Very good to see Alberto (also from those heady Cafe Ole days) back in Tokyo on a brief visit. We met up (yet again) at the beer garden on top of Keio department store in Shinjuku before moving (and sweating profusely!) over to Frigo nearby for more fun and games. Staring out as two and eventually becoming ten we enjoyed a great evening catching up with old friends and meeting new ones as well.
Alberto goes on from here to pursue a doctorate in Anthropology at ASU, focusing on the background and lives of Cambodian immigrants in Vietnam. The only person I know fluent in two South-east Asian languages and four European ones, Aberto remains an enigma to me (and many others as well, to be sure). I mean, a hard-core scholar with that ponytail and beard…?
Enjoy your studies in Arizona, mate. We’ll see you again in about three years…
