Merry Xmas!

Now this was a much better crack. Beer and sake helped. Give people all-you-can-drink and look at the smiles - simpletons! I loved being Santa, until I was practically raped by students who decided they wanted to be the fat man in red! And then we spilled out into the street, crammed into karaoke, and abused the mike with compulsory but damn awful xmas songs (yes, Mariah Carey was done, and Band Aid, bit of Wham, the memory fades a little after that...).

However, the highlight has to be when me and my northern buddy, Gareth, ditched the baggage and headed off to the local for a few more. One Mancunian in reindeer hat, accompanied by one Doncastarian in Santa hat, equals instant celebrity in a tiny bar in Kunitachi - fab!!