14:00

It’s the last week of the year. For the last three weeks everyone has been meeting all their friends for drinks, going to company dinners, industry parties, as if the new years eve was happening in slow motion.

23:00

Tonight was Erica’s much promised Nabe party night. I met some of her friends and we stayed in, cooking, eating and drinking. This had to be the most heart warming evening so far for me. I never realised how hard it can be open doors to your friends, and how good it can make you feel.

On the photo above you can see from left to right Keita, Cassie, Maika, Erica, me and Kanae.

10:00

There used to be drunk talks at the bar. Some irrational one-night flirtationships. Some fake emotions and fake friends. A lonely morning aftertaste.

19:00

Tonight I’m meeting Kevin and some of his friends for a Bo-nen Kai, a end of year party. The gist of it seems to be that people drink to forget the year that’s past. Japan never runs out of reasons to drink.

Above is a photo of Takadanobaba. I moved some of my things to the new apartment this morning but I won't start living here until next week.

11:00

Alex and I walked around Shibuya today. We met for coffee at Streamer Coffee Company, as usual, and chatted a bit. I don’t feel like we’re as close as we used to be, or as we though we would be. Maybe that’s ok. We are very different. But he is a good friend. And no matter how different, there is always space for good friends.

14:00

I thought Christmas had lost its meaning. But the fact that none of my family is here, none of my oldest friends are near me, that I have done no shopping, no drinking or no rushing, and that I am spending this day thinking of them, how much I love them, how much I miss them, how much I want the next year to be special, makes me realise Christmas has not lost meaning at all. I never felt this happy and warm before. 

To all my friends and family, I wish you a Merry Christmas.

This is a photo of me in some street in Omotesandō.

23:00

I took Star to Cicada, my favourite restaurant in Tokyo, for our Christmas eve meal.

Something changed about us. Our a fiery, addictive, unhealthy mutual obsession matured. This date was platonic. We had food, and talked, walked each other around Omotesandō. I love her smarts and her looks. She’s a friend I never expected to have. Or she is just another perfect girl I’m too afraid to commit to.

00:00

Christmas is nearly here. We went for a drink at Two Rooms Bar. One of those places that I found by accident, fell in love with, and kept going back to. Tokyo seems to give travellers many places like this. I had a Yamazaki, 12 years, straight. Something I haven’t had in a while.