Jonbu the baker

very weird, yet not bad.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html

I was watching food network yesterday and I found out that Haagen-Dazs is not European. It’s not like how Mercedes-Benz is not 100% European either. Mercedes-Benz at least started in Germany, and got bought.
Wikipedia has the details, but I guess it’s just one of those trivias I never knew. I’ve always thought they’re so expensive because they’re imported or something.

Now I can totally relate to the people in Japan. They probably think Glico Pocky is French.

The show is great. I watched 3 episodes back-to-back today, and still can’t get enough of it. There’s something about a cool guy yelling angrily that makes it good. It has worked out for all of Al Pacino’s movies too.

I was at Guu with Garlic last night (delicious, but the portions seem to be shrinking), and when I was ordering this happend:

Me: “Ton-Toro”
Waitress: “PonnChi?”
Me: “Um.. “Ton toro sio yaki?”
Waitress: “PonnChi?”
Me: “What is ponchi?”
Waitress: “We have the English name in the menu”

Then we flipped to the place and it says “Ton-Toro”.
I wonder if it’s related to the ponzu dressing.
I ordered gyu-tongue too, and she also confirmed it with some weird name totally different from what’s in the menu.

I was so confused. It made me feel like I know nothing about the Japanese language.

I’m not having one, but after work today, a guy driving an 80-ish porsche sped pass me and I ended up following him for half my trip home. He’s wearing a baseball cap so I don’t think he’s having one either. He’s just driving it for style. But driving behind a porsche made me think about what it meant.

In a lifetime, you’re either living in preparation of the future, or living for the present. Some people live their whole life preparing for the future, saving whatever till later. Some people live for the present the moment they’re born. Life’s too short to […].

Minus the people that do both and neither, then you’re left with people that live thinking of the future, then one day realize there might not be much future left. To me that’s the definition of a midlife crisis. They have money left from their future-preparing days, and now don’t know what to do with it. So they buy a porsche. In conclusion, porsches are a waste of money, so are a lot of other things, but porsche stands out as the symbol.

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