...the world has gone mad.

...I thought I'd lost the ability to read properly today (that and thought I was going slightly crazy) only to discover, it wasn't me who was totally nuts, but that the internet - and I do love the internet - is definitely bonkers.

As my eye passed over the google translation page (I far too often frequent this page, as my language skills are crap) I thought I saw a very strange language in the list of languages that the google homepage can be set to;

*glance*

...haha...I thought I just saw 'Klingon'...*snigger*

...Nahhhhhhh...
It turns out I DID see Klingon, and it wasn't my love of Star Trek coming to haunt me...just that some devotee has managed to translate google into Klingon...now, I know my geography is not so good, and being all ignorant about the world in general, but (...feel free to correct me if I'm wrong..) I'm pretty sure that this is the language by those big aliens with the ridged foreheads, two hearts, two livers, 4 lungs, millions of ribs, which tend to shout "Kaplah!" a lot.

I also noticed that 'Pig Latin' also exists (is this latin for pigs?! - I guess not) as do a multitude of languages that I have never heard of.

Isn't the internet great?

Zemotions

A short video (in french!) about Politeness, Tolerance and Patience...



Scenario by Christophe 'Trent' Berthemin
Realised by Alexandre Carvalho

ahhhh... Japanese TV

...shown to me by Greg...some quality Japanese TV clips.

A champion speed walker being chased by samurais


..and Darth Vader vs. Japanese Police (i *love* this one!)

Stand-up comedy in Tokyo, The Punchline

It's Friday night and we headed off to Harajuku (原宿) to get our first taste of stand-up comedy in Tokyo.

First we rushed a bit of dinner at the sushi bar (回転寿司) on Omotesando (表参道) then hobbled down to Pizza Express where Punchline; a standup comedy event, held about once a month, which drags comedians to asia. Last night there were 3 comedians, 2 from the UK and one from Canada at some point but who currently lives in the UK.

Basically, A guy managed to organise taking over a restaurant for one evening a month to host a small stand-up thing. The place was packed with foreigners, I guess the thing was aimed at ex-pats missing a taste of home...I have to say that it was the most amount of white people I had been in the same room in with for a long time. The stand up itself wasn't too bad, there were some hilarious bits, but mainly all three comedians focussed their acts on sex which made it a bit crude and tedious at times... so the hilarity wore a bit thin. To be honest, for the princely sum of 6500yen (and that was just for the show) it was a bit much... I don't think I'd really want to go again in Tokyo...I'd rather wait 'til I'm home.