Confessions of a Badboy in Japan

C'mon everybody lets make Cocaine cool

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:56:00 +0000

Magic Lantern,
Project Carnivore
Whats that?
Oh you say you want some more?
Then lets kill Obama !!
C'mon let's even the score!

as a 2007 Department of Defense report puts it, the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10²⁴ bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

It needs that capacity because, according to a recent report by Cisco, global Internet traffic will quadruple from 2010 to 2015, reaching 966 exabytes per year. (A million exabytes equal a yottabyte.) In terms of scale, Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO, once estimated that the total of all human knowledge created from the dawn of man to 2003 totaled 5 exabytes. And the data flow shows no sign of slowing. In 2011 more than 2 billion of the world’s 6.9 billion people were connected to the Internet. By 2015, market research firm IDC estimates, there will be 2.7 billion users. Thus, the NSA’s need for a 1-million-square-foot data storehouse. Should the agency ever fill the Utah center with a yottabyte of information, it would be equal to about 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text.

Click here for Fear

Everything that happened to me post 2003 (I'm free) was a direct result of having my rights violated...them getting caught doing so and all they knew and learned was rendered useless and they ....never seemed to give a fuck. My life...all of it (30 years) was a thing they reached to take away. The Feds are scary, they simply walked away to get busy destroying another life.

That story about the woman at the Airport was true as they all are. She blew it. She couldn't stop herself from being a bitch...being who she is...a human.

The guys who broke in and put that thing under the table were never identified and they surely continue their craft to this day. I listen to what the I.R.S did and it blows my mind and I already had personal experiences so that isn't disbelief no no no.....

...it's just a mind fuck that folks sit in front of Congress and say they don't remember a name...a date...they don't have day planners electronic or otherwise....these guys run the fucking I.R.S. and they can't remember who they spoke to about the biggest scandal since Watergate ? If YOU tell THEM (the I.R.S) that you don't have what they need ...you're....you're in big fucking trouble.

The former head of the I.R.S was alternately bashed and coddled by rotating Republicans and Democrats. They of the 17% approval ratings are so out of touch it is frightening.

They story about the data collection is fact. I mean what the I.R.S did and what the N.S.A is doing. It's maybe more than you can get your head around.

They are running 2 things in parallel and 1 is the manner to hoard data..all of it...every fucking stroke of every key from everywhere all the time.

(A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

The 2nd is a manner..an Algorithm ( let me mention here that Google is highlighting the terms "yottabyte" and "septillion" because they are apparently not recognized words yet??)

But yeah...the system with which to tie the data together in a form that is similar to a Movie like..what was that Cruise flick? Minority Report? They just put in your name and you...all of you every fucking bit is right there. That is the goal. Imagine folks with bad characters and agendas (who doesn't have agendas btw?) who could flip your world upside down with a couple of key pushes. Maybe no key pushes? Google's new glasses seem a lot like the stuff in the movie I mentioned.

Tea Party, Destroy the Government, Global Information Grid. (I'm planting flags for the confused) You should know that the words typed have been horded as they are being typed. This post doesn't need to be "posted" for these terms to sit this post in a certain sector of the data storage facility.

If you think I'm joking you didn't watch the spectacle in Capital Hill.

If you're an American you shoulda seen it. America is gone folks. She is never ever coming back. The shock and outrage is being measured and calculated and future estimates and models are being built with them.

If you leap from Proxy to Proxy you must know that doesn't do anything for you as it relates to anonymity.

Consider an electrical circuit as a model for something that runs in series. A series of...

You get it?

No?

You might feel that your views are fine and reading comic books with the depiction of kids in sexual situations is perfectly fine (for example) but another may not...or at least estimate that it could have a net effect of "Bad for you" and thus deem it relevant and useful in undermining you and your view, your credibility, for reasons big or small, right or wrong, everything you do now can later be put into any narrative they build around you and you'll be stuck.

Google hit this site after the Child Porn bait post that draws some of the most disgusting folks on the net from across the world. I am glad they did that. They did it by remote and did it "live" for periods of 20 minutes up to 6 hours and viewed everything including unpublished drafts. They own this platform and it's within their rights by way of the E.U.L.A

They know the posts you have never seen. They know more about me than any reader and they did it because of red flag words.

You are not hiding anything from anyone. The software is designed to defeat foreign Govs so you are extra fish in the net that will be tossed into another bin to be sorted at a later date.

They wire tapped the cellphones and dumped the logs of their home #'s as well...Associated Press members... were tele fucking ported back to the Nixon era. You ....you are a fucking nobody to them. They will fucking crush you while ordering a fucking Chai latte'

Now you know. Don't forget.

not too loud 'cause the baby's sleepin

I wonder if it knows what the world is keepin

Up both sleeves while he lay there dreamin

Me and my robot tip-toe 'round creepin

I had to turn my back on what got you paid

I couldn't see through the hood on me like Abu Ghraib

But I'd like to thank the streets that drove me crazy

And all the televisions out there that raised me, I was

Daydream

I fell asleep beneath the flowers

For a couple of hours

On a beautiful day

Daydream

I dream of you amid the flowers

For a couple of hours

Such a beautiful day

Funeral 4 a friend. Pt II

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:47:00 +0000

I'll kill all you fuckers!!!!!

Noooooooo!!!!!!!

That sucking sound you hear right now...is NOT your woman taking care of me. Maybe the other times? I do get a particular rush outta women with wedding rings servicing me b4 or after I service them. Looking at you Corrine...can't be any more clear than this ;)

Anyway if your done being offended or trying to copy the pic ...follow me now.

The Adventures of a Foreign Salaryman in Tokyo is a blog that has been around before I knew any of you. He commented on my School blog when I was talking about parties and lesson planning and all that shit that nobody gave a fuck about. He left comments and it meant a lot to me. He still has that blog linked. It will be revived and his dead site will be the only one linked to it.

I honestly thought he was gay 5 years agoish and his avatar just reinforced that image. I thought his Gf /future wife was a gimmick to keep the not so confident "straight" guys from getting uncomfortable and running away.

That's him on the left...seriously...check his avatar..the other "guy" is his estrogen taking Thai man girl.

He was like money in the bank. If you left a comment you were gonna get one. I compared him and Loco and deemed his tit for tat style as being one I wanted to follow. I have tried.

He knows more about me via the net than any other blogger because of the time and the being there before this site began. He was the first at the table and never really left. I just altered my blogroll from showing the 10 most recently updated to showing them all. I want his site to get hits from me because he is legendary. The blogosphere is changing for the worse because of platforms like Twitter which have dwindled acceptable/functional attention spans down to seconds.

I recently found this gem of a site but it's getting harder and harder to find such sites.

Corrine... who's lips were designed just for my rodney is hardly on the blogosphere anymore and I am losing my reasons for being on it to.

The return of the output (the feedback) is a major reason to even do this and diminished returns are reality.

Cannot be ignored. I only have 24 hours in a day too. Salaryman just reminds that time is limited and life goes on...it's just a fucking blog...mine his...and yours.

I'm much closer to the end than the beginning.

That sucking sound...again...NOT your woman taking care of me...is the sound of the vacuum created by a significant site with an outstanding author closing shop.

4 U my friend.

I took this pic...I believe you said you liked it?

ALT's are NOT Teachers!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:28:00 +0000

Just saw a post at Kamo's and had a Pet Peeve tweaked!

So I,
Jumped onto FB and found 12 former local ALT's that I have met personally and 4 are back in School, 1 got married 1 works for Mr Mustard (I don't know what the fuck that is?) 1 works at Red Lobster 1 works at an unnamed restaurant 2 are "Christian Volunteers" and 2... I can't see what they are doing now...because they are probably unemployed?

Those are 12 people. American, British and Canadian. I took the first 12 I found that I had met personally and have since left. Not random but not exclusionary. I didn't omit anyone because they didn't support my point and I had only supposed what I now know is true.
They were never teachers. They may say (they do) "I was a teacher" but they were at best attentive and creative assistants, pseudo Ambassadors to a language and a culture mostly foreign to their students. Unfortunately the language and cultural understanding gap is often not narrowed much by under prepared frightened disillusioned foreigners who's only skill is that English happens to be their mother tongue.

There are some, though not nearly enough, really good teachers in Japan and they have all seen folks like I am talking about. How the fuck did they get through the interview process? They can barely look a fellow expat in the eye while talking unless drunk and they thought they could wing it in front of 30 kids? Really?
What kind of special dumb is that?

BTW
Kids don't smell fear...they see stupid. If you are scared to stand in front of 10,20,30,40 kids then you really REALLY have no fucking business being a teacher don't you think? Overestimating yourself is understandable but underestimating others ability to see you doing that isn't.

Update..after some buttons got pushed..
My teaching skills, bend your teaching skills, over the edge of a dirty bed and fucks it bloody.

Aaaah ha ha ha!!

Tokyo Devastated by Massive Earthquake

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0000

Alternate Working Title:

Why I'll never live in Tokyo.

I got 2 cars for you to look at today.

Car #1 is under recall. You might never experience a problem related to the fault but it..the car's flaw..it could kill ya. It has been known to do that.

Car #2 isn't under recall and there is no reason to think it..the car.. will ever be the cause of your death.

Which one do you want? Do you some time to think?

Famed Japanese seismologist Katsuhiko Ishibashi has been sounding the alarm for years. His research, first presented in 1976, found that large earthquakes occur just southwest of Tokyo along the Pacific coast at intervals of about 100 to 150 years. Called the Tokai earthquakes, these tremors are the result of mounting pressure from two converging tectonic plates grinding past each other.

Underneath Tokyo, Ishibashi says, there are three converging plates. “There hasn’t been a large-scale earthquake around Tokyo since 1923,” he says. “There’s a high probability a violent tremor will strike the region [in the foreseeable future], stronger than the one that hit two years ago. It could be catastrophic.”

Tokyo’s government issued its own warning in August 2012 when it outlined a worst-case disaster scenario: a 9.1-magnitude quake unleashing a 34-m (112 ft.) tsunami along the Pacific coastline south of Tokyo, causing an estimated 323,000 deaths. Officials said the report was designed to encourage better disaster planning.

This isn't rocket science but it's not Tarot cards either. It's gonna happen. It is over due. I see folks in Florida getting their homes blown to pieces and I feel nothing but awe at the utter stupidity. A Hurricane whacking the Florida coastline..gee...who woulda thunk?

I jump out of planes and off of bridges, cliffs, bungee platforms and get into fights with folks and groups of folks and zap myself with stun guns for fun (and others of course) and partake in a variety of adrenaline getting stuff but I'm.....I don't wanna live in Tokyo because knowing an alarm is gonna go off but not knowing when it's gonna go off ...that just doesn't do it for me.

If it happens tomorrow I will be hoping the animal rescues go better than in Tohoku but for the humans...you...you who choose to roll the dice? I will mock you with a sarcastic post. The bottom of the post will have links to animal rescue info though.

Keep...THIS in mind:

The Gov said 323,000 dead in the Tokyo area in a worse case scenario...right? Well the Nuclear disaster in Tohoku was caused in part by the Gov underestimating loads and stresses on facilities. The worst case scenarios predicted by the gov were not as bad as the reality in Tohoku. Keep that gem in mind the next time you think the gov might be trying to scare you...oh....oh shit...no.....they are trying NOT to fucking scare you.

If you like Japan (You should be worried)

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:46:00 +0000

The youth of Japan is the future of Japan
and as surreal as the video is (forget that it's admitting what the Japanese government pretty much denies) it is not totally shocking. I teach kids who are studying a 2nd language and they can articulate themselves pretty well and they all...all...ALL have a very warped view of Korea and China. The media is more powerful than any politician or political party. They have massive influence on the consumers of their product.

I have never seen so much rage without any clear point or goal since coming to Japan. I challenge my students to explain the benefit to this country in all this? I have not received a coherent intelligent answer yet.

What's the endgame?

In case you are too lazy to watch a Junior High girl rage for less than a minute:

She threatens to massacre Koreans in the Korean district of Osaka? She invokes Nanking/Nanjing as an example and all I'm thinking is...the cops upon hearing this amazing spectacle and technically illegal act...are non reactive not a one seems at all surprised at the sight of a 14-16 year old girl threatening to massacre a whole group of folks living legally and under the protection of the same laws as everyone else in Japan because of their ethnicity.

You can insert this shit (ignorant racism) easy but you can never dig it out. "Japan is Doomed" is a cliche' a website....a sad statement of fact.

Some Japs...they no like mixed pairs

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:06:00 +0000

I get looked at a lot.

I get it.

It tires me.
But I can leave anytime cuz the Airports are always waiting. I stay cuz I ain't ready yet. I put myself through this and it's harder sometimes.

I enjoyed this today:
I pointed at the Hanami tree :)

Even on a day when I flew with the birds a dickhead snapped me outta my happiness and cost me a girl.

When you know you "know". When a person is looking at you because they are not in approval of a Japanese girl with an American/ or other boy it is clear if you've experienced it.

I have been through this before and it ended the same. Me in a combini parking lot with a girl on the way to gone. She told me to ignore him or we (she and I) were going to have problems so...I ignored her.

When I got out of the car and walked up to him he suddenly was more interested in reading the Zero Coke label then looking at me...at us....

What? Not interesting enough anymore? Too close 4 comfort asshole dick headed bitch?

While he was busy being a fucking moron reading a label with me right in his face...she...she was leaving in every kinda way.

The fuck??....I was having a good day.

Hanami from 1000 meters

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 10:19:00 +0000

There are no Hanami in this post....

I will go again next week.. to do this again and there will be and I might finally give a fuck to look at em'...maybe?

At ground level I couldn't possibly give less of a fuck about flowers on trees or anywhere else but from 1000 meters up?...They might look pretty cool.

The guy who is gonna hold my life in his hands doesn't even know my name.......then again either do the airline pilots when I fly back to Hawaii and if they fuck up I might go down in a fireball and hit the ocean at

mach 3 or 4...this is better

As i cruised off to an altitude just over 1000 meters I thought......

"this little white helmet...what is it for?"

If I land and my head is the first thing to touch the ground....I got fucking problems that the little padded shell is not gonna help with much. Then I thought if we fall from up here and land on our faces they could pull back the caps and ID us easy...black haired dude...Japanese...Blond....Gaijin. I was honestly thinking that then just enjoyed the view

If you are bored in Japan you are not trying hard enough. I have bungee jumped and Para glided during the lamest months in this Island country. Next week if your sitting under a Hanami tree and your thinking..."I wonder what this looks like from 1000 meters up?" (bird's eye view)...just ask me. :)...I'm guessing it looks like pink bird shit on bunched up astro-turf???

Help Japan....help you!

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:04:00 +0000

You and Japan

Any relationship built on such a fragile foundation is bound to fail. You left _____ and came to Japan thinking ____ and you were fucking wrong. Head up your ass kinda wrong.

e.g. : "Whoa I'm in Japan".

Girl starts blog before coming to Japan. Bright, sparkly, hesitant ..I was drawn by the new teacher part...I wanted to watch..believe...I even gave advice. Predictably and sadly it turned into an" I'm Ugly", Japan is not easy to live in, What do J girls have that I don't have? (Answer to the last question....a Japanese Vagina and probably a lot more confidence)

How is Tsuki magazine going? I shit on that bad idea and I am glad I did. 10,000 likes on FB gets you what?....say it with me now...JACK SHIIIIIIT!!!!

I am (though not as much as most apparently). A lot of folks are and they admit it to varying degrees in bits and pieces, if you pay attention, it is right there. Most folks are beyond angry..they are fucking miserable and you all love it...you need company.

Loco does one of the better posts written by a blogger in Japan this past year. Gets not nearly the attention it deserves.It was well written, informative full of pictures and insights into him. Shit you don't know. Then he does a Nigga wit a gun everybody duck!!!...post...and here they come...the fucking morons with pent up stupidity.

Does he puke in his mouth knowing he has to be a shock jock for these fools. Personally I think yes. Does he spit the taste out or grin and swallow? Only he knows that.

I...I had this really craaazy idea.
You see..I thought since there were so many foreigners doing the same job as me over here that we could all talk shop. I know it's crazy right?...talk about teaching...wu wu whaaaat?

Then I saw a post on JapS*c about inflate able fuck dolls and it was getting lots of attention..my school posts?...nada. Fuck dolls? So I shut it down partly because the students pics were being downloaded in bunches and I don't even wanna know why...I just shut ...it...down

Folks said "I don't wanna talk about my job after I finish" Really? You wanna....um.....talk about racism and
shit that has been re hashed to fucking death..buried...un buried and then beaten to death again?

Let's give racism a new name (Micro aggression) so we can talk about it more...O.K.? New wrapper, same flavor. mmmmmm yummy!!

This pic below. I can dig this. I wanna see more.

I wanna see and talk about tools and gadgets. My Computer rig is beasting..a 24" next to a new 27". MusicBee running a Winamp VST wrapper and a poshifit EQ plugin...fuckin awesome! BBQ's, Teaching, Music. I surf Lifehacker and How-to-Geek and Gizmodo and Celtics blog and Bleeding Green Nation. I don't check Japan related forums because it is the most dysfunctional buncha fucks on the worldwide web. It's fucking depressing. Sucks the life and every ray of sunshine out of my heart just to read the shit.....so I rarely do...get sad and leave.

I got a Confession...Japan ain't bad. My problems the few I have, are mine. Where I'm at physically is not nearly as important as where I'm at mentally. I kinda dig this place. Sorry to disappoint but my hate runs low.

I will go "Billy" and just post whatever. Eventually enough folks will tune in or not....and I get to cut one of my last bad habits......you.

My Misery Cup is empty..you can stop watching now.

Watching Albinos with a Japanese girl

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:30:00 +0000

Alternate Working Title:

3 "Wows" in a Day

"WOW" #1
10am

Approaching the Kindergarten/Pre-School I noted a massive amount of folks milling about and figured it was some San-kan-bi (open campus) for the incoming students and parents. But looking back there were lots of women without kids?

I entered the auditorium and as I was getting ready.... a ton....all of the folks came in and sat and stood. Cameras video the whole deal. I was confused by I had to stay on point so I went through what is a controlled explosion of energy called a kids lesson. The staff afterwards was odd...happy/annoyed/surprised.

That commercial I was in wearing the Dethrone Royalty Hoodie in (3 posts down) ...remember? Apparently it was an attention grabber and the parents who usually skip the open English class they have once a year...my 1st...were...they changed their schedules and got themselves there...and they brought friends......they were there and nobody was prepared for their being there in such great numbers. Until the last moment nobody seemed to know exactly what was going on?

This...this next part is for you teachers who view but don't comment:
I set myself up by wearing a fucking dumb hoodie on T.V. commercial day and they came in #'s not seen before...and they left wholly satisfied and impressed and the boss of bosses was impressed by it all. I delivered like always...when the lights are up and it's time to go there is not a better teacher in this entire fucking country. You take that to the bank. You go booze it up and cry in your beer you fucking middling half assed hacks.

I found out later in the day that it was all about me. I tend to think I'm the center of the Universe. When I was for a little part of Japan I was unaware until after it was over.

Who watches local cable anymore?? Apparently... A Lot of fucking people..that's who

"WOW" #2
3pm

I have watched the videos on other folks posts and I would like the same consideration. Have you ever watched a politically active Albino? Who writes dope lyrics and edited the best vid I have seen since....I can't think of one better actually? The moment he goes from mono to stereo with the laws rocket edit is...fucking ill...wow. You should watch...this......is hip hop. Socially aware message driven get kicked off the Verizon tour cuz you won't edit the inflammatory lyrics type ill. He gets down with the Roots and folks...he....slipped under my radar

National Slavery Museum...you know where it is?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Slavery_Museum
It never got off the ground...less I read the link wrong?

National American Indian Holocaust Museum?
There is none....Smithsonian does a gig but it's not like...

The United States Holocaust Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/

One group was killed on another continent by other folks....not Americans. The other was bought,enslaved and maginalized for 300 years by The U.S. on U.S. continent...the other was exterminated ...women and children included while flying an American flag. Which of these 3 got a Tax payer funded Museum first?

You ain't gotta like it but you better accept it...in all it's glorius fuckedupedness.

Video ain't about that above...that's my rant...Brother Ali just got me heated about something that always bothered me.

The Vid

Try and separate a man from his soul
You'll only strengthen him

and lose your own
Well shoot that fucker if he walk near the throne
Remind him that this is MY home

(now I'M gone)..

(Somewhere the Dead Prez and Chuck D are clappin' @ the lines above)

Brother Ali...says the looks of Albino and near blindness made his come up hard...I get it...he can sure as fuck write...man......a blind man that can see better than you and me.

Watch the vid. Headphones best but...man the edit to jump from mono is genius. The whole fucking thing is.

"WOW" #3

8:30pm

16 year old H.S. girl I have taught for 5 years and she's fluent. She was diagramming why she doesn't like being a young woman in Japan.

She wants to be judged for the content of her character and not the clothes she wears or the brands she buys,or having to act less intelligent than she is to keep a young J Boy feeling better about himself She wants the same consideration she thinks men get. She's smart and good looking and she is not in the mood to be taken anything less than seriously 100% of the time.

She thinks society telling folks to give equal rights to women is in itself creating the condition. Special consideration whether your on the get or give side is just re framed sexism.

She is 16.

There is hope for the youth. (she drew this)

I showed her some politically active Hip Hop. Hence the title.

My Pledge to Japanophiles

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 04:38:00 +0000

Promissory Note:

On this date of [March 12, 2103], in return for valuable consideration received, the undersigned borrower[s]
herein referred to as [soulless,shameless Japanopliles] also known as Dipshit's, Morons, Self absorbed Japan nut hugging talentless ALT's jointly and severally promise to pay to [Badboy], the "Lender", the sum of [Staying back where the fuck it is you live which is not Japan] , together with *interest thereon at the rate of [RATE] percent ([RATE]%) per annum.

**Interest waived in lieu of said performance**

[Select from the following provisions, as desired]

Modification - No modification or waiver of any of the terms of this Agreement shall be allowed unless [Badboy] fails to provide occasional images of Japanese girls, Hanami, Temples, Pics of generic food item taken in Japan. Any one of the mentioned, additional and/or all mentioned and un mentioned. Breach or default shall be deemed a waiver of any subsequent breach or default of the same or similar nature. [soulless,shameless Japanopliles] shall stay the fuck where they are and enjoy these morsels and nuggets given under performance requirements by [Badboy].

Choice of Law - All terms and conditions of this Note shall be interpreted under the laws of [Common fucking sense, in the name of whatever God you choose].

Note the Famous castle in the background (upper right)...behind the Muthaphukin Gundam !!!! That's a 2 for 1 and is not required under the agreement..consider it a sign of good faith.

I took these pics.

Maybe the "Cool Dad" and hopefully not the "Bought that with money from kids University fund...Dad"

I'm talking to you.

After years of running my own School and watching some 30 or so area ALT's come and go I have come to believe there are 4 kinds of ALT's

1. Those who come here with dreams of inspiring children to study English and embrace the culture. They however end up in a School where they are told how and what to teach. Their uniqueness is crushed by the machine (the local or prefectural education board). They become bitter and decide to return home before the end of their contract because they can't stand the difference between their imagination and their new reality.

2. Those who come here with dreams of inspiring children to study English and embrace the culture. They however end up in a School where they are told how and what to teach. They find ways around the machine. They convince the machine by necessary deception via surprise lesson plans that turn out greater than their Japanese teachers expected. They change their own reality and every ALT that follows in their path. They are great. They are teachers!

3.Those who come here to enjoy Japan and study Kanji or Japanese. They speak to teachers in Japanese because they want to practice even though they are supposed to be sharing their culture and their language (English). They surf the internet during school hours for reasons that have nothing to do with class planning. They start thinking about and preparing for life after Japan soon after arriving and realizing teaching ain't easy. They are bad teachers and usually not even good people. The English levels in Japan are low partly because of them. Thankfully many local Schools are contracting with local foreigners so this is becoming less of a problem.

4. The 4th type are the lucky beneficiaries of the 2nd type. They come with their dreams of teaching and luckily land in a School where another ALT showed them the possibilities of the position and the unique effect a great English teacher can have on the students and the staff. The average English scores in the School rise as a direct result of the creative ALT's efforts.

I respect the 1st type because they know their own limits and they go home. They don't bother anyone except themselves if they return home quickly.

I respect the 2nd type because it was me before I opened my own School. They take the hard road because it is the right road. They are teachers and have personal pride and consider the students above all else or....they have too much pride to fail which leads to the same good result. It's not the "means" it's the "ends"
High scores> everything else.

I loathe the 3rd type because THEY are a part of the problem and ignore it because they never really wanted to be a teacher. They wanted to travel around Japan. They use their job teaching kids like it's a "meal ticket". Go home, save money, and return to Japan using your own savings and stop being a part of the problem.

The 4th type is lucky because of the ALT that came before them. They will probably never realize how lucky they are but that's O.K.! Just be a good teacher and set the table for the one who will follow you.

I took the "Red pill" long before I came to Japan. That's why I'm a great teacher. Scores are everything and my students get em'!! If you took the "blue pill".....go home or stay home, it's O.K. This wasn't meant to be your reality ;)

地獄へ落ちろ Yeah..I'll see ya there

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:50:00 +0000

Alternate Working Title:

"Karma Delivered"

Ni- nen- mai

I was showing a kitten to a woman with a son... he was a bit odd and stood many feet away. I chalked it up to him being scared of me....but it was something else. I shoulda known. They lived 2 towns over. Why drive 40 minutes when their local pet clinic is much bigger and has far more pics of cute kittens on it's bulletin boards..why come here?

I saw the woman and her son today by chance..

"How's the cat?"

Oh...she's gone.

"Oh wow..what happened?"

I don't know she just disappeared?

(I'm ..my radar is just drawing me to his eyes and he can't hide it...the secret..it's raising the corner of his mouth into an almost smirk)

I remembered that day more clearly and it was her son that wanted the cat..she said...but he wouldn't look at it or come near it. The kitten vanished 1 week after they took it home.

I followed him to a vending machine while talking through closed teeth and asked him what happened to the cat....he just ignored my words and sealed the deal...O.K., that's not true, he was about to seal the deal.

Gets in the car and powers the window down as his mother backs away and he says 地獄へ落ちろ ("go to Hell".. in Japanese roughly)

I canceled my last 5 classes on zero notice cuz I was livid/confused/felt used and ate about 4.5man to go into "Hunter mode".

Found the # she gave in my records. I'm OCD to the fucking core!

I called the clinic near them as I know the chief Vet nurse who is...my student. Apparently he had "adopted a few too many pets" and they were never seen again so they politely refused to allow any more adoption/abductions.

I went to his house 2 hours ago (7pm).

Teacher fashion (Drez 4 suksez ;)

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:41:00 +0000

Nobody said......well they mighta' thought they did but I woulda' remembered.

A commercial is gonna be making the rounds on cable T.V. and I'm wearing this while teaching about 35 kids with the ipad at this areas largest Kindergarten/Pre school. I forgot to take it off cuz they forgot to turn the heat on or they turned it on too late.

As I was sitting right on the floor and the kids were in their little chairs in a "U" shape in front of me a dude with a big ass camera (like at my beach party) came panning from behind me to the right of me around till he was facing me and my not ready for prime time outfit.

It is advertising and contracting/ re-contracting season and I have been so busy arranging my own classes I forgot this might happen since it does almost every year everywhere in Japan.

My bad....

So they pay 10,000 per 30min x2 (20,000) for the hour. They set the price and I set the terms almost a year ago exactly.

I don't wear ties or anything besides what my own students see..which is whatever I want to wear.

I teach my style and no one else's.

Those 2 terms are the only ones I gave a shit about.

After the 2nd lesson the Temple's Chief/Boss of Bosses came up to me laughing and tugged on my hoodie and said "very nice", winked...then walked away.

THAT'S when I realized I had forgotten to take it off :(

She is super hot for her age and if she was a bit younger her flirting would put her at risk of betraying her vows...she is big money high education nice looks type hot and she knows it.

I am going to be in an add for them...the biggest most famous of them all, and she was absolutely...focused on............ the kids and their beaming faces and all the English they were speaking and my hoodie with a pic of Cain Velasquez beating the shit out of another man splashed on my back was meaningless and amusing and nothing more.

I respect the woman and her outstanding facility which dwarfs all the others and I would not have worn it had I realized it was still on and certainly not during a lesson which was being filmed for advertising. I have "my way" but I also have respect. I woulda shown it more clearly had I known.

As I was walking away thinking...

I noted the money envelope was thicker than usual..?....I looked in and there was a note and it said:
"Best teacher, please try again this year for us. Very Happy. Children enjoy this year please" (smiley face and heart mark).

If you wear a tie or something you don't like because someone somewhere thinks it makes any fucking difference....I feel bad for ya. I blew it today but I never wore anything near what the previous teacher did..who was contracted by a big chain school and put the kids to fucking sleep with his Eric Carle reading time or whatever the fuck he did.

My friends back in Hawaii wonder how I'm making it out here?

Shit bruh, I'm just being me...maybe a little too much sometimes ;)

Remember kiddies in ALT land or soon to be

It ain't about what you're wearin'...
it's about what you're sharin'

If I am not living proof of that I just don't know what is??

btw...

Still never gonna get why T.V. station cameras are still pretty damn big. It was a new model...big ass camera and they always are?

This pic was from a commercial on "Racial tolerance, peace and harmony" and was paid for by the Japanese branch of UNESCO. It ran 3 times a week for about a year and the irony was it was while I was beating the crap outta folks. Imagine having been hit by me and then seeing me...ME...on a UNESCO commercial for Peace....in your living room...again and again on multiple stations.

Life is trippy.......and while the camera's you film life with get smaller with everything else the network cameras.....they just don't?

The 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:48:00 +0000

The 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse,
will open his seal and it will contain a mirror...I just know it.

:35 Seconds....hang in there..let the vid roll...listen.

In an incredibly bizzare moment ....the most bizzare I have ever had while sitting in front of a computer, I watched a video of a man who's videos I have, and have gathered for some time. I did not have THIS one.

I met this guy. In passing...shortly before he passed and I kinda became a fan after that...not before. He seemed so genuine. Mr superstar giving off a vibe like he's been the dude sitting behind you all through Elementary school and you go way back. They have a Biopic about him in the works but 2 famous directors have walked away because getting someone to depict him is nearly impossible.

I get it.

End of this part...

Almost everything around you is total bullshit and you choose to ignore it I hope...hope that it's not that you don't even realize it.

I remember being stuck in loops as a kid. I would latch on to something that was clearly bullshit but nobody would say anything...not adults not anyone. What the fuck is going on? I couldn't get it?

Beginning of another important part..

Please watch the video.

I knew it would unravel. Why was he doing this to himself?

Botticelli's illustration of Dante's Inferno shows insincere flatterers grovelling in excrement in the second pit of the eighth circle.

Was the leader of the last remaining super power really surrounded by sycophants?

Yes...yes apparently he was.

A highly intelligent man both academically and socially was being undone by himself.

I have mentioned before that I was removed as President of the University debate team and it was because of the video you hopefully watched. She was blaming Reaganomics and erred terribly by mentioning Clinton in a term that was ridiculous. By any measure he was not a character role model. He cheated those he knew, crushed his opponents to get where he was and in the end lied to everyone including family and closest confidants over a fucking blowjob.

I wanted her to explain how she could...in light of what we knew to be fact...how she could use his character as a selling point? It was off topic.. my job was to convince the audience that my view was the superior one based of facts and empirical data but she had just given me the shortcut. I was insulted and she had shown a "tell"...her political passion was just too high to be debating this topic while mine was and is not. They are all full of shit to varying degrees. I politely and methodically requested a clarification on a pointless topic (to the debate) and she could have noted that and moved back on point but she was off and spinning with anger until she exploded into tears and told me to go fuck myself (pretty much) as she stormed off the podium.

I...I was just stating the obvious and I lost my position and membership in the team because I made a girl cry...at a University debate...while telling the truth about a lie. Just typing that makes me laugh and puke in my mouth at about the same exact moment. Unfucking real.

I was recently reminded of a site that has a false set of facts about me supposedly spoken?/written? by me which is false. I contacted Google and the sites admin and was told I had to provide an email and password to the site..I don't have one BECAUSE I NEVER JOINED!!

So there I am, looking at a mail written by an anonymous person accusing me of lying..or at least implying and after wasting 1 hour of my life I just said fuck it. I learned a trick I didn't know before so it wasn't all for nothing but looking over my shoulder to see it was around 1 am and I'm even fucking responding to a person who has never met me was just....made me wanna ..I didn't wanna...I didn't wanna look in the mirror...what the fuck am I doing??

End of that part..

We ...we are so fucked up this is like a twisted poem

Returning to the start.

I saw 2pac's video and was excited because it was clearly made while promoting a film that was released after he died and was filmed just prior to his death which was very close to when I had met him. "I met him right around THIS time" I was thinking.

Then BAM..the biggest moment of my internet life.

I have told many folks over the course of my life about my "check-up" system. I look in a mirror for a while and try to look into my own eyes and beyond. I have been doing this since I was a kid. The amount of time I spend and the feeling I get afterword is directly related to my condition...my deep condition. I have recommended others try it and they all...every single one of them looked at me like I was a fucking loon.

Ever walk by a mirror and think for some reason that you didn't wanna really look right now? Oh, yeah...yes...you feel me now. It wasn't the reason you tell yourself (why you just glanced and moved on) nobody including Fortune 500 CEO's are so busy they can't spare a minute for themselves.

You lie to yourself. The mirror doesn't lie to you. It might show you that your lying to yourself though so why bother? Just another piece of shittiness to deal with when life is already giving you more than you can handle.

Your never gonna get better.

Where were you when you were 13 going on 14?..How about 22? I was not a free person. I was letting the game of life slip through my fingers and I have still placed myself beyond almost everyone you have ever personally met. How? How was I not choking on the dust of "regular folks"? I guess regular is the new spectacular? Your not satisfied with being O.K......you just don't have the guts to be anything better. Your scared of the REAL outstanding because you think your not built to..stand out. Tell yourself that that's the way you want it...you might believe your own bullshit because you've been swallowing everyone else's for so long. You didn't dream of being regular. We don't do that.

We are all bigger versions of the children we once were. Our levels of empathy the amount of control we have over our tempers, the ability to know that this plus that will =_______, without having to actually see the "this or the "that" is is the same now as when we were kids. We are jaded and disillusioned and we cope but we will never get back what the world took from us. I know I was not as good as I coulda been but I will be as good as I can be. I embrace my weaknesses like a warm blanket on a cold night because it is who I am. My complexes are what makes me who I am and every single person reading this is saddled by their own baggage. Nobody is heaping anything on you. You have gathered your own baggage and you have never quite gotten around to cleaning yourself up.

I visited the mirror. It didn't go well. I'm not sure exactly what is wrong but I'm not O.K., nobody around me physically or otherwise seems to be either. I will work it out. I always do.

First step in fixing a problem is admitting you have one...that sounds so easy...doesn't it?

Few facts:

I don't bitch about money cuz I got a lot.

I don't bitch about my job because I love being a teacher.

I don't bitch about my schedule because I make it..I'm the boss.

I don't bitch about whatever girl I'm with because......I could just not be with her.

I don't bitch about the folks around me because folks respect me or they're scared and the result looks exactly the same.

Why do you bitch about shit that you could change?

Why don't you try harder?

What is wrong with you?

Why can't you tell folks to show you some fucking goddamned respect cuz you know you earned it...and if you know you didn't why can't you shut the fuck up?

Why do you mingle with folks who's opinions you really don't respect?

Why do my posts about rage get more attention than my posts about happiness? Why?

Why do you put off today what you shoulda done yesterday?

Why are you always afraid to be yourself?

What is fucking wrong with you?

The bullshit is all around all the time and it's all we can do to just steal a moment to be with ourselves and look at ourselves. Try...try to look at yourself and imagine not being you but another....how do you see yourself now....can you see your bullshit now? Is it clear to you? You can fake your way through 99% of this life and the people you meet but there are folks like me out there and I can see you because I can see me.

*The opening video means everything to this post.*

/first post I have written in almost a year. thanksforyourpatience

Japanese girls breasts come with labels

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:00:00 +0000

True story....

Was trying to get a nipple shot when I spotted what musta been a transfer from a new bra? She laughed..I laughed...then we fucked like ...I...I meant to say we made sweet precious tender love.

**cue Lionel Richie /Barry White love song now**

No nasty dance without the romance first.

So...you remember the graffiti thing?......she wasn't having any of that.

Me (played by me of course)

I'm gonna write something on your ass O.K.?

Her:
What?...Are you joking?

Me:
*Holding pen*
**feeling an odd gaze come upon me like I'm some kinda secret FREAK...**

"Nah..I was just messing with you..I would never actually write ON a girls body...shit....wow....right? Duh...noperz...neverz"

(fuckin woopz...some chickz are down for whatever and others...not......not down for whatevers..this would be a "not"...but I'm a soldier and made it work without much fuss which is to say I just scribbled something on a notepad very fucking quickly and said I wanted to get a pic of the lotion without saying I had done the same Valentines Day love package with another girl... with the same lotion AND SHE LET ME WRITE ON HER!!!!.....nah I just took what I could and scraped the freak dust off me)

Massage, sex, bath,sex

Earlier in the day.... (The story in the story)
Went to the same flower shop as last year...I'm with another girl and the guy remembers me and so does his wife...they own the shop and he has this odd Japanese hipster jazz goatee and che' hat. His wife asks what I'm going to do?....Do I need the flowers nicely wrapped?

(She knows the answer...she remembers me...why does she ask?)

"Nah, just rough wrap em'...I'm gonna peel off the petals and sprinkle them on a bubble bath for Princess over here"

She smiles and looks over at her husband with a pause....

I'm imagining now...kinda telepathic paraphrasing right here:

iiii ne....I'm married to a florist and he.....never did THAT!!

An odd moment descended where our presence was almost irrelevant ..she was scrunching the newspaper which are from...Brazil?.....slowly around the flowers as she watched her husband and wrapped the flowers at the same time... until a cute young woman walked into the shop and he saw his chance to escape and he took off...escaped.

It all came together right then.

Last year when I had come, the girl I was with entered about 10 seconds before me as I was getting a drink...by the time I had gotten in he was all over her with his faux suave' beatnik shit and as soon as he realized she was with me he called out to his wife and told her...TOLD HER to take care of us...I realized his game.

Most men don't....well lets just say that on an average day most customers at flower shops are women of various ages getting flowers for various reasons. He uses it as a little trap to chat up girls right in front of his wife. I could see clearly the misery this women...attractive herself was putting up with so I told her then....while her husband was taking care of the young woman that I was going to use the rose petals as confetti to sprinkle over a bubble bath so I didn't need fancy wrapping... because I have grander plans. She looked dazed and the other young woman (customer) asked the girl I was with for clarification in Japanese and they were all with the

Sugoiiiii...iiii ne......wow!!

Mr Shitty husband was ignoring the whole thing as he held the receipt out...while the young woman customer (ignoring her own receipt in his stretched out hand) and his wife continued to marvel at the romantic idea. He was fuming....gee Mr Florist...never thought of THAT? Never treated your own wife like a Princess? You OWN A FUCKING FLOWER SHOP Rico Suave!!
So this year SHE used me as a reminder to him that however he acts around others and whatever they think about him...she knows......she knows. I was a prop in her miserable play...and I'm glad I could be of some service

Happy Valentines Day.

Segregating students

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:07:00 +0000

Coulda used a better word?

Sure...but while looking for one (Googled "Segregated students") I found this article from today:

7 years teaching...

I knew after the 1st that teaching girls and boys was a different animal completely.

I don't teach "Momma's Boys" because "Momma" is a default part of the package....yeah...I'll pass...thanks anyway.

So the boys are boys and the girls are girls and after the age of 10 the differences become an active impedance to learning flow.

Girls accelerate early and have it seems a clearer long term view at an earlier age.

Why do you study English Rina?

"Because I want to travel the world and make money and then marry Justin Beiber."

She never blinked...she's ten and she meant every fucking word...not a joke in there...not to her.

Why do you study English Taro?

Shrugged shoulder.....

I can't put a quote because they usually don't have an answer.

I wasn't studying a foreign language at the age of 6,7,8,9,10.....I was making trouble and giving my mother headaches so I get it. Some friends (girls) WERE studying Spanish or another language and they probably wanted to set the world on fire....starting around ten I guess...meanwhile I was setting leaves and plastic Army men on fire somewhere nearby.

I started separating boys and girls after my 1st year teaching because it works better.

Boys wanna be pitted against each other in English Death matches.....I have become an expert at taking relatively boring/difficult parts of the learning curve and turning them into "Winner take all" events. They thrive under the gun and for the 2nd time in 7 years...only the 2nd...a boys class is the best in the entire school and it is related to their insanely competitive chemistry.

A "Momma's boy" would crumble under the combined pressure of myself and their classmates...I have seen it...it's fucking traumatizing and not for the weak or weary.

Girls and Boys hit puberty differently..apparently because some girls REALLY go over the emotional cliff...they sometimes burst into tears if I just ask them to take out their homework? The same girl will be squealing about some "Johnny's" boy band member at the next class.

Next week?...

I dunno? It's kinda stressful.

It's a jet coaster. Some classes I laugh so hard I can barely breathe and others I just wanna eat my own fucking head and die for...oh...60 minutes.

Boys...they seem to go into "cool" mode which is when they seem about the least cool they will ever be in their whole entire fucking lives...xcept they don't realize it...or they do and I laugh at them as opposed to with them. A pink shirt and a man purse? Your 13....and that will never be cool.

Maybe the Kanji studying Metro sexual ALT from England rocks that but here?...no...nope...never.

I have absolute double standards (teaching styles) for boys and girls because they are different and they sure as fuck don't study together.

I had a mother look at me oddly yesterday when I said her son couldn't join a girls class.

"They did mixed classes at his other school"

"Oh...well we just finished talking about the fact that the boys his age in my school are too high a level for him (he said that) so your suggesting the class that exited before his trial...the younger girls?"

She got my point. It's sometimes not so easy to imply the place they were studying at before sucked balls and ill prepared them for my classes. He has been studying at ECc junior since he was 5 which was 5 years ago..

.and he can't even join classes that have kids 2 grades below him...his own age? no fucking way....it was a non starter but I was struck by the fact apparently I'm the only one around here doing it like this.

It goes down the same

as the thousand times before

No one's getting smarter,

no one's learning the score

yeah,

You gotta keep em' separated!!

Offspring - "Come out and Play (Keep em' Separated)"

Ps. You scare the shit out of me!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:24:00 +0000

Ps. You scare the shit out of me!!!!

(more on this later)

Last Saturday while I was standing outside a 100yen store which is near a Military Base and so many Americans go there (I never talk to any of them either),

anywayz...
a Japanese man was holding a map book (who has those?...where's the smart phone?).
I realized what he was doing, which was, trying to make a chance to speak English....pretty clever trap he had going on...

He tried a few times but he was obviously not interested in finding directions and the Base guys/Gals were with family so they all quickly but politely moved along....dude was not covering his true intent well AT ALL.

Then it dawned on me....

I'm...I'm fucking STANDING RIGHT HERE!!!

I was wearing this but some of the base dudes were the size of buses and didn't look so friendly and my neck warmer was pulled down so it wasn't my Terrorist look in full force.

When I had arrived and parked right in front of him I got out...he took a couple steps towards me..I looked at him in the eye and he froze....looked down and walked back to a spot out of my probable path into the 100 yen store. I wasn't angry but I wasn't smiling either. I was just being me. He never looked at me again...I woulda' talked with him at least longer than the dudes with family in tow. He didn't wan't anything to do with me.

I got scary eyes or something because I have never...never EVER been approached by kids or adults who wan't to practice their English. I wrote before about I girl I was with saying..."I notice no one EVER tries to talk with you?...why?"

I don't fucking know?

I obviously ...like everyone..have bad days and look the part. But even when I'm happy Japanese folks seem drawn to my eyes immediately and they move away crisply. It's a blessing and a curse.

A mother recently explained in Japanese to a new mother that "Chris Sensei is chotto kowaii ando Tsuyoi, demo jozu....sugoi...SUGOI majimei ..push push push yo...sugoi!"

This....this is HIGH praise from one education mother to another but ...that I'm seen in this light automatically is kinda bizzare. I just gave them Santa and a kira kira Christmas wonderland with presents and Turkey and the like and they know I love animals cuz the last time a kid chased a wild cat I threatened to throw him in the river right in front of his mother...who backed me up fully cuz he was running into the street. I don't wan't him bothering the cats and mommy doesn't wan't him pancaked by a neighborhood truck but we both want him to shut the fuck up and relax.

Lest anyone think this is about Japan...

I have known this guy since we were 6 and he's a straight thug brawler. Badboy to the bone...we butted heads for the final time recently so don't think I reserve this shit for stangers..

Nice response.

That's what happens for him sticking his nose between me and beating another friend. He knows me...I would pay to travel more than 1/2 the circumference of the planet to step on his neck.

The 2 most vicious things I ever did will never make it on this blog in a form you can read.. I'm done with it....but #3?

a story related to Will and others in comment sections. I do not think I have addressed it here?

I once released a tirade of threats to a co worker. I basically told him that he had better kill himself because if I do it it's gonna be far more painful..I will make him taste Hell before sending him there.

He went home and killed himself within hours. I was blown away...my co workers called the police and I acted like a sociopathic prick to them. It took years to accept how much I played a part in that. I blamed his drug problems or other shit I didn't know about perhaps but it certainly couldn't have been about me?

No. It was. An 18 year old just as young and confused as me made a terrible mistake because he thought I was gonna do what I said I'd do. I was known to do that. But I was just releasing the rage on him...I didn't even touch him. But I pushed him over a cliff with my eyes.

I wish I could go back so I could grab him by the neck before he left...looked him in the eye and said somethin' like

"..I'm just fuckin' with ya bro but don't disrespect me in front of others...ever...we alright?.....give me a hug....life is good, lets live a lot of it "

I didn't do that.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry to the woman and mother who had to send a mail with a title...that is this posts title.

I'm sorry.

2 Birds 1 Stone and I'm a GOD

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:36:00 +0000

Shhhh...
...let him speak.

Proverb

as you sow, so shall you reap

The personal consequences of one's actions are in proportion to the good or bad intentions towards others.

SEED #1 Summer Beach BBQ

SEED #2 Halloween

SEED #3 Christmas

I don't wake up in the morning and think....
"folks respect me and want to pay me money because I have a school". Every School would be a smashing success if it were that easy...it isn't.....so they aren't.

No...oh no no no it goes more like this:

"I wanna go to that School that had the big BBQ party...my classmate goes there and she's the best in our class at reading,writing and speaking English!"

OR

"I wanna go to that School that had the smoking demon on the roof and the Haunted house....my classmate goes there and he's the best in our class at reading,writing and speaking English!"

OR

"I wanna go to the place that had all the beautiful animated Christmas balloons and lights....my classmate goes there and she is the best in our class at reading,writing and speaking English!"

Listen, if being awesome were easy it wouldn't be awesome...it would be average. I hate average. It scares me. I am terribly frightened of waking up someday and thinking..."I'm just gonna get this day over with so I can ______."I watch others mail it in...I will not ever mail it in. I get paid to do a job and it will be done in a way that far exceeds expectation.

The other teachers in this area get the students I don't accept. THAT is the cold hard truth. Follow me now.....listen ....please tell me of a school in this country that does what I do. I'm not joking. I'm asking an honest and very serious question. Who and where does this better than me? The business is English and the product is measurable skills in English communication and grammar. If the product wasn't high in quality this whole thing would be going very differently than it is. My curriculum was built by me from the ground up and it has produced outstanding results. I try to teach and they need to try and learn so I'm just 50% of this equation. I can control my 50% but couldn't always control the other 50%.

Some students just don't match to my style or they would rather be doing something else....as if I don't get that...shit...I don't speak Japanese. I didn't wanna be in a language class as a child. I get it..I live it...That is me.

However, beyond that, when a child wants to learn it can be a problem of character...or more specifically the inability of a pair of characters getting along and excelling. This is on me as I am extremely demanding and don't accept less than 100%

How do you make a Top Ten student list more effective? You put "trending" arrows next to each name to show how they are doing compared with themselves within a group comparison.

This hangs in the entrance and if ANY parent feels uncomfortable with critical evaluation they can quickly see they are in the wrong place.

I watch as EVERY mother whose child is on or has been on this list comes in to take a peak at the beginning of every month. It is a very big deal and kids have sometimes been berated by over bearing mothers because they are trending down or off the list all together. Only Shogakosei can be on the list which is only about 60 of my students so they have a 1 in 6 chance of being on it but it feels more like 1 in a hundred based on the smiles or grimaces on the mothers faces.

I measure my students above the 6th grade by tests in school combined with in class performance which dictates which class they can join and within that is the seating position which is #1 thru #5. Furthest to my left which is closest to me and the position which gets the first volley of whatever I am firing is the #1 spot in the class. I often stop classes and ask students to change the seating order because they can't handle it..or they are having a bad day...or whatever? Everyone knows what is going on and being "demoted" sucks and being "promoted" doesn't suck...they have to hide their smiles...if they are young they whoop it up..lol....enjoy being #1 cuz if you slip once your taking the "shift of shame". If they ever lose seat #1 ..and get it back...they NEVER let it go a second time...it has NEVER happened.

Oh..and about the 50% I can't control...them...oh, it turns out I CAN.

They sign a contract of performance when they join and failure to meet the obligations is grounds for contract termination. 7.....that is how many didn't live up to their end of our deal. 4 have accepted the reality and 3 (all children of teachers) are in the denial/negotiation stages. The GOD video now makes sense...no?

I can indeed control that which is near me. I could just keep taking their money...it's as good as anyone else's but they are walking talking adverts and bad ad's cannot be allowed. I teach hard, they gotta study hard...that was the deal...it was signed.

Welcome to my world. Get through it and you will be very well prepared for the real one....the English and using it with confidence part of it anyway.

Tired of waiting for you (Troll)

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:54:00 +0000

“If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; for so you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you.”

Proverbs 25:21

Good Job!! :)

The Good

I recently crossed the 400,000 hit mark.

3,994 comments have been left by others which is 7888 with responses.

Did it in 2 years 1/11/11 to 1/24/13. That's close to 8,000 thoughts/rants and responses.

I did almost exactly 1/2 the amount of posts in 2012 that I did in 2011. The comment count suffered but that's the way it is and should be.

I wanted to crush Loco and I did that in 2011, everything after was devoid of competition which is the fuel that I need. I don't do anything for nothing. No offense to Corrine but she's been around twice as long as me and she has a built in audience..Mommy Bloggers.

I could get a vag some tits a bad husband and a serious drinking problem but that's a long way to go for some blog hits.

The Bad

Comments are the currency of blogging. They are exchanged or withheld. Games are played with them. It's the unspoken game of blogging. I got 36 messages in 10 days in 3 different languages and some of them have death threats...can you imagine? I got more comments about being killed and shit than about my Christmas display in December....fucking depressing...I almost shut the whole thing down...I practically walked away. I'd have over 1,000 more comments if they were not just off topic rants written by drunken miserable expats full of self loathing. If they just even superficially touched the post topic I'd let em' through but no...they can't even fake having sense so they sucks the dick tills they dies

I work during the week so if you post during the week I'm gonna miss it. That's my schedule. If I see it during the weekend I'm gonna comment. October to December is Holiday season and August is too fucking hot to sit next to a heater (Computer).

Any perceived slights are the result of over thinking. I got no time to play games. If you play with your comments like poker chips go suck the dick with the trolls. You deserve the dick...there's the dick.....go get ya some.

The Ugly

Dear Trolls,

I long for just one of you to have the balls to do more than type. I actually daydream about someone who really wants to fight me. I wait for you. I promise you physical violence. Look at this site...I cannot pull an "innocence" card. My hands are dirty and my rap sheet is long. I have no credibility with the law in this country and it's been that way for years. I am the perfect target for you. Screenshot this page,cache it, bookmark it and come to me. Oh what a story it will be

Look at me...5ft11 no more than 185lbs...I ain't big...you can do it. That shirt is awesome..I'll wear it when we meet and you can take it as a trophy after you whup my ass.

Man, you wanna hurt me so bad you can taste it..
C'mon...you can do this...teach me a fucking lesson I will never forget

LOL!!

Can you imagine visiting this site...seeing the top vid...clicking pause..... and the noise...it doesn't stop...it gets louder...a SCREAMING CAT?..........WTF???? I can assure you that a few hundred folks over the next few hours are going to be scrambling for the volume knob as Mr Burger and Fries wakes the baby. I'm sure they appreciate the person who posted a link to me. Sorry to my regular visitors...it's a kind of fumigation....my apologies if I woke your babies or caused your co workers to wonder wtf you're doing??

The stalker "bounce" :)

Bathing with your H.S. Daughter in Japan

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:51:00 +0000

This is apparently not illegal in Japan.

Waiting everyday..at the age of 47.... waiting everyday to bathe with your High School daughter.
Looking at and critiquing her development and talking about "boy stuff" while being soaped down by her.

Where the FUCK am I?...Who the fuck are you people??

They bathed sometimes together and sometimes not when she was an infant/child and now it's everyday for the past 4 or 5 years.

Any questions?

Yeah right...I raised my hand first!!!

Lazy Americans (Myth busting in Japan)

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 15:57:00 +0000

Bubbles.......they are made to be burst....right?

INTRO:

I'm about as afraid of being wrong as I am of losing a fist fight....not so much really.... If you got facts that are credible and contradict my point then....shit...I'm wrong. I am now right (thanks to you if you brought the facts to learn me) and I will move along. I marvel at folks who cannot let go and just say thanks for the knowledge. They linger around their miss and just dig holes for themselves.

Mea culpa is a Latin phrase that translates into English as "my mistake" or "my fault". To emphasize the message, the adjective "maxima" may be inserted, resulting in mea maxima culpa, which would translate as "my most [grievous] fault."

Lance Armstrong is about to give his and he shoulda done it way before. Barry Bonds and Clemens will be on Oprah if this turns out well for Lance. I hated Clinton for his lies while pointing at the camera but he was a damned good President and I vote Republican....he really hurt himself by not embracing and wrapping himself in his failure...wear it like a shield so that others may not wield it as a weapon.

BODY:

A view from the United Nations

A view from Japan

A view from The U.K.

National Holidays? It was ironic that a Public School teacher was arguing with me on the holiday called "Coming of age day"...which she did like 20 years ago..(come of age I mean) and of course she had the day off and it's paid.

11 or 12 long weekends plus Golden Week which includes the revered holiday called "Greenery Day"....fucking Greenery day...? All paid..2 bonuses a year and good health care....Japanese workers...poor guys and gals...they work so hard and got it so tough........./sarcasm

CONCLUSION:

The reality in the average Japanese classroom made me start to reconsider what I had heard and imagined about Japan with what I was actually seeing ( if you come to Japan to teach and think the kids are well behaved and the classrooms run efficiently.....you are in for a fucking shock...I can spot "New Fish" (a new ALT) a mile away by the expression of utter confusion on their face. )
The more I looked the more it seemed like this country is in a fucking bubble which is preventing their own growth. I popped a bubble yesterday and it cost me a student but that's a small price to pay .

Not only is the average Japanese carrying around a gross overestimation of their own reality they often have a very warped view of American workers. It took me a minute on the ipad to show her something
contradicting her view but she wasn't having it and after I noted her ipad was a product of American ingenuity she took her hand off it like it was rotten...a very odd spectacle...she coulda countered that some of the internals are made in Japan but she was lost in a haze of denial.

Is America doing o.k?...oh....oh fuck no. It's a chaotic mess but THAT is not what I'm or she was talking about.

Is a Japanese worker more productive in an 8 hour shift than their American counterparts? Man, not even close and it's the opposite to what the average Japanese believes which is part of the fucking problem.

I have lived and worked here for years and working with a Japanese person is about as fun as having teeth ripped out of your head. I went to a meeting once to discuss the next meeting.......I'm not joking. I sat with my hands on my head and asked the woman next to me..A Japan American Society member if we really just had a meeting about the next meeting and if the dude across from me wants to supply the rice why doesn't he ask?

"He is older than you so he wants you to respect him by asking him" she whispered loud enough for him to hear so he knew she was working for him.....

Oh yeah......welcome to Japan!!

Reach the Beach Pt. III

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 08:04:00 +0000

I gassed in about 60 seconds.
Man I got a looong fucking way to go. I have gotten so use to using a very confined space it is amazing...though the first vid had me smashing an accordion fence and booting random flower pots. ...30 seconds till fuel discharge and 20 of that was stumbling...no need to see THAT...I saw it. That's why I vid myself so I can evaluate my speed and accuracy. Hard to evaluate when you're laughing at yourself.

My hands hurt and that...THAT feels great.

The greatest gif ever...as a good luck charm for myself :)
(you might have to hover over it to see it's odd splendor)

Yasukuni Shrine and the Myth of Hideki Tojo

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 06:38:00 +0000

Yasukuni Shrine

靖国神社

Hideki Tojo

東條英機

From Wikipedia;

According to the written report of Mizota Shūichi, interpreter for Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, Fellers met the two men at his office on 6 March 1946 and told Yonai: "It would be most convenient if the Japanese side could prove to us that the Emperor is completely blameless. I think the forthcoming trials offer the best opportunity to do that. Tōjō, in particular, should be made to bear all responsibility at this trial."[33][34]
The sustained intensity of this campaign to protect the Emperor was revealed when, in testifying before the tribunal on 31 December 1947, Tōjō momentarily strayed from the agreed-upon line concerning imperial innocence and referred to the Emperor's ultimate authority. The American-led prosecution immediately arranged that he be secretly coached to recant this testimony. Ryūkichi Tanaka, a former general who testified at the trial and had close connections with chief prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan, was used as an intermediary to persuade Tōjō to revise his testimony.

Go read all you can about Tojo..keep the "Class-A-War criminal" thing in mind and read the quote below and tell me what the guy who said that is?...besides glorified and famous.

"It seems to me that the moment has come.. when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...."

-Winston Churchill

Yeah, he gave the French their own Pearl Harbor too

This is not "Apples and Oranges", this is varying degrees of spoiled and rotten apples, at the core identical further out less so but not as different as alike.

At least a million civilians died as a result of that policy review within 3 years.

The Americans lost many planes and many many good men by trying to stay out of the Brits way which was appalling to them at the time (imagine an American finding a Brit's actions appalling...their (American's) families being far away from the hell that was Southern England allowed them such a moral dilemma) until their loses from daytime raids became untenable and the cold reality and practicality of Churchill and his advisers became clear.

B. Estimates made by US and UK Governments
The Effect of Bombing on Health and Medical Care in Germany gave a figure of 422,000 dead. The Germans estimated 550,000 civilian bombing casualties

We did it quite well all by ourselves...

Letting go of morals and ideals costs a lot...for the other guy.

In the 9-month long civilian bombing campaign in Japan, over 580,000 Japanese civilians died.

Tojo was in fact judged by his peers. Killers. Mass murderers. History was written and the Japanese Royal family was mostly spared scrutiny whether that was right or wrong it was deemed practical at the time and maybe it was?

As an American and a Hawaii resident who has stood over the Arizona memorial shoulder to shoulder with Japanese and American vets from the period (which is odd..let me tall ya) I think Tojo is just a Japanese bad guy....every country's got it's own.

Churchill who helped create a doctrine which intentionally targeted women and children and those too old to fight.... to break the will of those who could....is better?

Your joking right?

McArthur wanted to Nuclear carpet bomb N.Korea,China and perhaps Moscow.

Regional U.S. commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in interviews published posthumously, said he had a plan at the time to drop 30 to 50 atom bombs across the northern neck of the Korean peninsula, to block further Chinese intervention.

The nuclear silos in Okinawa were built to facilitate this plan which was revised to around 28 Nuclear weapons. 28......20 fucking 8 nuclear weapons to be dropped. People talk a lot about the Cuban Missle crisis because we almost got wacked but as a Global game changer THIS woulda had a bigger impact and it was a plan that was well underway. Stop the march of Communism? No...no...blow them all the fuck up and set them back decades.

Who are the good guys and who are the bad ones depends on who your asking.

The next time someone mentions Tojo in relation to tensions between neighbors realize the person your listening to probably doesn't know much more than shit. It was war. He took a bullet with the long term goal of protecting this countries future. They still executed him.

Tōjō was sentenced to death on 12 November 1948 and executed by hanging 41 days later on 23 December 1948. In his final statements, he apologized for the atrocities committed by the Japanese military and urged the American military to show compassion toward the Japanese people, who had suffered devastating air attacks and the two atomic bombings.[29]

I can't even say he had it coming...a lot of people have it coming and it's the winners who get the final say. Not because they are morally superior...they just won...it's all about winning.

Tojo wrecked this country and he got his. That he is still the point of ignorant debate ...debates in which anyone being remotely reasonable towards Tojo's actions and culpability is seen as an apologist is ridiculous and ignorant. Learn your fucking history...turn off your magic holier than thou switch and have some perspective. If I were a Japanese person I'd be driving a black truck and spitting on anyone who was disrespecting my countries war dead. I have a MASSIVE American flag right behind me where my students can see it always because I never wanna be confused as being from anywhere else besides America...because I love it warts and all. If I were born here It would be a Japanese flag.

Tojo was a warrior in a war. Respect him.

Christmas (The Cultural Exchange)

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:59:00 +0000

I have not been a good blogger recently but I have been the "Super...Holy shitwhatthefuck did he do this year ?"...... dude. I got vids and pics and stuff to brag about.

More later.

Ya think she's gonna remember this for a bit?...Yeah...she's gonna. I was taking the pics so they were tripping....speechless. Santa isn't real....right?.......right!?!?!

Much more later :)

Back to the very beginning...

Sitting at the computer thinking about what I'm gonna do to cause ADHD overload!!!!!

I got all Picasso and shit ;)

Then I took actual measurements

Only pic of the cutting painting screwing phase because it was ...I was fucking busy :)

Started hanging shit around the 2nd week of November because it needs time to settle

a.k.a , I had to sit for a long time looking at it and reconsidering things because once the wires are up...I'm stuck

The black mesh hiding the transformers and wires and everything was a stroke of genius. It's breathable,cheap, light and easy to staple gun into place. Looks way better than last year

A mother noted that there were no dangerous screw tips sticking out cuz they were behind the mesh......oh...oh yeah ...that too...I did that for the kids.....fucking NOT!! but looks like I did....perception is reality :)

6 platforms at varying heights. I put a lot of time into the aesthetic balance.

I had done well.

The first night of the display was a FAIL.
The balance was way off and the left side was very "busy"....balance was not there.

I moved the OG Santa too the prime left spot and dropped the bathtub santa outta frame. I added 2 LED color trees ass supporting cast to the 4 meter tree on top off the roof and balance was made.

I spent hours looking at it and it was pleasing....it was balanced.

The Cast of the 2012 Christmas display:

Animated deer. It's (the big one on left) the oldest display item I own. It is a war horse/deer and if it died I would pay to have it's little motor fixed. It's special to me. It's little brother was bought this year and it's lights promptly failed which required a edge of roof moment I coulda done without. The little one isn't even animated and it's lights die?

The first inflatable I ever bought and he eventually got the "wide left" display platform he shoulda ' gotten anyway. He is a work horse as well. The newer versions of this prop have faces that are kinda scary and are painted on. He's got the 3-D face and I'm glad I got him back before the recession hit the balloon market :)

He's still the BOSS!

The see saw santa/snowman is a real kid pleaser and it's well lit at night which is important. Nice see saw action that keeps em' watching for a while even in the freezing weather.

This is what happens when you don't preview a balloon on Youtube assuming someone did an honest review. The igloo is cool but what the fuck is on the roof? A dead Yak?...luckily in person it's clear enough but the R&D dept cut too much corners on this one.

Note the light in the head...very nice and the deer has a cute face. It's big and sounds like a harrier jump jet. They use smaller motors now (to save money) and that means smaller fans which means it's a vacuum cleaner dressed as Santa in a tub. I love it so much I gave it the OG Santa's spot but quickly reneged and put it down where you can see it propper and BOSS/OG Santa gets his proper respect...everyone is happy.

This popping outta tree santa takes it's sweet time but that's cool when someone is focusing on another thing and he slowly comes outta the tree. me likes it.

This painting has exquisite detail you can't see until your up close. It's a treasure. It includes my 2 cats from Hawaii that passed away wrapping presents with me behind Santa.

The difference in distance from my spot to Waikiki and the North pole is within 100km...almost a triangle. It's very heave and hanging it by myself was very dangerous.

If I put this in the middle of the Tokyo dome with the domes lights out would this thing light it up?

It's gonna cause a plane to land on my school someday.

At over 4 meters from star to rooftop it's big. I had a near dumb death experience trying to adjust the star while on a split ladder...on the roof. Weak in the knees.....swearing to go no higher if I made it off that roof. I did...and I will keep that promise.

The party?

Falls in the "Win" column...

Most folks have had a "tough" steak in their lives. Most folks have had a dry Turkey in their lives. If you have gone to my School since I used the smoker....you haven't....they have no idea what a dry turkey is.

Santa in Japan

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:13:00 +0000

Teddy snuck onto the chair and i got a ninja photo...bad Teddy!!!

The chair waits...

Suddenly he appeared

His hair?.....lookin' good

His suit nicely pressed. He seemed to like the tree and the doll a little less so.

He was gone before anyone could see him but he's surely going to be at the party.....taking names and blowing minds...one adult and child at a time ;)

Don't touch me please!

noreply@blogger.com (Chris) — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 07:40:00 +0000

I will smother everyone with my Christmas awesomeness with the next post...I just had to "touch" this.....see what I did there? ;)

****Travel Back in TiMe****

Me: (Played by Brad Pitt)
"She won't be joining? Why? She seemed to really enjoy the class and she said she wanted to join.."

Mother: (Played by generic apron wearing Inaka mother)

"She did but her father drove by on Sunday and saw you punching your boxing bag thing and he said you don't look like a teacher...I think he was jealous because his daughter kept talking about how cool you were and now she wants to get married with an American when she grows up"

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Now to be honest if my little girl ....I don't have one...but if I did and she was spouting off this kinda stuff and I saw the Japanese teacher doing Martial Arts in his front yard on a nice Sunday...I might...I dunno?...suggest my daughter go to her room for a few years and ban everything that was related to Japan....O.K., I jest....kinda.....but my point is I kinda "got it".
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****Travel back to the PrEsEnT****

I did a special favor for a friend and gave a trial to a 2nd grade girl because her friend is an uber student and the mother loves my strict teaching style...all results all the time and I don't give a fuck who likes me ...it's about results and she is the definition of an "Education Mama".

This girl was never gonna actually join the class or School but as a function of what is mind numbing Japanese social function I went through the motions. She couldn't tell me her name with her name 1st and her family name 2nd (I didn't even want to know the family name ) she couldn't tell me the day the time the anything.

Then..I focused on the paying members, my students and let her observe as she couldn't participate anyway.

I was giving them time trials when outta nowhere...

"Don't touch me please!!"

Nobody was talking to her looking at her or near her but she just blurted out a perfect English sentence which stunned the other kids for the same 2 reasons it stunned me..

1...She spoke something in English

2...What the fuck is she talking about?

My other students are in the 2nd grade and 1st but they are advanced and they got it...All Eyez on Me...I just ignored it but I gotta tell you it hurt a little. I'm practically killing myself to make my students feel lucky and reward them for the very heavy pressure I put on them. I barely find time to eat and sleep and this shit comes falling out of a mouth of a girl who's name I don't even know.

I was thinking.."I bet her pussy ass Daddy taught her that one phrase!!"......I later came to grips with the fact that I woulda too.

Now Japanese Physical Education teachers....THEY are someone Daddy should really be concerned about.

BTW....when you see it you'll shit bricks....seriously. You will SHIT BRICKS!!!