Loneliness Knows Me by Name

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"Loneliness Knows Me by Name" is a song by Westlife. I started listening to them recently, and I ♥ them. I feel like I'm going back to the whole boyband thingy like 10 years ago lol. However I do have to mentioned that the hottest member ― Mark Freewilly or whatever his name is, is indeed GAY AND MARRIED TO A MAN! *cries* The other hot dude you rarely hear him sing and seeing him on stage is like strring at a chair he might as well get sat on and be of use by someone else. And the last one...... taken and now has a kid, but I thk he got a divorced AND he left the band long time ago.

Ah~ and I finally remember what I was suppose to blog about. So yesterday I got the guts to go watch a movie all by myself. The truth is I always enjoyed doing shit myself. And y'all know, espcially you Ashley, know that I entertain myself quite well ― as I'm the type that sorta needs constant entertainment 24/7 cos I either got ADD or too much energy to spare. And moreover, going to Japan kinda enhanced that part of me. Yeah being alone, single, lonely sucks but not that much. It's a whole different experience & adventure when traveling alone. I feel like single traveling is sorta like one of those things that can't be stopped once you started. Yeah I met lots of ppl on this trip, single & with partners. But I just cannot imagine myself doing any future traveling with anyone. Not even with a bf, perhaps b/c I just cannot see myself being in a relationship rite now. I thk atm I pick money over any man, b/c I can do more traveling yay! So if I have to choose, I thk I'd much rather do it with a best frd than a lover. There are just things you won't experience, ppl you won't meet or befriend if you travel w/ somebody. I did a lot of research before it and the topic of how to cope with lonliness alway comes up. And as expected, it was never really an issue for me. Yes I did thk a lot abt my family & frds while I was there and how much I rly miss them (pretty much everything in Portland), but that's that, and that's just it. I didn't feel like "Oh I wish I traveling with them now" blah blah blah.... I just wished I could tell him how cool & fun Japan is an that they rly should go there next time. And somebody should try single traveling but i feel like no one I know is cool enough to do that. HUMPH!

Here I just wanna give a shout out to all those ppl I met during my trip:

- Faith
Woman with bf that looks like Ron Jeremy lol, her werd for me (from her dad actually) ....
"You can always let men buy you dinner, but always buy your own breakfast."
Although I still don't quite understand what that rly meant b/c I believe I was quite intoxicated (while in the hostel) when she told me that. She did mentioned that once you've had a Latino guy, you won't want any other lol (I'd like to try that :P)
What's more interesting is that I met this "woman" again at 広島 Hiroshima when I finally got my ass down there. She had left 京都 Kyoto before i did & I knew she was heading to Hiro, but I didn't expect to see her there. For her Hiro was the last stop and she was going to head back to Tokyo & fly back to Boston from then on. And me? I had just started hitting the road & Hiro was my first stop.

- Trevor
50 yr old (yes I must mention that) Aussey man. This dude & I didn't even introduce ourselves and just invited each other to drink. That's the way I roll baby～! First time we met I just got back to the hostel from my trip that day & was walking into my room, he had a bottle of vodka in hand, and just invited me to drink. My first reaction? "Hell yeah I'll in the lounge area just give me a minute to do my bed sheets first." (this is a good example of what you won't do if you were traveling with somebody else lol)

- Matteo
32 yr old Italian dude from small village. Other than the Italian accent, he's nothing like an Italian lmao. This guy is so lol'able I'll just keep it to myself. Just FYI, him & Trevor w/ 4 other dudes shared a room rite next to me for 3~4 days @ the hostel. Anyways, I met Matteo at 嵐山 Arashiyama, well we were sorta expecting it to happen b/c we both knew we were going to the same area the next day. And guess what happened.... And that mysterious yellow sign hiking trail, well I bumped into him he had already found & hiked already, but he was nice enough to take up the trail again even though I said he didn't have to. OOh I wonder why *wink wink*. Oh and the nite before was the nite Trevor & I first met, and we were drinking with Matteo. And it was the nite that I got wasted & met Faith when she gave me those "wonderful" advices lol
I shared my first ramen experience with him that evening after 嵐山 Arashiyama, and he taught me the Italian "golden rule" ― he insisted to buy me ramen, he said if an Italian says he'll spend ￥1000 that day and only spends ￥500, he will find a way to spend the other ￥500. I'm like wtf kinda rule is that? So there's no such thing as "savings"? lmao
I ended up buying him an expresso, and I told him that that was "MY RULE" ― to return the favor.
Rite now imma still keeping in touch with Matteo as he should be in Okinawa atm.

- Single girl from Tokyo I forgot her name
She came to Kyoto alone just for fun she said. Also she wanted to meet some 外人's too that's why. I tried my best to explain to her how to play Monopoly in Japanese (while we played w/ some Germans) but failed horribly lol
I had actually met her & Matteo before my drunk nite cos we all ate dinner together at the lounge.

- Ga-lak Ga-lak dude from Kuate Kuwait
This dude is *shakes head*.... I dun thk he'll be reading my blog so imma pull out my flame thrower. "OMG" is my exact words on him. This guy was slow, bothersome & 面倒 to the MAX! More so he's never seen fucking tree or river before. I dun thk living in Kuwait is an excuse b/c he saids there's none of those in his home country. I, regretfully, took him out on my 2nd day in 京都 Kyoto & O-M-G. I ditched him by the end of the day & went shopping in downtown... NO I mean I ACTUALLY RLY DITCHED HIM LOL! He walked into a manga store, and I didn't go inside and just kept walking until I lost him ROFL. The evening I spent with Matteo at the ramen place he actually was there too (how ironic) & I dun thk he liked the scene of me with another man having a ramen date LMAO *rolls*
Oh yah, he was a total n00b that he thks he can do a biking trip in Japan with 3 fucking bags w/ total weight of 17 kgs, he bought a fucking tent & lamp w/ him & biked his way to Kyoto from Osaka. I actually shared a room w/ him the first nite at the hostel but thk god I switched room the next nite & never saw him again.

- Some random Uruguay dude trying to shave his head in the bathroom
I was wondering why he was in the toilet for like an hour, moreover he nabbed the garbage can with him so that I had no where to toss my garbage while I was cleaning my face. I thought he had diarrhea lol

- TOMO-san!!!!!
Local Kyoto-jin who works at the hostel, met him on my wasted nite, had a long talk about the 戦国時代 & random shit. He told me the story of 宮本武蔵 & 佐々木 小次郎。 He played the harmonica & I was drunk & kept telling him to play these Okinawan folk songs like　涙そうそう & さとうきび畑 lol。He taught me how to go to 天橋立 Amanohashidate, and offered to host me on the single nite I was stopping back at 京都 even though I eventually decided to spend it at the hostel again instead. When I had to re-plan my entire trip there he's the one who rly helped me out! THANK YOU TOMO!!!!!!

- 2 Aussey girls from 広島 Hiroshima
Two girls I met as soon as I arrived at the hostel at Hiro & us 3 went out to お好み焼き Okonomiyaki that nite. Had fun going into all コンヴィニー's looking for green tea ice-cream; joked about not seeing condoms in them & how we'd do sign language to demostrate if we were to buy one cos they were stored behind the counter lol; bought some cheap but good 梅酒; and lastly, talked about older men in which I will make a confession about later after this long ass post.

- 中島夫婦 from 熊本市 Kumamoto
Young husband & wife who gave me my most warming local experience in Japan. They own/run the hostel at 熊本市 & b/c it was after spring break, there was only me & this other man staying there atm. Wife was pregnant with there 3rd kid, eighth month & it's a boy (already have 2 daughters). That evening Nakashima-san drove us all up to 花岡山, which is a small hill near by Kumamoto, and up there you can see the lit-up 熊本城 & a vast night view of the city. I came back with a bottle of 梅酒 earlier after my ramen dinner (2 bowls baby); and that nite Nakashima-san & I had an evening of hot & steamy threesome with his wife......... no we just watched TV in living room with his wive while he drank beer. It seemed like they owned the entire buliding the hostel was in, I mean it's not big, and I thk live in the same building too. Out of curiosity I asked if they had decided a name for their son yet. Apparently not, but he wanted a name in which, if shortened, would be easy to pronounce by a 外人。So I just randomly pointed out something "Oh like Kentarou, can just be called Ken in short."
The next morning I left early b/c I had to go all the way to 出雲市, Nakashima-san give me this 五円 coin w/ a red ribbon tied to it. 五円 & 御縁 is a pun with the latter meaning fate. And he said we'll meet again & I told him I'll visit again next time I come to Japan.

- English photographer dude
On my 2nd time back to 京都 for that one nite of stay, I met this 37 yr old photographer dude together w/ another Aussey dude. Together we just sat in the lounge & talked for a long time. He showed me awsome pics that he took & that's when I figured he was a photographer. He said he's only been home for 2 months for the past 5 years, wow! He kept laughing about how in the capsule hotels in Tokyo, they offer porn on TV. He's like WHY?! I was like to jerk off lol? I dunno. Well first of all those capsules are men only; and secondly, why would you want someone jerking off in this tiny space and make a mess & imagine the smell lmao
So he showed me this pic he took from inside the capsule with porn on the screen & a dude peeking from outside cos he had his camera all set up & the dude was wondering what he was doing inside the capsule.
I thk i lost his facebook btw so I can't look up sexy pics no more :((((((((
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So what was this confession I mentioned earlier. Well... I guess I never accepted the fact that I thk I like older until recently, esp. after talking to the 2 Aussey girls. I thought it was weird that I even find men in their late 30's attractive, but I guess not. The girls mentioned boys around our age are just so immature, and the other one said girls just mature much quicker than guys. In which I totally agree w/ both of them. Whether it's the looks, stability, fianacial power, video game character or real life beef, watever I just find myself more & more attracted to older men lol wtf~! I thk I'm going thru that age where girls like older men lol
Well actually, for me there is a reason for older men, it's b/c I rly dun find boys my age or younger having that "manly" charisma or enchantment. Younger men dun give off that vibe or charm of manliness that olden men give off. :\ Ummm......
So back home at Yokohama I was telling Noriko abt this and I was showing her pics of mid age men that I find attractive LOL it's funny cos I sometimes forget the names & I describe it to her, she immediate guesses it rite. I thk she & I have the same taste lmao XD XD XD
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Enough blabs just some new updates.

1) Pics are all up available on Facebook. They're not that interesting I know yeah shut up.
2) Videos are almost ready, just need to upload them all onto Youtube, it's so f***ing slow b/c, well they're in HD~! Yay! So it's a little large but be paitent!