Junior Suite

I've now been to my 11th baseball game since I arrived in Japan April 16th. Number 9 and 10 was crap. I pretty much expected Hanshin to lose the game last Saturday against Giants. Oxspring vs. Uehara (pitchers), easy pick. Giants on a loosing streak had to break the 10 in a row loss. It was a good game anyway. Accompanied by Micke, Kuma, Toyomi, Aoi and Mika we spent a couple of hours in a boiling hot Tokyo dome cheering for the Tigers.
And since Toyomi wasn't in this picture, here's one for you =)
Also made friends with some strange Hanshin-fans, one with a golden teeth with the Hanshin logo engraved. A very nice person indeed =)
Sunday I'd expected more from the Tigers though. The game was over in 2 hours and 15 minutes, and none of the teams barely hit the ball. The worst game I've ever seen. It would have been if Hanshin would've won too...

World Cup soccer at the mexican restaurant Zest in Ebisu... Argentina, England, Ukraine and Brazil lost. Not one single teem I cheered for won...Crap...

Well, todays ball game. Me and Kuma got tickets from Obara-san in Sales who got them from one of our customers. Tokyo dome, balcony seats in Junior Suite! Sweet! Junior since the weren't covered with glass. Actually that could've killed us! Alex (or was it Woods? almost hit us with a very very out ball. Well, padded seatings, a meny to order food, beer and snack from, and Tokyo dome girls running back and forth to take orders whenever you wanted some Yakitori, Yakinikubento, Edamame or Sofurozen (Soft frozen ice cream). Or anything else, that's what we ordered. Couldn't been nicer. And Chunichi spanked some serious Giants butts. A nice game even if I don't like the teams. I bet Chunichi-fan-Kuma was happy =)
Finally, I've seen princess Leia's twin brother!! No, not Luke! The one who didn't show up in the Star Wars movies. I bet he was to busy covering the happenings in Japan for the news channel he is working for =)

ちょうど

I go down to Circle K downstairs to buy me one of those riceballs, a yoghurt and a couple of slices of cheese, or maybe some frosties and an ice cream. Anyhow, when I've decided which Häagen Dazs flavor I want, or if it is nattou or mayoshrimps (easy choice) that should make my rice roll the greatest in the world, I step down to the counter, ready to pay and get something like a "Choudo 487 yen desu", which means "That would be exactly 487 yen". Huh? What do they mean by that? I mean, exactly... For me exactly is 500yen, 1000yen, 5000yen or something that is easy to pay with one or a few coins/notes. Not 4*100, 1*50, 3*10, 1*5 and 2*1... Last week, after a lunch, "Choudo 1102 yen de gozaimasu", or "Choudo 190 yen ni narimaasu!" for the moon cake afterwards... Always... Maybe they have a more exact word for the "exact" that I know, "That would be exactly 10000 yen"...