Wally Nes’ Blog

As any expert on the laws of humour will tell you. The person you’re talking about is standing behind you when you are making your most outragious claim about this person. There’s a bananapeel at the bottom of the stairs you take when that girl you’ve been ogling first returns your smile and . . . .  the first weekend it really REALLY rains . . . . is the one of your birthday.

Weeks ago I’d made up my mind to organise a Karaoke Party. 10 – 15 people sitting around trying to make notes come out semi-clearly afteyr too much beer and laughing about people who think they’re actually managing it. It wasn’t till last week that it occured to me I was actually organising my own Birthdayparty.

The party took place last friday and I hadn’t expected such a big turnout so I asked everyone. Damn near everyone showed too. 32 people in total. Well, 33 including me but I had a bill for 32 so it was a nice little b-day present. We were mostly made up of program-members (vulcanus people) but we had 3 girls from the EU-centre aswell and Cosmo brought some random Japanese friends. First of all: It was a blast. Second of all: I’m not doing that again. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it, but some people just don’t belong behind a microphone and these places should have complimentary cotton wool. Damn, that bulgarian can really rape a good song (sorry Maksim).

But, it was a really nice party which was only the start of the evening as we went to Atom after. A nice club with better music then the one I visited last time. With a load of people there we had a real blast, with special thanks to my wife and the fair maiden.

 Now, there was a hike planned for saturday-sunday . . . . . . but

It was raining quite heavily on saturday. The fact that I didn’t wake up ’till 15:30 had NO impact whatsoever.

Sunday however I’d do the short 5 hour walk to some shrine or other, but again the weather wasn’t having any of it.

Having one emergency wet weather plan in place we made a mad dash for the Onsen. It was there that I spent my actual birthday floundering around funky smelling water with the fair maiden and my wife. And as an added bonus my wife brought along a guy without explaining to him where were headed. Explaining to him he’d have to get naked in front of some random Japanese guys was fun. His facial expressions while I was explaining this even better. Of course, that was only for the men’s part. For the shared part he was forced to wear a bathing suit, something he didn’t have with him for some reason . Ah, good fun

We ended the day with Cake, as one should on ones birthday. And that would’ve been the happy ending of my birthday.

Of course I thought finally calling my parents on this day would be a nice thing to do. Took me an hour to get a call through. Bleh. Apperantly the universal 00 [country code] doesn’t apply to Japanese telephones. They’re colour coded for your convenience. And the ones with the colour you want are too scarce to find in suburban areas. Thank Bog for Operator services.

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Quote of the day:

Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.

George Gershwin

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