Seriously, they're on a picnic!

"Would you like a breast or a leg?"
"I doesn't matter to me, your choice."

1954, Alfred Hitchcock's movie to "Catch a Thief." Classy, seriously; James bond would be humbled at that pass. Watch the movie, it was a breath of freash air to see some thing interesting from a time 51 years ago. Speaking of passes, I have to find a way to get a crazy girl off my back (it's scary what I'm 'up against'... [um maybe that's a bad choice of words]). Do I really need to tell a story? I'm just getting attacked :P

Interesting times. I dropped by my Olen's room to make banana bread and watch that movie with friends. Banana bread is great and terribly simple to make and a great snack. We then proceeded back to the video store to return the rental and to make and embarrasing attempt to rent another movie. It was the result of 5 guys, 3 of which weren't carrying their wallets and the other 2 having less than a dollar on them.

Also, I thought the store was kind of small at first... not until I realized there was a second half and that half was all porn. A few of us just stood there going "whoa, this is unreal." They also sold condoms from a vending machine nearby entitled "Safety for You." I think the Japanese people were looking at us funny when we were laughing at the machine. Seriously, you can't take a vending machine like that for serious in the middle of nowhere on the street in the middle of the neighbourhood. That's a part of Japan for you atleast :)

What have I been up to for the last while? I'll post pictures of those later on. Right now I'm in dire need of learning how to cook food that'll keep for more than 3 days and taste good. Foods with vinegar and olive oil are a strong candidate for me. I've made my own dressing of vinegar and honey for salad. I've made a failed attempt to make preserved chopped ginger in olive oil because there were small pockets of air in the oil that allowed the ginger ferment. It's not a good thing when the bottle of ginger fizzes when you open the bottle, you get horridly sour chopped ginger.

Might I add another thing about cooking... I call it Dormitory Goulash. It's simple, throw as many ingredients into a frying pan or a pot as possible, fry together, add seasoning, serve and pray that it tastes decent. Sure I could fry a plate of scrambled eggs, another plate of chicken and make a salad but I would atleast have to use 2~3 dishes and use an additional one to eat the food. Throw in the pot/pan that I would have to wash afterwards; it becomes a pain in the rear. I am a fanatic for keeping my sink clean and I hate having dishes leftover in the sink because things dry and become more of a pain to clean later. Why clean so many things when you can throw everything into a pot/pan and serve in a single dish (or even serve straight out of the pot/pan)?

Well, there you have it, my twisted little life in Japan.