5 posts tagged “crazy”
While chillin' in the staff room, as I do, I happened to glance up, and was confronted with the angry visage of Ayatollah Khomeini, which, as you may imagine, was pretty alarming!
I blinked a couple times and looked again. It was just a Mickey Mouse doll stuffed into a bike helmet.
... What?
Here's another V6 video, it's all summery and shit.
So, even after all the retarded I put up with today, when I left work it still wasn't over. I had missed the delivery of my rental cell phone for my Canada trip next week, so I popped over to the post office to pick it up. First it took 10 minutes to find the package, and then another 5 minutes while she tried to confirm, letter by letter, that my ID and the package matched. ARE YOU STUNNED? YES IT IS FOR ME, YOU STUPID TWAT.
It's the same uhhh phone I had two years ago, only now it has a Vancouver phone number, instead of a Seattle number. (shrug) Kind of disappointing, but I guess I shouldn't expect much from rental telecom gadgets in North America.
Now, thinking about things I have to do in the next week or so to prepare for my trip and do while there, I get feeling overwhelmed. :/
At any rate, here's a video. UVERworld is awesome.
The Board of Ed took us for a party today,partly to pressure us into recontracting （3 months early）. But they didn't actually end up doing that, so it's all the more confuzzling.
We went to Yume no Taira ski, and there, there is a huge field of cosmos. We could see it from our restaurant, but it was dark and the lights weren't on (they are on certain weekends in October), so the picture wasn't worth it. The one at the link is pretty indicative though.
Then I got THE MASTER'S RECOMMENDED COCKTAIL. I ended up with a lychee calpis soda, which is cool cuz I love the taste of lychee. So i drank most of that, and then the BoE people were trying to get me to eat other weird things, and i'm like "Hey, Takahata, I'll eat that gross thing if you chug a JUMBO COCKTAIL (1L)." He agreed. Then it ended up changing to being something like a relay, where I would start and drink a bit, then Takahata, then Timbo then Ruben then Jeremy then Imai-san (aka Michael). But when I got mine, it was another lychee calpis soda, which goes down real easy, so I drank until I was satisfied. In this case, that was when the 1L was gone. O_O.
So, after chugging 1L of lychee calpis soda, I had to relieve myself. When I came back, everyone else shared a 1L thing of ... some sort of purple calpis soda. I don't exactly remember what happened then, mostly cuz it wasn't important and cuz I was too busy laughing my ass off at the randomness of it all. That pic of me with the chopsticks happened during that period though.
Now I have to be up in 7 hours so I can go teach a demo lesson with my NATIONALLY RENOWNED ENGLISH TEACHER/VICE PRINCIPAL. That's gonna be painful. -_-
And now, the full story of the Hot Dog.
They put me up in a suite at the Akasaka Prince Hotel. There was a sitting room, and a separate bedroom, and a fantastic view, and my own personal massage chair. Score! But I digress.
The All-Japan Bread Association (a professional organization for the bakers of Japan) was celebrating it's 50th anniversary at the Akasaka Prince Hotel. One part of the celebration was the BREAD ART competition. Here are some examples. Keep in mind that all these things were made completely out of bread.
That was just a sideshow for the main event: an attempt to break the world record for longest hot dog!
The official Guinness record is 17.5m, held by a school group in Texas. Unofficially, a group in Oregon achieved 31m two weeks ago (it's recent, and thus hasn't been recognized by Guinness yet).
Of course, those are all tiny little GIRLY HOT DOGS, compared to the
60.3m HOT DOG
that they made today at the Akasaka Prince Hotel.
They had conveyor belts, and a jet oven. A company in Shizuoka made a 60m weiner for them. They made many 1m long tubes of dough, and fed them through the oven, and they'd come out the other end totally cooked, and delicious and bready. As the last bit of dough was about to enter the oven, they'd attach another tube of dough to the end, to create an unbroken 60.3m chunk of bread. The weiner was heated at the same time. It exited the oven and moved along a conveyor belt to the far end of the room (the ovens were outsidE).
There was a moment of panic when one of the conveyor belts started moving just a little faster than the other ones, which almost caused the bun to be ripped in two, but it was caught in time, so no problems.They cut the bun, then had 80 people lift the sausage into the bun, then had one of the bakers run down with a big squeezy bag of ketchup, and another one of mustard. Then, we measured it. The sausage was 60m. The bread was 60.3m. It'll be up to Guinness to decide what length they decide to recognize, but considering it's nearly double the unofficial record, and stupidly more than the official record, I think it'll be okay.
They cut a 1m representative chunk of the hot dog out, after all the video and pictures and stuff had been done, and weighed it, then multiplied by 60 for a rough estimate of the weight (which is necessary for the record claim, but only for interest's sake). 52.8kg, which seems very light to me..... but whatever.
We started at 7 am, did this, werew finished at noon, napped in the lobby of the hotel, caught a bus to Haneda, chilled in the lounge there for a bit, hopped a plane to toyama, came home, and posted this. That's what I did on my Friday.
NHK and TVTokyo were there, and a bunch of newspaper people, so it SHOULD appear at some point...
All the pics I took can be found here.
