You know that Hawaii has it's own flavor of McyD's, right? Only in Hawaii can you get a portuguese sausage eggs and rice breakfast + little packets of shoyu with a fruit punch to wash it all down.
Somebody's description of the menu that I didn't even read
Well, I was walking past the McyD's in Omiya near where I live, and I happened to glance up and saw a poster for a Hawaii burger. Here's a link to some Japanese blog cause I couldn't find anything about it on the official japan McyD's website.
It looks like it has a burger, an egg, and I think bacon. I think that it's only at that one Mcdonalds cause I haven't seen anything about it on other sites. I'll have to go try it. An egg you say? How is that related to Hawaii? I would think that a ham and pineapple burger would be closer to what people consider Hawaiian table fare, but an egg? Well, you have to understand that the most well-known hawaiian food this side of the pacific is the Hilo born and raised Loco Moco. There are restaurants here that base their entire menu around the humble LocoMoco, so when it came time for someone to put together a Hawaii burger, there was no question what would go on it.
strange strange strange. I guess it's like mochiko chicken, which is non-existent here. Or teriyaki sauce, which is very rare here. or Tomoame, which I have never seen here.
Interesting Characters
Japanese TV has an interesting system. It reminds me a lot of elementary school days in the way that people come in and out of the tv circuit just as fast as fads used to go in and out of our lunch recesses.
Elementary school fads:
I don't know how it was at your school, but at Pukalani El. every month or so there was a new thing that every 10 year old kid must have. Off the top of my head they were, adidas windbreakers, bouncy balls, marbles, milk covers, pocket video games, fluorescent yellow highlighters, binaca blast, yo-yos, boxes of pencils, and I'm sure I'm leaving a lot out. One week, I would have crown royal bag full of milk covers, and the next week, my milk covers would be sitting under my bed never to be used again because they were replaced with bamboocha marbles, and ball bearings.
Japanese TV:
As with the fads of Pukalani El., Japanese tv cycles through celebrities on a monthly basis. These celebrities become crazy famous for a short period of time, and then slowly fade off into special appearances at the countryside shopping mall. A lot of them, I really don't know how they get on tv cause they have no visible talent whatsoever. In an ironic way, these people who can't sing, can't act, and aren't funny are called "talents."
Here is a girl that I am seeing a lot on tv recently. Her name is Britney Hamada, and she is a self-proclaimed homeless gyaru.
Her homepage
Apparently, she wanders around Shibuya by day, and sleeps in internet cafes and karaoke rooms at night. I don't know how true that is cause she seems kinda chubby for a Japanese girl, let alone a homeless one. But whatever the case, she's on tv promoting herself as a homeless gyaru (gyarus are overly fashionable young girls). One thing she can do though is draw. She draws comics for a, I think, weekly magazine about gyarus in Shibuya. I don't find her interesting in anyway, but it's like I can't escape her. She's always on tv, and everybody is playing up to her like they've known her forever. I give her a couple more months.
Elementary school fads:
I don't know how it was at your school, but at Pukalani El. every month or so there was a new thing that every 10 year old kid must have. Off the top of my head they were, adidas windbreakers, bouncy balls, marbles, milk covers, pocket video games, fluorescent yellow highlighters, binaca blast, yo-yos, boxes of pencils, and I'm sure I'm leaving a lot out. One week, I would have crown royal bag full of milk covers, and the next week, my milk covers would be sitting under my bed never to be used again because they were replaced with bamboocha marbles, and ball bearings.
Japanese TV:
As with the fads of Pukalani El., Japanese tv cycles through celebrities on a monthly basis. These celebrities become crazy famous for a short period of time, and then slowly fade off into special appearances at the countryside shopping mall. A lot of them, I really don't know how they get on tv cause they have no visible talent whatsoever. In an ironic way, these people who can't sing, can't act, and aren't funny are called "talents."
Here is a girl that I am seeing a lot on tv recently. Her name is Britney Hamada, and she is a self-proclaimed homeless gyaru.
Her homepage
Apparently, she wanders around Shibuya by day, and sleeps in internet cafes and karaoke rooms at night. I don't know how true that is cause she seems kinda chubby for a Japanese girl, let alone a homeless one. But whatever the case, she's on tv promoting herself as a homeless gyaru (gyarus are overly fashionable young girls). One thing she can do though is draw. She draws comics for a, I think, weekly magazine about gyarus in Shibuya. I don't find her interesting in anyway, but it's like I can't escape her. She's always on tv, and everybody is playing up to her like they've known her forever. I give her a couple more months.
So unfair
Earlier this week in my conversation class, I decided to talk about "fair" and "unfair."
So after explaining the meanings, I tried to get them to give examples. Man, sometimes it's tough getting people to act of their own volition here. It's a simple enough concept, but . . .ah anyway, so I just started giving them examples of my own. Stuff like being born into a well off family, and being born into a really crappy situation, or how girls can play off of their helplessness to get things their way. So that was how things ended on Monday.
Couple days later I'm watching some korean variety programs on youtube, and one of the shows that I really think is funny is "Family Outing." It's a bunch of celebrites/singers/MCs that act as a family and go out into the countryside to house-sit, while the owners take a well-deserved vacation somewhere. It's a great concept for a reality program.
One of the characters is Hyori Lee, who has been Korea's "it" girl for sometime. I remember hearing about her like ten years ago.
On the Family Outing show she doesn't wear makeup, and just wears regular clothes, and I swear she is the biggest tita. haha. She is the polar opposite of her sexy singer image. Then, I got to thinking about fair/unfair again, and how unfair it is that girls can change their whole image so easily.
Hair
Makeup
Clothes
Those three things can transform 80% of the girls into something thought of as society to be desirable. Three things, that's all it takes. Well, that's not all--there's things like presentation, and attitude, but to keep things simple those are the three biggies.
Now, take it to guys to change their
Hair
Makeup
Clothes
Makeup is out leaving us with hair and clothes. Changing these will give guys a different image, but I don't think it's even comparable to the props girls get when they change the same things.
How unfair is that? Girls can become more desirable with a couple hundred bucks whereas guys are, well. . .screwed with what we got. haha. So unfair. I think I'm going to bring this up at my next class cause Japanese girls are pros at this.
Here is a music video of Hyori's
Here is Hyori in Family Outing
She could be any one of my friends from Maui cause you know Maui only got Mokes and Titas. haha. Nah nah.
So after explaining the meanings, I tried to get them to give examples. Man, sometimes it's tough getting people to act of their own volition here. It's a simple enough concept, but . . .ah anyway, so I just started giving them examples of my own. Stuff like being born into a well off family, and being born into a really crappy situation, or how girls can play off of their helplessness to get things their way. So that was how things ended on Monday.
Couple days later I'm watching some korean variety programs on youtube, and one of the shows that I really think is funny is "Family Outing." It's a bunch of celebrites/singers/MCs that act as a family and go out into the countryside to house-sit, while the owners take a well-deserved vacation somewhere. It's a great concept for a reality program.
One of the characters is Hyori Lee, who has been Korea's "it" girl for sometime. I remember hearing about her like ten years ago.
On the Family Outing show she doesn't wear makeup, and just wears regular clothes, and I swear she is the biggest tita. haha. She is the polar opposite of her sexy singer image. Then, I got to thinking about fair/unfair again, and how unfair it is that girls can change their whole image so easily.
Hair
Makeup
Clothes
Those three things can transform 80% of the girls into something thought of as society to be desirable. Three things, that's all it takes. Well, that's not all--there's things like presentation, and attitude, but to keep things simple those are the three biggies.
Now, take it to guys to change their
Hair
Makeup
Clothes
Makeup is out leaving us with hair and clothes. Changing these will give guys a different image, but I don't think it's even comparable to the props girls get when they change the same things.
How unfair is that? Girls can become more desirable with a couple hundred bucks whereas guys are, well. . .screwed with what we got. haha. So unfair. I think I'm going to bring this up at my next class cause Japanese girls are pros at this.
Here is a music video of Hyori's
Here is Hyori in Family Outing
She could be any one of my friends from Maui cause you know Maui only got Mokes and Titas. haha. Nah nah.
Pepsi Azuki
So pepsi has decided to pump out another crazy flavor just for the heck of it. I guess they have some extra money floating around to be putting out these weird flavors even though they know that it tastes horrible. I think they only do one shipment of these types of things cause as soon as the store runs out it doesn't get restocked.
This time it's azuki flavor. haha. I don't really know what to say about this except that azuki was never meant to be turned into drinkable form. Tastes just like it sounds. Still had to buy it though. haha.
Eraseable pens
I remember that one of the best things about going from Pukalani El. to Kalama was that we could use pens. We always had to use pencils in elementary school, so I felt like I was finally growing up when I could write in my notebooks with pen. The only thing was that when you use whiteout, it gets all over, and gets bumpy, and then when you try to write over it you just end up scratching it off. What good was whiteout for besides writing on your Mead notebook with it? Then I remember discovering an eraseable pen. It could erase just like a pencil except that the eraser was black colored, and was kind of hard. It didn't really erase all that well, too.
Fast forward 20 years, and we have the NEW eraseable pen. Well. . .I dunno if it's new, but I just bought an eraseable pen today. It's called the friXion made by pilot. It actually does a really good job of erasing. I can't even tell there was something written there prior. The weird thing is that it doesn't leave any eraser shavings. Who knows where it goes. Somehow they engineered an ink that would stay visible at room temp. but then when heated up it disappears. So when you rub it with the little rubber eraser thing it disappears. Pretty cool. What will they come up with next.
Lose money
Today I washed my clothes cause last week it was raining every freaking day, and as soon as I go to hang it outside I discover the absence of my clothes hanging up contraption. Must have gotten blown away by the typhoon.
Wet clothes on the floor. = Loooooooose Money.
Wet clothes on the floor. = Loooooooose Money.
Maestro Knows
Levi Maestro is a . . . honestly, I'm not really sure how he gets money, but he sure does know a lotta people. I've been watching his blog (clickity click click) cause he does this show called "Maestro Knows," which is basically him filming him. The thing that keeps bringing me back to watch another episode is his bamboocha smile. Seriously, is it possible to have a smile like that without being jag? I dunno. He does really interesting stuff though, so I like to check back to see what he's been doing every week.
There was an episode where he went to Japan, and I got really excited cause I know all the places that he goes into. At one point he goes into a 7-11 that I always go into when I work at the Tokyo office. In the 7-11, the cashier girl is the same one that I always see working there. I think she's Chinese cause she doesn't use Kanji for her name, but I thought it was kinda cool that she got +rep without even knowing it. haha. I should take the video, and show it to her one day. Nah, they might get mad and sue.
Here's the Japan episode he did
Maestro Knows - Episode 5 (Japan) from Maestro Knows on Vimeo.
