Massage Therapy

Went to this massage therapy place nearby my place. It said "First time examination fee: Free" so I thought to give it a try. What I didn't realize was this didn't include the actual therapy session fee. What they were advertising to be free was just the initial checkup of your bodily condition. So after the really brief initial checkup, the therapist started giving me massage. The therapy session lasted well over 90 min, which basically was a non-stop torture. So many times, I wanted to just kicked the guy off and run away.

After the therapy, the guy was telling me in his bad Japanese (he apparently was Chinese) that my body is not exactly in its best condition and I have to come back in 2 days. I was thinking "in 2 days!? That soon?" Then he went on to say that "I'll give you a discount since this is your first session. I normally charge 5,200 yen for 60 min but I'll round it down to 5,000 yen." And I was like "What, I thought it was supposed to be free since it's my first time." And the guy was like "No no, it's just the check up fee that we are waiving, not the actual therapy fee." I was trying and tell him that the ad was misleading and I only came because I thought they were giving away free trial sessions. But his Japanese suddenly got noticeably worse and at that point, I just decided to give up and pay and leave.

I'm probably not going back there any time soon (not in 2 days for sure) but when I think about it, it really wasn't that bad of a deal that I got.. The guy only charged me 5,000 yen for a 90 min session. Ah well. The ad was misleading though.. or maybe it was just my lack of common sense that caused the misunderstanding..

Summer Sonic 2006

I somehow got lucky and got myself on the guestlist for 1st day. My friend that got me on the list told me that we are going in as editors. I was like "Editors? Editors for what?" But my friend was just instructed to do so from her friend that got us on the list and didn't really have any more info. So we went to the guest sign-in table and told them that we are editors and our names should be on the list. Naturally, they were like "You are editors? With which company?" And I was like "um..." And they suggested "Did you mean you are on the guestlist for the band Editors"? I was like "ah, maybe.." and sure enough our names were listed under the guests for the band. It was a rather embarrassing moment, I could see receptionist the girl was trying hard to hold herself from laughing aloud. But in any case, we were able to get in for a hugely discounted price so it was all good.

I didn't really get to see all the bands I wanted to see because of schedule reasons. But this time, there was no single band I really wanted to check out so I decided to catch as many band performances as possible by going from one band performance to another. That's what's really cool about going to these rock festivals, seeing all these different bands performing, including ones you would not necessarily go see live if was not for the festival. Out of the ones I got to see, Zebrahead was pretty fun to watch. Editors, our band, was pretty good too.