 ++Great Beaches++ |
| ++Tokyo Fall++ |
| ++Danish Summer++ |
| ++Yokohama Harbour++ |
| ++SeedPods++ |
| ++South Korea++ |
| ++Shibuya Tokyo++ |
| ++Colors By Numbers++ |
| ++Great Beaches++ |
| ++Tokyo Fall++ |
| ++Danish Summer++ |
| ++Yokohama Harbour++ |
| ++SeedPods++ |
| ++South Korea++ |
| ++Shibuya Tokyo++ |
| ++Colors By Numbers++ |
| ++Israeli's in Asia++ |
| ++Winter 2003/04++ |
| ++Late Autumn 2003++ |
| ++Autumn 2003++ |
| ++A New Hope++ |
| ++Akiko's Ambush++ |
| ++EyeTest++ |
| ++Club Bunker Holocaust++ |
| ++Gravity++ |
| ++New Founde World++ |
| ++Musk++ |
| ++Zreek++ |
| ++Freek++ |
| ++Freeze++ |
| ++Cheek++ |
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night I chose to visit her house there was a typhoon going on,
which added an eery ambience and plenty of "rain-and-wind" category
sound effects to an already eery night. There was also a small
earthquake to add its usual mix of fear and wonder, and some people
got hurt when the roof of a temple fell down on top of them. I was
all set for a good time!I arrived at the house about half-an-hour late, and felt guilty when I realised the whole family has delayed dinner so they could eat with me. There are three generations around the table including the grandmother with gummy mouth, shocking blue hair -- but a winning sense of humour! On TV they were watching a program about these young people going around the fish markets cutting up squids so they could eat the eyeballs, which the grandmother found hillarious. (This last sentence is actually not true -- we didn't watch the squid eyeball program until the following morning, but I am just changing a few things to make the story flow better. Call it an artistic licence!) Getting to the point: dinner progressed smoothly, although I can never eat heartily when I am on a date -- and I kind of assumed it was a date of sorts, it felt like a wierd kind of date. We ate tempura, the Portuguese/Japanese battered fish and vegetable combo which I normally like -- but as I said, I was kinda nervous. After a bit of the usual chit and chat (I thought I performed well, got some laughs and impressed everyone with my poor Japanese!) all the adults announced they were going to bed and disappeared, and it was only me and Akiko left. I was just wondering what was going to happen next! THANKFULLY, I DIDN'T HAVE LONG to wait. Suddenly she said that she had to see her boyfriend the next day. I was initially disheartened, thinking that I got misread the situation, she said: "But what about you? Do you love me? How do I know you that you love me?"
I thought this was a little abrupt since it was only the third time
I had seen her, but I said: But what about the boyfriend? Ominously, he is a foreigner like me - - an English scoundrel. She kept saying: "I don't know what to decide? I like you both!"
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"Of course I love you! I luuurve you!"
and started holding her hand, which seemed to make a good
impression. For a minute I thought I had wasted my time going to
her house, but now things were starting to look more promising. I
got some kissing action!