There are many mysteries in this great world that we live in. Like take the Egyptians for example. How in the world did a civilization that possessed little to no technology build those pyramids in the middle of the dessert? Some sort of magic?

But seeing that I am not in Egypt, and I don’t watch TV much it is not something I think about too much.

A mystery of the world that is always itching at the back of my head though is beer. I remember the first time I took a sip of beer. I can remember my facial expression like it was just yesterday. It is because of times like that, that I sometimes wish I had a camera following me 24/7. To catch those so called, “Kodak Moments”.

If I remember correctly the first beer I drank was a can of Fosters. I had a look of utter disgust and outrage on my face. How the hell could somebody who is suppose to be my friend give me this shit to drink (Gordon).

I once heard from someone that beer is an acquired taste. If you drink a lot of it you get used to it or somehow even come to like the taste.

Well yes that is all well and good. But based on my theory that, “There exists no human in this world that drank beer for the first time and liked it” Why would you keep on drinking it even though it tasted completely vile the first time?

Out of boredom I did some brainstorming and came up with these possibilities:

Peer Pressure: Everybody else was drinking it so you felt you had to…

You are retarded: Self Explanatory

Financial Reasons: After hours in a room with an abacus, graph paper and formulas on alcohol tolerance levels you came to the conclusion that beer is the cheapest way for you to get drunk.

Convenience: Mixing Vodka and Coke on a moving train is too hard.

You are an Anomaly: You are an exception to my theory and experienced love at first gulp. The first time you drank beer you were like, “Holy Smokes, what is this tingling sensation on my taste buds. This drink tastes awesome!!!”

Those are the only plausible answers I could come up with. So, what I would like to know is who loves beer? Who likes beer? Who agrees with me and thinks beer tastes disgusting?

I remember once telling someone that beer tasted disgusting and he was like, “I will give you a sweet tasting beer to try” He pulled out a 1664 Kronenberg. I drank it, but it tasted just as bad as the Fosters I had drank….

Can anybody actually taste sweetness, sourness and other so-called flavors in beer lol?

To some people size matters, but to others it doesn’t. Size matters to me. In this day and age mine just does not cut it anymore. That’s why I am contemplating buying a bigger one. It seems like only yesterday I bought my 40 inch Full HD 1080 Sony TV. But 6 months down the line and a trip to the electronic store and my TV looks like a joke in comparison to the 50, 60 and 100 inch TVs. And yes this whole paragraph is about TVs and only TVs for anybody getting any weird ideas.

I used to laugh at the people who slept standing up on the rush hour trains. But today I took a note from their book and caught about 15 minutes of sleep on the way to work. Hopefully the 15 minutes of sleep plus the energy drink I bought will stop me from passing out over my keyboard. I am seriously sleep deprived and am once again feeling the walking under water sensation. We hit the town Saturday and got home 7am the next morning. I was awake at 9am for a laughable 2 hours of sleep after being up for 24hours plus and doing miles of walking. I predict my survival rate for today at somewhere around the 35% region.

Went to the airport on Thursday to get my sis. Within 2 minutes of my sister coming through the gate 3 police officers approached us.

Police: Thisssu issu randommu cheekkuu. See passuupootoo.

Funny that they just so happen to stop the only two black people in the airport and call it random. Especially since they did not stop anybody else before or after us. I think that the police just might need to check their random inspection algorithm (steps used to generate a random value) to see if it is working properly. We hit my place, went for ramen and had a sushi dinner. Next day was museums at Ueno, shopping at OIOI and dinner with friends at an izakaya (Japanese style restaurant). Saturday was a trip to Asakusa (temples) and Akihabara (electronics town) followed by some partying in Roppongi. Sunday was mainly down time. Everybody (except me) was down for the count and woke up around 3ish. We went to Ebisu for dinner. Tonight will be a big treat. But it is a secret. I will tell you guys about it soon.

Do you ever do it? I do it sometimes. In fact I was doing it just the other day. Do you like music? I like music. You know, no music no life. I suppose I am first and foremost no PC no life, followed by no music no life.

So where was I going with this? I remember now. Do you ever just put on an album, go to a song you like, press the repeat button and listen to it like 100 times in a row?

I dunno maybe it is just weird little me that does it. But there is something weird about listening to the same thing over and over. It is like it does something to your brain. Like take the word “The”. Try and say it 20 times in a row and tell me if the word “The” still sounds like the word “The” or if it sounds completely different. Why is that? Any experts on the human language have an answer for me on this one?

But anyway forget about that gibberish. One more hour and work is officially finished for the day (although obviously I never actually leave at 5). Tomorrow is my Narita mission, followed by a much needed national holiday on Friday.

Work has been somewhat fun the past few days. I started a project using my own initiative and it started off pretty interesting. But after two days I am bored of it : (
Made me realize how fast time flies when you actually concentrate on real work…

But yeah I am pretty happy about my pending delivery. The stuff is slightly expensive, but THIS IS JAPAN. Nothing you can really do about it I guess. Thanks to Sixmats for telling me about this website:

The Flying Pig

It should come Sunday morning. All I need now is some good milk and I am in for a fun Sunday.

And I don’t think I ever thanked Brassfoot for making the banner for my blog. Thank you sir you have the skillz to pay the billz.

One last thing though. I needed some help with something. Anybody know any cool uncommon tourist attractions (in Tokyo), or really good specialty food places? Any help much appreciated.

Peace