Wassup ya'llz! First of all I want to give a shout out to my sister, wishing her a Happy Birthday.
As for the rest of Wednesday, played bball again for a couple hours. 2 graduates came out to play too.
Afterwards, went grocery shoppin' @ MatsuKiyo then headed home. Had some snacks and got a call from Kita, who randomly calls people when he's drunk. So I headed over to Ikko and it was pretty packed. Ken & Kumi, Ezure and Chi Mama were there, along with Kobi, Hashimoto, Sensei and Kita. Tonight I just asked Mama to recommend what I should eat. She came out with buri which reminded me of my grandmother's cookin'. Had some sho chu daikon zuke which was pretty interestin'. Mama also made me some natto ten. Afterwards, Hashimoto took me to this new bar which right across from Serenade.
This place was kinda expensive, probably due to the fact that there were hostesses. Found out that one of the hostesses is Junk's master's wife. For some crazy reason, I decided to drink Suntory whiskey, which didn't sit too well. After that place, headed to Cha Cha, and then headed home.
Thursday, 01.08:
Slept through my alarm and got to school a little bit late. Luckily, I only had one class that day. Prepared the 8th grade lesson and went home @ around 1800. Headed over to MatsuKiyo for some groceries and saw Yamazaki sensei there. I guess his wife called and told him to stop by and get groceries. But the highlight of the day was when I was walkin' through the wine/sho chu/nihonshuu section and saw 3 kanji that I know so well. It was the first time seein' Kubota @ MatsuKiyo. I saw it the other day @ Ito Yokado but it was 5500 yen (about $50!) but here, it was on sale for 2900 yen (about $26!). Since I didn't have that much money on me, I could only pick up 2 bottles. I'm plannin' on goin' again today to see if they have anymore left.
Came home, cooked up a feast. Had some salad w/sesame miso dressin', nama hamu (proscuitto), pan fried cod, miso shiru & fried potatoes. Yummy!
On TV, there was this interestin' program on that pit these chefs against each other in usin' a huge fryin' pan. Everything from jambalaya, fried rice to pancakes and bentos. The Japanese have some of the most interestin' programs. Then there was another program that would go to all these different ramen shops throughout Tokyo and the surroundin' areas. Really made me hungry for some ramen.
While doin' some research for my fantasy bball league, I put in the 12 girl orchestra from China which I really liked. They're sound is very similar to that of Vanessa Mae...but add 11 more different instruments.
Friday, 01.09:
Another day at school. Man, it's pretty frickin' cold in my apartment these days, especially in the mornin'. I keep the heater in my bedroom when I sleep, but when I wake up to go the bathroom or take a shower, right as I open the door to my kitchen, the temperature drops a good 20-25 degrees F.
Had some natto (the breakfast of champions) and some vegetable juice then quickly got ready and headed to work.
Just a regular day so far @ school. The day is goin' by pretty slow. I had to classes earlier, but now, takin' a break til 5th period. Gonna play bball today, my final practice before playin' with everybody in Shibuya.
Wellz...here's some stuff my mom sent me. Enjoy!
Kaz out...
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10 WORDS THAT DON'T EXIST...BUT SHOULD
- Rated PG
1. AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks'trus) adj. Possessing the
ability to turn the bathtub tap on and off with your toes.
2. CARPERPETUATION (kar'pur pet u a shun) n. The act,
when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at
least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining
it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more
chance.
3. DISCONFECT (dis kon fekt') v. To sterilize the piece of
confection (lolly) you dropped on the floor by blowing on it,
assuming this will somehow 'remove' all the germs.
4. ELBONICS (el bon'iks) n. The actions of two people
maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.
5. FRUST (frust) n. The small line of debris that refuses to be
swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across
the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under
the rug.
6. LACTOMANGULATION (lak' to man gyu lay' shun) n.
Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so
badly that one has to resort to the 'illegal' side.
7. PEPPIER (peph ee ay') n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant
whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners
if they want fresh ground pepper.
8. PHONESIA (fo nee' zhuh) n. The affliction of dialing a
phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as
they answer.
9. PUPKUS (pup'kus) n. The moist residue left on a window
after a dog presses its nose to it.
10. TELECRASTINATION (tel e kras tin ay' shun) n. The
act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you
pick it up, even when you're only six inches away.
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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's
the guy who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my
stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates." Here
are some more of his gems:
* I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
* Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.
* Half the people you know are below average.
* 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
* 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
* A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel
so good.
* A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
* If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
* The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse
gets the cheese.
* I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before
we met.
* OK, so what's the speed of dark?
* How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
* If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously
overlooked something.
* Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
* When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong
lane.
* Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to
be lazy.
* Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
* I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
* If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
* Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet
engines.
* What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
* My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I
made your horn louder."
* Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
* If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you
tried.
* A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
* Experience is something you don't get until just after you
need it.
* To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from
many is research.
* The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
* The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to
catch up.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST
* Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have
film
------------------------------------------------------------------
DARWIN AWARDS - 2003
Yes, it's the one we've all been waiting for ... the Darwin
Award 2003. The candidates have finally been released!
For those not familiar with the Darwin Award, It's an annual
honor given to the person who provided the Universal human
gene pool the biggest service by getting KILLED in the most
extraordinarily stupid way. As always, competition again this
year has been keen.
DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES
* In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck
and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first
through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
* In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker,
who "totally zoned when he ran," accidentally jogged off an
100-foot-high cliff on his daily run.
* Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-
deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside
it. Beach-goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun,
or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach
chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed,
burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on
the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw
their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could
not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment
almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on.
Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
* In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in
Lompoc, CA, as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a
bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when
the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his
hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the
floor.
* According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet
Nick Berrena, 20, was stabbed to death in January by
fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was trying to prove
that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest Berrena was
wearing.
* Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in February in
Selbyville, Del, as he won a bet with friends who said he
would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his
mouth and pull the trigger.
* In February, according to police in Windsor, Ontario,
Daniel Kolta, 27, and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on
collision, thus earning a tie in the game of chicken they were
playing with their snowmobiles.
DARWIN AWARD HONORABLE MENTIONS
* In Guthrie, Okla, in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a
millipede with a shot from his 22 caliber rifle, but the bullet
ricocheted off a rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio
Martinez in the head, fracturing his skull.
* In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting
to clean out cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a
broom in favor of a propane torch and caused a fire that
burned the first and second floors of his house.
* Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township,
NJ, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-
stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While driving around
at 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss
it out the window to see what would happen, but apparently
failed to notice the window was closed.
RUNNER UP....
TACOMA, WA
Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends
when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-
jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of
traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10
men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 am.
Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered
that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had
continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil
of lineman's cable lay nearby. One end of the cable was
secured around Bingham's leg and the other end was tied to
the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened
and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived
his fall into the icy river water and was rescued by two nearby
fishermen. "All I can say, " said Bingham, "is that God was
watching out for me on that night." "There's just no other
explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located.
AND THE WINNER....
PADERBORN, GERMANY
Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his
constipated elephant, Stefan, 22 doses of animal laxative
and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the
plugged-up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the
keeper under 200 pounds of poop! Investigators say ill-fated
Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an
olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him.
"The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation
knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his
head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant con-
tinued to evacuate his bowels on top of him" said flabber-
gasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. 'with no one
there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an
hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he
suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents
proving "shit happens."
As for the rest of Wednesday, played bball again for a couple hours. 2 graduates came out to play too.
Afterwards, went grocery shoppin' @ MatsuKiyo then headed home. Had some snacks and got a call from Kita, who randomly calls people when he's drunk. So I headed over to Ikko and it was pretty packed. Ken & Kumi, Ezure and Chi Mama were there, along with Kobi, Hashimoto, Sensei and Kita. Tonight I just asked Mama to recommend what I should eat. She came out with buri which reminded me of my grandmother's cookin'. Had some sho chu daikon zuke which was pretty interestin'. Mama also made me some natto ten. Afterwards, Hashimoto took me to this new bar which right across from Serenade.
This place was kinda expensive, probably due to the fact that there were hostesses. Found out that one of the hostesses is Junk's master's wife. For some crazy reason, I decided to drink Suntory whiskey, which didn't sit too well. After that place, headed to Cha Cha, and then headed home.
Thursday, 01.08:
Slept through my alarm and got to school a little bit late. Luckily, I only had one class that day. Prepared the 8th grade lesson and went home @ around 1800. Headed over to MatsuKiyo for some groceries and saw Yamazaki sensei there. I guess his wife called and told him to stop by and get groceries. But the highlight of the day was when I was walkin' through the wine/sho chu/nihonshuu section and saw 3 kanji that I know so well. It was the first time seein' Kubota @ MatsuKiyo. I saw it the other day @ Ito Yokado but it was 5500 yen (about $50!) but here, it was on sale for 2900 yen (about $26!). Since I didn't have that much money on me, I could only pick up 2 bottles. I'm plannin' on goin' again today to see if they have anymore left.
Came home, cooked up a feast. Had some salad w/sesame miso dressin', nama hamu (proscuitto), pan fried cod, miso shiru & fried potatoes. Yummy!
On TV, there was this interestin' program on that pit these chefs against each other in usin' a huge fryin' pan. Everything from jambalaya, fried rice to pancakes and bentos. The Japanese have some of the most interestin' programs. Then there was another program that would go to all these different ramen shops throughout Tokyo and the surroundin' areas. Really made me hungry for some ramen.
While doin' some research for my fantasy bball league, I put in the 12 girl orchestra from China which I really liked. They're sound is very similar to that of Vanessa Mae...but add 11 more different instruments.
Friday, 01.09:
Another day at school. Man, it's pretty frickin' cold in my apartment these days, especially in the mornin'. I keep the heater in my bedroom when I sleep, but when I wake up to go the bathroom or take a shower, right as I open the door to my kitchen, the temperature drops a good 20-25 degrees F.
Had some natto (the breakfast of champions) and some vegetable juice then quickly got ready and headed to work.
Just a regular day so far @ school. The day is goin' by pretty slow. I had to classes earlier, but now, takin' a break til 5th period. Gonna play bball today, my final practice before playin' with everybody in Shibuya.
Wellz...here's some stuff my mom sent me. Enjoy!
Kaz out...
------------------------------------------------------------------
10 WORDS THAT DON'T EXIST...BUT SHOULD
- Rated PG
1. AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks'trus) adj. Possessing the
ability to turn the bathtub tap on and off with your toes.
2. CARPERPETUATION (kar'pur pet u a shun) n. The act,
when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at
least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining
it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more
chance.
3. DISCONFECT (dis kon fekt') v. To sterilize the piece of
confection (lolly) you dropped on the floor by blowing on it,
assuming this will somehow 'remove' all the germs.
4. ELBONICS (el bon'iks) n. The actions of two people
maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.
5. FRUST (frust) n. The small line of debris that refuses to be
swept onto the dust pan and keeps backing a person across
the room until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under
the rug.
6. LACTOMANGULATION (lak' to man gyu lay' shun) n.
Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk container so
badly that one has to resort to the 'illegal' side.
7. PEPPIER (peph ee ay') n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant
whose sole purpose seems to be walking around asking diners
if they want fresh ground pepper.
8. PHONESIA (fo nee' zhuh) n. The affliction of dialing a
phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as
they answer.
9. PUPKUS (pup'kus) n. The moist residue left on a window
after a dog presses its nose to it.
10. TELECRASTINATION (tel e kras tin ay' shun) n. The
act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you
pick it up, even when you're only six inches away.
------------------------------------------------------------------
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's
the guy who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my
stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates." Here
are some more of his gems:
* I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
* Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back.
* Half the people you know are below average.
* 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
* 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
* A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel
so good.
* A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
* If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
* The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse
gets the cheese.
* I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before
we met.
* OK, so what's the speed of dark?
* How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
* If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously
overlooked something.
* Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
* When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong
lane.
* Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to
be lazy.
* Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
* I intend to live forever - so far, so good.
* If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
* Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet
engines.
* What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
* My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I
made your horn louder."
* Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
* If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you
tried.
* A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
* Experience is something you don't get until just after you
need it.
* To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from
many is research.
* The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
* The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to
catch up.
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST
* Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have
film
------------------------------------------------------------------
DARWIN AWARDS - 2003
Yes, it's the one we've all been waiting for ... the Darwin
Award 2003. The candidates have finally been released!
For those not familiar with the Darwin Award, It's an annual
honor given to the person who provided the Universal human
gene pool the biggest service by getting KILLED in the most
extraordinarily stupid way. As always, competition again this
year has been keen.
DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES
* In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck
and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first
through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.
* In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker,
who "totally zoned when he ran," accidentally jogged off an
100-foot-high cliff on his daily run.
* Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-
deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside
it. Beach-goers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun,
or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach
chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed,
burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on
the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw
their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, VA, but could
not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment
almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on.
Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
* In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in
Lompoc, CA, as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a
bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when
the long flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his
hands free) rammed into the base of his skull as he hit the
floor.
* According to police in Dahlonega, GA, ROTC cadet
Nick Berrena, 20, was stabbed to death in January by
fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was trying to prove
that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest Berrena was
wearing.
* Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in February in
Selbyville, Del, as he won a bet with friends who said he
would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his
mouth and pull the trigger.
* In February, according to police in Windsor, Ontario,
Daniel Kolta, 27, and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on
collision, thus earning a tie in the game of chicken they were
playing with their snowmobiles.
DARWIN AWARD HONORABLE MENTIONS
* In Guthrie, Okla, in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a
millipede with a shot from his 22 caliber rifle, but the bullet
ricocheted off a rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio
Martinez in the head, fracturing his skull.
* In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting
to clean out cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a
broom in favor of a propane torch and caused a fire that
burned the first and second floors of his house.
* Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township,
NJ, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-
stick of dynamite blew up in their car. While driving around
at 2 AM, the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss
it out the window to see what would happen, but apparently
failed to notice the window was closed.
RUNNER UP....
TACOMA, WA
Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends
when one of them said they knew a person who had bungee-
jumped from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle of
traffic. The conversation grew more heated and at least 10
men trooped along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 am.
Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered
that no one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had
continued drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil
of lineman's cable lay nearby. One end of the cable was
secured around Bingham's leg and the other end was tied to
the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the cable tightened
and tore his foot off at the ankle. He miraculously survived
his fall into the icy river water and was rescued by two nearby
fishermen. "All I can say, " said Bingham, "is that God was
watching out for me on that night." "There's just no other
explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never located.
AND THE WINNER....
PADERBORN, GERMANY
Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt fed his
constipated elephant, Stefan, 22 doses of animal laxative
and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the
plugged-up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the
keeper under 200 pounds of poop! Investigators say ill-fated
Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an
olive oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him.
"The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation
knocked Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his
head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant con-
tinued to evacuate his bowels on top of him" said flabber-
gasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. 'with no one
there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an
hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he
suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents
proving "shit happens."
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