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[akibare]

(1) Juxtaposition: I like making collage. One of my favorite things is size out of scale collage, the juxtaposition of two things out of scale so that one looks strangely large. Ah, if I only had the Photoshop skillz, but scissors and glue are pretty good too.

(2) Jenga: The tower game! I actually got this in our office's White Elephant gift

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[amanda_in_japan]

Wee!

-Amanda

[tsubasa_en11]

I love Jyagaimo, too! It's such a scrumptious delicacy to me! :D I remember i was asked in my Japanese class what's my favourite food and people laughed at me when I answered "Jyagaimo desu". XD;

[kitzune]

I think the super funny thing is I gave P to another friend of mine, and one of their words was potato but spelled in English of course. :p Two of my friends love potatoes enough to put it on their lists!

I love the potato chips here, by the way. The flavors range from normal to weird to so weird and yet so delicious. Like gyouza chips that taste like gyouza.

And wait, I didn't know you produced coffee. o_o That sounds like the most awesome job ever! Do you get free coffee?

[akibare]

Alas, no. The Java I produce is always capitalized - I meant the Java programming language :) I'm a computer programmer, these days most of the programming I do is in Java (though lately I'm working on some evil bugfix in Perl which has made this past two weeks insane).

I do sometimes get free coffee from my local shop though for being a regular...

We get SOME of the "odd" chip flavors at my local market but not the really out there stuff. For that it's all about if someone goes back to Japan and then happens to bring something to a potluck. Though, I have to admit I'm fond of the normal flavor of カール too, the plain or corn consomme ones. That and giant bags of 海苔巻きあられ :)

[kitzune]

...I knew that!

I just got temporarily confused!

Sorry! For some reason I had a brain malfunction (heh, and now I'm getting coffee so I'm getting my coffee fix as well.)

[kitzune]

ところで

Totally randomly. I'm reading this book that Adam bought and then left at the house and his mom found. It's called:
死にカタログ
The Catalogue of Death

In one part of the book, they're talking about different things that happen to you when you die, which differs from region to region. Of course, one Japan concept is 黄泉. What I didn't know is that よみがえる originates from 黄泉から帰る w Did you know that? I did not!

I also like the Parallel World idea, where you live the same life as you did when you were alive after you die, but if it's summer when you died it's winter in the afterlife, and if it's night in the real world, it's day in the afterlife. (That's more Ainu)

:)

[dbcutsarax]

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