This is just a shout out to my man, Yoshi and his new website!

 

 

tada...all in Japanese.

After some weird dream and being knocked over the head, plus a trip to the club, meeting DJs, meeting some weird guys that wanted me to tag along so I can help them pick up girls (They were japanese guys - they said it helps a lot to have a foreigner around, it`s "cool"), and then doing something illegal (we were really drunk, it`s not so much illegal as typical Japanese guy practice - if you want details, I`ll email you about it, there are children reading) and then inventing new Japanese phrases all by myself and teaching my Japanese teacher about Japanese history, that she didn`t know about...and buying a wearing a Yukata, well, I think I`m turning Japanese.

 

I say all this because after all that has happened, a letter came in a few days ago asking me if I wanted to extend my contract.  Now that I`ve gotten through to almost 30% in understanding Japanese, I feel that it`d be a waste if I didn`t stay a bit longer to learn more.  I went from fascinated to dissappointed and now to content.  Maybe because my supervisor is on vacation and everyone`s relaxed.  Maybe he`s got a 22 year old hot girlfriend now and he`s happy which means we`re all happy.  Maybe because the guy who`s been causing my supervisor the most grief has finally left the company.  Maybe all those things combined has made Japan very much beyond bearable and turned into a blast.

 

I used to think about things like peace and harmony but lost it all somewhere along the way by bursting out my emotions.  The Japanese seem to bottle theirs up, but now I realize it`s not true.  They let it out in other ways.  Why waste time on emotions like pain and saddness, loneliness, and all these negative things?  They would rather show the world they are strong, and deal with it privately, channel it somewhere else, make some origami cranes, build the world`s best electronics...or something (Yeah, China`s catching up) Japan used to be a country ruled by duty and committment and somewhat strange form of equality.  Or something like that. 

 

I`m tired...I`m going to post pictures instead.  What?  Do I have to finish the story?

 

 

It`s just so hot here in Japan now.  I can`t even sleep properly and I spend a lot of time out in a library or somewhere to keep cool.  It`s way too hot to do anything other than to sit around and enjoy life.  Now I know what there are so many indoor sports complexes here.  Not only is there no room, but they can provide for air conditioning.  It destroys the atmosphere, but unless you`ve got a way to stop humidity and 30+ degrees of heat, you`r enot going to escape.  Oh yeah, it`s only getting hotter. I sweat just thinking about it.  I want to be emersed in cold water.

 

The Japanese call this "Mushi atsui" which means, hot and humid.

there`s nothing special here, just pics

 

The best ones are of the ladies crashing in the middle of the steps on the street in front of Fukuyama Castle.  I`m sure we could`ve stormed the castle at night though. 

 

Beer gardern plus a bunch of foreigners is bad in japan

The last few days I`ve been having strange dreams about Japan.  I can`t remember them, just that they wake me up around 4am and I can`t sleep again afterwards until about 4pm when I have to work.  It sucks.

 

Anyway, last night I dreamt that I was heading to Tokyo Megaplex to snowboard, but I accidentally brought my bike instead.  So, I just took my bike out for a cruise in the megaplex play around, doing nothing too fun.  I was lost for a bit then I realized I needed to catch the　bullet train back home to Osaka.  Unfortunately I missed that train and ended up meeting an old friend who was on a honeymoon with her husband.  I then went off to sleep in their hotel bathtub.

 

That was my dream.

 

Tonight, I think I`ll fly and fight samurai.  Or Ninja.  There is a huge lacking of samurai and ninja here in Japan.  I`m sorely disappointed.

Life has been pretty regular lately here in Japland, and it`s pretty good that way.  I like being free to do whatever.  I should be putting some pictures up, but I think I`ll be doing that on my flickr site (at least the good pictures).  Right now, the camera is just downloading stuff.  Oh yeah, I finally won a stupid toy in the hand grappling game machines.  It`s a winnie the pooh with an umbrella.  It`s rainy season in Japan so maybe this will make some sense.

 

Other than that, just been watching soccer for no other reason than to watch it.  I came home today at 6am from watching games at the bar.  Luckily, all I spent was about $10 for the whole night.  Free drinks come in handy.  Thank you both, strange, russian girl and chinese girl and german girl.  Strange because they are.  At least it`s not a crazed Aussie this time.  I`d rather have a nice chat that strange fits of anger and sobbing.