Today was a rather eventful and productive day.
In the morning, I ran several errands. Bought oat hay, dropped off my tennis racquet to be restrung, shipped off Kazu’s 7-Eleven mugs, and drooled on some nice Nikkor 50mm lenses. Didn’t buy, just drooled… The photo album doesn’t count! >.>;
When I got home around noon, I decided to drink/eat the young coconut that I bought earlier in the week at Whole Foods. It took me a while to get it open as I had no clue how to. I did manage to get a hole punched in on my own and drank the water, but I didn’t know how to crack it open until I Googled it and got a hit on YouTube. Mmm, young coconut. :9
At 3:15 PM ish, I picked up my friend Franklin and we went to the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena to watch sumo wrestling. I know nothing about sumo when I signed up to win sumo tickets, but I’m very glad that I did. It was very entertaining, more entertaining than I expected it to be. I was rather excited that Asashoryu and Kotooshu were there. Two names that have been in the sumo news as of late. Asashoryu for going emo and running away to his native Mongolia, and Kotooshu to be the first European to win a big sumo tournament last week.
Each match for sumo lasted for only two minutes or so, with most of the time taken up by ritual. I think the actual wrestling lasted something like 15 seconds. The longer ones seemed to take about 30 seconds. The winner goes on to the next round.
Afterwards, dinner was at Orochon Ramen in Little Tokyo. I really do like that place. :9 今日、食べ過ぎたかも…