Tokyo

in Tokyo during Valentine's Day.

If you've never been to Tokyo - here is a brief taste - video taken at the crosswalk in the Shibuya district. Lost in Translation was more right than you know.

Tried wale sushi. Right, Japanese people eat wales. Don't be so shocked, Norway does too and a few other nations (not to mention some native tribes in Alaska). Pretty tasty in a gamey kind of way. The same restaurant also served a vertical tasting of tuna - different pieces of sashimi from different parts of a same tuna - astonishing.

Went to a hip-hop club. Compared to the hip-hop club in Seoul I went to it's very different. Whereas in Seoul the DJ was a black American and all the young people dressed the same way; in the Tokyo the DJ was a hot shot young Japanese woman and the fashion, well, let's just say Tokyoites remain ages ahead of London and New York in terms of inventing new ways to look cool and interesting.

Monday was a holiday in Japan so all the local ''shot bars'' were closed and we were forced to go to an English Pub (shame, shame). However our prospect were enlivend when we found out a Maori band from NZ were playing and the lead singer looked like a hunkier version of that dude from Midnight Oil. A las our enthusasim turned back to shame when he sounded more like Natalie Merchant.

Met up with our bud from Australia who has lived in Tokyo for 6 years with his Japanese girlfriend. When asked why tokyo? He answered: ''because I can walk out of my front door and encounter 15 extraordinary things everyday''

I agree

One thing Tokyo does is it cures you of any phobias. Whenever you came from it's smaller and quieter.