Wheels, Paneels And Scary Packaging
After 5 days of glorious laziness at home, writing and watching a ton of movies including "Beowulf And Grendel" from Iceland, "Die Hard 4.0" and also "Serenity," I had to return to work.
Teaching in Japan is not such a pain though I do feel that, sometimes, I am a live witness at my own autopsy. Often it is hard, maybe, for a man to understand the distress Sexual Harassment causes. Being a foreigner means the Schoolboys feel its ok to shove their fingers towards my anus or try to grab my balls as i walk by. Those are the extremes. Others just write on me with permanent marker or slap my arse. Well, after punching their lights out (in my dreams) things were a lot better and the classes went well. It seems a Word Search was the Holy Grail of Class Discipline.
After work it was time to go to the AEON shopping centre in Sennan-city to pick up some DVDs with Natsumi. We picked up her favourite Kira Kira Afro DVDs. This is two comedians, a woman in her 30s with terrible fashion choices and an older man who is good at acting angry. They seem to be funny; if only I could understand it more. The DVDs came with free calenders and packs of Playing Cards. Meanwhile my Cooper Temple Clause CD came with a free carrier bag... a nice yellow one from Tower Records.
After shopping for tome TimTams we made off through Rinku-Town, Izumisano and Kaizuka to the Bayside Mall in Kishiwada for dinner at our favourite Indian Restaurant. Just for a change (read - just as normal) I veered towards the Palak Paneer (Spinach and Cheese) while Natsumi went for the neon-lit Creamy Chicken Curry (Truth is; I made the name up). We then plumped for some Naans with a Mango Lassi each. The ever-charming waitress made little smiley faces in the Lassi for Natsumi and I. Her's had long hair, a cute little nose and small mouth. Mine had no hair and a big nose. The nose was spot on but let's hope the baldness is not a foreshadowing.
On the way back to the car we stopped off at a Pharmacy/Drug Store type place for some hand-cream and I came across this scary looking hand-cream. The women have no mouths. It reminds me of Japan's most famous Feminist Icon... Kitty-Chan. Yep, the national feminist icon has no mouth either... You read a lot into that if you wanted.
WRITING UPDATE:
Settled down at work to write some more stuff for the First Book of my Fantasy Trilogy and ended up writing an exciting scene from the Second Book. Was good to write again though. Blog.