9.06.2004

Really Funny Japanese Commercial

I was at work last night watching a World Cup Qualifier on J-Sports 1 on SkyPerfect and at halftime the funniest commercial I have ever seen came on tv.

They showed a girl at the Athens Olympics doing a gymnastics routine on top of that wide and long bar like thing and she did a bunch of backflips off of it etc and she got all 9's for her score. She was pumped. She did well. A few roses were thrown at her and a couple pictures taken. All in all a good showing.

Then they showed a white girl with blond hair and huge boobs come out in ponytails dressed like a schoolgirl with her shirt tied, sleeves rolled up, and wearing an impossibly short skirt. All she did was at first stretch her right leg by lifting it up onto the bar thingy. Then, with this seductive grin, she lifted leg up so the front of it was touching her chest and toes were pointing straight up. All of a sudden a million pictures were taken, roses thrown at her, and she got all 10's.

I have never laughed at a commercial so hard in my whole life. Japanese tv kicks ass haha.

Big Quake Down by Vin, Why My Family Sucks Ass...

There were 2 rather large quakes down southwest of Tokyo in the Tokai area of Japan. One a 6.9 and one a 7.4. They were centered off the coast of Mie Prefecture about 375 km from Tokyo. News reports said both were felt in Tokyo, neither myself nor my friends felt the second one...some of us, myself included, felt the first one though. Up here it was just a long quake, almost a minute. It was not very strong though. Down by Vin, in Nara, it was said to have been pretty strong.

This is the first quake I have seen trigger tsunamis since I moved to Japan. Even those assive quakes up in Hokkaido did not, to my memory, cause tsunamis.

Here is a news article that will tell more detail about it.

I love my family. They did not even call or so so much as email to see if I am ok. Almost every single other person I know that is here as a foreigner got an email at the very least to see if they were ok. I love my family, but they are so unaware of what is going on in the world around them. If I was in the states and my son lived in Japan I would constantly be reading news online or watching news on tv to make sure a big earthquake did not kill him. If I die in an earthquake I wonder if they would ever find out. Next time a big one hits Tokyo I am not even going to so much as email them to see if they even notice it happens, and then when they do and having not heard from me for a while maybe they will get worried enough to bother to so much as send me a one sentence email. Maybe then they will wake the fuck up.

I have not received one phone call, one visit, one birthday card, one care package from the states with things they think I might need/miss from anyone in my family since I moved to Japan except for my aunt Lori. I haven't heard from her since xmas though.

Seeing as how I am the person who always organized family get togethers and made sure I called everyone atleast once a week (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc...everyone) just to say hi and see what was new you would think they could at the very least email me. Don't get me started on my father's side of the family. They are all nice people...but some of them I have sent numerous emails to with no response. That's great huh? My cousin, who is a lawyer, asked me to keep a lookout for a position that would fit his particulur skillset in intellectual property law. I have emailed him a few well over three months ago. Not even a reply saying thank you. Last time I do that.

Everyone I know at the very least gets a phone call once in a while, if not once a week. I am not calling home or emailing anyone anymore. It obviously is a waste of my fucking time. I ask them for nothing because that is what I expect of them. I have proven it time and again.i am always there for everyone and no one is there for me except for my parents. Other families I know stick together and help eachother out. Mine infights, bickers, and gets hammered every xmas to the point that they can actually enjoy eachother's company.

People ask why I do not miss NY, there is a major part of your answer. I would rather die in a huge earthquake here in Japan then deal with them. I know it's fucked up, but so are they. I do not even need them to like me, just need them to show that they actually give a shit about me...you know, sort of how a real family is...