- ohikkoshi: part 1 -
march, the moving season. 3 of my friends moved (or moving) out of the dorm to an apartment.
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on the 23rd, i went window-shopping at IKEA Chiba with Adeline and Louise. saw a lot of nice furniture and room accessories which come in different themes and colours. we got DIY curtains and bed sheet with blue linen for Louise and coloured towels for us to stay over at her place. we were supposed to meet Hanyee who came to Tokyo for vacation but the plan was cancelled at the last minute(?).. would have been a good place to get furniture, if only it's closer to where i live.. i'd rather spend my money on something cheaper at somewhere more convenient if i had to pay a few thousand just to make IKEA send me the goods.
later at night, we accompanied Louise to her dorm to pack up things in her room, from time to time finding things like receipts from the last century.. toys and figurines that's been hiding in the drawer for ages.. a bunch of metal junk which was actually a few (quite a few) badly tangled up necklaces, which in the end i was asked to untangle them.. cockroaches and friends.. dust and friends.. and LOTS OF PACKETED SUGAR.
during the cleaning-up, we found a drawing block so Adeline and i started fooling around by doodling things we remember from our childhood days. it started with a geometrically-acceptable (but logically, not so) house with chimney and trees and birds with the sun at a corner.. then somehow there came a funky-looking My Little Pony, distorted Pikachus, a retarded Doraemon and a crazy Mickey. i remember singing the Circle of Life while drawing the entire setting of the Great Rock from the Lion King, with Mufasa, Simba, Rafiki, Zazu, Sarabi, Sarafina, Nala, Scar, the hyenas whose names i've never bothered to remember, the sexy elephants and giraffes... which reminds me we've also drawn a flying Dumbo beside the tree but it looked as if he was screwing the tree trunk...
so anyway.. we moved the *ahem* *supposedly* last few bits of stuff to the "new" apartment - a small but comfortable 1K with a loft. first we folded the curtain fabrics we bought from IKEA and clipped them onto the curtain rails. then we had a bonding session, drinking umeshu and munching snacks, and finally slept at 3 or 4 in the morning.
*****
on the 24th, we woke up late at 11-ish.. it was kinda cold that day so i borrowed one of Louise's long pants (which, obviously, i was swimming in them but i didn't want to wear my office-lady shorts, so i had to fasten them with a belt). we cleaned up Louise's room - vacuumed the floor and cupboards and drawers, wiped the furniture and windows, cleaned the veranda, showered the clogged bathroom (and left it clogged), and finally wiped the floor.
for lunch, we ate at Matsuya. after returning to the dorm to have Louise's room checked by the office lady, we headed to Siti and helped her move.
Siti's apartment is said to be near Saty (which apparently isn't THAT near, just walking distance), a nice and wide 1DK which is quite impossible to be found in Tokyo with only a monthly rent of 48,000 yen. we waited for the furniture - futons and IKEA book-shelf - to arrive (once again, i helped untangling her necklaces), and had mi goreng as dinner while watching a quiz show.
lastly we shopped a little at Saty, and the 3 of them sent me off at the station. couldn't afford to stay in Chiba for another night, otherwise i would start dreaming of having my own sweet mansion again.
*****
by the way, photos can be found here.
*****
on the 23rd, i went window-shopping at IKEA Chiba with Adeline and Louise. saw a lot of nice furniture and room accessories which come in different themes and colours. we got DIY curtains and bed sheet with blue linen for Louise and coloured towels for us to stay over at her place. we were supposed to meet Hanyee who came to Tokyo for vacation but the plan was cancelled at the last minute(?).. would have been a good place to get furniture, if only it's closer to where i live.. i'd rather spend my money on something cheaper at somewhere more convenient if i had to pay a few thousand just to make IKEA send me the goods.
later at night, we accompanied Louise to her dorm to pack up things in her room, from time to time finding things like receipts from the last century.. toys and figurines that's been hiding in the drawer for ages.. a bunch of metal junk which was actually a few (quite a few) badly tangled up necklaces, which in the end i was asked to untangle them.. cockroaches and friends.. dust and friends.. and LOTS OF PACKETED SUGAR.
during the cleaning-up, we found a drawing block so Adeline and i started fooling around by doodling things we remember from our childhood days. it started with a geometrically-acceptable (but logically, not so) house with chimney and trees and birds with the sun at a corner.. then somehow there came a funky-looking My Little Pony, distorted Pikachus, a retarded Doraemon and a crazy Mickey. i remember singing the Circle of Life while drawing the entire setting of the Great Rock from the Lion King, with Mufasa, Simba, Rafiki, Zazu, Sarabi, Sarafina, Nala, Scar, the hyenas whose names i've never bothered to remember, the sexy elephants and giraffes... which reminds me we've also drawn a flying Dumbo beside the tree but it looked as if he was screwing the tree trunk...
so anyway.. we moved the *ahem* *supposedly* last few bits of stuff to the "new" apartment - a small but comfortable 1K with a loft. first we folded the curtain fabrics we bought from IKEA and clipped them onto the curtain rails. then we had a bonding session, drinking umeshu and munching snacks, and finally slept at 3 or 4 in the morning.
*****
on the 24th, we woke up late at 11-ish.. it was kinda cold that day so i borrowed one of Louise's long pants (which, obviously, i was swimming in them but i didn't want to wear my office-lady shorts, so i had to fasten them with a belt). we cleaned up Louise's room - vacuumed the floor and cupboards and drawers, wiped the furniture and windows, cleaned the veranda, showered the clogged bathroom (and left it clogged), and finally wiped the floor.
for lunch, we ate at Matsuya. after returning to the dorm to have Louise's room checked by the office lady, we headed to Siti and helped her move.
Siti's apartment is said to be near Saty (which apparently isn't THAT near, just walking distance), a nice and wide 1DK which is quite impossible to be found in Tokyo with only a monthly rent of 48,000 yen. we waited for the furniture - futons and IKEA book-shelf - to arrive (once again, i helped untangling her necklaces), and had mi goreng as dinner while watching a quiz show.
lastly we shopped a little at Saty, and the 3 of them sent me off at the station. couldn't afford to stay in Chiba for another night, otherwise i would start dreaming of having my own sweet mansion again.
*****
by the way, photos can be found here.
posted by aikoais at 3/25/2008 09:26:00 PM
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