Lilly's Birthday and a Close Encounter of the Snake Kind

Yesterday Lilly, a few Kobe friends and I returned to the restaurant in the harbour area of town where Basim, Duncan, Joss and I had gone back in January. The place is a all you can eat salad/sides/meat/pineapple place and its rather fair in terms of quality and price with an awesome view of the city which my camera couldn't capture as it struggles at night. Still, the night was good if not a bit tame - due to the absence of a certain Basim.


After putting my foot in it we all headed for Time Trip, the Japanese bar with cheap drinks and reptiles which I do believe I have talked about before. It wasn't long till someone got the snake out, although not the one I have a good understanding with.


Things were going well, with the snake making a good accessory to my predominately brown outfit...


But as soon as he escaped, he started climbing the window, where my friend Tsismari stroked it. It did not look pleased, so I thought it would be best to try and kiss him. About 5 seconds after the photo above was taken, it went for me, mouth wide open and fangs a blazin' it shot for my eyes. Thankfully, due to my matrix like goalkeeper reactions I was able to dodge, and then run away.

Only in Japan.

In other news uni is almost over, with a report and one class to go. The report is 3 pages, around 1,000 characters, on "International Marriage and Divorce". Its ever so frustrating when a topic hinders the quality of the essay over your ability with Japanese. I'll stick it up when I'm done.