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Dear friends,
I am still alive. haha.
So I guess I should announce it...
I moved to SF! I have my own apartment and I will be starting FIDM in July.
Got all my GE classes transfered so I am set. It's super exciting, I already painted the place but I still need to touch up some spots, clean/sanitize the place, move my stuff in, buy my bed, call PG&E, set up internet and so much more! There's so much crap to catch up on and take care of that I know I haven't been able to hang out with anyone lately. But it will be worth it! Soon Soon my friends, after I am settled, you will all be welcomed to my new home.
The best thing of all though is, (and a bit ironic) among all this stress, I am a lot happier and content than when I was living down in SJ with my parents.
I am tired and frantic on bills, but I am happy
Hope to see you soon!
love,
Kim
p.s.
...out of 5 stars:
[****] Kung Fu Panda was Awesome
[*]Don't Mess with the Zohan was CRAP
[*** and a 1/2]Get Smart was amusing
[****]Wanted was hella Awesome and... a bit inspiring
and James McAvoy gets 5 stars for being a just plain sexy.
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[17 Mar 2008|06:13pm] |
Does anyone know where I can get hooked up for a fake ID?
I am in need of one ASAP!
thanks!
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[16 Mar 2008|04:27pm] |
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hmm lots of things going on, or should I say is in progress. I will update on the results if it happens, and if it doesn't then there will be no news. :D ooh cliffhanger.
But! I will leave you with the gift I gave george for our one year anniversary.
LEGO versions of me and him!
* I'm in a starbucks outfit b/c that's how he met me
* George is wearing the same outfit he wore on our first date.
I painted these all on. There's one detail that you can't see in the pictures and that is the adidas stripes i painted on his shoes.
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[01 Mar 2008|10:35am] |
yes yes... I'm selling my Marc Jacobs Bag. I wish I didn't have to but....... what are you gonna do. :/
For my Ebay buyers:
Everything about the bag is in excellent condition from the front, back, side, inside. The only marks the bag has are the scratches on the bottom corners of the bag.
as you can see from looking at the bottom as a whole the marks on the corner are barely noticeble. Scroll down this entry to see the pictures of the corners.
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[22 Feb 2008|12:34pm] |
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Wednesday I went to see the HIVES at the Fillmore. I have all their albums buuut never really got into them until after I saw them in concert. Hearing the music played live just sounds so much better. So it was great, the singer, Pelle is so funny. You know how at concerts they try to get you to put your hands up and clap, but no one really does it except for some? Well, I thought it was funny the way he got everyone to do it.
"Come on San Francisco, put your hands up in the air!" (only a couple of people do) "No, No this is not a request, this is a stick up! and I need everyone's hands in the air right now!"
And! There was also this REALLY old lady, about 70 or something, wearing the most grandma thing you can imagine, dancing her fanny off! It was great to see, she was really getting down.
On another note, I'm really enjoying my speech 1 class at De Anza. I didn't think I could have so much fun in a class that's 3 hours long. I didn't think I would meet such different, interesting, and hilarious people. and I also didn't think I would do as well! My teacher says I'm one of his best speakers. which is a hell of a surprise to me. I love this class. This one guy had the most intense speeches in our class, and one line that really stuck to me was, "Addiction is a disease. The only difference between Cancer and Addiction is: Cancer, people feel sorry for you; Addiction, they don't."
I got a photoshoot to do this weekend, I hope my model shows up!
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| There is a light at the end of the tunnel |
[13 Feb 2008|10:37pm] |
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Things are looking up.
School is still a difficult obstacle, but it's getting tolerable because I'm beginning to meet more people, and it really makes a difference. I'm starting to feel school as less of a hassle. There are midterms and papers, and homework up ahead in the schedule but I try to not look at them all. If I do, i'll just feel overwhelmed.
I just take each due date as they come to me, and not worry about what's not even assign or there yet. I got to talk to my TA in class and got to have a real conversation with someone. Not your everyday courtesy "hi'"s and "how are you"s. But we talked about photography, fashion, art, and laughed at random findings that make our day.
I realize now that i holed myself in my room because I don't try to get out. Filling my mind with doubt and negative thoughts tired me out.
[-]Never showing up to Funkanometry dance workshop because I was scared that everyone was so good, stopped me from progressing in that goal anyways.
[-] Always worrying about what I was going to do with my life caused me to doubt every step I'm taking, and I just end up walking in circles.
[-]Focusing only on what George failed to do makes me not notice what he IS trying to do. And I only end up feeling depressed because I feel that he doesn't love me anymore.
So i'm working on only positive outlooks and determination, instead of doubts. I realize that worrying about my shortcomings as a person, as a friend, as a girlfriend, as a daughter, as myself only made it true.
I think, therefore I am.
and I think, I am going to be just fine.
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[05 Jan 2008|05:03pm] |
I read an interesting article. I liked it because of how it addressed. When and why you should stand up for things. Something that I would want George to really understand.
Check it.
Opinion: Tolerance through shame
By Jon Monteith
Sometimes being the bigger person just doesn't make sense. Turning the other cheek might be neat and pious, but it has its limitations as a philosophy.
Infamous comedienne Margaret Cho, for example, makes the perfect case for confrontation in her latest concert DVD, Revolution. She referred to an incident in which she was stopped at a traffic light, and the car in front of her sported a bumper sticker that was, at best, politically incorrect.
It read, "This car was made with tools, not chopsticks." How classy.
Cho, clearly offended by this statement, pulled up next to the lady driving the car and proceeded to scream violently at her. According to Cho, it felt great.
This driver obviously had a problem with foreign-made automobiles, but I don't think this was her only motive; the driver also was a bigot. I don't need to explain how offensive it is to use chopsticks to make a racist generalization.
Should this woman just go on thinking it's OK to be racist all her life? This is not acceptable, and I don't mean "roll your eyes at her ignorance and move on" unacceptable. I'm saying there comes a time when you have to get in people's faces and make sure they know exactly how you feel when they say or do something hateful.
I don't know where the lady in the car picked up her shockingly mean-
spirited outlook on other cultures, but I do know how hurt I would be if I were an Asian who happened to see a bumper sticker like this.
I would be more than upset; I would be irate. And as much as my friends and family might tell me to "be the bigger person," I really shouldn't have to. Hearing that "some people are just taught to be hateful" would piss me off even more. There is no excuse for hurting other people, period.
It's your job to be the bigger person when you hear that someone doesn't like your new haircut. You obviously don't need to get in his or her face to "set the record straight." But when people blatantly cut you down on account of your race - something you never could control in the first place - it's your right, and arguably your duty, to confront them about it.
Margaret Cho did just that. She didn't "take the high road" - she shouted angrily at this woman. According to Cho, the lady was so stunned that she drove off in a panic, running a red light in the process.
I can imagine the fear this woman had. She might have thought she was making a valid point by displaying her bumper sticker, but after looking into the eyes of an angry Asian woman and hearing her scream out in response to the discriminatory slogan, I'm almost positive she felt embarrassed and regretful. Why else did she hit the gas? I don't think it was a need for speed.
Furthermore, I don't feel as if I'm being too optimistic. I truly believe most bigotry is shallow and baseless. I think this woman felt like an idiot when she saw the negative effect her public display of racism had on a human being. After this incident, she probably thought twice about keeping the sticker on her car. She might have learned tolerance through shame, but it's tolerance nonetheless.
When I was younger, there were times when I wanted to confront someone for intentionally hurting my feelings. However, my mother always would say, "Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it."
I have a different suggestion. Make sure you let that pig know just how disgusted you are with the muck that surrounds him, and he might just learn through embarrassment to clean up his act.
________________________________________by: Jon Monteith_______
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[22 Dec 2007|10:54pm] |
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I just want to post a new entry to bump out the previous entry.
Things are going great! well maybe not great, but things are definitely a million times better than it was a couple weeks before. Tomorrow is going to be a great christmas dinner and I am looking forward to spending time with the people I love most over these next few christmas coming days.
I hope everyone is well!
OH! I am going to start taking sewing classes. I found this one place in SF and I'm going to try it out. anyone care to join?
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[06 Dec 2007|10:57am] |
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Wanted:
I was wondering if anyone out there who also has a Mac, can hook me up with the Microsoft Word program? please please please. I would really appreciate it.
thanks!
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[04 Dec 2007|04:32pm] |
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Thanks to everyone who replied to my previous post :D
[+]on a lighter siiide i got my macbook today! mac mac mac mac.
[+]while getting off the 280 freeway, i saw a david choe truck!
It was one of those regular big white trucks. But this one was special because it had a david choe painting on the back! I don't think it was his, it was just some random truck. So I guess he was just being mischevious and spray painted it. So it was awesome and made my day. David choe please have another show in San Jose again. please please?
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Telling someone that they are too skinny, is just as bad as telling someone they are fat.
So i'm skinny yea, so what. People are sensitive to not call someone they're fat, or look chubby, but don't hesitate to say so the other way around. I get people telling me I'm skinny, or TOO skinny all the time. The general comment goes like this: "Kim you're so skinny! I'm jealous. I'm so fat, look at my body. My butt's too big, my legs are too big," and blah de blah blah. Oh yeahhhh you have it soo bad, a curvy voluptuous body. wow that's so horrible. I understand the whole grass is greener on the other side theory, but seriously, being as skinny as me, IS worse than being fat. The way I see it is, it is a lot easier to work with a chubby body, than a skinny one. why? I'll tell you why.
If you're overweight or have fat, you can always exercise to slim and tone your body. It is a BILLION times harder to put on weight if you are skinny. Trust me i've tried to gain weight by gorging myself with fat and sugar, but the progress is slow. Also, you can always find one size LARGER if you need it. But finding a size smaller than a zero? YEA, only option is to go to the kid's section. You know how many times i loved a pair of jeans or dress but can't get it because i can't even fit into an Xsmall? So yeah, you have to go out and buy a bigger pair of jeans because it's too tight since you gained weight? Well, I need to go out and buy a pair of jeans because it's too loose. The difference is? You can find a bigger pair, I CAN'T. TV and magazines always congratulate the bodies of curvier women, but what about others who are naturally thin? I guess my point is, that being skinny isn't as great as people think. Having a curvier body gives you a more beautiful and womanly figure.
I'm fed up because today at work, FOUR girls told me I was really skinny:
Ruby: Kim you're so skinny!
Vanessa: yea, i think you're like the skinniest one in this whole store!
Czarina: Yea, you're like ANOREXIC skinny
Perla: do you eat kim? you should eat something. you're tiny
And i don't really like it either when people tell me i'm too skinny and then poke and prod at me like i'm some kind of road kill. Squeeze my arm and poke me.
FUCK YOU.
I'm skinny because I am just naturally skinny. If anyone has gone out to eat with me, they would know that I eat like a PIG. I eat and I eat. I don't appreciate people constantly telling me that I am skinny and look sick. I am not skinny because I am sick. I don't fit my clothes, my pants are starting to constantly fall off of me and It's-not- fun.
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[31 Oct 2007|07:27pm] |
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Happy Halloween!!
Hope everyone is having fun!
So I recently lost the ring george gave me. UGH! i feel so sad! : ( i loved that ring.
On the bright side, GUITAR HERO TRES!!!!!!!!!!! is out, and is super awesome. They have reptila on it and alot of really really good songs too. Graphics are better,the guitar is smaller and looks more real. When george bought it this weekend, we did nothing but ripped it up all day. My shoulders were hurting, fingers were spazing out, and eyes were burning. But it was all well worth it.
nothing else interesting so i'll just leave you guys with this picture of my parents dressed up for tonight's halloween. Just to pass out candy. they weren't gonna go out. Imagine, two grown people just sitting in the living room, dressed up just to pass out candy. They're so weird that it's cool. haha
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[03 Oct 2007|06:33pm] |
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my left thumb is skinnier than my left pointy finger.
HUH.
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[26 Sep 2007|11:11pm] |
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ok it's not new years yet, but i still want to make some resolutions cause we should be trying to better ourselves everyday right? :D
+attend class, everyday. haha
+keep room clean, or at least clean it once a week
+keep car clean
+no more overdrafts in my checkings account
+see george less, : ( i see him too much and its fun buuuuuut! hes spoiled so i must make him miss me :D
+save moola, but this should be an ongoing thing.
+read more. :D
+make peace with patricia? HAHAHAHA no.
* her boyfriend/george's brother has been a punkass lately too but that will be saved for another entry
Yea, mostly the attend class thing, because i've been missing my psychology class like.. ALOT. i think theres been a total of 8 classes, and i've been to like 3. i know so bad. and i LOVE psychology too! this should be the class im good at, but its at 7:30am! but i will try my darndest. I already missed the first test and it was worth 25% of my grade. i know, hella bad. go kim go! im going to go evurryday rain or shine.
Next semester Im going to try to knock out as much GE as i can cause the past few months being with george, being around so many people already in the field/career they enjoy, and doing a lot of playing house, makes me excited and ready to do my own thing. Part time jobs are getting old, and Im really just ready to like... i dunno, get on with things already. School is important and all but i just like being thrown out there and explore and experience already.
yadadayamean?
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| So give me something to believe |
[18 Sep 2007|03:25pm] |
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My weekend was... awesome and action packed. Summing it up, it was a weekend burrito filled with a concert, dinner date, taco trucking, doggie baths, breakfast in bed, saturday morning cartoons, and lots of lovin'.
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I should update. haha.
I just started my first semester at SJSU! It's been a couple of weeks, and so far not so bad.
Im taking... English, Modern, and Psychology. those are the only classes I could get : (
Next semester fer sure, I will be loading up classes, it's probably unwise, but i just want to finish my
General Education crap already.
These are old pictures, but they're probably new to you guys. hehe.
Me and George discovered pugs in the park recently and we've been every sunday for it. PUGS! are so cute.
He has a pug and im waiting to get one too, but no money. anyways onward! with the pics.
Anabelle~ looks like a pug but shes not, she's a french bulldog. We want one now too. haha she was so energetic,
and it became two things that different between her and pugs. Pointy ears and energy. Pugs are so lazy. but they're cute. :)
look at the big one! haha. it keep waddling over to me cause i had food, and it made the strangest noises, stranger than momo.
One guy brought his puppies to sell at the park. This little feller was the runt of the litter.
heheheehehehe.
This is George's dog, MOJO! hes the cutest thing in the world. yes even cuter than pug puppies.
He snores at night, He sneezes on me, he wipes his snot on me, and puts his butthole on my tummy all the time,
but i still love him; and george too. :D He also looks emo all the time.
hehehehehe.
the end. I want to try to update more, i feel motivated now that i have a table in my room to actually do some work. hurray.
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| Don't do this. |
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talk about luck. Remember the number one 'nono' everyone was taught when they were young? You know, "NEVER GET INTO A STRANGER'S CAR?" Well I did, and I'm having a hard time seperating the experience, because in a way I'm glad I did, but in a way, it was also a bad decision.
So here's what happened, a little background information first though:
I had to get to work yesterday at 4:00am. However, there is only one treasure island bus and especially around that time in the morning, it comes, ONCE an HOUR. Therefore, If i missed a bus, im pretty much screwed. The bus was scheduled to come at 3:02am, that was the bus i was waiting for, so I can't miss that one. I get out to the bus stop at 2:50am. Waited around till it was 3:00am. Suddenly a taxi cab came by and dropped off a guy. I didn't pay attention much to it till the taxi cab driver reversed his car and started to ask me something.
taxi guy: hey do you need a ride?
me: no I'm waiting for the bus, it's ok thank you.
taxi guy: what time is the bus coming?
me: 3:02
taxi: well it's 3:05 now
me: (check my watch) .... it's ok it's probably a little late, besides I don't have money for a taxi
taxi guy: nono, no charge, come on in.
me: I appreciate that, but...... its ok.
so i wait for like 10 more minutes and the bus still didn't come, which means it came super early today. The taxi cab driver was still waiting.
taxi guy: it's 3:15 now, I don't think it's coming, are you sure?
me: ......................................
alright. thank you!
so i hop in and he takes me to my work no charge. The whole time though, i kept thinking of like, shit shit, I hope he doesnt do anything bad, so i was holding onto my pepper spray the whole ride.
Luckily I got to my work place safely and I wasn't late.
The Good: the guy turned out to be a really really nice guy. He was pretty old like.. 46-50 ish? black. When he dropped me off there was some shady looking people around and he said, you should probably wait in the lobby of the hyatt where there's security before your boss comes. I told him it was ok, i'll be alright, and he said, are you sure? I don't want someone like you to be out here alone at a time like this. I said thank you for his concern and told him im sorry i didn't have anything to give back to him. he told me, "that's alright honey, just make sure that someday you'll do something nice for a someone too. take care"
The Bad: although the guy turned out to be a really great person, I should've NEVER got into the car. and even though I was lucky, I'm never going to get into a stranger's car again.
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It was my first day of college today. Haha finally.
My journey to get to school was...
5:00am wake up, get ready, eat.
6:15am leave the house
6:27am bus comes
7:02am arrive at bus terminal, walk to bart
7:36am arrive at school
8:00am Psychology 1 with Mr. Lutz (I think that was his name, maybe it was gonzales...)
Psychology was a bit like expected, I looked forward to this class because I like the subject and I also heard people say a lot of good things about the subject. We talked about behavior and about this woman who was stabbed and murdered over and over in her apartment courtyard with over 40 ppl witnessing it, but no one did anything. My teacher seemed like a relax kind of guy, he moved his hips a lot and chuckles often after he finshes a sentence.
9:00am Journalism 19 with Mr. Gonzales (ok ok, this guy was gonzales)
Im not sure what to make of journalism yet, it seems a bit boring, but my teacher was also interesting like the previous one. He comes in with a big coat, scarf hung on both shoulders, takes off his gloves and reveals 6 FAT rings on his fingers. When he speaks he holds his hands in front of him with his palms facing him and he kind of just leaves it there forever. He looks and talks like the crime lord of the mafia, but you can tell he's a funny guy. I like him so far.
OK so..... I THOUGHT my japanese class started at 12, so I went around to get my books, eat, loiter. I walk into the room at 12 and the teacher starts speaking REALLLLY goood japanese, and I didn't hear a SINGLE word of english out of her. It was a bit embarrasing because I had to go ask her what class this was, and she told me that the elementary japanese class was actually at 11. So I ended up missing the class I was looking forward to the most. Im scared cause I don't want to be dropped out.
Experience wise, it wasn't as big of a shock as I thought it was. It didn't really feel like I was in college. Right now, i just want to finish with my transfer credits asap.
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| Part two: Streets of Tokyo |
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so... after the first entry and looking through my pictures, I figured it'd be much easier to do the entries by events, mainly because I kind of forgot which pictures happened when. :D
JAPAN day of Shopping
[the streets of Shibuya & Harajuki]
streets of shibuya *picture credit to Laura
subway to shibuya
Japanese subways are awesome. they're clean, people aren't loud and obnoxious on them, they have a tv near the doors, and they have heated seats on some of the lines. beat that BART
resturant in one of the alleyways in shibuya
A shop in one of the alley of Shibuya
bike for barbara
Shibuya 109 *picture credit to Laura
Picture floor
the 7th floor of shibuya 109-2 had a big section for these photobooths. there were soo many. We got excited and spent a bit more than we should've taking the pictures. They were cool though cause some of them had green screens so we took some that looked like we were flying. they even had a background where you can put someone coming out of the tv like in the ring. I gotta find my pictures, i don't know where I put them, I hope I didn't leave it at my house in san jose, if I did, i hope my mom didn't throw it away; they're teeny.
Hard Gay costume!!
Sexy costume
this is what i'm going to be for halloween next year you guys, I'm not quite sure it is, but i'm going to be it.
London Police sighting in Japan
Meji-dori Bridge
They have a lot of these small bridges in japan. It was fun walking across them cause I felt like I was in an Anime. Everywhere I went I recognized things and it was an interesting feeling seeing it there right in front of you. Being in Japan was incredible, and it's really hard to explain it. Nothing pictures or videos or people can describe to you because being right in it, or right in front of a certain thing was just an amazing experience.
crossing the street in Harajuku
one thing that i didn't get to take pictures of was the fashion in Japan. It's hard being inconspicuous enough to get a good picture without them noticing you. oh well, it was amazing though, seeing the things they wore. Girls in japan, well the ones in tokyo mostly, wore short skirts and boots or heels. But they play it off well, they all have amazzzinggg legs. (i kept thinking of you jason when I was looking at their legs haha) laura and I came to the conclusion that they had sexy legs because of all the walking and stairs they have to go through. Believe, there were A LOT OF STAIRS.
Use Lubricant, it works goddammit.
speaking of japanese fashion, I did notice that everyone liked to wear random sayings on their clothes. It reminded me of the picture samantha took when she went to Japan last year of a guy with a jacket that said, "Black for life." Lubricant? Was it really a random choice, or is he trying to tell us something? Random or on purpose, it sure was hilarious.
One of the Entrance to the little alley of Harajuku
It's Harajuku street! nuff said.
*picture credit to Laura
Birds eye view of the alley shops in Harajuku
one of the other really cool things about Japan is you don't just navigate straight on streets. When you walk, there'd be an alley way on your left and right. When you go into a shop, you don't just go in that one shop, you go upstairs, through many floors, or you go downstairs, underground into a shop or a resturant. The alleys lead to shops, homes, resturants, other random stuff. It was fun though, kind of like going through a maze.
Vivienne westwood!!
America...ya?
Welcome to the dark side, one floor up!
One of the guys that went with me bought one for his friend. It was a about a hundred something for the outfit.
curry udon yummm
this was SO GOOD. which i didn't realize till i try it and immediately regret the deal with laura to share the bowl. haha. It was our first experience in a japanese resturant. We came in and seated, but it turns out you have to pay first and then they'll bring it to you. oops.
If you're dirty and you're thinking what I was thinking, then you are correct.
condomania condomania... was the name of the store. they had all kinds of condom in there, so many and so many designs it was crazy! hence the name of the shop. I got some things for people in here, I got my roomate this pikachu shaped condom. The best thing though was when I went in the store, school girls were the only customers in there, and when I came out, more schoolgirls enter. naughty.
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Good night Harajuku
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