If you do a Google search (and who doesn't, really?) for why we talk about the weather you get around six million hits. Ok, sure, if you're all smart and use quotation marks to weed out undesirables, you get 577. But that's still a lot! So I thought I'd add one more (?).
See, it's been raining this past week. This is... not the way it's supposed to be at times other than that lovely rain month that is June/July. And while I am generally a fan of rain, it's a sort of passive fandom. I suppose it's like being audited for tax evasion, I wholeheartedly agree that it should be done, just not to me (and no, I've never missed the filing date for my Form K4, thank you).
The good things about rain even when it's really cold and happening as you are outside are:
1) You get to play the power version of SalaryMan Bingo. For those of you joining us for the home game, this is a powered up version of SalaryMan Bingo. I guess the name kinda gives that away. Anyway, SMB - the kidz love to reuse their old acronyms - basically involves getting on a train at non-peak-rush hour, and guessing at which stop the two SalaryMan (looks like a superhero name, but yes, that's still the correct plural) sitting across from you discussing how easy it is to find the warp zone in the old SMB are going to depart the train. A seasoned Marunouchi-line traveller always bets on Kasumigaseki. But yes, the power version is basically the same, only this time, you get to take into account the extraordinarily mundane umbrellas they carry, to match their very likely far too expensive suits.
(incidentally, I had a Hillbilly moment this week when I told a colleague I had to get my suit dry cleaned for an event next week. So what if I only have one!)
2) You get to pass Chiyoda sushi, and have what the internet of five years ago would have called a Lost in Translation moment. Maybe it was the rain. Maybe it was my pronunciation. Maybe the clerk was hearing-impaired. Either way, when you have chosen your take-out sushi for the night, she asks "Chopsticks and soy sauce?" requiring input on if you have said articles at home, or would like some of theirs to bring with you. Being the proud owner of a pair of "Man Chopsticks" (I kid you not), and also being generally cheap, I ask for "only soy sauce, please". Having made a choice of three fine dishes I expected to be granted the standard three small packets. And I was. And then I was granted 20 more. I have no idea why, but I imagine it was because it was raining.
Another example of West Shinjuku trying to be like London. Wait, what was this post about again?3) I can't really think of anything else, but in order to make a list, you really need three things, so here we are.
That's pretty much it, I guess. Short and sweet, just the way I like it. Be sure to tune in next week when I will have had my suit dry cleaned and had breakfast with the prime minister. 'Tis the truth, I tell you!
Beverage of the Week #8
Name: Kirin Nuda
Catchphrase: "No added sugar, no fruit juice" (then what the h*** is in there, really?)
Price/volume: 150 yen for 350ml
Place/time of purchase: Circle K /21:31
Particular Point of Interest: Looks invitingly like cheap sparkling wine, with a name to match.
Taste: You'd think a drink named something which is almost "nude" would be too good to be true. In reality, it's just not too good.
Overall score (package/taste): 6/F
4 comments:
23 soy! are you concocting a plan for what to do with the 20-21 surplus soy? also, are they soy fish? in australia you often get the soy in tiny plastic containers shaped like fish.
in response to your response to my post on your previous post (bam!), i am quite close to making a blog post. don't count me out yet.
Sadly though, they are indeed not soy fish. If only it were so. Instead, they are quite generic plastic pouch-like things, possibly containing the exact same amount of soy as said fish. I don't know what to do with them, except that I'm set for life! I picked up some sushi from the same place today, and when asked if I needed soy, I said no, and... They didn't give me any! What the?!
Also: you, my friend, can consider yourself counted IN.
Kirin Nuda is, as a matter of fact, no 4 on my list of favourite beverages in Japan... I'll let you find out #1, #2 and #3 for yourself... could possible be due to the lack of Ramlösa Citron in this country...
I did not know that! I'm glad it's been able to find its niche within the (surprisingly) large LiU-ians-in-Japan sector.
And I cannot believe that me, for all my love of lists, and after a solid eight beverages of the week, have still not constructed a list of my favorites. This is a situation that must be remedied.
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