Tulog na tayo...

Overrrrrr....

It is 20:27 as of writing, still at m desk. This is the overtime season, and I wish that I had paid OT, then I would be raking it in. Alas, this is not the norm in Japan. The only reward you get is "karoshi".

Confessions Tour

Roll on Wednesday! I'm going to Madonna's concert with friends!

Si Maria!

Nihonshu is really easy to drink, especially if it is a good one. I don't get that buzz after a beer; instead, it works its way through out the drinking session, until you stand up for the toilet. Worse if you were sitting Japanese-izakaya style, all that 15% proof blood alcohol rush in to fill up your once-compressed veins, and the table too low to prop you up, leaving you with no alternative but to grab the nearest mop of hair! Gomen ne...

Rice lang yan... as my friend Maria would say!

Komix naman

Cans

I just can't stand listening to music with earphones/buds, just can't get enough bass! So after breaking my buta-bank, I finally bought a pair of headphones that has great, deep bass.
They also look cool!

Unagi!

SARAP! This was one good unagi, the "tare" (sauce) and "sansho" were also top-rate!
The unagi season is at it's end though.
Next on the menu for autumn, is sanma,
which is usually grilled.

There is this place I frequently go to for lunch, the menu has 6 all-year-round dishes:
(rice set includes a bowl of miso shiro, tsukemono (Japanese pickles), all you can eat "tarako" (cod roe), more tsukemono and "moyashi" - that's "toge" for us, Pinoys)
a. Grilled salmon and rice set - my fave
b .Grilled "hoke" (Atka mackarel, popular in Hokkaido)
and rice set
c .Grilled "saba" (mackarel) and rice set
d. Saba in miso and rice set
e. Maguro-don - sashimi natto rice topping
f. Maguro-natto and rice set - another favorite,
it's served with 1 fresh egg that you break and stir then pour
a bit on your steaming rice, then you stir your
maguro (raw chunks of tuna) and natto with tare and
a dash of wasabi and put a dollop of it on your rice,
then... the challenge is to eat this with chopsticks!
Ittadakimasu!