Nomihoodai!

Dear all, I fear i am going to have to stop writing all my posts on a monday evening after my 2 days off as it will start to appear as if i spend my whole time misbehaving! The latest installment of the aforementioned is a sake and beeru (local pronunciation - my personal favourite being "gin n tonicu") fuelled evening dancing to R&B / Hip hop in a western style club in Shibuya (central Tokyo). I keep telling myself as i leave my house on a saturday night that i WILL get the last train home but it just seems like such a party pooper to leave early. So yet again my sunday was spent in bed! I am lucky to have monday off at the moment (its going to change to sunday and wednesday soon). But it means that I can still get up and do something on Monday. Have seen some cool art galleries and some really crazy architectural structures that you could only imagine in Japan.
There is also a place called condomania - which I have yet to see but it should prove quite interesting i think! Have so far managed to decline the offers of "fancy a trip to Tokyo disneyland".
I discovered today that there are 30 million people living in greater tokyo - no wonder i get lost and confused everytime i go into the centre (I am so glad i learnt some survival Japanese before I came out here!). Trains on the central line go every 2 minutes during the week and every one is packed out. You have to watch out for groping on such trains - which is why the government has now introduced women-only carriages during rush hour times! I have thankfully had no problems so far - and have got myself well prepared for such events (you have to grab the offenders hand and hold it high as you shout the japanese for pervert to embarrass them!) I can understand how that works! There is quite a high level of seediness around - all the manga is packed full of big breasted women, scantily clad and the men read it on the trains with children sitting next to them and yet you would be frowned upon for holding hands with your partner in public. It is also a big faux pas to eat in public and yet nobody seemed to bat an eyelid the other day as this guy was gobbing big phlemmy balls of spit onto the otherwise pristeen train carriage. Double standards a-plenty!!