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In the spirit of xkcd, I have constructed a graph:

I’m supposed to be studying today. But I couldn’t get into it. My brain kept pulling cruel tricks on me. So in the end I started doing procrastination cleaning. And to accompany my cleaning? Some music! I should turn on my stereo every so often, after all. Ooh! And look! I have shelves full of CDs! Why don’t I put one on?

Hmm, the pillows! Bloody hell, when was the last time I listened to them?

I’ve been living on a musical diet of Triple J and whatever I can hear from my housemate’s bedroom lately. I haven’t had iTunes on in a while and even then I’ve kept it to the whole playlist, rather than the Japanese or pillows-specific playlists. Kyo-kun hasn’t even been charged in the last ….three months, maybe?

As soon as the CD started playing though, I instantly felt happier. Cleaning and sorting the laundry was fun, I had something nice to eat and I could settle down at my laptop to do a bit of study.

I probably haven’t been the easiest person to be around recently. If I’m not bitchy and hermit-y then I’m stressed and slightly hysterical. Apologies to my friends and family who have had to put up with me this semester. It hasn’t been an easy one. Nearly over though.

And now I know the real cause behind my bad moods! It all became so clear this afternoon, listening to My Foot…I haven’t been listening to enough pillows!

Hahaaahaaahahaha!! That must be it!!! All better now!!!

Probably will be better still when my exams are over and I get a decent grade for them, but for now the pillows is the panacea.

Meanwhile, the procrastination cleaning, then drawing up this graph and blogging about it means I’ve wasted three hours that I could’ve used studying.

But at least I feel better about it!

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Dear Chidade,

Your Sincerely,

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1. I joined Scouts because:
Peer Pressure. Snark was on my case for a good year before I finally gave in. I think I was also probably dating a Rover at the time.

I had a brother, sister, Mother, Father or other family member in Scouts (please circle):
No. The thought of my sister in a Scout uniform is highly amusing though.

2. I acheived the following Badges/Awards (please tick)
None of the above. I only got the standard badges that they hand to you when you join up. Oh, and that special badge they handed out this year since it’s the Centenary of Scouting. Haven’t actually sewn any of them on my shirt, even after 3 odd years.

3. I took part in Scout Shows such as Gang Show, Camberwell Showtime, Strezlecki Showtime, Whitehorse Showtime (please circle):
Why doesn’t South Metro Showtime get any love? No, I only took part as an audience member. Twice. And both times, I regretted it.

4. I went on outdoor activities such as hikes, camps, water activities and pack holidays (please circle)
Well, there were two occassions when I had to sleep in a tent. I think that more alcohol than hiking was involved, though. Yes.

5. I attended a Jamboree, Cuboree, Venture or Moot (please circle)
Actually, I don’t think any ran while I was a Scout, least, not ones that I would actually pay to attend, as opposed to pay to work my ass off for bratty, snot-nosed, little shits. So no. But only by coincidence.

6. I became a sixer, patrol leader, unit chairman or crew leader (please circle)
What’s a sixer?

7. I attended a Youth Forum at Group, District, Region or Branch level (please circle)
See Number 5.

8. Three things I particularly like about Scouts are:
- Drinking
- Socialising (when I’m not in hermit-mode)
- Shenanigans

9. If I had a magic wand, three things I would change about Scouts are:
Look, I don’t really have anything against Scouts. I’ve just quit because I don’t have the time or the money right now. Scouts is bloody expensive. There’s all those slabs of beer we need to chip into, f’rinstance.

Rovers was fun while it lasted. It’s not very Scout-y. It’s not very much about getting badges for basket weaving and spending every school holidays up to your armpits in mud in some remote camping site. Although, if you want it to be, it can be that too. I’m not a Scouty type person. I don’t have a history of Scouts (while almost all of the members I know at least joined at Venturer level - having a new Scout at Rover level is really weird) and while I’m all for Service to the Community and Goodwill Onto Others and all that, I don’t feel like I need to act like the Queen’s pompous do-gooder militia to achieve it.

That last sentence was a bit of a mean generalisation. There are awesome Scouts and Scouts leaders around. I just wish some of the hierarchy would pull their heads out of their collective asses.

Meh, Rovers. For me it was very much about drinking, socialising and shagging in tents. They are a pretty tight bunch - I think I may have suffered there, because I only became a Scout at Rover level while everyone else knew each other and had stories to tell from Venturers, Cubs or just much younger Rovers. Still, they welcomed me. I was slack though. I never got invested. I was a Squire for the three-years-on-and-off that I was a Scout. And it never really mattered.

Never learnt the Scout Prayer or Promise. Never even learned all the words to Oogie Oogie Oogie.

I’m still going to be friends with all the Rovers I know, mainly through Snark. I’m glad I met these people. I have nothing against them, not very much against the Scout movement, and all-in-all I would’ve stayed if it wasn’t $250+ dollars a year and then another $15 minimum per meeting to do what essentially was socialising and gossip. No one gossips like a Rover.

Plus the time. Once a week and the few long weekend trips doesn’t seem like much, but I have precious little time as it is with university - any free time that I get I want to spend playing Ragnarok or in front of my Nintendo. It’s crying itself to sleep each night, my poor Wii.

No, the things I like doing through the Rovers I can in fact do without being a Rover. So sadly, circumstances dictate that I’ll be handing over my badge and uniform, look, it’s as good as new, only worn 6 times.

What, I’m supposed to keep them? And do what, exactly? Start a collection?!

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Wikipedia is simultaneously awesome, useful and a massive time waster. An example of how it ate up an hour of my time today:

Couldn’t remember the word “pre-emptive” so I Wikipedia’d “Attack on Pearl Harbour” which gave me the word I was trying to remember in the very first sentence.

Nice work Wikipedia.

However, that got me linking to “Pre-emptive attack”, then “International Law” then “Interpol” then “International Police” (because they’re two different organisations, apparently), then “Universal Postal Union”, “International Telecommunication Union”, “Norfolk Island”, “Zealandia” (which is a submerged continent I’d never heard of before), “Geneva”, “Islands of Australia” and then after that I started clicking the ‘Random Article’ link a few times.

Gah!

Worse than Facebook!

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That’s……that’s John Howard…..Prime Minister of Australia…..holding….holding an XBOX 360 CONTROLLER?!

Buh…buh…buhh…*brain asplode*

So it seems like the “biggest entertainment launch ever” even infiltrated as far as Australian Federal Politics. What craziness. I only know about the existence of the Halo 3 launch because I’m a gamer that reads gaming news sites. My housemate had no clue about it and only had a vague idea that Master Chief was a character from a game since she reads a lot of webcomics that parody this kind of thing. I think that this “biggest entertainment launch EVAH!” claim may be a slight exaggeration.

For the record, we don’t own a 360, nor any version of Halo and probably never will. Chick gamer here. Bring on the RPGs, kthnxbai.

Having John Howard pose with a Microsoft franchise figure seems strangely fitting actually.

But more generally…he’s…holding a 360 controller…and CORRECTLY! And he seems to be smiling and enjoying himself gaming! GAMING! JOHN HOWARD GAMING!

Somebody hold me.

Found at Kotaku

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From a music point of view, this was meant to be quite an exciting second-half-of-the-year. New albums out from my two favourite bands: the pillows and The Cat Empire.

However, while Wake Up! Wake Up! Wake Up! is still enjoyable to listen to, I feel like My Foot was a better album for the pillows. Boat House is a great track, don’t get me wrong! And the fact that Sawao sings a bit in Polish in the track Serious Plan cracks me up. Also a fun track. But overall….some disappointment. It probably won’t be an album I can play repeatedly in the car like I did with My Foot.

As for The Cat Empire…the album is out in September, I’ve already ordered the autographed CD and I’ll be at the album launch at the Prince of Wales in a few weeks time…but I’ve just listened to the first single No Longer There and….

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….it’s fucking elevator music. I see they’ve brought in a guitarist again. Is it the same guy that guested on the Cities album? Cities was a collaborative project, so having new sounds there was understandable and more: extremely successful. But that guitar was guitar at it’s wildest, suckled at the same teat as a sitar! That was guitar that you couldn’t imagine the songs without. Same with the Spanish guitar used in the debut album’s The Rhythm! What awesomeness!

But….The Cat Empire is a band that doesn’t have a guitarist and that is part of it’s appeal, much like Ben Folds Five. Don’t get me wrong, I love guitar-driven music. Look at the pillows, for crying out loud! Melodic guitars up to your earlobes! But…when i first heard Hello, what I loved was the drum solo and the horns. Horns! Trumpet! I love the trumpet! I want to learn it now, thanks to Harry J Angus!

Oh gods, it’s not Harry that plays the guitar in No Longer There, is it?! *cries*

It’s freaking elevator music. Making it finish suddenly and awkwardly like the Cities track doesn’t save it from the fact that it sounds like it should be played on the golden oldies radio station. I heard that JJJ was going to put it on high rotation but I wonder if that will really happen. It’s not typical TCE stuff. Some people say that’s a good thing, that bands should never play out the same thing again and again….I don’t think TCE ever did play out the same thing. They’ve been categorised under as many genres as there are types of instruments! But…this is plain pop. Plain, boring pop. Even Ollie’s piano sounds like something played in the foyer of an expensive restaurant, and nothing more. Kinda stupid lyrics too, although TCE have always had lyrics that tightrope-walked the line between stupid and whimsical. At least, Felix’s songs have. I generally appreciate Harry’s lyrics more.

Is it a Felix thing? All of the other members besides Jumps have side projects - serious side projects - and Jumps may simply be DJing independently as his side project. TCE always struck me as Felix’s baby. Has he taken it all back then? Made it his and his music alone? It’s not that unfeasible. The pillows’ music is certainly Sawao’s music. But…Felix’s songs began to ring warning bells with Know Your Name on Cities…will this be a repeat?

Gaahh! I don’t want to hate it! I don’t want to hate the new TCE album! I already feel a bit miffed about Wake Up! Wake Up Wake Up! - I don’t want the same to happen with So Many Nights! Please, whatever god of music may exist out there, please let the rest of the album be better!

Maybe it has to do with the fact that both the first singles from Wake Up! Wake Up Wake Up! and So Many Nights are ballads…I depend on the pillows and TCE to life my mood, not dampen it. Scarecrow, though, grew on me after a lot of listens….I don’t think No Longer There is ever going to make it up there in the list of ‘Songs I Enjoy’.

Kyo-kun! Tasukete!!

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So, back home from Japan now. May catch up on posts eventually. The two main things I want to write about are Hiroshima and Mt Fuji. Whether I actually sit down to belt all that out remains to be seen.

Holiday overall was awesome, however the last 30 odd hours were freaking painful. Left hostel in Tokyo at lunchtime on a Friday. Didn’t arrive back home until 9pm the following Saturday. Had a 2-hour delay in Brisbane and a 5-hour delay in Sydney.

Moral of the story: DON’T FLY JETSTAR.

It’s almost like Australia didn’t want me to come back home. This opinion is further compounded by the realisation today that, when I move out of home in two weeks time, the only person that will feel the teeniest bit sad about it is the lady from the milkbar.

I miss my mum.

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• I replaced the Astro Boy handbag, Maes Hughes sticker and Buster-kun keychain that were stolen from me. Buster-kun, however, is now glow-in-the-dark. I kinda liked the old one better
• Everyone who sees my laptop feels the need to comment on how small it is
• Shinkansen make my ears pop
• I think my shoes may be dead. They certainly smell like a dead thing!
• Baby turtles may be the cutest things in existence
• A Hawaiian saved my holiday from disaster <3
• I never actually tried the Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki…eep
• Earplugs are possibly the most awesome invention, ever
• Shooting past suburbs on the shinkansen, I notice that quite a lot of Japanese homes have solar panels on the roofs. Good on them
• Sawao Yamanaka is a sexy mofo

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I’ve been in Nagai Youth Hostel in Osaka for just under an hour now, so let’s list what I already hate about it:

• There’s an 11pm curfew - this may be due to the fact that it’s inside a stadium, and the stadium managment need to shut it down at 11pm, or it could just be one of those stupidities of Youth Hostels.
• The rooms can’t be locked - What your key is for is a locker, whose number corresponds to your bed number. The lockers are admittedly big enough to take a lot, but it is still annoying as hell to have to hoist my backpack in and out of it every time I want to get something. Also, you are supposed to leave your key at the desk when you go out. Why? So they can look through my things?
• The bathroom is a communal tub, Japanese sento style. I do not like participating in group nudity, I’d like to have a private shower cubicle, thanks very much. There are some shower cubicles here, but there’s a communal changeroom before you can get to it.
• Check-out and get-out-of-the-hostel time is at 10am. 10am?! I get UP at 10am! And you want me out of the hostel by then? I understand that hostels want people to get out during the day so that they can do a decent cleaning job but all the other hostels I’ve been in have an 11am check-out time. They let people back in at 3 or 4pm. And even then, K’s House was lenient and if you wanted to spend all day in bed, it wasn’t an issue.
• The bathroom has opening hours. What. The. Fuck. If I want a shower at 6am because I have to be on a shinkansen by 7.30am then I should bloody well be able to take the shower then, or whenever I want to! This bloody stupid rule probably has to do with the sento style of the bathroom but we already know what my feelings about that are and at any rate, I know of sento that are open 24 hours, so you could actually sleep there cheaply, like a manga kissa!
• LIGHTS OUT AT MIDNIGHT! It seems we’re in the prison system, not a youth hostel where young travellers from all over the world meet each other and chat, drink and socialise, sometimes - shock, horror - after midnight! Am yet to find out whether this midnight curfew also includes the small lamps we each get in our bunks.
• The internet is restricted to two old computers, with no access to USB slots and no free WIFI. This means, that despite the fact that I’m writing this about 1 hour after I arrived at Nagai, I won’t be able to post this or any other posts until after I get out of here and back to Tokyo. Keitai posts only til then. Oh, also, the internet here is more expensive than any other place I’ve stayed at.
• It seems to be in a dodgy area. My roommate told me that she felt like she was being stared at and followed while walking through the park and that two guys had actually pulled down their pants at her. Admittedly, she was dressed like a complete slut but I wouldn’t want the same thing happen to me. Not only is the area dodgy, but it’s also bloody far away from Osaka. It’s near Tennoji, which is a half-hour train ride away from Osaka, where everything is. Couple this with the curfew and it means I’ll have to leave the Tenjin Matsuri festivities at about 10pm, which is probably just when it’s hitting its peak.
• Bed sheets are not included with the room charge - which, I might add, is also higher than guesthouses. The bed sheets are also not standard sheets but this sleeping-bag type thing so not only do they regulate what time I can shower, what time I can enter and leave the premises and where I can keep my belongings - they also dictate how I can sleep. The pillow goes in here and you crawl into this bag bit. So if you’re too hot, or if you want to if you wanted to share your bed, or move your pillow, or even yourself - YOU CAN’T. That, or you can’t have sheets. Bring your own. Pfft.

There are some nice things about this place, but not many:

• It’s in a stadium! That was the main thing that drew me about this place. It’s so unique. The ceiling slopes down to the playing field and it’s located in a large park. But, as I mentioned earlier, that park seems to be dodgy. Homeless people generally set up camp in Japan’s metropolitan parks anyway.
• The bed setup is cool. The bunks are built into the wall and each have a curtain so that you can block out light or have a bit of privacy while in bed. It’s the only thing I wish K’s House did. However, they are numbered and your bed is assigned to you, instead of being able to choose where you want to sleep. I’ve been given a top bunk with a viciously unsafe ladder that is a right pain in the ass to get in and out of.
• There’s lots of nearly everything. Lots of washing machines and dryers available (perhaps another one of K’s House failings), lots of tables and chairs, lots of room in the kitchen, lots of vending machines with lots of choice. This is probably due to th fact that it has quite a lot of space. It takes up about a quarter of the perimeter of the stadium. It does also mean that you have to walk a long way if you were unfortunate enough to get one of the furthest-away bedrooms.Oh yeah, there isn’t enough internet access here. One thing it doesn’t have enough of.
• The staff can speak decent English.

So even the few good things have their downsides.

TAKE MY ADVICE, those of thinking of staying in Osaka - DON’T. And certainly not at Nagai Youth Hostel. Stay in Kyoto, which is only about an hour away from Osaka by train (less, if you take the shinkansen or some rapid express service). Kyoto has more interesting things anyway. Osaka should just be done in day trips. It’s also cheaper in Kyoto (most guesthouses are 2500 yen for a dorm) and if you get into K’s House - it’s awesome. The staff are friendly, helpful and great with English, it has no curfew or other stupid rules as outlined above. In fact, due to it’s popularity and success, K’s House Kyoto have bought and demolished the property next door so that they can expand with an annex, which promises to be even more awesome.

This place has shown me the huge difference between hostels and guesthouses. I generally thought they were one-and-the-same, until now. Guesthouse > Youth Hostel. I will not be renewing my YH membership next year.

The only reason I decided to stay in Osaka was because of the Tenjin Matsuri, which is a mainly night-time festival on the riverbanks. I thought that it would be a hassle to have to leave the festival early to get the last train back to Kyoto. But after looking at this curfew and train timetable to Tennoji, it seems like I could stay one hour longer at the festival if I was staying in Kyoto than if I were staying in this bloody Nagai Youth Hostel.

So why am I still staying and not running back to my friends in Kyoto? Ah, well, that’s due the first rule on the list, here at Nagai:

1. Once a payment has been made, it cannot be refunded.

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I always seem to mix up Nagano and Nakano. Note to self: Nakano was never an Olympic city. It IS, however, an awesome mix of Harajuku and Akiba.

Got up early, determined to find Ragnarok Online volume 2 figures that day.

…what? You thought I came to Japan for the temples and castles and assorted culture? Ahahahahahaha! Fools! Not while I’m in Tokyo, hehehe.

After the quick look around Akiba I had on Friday, I didn’t feel confident about finding some there. It does tend to be the newest sets available in Denki Town, and generally the same ones available in each shop (although Aso Bit City had both Volume 1 and 3 in stock, which were released between 1 and 2 years ago). But I figured I’d give Akiba a quick look before heading off to Nakano - where Nakano Broadway is famed for having the largest range of rare, out-of-print and second-hand otaku goods in Tokyo.

Arrived in Akiba and checked out the larger shops (there’s just too many small shops hidden away in office blocks to explore). As expected, I couldn’t find any Volume 2 figures, just a few Volume 1 and 3 boxes. Did find a few good second-hand shops though, which had a nice selection of CDs and DVDs plus a few collector items. Must restrain myself until my last week in Japan though. Then I can blow all my cash. I might need it until then for things like food, heh. Made a few small purchases for the Lucky Dip Of Doom and after a Mister Donut lunch (gods bless Mister Donut), I jumped onto the Sobu-Chuo line to Nakano, marvelling at how the two best geek places in Tokyo are within 20 minutes of each other on the same train line.

Aaah, Nakano. This place is truly a mix of my two favourite places in Tokyo, but with slightly less style. On the plus side, there’s a lot less people, too. On weekends, the Harajuku kids can also be found out here in full glory (but generally unwilling to pose for photos - I guess that’s why they escaped to Nakano) shopping for cheap manga, cosplay outfits and other geekery.

Not many around on a Monday though. So! Off to Nakano Broadway - 4 floors of assorted stalls and shops selling retro toys, second-hand books and magazines, electronics, cosplay outfits and the like. Here you can find shops that have already opened boxes or capsules with figurines and sell them individually, or will group together an entire set and sell that in, basically, a plastic bag. This is probably a huge time and money saver since the capsule machines and figurine boxes are generally a lucky-dip. When I first bought Ragnarok Online figurines, I got Roan the first three times >.<

Found a good second-hand CD store two where I dropped about $150 on the pillows, BEAT CRUSADERS and Lupin III tributes, heh. Retail Therapy = Awesome.

Most of the character and figurines shops didn’t have any Volume 2 characters, some didn’t even have Volume 1 or 3. Asking the staff, they seemed to know what I was talking about, but they all made emphatic ‘no’ noises. I was beginning to think that both Nakano AND Akiba were going to fail me. Every shop is a jungle full of small plastic things though, so they really need a thorough examination. Every shop averaged 15 minutes of my time, and were usually fruitless.

Was getting frustrated, but I made my way to a store in a back corner that I remembered from my last stay in Japan. I had bought figures of Squall and Cloud as well as full sets of chibi Fullmetal Alchemist characters. They weren’t big finds either then or now, since all of it is fairly readily available, but because of those purchases, it probably qualified as my favorite shop in Nakano Broadway.

Walked in, scanned over the walls of little plastic packages that had individually wrapped figurines, didn’t see anything promising. Looked at the figures in the glass cases in case they’re so limited edition that they might not be for sale. Still nothing. Scan down near floor level in the baskets full of miscellaneous toys. Spot the Volume 3 boxes for sale. And perched on top….

!!!

Blue boxes! 2 blue boxes! Quick! Grab them! Holy crap, I actually found two Volume 2 figurines! I knew I could depend on this shop! Yay, Nakano! Ask the staff if there are any more. No, and completely expected since searching half of Nakano had only turned up two. But still! I have 2 figures! Quickly buy them and open them. An axe Blacksmith and a sword-wielding Knight. I don’t think either of those are the rare characters and I think (although I won’t be sure until I get home) that I already have the Blacksmith. But they could still be used as trades, should I find anyone else with duplicates! And now I know that they can actually be found in Nakano, so I’m keen to keep searching.

Wandering around some more and I spot a familiar font - FRUiTS! Hooooooooooboy, there’s a lot here! Hooray for the Japanese and how the never throw anything away! Even old issues of magazines can be found for sale! Bloody hell….issues 9 and 10?! Do you KNOW how much I could get for this on eBay?!

Still, I’m keeping these for my own collection. Any duplicates can get eBay-ed. Glee! I’m not sure which is more awesome! FRUiTS back issues for dirt-cheap and excellent condition or two RO figures? Trip to Nakano is thus far very successful! The woman who ran the magazine shop had such big eyes when I plonked the pile of magazines on the bench, asking if there were any more, heh.

A few more shops left to explore in case I spot any more Volume 2 figures. The magazines are bloody heavy so I won’t try to find any more FRUiTS, but I’ll be back in Tokyo later for that.

There is one likely-looking shop. I’ve found few Volume 1s individually wrapped and judging by the other characters for sale, it seems likely that this shop could have other Ragnarok Online figures hidden somewhere. This is as opposed to the shops that specialise only in mecha or DragonBall. I ask the girl at the counter if there were any RO characters. She says “Hai!” very confidently (the first store staff to have done that all day today) and bustles off to some drawers full of yet more figurines and pulled out that I hadn’t spotted until now. Sadly, they were Volume 3. But now I had an example to show her of the ones I want!

I reach into the bag to pull out the blue box…aah, dame, that was the Lucky Dip prize I bought in Akiba. Where’s the RO figures? Wait, where’s the bag the RO figures came in?! Wuuaaaaaahhh! Where’s the bag?! I lost the bag? HOW COULD I LOSE THE FUCKING BAG?!

Jesus H. Christ, I searched every damn corner of Akiba, Nakano and Den-Den Town in freakin’ OSAKA to find TWO LOUSY FIGURINES and then I managed to LOSE THEM?!

Head. Wall. Repeat.

At least….at least they weren’t the rare ones. Christ, I hope they weren’t the rare ones. And, at least I didn’t pay more than $8 for the pair of them. But…I lost the pair of them. Head. Wall. Head. Wall. Head. Wall. Fucking hell.

My arms ache from the heavy magazines and my feet ache from walking all day. I find an information booth but nothing has been handed into lost and found. I backtrack to shops where I may have put down the bags for a moment but find nothing. This is like that day I went to Pan no Mimi and managed to lose my camera case. Something about Kyoto makes me lose my camera case repeatedly. This time was a bit more worrying because the spare battery was in it but luckily I found it again. I was hoping I could have that luck again this time. But there’s so many people here with kids, one of them probably picked it up and decided they had found a free toy. Fuck. Fuck. FUCK!

Need to sit down somewhere. Why aren’t there public freaking benches in Japan?! And most of the restaurants here are the eat-at-the-counter types! All I want is something cold to drink and a seat, Nakano! Damn you! I settle for McDonalds. Children are screaming and running around behind me. Shut up, shut up, shut up! And give me back my RO figures you little shits! You took them, didn’t you?! GAAH!

Struggle back to the hostel, arms arching, feet dead, not happy. I have the magazines, which are great, and they weren’t expensive losses - those figures - but I’m still pissed after spending so much time and energy trying to find the bloody things.

It’s either a) been dumped in the trash, or b) been found by children who just scored free toys, never knowing how collectable they are, or c) been picked up by the store owner of wherever I dropped them, who DID know how collectable they were, and have since put them up for sale in their shop >.< Or eBay. Hah.

Wait, I should check the Japanese Yahoo! Auctions in case they put it up! Long call, but hey.

Didn’t find my lost figurines, but I did find someone selling the entire set of regular Volume 2 figures and the rare Blacksmith (turns out that the axe Blacksmith was the regular one, the rare one has a hammer). Make a bid. Have since won it, but it cost a bucketload. Still, day was somehow salvaged.

Nakano is going to get raided when I get back to Tokyo in case someone is selling my figures. Plus I can try and get more FRUiTS.

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The Hard Rock Cafe’s potato skins are better than sex.

That is all.

p.s. Hi Dad

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