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Broadcasting to an audience of three (and a goldfish)...
Comment, ramblings and musings... life through the eyes of a Japanologist...
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Thursday, July 18, 2002 |
 I spent the evening at a sake tasting at Seinen-no-ie. There were 17
varieties of sake to try, but before launching into these there was a
lecture from a local sake-maker, and then we all tried kikizake,
or a sort of sake taste-test. There were three cups of sake labelled
1,2,3, and the same sake in cups labelled a,b,c, and we had to try to
match the numbers to the letters. I have to say I failed; the three cups
of sake were all very different at the 1,2,3 stage, but in the a,b,c
stage they all tasted the same!
Anyway, the 17 varieties from all
over Japan were the main part of the evening, and they were very varied;
I found two or three I really liked. Towards the end, I also tried
kan-rokku, which translates as 'hot (sake)-ice'; the sake is
heated (atsu-kan), and then a huge chunk of ice is dropped into
the glass. If you drink the hot sake before the ice melts, the taste is
supposed to be very refreshing and clean. Well, this was the first time
I'd even heard of kan-rokku, so I was anxious to try it, but
having done so I have to say that I couldn't really tell a difference
from normal hot sake...
All in all, though, a good evening, although
I have to say that it was spoiled by the young people who were supposed
to be looking after the event. I really got the impression that they'd
organised the event to please themselves without regard for the people
they were supposedly holding it for. As soon as they could, they got
into a little, cliquey group and ignored the rest of us. Well, I for one
hate this sort of behaviour, and especially galling was the fact that at
least half of the 'planning committee' was from the Town Office. Giving
this opinion to a member of staff from Seinen-no-ie- fully and frankly-
when asked what I thought about the event made me feel happier, though...
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Who would eat that? Delectable- or not- morsels
Actually, not quite. More a sort of 'Who would eat that in those circumstances?'...
The food: natto. The circumstances: sitting in front of a fan. Don't eat natto in a breeze seems to be the moral of the story. If you've ever seen natto, you'll know why!
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Another good piece of software announced yesterday was Real Player for Mac OS X. I'm making good use of it now to listen to Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2. It's great having ADSL!
(Great to be able to listen to British radio, of course, rather than to be able to listen to Terry Wogan specifically...)
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...Made pleasanter, of course, by having downloaded iTunes 3 during the morning. I especially like the 'play count' feature, so much so that I found myself playing songs over and over just so that I could get different counts...
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Biked into Chuo for lunch with Nagareda-kun, followed by Pino ice-creams (of course).
During the afternoon, caught up with emails and the Breakfast Show. A pleasant day.
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Breakfast Show Staple Randomhaiku of the day (from The Genuine Haiku Generator)
shadows distort, deaf
shy sordid dirt praying glum
fisherwomen peek
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