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Last week I met up with MissSin, Sandi, Ma-Chan, Su-san (my India travel buddy) and my new room mate, (Canadian) Greg to go to the Psysalia Psysalis Psyche gig at the Chelsea Hotel in Shibuya. PPP are a hot, new-ish, as-yet-unsigned Tokyo band. Their music is a kinda chaotic, eclectic blend of all sorts of influences (punk, screamo, jazz, rock, indie, post-rock, etc). It's very good. It was an hilarious night - Sandi wrote about it here (with some of my happy snaps). I have put some of the show pics up on Flickr. Still editing and posting so check back there in a few days to see more. I'm really, really happy with the pics I got that night.

Been busy - Fuku-chan, my room mate, left for Berlin early this morning so we've been busy packing her up and sorting out all the administrivia required.... (and throwing out truckloads of crap from the house). We had a lovely sayonara dinner last night with Kat and Darin (no, baby's not here yet [Oct 13?] and yes, they are doing well), and Sumika at Peppermint Cafe, and then late night wines at Moskow. It was kinda amusing to think that the following night Fuku would be in the real Moscow! Anyway, Greg-the-Canadian-microbiologist moves in this evening. Ch-ch-changes.

Have another 2 days off thanks to the school festival, very cool to have a kind of 5 day weekend - although I have been teaching some privates and generally "working" at home. So it hasn't been particularly restful. Looking forward to some catch up get-togethers with people I haven't seen much of recently over the next few days. Gonna try to finish Midnight's Children, too - it's so hard to just settle in and read a book sometimes. It's such an great read, I really wanna finish it but there have been so many stupid distractions lately.

I got a delightfully mysterious email from an anonymous group of friends calling themselves FCOM. They seem to be planning to take me away for a 3 day weekend around the time of my next birthday (end of November). Thank you to whoever you are. I am most excited.