Tonight was a really good night

Awesome night tonight.

Ended up going out with my Japanese friend Masanori as well (who is a director and translator here in Tokyo. Has won prices at film festivals and stuff, real interesting person). And the Swedish friends that I mentioned in the last post.
First me and Masa met, and then we met my Swedish friends up.
Masa and I went to karaoke for 1,5 hours, sung among else RAH RAH RAH... Want your bad ROMANCE! :) wonderful hihi.
And about 12.30 we met Erik, Adam and Jessica at Hachiko, Shibuya. It was wonderful seeing Erik again, I haven't met him for ages as I was away from Göteborg most parts of the second half of last year and we didn't have a chance to meet the times that I was home. And I've been in Japan since January.
We went to Atom together all five of us. Had to pay a pretty expensive entrance fee to get in since we got there after 12 but.. Oh man. It turned out to be such an AWESOME night!
Me and Jessica, who btw was looooovely and really cute and kind, bonded a lot. Helped each other pick up guys (I wasn't really looking for anyone tonight though so that was all good), danced and just had a blast. The guys in the company were kind of to themselves mostly. Erik ordered 15 shots though at one point for all of us! Haha nice guy eh.
The boys went home some time around 4.30, to their respective places I am assuming. Me and Jessica stayed until the club closed, and were already talking about going out again tonight (Saturday night) on the way home. Yay, gotta love people like that!
Too bad they'll be leaving on Wednesday.. I guess we'll just have to enjoy each other's company as much as we can until then. Be happy for what you do got, instead of being miserable for what you don't, right?

With those thoughts in my head I will now go to bed 07.15 in the morning. Goodmorning sunshine later this afternoon.

See ya! I am really looking forward to talking to you tomorrow/today, J.. :)

Okaeri

Feels like it's time to do this again, blog.

Have kinda been using my Facebook status updates as a space to write both my thoughts, doings and feelings for a while.

As I don't want to get too personal for EVERYBODY to see though, and need a more spacious place to write, this feels like a natural step.

I would imagine that most of you already knows who I am... If not; I'm Viktoria, 20 years old, Swedish, currently studying Japanese in Tokyo and trying to find a job here. I love going out (or staying in) and have a nice time. Also like talking about interesting things with interesting people. And just having a relaxed, nice time. I don't need much more than what I need :) This is what makes me real I'd say.

My goal is to keep this mostly in English so that everybody who wants to can read this. I'll absolutely try! :)

As for today. I spent the night at my Korean friend Betty's (Hye Jae) house the night until today. She lives with her boyfriend whom I have also become quite good friends with. It's their wedding that I am attending in Korea May 22 by the way.

Yesterday Betty and me were going to have dinner at a kaiten sushi place (rolling sushi table, really cheap and really good). Kind of looks like this:

When we got there the waiting time was over one hour. We got a ticket with a number on it, the waiting time was stated too.

Since Betty is moving on Saturday she has a lot of stuff she needs to be done until then. So we decided that I would sit and wait at the restaurant myself for half an hour (had my phone with me that I used to text people like a crazy person, haha sorry about that but I know you love it deep inside) while she went home during that time, doing what she needed to.

Before I went inside the restaurant again I decided to have a cigarette outside. Had a ticket anyway so why not sit outside a little bit in the by the way lovely, warm summer weather.

While I was sitting there I heard a voice from about 12 meters (13 yards) away from me saying "waaaah sugeee kirei!". Which kinda means "waaaah, so beautiful!". I was like "hmm, was that for me?" but I couldn't see the person so I assumed that it was for someone else.

Suddenly about a minute later this bald, short 35-something Japanese man comes up to me without any warning, scaring the shit out of me. Saying "Hi, ARE YOU GERMAN?" I said no and then looked the other way. He continued saying things like "my company's boss is German", "my company is in Shimbashi, do you know shimbashi", "do you have boyfriend", "look at the blue moon, it's very beautiful, should we go and look" and just random stuff. In the end he said "Ok, I will go buy iPhone in the AU now, be right back OK" and went away. I was like wtf. It was about 8 in the evening, who goes and buys an iPhone just like that? Trying to show off or what? And just states it real casual like that haha.

Anyway I went inside the sushi place and just a couple of minutes after Betty had come back to the restaurant we were able to be seated. Sushi was sooooo good.

In the middle of our time there suddenly this mysterious bald guy appared again by our table though. He was a guest of the sushi place too. He said "oooooh, I was looking for you, how are you, can I sit with you" blablabla. My friend and I both looked at each other like "what is this". And I said "please get away from here" in Japanese to him.

Was that mean? I mean like. You don't just say like that to someone who bugs you in other situations, but try and show it in other manners that you are not exactly up for chitchatting. But if a person doesn't understand that then, would it be OK saying like this? I mean he/she sort of begs for it by being this intense. (Although it is obviously my own responsibility how I choose to handle that, nevertheless.)

And, if someone (like this person, perhaps) is maybe... I don't know... "less intelligent".. when it comes to social stuff or whatever. Maybe he/she doesn't understand what's so bad about having "please go away from here" said to him/her anyway. Maybe he/she percepts this thing, in the same way that "other people" would percept more subtle ways of getting him/her to go away from there. Percentual, in that sense.

I think you can't always imply what you yourself would feel if you had what you're saying being said to you either. (sorry for that sentence haha). I think people do that a lot though. But everybody's different so it is actually more logical being true to yourself and not desist from doing something based on only your own thoughts and feelings for it... To a certain extent then.

I mean how honest and true to yourself should you be?

This also opens up for another discussion; to what extent should you/are you allowed to decide over your own life; how much should it be OK that other people are affected? For example suicide, doing what you want even if someone else gets hurt by it. Also, this hurtness might actually be good for the person who suffers from it. I know I learnt a hell of a lot more of bad things happening to me than good stuff. So.. maybe the best thing is to be natural? It all goes round and round.

Although hurting isn't nice either, in other senses.. Hmm.

Is the bigger perspective or your perspective the most important, as well. For example if you had an ultimatum. That you either let 10 unknown people of different ages die, or you die yourself. I'll write more about that in another post.

Today: I am soon going out with a Swedish friend who is here visiting from Sapporo. Isn't that a bit random haha (as most things are here in Tokyo... Love it). We're probably going to some nice club in Shibuya, and some izakaya before that. I really like that the alcohol prices are so low here in Japan (in difference to Sweden) so that you don't have to drink so much before going out (preparty) in order to not get broke. Haha.

Golden week... (about one week off for everybody in Japan) Who would have known how lovely it is. In Sweden people are so relaxed already that things don't become much different when most people have a couple of days off. My theory is that here in Japan, people are so busy and cramped that these days off are the world to them though. With the result that like, the atmosphere itself is more relaxed in the whole city. And the fact that we are blessed (I don't know about from any god though) with this lovely summer weather (not too hot) doesn't exactly make things worse.

Welcome back my lovely readers, I hope you are ready; I am, anyway.

PS: okaeri means - welcome back - in Japanese ;)