Fire Brigade
Today I went with a Chinese and a Singaporean friend for a walk.
Apparently they both speak Chinese, and sometimes they can understand the writings when they are written with Chinese characters, but only sometimes, most of the times they understand nothing. Here is my friend showing that these two symbols mean Central Canteen.
We went to the UENO station area, been to the beautiful Nezu Shrine dated as much as 1600 old.
Walked through the University of Tokyo and tried to breath in some wisdom and science. Our destination was the National Science Museum. Interestingly, there is not much science out there, it was more of a natural history museum, but it is very well organized with very many pieces and hand full of interactive expositions. Many kids were there and it seemed that all enjoyed it. What surprised me most is the number of couples, guys and girls in the age of early twenties; they walked around hand in hand. It was a surprise to me because a science museum, for my opinion, would be the last place a guy can take a girl out. Hypothetically it can happen, but it seemed more like a traditional thing with as many as dozen couples around.
Lunch we had in a traditional restaurant named Yoshinoya (read Japanese type MacDonald). The food is really great and being served in seconds. I ordered beef and rise, to my surprise I was also served a raw egg in a cup. To my question on what am I supposed to do with it, a waiter had signed that I should add it to the meat.
Finally I went to the Wired Coffee in Shibuya station, there sitting in a cloud of smoke next to young girls dressed in a traditional kimono (they must have dressed up to a party) I wrote some emails. What surprised me there is that when I was leaving, at half eleven ish, the book shop next to the coffee place was full of young people reading. ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT ALMOST MIDNIGHT! Have you ever seen this anywhere I the world?
The Japanese attitude for efficiency is unbelievable, but there are a number of issues which I still do not understand, for example; how come that on the hats of Fire Brigade, which is an emergency service, it is written "Fire Department", IN ENGLISH ! Most of the locals can not even read Romanian Letters! This is simply ridiculous and hilarious! :)
Apparently they both speak Chinese, and sometimes they can understand the writings when they are written with Chinese characters, but only sometimes, most of the times they understand nothing. Here is my friend showing that these two symbols mean Central Canteen.
We went to the UENO station area, been to the beautiful Nezu Shrine dated as much as 1600 old.
Walked through the University of Tokyo and tried to breath in some wisdom and science. Our destination was the National Science Museum. Interestingly, there is not much science out there, it was more of a natural history museum, but it is very well organized with very many pieces and hand full of interactive expositions. Many kids were there and it seemed that all enjoyed it. What surprised me most is the number of couples, guys and girls in the age of early twenties; they walked around hand in hand. It was a surprise to me because a science museum, for my opinion, would be the last place a guy can take a girl out. Hypothetically it can happen, but it seemed more like a traditional thing with as many as dozen couples around.
Lunch we had in a traditional restaurant named Yoshinoya (read Japanese type MacDonald). The food is really great and being served in seconds. I ordered beef and rise, to my surprise I was also served a raw egg in a cup. To my question on what am I supposed to do with it, a waiter had signed that I should add it to the meat.
Finally I went to the Wired Coffee in Shibuya station, there sitting in a cloud of smoke next to young girls dressed in a traditional kimono (they must have dressed up to a party) I wrote some emails. What surprised me there is that when I was leaving, at half eleven ish, the book shop next to the coffee place was full of young people reading. ON SATURDAY NIGHT AT ALMOST MIDNIGHT! Have you ever seen this anywhere I the world?
The Japanese attitude for efficiency is unbelievable, but there are a number of issues which I still do not understand, for example; how come that on the hats of Fire Brigade, which is an emergency service, it is written "Fire Department", IN ENGLISH ! Most of the locals can not even read Romanian Letters! This is simply ridiculous and hilarious! :)
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