Chanko keeps you going

Ate just chanko, the daily food of sumo wrestlers. 美味しいです。 How many bowls of this meat and vegetable soup they have to eat every day...?!!

Time to take a nap.

SNOW is staying for the night!

Hehee, incredible! The snowing turned into a rain this afternoon but still there's snow on the ground. ＼(^_^ )／

Wonder if Israel would like to experience some snowfight at this hour...

Welcoming party

Today there was welcoming party for new international students of Tokyo-Tech. It was held in our campus and naturally all 'old' international students were invited. Hehe, timing was perfect. Dinner time and just after gym training. My stomach is still full from all delicious sushi. Njam.

Now on my way home...working hours are growing and days in the lab getting longer again...BUT no worries, tomorrow I'll make it up and stay out from the lab the whole day. Have to get the brace from the clinic and see some sumo finally.

...Although it would be economically wiser to stay in the lab as much as possible. In these months our gas and electricity bills are 3 times higher than usually. o(>.<)o

Knee injury

Good and bad news. The good news is that it wasn't either of the injuries the doctor suspected (LCL or meniscus injury) and the bad is that it may be even worse. At the moment only 100% sure are multiple bone bruises (healing itself in 2 months). Not clearly seen from the pictures but highly suspected are partial or full ACL rupture and cartilage injury (which both need a surgery from where the recovery takes at least 6 months).

The doctor gave me two options: 1) immediate surgery or 2) waiting for 2 months to see if the surgery is really needed. He said that surgery is not in a hurry and can be done later as good as now. After he promised me a good brace for the knee, which would aloud immediate training, I selected the latter option. Tomorrow I'll get the brace and I'll be back in the dojo tomorrow evening. Cross your fingers that it's not the ACL injury and will see after 2 months how is my knee. (^_^)b

One of the MRI pictures from my left knee.

Snow

I've seen more snow here in Tokyo since I woke up this morning than in Finland during my Christmas vacation. Hee, all the trains are late today...

MRI and Nightwish

On Thursday I went to show my knee to an orthopaedist. Walking (and even running) is ok but still there seems to be somenthing wrong. He send me right away to take MRI-pictures. Cool machine...quite strong magnet there...almost took my belt. Hehe, the nurse there told me to empty my pockets but didn't tell me to take of the belt. At least it gave me some picture of the power which we are dealing with in this machine. After 3 nights I'll here what is wrong with my knee. Hopefully only ligament (faster healing) and not the meniscus.

On Friday night we went to see Nightwish playing here in Tokyo. The gig was GREAAAT. Anette really rocks!! Hehe, but you can only try to imagine what happened when she happened to mention that the Marco's vodka bottle on the stage was swedish...haha. (>_<)/


Nightwish in Liquid room, Ebisu, Tokyo.

After party in a familiar rock bar in Shinjuku was quite an...-better not tell more...lets just say that still hurting upstairs-

Public holiday...

...and here I'm sitting in a train on my way home from the lab. How did this happen even though I promised to myself not to work on public holidays or weekends anymore?! Ok, for sure, I'm going to take one day off for this. Today there would have been lots of girls wearing kimonos! Last year we happened to be in Kioto on this day.(^_^)b

Was tired after last week (first week working again) so no writing in blog. What's going on now around here,hmmm...have to write a paper, 2 reports and make 2 exams in this month. One of the exams is japanese test. It'll be hard o(>_<)o ...でも そんなのかんけんねー

Oh and btw, the Sumo Grand Tournament is here again. Time to go to see big guys fighting!