Modern Japan

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Looks are deceiving!!

Since I have to work on Saturdays for 12 hours, I decided to write about something I wanted to talk about for a long time.

Back in my previous company, I met this one receptionist at work. She seemed like a sweet, innocent type person, but I wasn't interested in her. We usually see each other in the elevator, but I made no effort to start a conversation her. She was very popular with other employees. Every guys talked about her, and bought her presents. The funny thing is, she has no idea who is sending her presents.

One day I met her in the elevator again, and she started to talk to me. I had no idea she was associated with this one "Sukebe Oyaji" who I would call him Mr. Flute. He's by far the most interesting friend I'd have. I took him to Thailand with me, even though he was already married. Not like he has a good marriage anyway. She started to talk to me for the 1st time, "Didn't you take Mr. Flute to Thailand?" I replied, "Yeah, we had a great time!" Actually in my mind I was thinking, "Who the hell are you? Why would hang around with a SUKEBE like Mr. Flute?"

Anyway, she asked to have dinner someday with me and Mr. Flute. So we did. By judging her appearance, she seemed like a sweet, quiet girl. It wasn't until we had dinner. None of us were drinking, but when I was drinking my Coke, she began making extremely disgusting gesture. She asked me, "Is this the right way to do oral sex?" Then the Coke was coming out of my nose. For the 1st time, I have never seen any woman make such gestures at a dinner table. She asked me what a woman needs to do to satisfying a man. I was thinking to myself, no wonder she hangs around Mr. Flute. She makes him look like a Cherry Boy and Mr. Flute is a real big SUKEBE. For all those men trying to have dinner with her, they are in for a big surprise. Since most of the men at work, were pretty much dorks (OTAKU) type guys. Too bad they will be really disappointed when they are way out of her league in the sexual standard.

I wanted to take her to my friend's Indian Restaurant, because I wanted her to freak some of my friends out. If you see her, you would never imagine she would make such gestures. I ask Mr. Flute to take her to my friend's restaurant, but he told me that she just got engaged. Well I joked around with him saying that she will definitely make her husband happy.

Saturday, January 07, 2006

Watching Sports in Japan

I was surprised to hear that Japan was actually going to televise the Rose Bowl live, because that is extremely rare. Japan does have ESPN, but it is by far the worst ESPN ever. The ESPN in Japan televise mostly infomercials and K1 fighting than sports.

During the Rose Bowl, I thought I had to go to a sports bar and find a place where they have access to the slingbox. To my surprise, they were actually televising the Rose Bowl live. If I knew that, I wouldn't be going to a sports bar. Anyway at the sports bar, we were making fun of ESPN in Japan at the same time explaining to others who are visiting Japan about the pathetic sports that is televised in Japan.

In Japan, the marathon is televised quite often since Japanese females won the last 2 Olympic medals. Who in the world wants to watch someone run for 1 hour??

Then they televise almost every Ichiro and Matsui games. I can personally understand if 1 channel televise a Seattle Mariners or NY Yankees game, but 4??? 4 different channels are televising the same stupid game!!!! I've always hated the NY Yankees before Matsui came, but now I hate the NY Yankees even more. Every stupid Japanese people are a NY Yankees fan, and when I tell them how much I hate the NY Yankees, they ask me why? In Japan, the most popular player is Hideki Matsui NOT Ichiro, because Hideki Matsui is from the Yomiuri Giants (Japanese version of NY Yankees). I tell them that I am a SF Giants fan and my favorite player is Barry Bonds. Then they ask me why I like a losing baseball team. So my simple answer is, I don't become a fan because the team is winning. I ask them why they like the NY Yankees more than the Seattle Mariners when Ichiro is far better than Hideki Matsui. Their answer is pure and simple, they love the Yomiuri Giants. They have the TV monopoly in Japan, every station in Japan will televise Yomiuri Giants game because it's a monopoly.

In Japan, no one cares about college football. NBA is slowly getting popular. World Wide Wrestling is extremely popular in Japan. Why? I don't know, especially WWF is stage and not an actual sporting event. K1 is also popular in Japan.

I am hoping that when I get my new computer, I can connect the slingbox at my parent's home and watch it through the internet. The only thing I enjoy watching in Japan are cartoons.

Japan might sell nice TVs, but they really broadcast stupid shows.