昨日洗濯機から電話した。ほんとにびっくりした！
土曜日, 4月 29, 2006
月曜日, 4月 24, 2006
プリッツ持ってるくんと麻雀と羊
プリッツ持ってるくん：すごい紙だ！写真で麻雀も見える。
In 'I didn't have a camera handy' news, I'm regularly amused by the way people react at the pedestrian crossings on my way to work. There's one in particular where there's a period during which all the lights are red, and a tiny side street flashes green for a bit (so many drivers miss that, and sit there for several cycles, but that's beside my point). Anyway, if there's no traffic merging from said tiny street, I usually cycle over the crossing while everything is stationary and red-lighted.
The number of people who will automatically start across with me, then see the red lights, catch themselves, and leap/stagger/fall backwards towards the perceived safety of the pavement they just left is just staggering!
The other day two old Japanese ladies in kimono at another crossing did exactly this after some young Japanese cyclists bombed it over the crossing ahead of an oncoming tram. As it thundered slowly towards the crossing these two ladies were heads down shuffling after the cyclists, totally oblivious to the tons of oncoming metal and the red lights. About halfway across it clicked, and I bet they haven't had occasion to move so fast in decades...
Thankfully they were laughing about it once they got over the shock =)
日曜日, 4月 16, 2006
火曜日, 4月 11, 2006
俺の宝物
An impressive haul last weekend, the likes of which has never been seen collected in one place before, but displayed here for your viewing pleasure!
Finally, a Japlish T-shirt of my own! My favourite bit is the 'serial number No...................' on the label.
More sake than you could shake a dozen sticks at, mostly consumed and discarded, these two kept for posterity.
Candied crabs and squid strips, the perfect accompaniment for sake consumption.
A fine strawberry hat, for those ichigo moments in life.
A PMX-001 PALACE-ATHENE, complete with "Mega Beam Cannon, Double Beam Gun, Diffusion Beam Cannon, Beam Saber etc. [sic]" in a dynamic pose.
A long-overdue manbag, with all the brand labels recently picked/filed/cut off, to replace the carrier bags I usually tote my junk around with.
Yay! A rare delicacy on this side of the world.
Last but not least, cuter-than-cute cards, a handkerchief (which as Andre pointed out is quite handy given the lack of towels, soap, or just about anything else in most public/restaurant toilets) and a killer hangover which still lingers a good 30 hours after I stopped drinking (60 hours since the session began!).
Finally, a Japlish T-shirt of my own! My favourite bit is the 'serial number No...................' on the label.
More sake than you could shake a dozen sticks at, mostly consumed and discarded, these two kept for posterity.
Candied crabs and squid strips, the perfect accompaniment for sake consumption.
A fine strawberry hat, for those ichigo moments in life.
A PMX-001 PALACE-ATHENE, complete with "Mega Beam Cannon, Double Beam Gun, Diffusion Beam Cannon, Beam Saber etc. [sic]" in a dynamic pose.
A long-overdue manbag, with all the brand labels recently picked/filed/cut off, to replace the carrier bags I usually tote my junk around with.
Yay! A rare delicacy on this side of the world.
Last but not least, cuter-than-cute cards, a handkerchief (which as Andre pointed out is quite handy given the lack of towels, soap, or just about anything else in most public/restaurant toilets) and a killer hangover which still lingers a good 30 hours after I stopped drinking (60 hours since the session began!).
月曜日, 4月 03, 2006
ジャプリッシュ
Just a random selection to illustrate the varieties of English mauling over here: the verbose, the word collisions, and the wonderfully nonsensical.Got a shiny quiet new computer as a birthday present to myself, realised I didn't have a hub and the hard drive cables weren't compatible with each other so spent a good half-day transferring all my music over in itty bitty chunks using my iPod nano. Joy.
Having said that, silent running makes it all worthwhile!
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