Japanese TV is rad

glumbert.com - Japanese Tetris

Courtesy of my brother, heres one example of how awesome (and weird) Japanese TV is, choooice

I also just found this pretty awesome video explaining the "correct" way to eat sushi, its all true, NO ONE really knows what gari is, its a mystery

and this one on apologising

how to make Onegiri (rice ball)

"can you use chopsticks?", one of the top three most asked questions for foreigners, the others are "how old are you?", "are you married?"

I'm all about centre alignment formatting today

peace out thugs

This guy.....

Great proof as to why home-schooling is not a good idea.....

Today, went to Tenjin for "walking lessons" and then went shopping, i wanted a new t shirt, but as often happens i ended up buying a bunch of records. Got a few choice old 7"s ("Hungry like the wolf" yeh!, "livin on a prayer/shot to the heart" on the same 7"!!!, "cold blooded") and a few good hip hop 12"s ("top billin", "Passin me by/drop (extended Jay Dee remix!)" among others), but the highlight was finding this "box set" of 50s and 60s music, it was only 2900yen (about $(NZ)35) and it has 13 records in it!!! THIRTEEN!!! Nick, I have your wedding songs on LOCK!! It has pretty much every classic oldies song, choooiiiice!

Oh yeah, I took this picture (below) at a bar in Kurume a while back but its been hiding on my phone for a while, hehe. Currently drinking a 125ml Grape Fanta.

Small cans are awesome

So, in Japan you can get beer in ANY sized can, its pretty cool, same with Coke and stuff. I was in the supermarket today and i couldnt resist getting these little cans. I always go for the 250ml cans from the vending machines, I dont think I'm going to be able to handle the 355ml cans when I get back to NZ

Asahi Beer cans: 500, 350 & 125ml (2L, 1.5L, 1L, 250ml cans not pictured)

Can't wait for this

Transformers! More than meets the eye!!!

Anyone (like me) who grew up in the 80's knows that Transformers was the shit, the cartoon was rad, and the toys were probably the most sought after toys of any kid back then, EVRYONE wanted a Trasformer for Xmas, I remember being friends with this dude on my street just because he was rich and he had all the cool transformers like the set that was 5 construction vehicles that fit togethr to make one big robot, so cool.

Anyways, the new Transformers movie is gonna be FRICKING RAD, check the trailer, if you go to the Transformers website you can see it in better quality. I thought I put the Japanese trailer up cos Stephen Speilberg and Micheal Bay look real funny speaking Japanese "Micheal Bay desu" .



Oh, it sounds like they got possibly Linkin Park or some other weak ass band to re-do the Transformers theme song, what the fuck???? that is soooooo weak, heres the original, yey!

killer

p.s. yeah I use the word "rad" alot, what?!!!?! I'm bring "rad" back yo!

Iwaya Beach - But with a clown!!!

(1: Balloon Anpanman, 2: Gary monster attacking the TrinhSaeko monster)

So, this weekend it was decided to go to Iwaya beach again, the forecast was for bad weather, but whatever, we still went. So I caught the JR up to Tobata where I met up with the lovely Saeko, Tomomi and my Taiko MASTER So, and we drove to Iwaya beach to meet up with David Trinh and a bunch of her students and this dude that owns a cool bar in Kokura and some of his buddees.

(3: Piero - Clown, 4: Baseball team and "nicebody" David)

A regular day of awesomeness at the beach and BBQ ensued, the weather cleared and it ended up being pretty sunny. I went for 2 or 3 swims and stuff which was rad. There was a baseball team there for some oreason and David ended up trying on one of their Shirts which was slighty too small, and one of the guys said to David that he had a "nice body" hahahahaha awesome.

(5: I have a David-lymph-node attached to me, 6: "Look Saeko, its a big yellow ball!")

Prob the highlight though was that one of the people in our group was a clown!! She had brought her balloons along and so she ended up making ballon animals and stuff for everyone which was pretty cool. I dont think ive ever seen a clown making balloon animals at the beach before!! Me and David both concurred that a girl being a clown/making balloon animals is one of the hottest things ever (girls take note!! haha). I got a balloon Anpanman! Also after she gave everyone one of the long balloons to try blow up themselves, that shit's impossible man!!!! Almost no-one managed to even get their balloons slightly blown up, i think everyone ended up getting pretty light headed from all the blowing, haha. So yeah, another good beach excursion, Summer yey yey!!!!

Pepsi - Ice Cucumber flavour???!!??

Yes, you read correct, there is a new flavour of Pepsi called "ice cucumber", weeeirrrd huh? So I was so intrigued I decided to do a little "review" of it and stuff.

First impressions.......

Well, the colour LOOKS like it should be cucumber flavoured, but what? will it taste anything like Pepsi or will it be a completly new flavour?? hmmmmm

The test.....

Well, its "so-so", it vaguely tastes like cucumber and has this weird "minty" flavour as well, its not too sweet and is pretty refreshing, but like alot of these new flavours it kind of has an aftertaste of soap......., it might go well with some flavoured Vodka like 42Below Kiwifruit or something like that. I reccomend it, just to try, its not disgusting, but its "interesting", I prob wont buy it again......

Haha so anyways, can you tell Im bored???? this was fun, maybe I will do another "review" in the future, maybe not. Also please notice the CORRECT spelling of "flavour" and "colour", NOT "flavor" and color" hehehehe anyways..... Also is "aftertaste" one word?? Or should it be "after-taste" or "after taste"????? lemme biatches

Koga Skatepark and stuff

So, a couple of weeks ago i decided to get my ass together and finally go to Koga skatepark, a place ive known about for a while but cos its kinda far away i havent gone to, untill now, so i got myself out of bed at the super early time of 8:30am (well, early for a GEOS teacher) basically from kurume its like a 1hr train ride to Koga station and then the actual park is not close to the station at all, there is actually a bus u can take, but i thought i would just walk/skate there.....a good 45mins walking/skating in the hot-ass sun (and it was only 10:30am!!!) and my sweaty ass finally found the skatepark, haha, next time i will take the bus, anyways, Koga skatepark is basically like one big massive bowl, not really any street skating parts except the rails on one end. so the main section of the bowl was just this crazy ass Te-Kuiti-esque bowl thingy that i managed to find a few good lines in (i bet theres heaps though, esp if ur actually good and can go over the spine parts) that is about 5-6ft high all round, and then there is the MONSTER big bowl over in one corner, which is maybe somewhere between 8-10ft (it was pretty deep) and it has a decent amount of vert, actually the first time i rolled down and up the wall i kinda misjudged the highness and ended up totally kooking it and falling from the transition straight down to the flat, getting a few nice grazes, i gotta say, getting injured is a good feeling (after the initial pain), i cant explain why, but yeah, kinda just keeps u in check i guess. anyways, so I forgot to mention, when i got there i noticed everyone was wearing helmets, so i asked one of the dudes (in Japanese, yey!) if i needed a helmeted and said yeah, i obvioulsy looked gutted, so he gestured to two "helmets" sitting on the bench, they were not skate helmets but the kind of hard hat things the road worker dudes in japan wear, so i thought fuckit, and strapped in (check the pic!! haha), also, these two dudes turned up and after a little bit they pulled two decent sized PA speakers and a cd player from their car and chucked them on top of the bowl, there was a power plug at the bowl!!!! so they proceeded to play a cd of dancehall and reggae, which was great, there was only about 5 people there the whole time (it was monday) and i ended up befriending one of the dudes and he gave me a ride back to hakata station in his car and told me about some more skateparks near Kurume, they are pretty average, but hey better than nothing, the dude has a website, its in japanese but if you click on "spots" u can see some of the "spots" near fukuoka

also i had taiko practice last week, its starting to get more serious as the festival is in july, im so excited its gonna be sooo fun!! also after Taiko we went out to the countryside to look at Hotaru (fireflys!) which was super cool, like glow worms but flying

p.s. if this sounds like its an email that I sent someone thats cos it is, i copied it stright from an email i sent my brother, haha, what!!??

7" of the moment #1

OK, so I've been meaning to do this for a while now, since I've been in Japan I've accumulated a good bunch of 7" records, mostly reggae/dancehall from my man Geo-X at Brooklyn Records Kokura, but also some other styles like punk and jazz and stuff. So, as I have been recording most to mp3's so I can listen to them on my ipod, I thought I would share some of my most favourite ones with the 2 or 3 people that actually read this. So anyways, here the first one, lemme know what you think.

Screw Driver - Ganja Killer

This is maybe one of the first 7"s I bought in Japan, as soon as geo put it on the sound system and that "di-di-di-dii-di" keyboard melody came in I was sold, and then theres the bad-ass vocals, I tried to write a bit about it but I cant really interpret the lyrics so well...., but whatever, when I first got this I would listen to it at least once everyday when I got back from work, I dont even smoke or anything, its just a bad ass song, if you disagree you suck. Enjoy.

Don Quixote is are rules

So, most people who live (or have lived) in Japan prob know about this place, Don Quixote (Don-ki-ho-te in Katakana Japanese) is probably one of the only stores I know where you can buy anything you want, and i mean ANYTHING, bikes, computers, clothes, jewelery, groceries, even Technics 1200s!!!! For any NZers reading, its like the warehouse, but with actual quality (although some things are dubious) goods.

I mean what other place could I go and buy: a orange T-shirt, a carton of milk, a 10m LAN cable, a packet of biscuits and two cans of Sapporo beer (my purchases last night)???

So yeah, my new crispy orange t-shirt has motivated me to post some more stuff on this blog (and change my colour scheme), so stand by for posts and stuff (maybe, heh).

Its another nice sunny day here in Kurume, kinda wish I went to the beach again (hmm maybe tomorow). Also, a bit of an update from the day at the beach last week, my back is currently peeling like a biatch, I have dry skin all over my apartment, haha, sexy.

The new Dizzee Rascal album is gonna fucking rule

couldnt find a mp3 of "Pussy-ole" but if you have you will know its just like "woah!"

Can't wait for the album!

Stupid British man of the day......

Man eats dog as protest in Britain

Ok, so I have nothing against British people, I know heaps of completly rad-as ones and stuff and things. But this guy is a dork man

I mean seriously, If you are protesting mistreatment of animals how is freaking eating one helping anything??? I fail to see any irony if thats what he is trying to do. Its like if I was protesting about global warming by spraying CFC based fly spray and running my Hummer all day on high octane petrol while eating Big Macs from styrofoam containers.

Anyways, I think this qualifies as my first "blog rant". Noooooo!!!!

On a positive note, my friend Dom and his bro have a radio show on "Go" fm in Wesssst Auckland, they just started recording the shows and putting them on the net. Download their latest show here, and/or eat their myspace here