I was on the train with a friend from my Japanese class and a young girl with some piercings in her lips dressed in black and white lacy clothes was standing in front of us. I started talking to her by asking “Is this fashion you’re wearing ‘Goth-Loli’?” and immediately about 3 or 4 ladies sitting around us got interested in where this conversation was going to go.
Yesterday I learned to trust my intuition a lot more. I haven’t gone to a club before because I assumed that I’d hate it, and I wasn’t wrong! I thought “this is Japan! Everything’s great here! Clubs must be good too!”, but it turns out that Roppongi isn’t actually Japan! What’s happened in Roppongi is a whole load of Africans have bought a part of the city and turned it into a small version of hell on earth.
Link to my Japan Flickr set is on the sidebar of this blog now. I was trying to get something a bit more elegant going but it didn’t so make do with a link!
I’m back at the little internet place now. We were all (40 of us) waiting to leave to go to a Japanese dinner (それは、ちょっと〜) and I got a call from one of my Japanese friends on my rental phone. I started complaining about how uninteresting all the people around me are, just like I do in Limerick with Japanese friends, but I forgot that I was in Japan so the tour guide started laughing when I said 「皆はデブな白人なんだよ！」. The dinner was good for what it was. As far as Japanese food goes, it was top class. I didn’t even have my gag reflex kick in when I was eating sashimi. I dare say I enjoyed the salmon!
I’m in the “business centre” place in the hotel, where there’s wired internet now. Really really really long day. It’s 9am by bodyclock now, but in Japan it’s 5pm.
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This will be published well after its time of writing since I’m writing this in TextEdit.app as there’s no internet access on the plane (KLM 777-200). Or rather, there’s no internet access available to my MacBook. The seats have your usual long-haul flight built-in entertainment system but this one has SMS and e-mail as part of it. I’m not quite sure how it works, since one of my favourite things about long flights is that I can’t use SMS or e-mail so I’m not about to try it. The entertainment system also has video-on-demand built into it but it’s pretty slow. Nice collection of films though: lots of new ones like the Bridge to Terabithia, Zodiac and Number 23 as well as “classics” like 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Chinatown, Coming to America, Trading Places… I love Eddie Murphy. Apparently whoever put this collection together does too. There are 21 “classic” films and I count 20% as Eddie Murphy movies. It also has some genuine “classics” like On the Waterfront and some not-so-genuine classics like Anger Management (2003).
I’m in the hotel in Dublin now. It’s €89 per night for a twin room and it’s absolutely incredible value. There’s free wifi and wired internet in the room, they’re serving food downstairs at 11:40pm and there’s a cool back-projected display in the lobby that looks like a sheet of glass has an LCD display built into it.
I don’t know how long I spent on it yesterday but I put together the image at the top of the site last night.
From left to right:
All anime mentioned above is quality stuff and my favourite series.
Welcome to ダニエル.net. This doesn’t yet have a focus but let’s hope one falls into place.