Chuwy thoughts: August 2008

Whoah, that's a big one!

Yes, indeedy.
I have a big one, ladies.
It's huge.

Almost 180km!

I am, of course, talking about a bicycle route.
Gonna try and do the coast of Izu, from West to East.
Numazu -Shimoda-Izu Kogen.

Here's the planned route:

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Looking at some of the hills, it will be an opportunity to see how fast our bikes can go. I reckon we can beat this guy's record:

If I do, I gotta make sure there's a nice drop off to a cool, inviting ocean below. Would be awesome to go 90kmph past some lovely sexy librarians in their tour bus, which was bing stopped and cautioned by two super hot police women, then fly off the edge of the cliff and do 15 somersaults (the tour bus containing twin gymnasts who would just love me to teach thema thing or two) before a perfect dive into the inviting ocean, also in front of a boatload of gorgeous horny flight attendants (taking a cruise on their day off from 2 months of continuous work without any nooky whatsoever), then being rescued and helped ashore by a super hot diving instructor, whos zipper is bursting at the seams as she gasps for oxygen.

...and then I woke up with the dog licking my face.
At least I got a kiss from one female.

Back to reality.

more info soon...

On my bike - to Kamakura (a road test)

I bought a new bike. Well, it's a used bike, but it's liek new for me.
It costs around 60,000yen new.
I bought ti for 26000. Not bad.

Plus, she came with

mudguards, front and back.
lights, front and back
cycle computer
improved big pedals

All in all, not a bad deal. The bike seemed to go ok. I just needed to oil everything and adjust the spokes in the back wheel. I'd done some test cycles before. About 35km or so. I got to 46kmph on the flat roads, which isnt bad.
I decided I needed a real test.
My friend, Stuart was thinking of riding to Kamakura. I thought that was a good opportunity to test out the bike.
We should have started at 5am but didnt get going until after 10am. way after, in fact.
We had to cycle through the worst (and it was pretty bad) of the summer sun.
Here's our route, in brief:

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Its 1am and im gonna sleep now. ill try to finish this enty tomorrow. gnight.

I screamed for ice cream!

I went to the Yokohama Ice cream expo yesterday. It is being held in the Aka Renga (red brick warehouses) out on the bay front in Yokohama.
I arrived there late so I only got to sample about 7 ice creams.

Here's a closer view of the main poster:

I think this is a woman. They are from Akita and apparently, she said she was the only one who could make these flower ices.

Strawberry and banana flavors. Tasted very artificial but my friend loved it. Looks good but 400yen isn't cheap.

Here's a montage of all flavors in the festival. Took my bloody ages to photo them all. The pit viper ice had run out, unfortunately. I stayed away from the raw horse flesh and the cow tongue ice creams. Click on pic to see full size (big)

My friend ordered a goya soft cream, from the lbue Seal guys in Okinawa. It wasn't bad. Creamy and a little bitter.

Next up, I tried a holstein (good cows) soft cream from Hokkaido.

It was okay but WAY too creamy. A bit too smooth too.

I decided to try a curry ice cream, as I was feeling hungry.

Good! a bit spicy and burned the throat a little but I liked it.

Didn't like this, though:

Absolutley horrible.

I had enough time to chance one last ice cream, so I grabbed the crab ice cream.

It was not bad. a bit strange at first but I got used to the taste.

All in all, an intersting little festival. If youliek ice cream then I recommend paying this a visit. You'll find a lto fo itneresting ice creams from all over Japan, asll in one place. It's not cheap. The cups ranged from 300 to over 450yen. The other ice creams seemed to be a bout 350 or 400yen.

Yokohama ice cream expo 6/10.

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Hair today, gone tomorrow

Caution: Beer kills hair cells.

Proof:
My first beer was an Ozenoyukidoke IPA

Very, very nice. My favourite Japanese craft beer IPA. 6.5/10. About 330 yen from seijuishii department store, Yokohama station.

Look what it did to my hair!

An inverse taxi driver?

I was so shocked that I had to have another beer. This one was a Rogue dry hopped red ale:

Also very good. A nice beer. Not jsut the red, but the dry hopped version. Very good. 6.5/10.

I decided to risk checking my hirline, one more time...

Holy sh*t!

This calls for a beer...

Stone Ruination IPA. Holy shmoly, this is hoppy! Hops through the roof and as bitter as a Scotsman who's just been forced to buy a round. I love this beer and the first time i drank it, it blew me away.

I kinda feared checking the mirror, fearing what may have happened to my follicles...