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Taxes and more Pirates
Had a productive catch up day now that I'm on holidays. First the gym - swam 34 of the not so usual 40 laps. But yeah 40 is what I should do!
Then off to Yoshiko's for a haircut. I love her shoulder massages. I'm touch deprived! She has now fixed up the botched effort I made on keeping my hair boyishly short, and may I say it's now really short!
Then I paid my City tax (Wow, and that's a hike/hit with the National Govt. handing over all these responsibilities to the Prefectures this year). Then went to City Hall to pay to get rid of my bread-maker (400 yen), which is broken - pick up by the recycle centre people is tomorrow, outside my building - and then renewed my Foreigner's Card in said same City Hall (I have to wait two weeks for the new one, but all the business is done for it).
Then I bought 10 000 yen worth of new bed linen at Takashimaya (Summer Sale) and it's all beautiful U.S cotton. It feels so good. Hmm, I've got a friend coming up to visit and I just felt I needed to do that.
Then up to the 11th floor for a superb Italian Lunch set. Yum - a bit costly at 1450 yen but well worth it! Loved the charred sea bream Main, but the chicken spaghetti with cream tomato sauce was delish too. Finished with a coffee mousse and some ice cream that tasted vaguely of passion fruit, but I wasn't sure.
Then I decided to indulge more, with a film. Wednesday is Ladies Day in Gifu so it's only 1000 yen (as opposed to 1600 yen every other day). I'd seen The Queen and 300, so "Pirates of the Caribbean" it was!
Great SFX, but overall the story was even more of a shamozzle than the previous two. There were just too many story lines and I couldn't keep up with the convolutions. I felt like I missed so much! I didn't get the stuff between Calypso and Davy Jones and whether he really did betray her, not to mention the back and forth between Elizabeth and Will. I guess Davy Jones did betray Calypso. Still I felt sorry for him. Also, I thought it was weird that the Chinese pirate was calling Elizabeth Calypso at first. It led me up a dead-end garden path that bit. Was that just the Captain Sao Feng's wrong guess, or did I just not catch it all?
One of my favourite bits was the later scene with Jack Sparrow's clones in the brig of the Flying Dutchman when two of the "copies" were cowering at the freedom of the open door of the brig (I think it reminded me of an X Files "clones of Mulder" fic to be honest! They were so "subby" and afraid in not wanting to take that step to freedom. LOL! But overall, even Jack Sparrow's scenes were lame. I liked the attempt at gay pirate humour, but it didn't always fly. The script was uninspired and definitely didn't achieve the same degree of fun-ness that the first one did.
Then off to Yoshiko's for a haircut. I love her shoulder massages. I'm touch deprived! She has now fixed up the botched effort I made on keeping my hair boyishly short, and may I say it's now really short!
Then I paid my City tax (Wow, and that's a hike/hit with the National Govt. handing over all these responsibilities to the Prefectures this year). Then went to City Hall to pay to get rid of my bread-maker (400 yen), which is broken - pick up by the recycle centre people is tomorrow, outside my building - and then renewed my Foreigner's Card in said same City Hall (I have to wait two weeks for the new one, but all the business is done for it).
Then I bought 10 000 yen worth of new bed linen at Takashimaya (Summer Sale) and it's all beautiful U.S cotton. It feels so good. Hmm, I've got a friend coming up to visit and I just felt I needed to do that.
Then up to the 11th floor for a superb Italian Lunch set. Yum - a bit costly at 1450 yen but well worth it! Loved the charred sea bream Main, but the chicken spaghetti with cream tomato sauce was delish too. Finished with a coffee mousse and some ice cream that tasted vaguely of passion fruit, but I wasn't sure.
Then I decided to indulge more, with a film. Wednesday is Ladies Day in Gifu so it's only 1000 yen (as opposed to 1600 yen every other day). I'd seen The Queen and 300, so "Pirates of the Caribbean" it was!
Great SFX, but overall the story was even more of a shamozzle than the previous two. There were just too many story lines and I couldn't keep up with the convolutions. I felt like I missed so much! I didn't get the stuff between Calypso and Davy Jones and whether he really did betray her, not to mention the back and forth between Elizabeth and Will. I guess Davy Jones did betray Calypso. Still I felt sorry for him. Also, I thought it was weird that the Chinese pirate was calling Elizabeth Calypso at first. It led me up a dead-end garden path that bit. Was that just the Captain Sao Feng's wrong guess, or did I just not catch it all?
One of my favourite bits was the later scene with Jack Sparrow's clones in the brig of the Flying Dutchman when two of the "copies" were cowering at the freedom of the open door of the brig (I think it reminded me of an X Files "clones of Mulder" fic to be honest! They were so "subby" and afraid in not wanting to take that step to freedom. LOL! But overall, even Jack Sparrow's scenes were lame. I liked the attempt at gay pirate humour, but it didn't always fly. The script was uninspired and definitely didn't achieve the same degree of fun-ness that the first one did.