[05:01:24] James says:
your gonna stalk me in bedford then?
[05:01:38] James says:
gotta warn you its a dump 
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[05:03:28] Kyn(apple) says:
can’t look worse than new facebook
[05:04:03] James says:
new facebook looks like Milton Keynes, very sleek and shiny, but ultimately confusing and pointless
The man makes an excellent point.
So, for those that don’t already know, it was my birthday not so long ago (it’s super easy to remember, as it’s 8/8). Anyway, I was forwarded this rather interesting article that day and I thought I’d share it with you all.
It is from Norway
It’s been sitting in my e-mail inbox, but finally I have opened it and shared it with you, my lovely lovey readers.
08:50:10 PM) : i dont i just remember the director being from some part of korea
(08:50:57 PM) : Being Korean, one would assume he’s from some part of Korea….
Okay, so I’m currently laid up in bed suffering with the worst stomach pains I have ever had and general sickiness, so I’m assuming the two days of traveling have taken their toll pretty spectacularly. I have to go and pay my rent today, which may prove tricky for two reasons:
Just kidding, well….kind of.So basically, whilst I do know I have to at some point trek over to Shinjuku, it’s going to be a fucking nightmare. Not to mention it’ll use up all the money for getting to work that I have left on my Suica card. URGH.
Grumble grumble, doesn’t real life suck
I am currently stuck in Heathrow.
In case you didn’t know Terminal 3 is in chaos. My flight is 3 hours delayed, and on top of that I’m going to miss the connecting flights likely to get me to Tokyo in time for the last train from Narita.
Not amused.
So, I’m going back to Tokyo today! Yay!
But I have to get the train to Heathrow, my flight is stopping off in HongKong for 3 hours and then I have to get the train from Narita (which contrary to popular belief is not in Tokyo) to Itabashi. That’s a fair distance, and this time I have GIANT SUITCASE as I have many things to bring with me.
Fun.
All in all I will be travelling for about 26 hours.
Kill me.
I expect my Tokyo friends to be waiting for me with beer and gyutan.
Seriously though, this is going to be hell. I found it hard enough getting the train at both ends when I was on a direct flight; going by bloody HongKong is just annoying. I’ve never had to do a flight with a transfer before, I have no idea what to do. Help!
Also, I am ill at the moment, which will make the incredibly long flight just that little bit better ~_~
So, I checked my JAL Mileage bank account today on a spur of the moment whim and found it to be empty.
Now…There’s a little issue there, as I have travelled to Japan and back once. That’s nearly 13,000 miles. I would very much like those miles. On my first flight, I had applied for the card and had the number, but not the actual card, and the lovely JAL workers said that seeing as I had booked with the number, I would get those miles. Returning from Tokyo, my card was scanned, but they couldn’t find my ticket reservation, and so it must not have registered. I am not amused.
I have now found a distinct lack of a “Claim lost miles” button that my Asia Miles card’s site does have. This does not amuse me either.
JAL is a partner of Asia Miles, and according to the website I can claim the miles from flights up to a month before enrolling for my frequent flyer miles card mcthingy, so my dilemma is this…My next flight to Tokyo is with Cathay Pacific, and and they are an Asia Miles partner also, but in December I am flying with ANA, who are not a partner. Should I try and claim all the 13,000 ish miles with JAL Mileage bank, and lose 6,500ish miles on the ANA card (as 6,500 miles will get me nothing), should I again lose 6,500 miles by putting the second JAL flight and the Cathay pacific flight on my Asia Miles account, or should I wait, and pray that somewhere there is a frequent flyer miles scheme that cover JAL and ANA. Also, I now realise that I flew out to Tokyo with ANA, and that has gone on my ANA card already. So basically, I have 13,000ish miles with both JAL and ANA (although the second half of those miles will be claimed later in the year for ANA). Hmm.
I also now realise that I may not have kept the boarding passes for all of those flights. Shite.
So please, webusers, help me. How can I maximise the usefulness of all my flights so far? I mean, Already this year I’ve been to Tokyo and back twice, and Zürich and back once (with Air France). There must be some scheme somewhere that will make me a happy girl.
I just want rewards.
Lots of lovely rewards….
(K-tai mails between me and Kevin)
My Mail: That’s weird.
His mail: WHAT IS WIERD?
My mail: Further proof of the shortcomings of the american education system.
I mean…meeting in daylight…in Akabane…for coffee…are you dying?
Yeah, I can do wit, check me out.
I’m going to Switzerland tomorrow. Back Sunday night. Probably no updates for a while. Sorry.
Sorry for the wait everyone, I’m currently in Numazu with a friend, then on Monday I’m popping home for two weeks. Will probably have an update fest at some point, but until then, stick with me, and there’ll be hours of footage headed up to my vlog.
Baibaikin.
[00:24:29] Kyn(apple) Earthquake! says:
For some reason the elvish in this film is subtitled in Spanish but it was subbed in english earlier
[00:25:08] ﾄﾞﾐﾆｸ/ Dom - ( 161 ) says:
didn’t you know? elves are spanish
[00:25:25] Kyn(apple) Earthquake! says:
Yes, the fair skin and blonde hair are a dead give away
I’ve just found out that every day Yoo Jin makes double the amount of rice in her rice cooker and leaves it on ‘warm’ after she’s left so I can have breakfast. I love her.
The new Audi A5 website is amazing. Go there, go there now.
Dom: I have Bodily Kinesthetic Intellignece
Kynapple: No, you’re freaky.
It took forever to get all the details of this quake on the BBC, and I knew them ten minutes after it happened. Is Japan not important enough that a 6.8 earthquake gets the bare minimum of attention and a distinct lack of factual evidence in the initial reports, which took forever to get up there. Seriously, BBC, get a grip, try this link next time
So, for those who don’t know, it’s exam time for me.
Urgh. Yoo Jin is studying ten times harder than me, as ever, which makes me worry, but oh well, if I suck, I suck.
Anyway, there may be a lack of blogging due to this exam period.
Sorry.
So, I had just got onto the train at Sugamo and was looking out onto the platform when i saw three old guys in awful remnant-of-the-80s type suits walk by. I jokingly thought “grandad yakuza”. It was only as the train started to pull away and I passed them again that I saw it. The guy in the blue suit either had one extremely short pinky, or I was spot on. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen such well-dressed victims of possible industrial accidents, it’s a commonish sight for me now. I even got chatting with a very cute digitally-challenged guy in a bar not too long ago.
My mother could talk more about this, though. Her growing up in the Eastend in the
50s and 60s, when gangsters hurt other gangsters and the public was safe, has provided me with a wealth of family stories of safer neighbourhoods, and sitting next to someone’s cousin’s minders at a reunion back when I was just walking. Tokyo now is maybe similar to how London was then; a large prescence of organised crime, but a low overall crime rate. Of course, as with everywhere, crime rates are on the rise, and one has to wonder, how much can be attributed to a decline in yakuza prescence, if indeed there is a decline.
Well, before I get told I’m glamourising violence and promoting illegal activities, I shall end it here (and subtly hint that you should wiki yakuza and get superclued up).
Update: “If a yakuza organisation does commit an open crime such as murder, a member from the yakuza organisation will often volunteer to turn themselves in to protect senior members of the organisation. In the early 80s in Fukuoka, a yakuza war spiraled out of control and a few civilians were hurt. The police stepped in and forced the yakuza bosses on both sides to declare a truce in public.” So I guess the comparison betwee 50s London organised crime and the Yakuza was kind of appropriate….
So, I’ve only just noticed the “Insight” feature on Youtube. It’s a clever set of pages which let me know loads of cool stats for my videos. One of them is Demographic. Apparently, from the 11th July to today, 84% of my viewers are male….Okay, fair enough…But 50% of my total viewers are ages 35-45. So basically, if we model it all super simply and assume that 84% of that 50% are males, then my viewers are 42% middle aged men.
Well….I can’t knock it, views are views.
However, when we look at all time stats, and all time stats for Japan, 88% of my viewers are male, and here, the largest age range is 45-55. Hmmmm……
Again, I can’t knock it, views are views. The only thing is, I don’t know who the 12% of women over here are, I don’t really have that many female friends, and definitely none that know about my videos. Well, I guess view are views, right?
So….Every time I get a new job, I get the same urge: get something fixed. I always plan meticulously how much of my wages I can put aside for ’self-improvement’ and how I’ll manage, which procedures are essential and which are merely fantasies. Here is the list (in no particular order)
I fainted the other day, and the last few times I has happened I’ve been fortunate and in rush hour, and therefore be well supported enough not to end up on the floor. This time however I wasn’t as fortunate, and ended up sprawled across the end of the carriage. It was only when I was awake enough to stand that I realised no one had come to help. Even in London Id at least get a “You all right?” off someone…Or at least I think I would.
Oh well. That’ll be the last time I skip breakfast before travelling across Tokyo.
So, I keep writing things down in my gorgeous notebook (thank you Sammi) but never posting them online. They are normally titled something along the lines of “Things not to do…”
And so, Ladies and Gentlemen and variations there upon, my new series is unveiled. Just like the Snippets, it’ll have it’s own category. ”TNTD”
Enjoy…
Yay! I got spam!!!!! Woooo!!!!!!!
My website is now awesome enough (read: three people visit it) that I have received some spam comments. Oh the joy! The achievement! The excitement! Oh….wait…..spam isn’t a good thing.
Shit.
“Always best quality & fresh feces.” Well, it did say fetish play…Scat’s a fetish…..
(Not one of mine, it was overheard in a bar in Ikebukuro this evening. I had to UD “shart”)
“God, you shart once and spend the rest of your life having a panic attack whenever your rectum twitches.”
Disgusting, but equally genius.
New American housemate, who deserves a website of her own, if not a novel and a feature film, and I were sitting outside the front of the guesthouse (yes, I’m still waiting for my stuff to turn up) and an Australian lady from the Apartment block behind us came down and asked if either of us needed a coffee table, to which I responded, “I love you in ways you will never know”.
That probably came across as creepy, but now I have a coffee table. Yay! It’s actually a kotatsu, so I have the futon, heatery bit and quilty-duvet thing with it too. Expensive to buy, but free for me. YAY!
Right, back t rearrange all my other furniture around it