Wednesday, 7 May 2008

finally!! a real earthquake in Tokyo !!!

Thus far, we've only had minor gay 'ol tremours that I've barely felt: for example, Japanese colleagues eg: Omori-san sometimes goes: "ah, that was an earthquake" ... yeah, right!
This one was supercool, and lasted like three minutes: buildings here rock from side to side to absorb the shimmmmmmies ... although since I was on the 15th floor of the hospital, if it was a real badboy, I'd have nil chances of survival! (yep, got forced to stay in hospi overnite so they could "monitor" my situation).
Anyway, coz the quake was not really off the richter, there were no chances of getting grabbed by Geishas in distress goin' for a last few moments of passion with complete strangers: shaaaame.

Ah well, now with two ticks on the list(J-girls,Quake), it's Whalemeat and Blowfish next...

a bit of cool local mythology:
In Japan, it had been believed that earthquakes are caused by catfish. After the Great Edo (Tokyo) earthquake of 1855, numerous prints of earthquakes and catfish were circulated. In this print, the God of earthquakes (Kashima Deity) is pressing a large catfish with a keystone. Smaller catfish that caused earthquakes apologize the Deity.
... (from this website: http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/ssj/asc-ssj2008/submission.html)

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