Tokyo... like buses...

Had a meeting on friday in Tokyo, so reckoned on the only sensible thing to do was to stay over and see a bit more of the city, even though i had spent the whole weekend there last week. had to get up at 4.30am to get my train to Niigata, then got the bullet train to tokyo...then another 2 trains to get to the supplier. the supplier turned out to be one of the biggest oil companies on japan, and the plant is 4 km long by 2km wide....kinda undermines and authority you thought you may have had! went out at night with tomomi, my translator, and one of her batty japanese mates who lives in tokyo. went to a club in roppongi, the club was interesting in that it was full of geijin (westerners), and i mean, full of them. strangely, i hate this, i have had discussions with people about this in the past, and others do share this view (although not all). tokyo itself has many many westerners who live there, and im not sure why, but i resent this...maybe i feel that japan is 'my' place, i dont know, but somethig about them gets my heckles up, maybe its the kind of westerner in tokyo that does it..(usually full of testosterone and ego's, middle class superiority complexed banker types..) i dont know. Niigata doesn't have many westerners, and i like it because of that. anyway, this club was full of westerners....mainly americans to be honest....and mainly american army types. you can spot an american a mile off...you can usually hear them 2 miles off! especially the army ones. i malaysia, and japan you can always go iut without fear of getting the living **** kicked out of you, i remember my first trip back to the uk from malaysia and i was in burger king on a saturday night, and al hell broke loose between 2 sets of guys, chairs went flying and we had to flee quickly before we ended up in hospital..not nice, anyway, i have never ever had that in any place in asia, but on saturday, i got that feeling all over again...especially, when you are out with 2 atractive women...i turned round one time and there were about 8 guys just ogling and waiting for me to go to the bar/loo etc... was actually quite funny, but as i had to pretend to be their boyfriend every 5 mins...i was sure i was gonna get killed! ended up being a really good night though...and thankfully no fights broke out. left at 3am ish and went for food, then off to bed..shattered. got up sat and came straight back to niigata, it was chucking down with rain in tokyo and it has not turned cold (was 8 degrees today!!) was t shirt weather last week.
saturday night i chilled at home and watched bad films. today i went car shopping with gareth, he is a complete boy racer type! wants a souped up jap car....i think ive found the car i want. im basing my entire car buying on going snowboarding this winter. i want a 4 wheeled drive subaru or mitsubushi, ideally a superu impreza estate to get snowboards in...second hand cars are sooo cheap here, long story why, and will explain another day...but you can get a scooby impreza for £1500 in great condition, in fact my mate got one for that much....i cant buy one until my work visa comes through, so ive been renting a honda jazz (honda fit over here), but is v v v v expensive to rent, BUT it does have sat nav/gps in english....so havent got lost yet!...(yet)