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Hmm, I honestly think that Japanification has screwed up my concept of prices. I remember in the US looking at the prices of cospa costumes and gawking in horror of the price... Anyways, yesterday I stumbled across Nagoya`s local cospa and while looking at the costumes thinking that they were expensive, but not unreasonably so... lol- I guess I`m just desensitized when a can of mandarin oranges costs 300 yen, 3 stalks of asparagus for 150 yen, can of coke for 140 yen, cd for 3000 yen, bus fare is 200 yen etc... (as a reference, current exchange is 1$ = 118 yen) Law of doubling in prices. <--remembers the Japanese commenting on how cheap the Disneyland Hotel was @_@... it`s true though, lol.
I got back the paper for Japanese Business the other day. And while I`m not complaining (paper: A, presentation: A) I was a bit suprised by the comments. Like when I was talking about the use of spiders as a natural pesticide it was underlined and the teacher wrote "I hate spiders" It`s making me wonder if maybe the professor did this to just make it look like he cared enough to write in depth comments but knew that no one actually reads their comments (except for me, as I can`t write worth a "!#&, so need every bit of help I can get)
hahah, google japan has its ad banner space taken up by an ad for Ayumi Hamasaki`s ballad cd. It`s funny because I could imagine the same one being used as an actual name banner for a j-pop fansite. I don`t know what else is on that cd, but I heard her cover (I think) of a graduation song on the radio and it was pretty and sad. I may look into it, but I doubt my happy CD rental shop will have a copy availble for a while as it just came out yesterday. Also in new releases is FFX-2 today. The convenience stores that were taking pre-orders were unusually crowded today, and I suspect that is part of it. Really, the concept of selling video games, CDs, cell phones etc at convenience stores is just so ingenious. I guess the reason it wouldn`t work in the US is that since everyone drives, even a store "on the way" requires finding parking and stopping your journey- as opposed to being forced to walk by several each day. Interesting cultural adaptation. On the other hand, they are probably the only convenient things around. Post offices are nice but they are only open until 5 M-F, banks are the worst and only open from 9 until 3 weekdays. most supermarkets close around 8 or so. No 24 hour atms either.
Well, there a whole lot of rant about nothing in particular. Forgot my camera for ikebana, ~again~
I got back the paper for Japanese Business the other day. And while I`m not complaining (paper: A, presentation: A) I was a bit suprised by the comments. Like when I was talking about the use of spiders as a natural pesticide it was underlined and the teacher wrote "I hate spiders" It`s making me wonder if maybe the professor did this to just make it look like he cared enough to write in depth comments but knew that no one actually reads their comments (except for me, as I can`t write worth a "!#&, so need every bit of help I can get)
hahah, google japan has its ad banner space taken up by an ad for Ayumi Hamasaki`s ballad cd. It`s funny because I could imagine the same one being used as an actual name banner for a j-pop fansite. I don`t know what else is on that cd, but I heard her cover (I think) of a graduation song on the radio and it was pretty and sad. I may look into it, but I doubt my happy CD rental shop will have a copy availble for a while as it just came out yesterday. Also in new releases is FFX-2 today. The convenience stores that were taking pre-orders were unusually crowded today, and I suspect that is part of it. Really, the concept of selling video games, CDs, cell phones etc at convenience stores is just so ingenious. I guess the reason it wouldn`t work in the US is that since everyone drives, even a store "on the way" requires finding parking and stopping your journey- as opposed to being forced to walk by several each day. Interesting cultural adaptation. On the other hand, they are probably the only convenient things around. Post offices are nice but they are only open until 5 M-F, banks are the worst and only open from 9 until 3 weekdays. most supermarkets close around 8 or so. No 24 hour atms either.
Well, there a whole lot of rant about nothing in particular. Forgot my camera for ikebana, ~again~