The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas

Mike and I went to see a musical called "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" by Tokyo Internation Players. Our friend, E, was in it!! ^___^ It was amazing, funny and entertaining. As implied in the name, the musical is about a whorehouse in a quiet town in Texas. They were able to find quite a number of foreigner girls in Tokyo here who are willing to dress sexy to perform, which I found quite amazing.

The story is about how a reporer (bad guy) who exposed to the media that there was a whorehouse in Texas (shocking shocking!!!) which had in fact existed for almost a century. Though a whorehouse was illegal at the time, the owner of the whorehouse, a very strong lady who used to be a whore working there and now inherited the whorehouse, was actually a very sensible, loyal and responsible "mother-figure" who always looks after and protects her girls. So there are these very interesting conflicts between the socially-acceptable moral standards at the surface level versus individual moral standards that are more "human" and actually matter. The musical has a sad ending that the whorehouse was eventually forced to close, and the whore girls just each went their own way. You can read more about the story from the wikipedia entry.

I think the musical was really successful - if you actually feel sad seeing a WHOREHOUSE being cracked down, oh boy! Wasn't the musical good or what?!?! Honestly, it was a very touching scene towards the end of the show hearing all the whore girls sang "May be I'll be fine.. May be I'll be fine..." departing the whorehouse...

Hehe.. and forgot to mention - E, you are AWESOME in the show!! ^____^ And boy, I like your cowboy dance A LOT !!!! haha...

I took lots of pictures of the musical (of coz, un-flashed) and some really "juicy" movies of Echan, heh... =)

WARNING: Well... you know it's about a whorehouse, if you don't feel comfortable looking at sexy lace underwears or "adult postures", just skip below. =p


Movies

E's singing.

E's cowboy dancing. =)

Ever wonder how Aggies (Agriculture students at University of Texas) take showers?

Sexy E in his... =)

Ending appreciation with the Aggies and the whores. (E, I see why you said you need to save energy to carry the gal then...) =p





Pictures

Stage before the musical started















Dancing scene with all the whores (only 2 of the gals are Asian, rest are all foreigners)










The arrival of a new whore "Angel". If you have read the book or saw the broadway production, you'll konw what I am talking about.






Hmm... I wonder what they are doing? =p








The zealous reporter (guy dressed in all white) who caused the whorehouse to be cracked down (bad guy in the story).









Hardcore Christians protesting the existence of the little whorehouse in the quiet town Texas.






Football players taking off clothes and pants preparing to take showers and then go to the whorehouse to "have fun"!! (E is in the middle, waving his shirt!!!)





I also took a movie when E was in this sexy shower scene, haha








Governor of the town (guy upstairs in the middle) was questioned by reporters about the illegal whorehouse. This scene made fun of George W. Bush who was also once the governor of Texas.

Everyone laughed so hard during this scene (of coz with the background sound effect!!).
Can't see? Too dark? Well... use ur imagination... =p





E's singing scene. (2nd one from the left).








Brokeback mountain-look!! =p
(E is 2nd from the right)

A peaceful week

A peaceful week has gone by, and guess what, it's Friday again!! You know what that means? That means that the next two days will be Happy Mike's days to make up for his sleep-deficit for the previous days. (haha... =P )

For me, the lucky one who is still on vacation mode (still waiting for my JP work visa to come out), this past week has been pretty relaxing and yet I accomplished a lot. Took care of a lot of administrative stuff for the new company, read a lot about how finance markets work, went to the gym A LOT (yea, running at least an hour everyday), and also booked hotel for parents prepared for moving into the new apartment next week.

Going to see a very interesting musical tomorrow at 新宿 that one of my friends will participate in. It's gonna be fun!!

The musical is based on a play written by Larry King called "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" .
See, doesn't the poster look interesting or what, huh?!
Really looking forward to see it!!!!!












Other random stuff happened during the week...


Saw a random sword store one day when I was wandering around. Mike and I were searching for one of these so hard last year when we first visited Japan (Mike wanted to buy a sword for his friend, James, as souvenir, but we failed...)





The sword store reminded me of Kenshin (one of my all-time favorite anime.) Gosh... really miss watching anime... Need to find some good ones especially when I am HERE in Japan, where animes originated from!!!











Some nights when I craved sweets....

If you know me, you probably know that I LOVE sweets!!! ^______^ yeah, bad (eating) habit!! Milk tea, cookies, chocolate, candies, mango pudding, sweet tofu, and especially... ice-cream!! Guess what we found here... Cold Stone Creamy !!!

I know i know, they came from the US. There is nothing particularly "Japanese" about it at all, you might say. But I have never been to one in US, and it's ice-cream, so ... who cares.... =p


My selection of the day - Banana Caramel Crunch, it is.





Mike swears that the Cold Stone Ice Creamy here tastes infinitely better than the ones from the States (yea, things are basically not as cool to him here if they are from the States). For me, I dun care... 　I LUV ice cream!!!

　





Yum yum... (sorry, can't control my saliva...)












Normal routine...

Since work culture here in Japan is "a bit" more crazy than in US, especially for the finance industry (12 hr day, easily go from 8am to 8pm), I got complaints about the Japanese workaholic ethics all the time (and guess from who... =p )

Mike said that he is not going to "marry the company" like many Japanese workers here do, so he's not gonna do the "12 hr thing" (and hope that I won't, he said). So he usually comes home around 7:30, and we will then go grab dinner and chill for the night.

One of the normal activity that we both do a lot is to call home talking to our familes using Skype. Like tonight, Mike talked to his dad and I ...

.. took this picture while he was talking to his dad. (yea, and then he accused me of being a "rude Chinese village gal"). He complained to his dad, "I kinda wish that Carol will stop taking random pictures now, since it's a bit HARD to smile WHILE TALKING." (you can see his headphone line in this pic). And my reply to him was - "geez... some engineer doesn't know how to "multi-task"!!!) =p






Weight Loss...

Mike said that I have lost a lot of weight in the last few weeks. Guess it has something to do with going to the gym and running for an hour everyday. Yea, hehe.. I guess my stomach finally decided to stop haunting me and I could run for an hour continuously now!! Feel great to run again and pretty please with the gym so far actually.

Hope that the company gym that I am probably going to sign up for will be as great as this one.















Recent Reading....

I like reading while running on treadmill, and this is the book that I have been reading lately. For anyone who is interested in learning about Finance markets, I'd definitely recommend this book (link to Amazon). In fact, it was my new boss who recommended this book to me at the first place. And he of coz knows his STUFF!!! =p









Got complaints about not posting more "bigger, clearer" pictures of myself here... ok ok ok... geez... here ya go...


















Take one - Mike kept saying that I have lost too much weight and need to gain some weight back. hmm... really?





Take two - Guess my normally puffy face has indeed shunk a little, haha... GO Japanese healthy (yet yummy) food. =p

Thai Festival

This weekend was Thai Festival at Yoyogi Park. Mike and I were going to go with a friend on Saturday; however, it was pouring down rain that day. So instead we had "fun" shopping at IKEA with thousands of other Japanese (did I mention that it WAS crowded there?!) Anyways, the rain actually stopped on Sunday, so we gave the Thai Fes another try and it was actually loads of fun!!


Thai Festival banner (entrance to the festival)








Food vendors everywhere!! Lots of yummy thai noodles, curry, dishes or snacks for cheap price.







You can see people everywhere in the park. On the ground, seats, grass or even the bridge!!







With so many people around, you want to get lost. And this is how I did it - grasping Mike's arm like a little kid!






"Hey Mike, how's the Thai mango?"

























"Let me see... Hmm... yum yum..." Mike said, with a smiled.














"Hey, save some for me!! You greedy thief!!" Carol yelled.
















Finally it's my turn!! =p The pipeapple is soooo juicy and SWEET!! I missed fruits!!! (Why do they have to be so expensive here?!?!?!)
















This is where I got my pipeapple. 100 yen per piece (about $0.8 USD or $6 HKD)









Mike and Carol at Yoyogi Park.


























Lots of Thai-style decoration everywhere.

























Besides the Thai Fes-specific scenes, we also saw some of the usual Yoyogi Park scenes. Yoyogi Park is our favorite park in Tokyo so far. We went there almost every weekend. (Well... a big reason is also because Mike's favorite curry place "Little Spoon" is also near there! =p Right, Mike?)



A young, hip dad was teaching his little kid how to ride a scooter... how sweet!!
























Can't forget the cosplay, of coz!!




























This gaigin (foreigner) painted hiself like stone and street-performed, attracting quite a crowd.




















Just the two of us

Regardless how big the crowd is around us, we always see each other!!