Sunday, April 02, 2006
Wide Face
Karena has written up an excellent summary of everything happened whilst she and Anthea were here, thus obviating the necessity for me to write anything. It would be duplication. Poor duplication.
so, of late, i have been utterly useless with regard to posting blog entries. some excuses include being busy, not having specific things to post on, and not having things that i am allowed to post on. it's a combination of all of these things. time has been scarce of late, it is true. since anthea and karena flew off, i've been out every single day, doing different things, from going to yoyogi park to picnic - hanami, to going up to kawagoe to look at old buildings. it's all good.
work has been crazy busy as well. i'm working with micromanagers and macroasses. the load has increased substantially, and i'm beginning to think that, perhaps, this company does actually do something for a living. it doesn't just grow on trees.
although, i think japan is back, and it's grow grow grow from hereon. thinking of buying platinum coins as well now. stopped thinking of equities so much. the run's not over, but it's just points from hereon, not real cash. maybe.
i've been listening to pop - like Beck's more recent album, and running at the gym during lunchtime, and going out with randoms who i neither care about or even remember the faces of. so a bit closer to the Patrick Bateman lifestyle that i always wanted. the Ginko is treating me well, and i'm even contemplating going permie. Well, it's not a contemplation, it's a deal. if i can make X, i will. if i can't, i'll try elsewhere. if i can't get it elsewhere, i'll cry, fly back to the smaller, smellier, soaking wet island and work there instead. not looking forward to it. expect me to whine like an aussie. the holiday is over. now it's all about the mullah.
trying to learn more japanese, and got the whole flash card thing going at work, so at least the alphabet is getting under control.
something that happened in the park. Japanese kid drops his kegs and runs around shaking his stuff in front of everyone, pointing and shouting "my favourite person" in english, for my benefit. but, i guess because i was drunk too, it wasn't quite as "for god's sake" as when it happened back on the other island
tried to explain to gerald why i had to work the weekend "to migrate storage".
withdrew 320,000 yen from the ATM yesterday, to pay for a couple of months rent, and some other stuff. I was going to make it my first night in, for two weeks. Got a call from Masa asking for drinks instead. Had to oblige. Imagine going out, getting horrendously drunk, and taking a ram packed late train home, in London, with 1600squid in your back pocket? Japan is safe. Super safe. Withdrew another 200,000 today. Going to Tanaka, seeking Ag and Pt.
Question: Should I sell the flat in Edinburgh?
Question: Do i want to go back to bad weather, crime, filthy streets, late trains, VAT, yobs, cultural devoid arrogant obese imbeciles?
Dom reckons i've stopped posting because i've taken the http stats off. I'm going to try and prove him wrong.
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Sunday. Got a call from The Maund at about 7am, and yabbered about nothing and everything for an hour. Felt a little nostalgic for old times and youth.
Went to work for a short time, and had lunch with Venkat. He's quiet, and I reckoned that he would have an opinion worth listening to, because he mentioned an obscure current affairs fact the other day. So I listened - which is incredibly unusual for me. Japanese education is rubbish. Even private schools. His wife doesn't work, and has made Japanese friends here, and speaks decent Japanese. In my book, that's admirable. Too many people move to another country, with their wives, and watch their wives sit indoors and do nothing other than raise the children. The thought of it irks me.
Went to see a photo exhibition afterwards in Ebisu. Some interesting ideas. But then when I was walking outside, i noticed how European Ebisu feels. Big open spaces, stately looking buildings. I actually though, for a brief moment, maybe London aint so bad. Renata was laughing. She is fed up to the teeth with Japan. But I (officially) love it - I just reminisced. Breifly.
Trying to figure out what to do in Golden Week. Shikoku sounds good.
Way behind on emailing people. Feeling excessively guilty about it, but attacking it one per day. slowly but surely.
Damn. Golden week just got cancelled on me. Oncall. So i've taken a few days off before, and am going to Shikoku anyway. 4 days. Hmmm...
Rimiko used an expression on Sunday which was a literal Japanese translation:
"Danieru. You have a wide face". which isn't quite the insult that it immediately appears. A wide face is an expression to describe someone who knows a lot of people.
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