The cold weather is slowly creeping its way into our old Japanese apartment sucking away any heat from our bones and replacing it with a sapping chill.... But you know what, that doesn't matter because it's almost Christmas! "What! (you may not be asking yourself) but but buuuut Christmas isn't for another month and a half!" Well this is Japan, a place where the Halloween decorations were put up in early August and taken down on October 25Th, so the uprising of tinsel and baubles on shop shelves and windows now is hardly surprising. Despite most of Japan actually being sure what
Christmas is (this is based on my school kids knowledge by the way, which can't be too trusted as half of them didn't even know how to stop a zombie...kids these days tsk tsk) this doesn't stop them from attempting to decorate everything and anything with bows, tinsel and dress
everything else up as "Santa san." The first casualty is always the creepy plastic Colonel Sanders that stand outside every KFC outlet (and apparently was the real reason why the Hanshin Tigers didn't win any championships for over ten years), he of the many secret spices and rumours about those massive featherless no beaked chickens changes into his winter gear ready to give presetns of wrapped deep fried meat hmmmm. Here's me getting some colonel love (and that's isn't some strange euphenism)Anyway yeah its getting wintery here in Shiga. And while Japans famous four seasons (because apparently nowhere else has four seasons)
have moved from hothothothot slowly into coldcoldcold that hasn't stopped the many promotions, special super super collectors packs and trading card type things that your inundated with every time you enter a store. This time around its the popular (hey I'm down with the kids) youth amusment moving game thingy Final fantasy. So let's just say your
someone who not only has the game, but also has made all those plastice 
figurines that no one else is allowed to touch and probably wears a T shirt saying something like "Final fantasy fans do over 12 parts!" what else can say "I love this thing more than I love my own child" other than your very own final fantasy soft drink sorry sorry "Potion"(warning; magical abilities not included, sugar and E numbers probably are though)
Over these last 2 years, I've slowly noticed less and less Engrish, or more precisely I've just grown more and more acclimatised to it after days spent with students shouting things like "I AM A SEX PLAYER" (This does leave me in a moral dylema should I correct their English for inappropriate things or ignore them so they never learn?) Anyway this hooded top I found in Omihachiman last week still puzzles me.
What is the actual proverb? Is it the massive PROVERB? Is it the sentence underneath? Is it on the price tag? Or does the service person tell some vital life altering secret upon purchases...??? Answers please...
Right off to eat Carrot cake and potter around the house. Remember Keep warm, and don't have nightmares.
Oh and although they aren't especially Christmasy (is that actually a word?) Damien Jurado's albums always feel to me like the fall of autumn leaves on an overcast day, So it seems somewhat appropriate to post someting here.
I'm also quite enjoying this video by Sea wolf, although it may be the abundance of jumpers that interests me...maybe
oh and....
School headmaster watch; dark brown shirt, dark black trouser, emerald green and light brown tie.
School headmaster style; King of the chocolate factory
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