The title is also the title of a school function I attended tonight with a bunch of other students. It was at this little hole in the wall club the student government had rented out for the night, and the seating was awful but that's besides the point. The first part of the entertainment was provided by a guy named John Gauntner [whom you can find most readily on Google], who gave a speech on sake and its finer points, before waiters came around with various shots of sake, all tasting different and all from different regions of Japan. Personally, I don't see the appeal of sake, but then again I don't like alcohol...

After him, an awful ambient band came on that made quite clear just what a headache would sound like if it were put through speakers...luckily, a world-reknown shamisen player [Shamisen is the national instrument of Japan, it's like a 3 string guitar...Google once again] Michiaki Shirota took the stage, and he was really really good [I actually took video of him, so we'll see if I can post that here later on].

Then there was a fashion show put on by students of some local fashion school that was freaky fun. Lots of pictures for you guys from that experience [this is going to be a picture-heavy entry].

There were a few musical acts after that from the school, but they weren't all that great, therefore I won't waste time writing about them or posting pics...

It ended and myself, the ever-lovely Perri, Bernadette and Dat [yes, that is how his name is spelled] went wandering around Roppogi a bit [pics] before heading back to Takadanobaba Station. At this point we're all kinda hungry, considering it's 11 pm and the last time any of us ate was around 4:30, so we headed to McDonalds and got chicken shakas [pronounced shock-aahs], which are chicken patties served in a paper satchet with a packet of flavor powder. They were good, but that might've been because we were hungry.

On the way home, we passed a claw-machine arcade, so we stopped in and....well, I'll let the pictures finish the story there...

Last night myself and three other girls went out on the town to karaoke. It was such a total blast! It's hard to put into words, but I got some minor pics from that. We also headed to a local, foreigner friendly bar after our karaoke time ended, which was fun for me because I got to sit back and watch the social interactions of both sober and drunk, asian and non-asian, male and female.