Osaka is freezing. That’s not a complaint, just an observation.
Tim is watching Mission:Impossible 2, which has been dubbed in Japanese. They do a pretty good job of syncing the voices & lip movements of the actors. I guess they would have a lot of experience in that, because everything here that’s not Japanese is dubbed. They made the Aussie guy in MI2 have an Australian accent, which is pretty impressive and also funny in Japanese.
The ads here are hilarious and make no sense. Then again, I don’t know how much sense our ads would make if you didn’t speak English. But also, sometimes it’s difficult to tell what’s an ad and what’s just a documentary. There was an ad earlier that seemed to just be someone interviewing old Japanese men in onsen (Japanese baths). Now Tim tells me that was actually a program, not an ad.
Tomorrow we will be meeting up with Mayumi & Erin at lunch time. I hope I’ll be able to sleep through tonight and not wake up and be discombobulated.
The joke from my Christmas cracker yesterday was the best:
Q. What do you call a donkey with three legs?
A. A monkey.
I did a google search, and I think the punchline is supposed to be ‘A wonkey’, which would make more sense than the version I got.
Did you know:
When the Space Invaders game was released in Japan, it was so popular that it created a coin shortage.
Probably going to see some of these guys soon.