Love/Hate ah it's all the same isn't it?

ok so I realise it's been ages since I updated the BLOG - where on earth has the time gone! And I've had a wee look back at my posts since I first got here and on and on...and I had to laugh at myself because I seemed to like Japan so much when I first got here.

And I'm sure I will again....after I leave. But I was reminded of what Gavin (darkly sarcastic irish coworker) said to me one day....I was prattling on about something, you know how i do :) and I said "oh well I wouldn't say I hate Japan" and he said "don't worry, you will."

Oh how naive i was! I guess it was the novelty of things, but now that's all worn off and I realise that people ARE rude and pushy - seriously I've lost count of the times I've come home swearing I'm going to end up battering someone with their own umbrella before I leave or pushing them off their goddam bikes!

I know it seems terribly intolerant of me, but perhaps you have to live here to understand how they are just so incompetent on said bikes and their way of warning you they're coming behind is to make a hideous screeching noise with their brake pedals.

Which is what makes one want to turn around and push said offender of said bike and then brake it into little tiny bits!

Good god I have changed since I got here! Flatmate made me laugh the other day though, she said when she first got here I told her not to make eye contact with people because that's why they weren't moving for her.

It's the key you see, there's a sneaky subtley to getting about that the Japanese have all mastered which seems to involve pretending that other people don't exist....or at least that you don't see them.

Yet another reason why I may yet accost someone and beat them silly with my umbrella if they bump into my goddam bag one more time!

Ahem, ...er yes, well anyway I guess it's just the perils in living in one of the worlds most populated cities and when I get home I'll probably be complaining that it's empty and where are all the shops?

Oh so what else has been happening, well so much to tell you really, I keep making little notes on my jotter pad and meaning to put them down in blogs and I will, I WILL get them all done before I leave, but I can't quite believe how fast that time is coming up - eek!

Well since August or so I've had my hair dyed purple by Japanese hairdresser, which then went grey in her attempt to correct mistake! Co workers took to calling me 'grey owl' or 'wise one' there for a bit, but it's since washed out and I'm back to blond - thank god!

I have pictures which I'll put up tomorrow - looks just like one of those dreadful before and after shots for work out adverts!

It's only one week until we go to Vietnam - yay! And my flatmate recently got engaged to an irish guy she's been seeing the last two months and who ironically enough resembles a potato, but who treats her like gold - so hey hooray for them! So i hardly see her anymore now which means i get the apartment to myself - nice since it's not that big anyway!

oh we did go shopping in Ginza last week though - window shopping mind as i didn't see anything i might be able to afford in this lifetime in the Christian Dior store! God there is so much to write about just in that one trip though!

Oh and I've also been to the dentist - but that is a story worthy of it's very own Blog! And I promise to write about that next so stay tuned for more exciting adventures in Japan!

Love, Fernleaf