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Katekincha
Nam sent this cause she was bored on the bus.
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The Cow Says…
Found this really cute site featuring onomatopoeia performed by children in different countries: ***bzzpeek***** (hint: click one of the symbols around the main window there to start things off)
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I am a Molam Singer
My fiane is currently finishing her doctorate at Osaka University in the field of linguistics, which we both studied at Tenri University. She is writing her dissertation about Molam (alternatively spelled, “Morlum,” or, “Mawlum”) which is a traditional form of Northeast Thai singing, originally from Laos. I’ve been translating excerpts and summaries into English (from Japanese) for her along the way, and have really gotten interested in the actual music while looking for what’s available online for her. I discovered that most interesting aspect of this music for me is that it sounds a lot like rap! It’s hard to explain? But there are definitely some similarities in the verse…
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Uniformly Wrong
Gatson came by the house last night to install the English version of MS Project, and he told me about our new work uniforms, which we will be issued around the end of the month and have to wear from July 1st. I came into work today and confirmed the new design with the other guys in the office: – Pink shirts with red collars – Light green pants An alternative title for this post is, “The REAL Reason I’m Leaving This Job and Country.” Apparently there is a leak at our company at a higher level, because they are ripping this decision to threads over at 2ch. Pretty funny…
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Fingerprinting Correction
Did I say something about doing away with mandatory fingerprinting of gaijin yesterday? Sorry about that, what I actually meant to say is that they are doubling it: Japan plans to expand fingerprinting requirement for foreigners
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Blame the Gaijin
Another reason I’m definitely leaving Japan next year: Japan to have all foreigners carry IC cards for crime control The LDP and the government claim the new policy is aimed at keeping track of foreigners as part of measures to prevent terrorism and crimes. Well, it might be especially effective if they decide to embed RFID chips to enable remote scanning. I can just imagine all Japanese police cruisers equipped with gaijin detectors on the dashboard. Perhaps they can include a dye packet and/or taser function to help out, as well. I imagine this also has to do with the recent spate of counterfeiting and identity thefts – I’m told…
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Pink K Van
Ugh. This van is just plain cruisin’ for a bruisin’.
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Resurrection
I decided to check around on some of my favorite “dead” sites – ones that people quit updating some time ago due to job issues, necrophilia rehab, deep vein thrombosis, etc. – and was most pleasantly surprised, inspired even, in fact, let me ask you this: If a retarded kid falls in the forest, does it make a slapping sound? SHE’S BACK.
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Troxler fading
An awesome optical illusion: Rapid coloured afterimage (via kottke)
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Airin
Pronounced as the answer to, “What do you call a Japanese woman with no arms and no legs, propped against a wall?” The following quotes are from the unbelievably retarded Yomiuri article located here: LINK Cheap hotels in Osaka day laborer district lure foreign tourists Kahori Sakane / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer Five budget hotels in the Airin district of Nishinari Ward, Osaka, which have typically catered to day laborers, are seeing an unexpected increase in foreign and Japanese tourists looking for inexpensive lodging. Okay so far; it’s no surprise that tourists are attracted to rooms cheaper than $80 a night (a fairly average hotel room price). But this article…
