Today, a colleague of mine introduced me to the latest viral website to hit japan: 脳内. It's a simple form in which you type your name and through a certain algorithm, it gives you a sliced-up image of your head with words inside. Here is mine:
And for those no familiar with the Japanese language, here's the key to decipher it:
H - sex
休 - vacations
I guess it's pretty much right on spot...
I'm in Detroit Metro airport waiting or my flight back to Tokyo from my 1 week business trip to the US and I hope my troubles are over. Here's a quick list of the problems so far:
Just a 13 hours flight left to go and I'll be back home in Japan, safe from all this crazy stuff. I can't wait!
I had the worst dream ever yesterday night. To put it back in context, the rainy season just started here and it's becoming unbearably hot and humid, 蒸し暑い as they say it here, but I hadn't turn on my aircon in hope of pushing back the inevitable surge in my electricity spendings.
So the dream started with me killing a colleague of mine around 6 months ago and repressing the memory. But as people around me start asking questions: "Where did he go? No-one heard of him for months?". Memories begin to rush back. That's when I woke up tossing and turning in my sweaty sheets.
But the problem when you wake up in the middle of the night because it's too hot is that you're still half-asleep. So I couldn't shake off the dream and as much as I tried telling myself none of it was true, I kept asking myself what if it was real? The police would come sniffing around. Did I hide the body well enough? I should go back to check the grave. But no! The police might already be following me! I'm gonna end up in jail and get the noose!!! (they hang killers in Japan)
I barely slept 2 hours that night. Now I don't care about the bills, I'm turning on my aircon tonight...
Last week was Golden Week, a bundle of national holidays all packed in the same week: Constitution day, Green day, Children's day and the new Showa day. This last one is in honor of the previous emperor's birthday and is a big hit among Japan's extremist population, which I like to call the Black Suits.
Last year I witnessed a huge delegation of black vans shouting propaganda in Shibuya. So this year I thought it'd be cool to go see what happens in Yasukuni Shrine on that day.
I was a bit disappointed, the shrine itself is a lot smaller than I thought and there were no black vans to be seen, nor threatening crowds. However, while waiting for a friend to arrive in front of the entrance, I finally spotted a group of a dozen black suits with their token buddhist bracelets. Two of the elder ones split up and came straight at me and my friend:
Old black suit: Do you speak english? Do you speak english? (with a more or less threatening tone)
Me: Yes I speak english, 日本語でも
Old black suit: 本当？？ (with a smile on his face)
They got much friendlier when I replied to them in japanese. They asked us why we came to 靖国神社 and I replied that it was very famous, hearing about it all the time on the news, so we wanted to see for ourselves. I didn't bring up the fact that we came just to see people like him though... They said "Have fun!" and left.
Yesterday, my japanese teacher was handed a pamphlet in the train station. Normally she would have thrown it away, but knowing me and how I love such kind of stupid things, she kept it for me.
Click on the extract for the full thing. It's a Love Jesus Christ pamphlet, first time I see one in Japan. I get bothered a lot by Jehova's Witnesses whenever I stay home on the weekends (there's a chapter in my town), but this one is not from any cult I know of.
So when I got to my hotel room finally (after a ghastly 10 hours of travel), I checked out the bathroom and found the following room extras.
Very Arduous, Very Long Haul Sexy liquid medicine for lovers
This product is the pure Chinese medicinal preparation, refined many times and exquisite productive. It could enhance sexuality and energy of male/female. It can prevent infectious diseases, having no side-effect, no any stimulus, no dependent.
Directions: Use product ahead of 10-15 minutes. Use this product on and around the pudenda massaging tender for 2-3 minutes. Do not wash away by refined oil when using. It can get a better effect if you use YIRENBAO lotion after these products.
Only for man/woman
This product is specially designed for washing men/women's genitals . As the pure Chinese medicinal preparation, it can quickly kill any kinds of latent germs and pathogens. It's suitable for using at home, on trip, or in swimming, especially before or after sexual intercourse. It can prevent any infectious diseases.
Directions: Use this product on and around the pudenda by massaging for 2-3 minutes, then rinse with clean water and wpe with a pasteurized wet towel. It can get better effect to be used in bath.
One of the train lines in Hiroshima is called the ASTRAM.
The name アストラム comes from あす meaning "tomorrow" and トラム which is tram in katakana. I was thinking of another theory but my girlfriend didn't find it that funny... :)
me: It's the ASS-TRAM!!! *grins stupidly*
愛子: Don't make fun of my city!
Here is my girlfriend in front of the biggest しゃもじ in the world:
If you ever go to 宮島, you'll see those wooden rice paddles everywhere. They are used to scoop the rice out of the rice cooker, at least before the wooden type was replaced by newer plastic, non-sticky ones.
Souvenir shops sell big lacquered and engraved versions as a goodluck charm since anything can be turned in a lucky charm here in Japan. I guess one of the store owner wanted to be very lucky so he made that giant one and displayed it in the street.
Taken in 大聖院 temple in Miyajima, I have no idea what they were doing there:
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