月別アーカイブ: 2009年7月

Crying Lighting

The first single from the upcoming third album of my favorite band was released on itunes today. Unfortunately I don’t have any itunes credit so I’ve been listening to it on BBC radio. It sounds quite different to their other older stuff. The song  has a very dark and heavy bass line to it and with the way it’s sung and its lyrical prowess, it reminds me a bit of a Nick Cave song. Can’t wait to hear the whole album.

A mate of mine in the guest is reading “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell. I read it about five years ago and only have a vague recollection of happened in it. My mate keeps bringing up certain things that happened in the book and even though I did once know what happened it feels like he’s giving away the story, it’s a strange. Thats why I’ve taken it upon myself to once again read it before he ruins the whole story for me.

my korean passion II

my japanese friend was laughing at me, “WHY? WHY JAPANESE? why you HAVE to use japanese as a tool to communicate with another foreigner??? i can understand if it is english, but WHY JAPANESE?????????!!!!!!!!”

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! i got cracked up SOOOOOOOO hard! it was such an interesting point that i have never even thought about! it is true, but to me, it of course it is natural, because we are in japan so of course we speak japanese, but yet, hahaha! さすが私の long time friend.

language is definitely a curse, to separate us, human being, and make us LESS united, as a whole, no doubt about it; however, in the meantime, by using different languages, we can also get some fun out of it.

always 2-sided story isn’t it?

like my classmates, some of them are “chinese”, well, when i am in foreign land, we are all “grouped” as chinese, cannot be helped, i am used to it, however, i cannot understand Mandarin, so i cannot talk to the chinese that speaks Mandarin since i can only speak Cantonese, as a matter of fact, 85% of the time, i had to talk to them in japanese … in here, i feel natural, but when my dad asked me, …

“you have chinese friends??? but … you cannot speak Mandarin~, how did you communicate with them???”

“i speak japanese with them, dad~”

“OH!”

it is at moments like that i realize what type of interesting/weird thing i have been doing~.

cute.

i am now listening to BIG BANG, their songs SOOOOO good. some of them. like  “Heaven”, “Baby Baby”, “Lie”. i do think the leader that made ALL of the songs is very talented. seriously. even though i have absolutely not even 30% of any interests in their appearance. oops, the friend that gave me the songs will kill me, haha.

my korean passion I

i am in japan, but actually half of my heart goes to the korean “something” hahaha. strange isn’t it? i remember the first time i met THE first korean friend in US, i got SOOO excited i could almost hear my heartbeat out loud. hahaha.

why do i like them so much? i guess it was years ago when i felt SOOO depressed, and i saw dbsk online, their story, was somehow very inspiring to me. i think, if they have never come to japan, there is quite a chance i might end up in korea instead of here. i have never been a “fan” of anyone in action, but out of some personal reasons i went to taiwan for dbsk concerts and end up not able to see them … -_- … it was the typhoon, very horrible, then i told myself, … u have to be kidding me … if you made it this way, i WILL see them in japan!

pissed me off.

but sarcastically speaking, even though i am in japan, i only went to their concert once, and not even care for their fan club, maybe i should join them, that would force me to read more japanese. i too laid back sometimes.

anyway, my point is, i am interested in koreans, however, i have a HARD time communicating with ones that CANNOT speak english, which, that is about ALL of them. ahha.

ya, so just now, i just talked to the friend that went back to korea from US, gosh, SUCH good feeling to talk to a korean that can speak BOTH english and japanese to me again, geez, but the ones here just cannot … i would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy if they can …

finally …

finally the level exam is over, and oh GOSH, i am just glad it is over, that is how i feel about it … so you can imagine how well i did on it … hahaha.

but it is ok, it is not like there is something waiting for me to HAVE to pass it otherwise half the world will be over.

there are PILES of crap waiting for me to do, countless of not-seem-to-be important things, but yet important enough to affect my normal life … like calculating expenses, redoing my stocks planning,  take care of the past due bills
in US, ya, sure, those xxxxxxx, hahaha, cleaning up my small room for real otherwise i would have to space to move, haha, LOTS of cleaning up, and the most important of all, get a job dude!

for the sake of my “会話”, please go get a part-time regardless of the pay, even though it is food-related, YAN SAN! hahaha.

nice. i really look forward to it. GOD BLESS US ALL.

anyway, i am really happy today. i was happy yesterday, i had a good time with my classmates, hanging around with them so silly-ly, but yet none of them got impatient like my friends from my previous school.

today, i had a good lunch with the THOSE 2 of them. hehe.

Last Friday Night Part 2 of 5

Last post finished with me facing the prospect of  spending the next hour trapped in an almost empty club with only a beer to keep me company until my friends arrived.

Normally when faced with this type of situation I would try to drink more but as I only had 300 yen left and as I was not allowed to leave the club to find an ATM I had to suffice myself with the one beer I already had.

The second thing I would normally do is to go to the dance floor and start dancing. I couldn’t do that either because there was yet no one on either of the two the dance floors.

The only thing left to do was to quickly find someone to talk to. I made my way to a room that I recalled had the highest number of people in it. Once there I saw an attractive woman sitting by herself. I gestured to her whether I could sit next to her. She seemed very against this idea. I quickly turned and approached a group of three. In particular a portly kindly looking man. I asked “Eigo o hanesemasu?” He said yes. I can’t really remember what we spoke about but I was introduced to his friends and I was able to sit down with them so I was safe from the embarassment of appearing alone. Now I just had to sip my drink really slowly.

I began talking to these people about whether they had been to Australia which they had. He introduced me to his two friends who were in a couple. The woman was Chinese and her husband was Japanese. They spoke some English.  At a certain point another friend of their’s came over and had a short chat. It turned out he spent two years in Sydney studying English.

After a while the fatter guy left and when it became clear that the couple had to go too we all got up from the chairs and went our separate ways.

Last Friday Night Part 1 of 5

I haven’t been in the habit of going out to any Tokyo clubs. This is mainly because of the expense but also because I have been busy finishing a website. By the time last Friday came around I had finally finished the website work so I was looking for a way to have some fun.

Last Friday some of the other house mates were planning to go to a club in Shibuya called Axxxcis. They had been there the Friday before and said that it was a good place to meet some interesting Japanese girls. Two of them had special tickets that could give free entry to two people or 1000yen entry for three people. Naturally I was interested.

The others were going to get to the club at around midnight which was after one of the ticket holders finished his shift at a French Restaurant.

This start was too late for me. I didn’t want to waste the next day. I wanted to get there earlier, have some fun and try to get the last train home. I decided that I would get to Axxcis early, pay the full cover charge, which couldn’t be more than 2000 yen, get a number from at least one girl and get out of there before my ears start to dull from the loud music.

I arrived at the front of the club at 10pm. I asked what the cover charge was and was told it was 3000 yen. The place looked a bit dead. So I decided to get some dinner at McDonald’s.

At 10.45pm I took a deep breath and went in to the club. After paying 3000 yen it took me some time to realise that I wasn’t getting a free drink. I was a bit disappointed but I had enough left to buy one inside. The place was still dead at this time which was bad because there is no place to sit/stand alone without people noticing. I had a good hour to kill before my friends arrived so I checked the place out and bought a beer. 700 yen for the half a can’s worth of beer. I didn’t have any more cash on me and there was a rule that meant I couldn’t go outside and come back in so I knew that I had 1 hour to slowly drink the smallest glass of beer I have ever seen.

170 cups of coffee

170 cups of coffee is just enough to allow a 75 kg male to finish a 10 week semester of teaching. The recommended 8 hours of sleep per night is not required. As long as caffeine is flowing through the bloodstream during all classes, 4 hours per night is plenty.

Caffeine: drug of choice for clear-headed thinking.

Kaldi Doody

There is a shop  in the town over called Kaldi. It’s pretty neato as  it’s a store that sells imported foodage from all over. There’s cheese from France, sweets from England, Curry from Thailand and Coffee from everywhere. It also sells Weis Bars which is a good old Australian treat. If you ever pass one ,I suggest you go in and have a look. I’m sure you’ll find something  you’ll want buy, due to the elation of discovering something from back home which you thought was unheard of over here. They also play funky samba tunes in there so you can toe tap away while you peruse. I visited Kaldi just yesterday to grab some stuff to make pizza, which was yum.

I just watched the movie “The Wrestler “which was really good. I also saw a trailer on the net for Ricky Gervais’s new film “The Invention of Lying”. It’s about a world where no one is aware of or understands the concept of lying, and Ricky’s character is the first person to discover how to lie. It looks really funny and as far as I’m concerned, he hasn’t made anything bad yet.