一緒に行きましょう！

In Japan, most of the activity in cities are gathered around the subway and train stations.
There are malls, restaurants, game centers, shops of all kinds and hostess bars.
There are few of them at Kameari station (the station where I live).
Every day, when I go back home, there are few guys trying to lure customers in.
It seemed that recently business has not been so good for them, as tonight, when I went past them, the hostesses themselves were on the task of baiting people.
They probably understood that a girl asking you in (saying "Let's go together !") is much more attractive than a guy.
Unfortunately, the girls are not really attractive either.
The only customers I see sometimes in front are either old and fat 'salarymen' or a group of friends (both girls and guys).
Business is not easy...

携帯電話！

I finally bought a mobile phone !
Here is it: Sony Ericsson W42S.
It's a model only available in Japan.
I chose this one because it was the cheapest. I got it for.....10 yens !
But don't be mislead by its price, it was actually a bargain, lasting until the 10th of october.
The monthly fee is around 3000 yens with 1000 yens of included communications. I can also use mails and other services specific to au by KDDI, such as music download, GPS localization, web browsing and buy stuff through their portal.
But as you can see on the website, its most useful feature (besides calling and taking pictures) is to be used as a music player.
It has a 30 hours autonomy of continuous listening, 1 GB of internal memory and a Memory Stick Pro Duo slot to extend to 4 GB.
You can either download from their LISMO service (for a small fee of course) or transfer your audio CD via the computer.
The phone comes with a nice controller and pretty good earphones, I have been really surprised by their quality.
Finally, here's a picture taken with the phone :


That's it for today. See ya next time.

Dead I am not

Heeeyyy guess who's still around.
Yeah I know I haven't been posting lately. A lot happened and work is still taking too much of my time. Anyway, I'll try to catch up later and post as I remember what happened recently.
I'll save the TGS report for later. It was fun with hot girls and everything, as you would have expected.

Today, I'll talk about a business here in Japan where you can get girls, money, alcohol, tabacco, not subject to taxes and everything in the most perfect legal way. In fact, people will even thank you for what you do.
I know many of you are interested to just read on.
The job I'm talking about is being a.....MONK !!!
HAHAHA look at your face, I got you there heh ? Just kidding....
Actually, I'm not.
I had a talk yesterday with a co-worker who taught me everything about monks in Japan.
He told me that there is a type of monk who will pray for people and stuff, like mostly all monks do.
In what they differ is all what I mentioned above.
They are paid very well (I heard something like 10.000 yens, the cheapest of course) for praying and doing their stuff.
They are not subject to taxes, have a lot of clients, meaning they have a lot of money.
Being that type of monk, you can even get girls (many at once, money you know...) drink alcohol, smoke and possibly other things the money would permit.
"How is that even possible ?" is what you wonder. I don't have a clear explanation myself. Something about religion, not real faith and stuff like that.
Anyway, you can now become a monk in Japan !
In fact it's not that easy. It seems it is only hereditary, "passed from father to son" to quote my colleague.
Too bad heh ? It was too good to be true/easy. Anyway I'm sure some of you will find a way to work around this :D