HEY. you look kinda cute..

I'M IN KOREA, BITCH

look son i don't run with the poodles/ difference is i'm eatin in japan while you eatin japanese noodles

what's cool

so, this shouldn't be too surprising... but yokohama has a ramen museum.  ridiculous, i know.  went to check it out the other day

wish i made over there.. says $ and ¥

there it is.

so this place isn't even a museum. it's more like a gift shop + 7 ramen restaurants.  these restaurants have ramen from different places of japan, so they all taste a little different.... i never knew ramen was that serious.  they're thorough.

basically walked in, made a wish, ate, and left. so much for learning about the history of ramen... i noticed japanese people don't eat their ramen (or anything, actually) spicy.  weird..

but yo

guess what ALL these people are here for

just guess.

 ...

fuckin ice cream.

damn...nostalgia. lol i still think wako in LA's the best.

peace

i'm so gifted at findin what i don't like the most...

shibuya crosswalk

random thoughts/facts about japan:

• there is NO spicy food here.
• last night we went to mcdonald's and they said they couldn't take our order because their burger machine was not working hahaha wtf???
• so we went to burger king. burger king plays better music than mcdonald's. avant, kanye, fabolous lol
• me and my bro just split a pizza from dominos. it was tiny, but it was bomb (twss.)
• japan has love for jigga. at two diff clubs we went to, everyone threw up the diamond when Empire state of mind played.
• subways close from 12-5am.  getting home at 6am after clubbing is definitely NOT the business.

walk of shame

• people drive on the left side.
• there are NO FUCKING TRASH CANS in japan.  people hold on to their trash when they walk.
• snoop dogg was gonna come to yokohama, the show sold out, but he pulled out last minute because of money issues (twss).
• cigarettes were the ONLY thing in japan that were cheap, but they raised the prices two weeks ago.
• 7-11 carries 200 kinds of cigarettes.  last night i asked them for #162.

• i still haven't seen a vending machine that sells used underwear.
• i still haven't seen any tokyo drifting.
• i HAVE seen girls (and dudes... ugh) dolled up rocking sailor moon outfits and walk around the street.
• people don't hate me cuz i'm korean. when i tell them i'm korean, they say hello in korean back.
• rangers vs. giants in the world series? borrrrring. giants suck.
• can't believe i have to miss first 3 months of nba. my fantasy team is gonna take it doe
• bout to watch that kanye runaway movie on mtv.com

holler

oh one more thing, i'll tell you what IS the business. these little frozen fruit balls

no jokes about how i like putting fruit balls in my mouth. thanks

peace

i just call it how i see it

yo

so, i've been basically keepin this blog to keep a "journal" of my own experiences in japan. i mean, my memory is fuckin terrible... i need it

usually blogs are supposed to be about feelings and shit, but honestly yo, i don't really think anyone (besides maybe a couple people) gives a damn about my feelings (no emo).  but something happened and i really feel like i should share it

the other day i had a pretty heated argument with a friend.  maybe it was the alcohol, but i felt really strongly about this.  

i said it's a father's RESPONSIBILITY to provide for his seed, and he said society molded my view about this.  lol is that right?  i told him, if my wife was the one putting food on the table, i could not call myself a man.  and i really do feel this way.  this dude had the balls to call me "close-minded," because that's how society wanted me to feel.

eh oh el

he thinks years down the line, things should change.  some women will be the provider of their families, and everyone should be cool with that.  SON, 4000 years ago, men were fucking hunter-gatherers, and women were at home raising the family.  shit will not change; that's just the way it is.  if you can't PROVIDE for your own seed, don't call yourself a man.

to his benefit, he said there are other ways to provide for your kids that don't involve money. i agree, but money is the most important thing.  without the money, how the fuck you gonna put food on the table? a roof over your kids heads? money is a major issue... call me close-minded, whatever.

we agreed to disagree. but now this dude lost respect for me cuz we see things differently.

he needs to reevaluate whether or not he wants to call me his homie.

lol.

i hope you read this fool.

damn that was long, sorry for all the feelings, i feel like a little pussy ahaha

damn i type good for a drunkie

peace

don't worry lebron, you still got next year

three-peat baby

they say that time is money, so my team be spendin CENTURIES

one day... me and my boys are gonna be playing this shit using 100 dollar bills

popped too many corks to let you dorks offend me, props to Tokyo but LA's the city

eventful weekend..

Thursday my friend Alex from UCLA came to Japan. he's touring Asia right now..

first we went to Mos Burger, Japan's biggest burger chain

Hamburger is My Life.

Kalbi Burger on rice patties

Roast burger

 then... beerfest.

$8 a glass

Goodluck on your trip bro

 too bad we got there an hour before it closed. whatever.
on the way home..

MORE MEXICAN FOOD!

but the menu looked booboo, so i just got the nachos

2 beans out of 5

and...

COLDSTONES!

Founder's Favorite on Chocolate Waffle Cone (Like It Size): $8. FUCK! but it was soo good

damn i ate so much that night... went home early and had a Talk with a friend.

on Friday, I went to Japanese class (first time going on a Friday lol) and afterwards I met my homestay family. I was gonna live one weekend with a Japanese family...

they lived on the 41st floor of this building

Hiro and Tomoka Kanabe

As soon as they met me, they took me to go eat shabu shabu.

Hiro smokes 40 cigarettes a day. Last year, it was 80... sick.

They let me smoke in the living room of their home haha

Tomoka works at a Tonkatsu place. I thought that was fucking cool.

Until I used my elementary Japanese to ask her if she liked working there. smh i'm an idiot

Note the mom wrote to me, she had to use an electronic dictionary to write this lol how sweet. That's my sorry ass Japanese underneath saying Arigato Gozaimasu (i missed a character).

view from their balcony

ai-chan

breakfast

my Japanese brother Tatsuya

Tatsuya is 18 years old, and is a freshman at the university i'm studying at.

This guy has three part-time jobs, including the graveyard shift at 7-11. fucking ridiculous

Another one of them is at this curry house

chicken katsu curry with cheese. the cheese got gross after a while..

yes. in tokyo.

rotating sushi bar they took me too.

BIG ASS UNAGI

i learned a lot this weekend. especially about what it takes to survive and provide for a family in Japan. how the fuck are you 18 and working 3 part-time jobs on top of college??

This family treated me like their own, they made sure I was never hungry, and their only want was for me to be comfortable. And for that I am grateful.

I paid another $40 for a haircut today. hahah damn...

I was supposed to wake up at 7:30 am to go to class, ended up waking at 12:30. missed all 3 classes. some things just don't change lol

peace

got more than a thing for you, tatto and the ink for you, right over my heart, i'd do the unthinkable

so before i came to japan, i was seriously considering getting one of these..

 

if i ever get one, it's gotta be in japan right?

but that was before i found out how expensive everything here is.

at this point i'd be lucky to even make it back home with a bill.

lol smh

gotta make somethin happen..

i always do