Tag Archive for 'Shopping'

Emotional

Today, I went to my school for the last time, to collect the last of my things from my desk, and to check the progress of the speech contest students as they start trying to learn their speeches. I also wanted to take a photo of the Emotion beauty salon on the main street on the way to my school. It's a pretty average beauty salon, mainly used by local, well-off housewives and students at graduation and other important occasions. Walking past this place on the way to work every day for the past year, I have always wondered about the decision making progress that could have lead to the following being chosen as one of the photos used to illustrate the talents of the artists within. Maybe the area is, unbeknownst to me, big with circus performers...incidentally, the other two photos chosen seem to be of continental European lesbians circa 1990, and it gives me great pleasure to know that somewhere in the hinterlands of suburban Chiba, there is a sect of militant Prussian lesbians, shunning the modern world, whose only contact with the rest of us is when forced to work as clowns to earn money to make ends meet...it must be true. Emotion is the proof.

New Nippon Working Glove

Eri and I went out Christmas present shopping again today - we decided to buy each other stuff in the sales instead of before Christmas. This afternoon we were in Stitch in Daikanyama, where I saw these shrink wrapped "軍手" (work gloves). Apparently they featured in the design festival in 2006 but I have never seen them anywhere for sale before. The only dissapointing thing about them is the quality of the English on the packaging, all very good save for some your/you're and there/their/they're mistakes. There were about 25 different varieties, like hiragana ones (Japanese text), Hokusai ones, Kanji ones and the other pair that I was very tempted by; measuring ones. I liked the idea of holding something in my hands and being able to measure its length at the same time! In the end though I went for these ones, which have a subway map on them. Going to prove very useful when drunk and lost, I feel! Good value for 1000円!

New Sneakers

My new sneakers finally arrived last night, after UPS had proved their uselessness by being, in my experience so far, the only courier/postal services provider who refuse to re-deliver something on the same day, unless notified by 3.30pm. Both DHL and the normal Japan Post (Post Office), do this, which is very useful for me and everyone who actually works during the day. Anyway, after another multitude of frustrating trips to shoe shops where they laugh at me for being a UK 11, I decided to buy shoes from a shop in a country that apparently is also populated by non-club-footed people like myself. I've quite liked these vintage Elites for a while, but this was the first time I had seen them in my size and in an internet shop that would deliver internationally. Very pleased with them, but am slightly concerned with colour-matching/clashing with current clothes...oh well.