her back to sleep soon. I have even put her to bed a couple times. She screams her head off for 15 minutes, then puts her head on my shoulder and is snoring in five minutes. Keeping her running around all day and giving her real food to eat seems to work.
Soon she will graduate from puppy-like small monkey to actual little human. Though if the beastlies at the playground are any indication, I'd prefer her to stay a small monkey. She can barely talk but at least says please and thank you. Some of the kids in the park are little tyrants. Then again half of them are there with their nannies, and half the parents who do even bother to show up spend most of the time reading, chatting with each other, or on the cell. I was one of the only people over the age of 8 actually climbing around on the slide. Which is most excellent, thank you very much.
warou flats
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Took another big walkabout with Tonchan today. In the morning we ended up by Warou Flats, the cool old apartment building from the 1930s. Ton was asleep and I had my camera so I took some random shots in color and back and white. Totally gray, cloudy, shadowless day so the black and whites are kinda flat, but it's still a cool wooden building.
lunch @ cravings
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Originally uploaded by renfield
7.8 kilometers. That's how much I walked about with the Tonchabeastly today. Started in the morning going up to the robot slide park, then she took a nap in the stroller for a while and we had lunch at Miri's. After that joined P and hit Roppongi Hills before heading home.
black and white stones
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Originally uploaded by renfield
Spent the day goofing off with Tonchan in the park and taking photos. Tried some black and white with the trusty GRII. I think this one came out quite nice; good contrast, nice shadows, decent balance.
To be honest I can never remember what all the ISO, f/stop, shutterspeed, etc. settings do. Luckily I have set each one to be adjusted by a different knob on the camera, and I twiddle them all until the little indicator is right in the middle of the line that tells me it's ok to to hit the shutter button.
Dare I ask what the professional photographers in my family think?
wrap party
Headed over to Shibuya for lunch to taste the famous pan-fried yakisoba of Bairin. Was worth the wait, especially since I spent the whole time taking Tonchan up and down in the elevator. She really likes escalators and elevators.
Then we headed to the Yoshidas' place for some quality handmade food. Theme this time was "wrap" so we made tortillas and wanton skins and made a bunch of gyoza and a bunch of taco-ish things. Tonchan was in fine form bouncing all over the place and assaulting the shyly adorable Hana-chan.
Many photos here.
Then we headed to the Yoshidas' place for some quality handmade food. Theme this time was "wrap" so we made tortillas and wanton skins and made a bunch of gyoza and a bunch of taco-ish things. Tonchan was in fine form bouncing all over the place and assaulting the shyly adorable Hana-chan.
Many photos here.
mosquito bite!
mosquito bite!
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Woke up this morning and Tonchalicious had a lovely mosquito bite on her cheek! P said she could hear it buzzing around at night. Spring is in the air...maybe it's time to break out the moquito net!
visitors
Managed to get out of work at a decent time and get over to the dojo.
RR and co. are in town for the week and heading to Kyoto tomorrow so they joined class.
For some reason it was absolutely packed today -- 12 on the floor training, and 6 people watching class. No idea what's up -- last week we had all of 3 people, including me.
After training we packed up the massive tengu statue that Gosoke gave him for his dojo and humped everything back to the hotel, then hit Jonathan's for some dinner.
RR and co. are in town for the week and heading to Kyoto tomorrow so they joined class.
For some reason it was absolutely packed today -- 12 on the floor training, and 6 people watching class. No idea what's up -- last week we had all of 3 people, including me.
After training we packed up the massive tengu statue that Gosoke gave him for his dojo and humped everything back to the hotel, then hit Jonathan's for some dinner.
more slide!
more slide!
Originally uploaded by renfield
Met Ton and P at the park today after a lovely afternoon cutting practice. Tonchaslide loves riding the mighty roller slide and has no problem going sliding down by herself.
Kuroda Parentals were on their way to Gotanda so we got some Chinese food around the corner from the park.
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