Birthday II

First of all a thank you for everybody for your calls and emails...it was really nice to receive them..felt sort of at home again all of a sudden.
Well it's time to meet the other Birthdayboyz...Mads (15th november) and Colin (21nd november). Since we all had our birthdays this month Aki organized this evening for all three of us. The place is called Capricciosa, an Italian nomihodai (drink as much as you like place with Italian food) on the 5th floor of building next to Nagasaki Station. We had the party room with stunning views over the neon lit bay.
We were with about 15 people in all, the Dutch, the Germans, the Japanese and our three friends from Taiwan台湾. Fun was to be had by all....after a couple of beers and other cocktails and the food was good too! We all got a lot of prezzies and on top of that Alexandra had organized the birthdaycards and the presents for me. A sake, 日本酒 nihonshu, made out of potatoes 芋, imo ( a Nagasaki speciality) a beautiful plant(no idea what it is called), a Japanese grammar dictionary (God only knows...I really do need it!), a Pointsettia (for the season) and even a cilantro plant (for all the Thai cooking we do here), which must have been very hard to come by. A big thank you to Alex.....
From our tutors we got beautifully made chopsticks, a sake cup and a little puppy with a significant meaning which right now escapes me for the moment.....
Since Mads and Colin got a hentai (manga porn for perverts) for their birthday it was decided to get a gay one for me too. So the boys gave me a vanilla version of 'boy love'. The genre is called 'Yaoi" and is mostly read by young women and girls ??? It will definitely improve my Japanese language skills in certain areas !
By the way the bands the birthday boys are wearing have the saying: 私は主役です！watashi wa shuyaku desu! : I'm the star !!
We topped the evening of with this most popular of Japanese passtimes....getting your picture taken with the whole group in a tiny booth...it's hot, it's quite a lot of rolling about in front of a moving camera and a awful lot of fun.
No hangover thanks to sticking to just one kind of drink only. I'm apparently wisening up as I get older.

Forgot Walter's Birthday on the 21st (ever so sorry) but not Rianne's on the same day. So not as demented as I thought....there's hope for you out there!