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Visited Little Tokyo in LA today. Lots of "Japanese trinket" stores filled with swords, fans, kimono, yukata and stuff. Also a lot of zippo lighters oddly enough.
Found a kinokuniya bookstore. It's aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome. Used it to fulfil friend present stuffs. plink_chan, I know you said you didn't want/need anything but I caved in and got you something. A certain Queen's Blade book featuring everyone's favourite shrine maiden and the MIA female ninja. I WAS going to get you the Alleyne game book... well, not really sure why I chose this over that. I guess you can get Alleyne in print in a lot more ways whereas that book is the only way Shizuka exists :| There were other print materials, comics and stuff too for QG. Lots of other artbooks and stuff in general too. I thought the Lineage II art book was awesome but it's like, US$45. Found the Muv-Luv Integral Works book too but that's also around US$45 >_<
I bought myself a black bokutou and the last couple of volumes of the Sanctuary Arc of Saint Seiya. Was gonna get an issue of hobby japan but stuff gets expensive quickly.
Got a T-Mobile sim-card. Didn't have any success on my better phone which resulted in it completely draining the battery which resulted in me being stranded in little tokyo for a while. Tried some other stores, entered a part of LA which was more run-down than the prior area. Lots of mexicans and mexican run stores. I was dealing with one mexican store clerk. He was treating me like some sort of celebrity. Saying how awesome I was, how rich I must be, how awesome NZ was, how well NZ and Korea did in the world cup (relatively anyway, NZ is the only undefeated team in this world cup even though they didn't make it past the first round lol) and lots of other stuff, trying to grease me up or something. Anyway, after looking at my flashy looking mastercard, he comments how well off I mustbe (again) and then goes "So how many girlfriends do you have?". Not "How many girlfriends have you had" but "do you have" (and yes, he speaks English fluently). I'm really not sure how to respond to that.
Found a kinokuniya bookstore. It's aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome. Used it to fulfil friend present stuffs. plink_chan, I know you said you didn't want/need anything but I caved in and got you something. A certain Queen's Blade book featuring everyone's favourite shrine maiden and the MIA female ninja. I WAS going to get you the Alleyne game book... well, not really sure why I chose this over that. I guess you can get Alleyne in print in a lot more ways whereas that book is the only way Shizuka exists :| There were other print materials, comics and stuff too for QG. Lots of other artbooks and stuff in general too. I thought the Lineage II art book was awesome but it's like, US$45. Found the Muv-Luv Integral Works book too but that's also around US$45 >_<
I bought myself a black bokutou and the last couple of volumes of the Sanctuary Arc of Saint Seiya. Was gonna get an issue of hobby japan but stuff gets expensive quickly.
Got a T-Mobile sim-card. Didn't have any success on my better phone which resulted in it completely draining the battery which resulted in me being stranded in little tokyo for a while. Tried some other stores, entered a part of LA which was more run-down than the prior area. Lots of mexicans and mexican run stores. I was dealing with one mexican store clerk. He was treating me like some sort of celebrity. Saying how awesome I was, how rich I must be, how awesome NZ was, how well NZ and Korea did in the world cup (relatively anyway, NZ is the only undefeated team in this world cup even though they didn't make it past the first round lol) and lots of other stuff, trying to grease me up or something. Anyway, after looking at my flashy looking mastercard, he comments how well off I mustbe (again) and then goes "So how many girlfriends do you have?". Not "How many girlfriends have you had" but "do you have" (and yes, he speaks English fluently). I'm really not sure how to respond to that.