Wally’s Blog – The Youtube edition
Now, if you are in Japan as long as I have (a whooping 6 months now) you start to get desesitized by some things. This, I fear, has been reflected in my posts. To show you some of the things I have become accustomed to:
My morning television:
and
Just the thing you need to get you going. The ninja thing was a special btw, normally they get trainconducters/secretaries/streetsweepers to line up and help them. There was also a cover on a comedy show with maid-bar workers, but that one is X-rated. Sorry
Now, surprisingly: going to work here is much the same as it is back home, except that people resemble sardines more than back home. At work however:
OK, mass-morning excercises. Nothing weird there. I work in a company of 6000 Japanese people, you have to stretch before . . . sitting behind a computer.
After a hard days work you have to eat. This can be done by simply pointing at a bit in the menu, hoping for the best and shoveling it in. However, if you want to be a bit more discrete about it, here is a little instructional video
After food, there is Karaoke (well, this IS Japan)
Well, I have to admit that most Karaoke is less lalalala and more lyrics
Well, that was . . . .not Japanese. We can do better than that, all together now
Oh dear god, Can’t trust Gaijin to do anything right. That’s . . .That’s . . . French! You can’t sing French in Japanese Karaoke bars.
It’s supposed to go a little something like this:
And for the real hard-core:
After having screamed our throats hoarse (alcohol, bad sushi and no vocal training usually has this effect) we head to the club
One listenes to this, and similars for a while before proceeding home. If one is not totally exhausted (or drunk) one could have a browse online for those funny videos. Except that here, they seem to be a bit different
Anyway, all this funny stuff should have no influence on a healthy, sober European.
So, this is me, a healthy and sober European bidding thee: “Goodnight”
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Quote of the day:
You want to do what? HAHAHAHAH, I’m dating a 16 year old Japanese girl
- Raphaelle in reference to the Purikura suggestion
I posted this yesterday aswell, but got all error messages. It now seems to work fine, but this is a repost written on a different computer. If you have any problems viewing this page, please let me know (send screeshots for clarity). The origial commentary was more witty, but seem rather flaky to me now (having written it down 3 times already) and there were more videos. However, this is from work and I can’t really go around surfing youtube to find those from here.
With regards to the sushi video. That salt thing at the end is true. Meaning that there usually is a bowl of salt outside of those places. But, I can’t for the lif e of me, think of the actual reason for this.
For those who were wondering, the 1st batch of purikura (the 4 on the top left) looks that ridiculous because we couldn’t quite figure out how the machine worked. It spoke to us really fast in shrill, casual Japanese. Of course we worked it out and that’s why the next sets look, um… so much better.
And yes, that is glitter.
And if you think any of this stuff is weird. I spent the last week writing a technical report.
I was asked today to translate it to Japanese.
Fucking priceless, I don’t know just about all the vocabulary required for this, nor the grammar to bind it together. And I haven’t even gotten to the part that deals with plasma forming and it’s effects. This is SO much fun. I’ve been sitting here with a big ass stupid grin on my face at this . . .this . . . . this thing that can’t possibly turn into anything publishable.
But I do get to take my eloquent english and curse it. Geez, I couldn’t have written a simpler text for me to translate.
Shit, I haven’t even begun to read about paragraph build-up in Japanese.
Wally, that’s the video I mentionned a little while ago – I found out about it through a friend who teaches in a primary school on the JET program, the kids kept mentioning it in their essays. The song made it to the top 10 singles charts. Only in Japan…
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