Thursday, July 31, 2008

Slips And Nylons For Older Women

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This city really has the power to alienate them. The spaces are reduced to a minimum, the time is eternally frantic. Have dinner becomes something to be done in the shortest possible time swallowing what is in front of him without ever looking up from the plate.

The city is a shapeless swarm of people, which winds between the massive street lighting, as in - a few - streets lit only by light of a few lanterns. It 'like being inside a giant anthill, where everyone is thrown together in search of their destination, the flow apparently seems random, but you feel that there is a design collective beyond appearance. As in an anthill, for the note.

Looking good the Japanese are very alone. In places like the subway, in restaurants as in pachinko, everyone will probably think about what to do next. It 's rare to see them turn down the street in pairs, or talk during the long trip underground. The metro in particular is the place for the nap - even standing - and those few who read manga do not sleep or spend hours hacking away at their mobile phones decaband-multifunctional-Extrapower, writing email, reading newspapers or watching movies. No wonder he had to put the anti-suicide barriers in the metro, since you threw like lemmings.

Indeed after a few days to observe this life also finds himself a Westerner to make their own gestures, almost without thinking: bow your head when you say "thanks" line up on the left side of the escalator to move people that invariably in a hurry, walking in the right line of the road. I do not know whether it is an unconscious impulse or is it a problem of induced conformation.

As for the heading " The strange habits of our Japanese friends " we can see that:

  • and 'no smoking on the street and outside, except in very few scattered for Smoking Areas city, but in public places (indoors) there is no ban, so all in fun sfumacchiano although there are old people and children at the next table
  • E 'extremely rude to blow your nose, but do not spit or to sgracchiare land-style players, and stop before one nostril then the other
  • The Japanese men seem to have extreme care of their hair, but the results are always more than painful. For this there are teased hair, Japan
  • The Japanese however, are terrified by the sun, so that many of them leave home, dress more in the middle of winter, with lots of gloves to above the elbow, umbrellas laced (even though the weather is cloudy), or gaudy goggles worthy of the most daring welder Pakistani
  • Never ask for information to a Japanese: you could wait for hours, while with one hand indicates the map, with another name a friend giving directions to get himself and another (?) search on the internet the way on Google Earth (all because they can not say that one does not know what you stracazzo).

the next episode!

Monday, July 28, 2008

Is Kathie Lee Diabetic



Well, time is running out, and then proceed with a quick list of what I did in my short experience here in Tokyo:

the evening of arrival are was conducted in Shibuya, one of the hearts pulsating light in the city evening this area is teeming with all sorts of characters, neon signs make the sky gray and the people rather than euphoric. The main square is a kind of Piccadilly Circus to the nth degree, with tall buildings and huge screens everywhere. Saturday but it was the turn of Asakusa with its reddish two temples and hundreds of people flock to inhale fumes from strange as strange cauldrons - 2 photos

and so on), others by choice (and to think that a piece of Ikea last century). In the evening we instead amusements with a couple of hours of fireworks in the middle of a half million Japanese who were ecstatic, "ooooh!" Every explosion - picture 2 - picture 3 from clipboard:
24/07 ; ; ;                                                                                                                                         h. 11:00

at London there is a "multi-faith room" idea is not interesting if it were only an empty room with a rug (or maybe it was just a different color carpet) and sedioline. From the series "if you want to entrust your god before starting the journey, arrangiatevi. Rightly, however, embedded in the wall there is a huge plasma screen (directly opposite the position of the followers) which follow one another in times for departures and gates, otherwise you run the risk that by going into a mystical crisis, one will forget.

However, apart from the purely materialistic aspect, is an idea after all fine, although I do not think there has ever entered anyone. In the 6 hours that will stay here to grow, sometimes I'll go check.

Among other things, the screener with the baggage X-ray machine check-in is Muslim. Incredibly, given the paranoia of these people after the bombing of London.

a beautiful thing.

- For the record, un’ora dopo sono tornato nella mistica stanza e sono stato subito smentito: c’erano due fedeli, uno probabilmente cristiano e una probabilmente di qualche altra religione, debitamente distanziati da   due file di posti. Ah, la multiculturalità (?!).  

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   h.11.30

Exhausted to ambulate on three floors of shops, banquets, stands for any in goods (one could even win a Ferrari 360 Modena or an Audi R8), decide to entrust to an elderly shop assistant shop for smokers, to solve the problems of my heuristic (and much stiffer) research.

His response was somewhat unusual:

"A pen? Just a pen? "* Gestures with hands pointing to a long, narrow cylinder *

" Oh yes, my plane exploded ... " "Ah, so only a pen ..." * confused * rather

Indeed the place was full of pens, there was also a stand of Mont Blanc as big as my house, and another little more small, and so on. The only thing missing was the simple and classic biro (perhaps the only ones that would be saved from the cabin pressure, not using gel or liquid ink).

In short, the moral of the story we have only a small shop in the famous Terminal 5 at Heathrow (which is undermining the Big Ben from the top attractions of the British, hence the saying London hilarious "all roads

lead to Terminal 5 "

and booklets that will show all the attractions of the place K), there are the normal ones - must be at least

-grip ultra, mega or super-design -sliding - the beauty and cost of 3 € (Exchange rate and no taxes). It will not work.

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To return to the present some considerations about these first 24 hours in Tokyo:

Tokyo is very gray and cold in most areas, in other c ' is so much light and so many people seem to Disneyland in high season

The Japanese have very specific posture, in addition to walk very bad boys always bring at 10.10 feet, females made up their legs converging from the knee down The police gloves Mickey Mouse and Goofy physique (to stay in the Disneyland theme) is not true that there are all these skyscrapers are all concentrated in one part of the city, apparently also not true that there is a pachinko at every street corner, but they are just noisy are depicted as regret the climate of Rome, and that's saying something

Here is a typical example of vigorous law enforcement officers Nipponese.