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Really Important Question: Dogs

February 2, 2010 in Asians, Thoughts by Moye | 5 comments

I love Japanese television. Seriously, everything about it is so great, from the pointless subjects, the dramatic music and the audience reaction (one of the things I like to do while hanging out with my mom is to react with a big “eeeehhhh???” to every un-shocking thing she says).

Or maybe it’s just Japanese dogs that are so great? I love Japanese dogs!

So now I have to decide: when we buy our farm, should we get a Shiba Inu or (as originally planned) a black Labrador?

Here’s the upside to getting a Shiba Inu: I know for a fact that when I die, my dog will remain faithful to me until his death, even if it means waiting at the train station day after day. Oh wait. That’s an Akita. Dammit.

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I Heart Rohto Zi Eyedrops

January 29, 2010 in Asians, Thoughts by Moye | 5 comments

Genetically, I’m supposed to have an addictive personality. Fortunately, my Asian Flush cancels that out pretty well but I still worry over what would happen if I spent more than 30 minutes inside a casino.

I will agree that my one addiction would revolve around treating my eyeballs with Rohto Zi 0 eyedrops, thanks to the two summers spent in Japan during junior high. They were my one special savior to annoying itchy and red eye allergies, and I could only find them in Japan. While Visine made my eyes hurt (and my head hurt from those annoying commercials with Ben Stein) and others only felt like tears, these amazing drops felt as if my eyeballs took a refreshing bath in Listerine and/or someone just threw an icicle at my face. Why rub your eyes when a drop of Rohto Zi can do it for you? In other words, A-MAZING.

Today I learned that the American brand is popular among stoners and that the Japanese drops come with different levels. That’s right. LEVELS. That’s how complicated these eye drops are: they vary in intensity from 1 to 7. And my favorite ones are only a 6. A six. SIX!!!

I NEED TO UPGRADE TO SEVEN.

If a six means icicles rubbing your eyeballs, then what would a seven be? A blizzard? Enormous hail stones pounding against your aqueous humor? The upgraded ice wrench from Bioshock? Did I just out myself as a nerd again? Dammit.

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Froggy Feet

November 24, 2009 in Asians, Thoughts by Moye | No comments

According to my mother, things I need from Japan include knitted socks with froggies on them. The best part is that when I called to thank her, she asked me about the socks so matter-a-factly. Like, the idea of a 28 year old girl wearing these booties adorned with stuffed frog heads was no big deal. Her reasoning was that they’ve got the non-slip pads on the bottom of them, so they’re really useful.

Thanks, Mommy.

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Ramune Kit Kats

July 21, 2009 in Thoughts by Moye | No comments

My mom came back from Japan last week and though she promised to bring me money, sushi, cookies, candy and sweets, she instead gave me a bag of Ramune flavored Kit Kats. Um….yuck? I ate one and thought it tasted like toothpaste and wasn’t sure how I was going to finish the entire bag.

Fortunately all I had to do was bring it to work, where everyone just grabbed a piece without even asking what it was. These were their reactions:

“It’s like a happy Holocaust.”

“It tastes like bubblegum.”

“It’s like you’re happily eating bubblegum and then you get punched in the mouth by a wafer cookie.”

Well, there you go. I did not enjoy the Kit Kats but I know they were bought with love. Plus, she also brought me some odango which was the most delicious thing in the world.  I didn’t even tell B that I got them. I just ate them all. Yum!

The end.

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Let's Discuss This.

March 13, 2009 in Asians, Celebrity, Thoughts by Moye | No comments

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This whole “kawaii” thing in Japan is getting out of control, especially when Japan appoints three girls as their new “ambassadors of cute” to help boost tourism and provide more jerking off material for awkward white otaku guys.

Shizuka Fujioka dresses as a schoolgirl, Misako Aoki, a Victorian doll in voluminous frilly skirts and Yu Kimura is a singer dressed in a polka dot shirt with a bunny print, offset by bouffant back-combed hair. Her look has made her “a fashion leader in Tokyo teens’ favorite haunt, Harajuku.”

Three questions:

  1. Did you really have to pick the three most stereotypical looks for Japanese girls? 
  2. Are any of these girls remotely cute? Maybe the one on the right (despite her horrific hair extensions), but COME ON NOW. 
  3. Why was I not picked for this?

I guess I should be happy that they did not pick Magibon. I hate that girl, but mostly because she has such messed up teeth.

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Ghostly Fridays Are Back!!

January 16, 2009 in Asians by Moye | No comments

Seriously, what is up with freaky ghost videos from Japan!?!?!?! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I used to think my grandma’s bathroom in Japan was haunted so I’d always have to pee with the door open and then run away after I’d flush the toilet. But I think that’s because I had read a freaky ghost manga before that took place in a bathroom. My logic back then wasn’t very good.

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THIS.

January 9, 2009 in Asians, Thoughts by Moye | No comments

I’m pretty sure THIS is real.

THIS is just wrong. I feel my thousands of samurai ancestors turning over in their graves. Except that I don’t think they were buried but most likely cremated with their bones all piled up in a little ceramic jar or something like that. And they aren’t samurais, but more like poor peasants.

I wish THIS was around when I was writing my senior thesis. I wouldn’t even have written one. I’d just put the URL on a piece of paper, bound it at Kinko’s and then turned it in.

THIS is why I like to make sure people know the difference between kawaii (cute) and kowaii kowai (scary).

THIS makes me miss the Japanese classes at Brown, which were always so much fun. Granted there were always a couple people who were into anime and one of them asked me out on a date, but most of them were just other Asians trying to pick up more Asian languages. I think I met most of my good friends from those classes (I’m talking about YOU, Lee-san and Yoo-san).

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Osechi 2009

January 2, 2009 in Thoughts by Moye | No comments

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Happy New Year!

I was lucky to have my parents in town yesterday (last year, my mom was in New York) which meant that my mom put together the annual osechi-ryori, including the ozoni mochi soup which we all have to eat in order to keep our lives long and have good luck for the rest of the year. Well, my piece of mochi broke off into the smallest piece ever with my first bite, so I guess I’m having an early demise. It was nice knowing y’all.

Mmm, non-sushi Japanese food.

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Japanese Cat Humiliation

December 23, 2008 in Asians, Thoughts by Moye | No comments

MRod refused to post this video so I felt like it was my cultural duty to do so. I also have a thing for dressing cats up.

I’m guessing it’s a photo shoot for a cat calendar with the seasonal themes but what I want to know is WHERE CAN I BUY ONE?

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From PuchiPuchi to PeriPeri

December 17, 2008 in Asians, nerdalert, Thoughts by Moye | No comments

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Sometimes my dad rules. Othertimes he’s like a total weirdo and does the same weird things like me but occasionally he pulls through with presents.

Yesterday he called me from New York about some stuff he left me from Japan at the house, which I think was just to motivate me to stop by to make sure the house wasn’t leaking from all the rain. It worked, cause now I am the proud owner of THREE awesome new keychains from Japan: the Peri Peri keychain which I think is way more awesome than the Puchi Puchi (which is still very cool) and the potentially annoying keychains that play the tunes of the different Japanese train stations. I dunno what you call it. But it’s addicting. It used to be my ringtone. I think we’ve made up like 3 different dances to the melodies. I don’t even have enough keys for all these keychains. I need a life.

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