haagen dazs

has a new flavor, mango and coconut cream. sounds interesting, no?

today we had dinner at chow's. chow is a trained chef (although she is a journalist by trade) and her carrot and tomato soup with dill and black pepper is very, very tasty. highlight is caviar served with lemon and sour cream. everyone nibbles on ash-covered goat cheese and olives while i gobble up the foie gras. and we talk about holidays and naomi's new shoes from tsumori chisato and try to pretend it's not a sunday night.

hidemims and i are planning the annual "maggio cafe" on may 5, the annual get-together of friends who haven't gone away for the golden week holidays. since we're both living with our parents at the moment, we'll have to do it outdoors this year. i loved my old apartment because it was so cozy and full of character. but what i miss the most now is having a place to entertain friends. i need to move...

countdown to melbourne

we only have one more week before our trip to melbourne!!! i'm looking forward to this trip so much that when i lie asleep in bed all i can think of is what we'll do there...

i do have a shopping trip list (aesop, collette dinnigan, etc.) but our eating list is much more serious (we booked the flower drum!). besides, this visit will be more about drinking the local wine, seeing the different neighbourhoods and getting to know the city that purpleman loves so much.

after 5: shoes and curry

i am shocked to find that almost one out of every four shoes at barney's ginza has a wedge heel. i knew they were the look this season along with the african prints but this is too much! am i the only one who is wishing they'd go away and leave more shelf space to pretty elman heels and adorable round-toe pumps from viktor and rolf? i wonder if the manolo he would say, "the sheesergirl she is bitter about lacking the beautiful legs"...
a pair of flat, green-and-white maloles sandals make my heart beat a little faster, but not quite enough to make me dig for plastic. anyway, i am still repenting over my accidental purchase of seriously expensive jewellery.

after shoes? curry of course.
indian-pakistani curry house "nawab" in yushima is one of my favorites. a bit out of the way, but today purpleman and i decide to visit after retrieving his bag from the tokyo metro lost-and-found nearby. (details on purpleman's adventure)

we order butter dal and eggplant-chicken and ask for special mughlai nan with rains and cashew nuts. yum!!!! such a great way to start the week!

yoyogi koen

hanami,
originally uploaded by sheesergirl.

the young people's park

dream house

too much of my work hours are spent checking out melbourne's www.realestateview.com.au,
fantasizing about living in either a spacious warehouse conversion or one of those victorian terrace houses.
right now i'm in love with this one

coffee geek

i have a tiny crush on the waiter at cafe ordinaire in shimokitazawa.
the purpleman has encourged me to write about him. he's kind of twisted that way.

we call him the coffee geek. he takes our orders in a very serious manner and is always wearing a mohair cardigan. he has a mushroom-type haircut and wears red-and-white striped converse sneakers.

the sad fact is that i have never talked to him, but i fantasize that he is always waiting for me to come visit and maybe he is always a little disappointed because i show up with purpleman. maybe one day if i went on my own he'd give me a matchbox with his keitai number on it... and if i went at closing hour he'd join me on the red sofa upstairs...

purpleman gets porn and *ussy

i wonder what the purpleman tell his friends about his love life, but they have given him an artificial pussy and porn on dvd for his 30th birthday...

the artificial pussy is plastic and comes with a lubricant. it reminds me of chikuwa, because that's what it's shaped like. and it has a soft, elastic-y feel. very impressive, but i think it might be a bit too small for my man. his friends underestimate him!
we watch one episode of porn, which features "helicopter man" in all sorts of acrobatic positions. the actor is balding, and yet he has a mullet.

wee blossoms

SATURDAY-WAITING FOR SPRING IN SHINJUKU GYOEN
The cherry trees in Tokyo were forecast to be in bloom from a couple days ago, but only a few wee blossoms yet and in fact it looks like it's about to rain... The park is full of people though, and it looks like all of Tokyo has come to sit and wait for spring. But I have no trouble finding Yuri and Chikako's party because everyone has followed their instructions and worn GREEN. As a welcome drink, purpleman and I are each given a shot of GREEN jello, which turns out to be vodka jello with nata de coco! Genius!