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My chervissu apartamentu (service apartment) offers no service. It's a tiny room with a couch and a bed on the loft !! Each morning I have to step outside the bathroom to dry myself.
Upsides:
Fantastic metro system. Move over New York, London and Chicago. Tokyo metro kicks a$$. No need to buy a car in this city - you can just take trains everywhere. Extremely polite people wherever you go. You can "sumimasen" (excuse me) anyone and they'll go the extra mile to make the gaijin (foreign barbarian) happy.
J-chicks keep checking me out in the train rides wherever I go.
Downsides:
Very few speak English though I suspect they understand. Everything is in Japanese - I can't even order in a restaurant without someone accompanying me. Yesterday I walked into a KFC outlet and spent 5 minutes explaining chicken sandwitch to a counter girl who just wouldnt stop smiling though she understood zilch of what I was saying.
There's suits, suits and more suits wherever you look. I've started wearing mine to work to blend in with the sararimans (Salary man) and "Office Ladies".
TV: Slaindaaatoooohne Figura! That's the first thing I heard when I switched on the TV. Generally is rubbish. Irritating ad breaks every 60 seconds. No English. It's lucky I have Internet access and can listen to BBC news each morning on streaming.
Culture Shock:
Dirty, no, filthy manga in ready reach everywhere you go. Featuring tentacle r-ape of little girls and horrible stuff. Try selling this in India and we'll lock you up with Gabbar Singh in a federal prison who will be happy to give you a demo of the aforemenioned.
Work is very formal and you are expected to stay back until 7 or 8 everyday. Otherwise you'll be considered a gaijin slacker. Still learning. This is different from the last flying sales visit I was at. This time it's up close and personal.
Oh, btw, if you havent seen Sakura (peach blossoms) you have missed something most wonderful. Will see if I can snap pics of these. |
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