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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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Wednesday, July 10, 2002 |
 Breakfast Show Staple Notable weather
The weather is actually quite pleasant- strangely pleasant- today. There's a breeze to soften the heat, and it's not that humid. Altogether, almost tolerable. I wonder if it's anything to do with the typhoon?- presumably, the air around a typhoon is affected by the typhoon itself.
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200 access counts! And on Natto day too! Can things get any better?
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This lunchtime, Nagareda-kun went down to the Health Centre to talk to
someone about his blood sugar level (his health check showed something
abnormal, but the cause is realistically most likely to be the fact that
he got horribly drunk the night before the check). Anyway, no sooner had
he gone than someone came to see him, so I went to fetch him back. Well,
I found him straightaway and told him he had a visitor, but he didn't
move. So I told him again. And he still didn't move. So I told him
again... well, you get the picture. On about the fifth try, he left the
Health Centre, but when I wandered back to my office, I found him
sitting outside chatting to someone! By the time he got back, his
visitor had left!
Yagi-san in the Health Centre phoned up to suggest
I spoke to Nagareda-kun in English from now on...
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As befits Natto day, for lunch I ate... steak.
Actually, I like
natto a lot, but normally mixed with rice for breakfast. Somehow,
I couldn't fancy fermented soybeans- with or without rice- at lunch, and
in any case I'm not sure that there'd be anywhere to get such a dish in
Etajima. Natto is very much a product of the Kanto region; I ate
school lunch one day when there was natto, and some of the JMSDF
children who'd moved from the north were really happy, while some of the
children from Etajima, or those who'd moved from Kyushu etc., either
hated the stuff, or had never eaten it before. The children's reactions
were interesting to see...
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
moist hive discovers
catapult leering baggy
hostages detonate
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Today is also Natto no hi, or Natto day, at least here in
Etajima.
'Why today?' you might ask. Well, today is the seventh month
(seven can be pronounced na in Japanese), and the tenth day (can
be read to), so... na-to, hence Natto day.
A more obvious
question, though, might be 'What is natto?'. Well, put simply, it's
fermented soybeans. And no, to be honest, it doesn't look any better
than it sounds. It is, shall we say, an acquired taste...
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Today is 'Don't step on a bee day'.
Hmmm. Well then, Happy DSOAB day!
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Breakfast Show Staple Notable weather
The typhoon is definitely going to miss us (well, probably
definitely...). But even so, today is so mushi atsui that even
the Japanese people in the office are complaining. Oh well, at least the
air-conditioning was switched on early today!
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Updated: 8/1/03; 8:18:07 pm.
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