On Friday night I went out for the birthday of one of the foreigners who lives in the area. We went to an Indian restaurant and had real curry and stuff. Yum. May need to revisit the place I think. The restaurant is quite large by Japanese standards, the toilet was the talking point of the evening for some reason too. Only because it was so large, decorated a little too self consciously I thought, but everyone was raving. Funny the things that will catch people's attention here. I shared a bottle of wine with my neighbour's girlfriend and we had a private discussion of the type that only red wine seems to induce while everyone chatted around us. The table was long and skinny so I was cut off from conversation with those at the other end, which is something that always irks me about going out in large groups. Invariably I get stuck sitting opposite someone with whom I have little in common and/or little desire to talk to. Friday night was no exception. There was a small discussion at the end of the night about blogs, and how anything you write can be read by anyone who has the internet. So it is possible of course that someone I have never and will never meet knows about as much about me as all of you who I invite to read this. I do try and preserve the anonymity of those I mention in my blog, but for anyone who lives in the same area as me, it is very obvious who I am talking about when I relate certain events. This makes me a little reluctant to say what I think of certain people, even when it's an interesting story, because there is the chance the person themselves could read this. It doesn't matter if they know what I think of course, and if they have any amount of perception about them at all, they would be well aware that I am not a fan, but all the same it's just not very nice to have yourself spoken about negatively in a public areana. So what does that all mean for you? You miss out on a funny story.
After dinner we went out for some karaoke and ended up staying out until quite late actually. I didn't drink an awful lot. I seem to have acquired a taste for whiskey during my skiing trip though. Interesting. Whiskey is actually really cheap over here, I think because it's not that popular so they have to entice everyone to drink it by dropping the price a bit. Well, karaoke was fun, drunk people having a crack at loud songs always has a high amusement value. My neighbour kindly drove us home afterwards, there's no way a late night like that is possible unless you have someone to drive you home since the trains stop at just before midnight :( Saturday morning I slept in until about noon, it was great. It was kind of depressing wandering about Okayama in the arvo though, kind of "Oh, back to this again" feeling. And DOUBLY depressing having to work today. They are having some kind of stupid festival arrangement in the arvo as well which I am sure will prove to be extremely dull.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
it's odd becuase i keep commenting but i have serious issues with blogs and the numerous forms of communication on offer these days.
but anyway, enough complaining from me.
just thought i'd say - since we're on the topic of food - jap chocolate is ok (thank you very much), but there's something not quite right about it. i'll have to eat a bit more to work out what it is exactly, but it's not quite right - i know that much. (still very easy to eat and it is chocolate so there's nothing wrong with that - but once you become a chocolate snob like myself, and you know the difference between chocolates, then it's hard not to pick these things up).
is possibly bad knowing too much about the things we eat.
must keep eating
Post a Comment