What’s a civet? Don’t know. Here’s what one looks like:

For the past month and a half, a civet has moved into the walls of Machida Garden. I’ve never seen him, but I hear him, screeching and walking throughout the night. He’s a nocturnal creature, so only comes out a night.

Management was slow to respond. Since moving here 9 months ago, I feel like I’m the only one who contacts the manager. Nobody else seems to really care about anything, but I’ll save that rant for another day. Anyway, after sending a “final warning” email at 4:04am last week on Monday, which was the exact time I was woken up by the sound of pattering footsteps, I finally got a response, and our temporary manager scheduled an inspection with a pest control company yesterday. I was here to talk to the manager directly, but he wrote the following note informing all of us the status of our new, non-paying roommate:

I don’t want to little fellow to inhale some poisonous gas and succumb to his final breath, but I do want him to stop running around at 4:00am waking me up from my sleep!

Lately there’s been a craze over Tokyo Sky Tree, the new broadcast tower in eastern Tokyo, but Tokyo Tower is still my favorite. I went up to the observation deck for the very first time recently, even though I’ve been to the tower a few times. It was a beautiful view. And did you know, there’s a shrine on top of Tokyo Tower? I suppose if there’s anywhere you’d like to ask the gods for a favor, it’s on the top of a tall, spindly metal structure.

If you have a chance and you think it’s worth the ticket price, take a ride up and see Tokyo from above.

Do you like traditional Japanese sweets? I love them. Especially now that we’re in summer time, I could eat anmitsu – a ball of sweet red bean, fruit, and mochi, along with some sweet syrup – or oshiruko – sweet red bean soup with mochi – almost every day. I wouldn’t say it’s good for you, but hey, better than a pastry.

Yasukuni is a shrine near the Imperial Palace, and also where I happen to go to school. Have you been? Now that it’s summer, the trees are lush and green, and there are lots of cool shady spots to sit in to get out of the sun. There was a group of elementary school girls in their little Madeline-like uniforms last time I went, but otherwise it was quiet. If you’re in the area you should stop in and get out of the sun for a while.

at work, we always deal with cute characters, and below is one of them. i love this show, now i can look at this seal at work, already pretty amazing. cause we do do biz with them. funny.

and it is eatable, it is a choco! hahaha.

again, ONLY IN JAPAN. ^^

nice chocolate!!!!!!!

too bad 1 is all i can have.

cute seal, one of a kind.

another seal, i got 2 because my co-worker knows i like these type of things, and sweet things. like she already recognized i am one of the pig in the office. haha.

one of the very cute co-workers quit. and she gave each one of us a little present, how sweet. and it is very pretty. at the back is tea. but i never drink tea like this, too trouble to go get water all the time, and that means i had to pass by boss.

i think my boss bought me this, it was delicious. and i still could not tell him i know he got married! geez! when can i start joking about this openly in front of him? ><

私もちょっとよく分からないんだけど、these couple months, don’t know why, i just kind of got attracted by some particular crystal like type of things. used to be i am soooo boyish, but obviously, whatever that was did not get me anything, and i was just too tired of the same clothes looking at the same thing again and again, and one day, i just feel like i can appreciate this.

so beautiful, the color …

half transparent, キレイ！！！

OMG!!!!!!!!!! >< love the reflection on the top of the laptop! ahah, that is right, that is my apple!

WOW, the last is the BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

super crystal and pretty ^^.

there are also others on sale right now, i wonder if i should go get all of them. i still think BLUE is the most mysteriously amazingly beautiful! and then they have BLACK, that looks dark and mystery. then we have transparent, kind of lack of color ね 。。。

well, べつに right now is super hot, that is not what i meant, but if the weather can stay like May, temperature-wise, and can erase this SUMMER part, that would be wonderful.

i am not like someone in the office, なにか暑い好きだって。。。ありえない。

these people are qualified to live in Africa. sorry, i cannot.

even when you are in a bad mood, for many people, it is hard to overlook these PINK beautiful flowers. aren’t they awesome? ^^ it can put a soft spot in your heart ★

i am not going to mention the name of this character, for some reasons, many people like her. i like her in ai. but the original pic … so so.

but this chocolate is darn delicious, haha.

i bought this a couple years ago, while those hk people went to outlet, i went with them, and i found this was a 一目惚れ. but not 1 single time i wore this out on the street. haha. recently i took it out and for the very first time i put it on my wrist. and decided to take a picture, how beautiful.

and btw, this is a real cow skin. haha.

well, nothing much is going on, ever since the beginning of this year, my every weekend trip has come to an end, there is really no more new places i want to take photos of, there are no more #human# i want to take photos of.

now in whole May, all my photos are of messages of 1 recently met person. because my phone is not iphone, my messages got deleted daily. so if i not take pictures of those messages, i know, one day, when he leaves me, i will have no more records of our funny conversation.

not much photos to share, but this is one of the “seasonal” packaging … isn’t it cute? ^^

this is one of the beautiful logo in ヒカリエ, the new building in shibuya. the first time i went, it seemed to have a lot of stationery and cute things, then 1 day, someone told me that is for female of 30s, then i went again and check …

i will never go there again. except for small items, seriously, it was kind of boring.

that is the photo of the medicine that i took for influenza in JAN … already almost half year passed, how terrible all these months have been.

but i still have to throw away this thing, so i decided to take a photo of it for 記念、to memorize my stuff first half year.

Did you know that the New Otani Hotel, right next to Sophia University in Yotsuya, has a gorgeous traditional Japanese garden? I didn’t, until my friend who works at Sophia brought me there for lunch. It was nice and quiet on a weekday, and we ate our lunch outside and watched a couple taking their wedding photos.

Beautiful! I recommend it before the weather gets too hot.

In my last post, I wrote about trash.

Either my roommates read my post or the Venus transit had a celestial effect on trash awareness. Whatever happened, the trash was taken out!!

Why do I hate trash so much?

Due to my upbringing, chores have always been a part of my everyday life. Plus, in the summer, flies, bugs and roaches are in abundance. I hate roaches! When I was younger, I lived in an apartment building. One family was not clean and when they moved in, they brought roaches. Their roach problem became my family’s roach problem. I remember seeing roaches in the kitchen, roaches on my pillow and even roaches on my shoulder!! I don’t like roaches and I refuse to live with roaches and flies and spiders and centipedes and, well, you get the point! That’s why I hate trash. It’s not because I’m a jerk.

To my roommates: Thank you for taking out the trash when it is full!