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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Thursday, June 6, 2002 |
 Went to the convenience store not long ago (for an evening ice-cream, but that's beside the point). In the queue next to me, there was a takkyubin driver; this was obvious because he was still wearing his uniform. But he drove off in a huge, new, very expensive looking car...
Now I don't imagine that delivery van drivers earn huge amounts of money (although they should, just for having the guts to even attempt to squeeze their vans down the streets so narrow you could hardly lie down across them- but that's a different story), so how come the big car?
The fact is that this is not an uncommon phenomenon in Japan. Almost everyone has a new car, and more often than not it's absurdly big (for example, why do people without a family need those huge tanks that hold about thirty people and a couple of shire horses?), yet their jobs aren't the sort that should come with a salary that permits such vehicular extravagance. I wonder where the money comes from? And, more to the point, I wonder how I can channel some of it in my own direction?
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On the subject of the rainy season, obviously it's humid. Or, to be accurate, 'more humid', since it's already far too mushi-atsui.
But it makes you wonder why the World Cup was scheduled for this time of year; even with my limited football knowledge I've noticed how the European teams tire in the second half of the match. Could this be a cunning plan favouring those countries whose players are used to this humidity...?
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Great. Just wonderful.
It was on the news this evening that the tsuyu, or rainy season, is scheduled to start in this area next Tuesday. So just a month or so of feeling like you're in a shower with all your clothes on, 24 hours a day.
And by the way, it really is 'scheduled'; the date's probably been fixed for years...
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Saw my first lizard of the year this evening. A very kawaii little thing, on the wall of a house.
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