OPPAI!! (aka boobages)

Oppai... it's a very interesting word. Recently I've been having interesting encounters that are predominantly about these interesting female "appendages."

Case 1: Sundays I teach basic English to a 5 year-old Japanese girl. Somewhere around the middle of the lesson she bursts out, "Your oppai are big!" (in Japanese) I ignore it and try to get her to keep going on the lesson. Nope, wasn't gonna happen. She turns around, looks at her mother and says, "I think yours are bigger than my mom's." By this time I'm very red and her dad is scolding her... even at the end of the lesson she once again said "Sensei's oppai are big" to her mom.
***embarrassing***

Case 2: Last night was the end of season girls' drinking night. Yup! All the kendo girls, after practice, went out and got pissed. At the beginning, my 2nd year group was kind of segregated from the rest... talking amongst ourselves. Then I moved, and my friend Shivani followed, to near our favorite girl captain, Toda. Now, this is dangerous... Toda loves to talk oppai!! Well... we did more than talk... we took silly pictures that mostly featured oppai... and we all (I'm embarrassed to admit), in our drunken states, felt each others oppai. Toda is not well endowed and expresses her jealousy of my rather ample endowment. I try to tell her they get in the way and are a pain in the ass, but somehow I am not able to convince her.

What is the magic of the oppai?? Seriously. I'd love an answer!

Best little present ever...

A dear friend of mine came back to Japan last week. And she's a big sweetie and brought me some prezzies! :-) A small pot of Christmas pudding, some mulled wine fudge, and a nice gift pack of moisturizer, muscle rub and some chapstick... it's the coolest because it's the Extreme Badger Body Care kit... for Active Badgers!!


Take a minute and smile... if you're an Active Badger too!

Running frustration...

Now, I've had a frustration with Japanese walkers for awhile. When walking on the sidewalk people walk one of three ways: on the left, on the right, or down the center. Not very useful because there is no way of predicting which walker you will encounter at any given time. Annoying!

I've recently started running again. (Yes, it's been over 6 months, but I'm on a 3 times a week schedule for now!) I get annoyed with these walkers under normal circumstances, but it's much more annoying when you are going at a rapid pace and you are face with people walking parallel to each other, in the same direction, walking nearly three abreast on the sidewalk. Not enough room to get past, but enough to want to try.

I realized this morning that people walking in the morning are on autopilot. They know their way to the train station based on instinct and they just go... without any awareness of their surroundings. I nearly took out a woman in heels who stopped in the middle of my path to wait for a light. Awareness people!! Seriously!

Ok... enough of my rant!:-)