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Dreams

5:03am JST Sunday 29 October 2006 (day 13367)

Japanese speech. She was speaking Japanese to her boyfriend, and I did not know the meaning. I was waiting for the English translation, but it never came.

7:17am JST Sunday 29 October 2006 (day 13367)

A guy from Germany was in Japan, and already knew some Japanese in just one day; more than just greetings, and I was like, "aw man.. cause it has taken me 3 years to learn anything.

I was like, "Americans are all HELLO HOW ARE YOU BLAH BLAH BLAH" and there happened to be some American women who were *not* like that standing behind me, and they were semi-embarrassed, but genuinely asked, "(I'm sorry); are we being like that?" and I was like, "not you guys, but most Americans have very little cultural sensitivity."

They agreed and then I was flirting with them and then flirting with multiple girls at once, but being really respectful of them in a way. I was doing a rap as I hugged on them.

kissing as many girlies as a man can
but always respectful and watchin' my hands
if you wanna know what I mean by it
I keep my hands on their stomach and not touch the tit
keep my hands in the middle, not too low or too high, 
and only on second date would I touch the thigh
but I don't ever make it to the date number two
after date number one I always say bye

Then a girl came up to me who was all flirting with me despite my rappery, or perhaps because of it. She was turned on and I started kissing on her ear and hugging her all the while thinking it was a bad idea, I would have to tell my real gf

The scene adjusted to having some younger boys with bicycles there, and they asked me if I could do any bicycle tricks, and I was like, No, but they assured me they could do various things, and I was like, "aight let's see it" and then they were like, "um um um" as they tried to get their act together, and I woke up.

Iraqi taxi

7:53am JST Sunday 29 October 2006 (day 13367)

This is from an Iraqi man I met on PB 49.

New Iraqi Taxi

PB54 return

9:23am JST Sunday 29 October 2006 (day 13367)

I'm headed out to Yokohama to see the return of PB's 54th Global Voyage. Greatly looking forward to seeing my mates and querying Carla and Tony about what it was like for them to be on a second voyage.

Specifically not taking my computer.

get team extravaganza!!

11:06pm JST Sunday 29 October 2006 (day 13367)

Holy hella wow wow wow wow, what a great GET Team on the 54th Voyage!! Nat¤Á¤ã¤ó did a great job putting together an incredibly cool team that bonded wonderfully during the voyage. I delightedly hung out with them at Jonathon's after watching departure (from the wrong side of the gap), chillin' between ¤«¤Ê (who will be hitchhiking to Fukuoka with Jeremy (sp)) and Aiko (with a dot under her s to make it an sh) from Istanbul (now Naha (where one year has turned into 5 years)).

Next to Jeremy and across from Aiko was another ¤«¤Ê, who I didn't really meet. To the left of the first ¤«¤Ê (and past a guitar) was Adriana (who I've met a million times, and always forgotten her name (until today, is my plan)) and then Carla (of the laughta fantastica) talking with John, Levi, and others I can't remember now. Aiko captured my heart for the day with her height, origin, stories and photos. Natalie captured the longest bestest hugs :-) :-) :-), and Tony captured the spirit with a impromptu drumming to which I busted out some useful rhymes. (*)

(*) the drumming and rhyming was actually while we were still back in Â礵¤ó¶¶ about 20 minutes before departure. I did a couple of stoopid rhymes and then "the boat's going to leave in about 20 minutes, you can stand here and beat, but don't you forget it." and Tony was like, "oh shit" and instantly stopped drumming cause he still had to Takkubin his stuff. Funny.

I arrived hella early (pre 11am), thinking departure was at noon, but it was actually at 2pm. Plenty plenty of time to watch the ship and tell stories and see some of the crew chillin', including Sabrina, who's been on the ship for years and will be Off Da Boat once they get to Singapore (in just two weeks). Huge hugs and cheek kisses to her and supa-smilin' handshakes with Melvin, her PB Beau, who will also be headed off at that time. Sabrina asked if I've heard from Paige (who is our usual first topic of discussion); neither of us has for about 2 months.

Saw Yukiyukiyuki¤Á¤ã¤ó who looked super cute and beautiful all at once, and got to see her reunite with Tracy in a pure innocent loveful romance everyone should hope to achieve.

Îè even came up for a bit despite her super-busy pre departure chaotic schedule (so busy that Phil didn't even come, and he comes to everything), just to have a 52²ó 3049 mini-party and arrange a way to squeeze in one more hour of chatter before Îè heads out to sea to CCC on the big 55.

At departure, I asked about Slavena and Kremena, because I didn't see them.. turns out they both dyed their hair dark! Woah!! Slavena (I think (they were pretty far away)) was wearing a brown outfit and brown hat, which I've *never* seen her wear before.. I eye-contacted her and asked if they were going around again. Yes. I will write to them this time. Fo' sho'.

Chatted with Yuri and Aya and Ayako (whose names I list in order of meeting today and in descending order of remembering). I gots to write to Ayako... probably. Yuri and Aya were roommates with my monkey-¤Á¤ã¤ó Carol-¤ê¤¨ on 52nd voyage; they hung out in the hall and all over the ship spreading smiles and friendly greetings to everyone they encountered. Really amazingly outgoing energy in those two.

Ayako knows me fo' sho', but I don't know if she was on a voyage or if she heard about my shoulder breakaroo from someone else; she wrote me an email that I plan to find and acknowledge tonight.

Carla and Aiko were roommates at the *front* of the ship this time (in one of the rooms so so so so far away from the cool action-jackson area of the ship that she (they?) were never in it). Carla was in GET Room 6, and apparently did a lot better on the computers this time.

Speaking of which, there were apparently several computer thefts at the beginning and end of the voyage. That is fucked up. Stoppit.

I was reallllly jealous to hear of the supa-monsta typhoon they had and almost missed Vietnam. People were barfing everywhere and Levi assured me he was getting air in his bunk while trying to sleep. WOW! I look forward to experiencing that!!!

Francois made some friends, first with Aiko, then Maria (from Colombia) and then Yumi's hat. Natalie asked me offhandedly, "how's Francois," and I was like, "he's on your side of the fence here" (as we were both turned around backwards chatting over the back of our respective booths), and she goes, "really?" in a way that I knew she knew. Hahahaha! funny girl.

Massaged Tony's shoulders for a bit, and got a request to massage Aiko's at some point in the future (I think I could get into a lot of fun trouble with her). She lives in Naha, and I've always wanted to visit there (ever since I heard Tomoe (from 52nd) lives there). Hmmmm.

After super-extended YRUU-style goodbyes to a few people (which they will all see in less than 24 hours at hand-over), I joined the group headed out to Natalie's area, and enjoyed sitting next to Carla and Natalie on the train. My two long-term favorites in Japan, both smart enough to *not* accept any (of my) advances. (happy sigh)

karaoke misdo

12:01am JST Monday 30 October 2006 (day 13368)

Had to say ByeByeKing to them (except for the King part) in Shinjuku as they headed on to Nakano and I stayed to meet Kakko and her friend for ¥«¥é¥ª¥± for two fun hours and ¥ß¥¹¥É where I tried to get them to play Truth or Dare, but Kakko wasn't into it. Fun anyway to tell them the awesomeness of PB and try and convince them both to volunteer to be CCs.

Before ¥«¥é¥ª¥±, we hit a ¥³¥ó¥Ó¤Ë for mega foodage, because I hadn't really eaten all day except for one plate at Jonathon's. Oops. More macaroni and then ¥Á¥ç¥³¥Ô¡¼¥Ê¥Ä, pudding, and milk tea.

Eminem's "Business" was not available, but I did well with "My Dad's Gone Crazy" "Without Me," "Lose Yourself," plus other songs by other artists. This particular karaoke place didn't have a great selection of English songs. But we did have a great deal of fun.