Stuff
- Green beer is nasty
- Steve Croat is magic
- Jamie Cullum album "Catching Tales" is sweet
- I still have a lot of time for the Beatles
- I have a great love/hate thing with Japan and I am sometimes too quick to think certain things but I am certainly treated like a monkey at times due to my appearance i.e. I am not Japanese. I am thinking of tonight - the beer I am drinking now was purchased in Namba before I got a taxiand the guy in the convenience store was very rude, making a ridiculous gesture with a plastic bag instead of saying "Would you like a plastic bag?"... most frustrating. Had I been worse at japanese and he had said "Moomaaayooocccunnntrnejfiiooococcfoi'plastic bag'maaaachoooo" I would have been able to respond with a yes or no gesture and we would have communicated happily. As it happens, I am more than comfortable with exchanges like
A- Would you like a bag?
B- No, thank you
and it frustrates me that I get treated like a zoo animal.
Perspective. Nobody shouted at me, beat me up, put me in prison etc... I realise that this isn't hugely serious but it is fucking irritating. I remember when the princess came to England and we were walking around Scarborough - she is very Japanese and Scarb is very, very white - and she said 2 thngs
1 - Ooooo, everyone is white
2 - Oooo, nobody is staring at me
and there is a big difference. Everywhere I go people think " Ooo look at him, he isn't Japanese" but at honepopel don't care much. Which is not to say that England doesn't have race problems necause it totally does. i dunno, I think it is very valuable and interesting for me to be on the other side of things, but I honesdtly think it will be sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long before any kind of visible minority will be accepted properly in Japan, if ever. i shouldn't complain because people are so nice, but there are so many little things that can wear you down.
"Why don't you just leave, idiot?" I hear you say. Well, HA! I fucking am!! So there! i can say whatever the fuck I want. June 6 I think.
- Love complications. Word of advice here. Don't ruin a potentially fun "thing" the second time it happens by saying "Are you my boyfriend". This will only ensure that neither of us get sex and both of us have issues
- Breaking up is still a bit hard to do
-I love D
- Time for bed...
- Steve Croat is magic
- Jamie Cullum album "Catching Tales" is sweet
- I still have a lot of time for the Beatles
- I have a great love/hate thing with Japan and I am sometimes too quick to think certain things but I am certainly treated like a monkey at times due to my appearance i.e. I am not Japanese. I am thinking of tonight - the beer I am drinking now was purchased in Namba before I got a taxiand the guy in the convenience store was very rude, making a ridiculous gesture with a plastic bag instead of saying "Would you like a plastic bag?"... most frustrating. Had I been worse at japanese and he had said "Moomaaayooocccunnntrnejfiiooococcfoi'plastic bag'maaaachoooo" I would have been able to respond with a yes or no gesture and we would have communicated happily. As it happens, I am more than comfortable with exchanges like
A- Would you like a bag?
B- No, thank you
and it frustrates me that I get treated like a zoo animal.
Perspective. Nobody shouted at me, beat me up, put me in prison etc... I realise that this isn't hugely serious but it is fucking irritating. I remember when the princess came to England and we were walking around Scarborough - she is very Japanese and Scarb is very, very white - and she said 2 thngs
1 - Ooooo, everyone is white
2 - Oooo, nobody is staring at me
and there is a big difference. Everywhere I go people think " Ooo look at him, he isn't Japanese" but at honepopel don't care much. Which is not to say that England doesn't have race problems necause it totally does. i dunno, I think it is very valuable and interesting for me to be on the other side of things, but I honesdtly think it will be sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long before any kind of visible minority will be accepted properly in Japan, if ever. i shouldn't complain because people are so nice, but there are so many little things that can wear you down.
"Why don't you just leave, idiot?" I hear you say. Well, HA! I fucking am!! So there! i can say whatever the fuck I want. June 6 I think.
- Love complications. Word of advice here. Don't ruin a potentially fun "thing" the second time it happens by saying "Are you my boyfriend". This will only ensure that neither of us get sex and both of us have issues
- Breaking up is still a bit hard to do
-I love D
- Time for bed...
posted by WhipSlyme at 8:54 AM
1 Comments:
I have a hate/hate/lust with Japan. I like looking at the young nubiles, and they, like us back. But yeah, fucking zoo mate.
I have lived in this Kujo place for 3 1/2 years, and yesterday Mika and I were coming back from the bakery a block from home, "Oi! Mite! Gaijin ya!" 4 little kids about 5 and the only fucking thing they can say is "Look! It's a foreigner!!!" I hate one race countries.
And standing out EVERYDAY got old...the first day here.
Once we leave, I will miss all the hotties who stare as much as we stare at them, but I will be glad to be "Invisible" again.
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