Wan wan
Dogs go "wan wan" in Japan, we discovered today. That was when we side-tracked the teacher for at least 10 minutes. We also tried to explain what a guinea pig was to her, but she kept saying "Marmotte?".
After classes James, Ciarán, Binks and me went to collect our gaijin (foreigners' cards). An easy process if ever there was one, though it took them far longer than I'd have expected to pull four cards out of a drawer! I was going to go into Tenjin afterwards, but no-one else was going, and I only wanted to pick up my plane tickets, so I didn't bother.
Most people are going out tonight, at about 10pm. The last train back is 11.30 so I think some of them might be pulling an all nighter again. Not really my cup of tea, so I'm going to stay in. Maybe I'll have an early night; I've been quite tired these last few days.
posted by Edd @ Thursday, September 22, 2005
2 Comments:
Edd:
Don't know about "Wan Wan" but some dogs are going "gone gone" here which is irritating a lot of people.
Here's an article for you:
Noodle station
Thursday, 22 September 2005
7DAYS
The makers of Cup Noodle will soon be airing a commercial that's truly out of this world.
Starting next month, Nissin Food Products Co will film a promotional spot for Japan's favorite instant ramen snack on the International Space Station, featuring a sales pitch by a hungry Russian cosmonaut.
The commercial will air in Japan in November as part of Nissin's "Cup Noodle No Border" campaign, according to a release issued Wednesday by Japan's space program, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA.
Space Films, a venture business set up by JAXA that specializes in space images, will send a high-definition camera to the ISS aboard a Russian rocket launch on October 1 and direct the filming from Russia's Mission Control Center outside Moscow, JAXA said.
The project is part of Japan's push to develop commercial spin-offs to its space program. JAXA did not say how much the commercial would cost, but the agency will be leaving the camera at the ISS in the hope of shooting more advertisements.
This is not Osaka-based Nissin's first encounter with the final frontier. In 2002, it announced plans to make "Space Ram," a ramen noodle that homesick Japanese astronauts can eat in zero gravity.
Nissin - which, incidentally also makes UFO. brand instant noodles - is credited with revolutionising the world's eating habits when chairman Momofuku Ando invented the instant noodle in 1958.
The company is now the world's biggest maker of the instant noodles, selling 20 billion packs a year. Japan wolfed down 5.4 billion of those in 2003, or about 42 packs for every man, woman and child.
JAXA expects high demand for its remote-controlled space camera from company's looking for extraterrestrial publicity to educators and broadcasters looking for unique pictures of outer space or shots of the Earth.
S n' D.
I think guinea pigs are called carvy or carvie no doubt you can look it up.
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