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Dude. So I watched the Dragons-Tigers game tonight and the Dragons won, and Tony Blanco hit this gigantic home run, and so he and Takashi Ogasawara (starting pitcher) were game heroes, and... and Blanco actually talked in Spanish, with his interpreter translating. That's really wacky, I'm not sure I've heard a foreign player speak Spanish here like that -- usually even if they're from Latino countries they tend to speak pretty good English. I'm sure he's not the first, he's just the first one I saw in a hero interview, basically.
As for the rest of the day, I went to my company's office in Shibuya and filled out forms this afternoon. The guy who's basically "coordinator in charge of making sure ALTs have their act together" is going to go to Shinagawa on my behalf sometime next week and file for my visa renewal. He has my passport, which makes me a little nervous, but I'm sure it'll be okay.
I was weak and bought Krispy Kremes on the way home, because our office is up the Dogenzaka slope right by the Shibuya KK. They have a flavor called "Daddy's Coffee Chocolate" which basically is a chocolate-covered donut with coffeebeans on it. It's much better than it sounds.
And then I went and did karaoke by myself here in Akabane. Seriously, it's 80 cents an hour per person before 7pm, and you have to buy a drink. So it was 500 yen for me to do karaoke for an hour and a half, which is about as long as I could last by myself anyway (well, I coulda done two hours I think). I tried out some songs I'd wanted to, kind of failed to be able to read a bunch of them fast enough, had to play around with key signatures for a few others. Had a lot of fun trying to do 東京ラプソディー, which is an enka-esque polka from like 80 years ago, and actually recorded myself singing 東京の屋根の下に住む because I wondered how bad I actually sound (the answer: nowhere near as bad as I think). I really should learn more crazy old songs just for fun, or at least some actual enka (it's just that the few enka singers I listen to, none of them are female).
I still wish I had a regular karaoke buddy to go with, but it's actually totally fun to go by myself in a lot of ways, aside from the embarrassment when I first arrive at the place like "...yes... one person..." I mean, I don't have to feel nervous about screwing up, and I can pick whatever damn songs I want, and skip whatever I want. The downside is mostly that I lose my voice a lot quicker, and it's nice to learn new songs with people (and in some cases, it's nice to harmonize with people, though my best harmony buddy lives in freaking Nagoya).
But whatever. Anyway, I picked up stuff at Ito Yokado and then came home to watch baseball, and I did laundry while watching the game, and the stray cats seem to be gone, though my first floor smells weird now and I'm not sure why. To me it actually smells like "this house needs to be aired out" more than anything, but I'm not sure rainy season is going to be the time to air it out. Sigh.
As for the rest of the day, I went to my company's office in Shibuya and filled out forms this afternoon. The guy who's basically "coordinator in charge of making sure ALTs have their act together" is going to go to Shinagawa on my behalf sometime next week and file for my visa renewal. He has my passport, which makes me a little nervous, but I'm sure it'll be okay.
I was weak and bought Krispy Kremes on the way home, because our office is up the Dogenzaka slope right by the Shibuya KK. They have a flavor called "Daddy's Coffee Chocolate" which basically is a chocolate-covered donut with coffeebeans on it. It's much better than it sounds.
And then I went and did karaoke by myself here in Akabane. Seriously, it's 80 cents an hour per person before 7pm, and you have to buy a drink. So it was 500 yen for me to do karaoke for an hour and a half, which is about as long as I could last by myself anyway (well, I coulda done two hours I think). I tried out some songs I'd wanted to, kind of failed to be able to read a bunch of them fast enough, had to play around with key signatures for a few others. Had a lot of fun trying to do 東京ラプソディー, which is an enka-esque polka from like 80 years ago, and actually recorded myself singing 東京の屋根の下に住む because I wondered how bad I actually sound (the answer: nowhere near as bad as I think). I really should learn more crazy old songs just for fun, or at least some actual enka (it's just that the few enka singers I listen to, none of them are female).
I still wish I had a regular karaoke buddy to go with, but it's actually totally fun to go by myself in a lot of ways, aside from the embarrassment when I first arrive at the place like "...yes... one person..." I mean, I don't have to feel nervous about screwing up, and I can pick whatever damn songs I want, and skip whatever I want. The downside is mostly that I lose my voice a lot quicker, and it's nice to learn new songs with people (and in some cases, it's nice to harmonize with people, though my best harmony buddy lives in freaking Nagoya).
But whatever. Anyway, I picked up stuff at Ito Yokado and then came home to watch baseball, and I did laundry while watching the game, and the stray cats seem to be gone, though my first floor smells weird now and I'm not sure why. To me it actually smells like "this house needs to be aired out" more than anything, but I'm not sure rainy season is going to be the time to air it out. Sigh.
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ETA: I'm surprised you didn't think you sounded good in karaoke! It was fun last time, and we should definitely do it again...
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