sakura....sakura....

i wanted to write the lyrics of the song, sakura, but then i realized that all i know are those two words from the song!

last saturday, i went to tokyo for the hanami. lloyd told me to get a map so that i will know how to go to their location. i tried, but i got lost. when i finally found them, jay & joeyphus arrived only less than 5 minutes later. i was supposed to arrive at least 15 minutes earlier than them. i really don't have any sense of direction, even with a map.

that day, there were so many people at shinjuku gyoen. but, it's big, there's plenty of space for everyone. when i arrived around 3pm, many people were going home already, but still many others were just going in. we took pictures, and since they close at 430pm, we left around that time. then, we went to have coffee somewhere, went to bic camera (bought dong's digicam), had dinner at ootoya, and lastly went to yodobashi camera (bought jay's ps3 & addie's psp).

on sunday, jay & i went to their ward office to have his address changed. when we went to the station (the bus stop is there), we noticed that they have some sakura festival. we took pictures there, but didn't eat their bbq. instead, we ate at kfc. then, we went to the ward office, then back to the station to go to kawasaki eki. the mass started at 130pm, we were about 10mins late. there were so many people. and since it was palm sunday, the mass took longer than usual. i had to endure standing (was using boots) for about 1.5hours. after church, we went to eat crepe, went to yodobashi camera (jay bought some cable for his ps3), then met lloyd, lily, doc tess at jiyugaoka to borrow lloyd's keyboard (they were on their way to hear mass at roppongi). since my feet hurt so much, jay had to prepare dinner (longganisa & itlog maalat), while i watched wedding bells.

i came back to nagaoka yesterday. now, i'm in the university. this morning, i listened to a presentation by a turkish professor about turkey & its languages. now i'm going to go back to reading some previous works that are somehow related to my thesis topic.

here are some pictures... will add more later.