- pirates -

currently listening to - Lovin' Life (funky monkey babys)
mood - a little excited

im assigned to translate a passage in English to Japanese, for my English lessons. we do this for every lesson - the teacher will select around 3 students randomly for passage translation, to see if we understand the contents. not sure if the teacher did it on purpose, for i am the one and only foreign student in class, but.. there's something different about the part which i'm supposed to translate. A LOT OF ENGLISH CONVERSATIONS. which obviously need to be left in ENGLISH when presenting. because the previous sentence is "Common English greetings such as...".....

suddenly i feel insecure. imagine, you're the only foreigner and while being surrounded by 40 japanese, you're gonna pronounce these strands of english words which (i'm sure) sound different from what they've been hearing in their own communities. aaaaah.....

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"pirates".

at world's end?

no.

it's actually a japanese female duo, disbanded some years ago. their best selling points were their (relatively) huge boobs and terms they used which were highly related to boobs. in fact when the term "pirates" is read the "japanese way", it always gives me the impression of "boobs on the verge of exploding".

and why did i have to mention this? because my dear english sensei mentioned the Kanou Sisters. another big boobs duo. one has red head and fair skin, and the other one looks a bit like angelina jolie because of her thick lips (personal impression hehe..). anyways the point is.... i really agree with my english sensei that these people live in a completely different dimension from us....

people whom we call "celebrities".

watched a tv show some time ago, and found out that the Kanou Sisters visited India to meet the Maharaja. during the few days before their meeting, they went shopping for jewelry and sari and tried esthete... which looked really hilarious to an ordinary person like me.

especially the jewelry hunting. they entered an expensive-looking jewelry shop and asked the sales attendant to ransack the entire shop to look for the "perfect accessories". when they finally decided to pay and leave the shop, they were surrounded by seas of necklaces and earrings... i'd never make myself purchase anything in a jewelry shop as if it's my hobbby (probably because i'm not as rich and i prefer to spend my money on other things..). "wow, they're so cheap!!" i understand that the purchase was done with rupee but....

what's more amusing, was when they went to another jewelry shop which is said to have the "best jewelry in India". and after staying in the shop for 5 minutes, the angelina jolie lookalike commented nonchalantly "they're so ordinary," and left. *gassspp* i'm sure if someone else had done the same thing he would've been bashed to death...

aaaaaaah.. celebrities. such a distant existence.

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yeap, my english teacher's an interesting person. he bitches about women and complains about his own life all the time (hey, we never had the chance to do something related to english, other than translating passages and present them in JAPANESE).. i do question his english-speaking ability, but he's quite an analyst when it comes to modern culture and lifestyles. he explained to us why Hamasaki Ayumi and Utada Hikaru are so successful in Japan and the US respectively, and how different are these 2 singers in their appearances - japanese are said to adore the american culture and the people, therefore Ayu is made to resemble the WASPs (whie anglo-saxon protestants). whereas americans are said to value individual identities very much, so they accepted Utada and her identity as a typical japanese (or rather, asian) - small, black hair, asian face..

not sure if his arguments are completely true, but one thing i'm really sure is that.. i can definitely stay awake and pay attention during his classes.