Archive for the 'Things you find on the web' Category

Bring out the gimp

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Just saw Tarantino playing in a Softbank ad here on TV.

The plot is the following : Tara-chan (short for Tarantino) plays it tough, until his wife calls, on the new phone with embedded speaker from Sofbank, he runs home.
The white dog plays the Japanese father in every Softbank ad, god knows why.

Here where signs are images, most still mean nothing to me.

Monday, October 5th, 2009

After browsing this website, I still don’t know what this company does.
This is how bad my Japanese is.
Learning Japanese is about learning to cope with increased frustration, let me tell you that.
My conversation however is now almost as pointless as in French, which is a good sign. Everyone seems to politely enjoy my inacurate, linguistically [...]

Somewhere in this world, there must be a place for me

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

The Japanese are the people of Wa, of harmony.
Do not disrupt harmony. Ever.
Do not stand out of the crowd. Try to blend in as much as possible.
Respect the rules, respect the roles. The Japanese hate it when you try to ignore the rules.
Do things the way they should be done: take off your shoes inside [...]

Watching time go by

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Leaving today 11th of June.  Arriving tomorrow June 12 in Tokyo Japan. Will stay until March 2010.
I will try to post about what’s going on there on the internet, if my japanese is good enough to surf the local web.
In the meantime, let’s enjoy time pass by with the Uniqlo calendar. This makes me feel [...]