The Bread.

So yesterday was the long anticipated, egg and onions in a bun with sausage and ketchup breakfast. I arrived took one look and decided it was a rice and soup morning. Unfourtunatly for some of the others they did not even get this choice because they came too late and all of the wierd sausage things were gone. So Alex asks the dorm mom if there is any toast this morning and upon realizing that Alex and Seth cant get any of the precious sausage concoction runs to the kitchen with unkown motives. She returns moments later with bags and bags of bread. Now no one really wants more then one piece of bread or one role but she then insists that we take it all to school for lunch. Then she brings out a bag full of the vile suasages, and some coffee drinks. She provided an incredible feast for us all. I unfortunatly used that days lunch time to go out for kaiten sushi, the same one I went to the night before, but I am sure it was a delicious bounty.... Oh yeah I put up some new pictures on webshots.

Yokohama.

      So today I went to Yokohama with Duy, and we later met up with Tomomi and Yuki. It was a good time, we went around all the sites in the city and then spent a good amount of time in the China town which was pretty sweet. I saw the restaurant of Iron Chef Chen Kenichi, I ate a dumpling the size of a small baby, and found a box advertising "hashed meat." I really started this post so I could talk about one thing. The ever present lamness of Japanese humor. On the way back from Yokohama on the train Duy asked Tomomi to tell us a Japanese joke. This stumped her for a while. She could not think of anything that resembled a joke. Eventually she came back with a little pun/worldplay which was basically the words for phone and hang up. It was not really a joke yet just a observation on how two words sounded the same in a slightly ironic manner. After a few minutes she came up with another attempt I shall now relate the joke that I have just heard I shall title it: "The mysterious stranger or Wha happen? Where's the fish?"
      So there are three men having a good time boiling some fish, when suddenly a man showed up with a big block of tofu. The man asked if he could just throw his block in with the other mens fish so he could cook his tofu. The men agreed and so the tofu boiled along with the fish. The men then chatted it up for a while until it was pretty obvious the food was most likely done. So the man pulls out his block of tofu and goes home to eat it. The other three look in the pot to pull out their fish and to their supprise, IT WAS ALL GONE?! How could that have happened? (give look to audience at this point of perplexion) Well... it turns out the fish was inside the tofu! .... .... ...
      yes thats the whole joke. That was what was told to me, and I was then assured that this joke was a true story. It's just pointless to try to explain what a joke is to a native japanese. The punchline to this story is almost painful but it is a clear example of the culture gap between Japanese humor and that of americans.

Greasers.

Sooo pretty packed weekend. Friday began with a trip back to the fabled Y's。なつかしかった！It was very strange being there. I said hi to the manager, sat down at the old table, and looked around. Mikey wasnt faking falatio with a korean, bryan wasnt double fisting beers, Ni wasnt attacking the fish head, it was all so strange and yet familiar. It was all new people and it was fun but somehow not the same. The food has had some great additions though. Afterwards I lead out everyone to the spot outside near the fountain for some kick back time. It was a good night. Saturday I went to the International Tokyo Anime Con at the Odaiba, Tokyo Big Sight. It was a pretty good anime con, I dunno if it was as good as the one in the Makurahi Messe but it was fun, too bad I missed the voice actors for Naruto I heard the kakashi voice guy was a baddass. After that I met up with Jon who moved to my floor while visiting from HK. We then went off to begin the all nighter of gorging. Jon in totall I think had 6 dinners. I was solicted for sex more times in that one night then I had been all semester. They would pull tricks to catch me off gaurd to. When we were in Shibuya this one girl dressed in normal tokyo attire approaches me and says excuse me in a very little voice. So thinking she needed some help or something I stop and ask here whats up.... then the "sekksu o suru" comes out, No thank you its okay. I rush us off and just yell out no thanks to the people coming after Jon and rush him off. It didnt get much better in Shinjuku and Rippongi. Sunday I was going to go to a Wang festivel but we slept in from the all nighter so we just went to Yoyogi, walked to harajuku looked at all the wierd goths and lolis and then walked through the park. The park as always had lots of awsome shit including some greasers impormptu dance off. Shirtless leather vest and pants guy was classic. Then off to Shinjuku for some dinner and back home. Also added some pics to the picture site finally.