Feel Like It
July 05, 2003
Since everyone else has done so, I will create a reading masterpiece for your viewing, and sometimes sexual, pleasure.
I haven’t been updating about interesting things because almost nothing interesting happens in my little foreign life now. I’m actually glad for that because I’ve been through interesting times and I always just feel choked and angry and sad when I count all the jellybeans at the end of the night. I live my simple little English teacher life with my one and only and enjoy the simplicities that keep me grounded
I saw my first ever live baseball game in Japan. The Hanshin Tigers were playing the Chunichi Dragons and somehow Eri managed to buy tickets at the game when it was a sold out game. The baseball fields seem a little smaller than the North American counterpart but that’s the only thing that doesn’t measure up. The stadium was sold out as mentioned two sentences ago. That’s 50,000 people. About 5% of the stadium dressed in blue - the Chunichi colours. The rest were ALL Hanshin fans. Now the thing about them is, if you take 50,000 football (soccer) fans right out of the craziest, most rowdy countries (you know, England, Italy, France, etc etc), made them speak Japanese, take out the rioting, you’ll have Hanshin fans. They were making noise throughout the whole game. Every time a Tiger came up to bat, they sang a personalized song with their name in it (it was the same song all over but with different names). Everytime the Dragon’s pitcher was pulled, they sang some sort of “Sayonnara” song. It was one eye opening experience. The Tigers won 14-3 - the Tigers are kicking ass this season and they’re not taking names. One fella, Hiyama Something, hit a “cycle” - that is, 1 single, 1 double, 1 triple, and 1 homerun. I forgot what we North Americans call it - it might be “cycle” too
Tonight while coming home from watching the Matrix Reloaded, we heard a lot of noise and music coming from near my apartment. It turned out to be the local 29th Annual Suminoe festival, hosted right in the shitty soccer field about 1 minute away. It was essentially like those stupid Night Markets found in Chinatown but a lot more people. I swear the whole of Suminoe came out. There were a lot of stands that sold cheap food and drinks. I got a free fan and we bought small refreshments. Very fun - got to see a whole bunch of kids dressed in yukatas and kimonos.
Eri and I are planning a small vacation come September. We’re sort of thinking of going to Korea. It basically boils down to how much time we have and of course, how much moolah. I haven’t been saving money since coming here. Sucks. Come to think of it, I’ve never saved money in my life - I’ll always blow it on something stupid. I need to become less materialistic but it’s so damn hard when I live in the land of gadgets and aesthetics. The sad part is, I’m not even buying any gadgets - it’s just going out that’s draining. Blech
And that’s all I can think of right now.
