Shibuya alley

A friend at work (quite different from a coworker mind you) brought me to a Thai noodle shop in Shibuya earlier this year.

I was hankering for something hot and spicy and fast, so a few weeks ago I went back. Tom tum tameness ain’t half bad just so ya know.

Anyhow on the to get my fix o spicy sour, I passed an alley full of firetrucks and a crowd of umbrella wielding plebians being held at bay by a man in a blue parka.

“Interesting,” I thought.

After the blue parka man asked me not to take a photo, the trucks started spewing water into the air and I finally got it. The umbrella troops obediently trickled by, and whatever scene was happening in whatever shop got it’s rainy background. Alas, no clue what show has scenes in Shibuya. Kinda cool they were filming just on a random weekday though.

White and pink and NOT COLD

The past week+half has been like getting dropped in an automatic happy generator.

1. Visitors and more visitors!
2. Spring weather. Sun.
3. Rivers and streets and gardens and parks of cherry blossoms. Cherry blossoms floating down and forming drifts in street gutters, cherry blossoms making a public park into a wonder of fluffy pink-white, cherry blossom flavored mochi, ice cream, cherry blossom trees gently waving on the way to work…

I’m too tired to even post pictures right now. Been too busy looking up and around. I really suspect my right eyeball was hurting yesterday not due to dehydration or sleepiness, but from sakura overdose.

It’s so nice when stuff isn’t overrated.

Now you see it

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And then they ban smoking on all yamanote line platforms. I used to use the smoking station as a reference train for boarding the line to work, so I was a mite disoriented when it wasn’t there today. Sadly for the smokers, not just an April Fools prank.