w00kie's ramblings

Category: Crazy shit

  • Worst dream ever

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    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…

  • Yasukuni Black Suits

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    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.…

  • Japanese Jesus pamphlet

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    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…

  • Chinese sex medicine

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    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…

  • The ASTRAM of Hiroshima

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    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!

  • Huge rice scooper

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    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…

  • Ultraman and friends

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    Taken in 大聖院 temple in Miyajima, I have no idea what they were doing there:

  • Frivole et Cocue

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    Just a photo of a shop I found in Omotesando station with a stupid french name. Cocue actually means “a cheated wife”…

  • Sparkling Café

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    ¥50 at my company’s コンビニ. Tastes like diet coke with a strong and foul coffee aftertaste… I can’t believe Nescafé makes this crap, and the best part is the slogan: You can enjoy authentic coffee taste and refreshment. The guy at the shop told me some guy on the 現場 bought a whole 24-can box…

  • Racist magazine – 外人犯罪

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    After seeing a blog post about this magazine: 外人犯罪, I knew I had to buy it before it goes out of print. So yesterday after work, I went straight to the Familymart 30 meters away from my home and purchased a copy to keep as a collector’s item. It’s a special edition magazine about foreigners…

  • The token engrish post

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    Every blog about Japan has to have a token post about stupid engrish in t-shirts or signs: here is mine. That’s a nice specimen I’ve spotted in a diner/bar at a 忘年会 we did last week.

  • MIDGET II CLASSIC

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    Sometimes you see really weird cars around where I live. And it being the official “uncool” capital of Japan, you usually get a pretty good laugh. Here’s a perfect example: It was parked yesterday in front of my office in the plant where I work at.

  • Best Effort

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    Working in the IS/IT management team of my company, I’m copied on any IT related announcement made by the local infrastructure, and there is always something interesting/funny in there. For example here’s one mail I received this morning: (I cut out the japanese part) (Important) PC Network stop to the Yoyogi headquarters office on 04th…

  • Train Otaku festival

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    This weekend we had perfect weather in Tokyo, thanks to the typhoon that just passed. It’s impressive how it can pour with crazy wind friday night and be 8°C more with a perfect blue sky on saturday morning. So we thought it’d be nice to go for a big walk around Hibiya/Yurakucho/Ginza in the afternoon…

  • @#!§様

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    Hier soir je devais recevoir les batteries de remplacement pour mon Powerbook suite au rappel de batteries d’Apple. Comme d’habitude, j’avais demandé au livreur de passer à 20h et il est passé à 19h30 alors que j’étais toujours dans le bus rentrant du boulot. Donc j’arrive chez moi et voila l’avis de passage que je…