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This little piggy went to...
This is my newest addition to my apartment:
You are probably thinking, "Aww, a cute little black piggy."
Actually, this is an ANGRY ELECTRIC DISPENSER OF CHEMICAL INSECT GENOCIDE.
Or something like that. It's the 電池でノーマット 90日用 蚊とり黒ブタ, which basically means it is supposed to dispense a chemical into the air that will keep bugs away, or kill them, or both, I'm not really sure. We'll see how well it works. I have seen a bunch of little flying bugs in my apartment lately and I'm not too happy about it, so I figured it was time to take drastic measures. Hence, the pig. Heat the pig. Ziggy ziggy ziggy zig.
That aside, this afternoon I went up to Saitama Shintoshin and watched the Hana Yori Dango Final movie. Since it was Wednesday, which is "Ladies Day", the movie was only 1000 yen instead of the normal 1800 yen for me. But, the mall was unfortunately PACKED with ditzy Japanese women, which makes sense, but I was kind of hoping that maybe at least in the afternoon I could have a nice relaxing time, get lunch at Kua'Aina, etc. But no. Lunch took longer than usual due to being crowded, so I was 5 minutes late to the movie, which means I arrived in the midst of previews (yeah, the new Ghibli movie, whatever-the-heck-PONIO PONIO PONIO PONIO is coming out this weekend, but I'm not sure I care).
The Hana Yori Dango Final movie itself could be pretty much summed up as such:
Domyouji and Makino: We're getting married! Hooray!
Domyouji's mom: I am suddenly inexplicably not a complete bitch, and I'm giving you this super expensive tiara to wear at your wedding, Makino.
Mysterious Ninja Man: Oh NO you aren't, I'm stealing that thing. Whee.
Domyouji and Makino: Crap, we better go on a trip halfway around the world to recover it!
F4: And we're coming with you! Las Vegas looks like fun!
Akira and Soujiro: Except we seem to have become merged into "those other two dudes in F4" again. Goddamnit.
Fujiki Naohito: I am really cool, and apparently I have fallen into this movie by way of being Shigeru's boyfriend. Also, I make things complicated for them in Las Vegas and in Hong Kong. Especially, I am going to make Makino have second thoughts about this wedding.
Mysterious Ninja Man: And now that they recovered the tiara through this weird auction house in Hong Kong, and are being a bickering couple again, I am going to drug those two lovebirds and leave them on a desert island!
Makino: OH GOD THIS DESERT ISLAND SUCKS
Domyouji: This isn't so bad. I get to be all alone with Makino on a desert island, and I get to go swimming every day, and all this other stuff. I could get used to this...
Plot Device: WE MUST MAKE THEM FALL IN LOVE. LET'S SEND A STORM, A BEAR, AND SOME OTHER STUFF, AND EVENTUALLY AFTER THE AUDIENCE GETS BORED OF THIS DESERT ISLAND, THERE WILL BE A CUTE SCENE WHERE EVERYONE GOES AWWWW.
Makino: And as in every other incarnation of Hanadan, for whatever unknown reason, I decide that I am really in love with this egotistical retard after all.
Mysterious Ninja Man: And then I bring them back to Tokyo for the wedding!
Domyouji's Mom and F4: And it turns out this whole stolen tiara deal was all... er... all a big setup and plot device, because otherwise there wouldn't be a movie.
Everyone else: Wedding! And cameos from almost everyone from the TV series!
Audience: Happy ending, thank god. Oh, wait, did you just say Makino is pregnant? THIS MOVIE IS CALLED HANA YORI DANGO FINAL, YOU BETTER NOT BE SETTING UP FOR A SEQUEL.
After the movie, I went back to work. I stopped at the bakery to get some bread to eat for dinner, and arrived back at work at 4:15pm. And my 10-year-old boy student was standing on our doorstop looking very confused, because it was closed, because I am the only person working there today, and I was out at the movie. Keep in mind his class starts at FIVE OCLOCK. Hence getting back at 4:15 should be plenty of time, but didn't I mention that he tends to show up really early and make it my problem to babysit him?
The kids class went ok though I guess. It was review of the last chapter, which involved money, and kids like money, especially when the money also involves me "selling" them prizes like Stitch pencils and toys, and candy. They also played my vocab color boardgame that I invented a few weeks ago and seemed to enjoy it.
Anyway, I guess today was an okay day. After work I played one round of Pop'n (sight-read and passed a level 28 for the first time ever, but I think it was a fluke), and then I went to the supermarket and got soda, and cute piggies disguised as bug killers, and a buncha Bikkuriman snacks, which I have been eating lately so I can collect the Japanese Baseball stickers that come inside them; it's my latest bad habit, to take over for Calbee chips. I ended up taking the last 4 snacks in a box, so I also took the empty box. Explaining to the cashier that I wanted an empty box was more difficult than you'd think, but eventually she got the idea and was like "I do not know why you want this box that should go into the trash, but go ahead."
Also big feature interview in Shukan Baseball this week about Kazuhito Tadano. But it was mostly about him throwing the eephus pitch. Still, I am all ♥ Tadano, so it's all good.
You are probably thinking, "Aww, a cute little black piggy."
Actually, this is an ANGRY ELECTRIC DISPENSER OF CHEMICAL INSECT GENOCIDE.
Or something like that. It's the 電池でノーマット 90日用 蚊とり黒ブタ, which basically means it is supposed to dispense a chemical into the air that will keep bugs away, or kill them, or both, I'm not really sure. We'll see how well it works. I have seen a bunch of little flying bugs in my apartment lately and I'm not too happy about it, so I figured it was time to take drastic measures. Hence, the pig. Heat the pig. Ziggy ziggy ziggy zig.
That aside, this afternoon I went up to Saitama Shintoshin and watched the Hana Yori Dango Final movie. Since it was Wednesday, which is "Ladies Day", the movie was only 1000 yen instead of the normal 1800 yen for me. But, the mall was unfortunately PACKED with ditzy Japanese women, which makes sense, but I was kind of hoping that maybe at least in the afternoon I could have a nice relaxing time, get lunch at Kua'Aina, etc. But no. Lunch took longer than usual due to being crowded, so I was 5 minutes late to the movie, which means I arrived in the midst of previews (yeah, the new Ghibli movie, whatever-the-heck-PONIO PONIO PONIO PONIO is coming out this weekend, but I'm not sure I care).
The Hana Yori Dango Final movie itself could be pretty much summed up as such:
Domyouji and Makino: We're getting married! Hooray!
Domyouji's mom: I am suddenly inexplicably not a complete bitch, and I'm giving you this super expensive tiara to wear at your wedding, Makino.
Mysterious Ninja Man: Oh NO you aren't, I'm stealing that thing. Whee.
Domyouji and Makino: Crap, we better go on a trip halfway around the world to recover it!
F4: And we're coming with you! Las Vegas looks like fun!
Akira and Soujiro: Except we seem to have become merged into "those other two dudes in F4" again. Goddamnit.
Fujiki Naohito: I am really cool, and apparently I have fallen into this movie by way of being Shigeru's boyfriend. Also, I make things complicated for them in Las Vegas and in Hong Kong. Especially, I am going to make Makino have second thoughts about this wedding.
Mysterious Ninja Man: And now that they recovered the tiara through this weird auction house in Hong Kong, and are being a bickering couple again, I am going to drug those two lovebirds and leave them on a desert island!
Makino: OH GOD THIS DESERT ISLAND SUCKS
Domyouji: This isn't so bad. I get to be all alone with Makino on a desert island, and I get to go swimming every day, and all this other stuff. I could get used to this...
Plot Device: WE MUST MAKE THEM FALL IN LOVE. LET'S SEND A STORM, A BEAR, AND SOME OTHER STUFF, AND EVENTUALLY AFTER THE AUDIENCE GETS BORED OF THIS DESERT ISLAND, THERE WILL BE A CUTE SCENE WHERE EVERYONE GOES AWWWW.
Makino: And as in every other incarnation of Hanadan, for whatever unknown reason, I decide that I am really in love with this egotistical retard after all.
Mysterious Ninja Man: And then I bring them back to Tokyo for the wedding!
Domyouji's Mom and F4: And it turns out this whole stolen tiara deal was all... er... all a big setup and plot device, because otherwise there wouldn't be a movie.
Everyone else: Wedding! And cameos from almost everyone from the TV series!
Audience: Happy ending, thank god. Oh, wait, did you just say Makino is pregnant? THIS MOVIE IS CALLED HANA YORI DANGO FINAL, YOU BETTER NOT BE SETTING UP FOR A SEQUEL.
After the movie, I went back to work. I stopped at the bakery to get some bread to eat for dinner, and arrived back at work at 4:15pm. And my 10-year-old boy student was standing on our doorstop looking very confused, because it was closed, because I am the only person working there today, and I was out at the movie. Keep in mind his class starts at FIVE OCLOCK. Hence getting back at 4:15 should be plenty of time, but didn't I mention that he tends to show up really early and make it my problem to babysit him?
The kids class went ok though I guess. It was review of the last chapter, which involved money, and kids like money, especially when the money also involves me "selling" them prizes like Stitch pencils and toys, and candy. They also played my vocab color boardgame that I invented a few weeks ago and seemed to enjoy it.
Anyway, I guess today was an okay day. After work I played one round of Pop'n (sight-read and passed a level 28 for the first time ever, but I think it was a fluke), and then I went to the supermarket and got soda, and cute piggies disguised as bug killers, and a buncha Bikkuriman snacks, which I have been eating lately so I can collect the Japanese Baseball stickers that come inside them; it's my latest bad habit, to take over for Calbee chips. I ended up taking the last 4 snacks in a box, so I also took the empty box. Explaining to the cashier that I wanted an empty box was more difficult than you'd think, but eventually she got the idea and was like "I do not know why you want this box that should go into the trash, but go ahead."
Also big feature interview in Shukan Baseball this week about Kazuhito Tadano. But it was mostly about him throwing the eephus pitch. Still, I am all ♥ Tadano, so it's all good.
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If I weren't moving in a couple of weeks I'd get one too. But I don't think a little pig like that can stand up to the linkes of Kyushu's gargantuan bugs. 3 giant cockroaches in 4 days. Luck ain't on my side, lemme tell ya.