So my first post of 2008. Happy umm.. Valentine's Day.. How've y'all been doing? I know that most people reading this will probably crucify me for my next statement, but I just have to bitch a little about the cold in Tokyo. It's cold.. it's damn cold. Not so much because the temperature outside has been hovering around an absolutely frigid 2 or 3C, but because the temperature inside has been hovering around an absolutely frigid 2 or 3C. Someone once told me that houses in Japan are built to allow a draft to pass through so that they can stay cool in the summer. Man they weren't kidding. It's all about brass monkeys and witch's bosoms in my apartment.
On a slightly sunnier note I started this year in grand style.. by losing my wallet. I went out for a New Year's eve dancing jamboree and came home without any cash, credit cards, or maid cafe point cards. Luckily for me though, when I called the club a few days later, someone had turned in (or found) my wallet with everything intact except for the cash I was carrying. All things considered, it could have been much worse.
Between New Year's and now its been mostly business as usual, though I did manage to take in an amateur symphony last weekend, and I went to listen to a buddy DJ at a very tiny club/concert venue. Weird thing was that it was in the middle of the afternoon. Weirder thing was the other guy who picked up a mic in another part of the club and went on for 10-minutes about his bathroom habits, which somehow had the crowd in histerics. Tim Allen, eat your heart out.
4 comments:
I get "brass monkeys" but you're gonna hafta explain witch's bosoms...
By the way, at the present moment it's -30 with the windchill in T-Dot-Oh-Dot. I won't cricify you, but I would give you a swift kick in the brass boys...if they weren't frozen off, ya monkey...
Wen
Happy Vday! Good that you got your wallet back. Not sure how much you lost but that's a small price to pay considering you lost your wallet. Hope you weren't carrying much cash that night.
Damian -- I'm not one of the crucifiers of your comment. I remember a visit to Fukuoka in January a few years back, and in the deep of night, where only one room was heated, despite what can only have been very bad things to my kidnesy, I refused to use the toilet because it was so cold. Damn, cold. Damn, damn, damn! My mantra is now "central heating is a privilege".
@Wen.. look up "witch's tit" in your handy-dandy antiquated sayings reference (as in "as cold as a witch's tit")
@Sarah.. Thanks for the words of encouragement, and have a happy, healthy baby
@James.. I heard that! I bet you'll have plenty of nice "central heating" stories to tell when you're back from Hokkaido.. see u in Osaka.
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