Just got the new 250 hdd for my 360 :-) Just started the data transfer process which is gonna take around seven hours to complete (my 120 gb drive was about 80% full) Guess I won't be able to spend my day off with Mass Effect 2. - Really looking forward to trying out that new lightning gun heavy weapon that just showed up on the Cerberus network. Should've waited until tonight to install the HDD but I couldn't wait, and I didn't think the transfer would take seven hours! Hopefully it won't actually take that long.
True, I did see one shirt with strange japanese back in the states, it had the Kanji for "plate" all over it. Probably was supposed to be the kanji for blood, which is very similar.
@DanielJW: the girl with the FUCK shirt was about eight years old. And she was with her mother! People here really have a very limited knowledge of English, even though they study it all through school
I've been living in Japan for several years now and its been great, although I've noticed a few odd things. Here's a sample of what I've seen just this week:
1. Many (or most) Japanese people NEVER wash their blue jeans. People prefer too keep their jeans the originl, dark color. My friend told me yesterday that he has never washed his 2-year old Levi Jeans. This was also the topic of a talk show recently. People on the street they interviewed were actually shocked to lean that unwashed jeans are unsanitary. 2. $800 mushrooms $50 Christmas cake. 3. No hand soap or hand dryers in many public restrooms. Many people don't think soap is necessary. :( 4. Cafes for dogs 6. Cafes for cats 7. Restaurants where the people who handle the money also touch the food. Very common. Maybe its just me but seeing some old woman behind the counter counting money then go back to cutting vegetables is pretty gross. Not quite as bad as touching feces or something first but still pretty disgusting. 8. Vending machines for porn. ( hmmm, maybe a good idea come to think of it) 9. Vending machines for shoes (auto shoeser :) ) 10. Pubic Urination. A common, daily occurance in Osaka City for busy salarymen and taxi drivers. 11. A line of 100+ people at a local dept store bakery to buy cake. Another daily event (I hear its really good cake) 12. Guys carrying handbags. their OWN handbags. Quite fashionable for young men in Japan. 13. Knit shorts worn over stockings, bobby pins and hair bands. for guys, also quite the "in" thing nowadays. 14. Noodle sanwiches. 15. Clothes with strange English. I saw a litle girl wearing a shirt that read, " FUCK the fuck is beautiful way to say sexual intercourse"
I could add much more but I wanted to keep it to things I could remember seeing this week. :)
It took me about a year to master the basics, and about another three or so to be able to do such things as read a Japanese newspaper, talk with and exchange email easily with Japanese friends. I've been living in Japan for almost 10 years now. My wife can't speak English so its like having a Japanese lesson 24hrs a day, but TV is still not easy to understand
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