Forget The Year… Start A New Year
In Japanese “忘年会” – bōnenkai - literally means “forget the year gathering”. While we’re about it could we forget the last ten years too? Seriously, the naughties were pretty naughty. Sometimes I forget to forget. Here’s what’s been going on over here in Tokyo.
Learn Japanese Pod Year End Party
A huge thank you to all of you who came out to the Pink Cow to experience the Japanese Lounge Event and the Learn Japanese Pod Year End Party. I had a great time and it was great to catch up with you all. We will be holding more of these meet ups every month from now on. I was also happy that we had more Japanese people participate as this is of course Learn Japanese Pod. お疲れさまでした。Stay tuned for dates for the next one. Thanks to Jim, Yoko, Keiko, Arden, Akaki, @tamegoeswild, @sandrajapandra, @kimiecat, @tomoakiyama and @AdySan. And here are some photos from Ady.
Tokyo Weekender 40th Anniversary Party
Lordy, lordy, looks who’s 40! Tokyo Weekender Magazine will be holding its 40th Anniversary party to celebrate its long legacy and the people who made it possible.It’s going to be a great party including food, drinks, live music, prize draws and Guy Perryman spinning the vinyl for us.
Location: 57, Roppongi
Date: Jan 15th 2010
Time: 8pm onwards
Entrance: 4000 yen (in advance) 5000 yen (on the door)
DJ & MC: Guy Perryman
Other: Free gift bags for all participants
They will also be announcing the winner of the Tokyo Photo Contest who will receive a free return ticket to the UK.
Not bad eh?
Hey Alex, have you heard Tokyo Incidents new song 3min. (3 Punkan)?
@E Mckenzie
Nope, tell me more…
Well… I don’t know much about them, except that in Japanese, they are called Tokyo Jihen. I saw that the were no. 1 for a while on the Japanese iTunes… listened to them and thought they sounded CooL, just wondered whether the Learn Japanese crew knew of them