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Tag Archives: Friends
Fun Experiences FunCongratulations!
April 18, 2011 – 21:48
Yesterday I attended the wedding of a close friend – in fact, I was best man! Though I did not have to do too much, I think I felt more nervous than Leon (the groom)! Leon’s been a good friend of mine for… heck, I guess over 10 years now. We both attended the same introductory courses when starting university, and I have fond memories of us doodling (when admittedly we should have been paying attention to the teacher) during the less exciting sections of the lesson. I still have some of those doodles stored away amongst my old papers… Leon was also my go-to guy for math/stats courses *shudder*.
He graduated before I did since he had already taken some university courses prior to TUJ, but we still kept in touch over the years. It’s odd to see how we’re getting older, and (hopefully) more mature. How time passes…
Anyway, his wedding was a great success – an absolutely lovely day, and everything went off without a hitch. I’ve created a separate section to upload the pictures that I managed to snap after the ceremony. For now I’ve only uploaded the black and white versions, but I’ll upload the color versions after I’ve had a chance to go through them – hopefully by this weekend.
shashin.njmatsuya.com/lmwedding
Omedetou Leon and Machiko! 🙂
Knife hunting in Kappabashi (2008)
January 28, 2009 – 16:39
Around September of last year, I took Josh and Sir Niles to Kappabashi in search of a knife. Not just any knife, but rather the mythical 777 times-folded legendary Kusanagi blade. Well… not quite. Actually Josh’s grandfather had asked him to get a good quality sushi knife. After asking around, I was told that Kappabashi (otherwise known as the Kitchen Town) would be the place to check and so off we went.
Kappabashi certainly deserves its reputation as a “Kitchen Town” as you can probably find any kitchen-related item you could need in one of the many shops that line the street. As it happens, we also found a really exquisite knife. The shop owner assured us it had at least 100 layers (if I recall correctly), and it was one of the last blades they sold that had a handle made out of deer horn (apparently such practices are now outlawed?)
It was a beautiful item, and below are some of the pictures Josh took of it.
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Oh, and by the way – kappa statues are just weird… see the rest of the Kappabashi pictures below!
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-NJ
Fear the Bucktoothed Pink Rabbit!
January 28, 2009 – 01:12
Came across these pictures I took of Josh (the friend, not brother) at Tokyu Hands and knew I had to put them up!
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I had accompanied him there whilst he was doing some shopping for his family (ended up getting some Star Wars noren for my family as well!) and we came across this display of costumes (I think these were in preparation of Halloween). He tried them on, I took pictures – and here they are for all to enjoy! 😛 I think they came out well!
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For anyone interested, this was at the Tokyu Hands store beside Takashimaya in Shinjuku. Tokyu Hands is pretty good at having a nice assortment of items, ranging from craft materials, to halloween costumes, to racing bicycles. Not always the cheapest of places (especially for any brand name items) but their wide assortment of items usually makes up for that.
-NJ
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