R before W except after O

If you're going to graffiti something, you should probably make sure you know how to spell it. I saw this in Asakusa, and I had to take a picture. It was on the side of someone's house. The guy probably asked his friend.

A: How do you spell Orwell again?
B: eigo shaberanai.

1,2,3. . .JUMP!!!

It's the massive jump rope challenge at taihei junior high school. Nah, I dunno if they were having a challenge, but the other day in PE, I see all the first graders with massive jump ropes. They were divided up by class, and the boys and girls would take turns jumping in groups. I've seen this at my other schools (elementary schools) where they would have a challenge during sports day, or something. Maybe they were practicing for that. If they were, they suck. No one could get past 9 jumps.

Sayno saydei IIiiiiiichi, niiiiii
sayno saydei Iiiiiiiichi, niiiiii, saaaaaan
sayno saydei Iiiiiiichi, niiiiiiii
sayno saydai Iiiiiiiiichi, niiiii

this went on for fifty minutes then the bell rang.

summer is coming

It's warming up. My first pikake flower of the year.

quick breakfast

I need some kind of quick breakfast to eat in the morning. Everybody in Japan eats rice and miso soup for breakfast, apparently. I eat cereal cause it's fast, but I need something faster. Why oh why do they not have pop-tarts in Japan? That would be the perfect solution to my problem.

They have this thing called caloriemate which is pimped by Jack Bauer (this one commercial is hilarious where the guy is trying to eat the last caloriemate, "But it's the last one!!" haha), but it tastes like crap. Not enough sugar. Do you know how many high school kids eat that stuff? Do you know how much moolah you can make selling pop-tarts in Japan. Especially cause it's kind of flashy looking, and you can get all kinds of flavors. The kids would be all over it like flies on poop, oh wait, bad analogy. Like white on rice. I would be all over it like white on rice.

p.s. can't find fruit loops anymore. :(

haha

let the golden week begin

So, it's not actually a week, but like three or four holidays in a row, and sometimes it works out that those days actually fall on working days, so you can have about five or six days off in a row including the weekend. Everybody, and I mean everybody gets the heck outta dodge. The big news on tv this morning is how many kilometers the traffic is backed up on the expressways leading out of Tokyo. I'm not sure why they call it golden week. It's called something else in Japanese, and whenever Japanese people ask me what I'm doing for (Japanese word for golden week) I always respond with a "when?"

*edit*
wikipedia is da bestest
wikipedia explamanation
Did you know wikipedia is Hawaiian?
Etymology

Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb (first wiki software), from Hawaiian wikiwiki (quick).
I don't know where I read that, but I thought it was interesting.




muzzak: some Undivided Roots for your Golden Week.

Do you have change for a twenty?

In Japan they always give you your paper money first, wait for you to put it away, then count out the coin money, and give that to you ON TOP of your receipt. It's never under the receipt, or given separate from the receipt, they put the slip of paper in your hand, and then they put the coins all laid out in a row on top of that. In Hawaii, I used to just give them everything one bang. receipt, cash, and coins all in one handfull. haha. It takes kind of a long time here, and they never just put the bills in their pocket all crumpled up, they gotta put it in the wallet neatly. I have never seen anyone pull money just out of their pocket all crumpled up. Even the monkey on tv (pan-kun) has a little wallet when he goes shopping. I wonder if they would get upset if I try to buy something with a wrinkled bill. The bills are always crisp, and uncreased. They must burn them after one use or something.