Well, there won't be too many Decoy concerts, but me and the woman are going on a world tour this summer. The following is what is about to rock:
We'll be leaving May 26th for London, and will spend the next 18 days touring Europe. We'll hit up England, Belgium, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and France during that time. It turns out that we'll be in Rome and Florence on our anniversary. How romantic.... "Ahhh......"
From Paris, we were just going to go to Thailand, but the guy at Airtreks (where we got our airfare from - www.airtreks.com) suggested that we stay over in Cairo since we were going through that airport anyway, and check out Egypt. So, we'll stay in Egypt for 4 days and check out the pyramids and lots of other stuff there. From Egypt, we'll go to Thailand and stay with one of Yuko's friends for two weeks. We'll check out all the awesome stuff there, and hopefully be able to help her out with her restaurant. It's the least we could do. Dishes may be the extent of what I'll be able to do though... or possibly entertainment...? (this would be some of Decoy's shows).
From Thailand, we'll go to Japan and spend the rest of the time there, doing various things that are yet unknown to all. I will be studying for my MA Exam throughout this trip that I'll have in December.... in between periods of rock, of course.
We got some pretty good deals on trips and airfare. The guy at airtreks hooked us up too. We're going to be going on lots of flights: SLC-NYC-London; Paris-Cairo; Cairo-Bangkok; Bangkok-Shanghai-Osaka; Osaka-Hong Kong-LA-SLC. We're going to China twice, but for only 3 hours each time (though he offered us a stopover in Hong Kong too). We're pretty excited, but are just praying that we won't be linked to John Denver in any way (being... a plane crash high in the Rocky Mountains before we even get anywhere). That would really blow.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Michael Jackson and the Flying Slipper
Though I've laughed at and told many jokes about him, I've always been a fan of Michael Jackson. It wasn't until recently after he died though that I actually realized how big of a contribution to music, dancing, and the world in general he made. I still don't realize all that he did, but as I learn more about his life, I will.
Since his passing, I've seen some people on the internet that have been mad because everybody's making a big deal of this, because there are so many people in Africa (or wherever) that are dying everyday, so why should we make a fuss. Those people are fricking idiots. Nobody knows those other people who are dying, and those people have never done anything to affect our lives. Michael Jackson has done a lot to affect people's lives. Not just through music and dance, but also through contributing to causes, organizations, etc. Sure, people should be sad when people die even if they don't know them, but it doesn't affect them as much because well, they don't know them. Wake up, crackers.
Anyway, the floors at my JHS here in the Japans are slippery enough that when walking down the halls or just walking around in the classrooms, I take a couple of big steps and do a slide. This sliding ability provides plenty of slide to enable doing the moonwalk, and that's what I've liked to do sometimes over the past 3 years (though doing it in slippers can be tough and might not look as cool...).
Recently, my kids have wanted me to do impersonations of Michael Jackson, because they love it. So one day when I was in a classroom waiting for them to get lunch served up, etc, (they eat at their desks in their classrooms) some of them wanted me to do an impression of him. So I started singing and dancing, and kicked my foot up in the air. Well, you don't wear shoes at schools in the Japans, you wear slippers. When I kicked my foot up in the air, my slipper flew off and headed to a group of tables. It hit a couple of times, missed the first lunch tray, barely missed the second, landed on the second (without touching the food), then fell bottom down on a girl's bowl of rice and fried fish..... I was kind of shocked that it would land in her food that perfectly. Immediately after that happened, another teacher came in the room, but I down-played it as I had already got it back on my foot, and then quickly exchanged her food for mine. If the teacher knew what happened, I don't know, but all of the students erupted in laughter and I heard some of them telling others and the teacher all the details. It wasn't quiet for a few minutes after that. Needless to say, I apologized with a dogeiza.
Since his passing, I've seen some people on the internet that have been mad because everybody's making a big deal of this, because there are so many people in Africa (or wherever) that are dying everyday, so why should we make a fuss. Those people are fricking idiots. Nobody knows those other people who are dying, and those people have never done anything to affect our lives. Michael Jackson has done a lot to affect people's lives. Not just through music and dance, but also through contributing to causes, organizations, etc. Sure, people should be sad when people die even if they don't know them, but it doesn't affect them as much because well, they don't know them. Wake up, crackers.
Anyway, the floors at my JHS here in the Japans are slippery enough that when walking down the halls or just walking around in the classrooms, I take a couple of big steps and do a slide. This sliding ability provides plenty of slide to enable doing the moonwalk, and that's what I've liked to do sometimes over the past 3 years (though doing it in slippers can be tough and might not look as cool...).
Recently, my kids have wanted me to do impersonations of Michael Jackson, because they love it. So one day when I was in a classroom waiting for them to get lunch served up, etc, (they eat at their desks in their classrooms) some of them wanted me to do an impression of him. So I started singing and dancing, and kicked my foot up in the air. Well, you don't wear shoes at schools in the Japans, you wear slippers. When I kicked my foot up in the air, my slipper flew off and headed to a group of tables. It hit a couple of times, missed the first lunch tray, barely missed the second, landed on the second (without touching the food), then fell bottom down on a girl's bowl of rice and fried fish..... I was kind of shocked that it would land in her food that perfectly. Immediately after that happened, another teacher came in the room, but I down-played it as I had already got it back on my foot, and then quickly exchanged her food for mine. If the teacher knew what happened, I don't know, but all of the students erupted in laughter and I heard some of them telling others and the teacher all the details. It wasn't quiet for a few minutes after that. Needless to say, I apologized with a dogeiza.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Pure Loogie Awesomeness
I've been kind of sick for the past week or so. I'm kind of starting to get over it, but I still have mucus that I have to spit up throughout the day. This morning while driving to work, I sucked together all the loogie goodness from my nasal and throat and hocked it out the window. To my pleasant surprise as I looked at it fly out the window, the clear part (spit) quickly flew backwards, while the green part (phlegm/mucus) continued on a straighter path. I have never before seen such awesomeness as this in my short life. The complete separation of spit and mucus from my loogie... I about had an accident in my pants...
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Accepted to Grad School
I applied for the Asian Studies master's degree program at the U of U, and was accepted for Fall 2009. I've got my schedule worked out and have signed up for my classes. 4 of them will count for the major, and one of them won't because it's just a 1000 level class that I'm taking to better prepare for grad school at Hawaii. Yuko will also be going to school at the U (assuming we can both get residency tuition... if we don't, the milkman will make his strike). In fact, all 4 classes she is taking are 4 that I'm taking too. So she'll be able to take all of her classes with me. Score 1 for us against the textbook Nazis. Suckaz!
We'll go to the U of U for a year, and then I will (hopefully) go to Hawaii for 2 years to get master's degrees in Japanese and Anthropology. After that, I want to get a PhD in Anthropology. Right now, I either want to do that in Hawaii, or I might be able to get it (or do part of it) through Hawaii while going to a school in Japan and doing research. That's still 3 years away though, so who knows what will happen.
We'll go to the U of U for a year, and then I will (hopefully) go to Hawaii for 2 years to get master's degrees in Japanese and Anthropology. After that, I want to get a PhD in Anthropology. Right now, I either want to do that in Hawaii, or I might be able to get it (or do part of it) through Hawaii while going to a school in Japan and doing research. That's still 3 years away though, so who knows what will happen.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Florida Video
So I finally got the video for our trip to Florida (July 2006) done. I was planning on editing it right after I edited our trip to California when we got here in the Japans in late 2006. But after I got done with the video for California, I looked everywhere for the Florida tape, but it was nowhere. The only place I thought it could be was in my camera that I left home. So I had that sent over, and we got it open by taking it to an electronics store here (they didn't send the power chord with it, because they had no idea where in the frick it was). Anyway, it was in there, and I just finished editing it. I put it up on youtube, but the audio was disabled almost immediately. Those nazis are getting pretty quick with that stuff. So you can check it out either on Facebook, or the video page on my website (under 2006).
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
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