nihonjin wa CRAZY desune.
we’ve been getting some shit weather lately. cold and rainy. and I asked my host dad about the weather here. apparently my town is 2 degrees colder than Tokyo. great.
today I will write about trains. since I spend about a fifth of my time awake everyday on trains. well… about 2 hours minimum. and then whatever else depending on where I want to go. regardless, it’s a lot of time in the presence of total strangers.
well yesterday morning I was on the train, studying for a Japanese quiz. the guy next to me gets up and leaves, and a young woman sits down. pretty cute. ok. study for quiz time. and then she yawns.
I swear on my life that I smelled death. Death in the form of breath. I was just about to vomit, no joke. I mean, if it was a little kid, yeah that’s understandable. And some guys are just generally disgusting and unhygienic. But this was a woman in her 20’s. It was ridiculous. And I almost died.
and then today I was on the train coming back from Shinjuku and something weird happened. on my last train I stood in front of the seats, because everybody seems to get off before my station. and as I wait for these people to get off the train, I look around. this girl sitting in front of me just looked out into space. for about 30 minutes she barely blinked, head in the same position. the train bobbled left to right. but her head stayed in the same position. staring in one space. I literally felt like waving my hand in front of her face to see if she was alive. weird.
And what would crazy Japanese be without Crazy TELEVISION????
So another TV show I watched was crazy. In this one, they had celebrity guests come in and COOK. YES! COOK. They had a panel of judges who would eat the food and decide whether it is good or not. At the end they also had a ranking of all the celebrities who had cooked on the show. But that’s not important.
So the first lady comes on and she’s some sort of actress. Her cooking is alright. The guys cringed a little bit while tasting. The second lady’s food was alright too. The third was a-ok. And then the fourth person came on. She’s an 18 year old popstar who’s mother is Japanese and father is CEO of some company.
Now when she made the food and revealed it to everyone I’m sure some of the tasters’ stomachs just said “NO I’M NOT GONNA EAT THAT”. That’s what my host dad said. He was like KIIIIIIIIIIIMMMOCHIIIII WARUUIIIIIIIII. As in “HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THAT CRAP LOOKS LIKE SHIT AND I WOULD NEVER PUT THAT ANYWHERE NEAR MY MOUTH”. It looked like crap. No joke. Like someone just dumped a bunch of shit onto a pan and then mixed it up. And there was a fish head in it and a drumstick. It was crazy.
So everyone tried it and nearly vomited. And they made her try her own food. She nearly vomited. It was amazing. I love Japanese television.
Oh yeah. And the losers of the show had to wash all the dishes at the end.
How high would TV ratings in the states shoot up if you had George Clooney squaring off in a cook-off with Jim Carrey, or Brad Pitt. And then the loser having to wash the dishes on national TV. It would be priceless.
Here's some photos:
Tasting the food
Eating more food.
A Chart topping singer. Her food was disgusting.
The winners squared off. The one on the left eventually won.
Losers scrubbing.
There you have it, a chart topper doing the dishes.
today I will write about trains. since I spend about a fifth of my time awake everyday on trains. well… about 2 hours minimum. and then whatever else depending on where I want to go. regardless, it’s a lot of time in the presence of total strangers.
well yesterday morning I was on the train, studying for a Japanese quiz. the guy next to me gets up and leaves, and a young woman sits down. pretty cute. ok. study for quiz time. and then she yawns.
I swear on my life that I smelled death. Death in the form of breath. I was just about to vomit, no joke. I mean, if it was a little kid, yeah that’s understandable. And some guys are just generally disgusting and unhygienic. But this was a woman in her 20’s. It was ridiculous. And I almost died.
and then today I was on the train coming back from Shinjuku and something weird happened. on my last train I stood in front of the seats, because everybody seems to get off before my station. and as I wait for these people to get off the train, I look around. this girl sitting in front of me just looked out into space. for about 30 minutes she barely blinked, head in the same position. the train bobbled left to right. but her head stayed in the same position. staring in one space. I literally felt like waving my hand in front of her face to see if she was alive. weird.
And what would crazy Japanese be without Crazy TELEVISION????
So another TV show I watched was crazy. In this one, they had celebrity guests come in and COOK. YES! COOK. They had a panel of judges who would eat the food and decide whether it is good or not. At the end they also had a ranking of all the celebrities who had cooked on the show. But that’s not important.
So the first lady comes on and she’s some sort of actress. Her cooking is alright. The guys cringed a little bit while tasting. The second lady’s food was alright too. The third was a-ok. And then the fourth person came on. She’s an 18 year old popstar who’s mother is Japanese and father is CEO of some company.
Now when she made the food and revealed it to everyone I’m sure some of the tasters’ stomachs just said “NO I’M NOT GONNA EAT THAT”. That’s what my host dad said. He was like KIIIIIIIIIIIMMMOCHIIIII WARUUIIIIIIIII. As in “HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THAT CRAP LOOKS LIKE SHIT AND I WOULD NEVER PUT THAT ANYWHERE NEAR MY MOUTH”. It looked like crap. No joke. Like someone just dumped a bunch of shit onto a pan and then mixed it up. And there was a fish head in it and a drumstick. It was crazy.
So everyone tried it and nearly vomited. And they made her try her own food. She nearly vomited. It was amazing. I love Japanese television.
Oh yeah. And the losers of the show had to wash all the dishes at the end.
How high would TV ratings in the states shoot up if you had George Clooney squaring off in a cook-off with Jim Carrey, or Brad Pitt. And then the loser having to wash the dishes on national TV. It would be priceless.
Here's some photos:
Tasting the food
Eating more food.
A Chart topping singer. Her food was disgusting.
The winners squared off. The one on the left eventually won.
Losers scrubbing.
There you have it, a chart topper doing the dishes.
posted by Piotr Jakubowski at 7:36 AM
2 Comments:
Man your blog is great! It reads likes a novel, very interesting...
So is your stint in Japan part of university? How hard is it to learn Japanese?
We really should have shows like that in the U.S....
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