Archive for November, 2005

schedule

2005.11.30 - 15:11
schedule
Originally uploaded by jabberer.

Flu-ish, finally. Fighting the drowsiness, i took a look at the gym schedule. Man, why dont they just use english alphabet for english words? Locals also need to learn what (the hell) all these mean anyway.

Examples:

- ba-re-e-su-to-re-(tsu)-chi

- ma-(tsu)-to-pi-ra-te-(i)-su

- ba-shi-(tsu)-ku-u-(o)-ku

- bo-de-(i)-ko-n-de-(i)-tu-(yo)-ni-n-gu

picture rail

2005.11.30 - 10:11
picture rail
Originally uploaded by jabberer.

One way to say: dont make any nail holes on the wall- each space in the apartment has ‘picture rail’. Designated place to hang your fav posters, pictures, t shirt, whatever.

neighborhood noodle bar

2005.11.30 - 10:11
neighborhood noodle bar
Originally uploaded by jabberer.

First time to see a customer in the shop. In fact it was so small that it was very intimidating to go in.

neighborhood bar

2005.11.30 - 10:11
neighborhood bar
Originally uploaded by jabberer.

Do i dare to go have a look?

to meguro station

2005.11.30 - 10:11
to meguro station
Originally uploaded by jabberer.

Lesson of the day: get a dictionary (i have, but its in transit). Get a japanese keyboard or at least the copy of keyboard layout. Otherwise all too peaceful.

sense of beauty 2

2005.11.29 - 12:11
sense of beauty 2
Originally uploaded by jabberer.

Note- i was on my way to work in the morning, not harajuku.

amazake

2005.11.28 - 23:11
aki?(sweet drink)- kamju
Originally uploaded by jabberer.

Dont know how to describe this in english, but was glad to find this during the local grocery exploration on sunday. Its a sweet drink made from rice. Korean version tends to have the rice grains maintain their form, but this seems to be made all milky.

mainoksia find

2005.11.28 - 23:11
mainoksia find
Originally uploaded by jabberer.

Ka-do ok

Can request a type

A lively business w 20 persons on duty at all times

Can provide a receipt

from the pile of junk mail i went thru, these two very similar ‘notes’ were found. The order of common junk mail was something like 1 newspaper subscription 2 dry cleaning service 3 food delivery 4 garbage collection center (to get rid of big stuff) 5 moving company 6 misc shop ads- beauty salons, furniture, etc.

usuck

2005.11.28 - 22:11
usuck
Originally uploaded by jabberer.

The key critical crucial essential reason why this phone is not usable for me:

No search function in english in contacts

Got ~400 names in contacts. Cant stand scrolling down this long list each time. The list sorting is done by ‘birthday’ or ‘reading’ (reflecting the local needs, i guess). The search is done by ‘2-touch’, ‘reading’, and ‘phone number’, of course on a separate screen. The ‘reading’ field is all empty for me cuz all my contacts are in english- no intelligence of using the name fields for search. Cant blame the local manufacturer too much for this, but Ahhhh.

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