Homicidal Psycho Jungle Monkeys!!!

Been waiting to use that title ever since I found out there was a monkey park!

Once again I'm late on the blog, my sincerest apologies. Busy busy, what with studying, weekend activities, going to the gym...

Week and a half ago I went to the World Dental Show in Yokohama. The trip by shinkansen was of course covered by the company, which is by far the best way to travel. The show was interesting/gross. I got to see the different products my company and its competitors make, which was good. There's some fancy dental equipment that my dentist sure doesn't have. Panoramic X-rays machines that create a 3-D image on the computer, some very hi tech dental chairs, very cool stuff. One display showed off their product using Asimo! Which was neato! Of course some displays were a little gross, with videos of some very invasive dental operations... mmm... Having no place to stay in Tokyo, I just headed home afterwards...

That week Tuesday, I went with Dave to the Arashiyama Monkey Park! Monkeys! The monkeys aren't caged, they can go wherever they want! At the top you can go inside the house/cage and buy bananas/apples/peanuts and feed the monkeys from inside.

The park was excellent, but I hear it's even better in the fall (it's not fall here yet) when the leaves change... good thing I plan to go back with the CJP gang!

After the monkey park we went downtown, Dave showed me some cool stores I had overlooked... clothing stores, foreign food stores, anime stores, you know... stores! This of course means that I found peanut butter. This is good for two reasons. It tastes good. It's very fattening. In fact, since I bought the peanut butter, I've gained another 2 pounds! Coincidence? Probably, since the PB container's only 350g, but it helped.

This weekend I went down to Wakayama again for some JJs and wakeboarding action! The Wakayama JJs has basketball and soccer on the roof, unfortunately it's pretty run down, one hoop was torn off, the other is bent. Also played some vid games and pool. On Saturday me and Keith went with two girls from his work wakeboarding... in the river... in October. My history on boarding... never skateboarded, never snowboarded, and have no balance! And wakeboarding I went last summer, managed to get up my first time, and fell over promptly 2 seconds later. But this time I managed to get up and stay up for a while. No tricks though... but that can come later. Keith was really good! Jumps, turns, etc... showoff! Pictures of monkeys and wakeboarding on my webalbum.

That brings the total water sports count to 7! Wakeboarding, surfing, windsurfing, kayaking, scuba diving, skimboarding, and snorkeling! That's more activities than the nine years I spent in Calgary... too bad we didn't go rafting here too.

If heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied...
Illuminate the "No"s on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
I will follow you into the dark...

On the weekend I had a strange dream... it was the apocalypse and everyone died and heaven got full... so everyone got sent to hell! Which of course meant big lineups and crowding down there... The weird thing was that it was in the style of the Simpsons, it was as if a Treehouse of Horror episode was being broadcast to my head while I was asleep. If this ever becomes a real Simpsons episode, let this be evidence that I am indeed psychic.

Edit: South Park Already Did It
Since it's been years and years since I've seen the South Park movie, I forgot that Kenny gets rejected from Heaven since the population has reached maximum (1500 souls)... However there was no apocalypse, or rioting in hell, so it could still happen.