367 posts tagged “japan”
I still dunno why I bought the new camera. I'm not using it enough to have justified it. Whatever.
I AM, however, abusing Lightroom like the kinky bitch it is, and you can clearly see that in these shots, I'd imagine. D:
Any suggestions for what to shoot this weekend, what with it being rainy every day?
After work, we had a drinking party, so I went in to work again after coming home to wait for people to be ready to leave. I was surprised to find, on my desk, a flyer advertising a "Canadian Food Tasting and Info Session", taking place my school on Thursday. I'm not sure who's in charge of this, but I think it may be the 2nd grade social studies teacher, as he'd borrowed my big japanese-language fact-book of Canada.
Now, this factbook has lots of stuff about history and geography and economy and stuff like that, but not culture so much, and nothing at all about food. As such, you'd think they'd come speak to the resident Canadian (yours truly) to fill in that information.
They didn't. This was the first I'd heard of it.
With trepidation, I looked at their list of foods.
1. Tomato, Bean and Bacon Soup.
Now, though I've not had this, and I wouldn't necessarily call it CANADIAN, it's not unlike soups I have had back home, and so I will give it a pass.
2. Salmon steak covered in shredded cheese and grilled.
WHAT. WHY WOULD YOU RUIN A GOOD SALMON STEAK BY PUTTING SHITTY QUALITY PRE-SHREDDED CHEESE ON IT AND BROILING It??? THIS IS APALLING.
3. As a beverage, maple syrup.
I hope I don't have to explain what's wrong here.
What the HELL. Why would YOU DO THIS TO ME.
The proper answer for this menu should have been:
-Cheddar Cheese Soup (they get a soup, they get their cheese, and as we know, Campbell's Cheddar Cheese Soup is as Canadian as Ketchup chips)
-salmon with a maple syrup glaze
but nope! They've fucked it!
Right, so, I have this idea for a video blog thingie. Through a clever bit of jiggerypokery, I'll attach my camera to the dashboard on my car, and then record it while I drive around. It'll be good. As for topics, however, I suppose it should be something I actually know about, like, you know, life in Japan.
Soooo is there anything you'd want to see me talk about in such a video blog? Pretend you've never read anything I've wrote on the subject, so anything I could have to say would be new to you.
Other topics too. What sort of things would you be interested in hearing me yammer on about?
Okay, today is weird!
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I was home for lunch / waiting for a parcel that ought to be delivered today, though I know not when, and the doorbell rang! Naturally, since the only ppl who ever visit are delivery ppl, I grabbed my wallet and ran for the door.
I opened the door, and there stood a man in work clothes. "I have come to fix your toilet," he said.
"... come again?"
"Your toilet. It runs all the time, yes? I've come to fix it," he explained.
"Yeah, what?" I was fairly certain my toilet did no such thing.
"Well," he continued, "the landlord told me about it."
Shrugging, I told him that I had no idea what he was on about, because my toilet was fine, but he was free to come in and see for himself.
"Ah, here's the toilet! ... it's not running!" he exclaimed. "Here, I'm just gonna flush it a little bit to see," he went on, and did half a small flush. It flushed, it ended, all as it should. He held the tank lid up and watched in wonder. "Well what the... this is very strange!"
"There's nothing wrong with my toilet then?" I inquired.
"No, it seems fine! So strange..."
I thought maybe he had gotten the floors mixed up. "Maybe it's the third floor?"
"No, I was told the second floor... no one lives in the third floor anyway though, right?" he asked.
"I assure you someone does live up there! It's a Japanese woman, so you needn't worry."
"So very strange..." he muttered. He went back to his van, and talked on the phone for a bit. The woman upstairs returned and walked by him and went upstairs to her apartment. He didn't talk to her again. A few minutes later he returned and rang my bell again. "Are you sure you didn't complain about your toilet leaking water or something?"
"Yes. 4 years ago the tap on the back was overpressurized, so when I flushed, water would fly all over the seat and stuff. But that was fixed. 4 years ago."
"... this is so very strange!" he exclaimed again and then he left.
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Then, a few minutes later, I got a phone call from Vaio Customer Support, and they wanted to speak to Hajime. "I'm not Hajime," I told them.
"Oh, are you Hajime's wife?" they asked innocently.
Cocking my head to one side, I told them that they most definitely had the wrong number and hung up.
Now, seriously, do I sound like a Japanese housewife when I speak on the phone? I would hope that that is something someone would tell me about...
I went to Tokyo and Kamakura with Spiff over the winter holiday, and you've already seen the photos, but here's a shitty video of it to watch.
I didn't do much in Autumn, but you can watch a video anyway.
Though it is xmas day, I'm going to ignore that and show you photos.
Coke Zero is running a Coke Zero Zero 7/Quantum of Solace promotion, and I won a USB drive thingie through it. It's branded, and has a fingerprint reader, for BONDO, JEIMUZU BONDO level security. ._.
I like this song because (1) it's pretty nice and mellow and (2) it incorporates train chimes, which are also relaxing and nice. :)
I took pictures today! Woo!
PS: I'm all caught up on Retrospective videos now, so your friends page won't be inundated with them anymore. Just one ever little while from now on, I'd reckon. Sorry!
