Sayonara Party, with Izakaya and Karaoke

This friday I had my goodbye party with my great friends from Matsudo. I won't actually be leaving in another week, of course, but I decided Halloween was not the right day to have this kind of party on, so the day before yesterday was chosen in its stead. Not everyone could attend, unfortunately, with some cancelling much later than would have been preferrable, so we ended up being only 12 people at the izakaya instead of the expected number of around (or over) 20.

Four of the missing people did show up later though, one just before we left the izakaya, and three once we had reached the karaoke place at which we would spend the rest of the night. We had a great time through the evening, of that I am sure we can all agree. The only darkness looming around the event was the state of the economy back home, with the Swedish krona losing more of its value for every passing day, and the effect that had on the cost of the event - as well as everything else of value in Japan.

Either way, I ended up singing three Rihanna songs that night. Starting with Unfaithful, I then got a request from Shinya to do Umbrella as well, after which I thought I might as well end the night with Take a Bow. Other high points with my involvement were a number of duets - such as The Phantom of the Opera, performed with Christian, and A Whole New World with Hana-san.  There were also a number of songs by Nobuo Uematsu, the mastermind behind the greater parts of the soundtracks from the Final Fantasy series, all of which were like extacy to me, Louise and Christian. We will definitely have to do more of those next time around!

To end this post, I have a question for everyone reading this blog. Do you by any chance know anything about Freud, or dream psychology in general? Because two nights in a row now I have been having dreams, where I have gotten romantically involved with two of my friends - none of which I have any such interest in, in real life - and I would really like to know what that means. So if you have any idea, let me know!