We just had the very first jishin of the year, and its centers wasn’t even that far from here. Just a 3 degree over Ibaraki, but that was enough to shake things up here a little bit.
The rain, on the other side, is much more troublesome than these puny earthquakes.
“if anyone knows of any reason why these two should not be wed, speak now or forever hold your peace”
He slowly rose from his seat. Murmurs spread like wildfire. His calm, sure steps were folled by frownings and surprised gazes. Someone started to laugh.
The room fell in an embarassed silence, as he stood, one step from the couple. He looked at her eyes. She was not finding any of this to be funny at all.
“Are you really going to marry this guy?”
“Yes.” There was nothing more to be said.
He turned towards the groom and, for the very first time, acknowledge his existance. He produced a gun from his suit, steadied it against the middle of the groom’s eyes and didn’t say a word.
Many cried. Many ducked under the benches. No one could quite understand what was going on. And, in the ensuing chaos, he slowly pulled the smoking gun towards his own mouth.
Just a quick post to keep the posts flowing 
Today I had two very weird dreams, which I got to remember with lots of amazing detail. The first one does not deserve to be posted here, but the second one is kinda worthy of note. The main character of the dream was a buck-rogers kind of sci fi hero, in a war on humans against aliens. Our hero manages to get to an alien on the bargaining table (how is reason for another post itself). So in the table we have our hero in one end, and this alien babe on silver spandex, and a crab-like humanoid by her side on the other. The dream them proceeds to show the alien girl putting about 10 empty bottles of booze in front of her, while our hero is struggling with the second bottle. Already drunk, our hero asks: “How many livers do you guys get?” - “What is a liver?” - “Ah, that explains everything.”
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I mean, after spending the new year reading dune AND asimov, I should expect more in my dreams than humanoid aliens with universal languages and bad puns based on terrible pseudo-science.
Anyway, coming to school today I ran into one of my favorite uses of “japengrish” - or japanese words based on english words with totally different meaning. The offender this time was the infamous O.B., O.G. combo. In “japanese”, O.B. O.G. are terms referred to people from a college, school group who left the group because they had already graduated. Roughly equivalent to Alumni, but a little bit broader in meaning. When I first heard the word, I thought it was a real japanese word, something like “oubi”, but, alas, that was not the case… O.B, actually means “office-boy”. And the female correspondent, O.G., of course, means “office-girl”.
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I mean, what is the problem in calling them “Sotsugyousei” or something similar?
Ok, It is a new day, with new classes ahead…
Well, I was playing yesterday at my computer, when the earth began shaking again. It was just a gentle sideway sway, lasting for maybe one minute, while I was taking my supper. I don’t have net access at home yet, so just today I found out it was a Lv 4 earthquake at Fukushima (about two provinces to the north). It was registered as a 3 here in Kashiwa.
Anyway, I’ve wasted most of my time this weekend finishing “Three the Hard Way“. And I urge you to try it out. Someday I’ll write a proper review here in the blog, along with a RPGMK session with reviews and my own secret project (oops). But for now I leave you with this link.
That’s It… I’m supposed to be doing some work, so I’ll stop here.
Since my mother always calls me whenever there is the slighliest shake wherever in Japan, I might as well just start posing quake reports on my Blog, like Luis does.
We just had a degree 4 here in Kashiwa. The center was a 5- in east Ibaraki. No tsunami warning.It was quite long, but nothing out of the ordinary for me. The folks in the lab stopped a little to check the news on the TV, but that was that.
Besides that, today I found out that there is a Gym in the Solid State Physics Bldg, just besides mine. I’m planning to start using it from this week (went there today already), but I need a good excercise plan.
Lastly, I found one number for making collect calls from japan to Brazil. It is the “Brasil Direto” service by Embratel. The prices are somewhat steep, 1,87R$ the minute, plus 25% tax, so I’m still on the lookout for a cheaper service.
That’s it for today.
