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Roy-boy took me for a spin in his brand-spanking-new Mazda Roadster HT today.

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I was at Toyosu’s Lalaport shopping mall yesterday and ate lunch in the food court. Before you get to enter the food court, the staff at the entrance will first explain the system to you, something which felt like it took forever…

Basically, you are given a ‘reserved sign’ and an ‘order card’ as you enter. First, you go to find a table you like and you put your ‘reserved sign’ on the table (your belongings too if you want). You then take the ‘order card’ with you in search for grub. In this food court, you get a choice of cuisines from either Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand or America. Once you’ve decide what you want to order, you hand over the card to the staff at whichever one of the cuisine counters and they will beep the barcode on the reverse side of the card. Then you just stand there and wait for your food to be prepared before you take it back to your table and munch away. When you’re ready to leave, you take your ‘order card’ with you to the exit where there are multiple counters waiting to charge you. Your ‘order card’ will have recorded everything you ordered (unless the staff forgot to beep your card) - its basically your bill.

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Yesterday, after the World Hobby Festival event, on our way out we spotted a poster for some Spider-Man 3 promo that is going on in the Aqua City shopping mall in Odaiba which runs from April 28 - May 6. Since I and Tony had nothing better to do after the hobby event, we headed off to check it while while Danny headed for home.

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Every year, Sagamihara river in Sagamihara, which is approx. 2hrs train and bus ride from central Tokyo, collects and shows off over a thousand Koinoboris which draws huge crowds of families, couples, etc. This is the first time I have been to Sagamihara and is definitely the first time I have ever seen so many Koinoboris in one place! 1,200 of them, to be exact! I usually see a few on the balconies or rooftops of apartments/houses.

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I went to Ome yesterday which is about 1 hr 30 mins train ride away from central Tokyo (Ome is still Tokyo) to see some blossomed plum trees. Ome city is pretty famous for plum trees and there are lots of parks/gardens around. Because I woke up rather late (I arrived in Ome at 3:30pm), I only visited one place called ‘Ume no koen’ which literally translate to Plum Garden (15 mins walk from the station) and it happened to be rather crowded. This place has lots of plum trees and they were all in blossom - the whole place was white, pink and purple.

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… restaurant in Nishi Azabu. This restaurant is 5 mins walk from my ex-company and is the place where, then Japanese Prime Minister, Koizumi wined and dined US President Bush when he made his first official visit a good few years back. I was dining here with my brother the day before he left. The food is good here but the menu is somewhat small and limited. Oh, and I suggest you make a reservation if you wish to dine here at around 8pm-ish - even on weekdays.

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My elder brother, whom I last saw over 6 years ago, came to visit me last week. The reason as to why it’s been so long since I last saw him is because, just like myself, after graduating from University, he too left England for work abroad (hence I didn’t get to see him the last time I went back home to England). Although he was just here for 5 days, it’ just a great feeling to have a family member here. Now that he’s gone, I some-what feel I’m alone again being here in Tokyo…

Anyway, while my brother was here, I showed him around a few places (obviously, Odaiba is one of them as pictured). Will upload pics later…

紅葉/Kouyou basically translates directly to red leaves. Around this time of the year, leaves on some trees turn bright orange (or red) and people would venture out for sightseeing. A few years ago, I went to Kamakura for Kouyou and thought it was rather nice but I never got to go anywhere for Kouyou ever since. So this year, I made an arrangement to go to Takao-san which is 45 mins train ride from Shinjuku.

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