Its been a while again!

Hows everybody doing?

Things here are going well, though the weather is starting to turn a little cold. Its nothing like back home, it wont get much colder than –3 or so I am told, but it sure feels cold after that stupidly hot and humid summer that we had here.

Im trying to think if anything terribly (or even remotely) interesting has happened to me lately…and im coming up kinda blank.

Oh, i do have a somewhat funny story. Because of the vast amounts of rain that seem to fall here (especially when I am planning on going outside somewhere) I have taken to carrying an umbrella. This thing is a beast. Big and strong and it keeps me safe, its like my knight in shining armour. Cept…theres no armour or horse. It survived the typhoon we had a few months back. I went out on my bike w/ that bad boy and we braved the winds! It stood up to wind that was strong enough to prevent me from going forward on my bike. This particular gust of wind, of course, hit me in the middle of the road, that was fun. Anyway, back to my story.

2 weeks ago we had quite a bit of rain and I took my umbrella to work with me. This was on a tuesday. It wasnt raining when I came home, so I stopped by the corner store to get some juice and put my umbrella in the little basket out front of the door. I went in, got my juice, went home. Weds was a nice day and on Thursday it started to rain again. So, as I walked out of my apartment I reached for where I usually keep my umbrella. Swooooosh. My hand found only empty air.

NANI!?

(Nani is the japanese word for “what”. Its really got a nice ring to it, pronounced na-nee, so ive adopted it).

My umbrella was gone! I mulled over where I could have left it and work seemed like the most logical answer. I went out, hopped on my bike and started my trip. About 20 seconds later it occurred to me that I might have left it at the convenience store. I went around the corner and, lo and behold, there it was, still in the basket out front. So I whipped my bike around and swung in between the parked cars, grabbed my umbrella from the and spun my bike around again to head to work. As my bike turned, I saw an older Japanese lady sitting in one of the cars I had pulled in beside. She was making this expression: . I can only imagine that she thought that i was STEALING the umbrella. A foreigner comes racing in, grabs a nice umbrella out of the basket in front of the store and then races off. Yah, kinda makes sense.

I have seen a couple of movies recently that were decent. I mentioned “This is It” last time, and I hope you all enjoyed it! I also saw Inglorious Bastards and The Hangover last week. Both were good in different ways. IB was predictable in the Tarantino sorta way. You knew the general outcome, you knew how some of the things were going to play out and you know there was gonna be some F’d up dialogue scenes. Nothing new when it comes to style. It was, however, a good movie. The “main bad guy” was great, i enjoyed his performance a lot. It was a bloody long movie, but it didnt feel like it, so it was cool. Worth seeing. It didnt change my life, but it was worth 1000 yen fo-sho.

The Hangover was kinda cool too. If you dont know about it, the premise is that a guy is getting married so his buddies take em out for a bachelor party…but get to wasted that they LOSE the bachelor. They spend the rest of the movie retracing their steps and trying to find him. Kinda like “Dude, wheres my car”, which I loved. As such, this one was a good time also. The closing scene of the movie is pictures from the “adventure” and they were very funny. They also had a very cool song playing while they were showing. All you folks back there with English Radio have probably heard it by now, but if not…its catchy.

Before I introduce that song though, I will remind you what it is…a pseudo cover of (IMO).

Hrm…wow. Thats…one…video. I…am somewhat at a loss for words after watching it. I love the song…the video may give me nightmares. Anyway, the new one that seems to be a play off of that one…

The quality is pretty crappy…but…the tune is kinda catchy. If anybody else has some music that I should check out, please let me know. I feel so out of the loop sometimes. My coworker is a big music buff, but too much so. Its like wanting a class of water and getting an ocean dumped on you.

I think thats enough for now. Ive got a few things to go and stuff yo. So like, have a good day or night or whatever it is wherever it is that you are reading this from.

Oh, and I might have something fun to post soon. So, check back occasionally. Nothing terribly exciting, but youll get a kick out of it…if i can find it \O_O/.