Four hours ago, shit has landed in Japan.
Quick! - buy your masks and hand sanitizers, close all the schools and give me more national holidays.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Italian food !
One thing Japan is good for - Quality Western/European food!They come with a price though and a freaking small size.
hurhur.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Something to look forward to!
Taiwan! Macau! 北鼻！Here i come (:
:D
Just got the green light from Daddy to leave for a ten day holiday with my Aunt (:
I'm so happy!
Was very envious when i heard that some of my friends had gone to Taiwan over the past Golden week. So, you can imagine how deliriously ecstatic i become when i received an email from my Aunt asking if i could get a few days of leave from school to travel with her. But of course in Macau, i have to work and prove my air ticket's worth! hehe!
:D
can can, cannot also can!! hahaha.
I miss him soooo much.. (:
it'll be soon ^^ Great motivation to get my arse moving and doing some work!
Righto!
=)
Google & Tokyo maps
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Google crosses line with controversial old Tokyo maps
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20090505a1.html
"We tend to think of maps as factual, like a satellite picture, but maps are never neutral, they always have a certain point of view,"
Finally, something other than swine flu and 'the world is in crisis and there's nothing you can do about it but watch us all sink into depression' report.'
Google is in trouble. This time, with the Japanese burakumins rights group and now they are on the verge of being charged by Japan's Ministry of Justice.
And for what? You may ask.
Well, to sum it up, Google uploaded a map in its Google Earth Software that outlines the villages where the Burakumins (derogatorily known as e-ta back in the Edo or Kamakura period) were delineated to living.
By the way, Burakumins are a caste of people back in the feudal class who were considered as filthy or (e-ta) because of their occupations that were related to death like leather making etc.
Because of what google did (upload a map), Toru Matsuoka, an Upper House Diet member said '
Google's system itself is a form of prejudice," and he even added that he had 'no choice' but to conclude things to be this way.
There are some things you can say about Japan (in this case, indirectly), and there are a gazillion other things that you should not be mentioning about; especially if, it so happens that you are oh-so-juicely rich.
Cause that will just make u a worthwhile (economically) candidate to sue.
Seriously, impartially speaking, is it Google's fault?
All they did was to open up a channel for anyone to understand more about Japan's feudal past. What more, what remains for the Burakumins of today remains unchanged from that of the past ableit the change in the degree of discrimination. Centuries on, prejudice and social problems are still not fully addressed instead they morph into one of the many taboos of Japan.
And when someone from the outside takes a piece of history relating to that taboo or writes about that taboo and puts it out into the public eye, you say it is a form of prejudice?
Against who may i ask. Who is the victim of this prejudice? - the 3 million Burakumins who are still living in discrimatory conditions?- Note the difference between a HIGHLIGHTER a SIGNALLER and someone or something that makes another feel delineated against.
Besides,
Look inside, who has been prejudiced against the Burakumins for this long of a time?
Then again, this is Japan.
Google should consider getting a board of censors.
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Google crosses line with controversial old Tokyo maps
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20090505a1.html
"We tend to think of maps as factual, like a satellite picture, but maps are never neutral, they always have a certain point of view,"
Finally, something other than swine flu and 'the world is in crisis and there's nothing you can do about it but watch us all sink into depression' report.'
Google is in trouble. This time, with the Japanese burakumins rights group and now they are on the verge of being charged by Japan's Ministry of Justice.
And for what? You may ask.
Well, to sum it up, Google uploaded a map in its Google Earth Software that outlines the villages where the Burakumins (derogatorily known as e-ta back in the Edo or Kamakura period) were delineated to living.
By the way, Burakumins are a caste of people back in the feudal class who were considered as filthy or (e-ta) because of their occupations that were related to death like leather making etc.
Because of what google did (upload a map), Toru Matsuoka, an Upper House Diet member said '
Google's system itself is a form of prejudice," and he even added that he had 'no choice' but to conclude things to be this way.
There are some things you can say about Japan (in this case, indirectly), and there are a gazillion other things that you should not be mentioning about; especially if, it so happens that you are oh-so-juicely rich.
Cause that will just make u a worthwhile (economically) candidate to sue.
Seriously, impartially speaking, is it Google's fault?
All they did was to open up a channel for anyone to understand more about Japan's feudal past. What more, what remains for the Burakumins of today remains unchanged from that of the past ableit the change in the degree of discrimination. Centuries on, prejudice and social problems are still not fully addressed instead they morph into one of the many taboos of Japan.
And when someone from the outside takes a piece of history relating to that taboo or writes about that taboo and puts it out into the public eye, you say it is a form of prejudice?
Against who may i ask. Who is the victim of this prejudice? - the 3 million Burakumins who are still living in discrimatory conditions?- Note the difference between a HIGHLIGHTER a SIGNALLER and someone or something that makes another feel delineated against.
Besides,
Look inside, who has been prejudiced against the Burakumins for this long of a time?
Then again, this is Japan.
Google should consider getting a board of censors.
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Monday, May 4, 2009
remember me.
time have passed, the skies were once blue.
take a moment; sit back.
realise you've been such a fool.
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take a moment; sit back.
realise you've been such a fool.
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Sunday, May 3, 2009
Hair-pee Golden Week!
-心絵-
You just have to love this song!
Especially the part where he screams NA-MI-DA-ka-re-ru-ma-de (after the tears have dried up or something along those lines)
Because its so angsty and rythmic at the same time u can...
'PERSONALISE YOUR OWN SONG!'
HOW COOL IS THAT? - hurhur (-_-)"
and here is mine..
I-HATE-U-YOU-MOTHER-F**KERS.
how nice (:
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Anyway on a lighter note,
Happy Golden Week to all native Japaneses and all the wanna-be-Japanese-Ganjin(s)!
May u spend spend spend all the money you've sloughed your life for during this is very merry holidays whilst i stay in my little Cosmo and biodegrade.
again, sweet people, Happy Golden Week!
'tis the week to spend all your money..lalala-lalalala-'
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
Happy days!
Last evening, i went to Kyoto's Ramen street with Vivian after school (: oooh...i was on the lookout for Kyuushu's infamous Tonkatsu Ramen (brewed pork-bone soup) and we found it right here! I took the set or known as SET-TO here in Japan-land and the ramen came with fried rice and Karage (fried chicken)
WAAAAAHHHHHHH
.....
.....
ALL 960 yen was so worth ittttt laaaaahhhh *(^O^)*/~~~
......................
Anyway..
I decided to remove the little song player widget at the side, because i realised its not a wise idea to have ONE SONG playing OVER AND OVER again with me and everyone else who's reading my blog (if, there are) unable to stop it.
damn right; from a nice song with beautiful lyrics it becomes plain kao bei.
damn right; from a nice song with beautiful lyrics it becomes plain kao bei.
Anyway i had a little row with boyfriend this evening, during one of our phonecalls i had thought he was being rude and was very unhappy about it.
And being the insensitive piece of wood that i am, i berated him for it,then went to take a nap to forget about the matter.
Blah, since when i became so unreasonable and so petty? Poor boyfriend, has to put up with this shitty behaviour which he says its just 'a manifestation of my lonliness and different-hard to get used to life here in Japan.' and then, he went to the supermarket and did some nice grocery shopping!
>.<
2 pieces of wood together.
Me -> the insensitve irritant
Him-> the calm and cool cucumber.
insentive irritant + calm cucumber .............
Maybe that's why we can be together for this long. (: i love him as much as i have since 2 years ago.
Eh, on a totally different note,
i'm gonna show off what i had for dinner the day before....
Tom yum bamboo shoots with fish
Stir-fried Ma-po egg plant
Fried gyoza (dumplings)
I'm so good at making myself happy (:
Oh, and i went to Jupiter-imported food oriented grocery store and got more tom yam paste and fish sauce.
hehe!
i can see many more happy days ahead. ^^
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