12
Dec

My wife’s birthday is December 27th.  It’s now the 12th and I have no idea what I’m going to get her for a present.  I told her that I’m ordering her a monkey for her birthday present.  This monkey:

Now, I’m not sure why she would believe for one minute that I am buying her a monkey but she totally did.  She asked where it lives now and I said Ohio.  It’s name is Miles.

She was quite for a minute, then started freaking out.

She said there is no room for a monkey in our apartment, and where would it go to the bathroom?  I offered to build a “monkey box” next to my side of the bed so it would have a place to live, and to toilet train it.

Then she went to the computer and translated this bit about monkeys from a Japanese website and sent it to me:

Problem of infectious disease
It is a problem of the infectious disease that wants you to know the first first when thinking the monkey is kept. The monkey hangs to the same infectious disease as us by the same primates as man. For instance, cold. Man’s cold doesn’t infect the pet of the hamster and the rabbit, etc.However, it infects the monkey.

Moreover, monkey’s sickness might infect man as a ratio though infecting the monkey from man is more. Might mutually move the sickness, a hygiene side, a healthy side or either management becomes important, too. However, because it is not a living thing made as a pet like the dog, the monkey is difficult in management on the hygiene side.

She was also worried that Miles the monkey would be sad living in our small apartment and that if we had to give him up sometime in the future he would miss us.  “You have to think of his feelings too” she said.  She’s very thoughtful.

Eventually I agreed to cancel the order on “Miles” and yes, I’m sure he wont be upset that he can’t live with us after all.

16
Nov

It’s a popular children’s song in Japan, and it’s all about breasts. Here’s the music video and lyrics with translation.

『おっぱいがいっぱい』
(a lot of chests)

ぼくがのんで いもうとものんだのに
I drank it. My sister also drank it.

ちっちゃくならない ママのおっぱい
But mother’s chest that doesn’t become small

おふろのなかで さわらせてもらったら
I was going to touch it in the bath.

空気たりない ゴムマリみたい
It’s by not sufficing of air like the rubber ball.

ぼくがのんで いもうとものんだから
’cause I drank it, my sister also drank it.

おっぱいがでない ママのおっぱい
Milk became it from mother’s chest.

あまかったのか 思い出せない
It was sweet or is not possible to recall it.

たくさんのんだはずなのに へんね
It is strange though should have drunk a lot.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

うれしいな さわりたい
I am glad, and wanna touch woman’s chest.
ぼくがのんで いもうとものんだのに
I drank it. My sister also drank it.

おっきなままだね ママのおっぱい
But mother’s chest doesn’t change like being big.

ひとさしゆびで ちょこんとおしたら
It was lightly pushed by the forefinger.

びっくりするほど やわらかだった
It was very soft surprisingly.

ぼくがのんで いもうとものんだから
’cause I drank it, my sister also drank it.

おっぱいがでない ママのおっぱい
Milk became it from mother’s chest.

もひとり赤ちゃん 生れるときは
Is another baby born

また出るようになるのかな ふしぎ
and does milk go out? So, wonder!!

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

きれいだな だいすきさ
It’s very beautiful so. I’m lovin’ it.
おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

おっぱいが いっぱい
a lot of chests.

きれいだな だいすきさ
It’s very beautiful so. I’m lovin’ it.

04
Nov

There’s a good 1-cup sake blog that I follow: bq69 collectibles.  It’s in Japanese so I don’t understand what it says until I translate it using Google Translate, but it’s a great blog.  He rates cup sake from all over Japan and takes detailed pictures of each cup that he reviews.  Here’s how he takes pictures of the cups:

He’s recently attended the a sake cup tasting in Japan and bloged about it (english)

05
Oct

When I have an interesting or delicious looking dish I like to take a picture of it.  Thanks to this new website from Japan your food pics will look even better.  The name of the website is OISHIKUN HENKAN, meaning yummy converter.

Go ahead and upload that lobster tempura JPEG and the yummy converter will spice it right up for you, adjusting the contrast and making it more vivid.  The website asks that you only upload pictures that you’ve taken yourself, and only pictures of food.

via Asianjin