It's a rainy chilly holiday in Tokyo. I got three days off and the first two days I cleaned up the AC of my bed room and kitchen mainly. Actually I started some hard parts of Osoji of my house. Do you think what a waste to spend my three days off like that? But it's my pleasure, it's a kind of healing of my mind to me. :-)
While I was cleaning ACs, I found a lot of crazy stuff and funny news on the Internet. The first one is this "Fair Hair hat". Ha ha ha, not only for appearace, I guess it will be warm in winter time, right?
This is a good joke, "Bloody curtain". It can be a good Christmas gift to fans of the movie "Psycho".
This is a good joke gift too: a Maggie Thatcher Nutcracker. The iron lady is so powerful.
When I was an assistant director on a TV documentary show, sometimes I had to join the show as a sort of human guinea pig, you know, something like that. One day the TV theme was "good driver and bad driver". Since our director knew I was "a Sunday Driver" (we say Paper Driver in Japanese, it makes sense,right?) I must do parallel parking, experimental hydroplaning phenomenon. etc., etc. That was a nightmare and I never said the airdate to anybody. I guess I have no sense for driving, so that I am always impressed by somebody who can control cars.
Today I watched this movie again and again: Ken Block's Gymkahna practice.
The movie is based on the 18- year-stay of Mehran Karimi Nasseri in the Charles de Gaulle International Airport. I read some similar stories sometimes on the Internet but today finally I found a Japanese who lives in the airport. He is Hiroshi Nohara and lives in Mexico City airport. Here is his movie on the news. By the way, I guess he lied about his name because Hiroshi Nohara is the dad's name of Crayon Shin chan. ( I don't know about recent Crayon Shinchan, still dark mood or not). Anyway we can say it's a sort of hikikomori, he can't go out from the same place.
Sasuga Mari-san! You were a tv producer and a stunt driver (unwilling), too? (@-@)
I know hydroplaning is terrifying (I have done it only twice in my lifetime) and I can't parallel park either! But in Tokyo, you don't have to drive so no worries, right? ;)
The worst drivers in the world all share I94 and 28th Street with me to and from work!
(#-#) The 28th Street "stunt drivers" are mostly undocumented Hispanic immigrants without driver's licences - hydroplanning at 55 mph is less scary than sharing the road with these folks! Uffda (@-@)
So after a white knuckle commute home from work, like you I also like to clean house to relax. It gets the stress out and helps me feel like I've accomplished at least something ~ especially vacuuming. I like to make all the lines from the vacuum go in the same direction, and make circles around the furniture. Then my house looks a little like karesansui!
Posted by: Heidi | Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 11:03 AM