Woohoo!

Since I am currently on a list-writing spree… here is a list of things I remember about my first year in Tokyo, in no particular order.

• climbed Mt. Takao and Mt. Mitake
• moved from a 2.5G phone to a 3G phone
• enrolled in Tennis school
• had my whole family in Tokyo for a week
• entered a billiards tournament
• got so drunk as to puke on a subway platform
• biked to almost all interesting places within a 5 kilometer radius from my apartment including Ginza, Akihabara, Tsukiji and Toyosu
• lined up to be one of the firsts to own a Nintendo Wii
• jogged around Chuo-ku and Koto-ku
• gained about 5 kilos… and keep it until now
• sing a “Bakit Ngayon Ka Lang” duet in front of a small crowd
• watched new year fireworks from Sea Paradise
• ride and actually enjoyed Dodonpa in Fujikyu
• went to Disneyland for the nth time.
• spent at least 10,000 yen every Friday night on food and alcohol
• stayed overnight ni Hakone
• watch Side A in Hibiya Park
• ate lots of Sushi in Tsukiji on a very early Saturday morning
• learned how to play the Super Mario Brothers Theme Song on the piano
• switched from black to orange
• bought my first orange ipod shuffle and lost it on a ski trip
• bought my second orange ipod shuffle and lost it on my Kagoshima trip
• took pictures of all bridges surrounding Shinkawa in one sunny morning
• flew back to Kagoshima to visit old friends and meet new friends
• signed up to a cable TV service
• broke my elbow on a snowboarding trip
• played tennis with a not so perfect elbow
• drove the streets and highways of Tokyo
• bought mutual funds and other financial investments
• went up Tokyo Tower and Roppongi Hills Mori Building
• bought stuff from Ikea
• harassed by policemen for being a foreigner
• bought my first flat-screen LCD TV
• bought a bicycle from the internet

Not a bad year after all.