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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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The problem with me and traveling is that, as any child who grew up spending a lot of time roaming alone through hotels around the world, a feel a little too at home inside the hotel and don’t really want to go out… I need to go for a walk but in truth staying in the room writing and reading all day feels like so much more fun and a more pleasant way to spend my days off… (Not to mention that it feels stupid to pay money for a good hotel and spend most of the time outside of it.)

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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.

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what I really dislike, is when I go to a live and people next to me start to take more of my attention than the people on the stage

one time there was a girl (woman?)
Who started the evening by taking off her pink very high-hilled pumps. And standing barefoot on the cold, dirty floor (it’s winter, people around were wearing boots) of the live house. Which was enough of wtf on itself. But next she started to make noises of birthing lioness right next to me. Which is very hard to stay indifferent to. Later she also used her hair to switch everyone around and sweep the floor while at it. (She probably should’ve swept first, and then taken her shoes off)
It’s not even really annoying, more funny if anything, but it just gets in the way of focusing on what I went there to focus on…

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if you never tried to make Japanese delivery people take an extra 2 yen (0.02$) when they don’t have the change… you don’t know the definition of awkward…

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Among all of the ‘seasonal hot beverage flavors’, I still liked the Eggnoog Latte I used to buy in Oxford Starbucks before morning classes on chilly late-autumn and winter mornings the most…

So why can’t I find it or anything similar in any of the coffee shops on this part of the world, is beyond me 😦

Well they still have all the same pumpkin/gingerbread stuff, why not Eggnog?

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True story from a few years back:

Went to see a movie. Bought myself a ticket from the machine, with a student discount.
When I was about to go into the screening room,
a girl that was checking the tickets and IDs looked at my ticket and said:
“Oh, wait a second! Today is wednesday, and it is a ladies day.
You should have discount for that too!”
and she crossed the price over on my ticket with a pen and run away.
While I am waiting, I turn around and see the people waiting behind me.
They actually smile and nod.
And the girl comes back and hands me 400yen in change,

because she found out I payed too much.
It’s these the little things about people in this place that still keep me sane.

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Tokyo in December is embedded so strongly and deeply in my memory, I can feel it all on my skin and in my lungs by just thinking about it.

Like Oxford in October.

Or Prague in April.

 

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I prefer Line to other messaging apps mostly because of the stamps that very often perfectly convey my feelings at the moment.

Like this one

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