Un més y pico (casi dos) después de haber llegado a Japón, me voy a Corea (del Sur) a ver Hyang Sun, que desde que se fue de Valencia (a mitad de febrero) no la he visto. Y eso es mucho tiempo.

Me voy el próximo jueves por la mañana en ”barco”. Es un Ferry “rápido” que sólo tarda 3 horas en cruzar el mar que separa Corea de Japón, sale de Fukuoka y llega a Busan. Por suerte para mi, me acompaña Yukyong (o más bien yo aprovecho que va ella) con Luís, que como es coreana pues entiende coreano, que es lo que tiene ser de Corea. Ellos se quedan en Busan y yo sigo hasta Jeonju (o algo así) que es donde vive Hyangsun, será una semanita y vuelta al “trabajo” (no se que me pasa hoy con las comillas). Que como dice Anderson en su blog, no paramos ^^

También empecé esta semana a aprender coreano con Yukyong, es una especie de intercambio, ella me enseña coreano y yo le ayudo con el español (aunque lo habla perfectamente). Hemos empezado con el alfabeto coreano que no os quiero ni contar lo “chungo” que es. No tanto como el japonés todo hay que decirlo…

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Posted by Miquel on May 26th, 2007 :: Filed under travel
Tags :: Hyang Sun

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Emulando a mi amigo Anderson, que ya copió en su momento a Pepe (aunque abandonó lo dicho, en fin…), pongo un video en mi blog como ya hizo él, y es que como bien dice, para que va a reinventar la rueda!

A los que no hayan estado en España en los últimos años les va asonar un poco raro, pero es divertido verlo de todos modos. El primer video es David Bisbal, “cantante” en famoso en España salido de un reality de popstars. Te puede gustar más o menos pero ahí esta. La canción es del año 2005 o así o antes!

El segundo, es Hirom Go, un japones que ha editado esta canción en Japón ahora bajo el nombre de Boom Boom Boom!!! Es la ostia!!

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Posted by Miquel on May 21st, 2007 :: Filed under Japan, music
Tags :: david bisbal, hiromi go

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A week to remember! well, it’s not a week but since in Japanese the called last week holidays the GW (Golden Week or “goruden wiiku” as they say). And for my body it looked like a week, even more I think I become one year older.

We started on wednesday, with only too beers I got the same hang over you can get for a hole bottle of tequila… anyway, that night I stay the night over at Andersons’ house (start counting), then we continued on thursday. On thursday we meet Cecilias brother, who is visiting her here in Japan and Natalia, another exchange student studying in Miyazaki. Which was a coincidence ’cause we were going to Miyazaki that weekend. Anyway, we went to “Sunkus no mae” of course! and then, how not, to ONOYA, and then how not to Karaoke, and then how not to Gusto, and then, since I was going with Anderson to Miyazaki and Natalia was going to Sakurajima with the Kaikan guys next morning, I borrowed her my room and I went to sleep by Anderson’s house (this is the second one).

Well, let’s go! we woke up at 13:30 and we phoned for the last time Yukyong to tell her we were carrying the UNO with us, and she is crazy about it… but she couldn’t come >_< Anyway, we went to Miyazaki in 3 hours and a half (see the end of this article to see how long does it takes normaly). The arrival was great, Yuko’s mother and Yuko were waiting for us with the dinner ready to eat, and it was really “oishii”. We drunk beer till late and after explaining “okaasan” the rules for UNO we played again this damned game.

Next day we went to one of the largest hanging bridge in the world in Aya (south of Miyazaki), indeed it is really frightening. But after that we went to a drinkings factory were I tasted some wine, “sake”, and the best beer I’ve ever drunk in Japan. Then we meet Natalia (remember the brazilian girl from before) and we went to eat the typical food from Miyazaki, “yakitori chikin”, the most delicious chicken you’ll ever eat is there! And the we went to a Bar belonging to a friend of Yuko’s family so we enjoyed a lot there, and finally slept some…

After sleeping… 3 hours ^^ we merely woke up and got again on the road to com back to kagoshima were we had the wettest BBQ ever!!! TANOSHIKATTA NE

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Posted by Miquel on May 7th, 2007 :: Filed under Japan, miyazaki
Tags :: anderson, yuko

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Yesterday I attended for the first time (this year) the Kanji lecture. Till now they have been teaching Katakana, so don’t have to attend it, they guessed. The fact is that yesterday was supposed to be starting the lectures for kanji and it was the first time I joined this Elementary 1 group. Simply amazing!

Professor Uesako is the one teaching us kanji and he is another unique character… I remebered 1 year ago when I “tried” to attend this lectures he used to wear the pants the upper the better and you were able to see his socks so easily. At least he changed the wearing style but his teaching style hasn’t changed a little, the style indeed is normal but he use to add some “eeeeeeeeeeeh” and “aaaaaaaaaah”, o even an “oooooooooh” sometimes.

Anyway, the fact is that during last ten months in Spain my japanese speaking skills have improved (thanks to Hyang Sun) but I forgot the writing stuff, kanji mostly. So I am doing my best ’cause the master course lectures are supposed to be in japanese dude!

Forthe ones who do not know Kanji are those characters that japanese and chinese use as words.

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Posted by Miquel on May 1st, 2007 :: Filed under universidad
Tags :: kanji

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… and I’m stuck. It’s not that big deal, but 24 hours with this guy can change your mind forever, I mean, for bad. Plus, we were not alone, Yuko and Yukyong also turned to the dark side.

We started on Saturday 8pm by going to that korean restaurant named “Busan” here in Kagoshima, really superb delicious, but, using Yukyongs’ words the korean food is spicier here than in Korean, she can tell. We also meet there the restaurants’ Mama, which I also meet several times with Hyang Sun when I first come to Kagoshima. So we enjoyed a lot and drunk some korean “sake” by the way.

Until here everything was normal right, friends get together, going out for dinner, having fun… and then somebody says “why don’t we go to Andersons’s house and drink wine and eat Jamon (spanish ham) while playing UNO”. Maybe I should explain before that Anderson wasn’t drinking ’cause he was driving (eventhough looking like drunk ^^) and maybe that was unfair. Let’s com back to the main story, so we were there with that proposing over the table and… unfortunately it was still 11pm and the people weren’t in the mood for that so we decided to go karaoke (¡¡I know!!) to get in the mood. The result? satisfactory, everybody in the mood, we get our OTOMARISETTO (stay the night over set in japanese), since were going to stay the night over there obviously.

UNO, wine, ham, cheese, and … obviously fun till late! What’s next? we had appointed with Jin Wuk to help him with his moving at 11AM, and we did it! we woke up at 10, and we arrived in time, and thank god it was fast, after that we “decided” to go to the beach, wow! 2 hours in the car after that we got to a beach somewhere near Ibusuki (south of Kagoshima Prefecture).

The beach was in front of Kaimon (the so-called Fujisan of Kyushu), but it wasn’t that nice and there were no waves. So? we got into the car again and 1 hour after that we arrived to a beach near Makurazaki, the was nice of course and the view was really good, but we were hungry and became kind of ill, but no problem, Yukyong knew the best “soba-udon” restaurant in the world and we got directly to it. And with some food and healthier we came back home, sweet home…

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Posted by Miquel on May 1st, 2007 :: Filed under Kagoshima, viajes
Tags :: anderson, yuko, yukyong

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