Trouble in Paradise (Kinda...)
As I'm still on my economy drive till I get paid I brought my own food for lunch into the office, to make it I only required some boiling hot water! Simple except when I came to get water - we have one of those kettle things that you push on the top to get the water out - when I pushed the button the kettle wobbled a little and a whole roach family came scuttling out! Icky I have to say. It was my first encounter with real dirt in Japan and to be honest cockroaches are really manky animals no wonder there are so many nothing with any sense would want to eat them.
The second encounter with problems of the dirty kind came the other day when we discovered our loo leaking all over the floor. This is not an ordinary loo, it has an ingenious device where a little sink is incorporated into the cistern so the water that fills it up can first be used to wash ones hands! Genius, except now it wont stop flowing and so our floor is wet!
On the culinary front I have made an important discovery, the Japanese equivalent of the batter burger - fried octopus balls... Ummm... Not balls as in testicles just balls of fried battered octopus. They are greasy and fatty and have a surprise in the middle - fantastic! Of course being Japan the batter is a little more sophisticated but still.
Although we work at the weekends the working week seems pretty short, I think its because as my days of are in the middle of the week but I still think of Saturday/Sunday as the weekend the week sort of falls into two halves. Uhuh? Doesn't make much sense I know but its a complicated theory.
Flights to other Asian country are dirt cheap you can get to Hong Kong for 30,000 yen about 130 pounds, apparently its much cheaper to travel around Asia than within Japan hopefullyｙ I'll be able to mix it up a bit.
Talking of travel I'm getting a free mind trip to Dublin at the moment as I'm tuned into TrinityFM on the Web.
Well hope all are well,
Roger
The second encounter with problems of the dirty kind came the other day when we discovered our loo leaking all over the floor. This is not an ordinary loo, it has an ingenious device where a little sink is incorporated into the cistern so the water that fills it up can first be used to wash ones hands! Genius, except now it wont stop flowing and so our floor is wet!
On the culinary front I have made an important discovery, the Japanese equivalent of the batter burger - fried octopus balls... Ummm... Not balls as in testicles just balls of fried battered octopus. They are greasy and fatty and have a surprise in the middle - fantastic! Of course being Japan the batter is a little more sophisticated but still.
Although we work at the weekends the working week seems pretty short, I think its because as my days of are in the middle of the week but I still think of Saturday/Sunday as the weekend the week sort of falls into two halves. Uhuh? Doesn't make much sense I know but its a complicated theory.
Flights to other Asian country are dirt cheap you can get to Hong Kong for 30,000 yen about 130 pounds, apparently its much cheaper to travel around Asia than within Japan hopefullyｙ I'll be able to mix it up a bit.
Talking of travel I'm getting a free mind trip to Dublin at the moment as I'm tuned into TrinityFM on the Web.
Well hope all are well,
Roger
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