Been playing a bit of badminton but haven't for the last 3 weeks due to other arrangements. Tennis is pretty good. Almost there, but still need to work on a consistant flat serve and get myself a backhand return :) Weather is getting barmingly hot now and I'm expecting August to be an absolute killer :(
Watched some good movies recently. The first being Die hard 4.0 which was a lot better than I thought it would be (thanks Zulfi for recommending that one :)) ) The second being Harry Potter 5 which was very good I thought. Not much happens but I thought Daniel Radcliffe put in a very good performance and feel he's getting better as an actor.
On to bigger things of which there are four.1) 1 week in The UK - If you didn't know I had a short stint back in the mother country :)) It was short but sweet. I didn't get meet everyone that I wanted to (due to a few cancellations you know who you are!!! :( ) but the friends I did meet I had a great time with :) It was nice to be home and everything was very nostalgic. I don't know what I was expecting about going home after a year away, but nothing much changed lol A few new licks of paint here and there a building knocked down and a new one put up :)and of course there was the english weather heh I managed to get two and half days of english summer sun which was a result!! the rest of days were the kind of weather that I had grown up with all my life. Grey cloudy and sometimes, not always, wet :P
2)Japanese festival - This is something I didn't get to do last summer. One because I was in Indonesia for a large part of the summer, and two because I didn't have as many friends here in Japan. A year on and I do have a few now :P and so I was able to go to a Japanese summer festival yesturday evening.A Japanese festival means girls usually dressed up in kimonos or just dressed up, and guys in Yukatas or casual hehe The main event however is the fireworks. A strange concept, fireworks in summer when you're used to seeing them while freezing your butt off outside in the UK winter time heh, but one could get used to it :)) luckly this was one of the times I remembered my camera and remembered to use it lol I had on 'fireworks' mode and the results are quite interesting. Try to work out what the thing is in the centre of the explosions rofl. Unlike the fireworks displays in the UK which last only minutes, Japanese like to go overboard and the thing lasted over an hour amd was almost constant!! very impressed I was :) Needless to say there were a lot if people who came to watch. The roads were full of cars and streets full of people, but everyone was polite and civilised which was lovely to see. Might go to another one if time permits.
3) + 4) Nakashima Spa land and Summer Sonic - The last two titbits are small and so can grouped together. The first is a proposed trip to Nakashima Spa land next week which should be fun. It's a big water amusement park here in Aichi and will no doubt be full of bikini clad girls......not that that's the only reason I'm going :P
Will try to remember my camera for that one ;-P. The second is that I'm going to go to Osaka in August for the Summer Sonic music festival, which is the biggest music festival in Japan. Think Glastonbury but without the rain and mud and set it in the city in sweltering hot conditions lol.
Think that will warrant the bringing of a camera too :P
So that's all folks, guess it'll be another 2 months before another update lol or not.
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