Life!
Scattered little posts waiting to become precious memory pearls.
Living in Japan - A foreigner’s point of view (II)
As you might have guessed, that was only one side of the story, because I wanted to keep it short and easy to translate. So now I’ll offer you the balancing point of view; I’ll tell you what I like about living in Japan.
Actually, the number of positive experiences I can relate to makes the [...]
Living in Japan - A foreigner’s point of view (I)
As someone who has previously lived in other foreign countries too (Hungary, Germany, France) I can tell that doing this comes with its advantages and disatvantages, but none were so clearly traced as in the case of Japan.
It’s certainly not a case of adaptability to me: I am quite mentally flexible actually. It is rather [...]
Setsubun: The Day Between Two Seasons
Setsubun (??) literally means “the day between two seasons”. People celebrate Setsubun on either the 3rd or 4th of February, the last day of winter, and the day before the spring season on the present according to the old calendar.
Bean throwing called mamemaki (???) is done at home on the night of Setsubun. People scatter [...]
Need a Copyrighter?
I bet the brain behind this hollow commercial phrase was much more preoccupied avoiding the all present “engrish” to pay some attention to the choice of words as well.
Now, if they only had devised a campaign to go together with this toilet paper, I would have bet all my 5 yen coin collection that I [...]
They Live
“I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.”
Just finished watching John Carpenter’s They Live (1988), and what an entertaining experience that was!… Up to a point, that is.
I guess it must have been some ten years ago when I caught a glimpse of it on public TV, [...]
