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Well, I have figured out how to enable ANYONE to post comments here, not just those who are registered with the site (thanks, Sarah!), so comment away...

Big night here in Tokyo (at least for me and my little NGO), as we are having our biggest annual fundraiser - a charity auction at the Canadian Embassy. If you're in Tokyo with a spare Y10,000 in your pocket, buy a ticket and come along - free food & wine! I've suggested that we would make the most money if we auctioned off a Canadian Citizenship (think of all the tickets we'd sell at the US Embassy today!), but no go...

Anyway, I'll be dressing up and encouraging people to pay as much as possible for well, anything... Maybe I'll smuggle in my camera & take photos of the better lots (like the charcoal room freshener shaped like a scottie dog...)

Trends I'm not getting in Tokyo: facial piercings on trendy folk. You know (or maybe not, if you don't live here) the super-fashionable youth here - pigeon-toed deeply-tanned bleached-bolde short-skirted 21-year-old fashionistas (and whatever the male version of that is) are getting cheeks, chins, eyebrows peirced. Now, I'm not against peircing at all, but it seems to me that short-lived trends shouln't leave scars... And it kind of short-circuits the, ummm, je ne sais quois of peircing when EVERYONE does it! oh well... guess I'm getting old...

Still working on the photo thing (well, not really - not till we get a new computer, but soon!).