One more time for the fans at home.

So my shittest day ever happened about a month and a half ago when I lost my wallet and all my yen. Since I kind of just lose everything the devastation was quickly replaced by a feeling of "what next?" Well today I lost my phone. No huge dramas, I have spent the past 6 weeks saying goodbye to it anyway since coming to the realisation that my careless ways would inevitably end that partnership soon. We went through ups and downs, highs and lows. It was pretty much the only gadget I owned to escape getting a name: my ipod is pierre, my ipod shuffle is phillipe, and that camera I found (and kept - more karma?) is still refusing to reply to any names I try. Maybe it made an escape, and who can blame it? The past few weeks I had been on a mission to turn my phone into the kind that would make teenage girls green with envy, the ultimate princess phone. I know in Sydney some losers put hangy things on their phones, and even little stickers but it is not very cool. Here the opposite is true, and there seems to be an unspoken rule that phone accessosires, such as sparkles, sparkly stickers, sparkly straps, sparkly jewels should all outway the phone. Actually it could be a spoken rule, who knows - still can't speak Japanese. So then I moved on from that gayer-than-gay endeavour and tried to turn it back into a normal man-phone with skulls and surf stickers. Perhaps a little too much confusion for one phone. I'm sure it will be happier/stabler elsewhere.

In other news today I went to Costco near where I work. It's a giant warehouse of non-Japanese food and stuff. Mostly stuff from America and the novelty of having things in my house that I can read the label of will not wear thin soon! The best discovery today though is that they sell Jim Beam and Absolut vodka for about $10 for 700ml. Insanity. And they sell cases of Coopers Pale Ale cheaper than I reckon you can get them in Oz - about $35. Double insanity. AND they sell Australian steak for about $20 a kilo which is an absolute bargain compared to Japanese beef. Jap beef is full of fat, though it does taste wicked. But the steaks at Costco are like proper steaks, from proper cows. It's funny cos Japanese people will only eat Japanese or Australian beef cos they think all other cows have mad-cows-disease. Nice one.