Just when I thought I had seen it all in Japan, I realised I have only been scraping the surface of bizarrity. (That isn’t a word but it sounds right somehow. My English ability has dropped to the level of a 6 year old.) I went for a mosey around the public library at Tsurumai [...]
Posts Tagged ‘confusing’
Anyone for strawberry pasta? Or ramen at the library?
Posted in Spring term, tagged confusing, cultural differences, food, japan, nagoya, SOAS, strange on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Valentines Day
Posted in Spring term, tagged alien, baking, chocolate, confusing, cultural differences, exchange, facts, food, japan, love, obligation, reverse, valentines day on February 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Question: what whips Japanese girls into a fury of baking, borrowing sugar, and locked kitchen doors? Valentines day of course!
Why do Japanese people always make the “V-sign” in photographs?
Posted in random, tagged confusing, culture, dating, gaijin, japan, japanologist, mystery, peace, photos, V-sign on January 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I get asked a lot of questions by friends and family about Japanese life and culture, ranging from relatively simple topics to the oscure. However the question I get asked more often than anything else is “Why do Japanese people always make the V-sign in photograghs?”. Today I will put this great mystery to rest for those of you who have always wondered…
Crime Against Wine!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cheese, confusing, food, shopping, wine on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I understand that desperate times lead to desperate measures. Cut backs, switching from branded goods to generic, making certain necessary sacrifices etc. However, what I saw today, red wine being sold with a free sample of processed peelable “cheese string”, is verging on unacceptable. Even more so when you consider that this has NOTHING to [...]
I just got back from the 病院 (hospital). No, obviously I mean the 美容院 (beauty parlour)！
Posted in Mid-Term, tagged aquarium, confusing, fish, food, humour, japanese, language, nagoya on October 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my favorite things about studying Japanese is the subtlety of this language. A lot is left unsaid, words ommitted or abbreviated, and so one has to rely on context to understand the overall meaning. There is also a lot of variety that we dont have in English, such the different first person pronouns [...]
Peculiar Japan
Posted in Early days, tagged confusing, cultural differences, homestay, japan, Nanzan, organisation, rent, vending machines on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Japan can often seem like a bewildering place for a gaijin (outside person = foreigner) and I still get surprised about some of the little things that occur on a daily basis. Once you get over all the obvious differences like vending machines every 50 metres, height difference, the cutsie cartoons that tell you how [...]
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