Strange things
So this is the real story that happened to me today. Not a big deal, but combining all of these happening in one day in just a few hours, it's just a little weird.
- I was in a bathroom at the Adaptive Path birthday party (was so much fun!) and got a call from an unknown number to my cellphone. I got the call and the guy was talking to me in Japanese and I thought it's some Japanese guy visiting here, but he was actually calling to some girl Keiko that I don't know. So I just answered "No you're calling a wrong number", of couese in Japanese.
- We left the party and came into an Irish pub O'Brien and on the radio it was playing Dragon Ash, a Japanese hip-hop band that was hot like 5 years ago in Japan. I was like "OMG which channel is this? How could this happen?"
- I was looking at the log of my cellphone and the wrong number call that I received was made on 9:12pm. Hmm, 9/12 is my birthday.
- We left the pub, I came home and turned on my Mac to see some videocast shows. On diggnation Kevin Rose was talking about a Japanese tech blog site that I told him the other day at Six Apart holiday party.
It just sounds like some Japanese obsession now that I'm feeling I won't come back to Japan, which I talked to a couple of people today at Foo Bar at the office. Hmm.
If this is me in Haruki Murakami's story, I would probably get a hot shower, eat a sandwich, drink a glass of beer while being confused and say "whatever" (やれやれ).
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Agh, you guys are really good at making up stories!
Maybe I just opened the door to the other side of this world when I opened the bathroom door in 111 Mina. I'll wait for a call from Keiko tonight. This is for the odd chapters.
Recently, I was walking back from lunch to the 6A office on 4th street and happened to have the kapibara key chain from Nifty hanging off my phone from my back pocket. Completely by chance, someone said, "I love those kapibaras."
He had been to Japan and bought a few of them himself. How random, but it made me so happy that he not only noticed it, but recognized it.
World getting smaller...