One night in Tokyo

   

     As the same as the modern city in the world, Tokyo has a beautiful night view when the city turns darkness. Tokyo city doesn’t stop its rush temper in the evening. People said the husband isn’t a good one if he doesn’t has social life after work. It’s an old fashion idea. But, Kabukicho, the most famous Japanese red light district in Tokyo. Tonight, the city tells it how flaunty and beautiful.

  

      It’s a french dinner our major customer treats us there. Why should they bring us the the red light district area to have a dinner? Different from the stereostype of the red light district, Kabukicho is also one of the luxury and best area of having dinner in Tokyo city. Since we’re their major supplier, all staffs of their company attended this dinner. The social life is very important in Japan. You can tell how your company relied on you depends on how many dinners with customers you could attend.

Guess what?

    People said Japanese doesn’t has family life. I will say “Yes” and “No” at the same time. The company is like their second family. In the working hours, every staff of our customer’s company looks serious and glutton for work. But, they show their interesting part during the business dinner. They talk about everything like family. I think maybe sometimes they’re closer than their family member. It’s sad but in the modern society nowaday. Even, family can’t promise to be a shelter like how we define it in the old time. The company offers you the second chance to have someone close like family. The “over working” tradition of Japan might reduces the pleasure of japanese enjoy their family life but to make up the hollowness of family life in the mordern society.  It’s hard to judge them by other national point of view. I will say it depends on what kind of company you stay and what position you’re in the company.

The girl dress kimono in the street

      Talk about red light distriction, that’s how ”Kabukicho” becomes famous area in Tokyo. According to what the staff of our customer’s company said, don’t think you’re the lucky man when the girl here comes for you if you just want to an economic dinner. The girl works in the night club, they will look for the man in the street and ask you to buy them a dinner. They will try to understand the intention each other and to have some special chemistry. Afterward, the girl will bring the man to her club and having some drink or singing Kareoke. The story whether will end by a “happy ending” depends on how heavy your wallet is. But, mostly the girl is good at psychologic trick. They make you feel more like a date than a deal. — quoted by an experienced japanese.

The banner of night club for man

      I think the woman rises the flag of “Woman on top” will be angry about my last paragraph. The whole article full of the discrimination of woman. It’s ok. Here is some balanced report about both parties. The stereotype of “red light distriction” is lot of woman stand in the street and waits for a man. It’s not what it looks like in this street. It’s man stands in the street. The night club for woman in this street is at least double the nunmbers of the night club for man. The banner below, it’s not a promotion banner for TV soap opera. It’s a promotion banner for night club for woman. It’s everywhere in this street. When I have a business dinner with the staffs of our customer’s company, you knew where their wives can go. I’m kidding but some parts might true.

The banner of night club for woman

     It’s too serious to judge this society by moral view. Let talk about the answer of “guess what”. It’s the butter can in the French restaurant. The first time I saw that I think it’s a candle but without candle heart?? About japanese beauty, I will say the night view in Tokyo is really beautiful by its special atosphere. However, there are unspoken stories after stories behinds the beauty for lots of japanese family. It’s japanese style. It attracted your eyes by its brilliant and multiple outfit. However, you really need to be a japanese to know how much they need to pay for their beautiful outfit.  

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Ghost walks in the street

   This month is the Chinese ghost month. It’s not a good month for swimming, moving, traveling, purchasing and everything you can think about. During this month, the ghost in the underground can have one month vacation to visit the earth. Unless they break their parole regulation to haunt people, they can have party whole month. I visited a temple last Sunday in mountain area and saw they offering for the “Mid-ghost month festival”.It’s like a  party for ghost and pray them to protect people in the world. Ghosts can enjoy everything people offering there.

     People will pray by altarage like food, flower, fruits and paper money. But, according to some predictors said this year they also have inflation underground. Therefore, the predictor asks people burning more paper money for the ghosts. Nice thought but I hope the clerk of the environement protect department won’t come for him. I think taiwanese probably is the only people in the world who has a “brotherhood” relationship with ghost. In taiwan, we called the ghost “Good brothers”. We’re always one of the most hospitable and generous people in the world.

 

             Does generous nationality bring people good life? Depends how you show your generous. The breaking and shocking news this month definitely is our former president Chen corrupted more than 1 billion NT and transferred all the money to Swissland and Singapore overseas private account. He ruled Taiwan 8 years. You really can say he brings taiwan nothing but nightmaire.

Kuso version NT dollar - Chen's family

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      People afraids of ghost. However, before those ghosts go to underground. They’ve ever been humanbeing. After TV released the whole corruption matter, people starts to blame this former first family. But, the chairman of the Control Yuan, Wang has a different point of view. He said “Taiwanese deserve it. Everyone knews Chen is nothing but a fraud. However, people still makes him wins twice to ruin Taiwan 8 years. “

       He is right but mean. The reason Taiwanese makes him wins the first election because his early 40 years story is an encourage story. He starts from a nobody of a welfare family and becomes the president. The winning of his election symbols if you work hardly, you will have chance to success one day no matter how poor your are. However,the winning of the second election really show how taiwansese abused our compassion.

 

        His success doesn’t brings taiwanese success. Our economic, political, international and moral situation turn bad more than people can believe. When Chan lies, his party supposes him. When Chan did something stupid, his supporter supports him. When Chan starts to pisses every nation off in the world, his media says everything is because he deeply loves Taiwan. Everyone even blind people knew he’s lying. He is like a spoiled kid and tried his owned way to ruin Formosa. Now there are nothing his team can do. Some of them start to say ” you screwed” and some of them stil think he did everything for Taiwan. But, the last 8 years, nothing he did makes taiwan better.

Taiwanese version "Constantine"

       People said “when you make a lie, you need another lie to complete your previous lie. One day, there isn’t any lie to complete your lies. People’s heart broken. People wallet beomces empty. But, his party still tried to protects him and say ”Politician is like a man in the brothel. No one can walk out there without making any mistake.” This is said by a “female” politician in his party. When we pray the god to get ghost out of our life, do you ever think about how many ghost made by our owned hands.

The begger in the street

       Ten years ago this weekend, I received the recruit order for two years army life. Maybe I watched too many Hollywood movie, I told my father, I wish there will be a war between Taiwan and China when I’m in the army. When I studied in U.S, I has a taiwanese classmate talks to me by chinese. I told her, you’re a taiwanese. If you don’t know talks to a taiwanese by taiwanese. I don’t know how to talk to you. I ever love this country so much. I ever strongly support independance. However, after I saw how DPP politicians and president rules this country. Independence really isn’t important if they will be the governers after independent.

 

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     I remember by the history book, when the last 100 years Greek ruled Athens. The governer corrupted, the people losed their value, the citizen only enjoy life without working, the city losed its pride. The whole greek world is like a chaos. The roman even don’t waste too much engergy to conqure Athens. Even some people are glad to welcome the roman army because they finally end up the whole farce. How many ghost walks in the street? How many ghost walks in the street because you “generously” connive them. You can offer them some good food in ghost month. But, the best way is trying to help them not to go to underground by your irresponsible “generous forgiveness”.

A peaceful afternoon - Ninh Bin

    Ninh Bin in a Northern city around one and a half hour from Hanoi by car. After the “Impact trainning” by my hotel clerk in Hanoi. I really don’t feel like to stay in this city. I join a local tour to visit this small town and to enjoy the different feeling of Vietnam. The countryside of Vietnam lights up another hope of my heart for this Vietnamese trip. I restart to like this country again. This trip brings me a peaceful afternoon.

      When I just got there, of course, you will see more than ten people surround you. If you comes from a place where nobody ever gives you a damn, please comes to Vietnam and join their local tour. You can feel how Hollywood stars’ daily life. They come for you when the bus stops and asked you to buy a bottle of water. Or a hat that you probably only can wear in Vietnam without people stared on you. They will come to ask your name, how long you stay and do you like this place…. just like what CNN entertainment reporter will ask Brad Pitt. Honestly, they can’t speak fluent English and of course they don’t understand what you said. They just want you buy anything from them. All the pleasure just costs you 3 quarter US dollar. (Save the money you paid for your psychology doctor because you’re nobady in your family and in the office and come to visit Vietnam. it worthy every penny.)  

A lday tried to remove the louse from the other

         You can see animal lives with poeple just like old time taiwan. I like somewhere like here which can reminds me the old time. (like any elder people does.) Maybe the hygiene environment isn’t very good. You can tell by the photo that there is somone in the village tried to remove the louse from the other woman. But, the people here are more warm and friendly than the people in the city. Little amount of money can make them happy and satisfy. I just bought a bottle of water from a lady but their gangs will smile at me like we knew for a while.

 

     I  took a river boat for more than a hour. It’s the best part of this trip. In chinese painting, there are lots of topic about boat and traveler. I never have the pleasure to enjoy how ancient people feels likes. Like one of the poetry write

孤帆遠影碧山盡,惟見長江天際流

Translation :

The lonely boat drags its shadows vanished in the end of the green mountains.

By this view, I only can image the water of the river is from the sky and goes all the way to an unexpected world.

 Another feeling is like what I wrote in my another post.

http://meeme.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/listen-to-the-rain/

壯年聽雨客舟中   江闊雲低斷雁叫西風

When I was in the prime of life, I listen to the rain on my boat to a distant place.

I saw the river is wide and the cloud is low.

    You will keep on asking God, where will you bring me? Where is my next stop?

     We saw there are ducks play along the river. They know the pleasure. You saw sky when you laid down and you saw mountain after mountain when boat goes. People feels joyful when you combine with nature. The rower knew exactly what I feel. They enjoy their job. They look like working but playing more than working. They changed their rowing postion from hand to by feet when they feel tired. They chated with the other rower who nearby us.

 

     Of course, they still try to sell you Vietnam gifts but made in China. However, don’t think it’s bothersome. It’s a communist country. The job for them is finishing a procedure not to finish the task. I heard the taiwanese business man invests in Vietnam said, they all have the same comments. If you ask Vietnamese to do something, they will do what you ask but don’t care too much about the precision and quality. For them, job is something to tell people how they make money. The core of life is still enjoy the pleasure of living.

 

 

      Therefore, they will try to sell you somthing on boat but they don’t really care whether you buy it. If you buy it, they will row their boat plus say ”thank you”. If you don’t, they still row their boat with smile. Nothing stops their privilege of having fun by work. Not like the capitalism country, mostly, the tips decides what kind of smile you can have in a restaurant. The Vietnamese are a lot lovely by this point of view. Well, I means the Vietnamese in countryside.  So,thanks for the communist. You make people lazy but friendly.

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