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Wednesday, February 19, 2003
no.77 - day
Another long day (12 hours), but it's all coming together.
Mikari-san and I filmed Emi-san again, this time without any ah ha noises from the wrong side of the camera. It was a better interview this time as she was so much more relaxed.
Here is me and Emi-san, I wanted to show you our difference in height.
On to Muse and an interview with the Asahi Times which is a National newspaper. The journalist seemed interested, I get really side tracked (in meetings) watching people take notes in kanji, it looks really intricate.
Asahi Times - kanji notes
I've been listening to Itunes all day on my headphones, cutting the panoramas together and as a result have Ryan Adams and Timberlake fighting it out in my head to see who takes precedance. Oh dear, I'm clearly going mad.
Everything stopped in the office when Yuko-san got the news through on Aol about Beckham's injured eye caused by alex ferguson's 'accident'. I don't believe a word of it.
takana sushi
Sayaka-chan took me to a new store for lunch which is the best I've been to yet. We watched a man making special sushi - pickles, nori and cucmber wrapped in green cabbage leaf. We really wanted to buy some but didn't have enough money so made do with watching. Yuko-san came back from a meeting 2 hours later and had bought the verysame sushi which we had for tea. It was delicious, the cabbage was much moister than seaweed for the outside. We also has yuki-pudding which is creme caramel and I tried aloe vera drink which is really addictive.
I've been trying all the supplement 'genki' drinks which you can buy from all the convenience stores / vending machines which pick you up a bit if you're flagging. I tried collagen supplement yesterday which is supposed to be good for your skin (no it doesn't puff your lips up!).
no.77 - night
Japanese stuff part 3
Hardly anywhere has central heating, instead there is air conditioning that blows hot, electric porta heaters or (my favourite) electric carpets.
There's very little drama on telly, (maybe more on cable). A really popular format is kind of like extended local news with say a panel of 4 who cut to a story - eg. what girls are buying for valentines day, how to wrap presents or, this morning, the graffiti artist who fires ink from a water pistol as he rides a bike - then close ups of the panel in a little box appear on the screen. I thought when they cut to vt was when the presenters had chance for a break, a fag, a natter etc but here they are all on standby making (I think genuinely) interested faces. This format is applied to almost everything from Iraq, food, shopping. All with big graphics.
Everyone has mobiles but you rarely hear one ring as usually they are on silent.
All convenience stores have death condolense cards, as no-one likes to have them in the house, bad luck.
Banzai means viva/long life /hurrah.
bimbo na means poor.
One of my favourite drinks is called pokari sweat.
There was rationing in tokyo until 1970
posted by Jeanie Wednesday, February 19, 2003
