hope all my ricers had a good time at esperanza =) man i miss formals...also good luck to my SAS peepz doin Dhamaka this weekend...wish i could be there bhangra-ing it up with yall. good luck yall, can't wait to see the DVD when it comes out!
things have been ok here...the drudgery of every day life has definitely set in. i live for the weekends now...sometimes for sleep, sometimes to go sightseeing round kyoto and kyoto prefecture, sometimes to recover fro the previous nite of, umm...fun =) miss home like always, but starting to get into a rhythm in my life here...its always something new everyday, lol...not really anything new to report, except -- hopefully by tomorrow i'll have a confirmed ticket home. YAY! I'M GOING HOME! i'll be arriving December 22, at which point I'll head for colorado for xmas with my parents and bro, skiin on the slopes of Vail, colorado, till December 29. I'll be in the houston area from around December 29 - January 7...SO......if ANYONE wants to hang out, EAT, chill, PARTY, go out, TAPIOCA, or anything involving food, drinks, tapioca, alcohol, HALO, other video games, paintball, dodgeball, LAZER TAG, or ANY combination thereof plus unnamed other random activities, EMAIL me at alan.chuong@gmail.com. DO NOT call my old cell number, since it doesn't work anymore. either call me starting december 29 at my home number (email me if you dont have it!) OR shoot me an email and I'll send you a number i can be reached at. yay!!!!! can't wait to see alllll of yall again, or at least as many of yall as i can cram into a week and a half! so let the games begin!
here's some more pics to keep the rest of yall interested in reading my entries, haha...
gap EXTRAslim fit jeans - holy crap! only in japan...
yeah...up in the sky, its a bird! its a plane! its...APAman!!
some of the americans here still like trick or treating =) there's a
recently went to the festival of the ages...basically a big parade honoring all the time periods that passed with kyoto as the capital of japan. badass warrior costumes, and some scarrrrrry girls!
a recent trip to osaka, to check out the aquarium and one of the world's biggest ferris wheels!
the reason i always shuffle my feet when i'm swimming in the ocean...cuz these fockers might be around =T
so...since they don't do the whole thanksgiving thing here (surprise, surprise...), they're already gearing up for xmas! o no, just realized i'm not gonna be able to go after-thanksgiving day shopping at 5am with my mom and bro...noooooo.....
OxFam charity pub quiz with the other JETS, ALTs, and random interested Japanese ppl. here's a pic of the cool waitress with dreads
random shot of some "olbies" aka "older" JETS...hahaha...
a team of female JETS - aka the "genki gaijin girls" (energetic foreign girls), minus one californian
the winning team (not only the highest number of points, but the highest combined age too! haha...) aka "2N10S"
random craziness =)
the local yamashina couple
and my team - sadistic action =) don't ask, i wasn't the one who came up with the name. we did pretty decent, considering we had the youngest combined age...AND most of the questions concerned things that either weren't american or were about pop culture in the 70's and 80's...does anyone remember the 80's? hahaha.....)
that's all for now, thanx yall! check back soon for pics of beautiful temples and shrines, plus more cute pics of little kids =D take care, gnite | 
