keeping up

"Through Midtown, we aim to turn Tokyo into the center of intellectual creativity for business and culture in Japan, Asia and the world."
Hiromitsu Iwasa, head of Mitsui Real Estate, Tokyo Midtown developers.

Providing spin on a new development that appears to be little more than offices, shops, and a hotel on top of a big tower with some random pieces of art scattered around the place.


Maybe I should attempt to develop my intellectual creativity by visiting the shops this weekend.....

or maybe not.

....road to nowhere

In accordance with my to-do-list, I have made a flying start and been for a couple of runs. By coincidence I got a mail from my good friend Mr. Smyth who has also had his running shoes on, accompanied by his fiancee (Keri), they completed a half-marathon.... he also informed me of a few more friends (Ants/Kev) who had participated.

It got me thinking that maybe we have reached that age where that nagging feeling of getting old gets a little stronger and the excess "muscle" around the midriff becomes that little bit harder to shift .... the obvious course of action - go jogging.
I will try to keep up and hopefully when I return later this year I can join them....


Tokyo is still on for tomorrow.... not sure what I'm going to do there but anyways....

In my music news, I have belatedly discovered The Shins who are jolly good. Also, if you like mono-browed men with guitars 'Tigress' and 'Captain Badass' by Songs: Ohia are great!

to do. to do.

To do in the near future (or at my rate - before I leave Japan) ....

fun tings:
1. learn to skate better (yes i am aware of my age)
2. grow my hair as long as i can (before i get too annoyed and chop it)
3. trip to Tokyo (may be my last)
4. trip to Shikoku (first and likely only)

less fun tings:
1. save. save. save.
2. keep/get fit
3. get my Japanese vocab level back up to what it was over a year ago
4. throw out old things and ship home new things














hmmm.... fairly straightforward, lets see if I can do them all.