moment of loneliness

not exactly mickey d's, but then again, i didn't take this picture for the fast food resturant.

i left shawn's apt and the came back. let me just say that the train system in tokyo is really freaking complicated. i started walking in one direction on this one street, fearing to walk no these little side streets cuz i will never find my way back. so i walked and walked and got to the shibuya station. the crossing in front of the station is suppose to be the 'time square' of japan. it was a bit crowded especially for a monday afternoon.

it was sunny and somewhat humid. i was sweating a bit. i was also searching for a place to have lunch. at first, i figured i should just run into an am/pm and grab a sandwich from there. but then, i decided i wanted something warm. btw, there are a lot of am/pm's by where shawn lives. the other night when we were coming back from ramen, maybe within a mile, we saw four am/pm's.

i walked by a lot of shops, but then i really wouldn't know what to get when if i were to go inside. so i continued on, walking into the shibuya station to see where to go for the toyoko line (tokyo-yokohama line). walking out of on the other side of the station, i crossed the massive intersection and saw a very familiar sign... macdonald's.

yeah, so i had macdonald's in japan. i got some reading in as well. after awhile, i backtracked and went to the am/pm around the corner from shawn's and got him some popicles and a bag of chips. and came back. that was about two hours ago. i was reading articles on espn and the la times websites, when i decided to take a little nap. i just laid on the floor of shawn's bedroom, which is carpeted, and closed my eyes.

i just read that the lakers how traded payton and fox to the celtics for chucky akins, marcus banks and chris mihms. so let me get this now, the lakers signed vlade diflop to replace (and i'm using this word very, very loosely here) shaq and signed mihm to be his back up. ah... okay. how bad are the lakers going to suck next year? it's scary.

anyway, i feel like crap right now for some reason. i'm extremely home sick. i want to either be in hk or in the states, not in japan. i don't know why. i think it's probably cuz i've been away for so long. i'll be happy to see saturday afternoon.