51 posts tagged “money”

I did not want to get out of bed today. Who can blame me, look how scary it is outside!

oct 20

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So I went to the Shinagawa immigration bureau bright and early this morning to ask for a visa extension. The lady who spoke to me was a bitch and said they could only give me a 15-day extension. My flight back to Seattle is September 29, 17 days after my tourist visa expiration date. She handed me a list of airlines' phone numbers and told me to leave Japan as soon as possible.

I was upset, but could tell they were not going to budge. I was already breaking the rules. I came back here to WH's house and started looking for flights. I could not believe I was actually going to have to spend more money. After hours of browsing several different travel agencies, I bought some tickets. I considered Singapore, Viet Nam, Thailand, Bali, and other places. I just really wanted to go to the beach this year...

I found a weird ticket to Bangkok with day-long layovers in Viet Nam. Not very expensive... I bought it on credit. So, I have one day in Saigon, seven in Thailand, and a day in Hanoi. Departing on the 17th!

I promise I won't miss this one...

It is kinda chilly outside and I just started my period (boo). My arms are sore, and WH is at work now... I am just gonna stay here and read up about Thailand.

I got a bunch of new stuff!

Last night I gave into the UFO catchers again and won three Mario Kart plushies. A red mushroom, green koopa shell, and a sparkly super star. Sooo cute!

Today I spent a zillion yen on the Vivienne Westwood bag. I love it so much... I am just going to use it for a couple days then put it away while I am traveling through Viet Nam. It is so cool, love it!

I am ignoring phone calls like it is nobody's business. My brother is back in Tokyo but I don't know if I can see him. My sleep schedule is too inconvenient to meet day time people. Guy from the sex club wants to meet me tonight for a drive... and says he will come to the club Thursday night. Nice!

Better get ready for work. It is almost over!

It is clear to me that I have an addictive personality, there are many things I need to stop doing. But! Like OptaMISStik, I have an embarrassing habit I must write about. I see it every day on the way to work, neon colorful, playing happy electronic tunes, an oasis in the middle of Roppongi bars... the Game Center!

But there is more, dear reader, I have but one vice at the game center: the dreaded UFO Catchers!!! Those evil machines filled with the most desirable of plushies. I see those cute faces, piled upon each other, trapped inside that clear cube, guarded by the mindless UFO grabber. I must save them! At all and any cost!

I open my coin purse and lack the 100 yen coins I need. I toughen up and whip out a 1000 yen note, then make my way to the change machine. Do not fear, dear little plushes, I will return for you!

With ten coins I am able to make my attack. I always fail the first time! The second time, I get serious. But I am only able to move that plush slighty. The third try is a charm. I go in for a deep sweep. YES! Success. Two of my friends fall out from their prison.

While I am sure they are grateful for being free of their captor, they long for their friends, the other members of their family, I need the full set! Like a true comrade, I take the sacrifice and feed the machine more of my coins. There is no turning back now. I save the green guy. Tension builds as I continue to falter, my coin purse beginning to feel so light. But I still need to get the blue one!

At last! My collection is complete! The joy I feel is overwhelming, mission accomplished!

my plushes

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Went to Mask after work and met this one customer I know. He was with a Canadian hostess from Ginza. She was kind of stupid but we drank together. Afterward, the customer suggested we go to a strip club, I said sure! I think it's fun. We went for a couple hours and I enjoyed it but the Canadian girl was freaking out, it was her first time in Roppongi.

I requested a blond Russian girl to sit with us and she was pretty friendly; she kept feeling me up. I didn't mind, the new shirt I wore was silky (it is a pajama shirt) and it felt nice to be petted. By the end of the night, I had gotten a private dance and tipped the stripper the Japanese way (which was me laying back on the stage, my shirt unbuttoned, holding the note in my mouth while the stripper rubbed herself on my chest and face, finally taking the cash with her mouth). It was an interesting experience.

I bought the wallet I mentioned yesterday, I love it! But I am keeping it in the box. It is driving me crazy, I need to buy the purse (I put it on reserve). I have a Vivienne Westwood handkerchief, cigarette pouch, and wallet, but I need to buy that purse! Next week...

I stole some tights from Shibuya yesterday. I am kinda stupid. I dreamt that I got arrested last night. I also dreamt of the UFO catchers and stealing plushies out of the bottom of the machine. Yeah I am crazy. Stealing is another thing I need to quit, I will add it to the long list of my terrible addictions.

I guess they aired my earthquake interview on Fuji TV today because my friend in Kyoto mailed me and said she saw me! Then I got online to check my email, and some friends on mixi also said they saw my comment! Yay! Too bad I missed it.

Planning to go to a Happening Bar on Friday night with Baldy and dragging Workaholic Hostess along. I can't wait! I have been interested in going for a while now, and it is finally becoming a reality.

Work was pretty slow yesterday. I was number 5 last week and number 6 for the month *unenthusiastic woo~* I got sent home early last night, but made a little cash at Mask afterward. The rain has stopped and it's all sunny again. I think I am going take a walk to OIOI in Shibuya and buy the Vivienne Westwood wallet I want.

I stayed in bed for several hours yesterday feeling kinda bad, but got up after dark and went to Roppongi. I had promised the guy at Mask that I would come. He owed me money anyway, only about 5000 yen, but still, that is something! About ten percent of the bag I wanna buy!

After I got bored of the place (no customers), I went to visit a few other bars. Nothing was happening. I was going to go home when I heard a male voice call my name, Anna??

It was his voice that made me recognise him more than his image, but I immediately remembered him and said his name. This weird Japanese guy I had a brief romance with last summer! He got sacked at JPMorgan and works for Mitsubishi UFJ now. He is still too rich for his own good and we went for a few glasses of champagne at Tokyo Midtown orange. He seemed way too happy to see me. We chatted about what has happened since last summer.

He had been drinking with his customer and was on his way home. He insisted I take a taxi to my house, I said sure. He kissed me several times in the taxi, then I left. I know he hardly has any time, so who knows if he will see me again.

Tonight is a fateful night for me! I hope everything works out at work and they let me stay for a couple more weeks.

I joined my older brother on his search for anime figurines yesterday in Akihabara. He was serious. Despite having Akiba memorised, he carried a personally annotated map marking his hot spots. He had a list of figurines he needed to buy in order of priority, and spent about 20,000 yen in the time I spent with him on the plastic characters. He is such an otaku. We had some curry and donuts together before I ditched him around 17:20. He is leaving to Niigata tonight and I probably will not see him again for quite a while.

I went to Tabata and had my tattoo design drawn at about 18:00. I really really love it... I would post the preliminary design, but I am sure the final product will be more beautiful! My tattooing appointment is this Friday. It is gonna take a few hours to complete and cost about the same as my rent this month, but it is worth it to me.

Dunno what to do today, bored again. I will go buy some mango juice.

It is seven in the morning and I have wasted yet another day of my life in Roppongi working then eating and drinking, first with customers then with Clair and her older brother. But really, I have not many better things I could be doing this summer. School starts soon and I guess that will make me feel more useful. Or I will just be too busy to really think about my self-worth.

I have to start packing up again tomorrow (today). Not excited about that. I hate packing. It is not even the packing that bothers me, it is the end result and after-products, the heavy suitcases and having to pay for transportation elsewhere, carrying the heavy suitcases. I hate it!

And yet another thing I need to replace, my hair iron. It was really cheap, 15 dollars or so, made in China crap but it worked well for me for over a year. I guess it is about time I buy a new one, it is just a pain to have to spend money on something like that.

Guy from last night, we can call him Kuro, mailed me saying we should hang out again. I replied with sure! I doubt I will have much time to do anything besides attend my classes and go to work for the next two-three weeks, but maybe! I think it would be fun.

It is strange, these days, just going about my business in Minato-ku, or sitting at the club waiting for customers, I get these strange lines, I dunno, of verse or something, ideas that I want to write down, especially the past days, but I am always in a situation where I cannot write. Right now, I want to collect some thoughts and write... as I wait for the shower to free up.

The past couple days have been busy! I freaked out on Monday night after I dropped my computer and it started making strange noises. My user profile will not load but that is fixable. I still have all my writing and photos (priceless to me) but I do not trust this computer to last very long so I want to buy a new one. Too bad I am super broke and laptops here are expensive! We will see...

I was happy to go to work last night to get away from my sad and dying computer, but once I got there I realised, again, how much it sucks. WH wasn't there either so that made it double-boring. Customers are so retarded.

I am moving into my room at Waseda this friday. I was just informed that I have been given a single room! So I will not wake up any annoying roommate after midnight when I come home from work. And no one will know what time I come home. Yes! One school problem is, though, that the textbook I need got mailed back to my house in the United States. That book has been so troublesome.

Practiced karaoke and drank at the club after work yesterday night. I joked (half-serious) in my drunkenness about planning to sell my body to make some extra cash. Afterward, around 4:30 in the morning, Clair and I went to Vibration, she said to find my customers. Instead we met a couple young Japanese guys randomly. Guy I liked was 25 years old (I am proud of myself for choosing a younger guy!), tall and slim. We talked and danced... then all four of us took a taxi to Shibuya and went to the same hotel.

Yeah I went to another love hotel, but I actually did it this time. I had a good time... I got his phone number and mail address so maybe we can meet again. Who knows. I took the bus back to Nishi Azabu from Shibuya this morning. It is actually much more convenient than taking the train, I have learned. I usually walk to Shibuya anyway, but the bus is quite nice!

It is gross and humid today... I need to take a shower. Lisa is coming to Japan tomorrow, I am gonna meet her friday afternoon. Stressing about it! Stressing about school and money! But I gotta take it day by day right now.

Last night, Matsuda did not call me. I figured he did not wanna deal with me anymore after sort of ditching him Saturday. Takahashi called instead and we went out for yakitori and drinks at Roppongi Hills. Same old chatting. He told me, though, that if I can introduce him to a girl and he manages to kiss her, he will give me 50,000 yen. More, if he manages to sleep with her, he will give me 100,000 yen. And! If the relationship lasts more than 3 days, he will give me 200,000 yen. He was serious! I told him I would try my best. Any takers?

Today I slept in. Matsuda called me in the morning and we made plans to meet at 17:30 and have dinner. (It is funny to me how often I make plans while still in bed, half asleep. People call me in the mornings, I arbitrarily select an evening time to meet them, then fall back asleep).

I have to admit I was a little afraid to meet him. All these paranoid thoughts were racing through my imagination, I half-expected a hundred police cars to be waiting outside my building, but I met him. He was innocently waiting smoking a cigarette at the crossing. We went to Shibuya. We went to a nice restaurant and had a small meal. Seafood salad and some cold pasta, wine and cheese.

I was wearing long-sleeves. It is normal for me to wear long sleeves even in the hottest weather, but he commented on it and told me that I needed to buy summer clothes. I acted surprised but I could tell he wanted to take me shopping in Shibuya. I bought a couple shirts from 109 and OIOI. The shops were closing and he gave me the change. It added up to about 13,000 yen, he told me to spend the rest of it tomorrow. Yeah right. I will save it for my living!

He wanted to go to an izakaya. We went to a fancy-ish one in Shibuya where he had me sample different types of shochu, he ordered a glass of several different kinds (they all tasted almost the same to me). We had sushi and tsukune and miso soup. Afterward he asked me where I wanted to go, a club? Karaoke? Home? He did not want me to go home, so we went to karaoke. All the karaoke places in Shibuya were full so we went to Roppongi, but not before he bought me the new Gazette album, the Limited Edition CD&DVD (which came with a complimentary pencil board with a photo of the band printed on it!) and Gazette wristband at HMV. Yay! They are my favorite current visual kei band!

We went to the same karaoke place that Shinya and the Israeli girls took me to last year, near my old club. We drank and sang (mostly my songs). We had another few drinks in Roppongi, then he let me go home...

In short, today was a success. Listening to my new CD now!

new Gazette stuff!

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