i live behind prostitute alley
I had to turn down about 8 or so prostitutes tonight on my way home from work. I hope i never have to say that again.
Work is getting a bit better as things sink in. I suppose work as a whole becomes easier once things begin to get repetitive. Easier, but monotonous? We shall see. I can only hope for some slight variety in the scheme of things to keep me interested.
There is a television in my workplace near the front entrance that blares the same commercial all day long. It is advertising a video set with camera that hooks up to your TV for video-conferencing. NOVA uses it for distance language learning. The commercial is trying to market its capability as a link between family members far away. The whole idea is quite sick, but the premise is that family members can communicate, lovingly i suppose, through video-conferencing. The commercial showcases a grandfather on TV with his two grand-daughters sitting watching him. He is smiling broadly and half-whining half-yelling (as everyone does on TV in Japan) to his grand-daughters, i believe asking them some question. Their response--a hideously annoying sound much like that of a squeaky rodent that just acquired a child's voice. I don't even know if it's a word. But if three utterances of this in a row was not enough, the next two responses are strings of squeaks that end in the grandfather's deep-throated laughter. And as soon as it's over, it starts anew. The same as the immortal phoenix, except annoying as all hell. I asked the staff if it bothered them, and they didn't seem to even hear it anymore. Repression is a simple way to cope with hardship.
Work is getting a bit better as things sink in. I suppose work as a whole becomes easier once things begin to get repetitive. Easier, but monotonous? We shall see. I can only hope for some slight variety in the scheme of things to keep me interested.
There is a television in my workplace near the front entrance that blares the same commercial all day long. It is advertising a video set with camera that hooks up to your TV for video-conferencing. NOVA uses it for distance language learning. The commercial is trying to market its capability as a link between family members far away. The whole idea is quite sick, but the premise is that family members can communicate, lovingly i suppose, through video-conferencing. The commercial showcases a grandfather on TV with his two grand-daughters sitting watching him. He is smiling broadly and half-whining half-yelling (as everyone does on TV in Japan) to his grand-daughters, i believe asking them some question. Their response--a hideously annoying sound much like that of a squeaky rodent that just acquired a child's voice. I don't even know if it's a word. But if three utterances of this in a row was not enough, the next two responses are strings of squeaks that end in the grandfather's deep-throated laughter. And as soon as it's over, it starts anew. The same as the immortal phoenix, except annoying as all hell. I asked the staff if it bothered them, and they didn't seem to even hear it anymore. Repression is a simple way to cope with hardship.
posted by mdove at 11:23 PM
2 Comments:
I'm glad you've learned to appreciate the music of the Japanese language.
Do the high squeaky voices of the children on Japanese TV sound like the high squeaky voices of the children in Iranian movies?
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