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How my own idiocy turns around to save me:

Me: stuffing big hardcover book into my smaller bag (I really didn’t want to carry a bigger bag), being surprised that it actually fits, not realising that it only fits because my wallet is not there.
Me: hour later on the train, finally realising why the book was able to fit. Realising that no wallet means no coffee money and no lunch money. Trying to think if 900 yen ($9) I probably have on my train card will be enough to by something… somewhere.
Me: 5 mins later, sticking my hand in my pocket and finding my credit card, which I forgot there when I went out to convenience store 3 days ago.

I usually never carry cards in my pockets.
And now my one slip-up saves me from my another slip-up.

Medetashi-Medetashi.

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The tendency of japanese ‘positive tv dramas’ to send an anti-relationship message kind of gets on my nerves.

Just because they make them with a purpose to send a message, and that’s the message they choose to send.

The ‘I like you very much (and half of the drama was centred about how I much I like you), but you’ll get in the way of me working my work so lets not be in any kind of relationship’.
And the ‘I can’t love people and do my work simultaneously, so I have to choose one and I will choose my work’ message.

The more you watch the more you realise that they are pathologically afraid or incapable of portraying functional adult romantic/family relationships. It’s either ‘schoolgirl-level childish romance’ or ‘sociopathic screwups everywhere’ kind of deal.

 

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Usually, even if I think ‘I want to smoke’, I forget about it right away,
because I was never addicted, and I’m too tired to move anyway.
But I’m feeling like I’m reaching a point when I need to use smoking as an excuse
to stand on the balcony looking at the night lights of Tokyo
with a bummed out expression on my face. And do nothing.

I’m pretty sure that’s the whole point of smoking in modern world. An excuse to pretend that you can ‘take a break’ for few minutes, leave everything and just stand in one place.
Go outside. Leave the room. Pretend like you have to stop whatever you were doing to go for a smoke.

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pms –
it’s when you want to eat a mountain, drop a mountain on someone’s head angrily and hide under some mountain so no one would ever find you all at the same time.

Men are very lucky if they don’t have to experience this ‘I’m very hungry, angry, irritated, depressed, i-hate-myself-and-everything-around-me-except-for-food’ condition you can do nothing about but just wait out… trying hard not to think about anything.

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that’s a good feeling.
When Scientist prove and say what I was saying all my life.

1) people are not supposed to function in temperature above 25C
2) in summer it is much healthier to live with your air condition on through all at all times. And you are not supposed to turn it off at night.
3) people turn stupid when temperature is above 30C and it is a fact.
4) hot baths and sauna and stuff like that don’t get you relaxed and ‘take your tiredness away’. They just make you more tired and make you sleep.
(Feeling tired and being tired are very different things)

Sweating while you sleep/sit means your body gets just as tired as ti gets sweating when you run and work out.

All those people who try to make you set temperature at 28C minimum because they think it is right or turn off your air conditioning at night can go f*ck themselves to hell. Cuz that’s how people die from heatstroke.

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Sometimes I put away reading and watching my favourite stories ’till the right time comes’ for years,
Or sometimes I’ll stop reading/watching something in the middle, not because I don’t like it, but because I like it a little too much.
These stories that I feel I have some connection with, get a little too deep into me, and whatever I feel emotionally almost hurts me physically.

I was in middle school when I watched The Two Towers for the very first time in the cinema, and almost had some strange kind of panic/heart attack, driving home through the night in my father’s car. It was a dark road through a forest, and my heart was hurting, and my head felt like I left it back in the movie world, right there on the walls of Hornburg, and I couldn’t breathe.
And that’s how I learned that I might be a little too impressionable towards the things I like.
Then there also was a mistake of watching all episodes of old Berserk after all episodes of Ayashi no Ceres in one day/night, after which I couldn’t walk straight for three days.

The point is, I feel bad about it, but I really can’t make myself watch/read some of my most favorite things just because they hurt too much and I think it’s kind of unfair.

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I hated a lot of things about UK when I was living there… like how impossible it was to get anyone to work, whether it was to fix something in your apt, or in banks (I left 6 years ago and they still refuse to close my bank account over there, because they don’t understand the concept of not being able to come in and do it in person because I live on the other side of the globe and don’t remember 9 year old passwords anyway), or real estate agencies who refused to work with you just because you are a foreigner (turned you away the second you walked in), or the London tube that never worked properly… or the drunk crowds destroying everything in their sight every Friday night, … and all the other instances portraying the lack of earnestness and proficiency…
… but I still miss it a lot sometimes. Living in UK. The other things about living in UK.

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Sometimes Asians are such… Asians.

Just saw someone complain on 9gag that he started dating a nice Asian girl, but she cooks rice every day and eats it with everything, and while reading it I scoffed and thought t: Why do you need to make up these stereotypical jokes? What’s so fun about that?

… and then I switched channels on my japanese tv, and saw them introducing all kinds of delicious foods (again), among which there was this deliciously looking mashed potatos, topped with a minced meat souse… and just as I was thinking how nice it looks …
… they went ahead and put it on top of rice.
…seriously?
…mashed potato on top of rice?

I’m still not over people putting soba inside of bread, or eating ramen with rice… but how the hell these people can keep eating white rice with everything and put carbs on carbs and stay so thin and tiny is beyond me.
It’s unfair is what it is.

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in most of the stories I read/watch, there comes a point where I wish a could stop it and re-write it differently (aka the point where I’ll likely will have to stop watching).

For example, in the Good Wife I was playing at the background for a while…
… I personally think it would be a much better story if they killed off the husband, and not whom they did kill off (spoiler alert, kinda)
(though then she would have to be the Good Widow)

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An official notice that was sent to our company from a game rating organization of a certain country I’ll refrain from naming. I’m not even kidding.

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Sometimes I just have to stop in a middle of doing something and ask myself: “To whom was I just talking so intensively in my head for the last hour?!”

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On the company-wide web notice board
stuff like “Person who lost 50yen, please collect”
or “Someone forgot 100 yen change at the wending machine” announcements
are a real thing.

Japan.

p.s. – They hang there for weeks, because whoever lost their money can’t remember if it is theirs, and all the other people won’t take money that is not.