Hurrahs! More whiplash from Snowboarding! If this keeps happening at least my neck should get slightly thicker from all the strands of scar tissue or damaged sinew, lol
Snowboarding was a bit of a dud second time round. Too scared to turn on the "steep" slopes, which really weren't that steep. Disappointing. I am definite that I'll never try Zao on a snowboard again, not for a while. Skiing it is, and I am rearing to go and get back there; with the way winter is going here I don't know if we'll even have all of March on the slopes.
Chris wants an SUV or something similar. WTF? I know K-cars are small but c'mon. Petrol prices and the sheer costs of it. Anyway, lots of K-cars are actually comparatively spacious now. Anyway, it reminds me of some people preserving a 'tradition', as it were, from back home.
On that note I'm totally guilty-as-charged-take-me-out-to-the-firing-squad for the same thing. I religiously eat my cereal instead of rice in the morning. Always prefer Western food to Japanese food (well, except for sushi, gyudon, onigiri or ramen {chinese I know}). It's just making yourself comfortable in a foreign land, like arm bands when you're swimming or something.
So... right, okay, let me rephrase that. I think with regards to *cars* then us as ALTs sould be very happy to get cheap and cheerful K-cars. They're only as safe and comfortable as you make 'em anyway.
Oh but one thing that always get my goat (Irish-ism!), is my friends who talk about the costs of things in dollars or homeland currency. I have stopped thinking in £'s long ago, with only major purchases price checked just to see a comparison. But with currency values up and down, plus the fact that I am being paid in Japanese Yen and not British Pounds, I fail to see how converting it into something in another land makes it more understandable.
So, er, yeah, actually that's totally understandable. No, what I meant to get at was that, even tho Japan is more expensive than the US, just as the UK is more expensive than Japan, if you are price checking just to see how expensive it is it's kind of futile. Alot of people seem to baulk at the price of something cos of its price relative to what they could get in their home land. Well, people, you're living here now! You're being paid X amount of Yen a month, that isn't directly comparable to a salary back home, only in bulk terms like by entering it into Xe.com and going "Wow! Really?! For what I do everyday?!"
So yeah, get tired of asking for the price of something, here in Japan, and being told the Dollar amount. LOL, call it cultural imperialism, or whatever. I've got to convert it back to Yen, which it is anyway.
(And since it's 90 Yen to a dollar, people are underestimating the cost anyway, by 10%).
Finally showed Tom the Dark Knight. I saw it probably, hopefully?, for the last time too, on Blu-Ray no less. I came over to his house in my usual relaxing get-up; pyjamas and dressing gown with pocket watch and monocle.
Afterwards me and Chryssy went to Cocoas, around about midnight, me still in my Lord Of The Manor get-up. LOL. That's how you do it, sitting in Cocoas, roaring fire replaced with rattling aircon, sipping your Earl Grey, your finest nightwear on, in your little booth in Cocoas.
Picture sure to turn up eventually
Got to:
Phone people back home
Send postcards of thanks
Send hanko for Brigid,
Send the wooden figurines
