Monday, April 28, 2003

 
Sunny Sunday with very warm temperatures! We went to the IMAX theater on the west side to watch Ghost of the Abyss, Jim Cameron's second exploit, err, exploration of the Titanic wreck.

I am glad we had the chance to watch this 'movie' in NY, since there is no IMAX thater in Fiji. But 11US$ for a 60 min documentary is somewhat steep .. but as impressive and well-done the movie was, I was glad it was only 60 minutes .. it started getting repetitive .. and why they had to ride the 9/11 horse of sentimentality??? Ah well .. go see it if you can, no way to download that, and if they ever release a 2D version on DVD (and i bet they will) ... this will surely cure your insomnia ... amazing that a almost all CGI bit of one robot cam (Jake) trying to rescue another robot cam (Elwood, I am not kidding) was the one thing that close to the end woke up the people and was actually entertaining ...

After the show we made our way throug central park ... below some shots of it, us with funny 3D glasses on, Sakura (Cherry Blossom) in NY ..





We crossed Manhattan Island to visit our old NY friends Chikako and Marcus, who (just like us) have a substance abuse problem with Sushi. So we went to another great neighbourhood place "Gari No Sushi" (aka Sushi of Gari) and had the Omakase Platter .. To our surprise it was delivered on 4 different plates (usually one big one) and no one did an nice intro as to what is what ... something we were used to from prior visits. But it seemed that our waitgirl was new and well .. she did her best .. and most importantly, the food was GREAT !!! .. they do some more experimental sushi, more colorful, eyepopping, but nothing as bad as cream cheese and lox (aka "Boston Roll") .. no, really nice stuff.







We had beer and sake and a great time ... Chikako told us about the latest, crazy fashion trend in Japan, skirts that are fashioned in a way that under a layer of see-through material, there a layer printed with the picture of a naked butt in panties !!! Sure enough I had to research the matter and came across this link.
Afterwards we went back to their place for some more chatting and icecream (yum, butter pecan) and then we took a cab home ...

Where I did some more research on those skirts .. and it seems to be just a hoax ! Here another link. Now I have to reconsider what to get Ritsu for our first anniversary, damnit ... well, I can always try to get that sailor moon uniform ... :)

posted by Peter 1:45 PM