K-isms for today

me: "what are you doing?" (K is in the other room, and it is very quiet)
K : "anything"

(said in a whiney voice) "my nose is running away"

me: "let's call nanna" (meaning on skype)
K: (yells out in loudest voice) NANNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Togan(冬瓜） to go

Finally got around to doing something with (well, at least half of )the togan. I now know why it is called Wax Gourd - it had a really waxy feeling skin to it.

Anyway, on tonight's menu:

chinese style togan with crab (冬瓜のカニあんかけ)

青梗菜(Shanghai Pak Choi*) in oyster sauce

egg roll

salmon cutlets

rice

asari clam miso soup

K ate a bowl of the crab ankake over rice, then 2 bowls of clam miso soup!! She is eating so much at the moment, must be a growth spurt??

After dinner, we went for a quick family walk to the supermarket/department store. I was actually looking for a long sleeve rash guard in case we go to the beach again this weekend, but couldn't find anything suitable. Came home with 3 singlets, tho....one I bought to give to my friend back home. It has "Born to be a stripper" on it. I wanted to get the "porn star" one, but they only had S size (which probably would have fit, but as she is a bit taller than me, it may have been riding up around her ribs! lol). I love taking back wierd Japlish t-shirts for her. Talking of which, I saw a girl today with this written on her shirt:

"Give peace the chance"

I know it is not as bad as some of the stuff out there, but it did make me giggle.
It would be like a shirt written in Japanese with the は and が mixed up I guess. Oh, and was half listening to some show on TV today, where they were talking about how kanji is really popular o/s, but how sometimes you see people with tatoos on their arms that say things like "baka" ... They were all laughing about it, and how they should get someone to check what it says! I really wanted to ring up the show and mention how many times A DAY we see freaky Japlish stuff everywhere but they wouldn't get it I am sure.

* gee I really love wiki. A search for chingensai on my online dictionary came up with "pak choi" but wiki comes through with the goods: Chingensai is not just any pak choi, it is a Shanghai pak choi! Learning something new every day!

It's Business Time

"You know when I am down to my socks, it's business time, that's why they call them "business socks!"



Thanks for reminding me about this great song, Sarah@mommyinjapan.

Oh, and tonight is Wednesday night!
wink, wink, nudge, nudge!

Flight of the Conchords

Tuesday, but no playroup since we are on summer holidays. I thought that would mean an extra day for us to be pro-active around the house, but it basically meant:

a morning of some paper pushing at the city hall

a walk with R, with K also walking. Actually, this is a big thing, as usually I strap K into the ergo for our walks. I was being brave/stupid to try walking them both. K holds on to R's leash handle, but I actually hold on to R with the proper leash. The walking part was fine until we got around the corner to the park - K wanted to play. Sure, a few trips on the slide, and swing, I am happy to go with that, but trying to get K to come home, mini tantrum time ensures. *sigh*

quick trip to closest supermarket to buy milk. Which results in major tantrum when K refuses to hold my hand to cross the 4-lane main road. I carry her football hold over the shoulder, with her screaming all the way. Finally screams herself into an apology "I'm sorry mummy" before passing out for nap

attempt to make a milo slice, finding out only after I melted the butter that I have no milo left....quick about face to make a batch of anzac biccies and an anzac slice (since I had already greased the pan too, lol)

quick trip to next closest supermarket (this time with K on back as it doubled as an afternoon walk for R) to buy onions for dinner

yummy dinner of hot pasta salad with s/p chicken wings, and french stick

evening walk to park again, this time with K in pram

Actually, the highlight of my day happened while I was folding the washing....I use it as my special time to watch English programs online. Since I have totally worn out all seasons of Private Practice, GA, and Samantha Who?, I was searching for a new show - hard when the tv show titles all mean nothing to me as I am so out of the loop! But I did come across a show that a friend of mine introduced to me a year or so ago......and the episode from Season 2 I watched today was just (WARNING: possible accent mocking about to occur) "ixcellint" for two reasons:
1) because I now know why men stand AROUND the dance floor rather than on it at clubs and
2) because I realised how lucky I am to have NZ friends who are not ashamed to be friends with a little aussie girl like me. (and no, I don't have your purse)

Flight of the Conchords: (about a NZ duo trying to make it in NY)
I think these guys are soooo funny, rotflmao stuff. I am putting a disclaimer on tho, that it is a bit rude (like the "too many dicks on the dancefloor" song that explains (1) above), so watch at your own risk, and it is a bit wierd at first, what with them breaking into song all the time (I guess it could be called a musical sitcom?), but I still think it is just ace.

a funny from K

K has had a bit of a cough and sniffles the last few days, which I think is related to having the fan on at night. Anyway I had to laugh at something she just said, when her nose was sore, probably from me trying to wipe it all the time with tissues.

She said "hana itai (hana is sore)"
then without missing a beat, she said "taichi itai(taichi is sore)"

hana means nose in Japanese....

but hana and taichi are also the names of a friend's kids!!!

Seems K is already on her way to a long career in 親父ギャグ (corny jokes)

grateful....

couldn't resist this.
I just love the shirt the "onesan" on K's favourite morning tv show was wearing today (bit hard to catch in a photo though...)
Great message for all the kiddies, to remember to always be grateful, I guess?

Grateful Dead

giggling over bananas

was wondering why K was so quiet while I was writing that post, but put it down to her just being a good girl......

Just found her sitting on the couch, eating a banana.

I never gave her a banana.

I don't know where she got it from.

But she managed to peel it and is chomping away happily now.

My stomach hurts from laughing.

e-mail from dad

My dad never sends emails. Well, that's not completely true. He sometimes sends emails that go a bit like this:

WE TRIED TO RING YOU BUT YOU WEREN'T THERE.
LOVE DAD

Yep, only conveying the main points, and always in block letters. I get a headache reading them! lol.
So imagine my shock when I found this little beauty sitting in my inbox this morning. I didn't know my dad even knew what forwarding meant, or how to do it. hehe. Had to share:

Fwd:<Rural Australian Computer Terminology

A bit of Aussie culcha.

LOG ON: Adding wood to make the barbie hotter.
LOG OFF: Not adding any more wood to the barbie.
MONITOR: Keeping an eye on the barbie.
DOWNLOAD: Getting the firewood off the ute.
HARD DRIVE: Making the trip back home without any cold tinnies.
KEYBOARD: Where you hang the ute keys.
WINDOW: What you shut when the weather's cold.
SCREEN: What you shut in the mozzie season.
BYTE: What mozzies do.
MEGABYTE: What Geraldton mozzies do.
CHIP: A bar snack.
MICROCHIP: What's left in the bag after you've eaten the chips.
MODEM: What you did to the lawns.
LAPTOP: Where the cat sleeps.
SOFTWARE: Plastic knives & forks you get at Red Rooster.
HARDWARE: Stainless steel knives & forks - from K-Mart.
MOUSE: The small rodent that eat's the grain in the shed.
MAINFRAME: What holds the shed up.
WEB: What spiders make.
WEBSITE: Usually in the shed or under the verandah.
SEARCH ENGINE: What you do when the ute won't go.
CURSOR: What you say when the ute won't go.
YAHOO: What you say when the ute does go.
UPGRADE: A steep hill.
SERVER: The person at the pub who brings out the counter lunch.
MAIL SERVER: The bloke at the pub who brings out the counter
lunch.
USER: The neighbour who keep's borrowing things.
NETWORK: What you do when you need to repair the fishing net.
INTERNET: Where you want the fish to go.
NETSCAPE: What the fish do when they discover the hole in the
net.
ONLINE: Where you hang the washing.
OFFLINE: Where the washing end's up when the pegs aren't strong
enough.

cow cow

my friends left for the uk this morn,k's asleep, J's out with the boss for after work dinner and drinks, and there's a 3 hr Red Carpet special on tv now!

red carpet

on now!

the culprit

there is like a whole gang of them:


and they seem to think my house is a luxury golf course!

only in japan?

umbrella vending machine @ train station!

ROFLMAO (or at least giggling)

Here are the Japanese comedians that still get me going:

* Fujisaki fleamarket "ra-ra-ra-rai"
* O-pa-pi. Yeh, I do like Kojima Yoshio!
* Hiking Walking. The guy with the long hair in red underpants who does his "super illusion", which is him downing a bottle of coke in one go, then reciting all the train stations on the yamanote line without burping. He always burps after about 3 stations. It gets me everytime.
* Tokyo-03. There are 3 of them.
* Taka and Toshi. Best real life experience with this was when I was coming out of the city hall, and a group of young-ish guys (I think they were fire fighters) were going in. After I walked past one of them, I heard him turn to his mates and say "欧米か？" I had to giggle.
* Nishioka Sumiko (da yo~!)
* Zen. These are a bit of a favourite at the moment. J doesn't seem to like them that much, but I think they are v. funny.

ha-ha-ha

Japanese お笑い comedy. I admit, I LIKE it, I LIKE it a lot.
And you would never be at a loss for something to watch on tv, as it is such a お笑いブーム (comedy boom) now, or so they have been saying for the last few years....
Just in the last 2 hours (from 7pm tonight) there have been about 20 comedians on all sorts of shows. They are EVERYWHERE. And, of course, in true japanese style, they come (and go) in intense waves. It seems the newest favourite of the crowds is "Edo", Edo Harumi, the 40-ish year old lady who dances around giving the thumbs-up saying "Guuuuuuuuuuu".
Tonight is a special list - the list of all the Japanese comedians that I don't like, or just don't get:

1) 桜塚やっくん. He dresses up as a toughie J high school girl.Ok, I thought he was interesting at first, but he is still around, (though probably only on エンタの神様　" The God of Entertainment, Sat 10pm). And the same act is wearing VERY thin in my mind.....
2)フランチェ He dresses up like Frankenstein and when the voice over asks him if he can do something, he says "いいよ"
3） umm, aaah, hmmmm. Ok I just realised something. Even though there are a lot of 笑い芸人 that I don't like, it is probably BECAUSE I don't like them that I haven't even paid enough attention to remember their names! Therefore, this list is pretty useless. I think tomorrow I might do a list of the comedians I actually like!