4.23.2004

Today's new odd search term with which my blog was found "oishi brand name bad translation " Oishi means tasty if translated into english...so how odd...even odder that my blog was found running this search...

Something crazy happened in N. Korea...about 3,000 people are killed and/or injured after two trains (one with gasoline, one with liquified petroleum gas) collided and exploded at a train station 15 or so miles from the chinese border...thats so sad..

also some more sad news..After spending the night at the bar with Miho and one of our friends we learned that his best friend has died. They were drugged with something that they don't remember taking (police found heroine in their blood). The guy who died was such a nice guy. We only met him twice but he always was happy, buying everyone drinks, etc...people that nice deserve a better fate than that. He died at the doorstep of the guy who we spent the night drinking with last night. The guy who lived was unconscious in the hospital for a few days and he had just gotten out a few days ago and was supposed to go to jail yesterday on drug posession charges when police, in a somewhat diplomatic move, gave him back his passport and said he was free to go. He does however still have to answer a few questions about the circumstances surrounding the drugs. He is not a druggie...so as far fetched as this story might sound...it is all true...or else he'd be in jail right now.

The other guy will be missed