A Saturday afternoon

Last Saturday, Morgan, her friend Lauren, and I went to 万博記念公園 / Expo '70 Commemorative Park (a.k.a. "banpaku") for the free-entry rose garden. The weather was amazing - sunny and very very warm at 30C. It was hot, but thank goodness it was still bearable. Morgan and Lauren come from Texas and I grew up in Hong Kong - we know what is hot and what isn't.

The park is just a short ride on the monorail from the dormitory. After taking numerous photos of the beautiful and fragrant roses, we decided to walk to Kita-senri station via the Suita campus of Osaka University. Osaka University is divided into three campuses: Minoh (where we live and go to classes), Toyonaka (with the arts, sciences and law faculties - where I go to the law class on Friday), and the main campus in Suita (with the university's medical and dental hospitals and faculty of engineering).

We walked to the student union building and had a quick bite. さすが本部だ！The menu was twice as big as the one we have in Minoh, not to mention they have more than one cafeterias. My katsu-kare was very good, especially the katsu.

Anyway, after lunch we walked through the campus and a nice park to reach Kita-senri station. We weren't actually going to take the Hankyu train though. It was for the showcase gig of the university's 軽音楽部 (literally "light music club"). Daan's and Matthias' band was playing so we went to support them. As expected of Daan, there was shirtlessness and he (very sweetly with a hint of "gayness") dedicated his performance to Seb. Awww...

Seb and I took photos at the event. Mine haven't been developed yet but Seb has some beautiful shots of Daan and Matthias in action (they're not on the web but check out Seb's other photos on his Flickr photostream!). Here's one of Simon and I, taking photos/videos on our cameras with Matthias on the stage in the background -