My Saturday is ski day. My body sore. I had good nap this evening and enjoyed watching some Olympic Games for the first time after opening ceremony. (I got quite accustomed to going out at night in snow.) I'm kind of tired for skiing,(Yes, it could ruin all my weekend.) so I'll write real quick. Better than nothing, right?
There are quite a few cable channels here, but why is it that none of them broadcast the Olympic Games simultaneously !? I was really ready to stay up all night the other day and got shocked to know that. I had taken it for granted that AT LEAST ONE CHANNEL in a country broadcasts live the Olympics, World Cup or something of the kind . It's not fun any more if you already know the result of the game that you're watching at. Any opinions? I guess it's so easy to brainwash Japanese people and make something popular in the country; tiramise, pannakotta, pri-kura, tamagotti, evangerion... Apparently, wine is really popular in Japan now, because Naomi Kawashima said her body was made from wine. Ok, whatever. Everything is based on commercialism. Is it only Japan that make theme song tied up with each Olympics or World cups, and make certain amount of money every year? (I could hear every audience singing H-jungle's song.) American people have so strong individuality in their thoughts and action, on the other hand, so it's almost impossible to control every American to do the same thing.
Anyway, here is some of the American side of the Olympic, from a program for tonight by CBS; An American announcer wakes up at a capsule hotel in Nagano. (Do they have that in Nagano!?) Goes to a local fish market looking for tuna to make sandwich, gets a 2ft-long octopus foot instead. buys a can of beer at a vending machine. He asks some people how to get to the "bobsled" place but none of them speak English. Finally, he is lead to a "bus lane" by a young man. Oh, well. "Oh! Is this the bus to bobsled?" says he. The bus driver doesn't speak English, either. Unwillingly, he gets lots of places like bullet train station, etc. Then he concludes; "The things that don't have to be translated are translated, (the camera focus on a big snow man with a English sign.) the things that have to be translated are not translated." (the camera focus on a big map on the street.)
One more. I was watching a talk show last night, David Letterman said "Watch this blue paper carefully." and threw a paper. The blue paper he threw in the studio flew down the stairs and got out of the building on 53rd st. of Manhattan, crossed the pacific ocean, and flied into a building in Nagano in the middle of a speed skating race. The time and place were just good to make a skating guy to fall down on ice in the middle of his race! (Got it?) I do feel bad for the guy, but I laughed so hard.
American make fun of anything--even the Olympics.(sometimes the President) and I'm enjoying it--I'd like give them A for effort. Japan looks like very foreign country to me, sometimes. Well, I talked too much. Are there any Japanese people that are thinking about not Olympics but the coming war, btw? I just wondered.