Shinjuku

Shinjuku
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

Shinjuku

Shinjuku
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

Street performance in front of Lumine.
2 men were half naked, doing weird dance(posture??). the music was Great!!! they looked like ghosts with that white painting on the bodies.

Shinjuku

Shinjuku
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

i always felt like i should snap pix of Shinjuku, one of the biggest town in tokyo. sooo relieved to snap it after all!!(^^)/
if my friends come to japan, i should definately take them to Shibuya, Shinjuku first. then maybe Odaiba(tokyo bay), Roppongi(night clubs area) and Akihabara(electric town).
oh nooooo! havent snapped Odaiba yet.
hope somebody else will do that on flickr so that i can blog that pic. haha~

sikh dance

tama river
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

gurumustak's blog is cool. there was a video clip of sikh ppl dancing in the USA, which made me smile(*^o^*)
punjabi-munday-bhangra

sigh..

After typhoon, evening
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

2 coworkers took a month vacation, went back to Lanka.
therefore, my work increased 2-3 times more than usual...(=_=)
my boss is still going to see his baby in hospital everyday. shes now 900g. we are saying that he should buy 1000g of cake when she becomes 1000g.
he also picks up his girl from kindergarten at 2:30pm daily.
yeah hes making a good father, but i WISH my work environment will get back to Normal...(boss, coworkers all together, help each other) like before!!!! *Sigh*

typhoon

Yurakucho
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

typhoon called "Banyan" hit tokyo metro area tonight. (ref Japan Times on the right hand. there is a small pic.)
my coworkers were saying,
"oh noooo~!! japan has got everything. big earthquake, typhoon, then wat is coming up next??" (^o^);;
i was in the office all day. so didnt see rainstorm or anything tho.
the news reported 5 men injured.(all were repairing roof of their houses and fell off)
mom was horrified again and rang me several times. but i was in the cafe, having chicken & egg bagles.
"Go home, hurry!!! the trains might be stopped!" she said.
"doesnt matter mom. the trains stopped yesterday too."
"how come??"
"somebody comitted suicide."
and the cafe was unusually crowded. i think ppl who wanted to see rainstorm gathered there. too bad (too good??)
probably next month we'll see!

quake

Karate Kid
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

there was a big quake in tokyo metropolitan area at 4:35pm. magnitude 5.7.
23 persons injured. 44 elevators lost control. heard that was the biggest quake since 1992.
all the trains, metro, narita airport, highways had suspended services for a while. (some trains are still stopped. the main train yamanote line recovered around 8pm.)
i was taking a nap when it jolted. (haha~lazy saturday)(^o^);; mom was horrified and rang me up 2 times, asked abt damage. luckily one stuffed animal fell off, and nothing else was found. i heard a big bang-bang noise tho. maybe it was my neighbour's dishes???

kiwi

got a nice souvenir from New Zealand. our customer michael brought it tho. he wrote "Yoiko" on the wrapping paper.
my name is "Yokota". not Yoiko~~!!!
Yoiko means "Good Child" in japanese.
some ppl call me "Yokoha" or "Yokohama" as well. thats a name of city~~lol

pig

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Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

someone said Garfield looks like a Butaneko(piggy-cat)!?

Shiodome

Shiodome
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

the skyscrapers of Shiodome are beautiful at night. i saw a foreigner shooting photos frantically. wonder if hes gonna upload them on flickr...(^o^);;
i snapped off few shots of him with skyscrapers. but they didnt turn out. haha~

snow2

snow2
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

to whom may want to share my fantasy:)

thai restaurant

Den-en-chofu
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

got a surprise call from energy-san, and we went to Bangkok Kitchen or something in Jiyugaoka.
she ordered green curry(abt $10),
i ordered rice noodle with no soup(abt $7). but they made mistake and brought noodle with soup.(=_=)
as i complained, they brought another bowl of noodle later. but it was sodden and yak!! (obviously the same noodle they brought before)!!!!!
i like to pour vinegar & chili on this kind of noodle tho. it was tooo late to do anything with that wet noodle.
its okay, the thai staff were pretty cute and we had good times indeed.

happy holiday

meguro
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

tomorrow is holiday and i feel like going out for nice lunch. cuz ive been eating fast food everyday, at wendy's, subway, vie de france coffee shop, etc.
ooh my stomach is growling~(^o^);;
but temperature in tokyo is 30C now. how can we get outa house??? my old boss used to say that turning on the AC in the morning is decadence. but it cant help today.
wat im watching is John Candy's "Only the Lonely". he was a great canadian actor. cant believe he died at the age of 43. i searched John Candy and learned that he had heart attack. and his birthday was Oct 31, Halloween....same with me(^o^);; some ppl say Halloween babies sound awful/weird, but John proved that we are not so bad. haha~

pokepark

pokepark
Originally uploaded by AUS.

Can u believe this??
AUS-san's Great Shot at Pokepark, Nagoya!
awwwww~~~(^o^);;
i want to buy this Pikachu Car!!!!

paw

paw
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

i felt like shaking hands with Garfield today...:)) or is this ready-to-scratch pose???

kitty

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Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

its thrilling...lol
this kitty was upset with my camphone and jumped to the edge of bridge.
glad she didnt fall off(^-^);;

aka chochin (red lanterns)

aka chochin
Originally uploaded by ponkan.

this is ponkan-san's shot of kyoto girls at yasaka shrine festival. click for bigger image pls. its hilarious!!(*^o^*)

japanese literature

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Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

i forgot to write abt japanese books yesterday. sorry~(^o^);;
these are 2 books i like:
"Confession of a Mask" by Yukio Mishima
he was a genius! i think hollywood made his movie "MISHIMA" in 1980's.

"No Longer Human" by Osamu Dazai is also great. hes not as famous as Mishima worldwide. but its always cool to talk abt this book.

both authors committed suicide in the end. Mishima cut himself by sword, Dazai was drowned in tama river..:))

Book Tag

Oimachi
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

was tagged by Krishna Vampire. thank u very much(^^);; my book review is really poor, so this pic of chindonya will suit it.

<>Total number of books I own :
abt 130 (got 100 from my ex. dunno if i ever have time to read them).

<>The last book bought?:
Da Vinci Code

<>The last book you read?
Da Vinci Code

<>Books I am currently reading:
Da Vinci Code....(>_<) wheee~ i cant finish this book forever!! Chapter 40 yet.

<>Books that mean a lot to me:
"The Illustrated Walden- with Photos from the Gleason Collection"
(originally from American Classic "Walden", Author H.D. Thoreau)

"Banaras- Sacred City of India"
Photos by Raghubir Singh, Printed in Switzerland.

sorry im choosing only books with variety of photos(^o^);;

to whom i am tagging this:
Villager.(most indian frens have already done, so i'll shift to Malaysian). good nite~!!

Chindonya-san

Chindonya-san
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

Yay~!! He was playing taiko drum, and handing flyers in Oimachi. lucky me that he posed and smiled for a moment. they are called as "Chindonya-san", derived from the sounds of bell chin-chin(ding-ding) and the drum don-don. seldom seen in japan nowadays.

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Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

ah im sooooo sleepy today.
one more work day....*sigh*
my coworker was struck by bad news yesterday. we feel sooooooo sorry for him. cant write anything abt it(>_<)
i want to hold him and let him cry/talk as much as he wants. but actually hes opposite. been very quiet and indifferent.
so.... wat am i writing at 1 a.m?? get ready for bed~!!

today's useless work

shinagawa2
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

i thought it might be cool to place a map of my location in this blog, like other frens blog.
so, went to feedmap.net from nikhil's blog, enter address etc, got my badge to paste in the template. yay~(^^)/
after reproducing entire blog, a wonderful map appeared in the bottom. wat i saw was "Africa, Gobi Desert" in the middle of the map!?????
god...did i type Anything Wrong?? lololol
i couldnt believe my eyes, so reproduced entire blog again, then glanced up in surprise.
"Inner Mongolia" was written in the map!!! (^o^);;;;
aww~~i dont know where i am now??

Garfield

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Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

wat is this reactioon?? Garfield turned his back and started licking his gf, when i opened my camphone...(^o^);;
as if hes saying, "hey, im not interested in u. this is my girl!"
cute lil playboy, Garfield~~!!!!

weather...

Tsunazaka, Mita
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

the temperature dropped to 22C. felt lazy to go out today. thought i might be able to see my frens cam, but this comp sucks and keeps d/c since i installed messenger BETA..(>_<) oh noo i might have to uninstall it!???

there were quotes abt mistakes in krishna's blog, which reminded me of Oscar Wilde's famous quote. so i checked out websites of his 200 quotes.
yeah i was looking for this one:

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

this is somehow encouraging..(^-^);; it is not only me who keeps making mistakes. haha!
and this one was funny:

"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

LOL.. i think im talking abt weather too much.
and this one struck my heart:

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at stars."

Roppongi

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Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

fired~

uni-onigiri & tonjiru
Originally uploaded by niki yokota.

yuki was supposed to be fired today. but she didnt show up..(^o^);;
"ive been very sick. have feever for 2 weeks. dunno why but i wont be able to work for a while."
she hesitated on the phone. probably her instinct made her...
i think its a smart choice of her. when u feel like that u cant cope with new environment, u'd better run away.
i was fired by some evil bosses before. but at that time, i was juz working desperately until they say good-bye(^-^);; cuz i thought its irresponsible to quit whether they dislike me or not.
90% of these cases will juz worsen the relationship and nothing get better unless i devote 10 million yen to the company...*sigh*
there was one unforgettable boss in a foreign model agency. he was a manager, called as "fox" due to his mean looking small eyes. one model was awfully upset with him and cried out "Call the Cops!!" when they argued. i thought that was fox's fault, so juz looking at their fight amusingly.
the fox was too weak to fire that model, so instead he asked me to come to the coffee shop the following day....lol
"how do like ur new workplace? its been a month..", he was asking some questions. after 10 min or so, he said, "u dont have to come to work from tomorrow."....lol
(hey hey u were fighting with that model, not me. dont mix up!!) i wanted to talk back. but he was juz telling me how much i was disrespectful.(*^o^*)
wat was funny, then he tried to split the bill (juz abt $3). so i ignored him and walked away.
the following day, received a furious phone call from the fox.
"since u told him(the model) that ur fired, hes more upset now. totally lost control!! why did u tell him!".....lol
that company closed down in a few yrs.
i wonder where the fox is now...