Name: Day in My Life | Living in Japan
Uploaded: 2019-11-21T03:04:39.000Z
Duration: 21 min 9 s
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To-infinitive

Now, I remember the good old days when I used to look forward to breakfast

with things like eggs, sausages, bacon, omelets;

About four months ago, I decided to switch to a healthy breakfast.

It was part of my incredible plan to gradually lose weight throughout the year

so my breakfast routine has been comprised of oatmeal, black coffee and a banana.

Only problem is, I still haven't lost any weight; this breakfast routine has failed to bear any fruit.

In hindsight it might be because, after preparing the healthy, nutritious oatmeal,

I have to drench it with at least one liter of maple syrup to make it edible.

Only reason I decided to do a vlog today of all days,

is because I suspect today could be slightly above average day.

I'll get onto it in a minute, why that might be. Suffice to say, it might involve going to Tokyo and being on Japanese TV.

*Might* be, because I don't - even I don't know to be honest.

A day in my life vlog, until now - is - y'know, what day should you do a day in your life vlog?

You never know what life might throw at you in any - in any given day.

I never thought, by the end of the day I would have bought a brand new oven glove

especially as one as flimsy and as tacky as this.

But its true value lies here on the back of the oven glove with this powerful philosophical statement, which

resonated with me on an emotional level. I'll read it out, it says:

This is me. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

And I read that and I thought, "Yes, that is me. That is how I define accomplishment."

Only thing that compromises that bold statement here is the question underneath, and it's a question that reads:

that was a necessary addition to the glove

seems like a pretty poor follow-up question to an otherwise reasonable statement.

You know, it'd be a bit like Sarah Connor in the Terminator turning to her son John and saying,

"John, there is no fate, but what we make for ourselves. Oh, and by the way,

It's outside of having a shower, eating breakfast, and examining oven gloves;

The only other habit I have, the only other morning routine I do is

I write out one chapter from a Japanese textbook. In this case, the Intermediate Japanese Grammar Guide.

I don't have as much time as I used to when it comes to learning Japanese.

This is the one thing I pretty much do now, every day.

Like I really enjoy studying Japanese and even though my handwriting is atrocious, I really enjoy doing it.

I know when I've done this, I've done one good thing today, you know. Even if the rest of the day goes to shit,

I've done something that I could be happy about.

Now that is what I call a Christmas tree.

Yeah, look at those lights. Look at that.

All ready to go for Christmas, all ready to go for December.

So, about to pack the bags, go to Tokyo, and while I'm doing it

I'll fill you in on why we're going in the first place.

for the 30 keywords of the year. 30 keywords that summarize the year's annual events.

I think last year the keywords were "Shinzo Abe" (the Prime Minister of Japan)

but there's 30 of them, and somebody who represents that keyword will

come on stage and get the award in front of loads of cameras and stuff

and it's a really big, kind of event throughout Japan on the news, and this year one of the top ten keywords is "J-Alert".

Now J-Alert is the system which notifies you in an emergency.

For example, like an earthquake or a tsunami, your phone will ring and go off and vibrate to kind of notify you

And J-Alert also happens when there's a North Korean missile.

They apparently - they saw my video where I got woken up by the North Korean missile

by J-Alert, right, they saw that and thought I would be

a good representative for the word J-Alert.

So I've got go to Tokyo and accept this kind of award for the keyword in front loads of cameras and stuff

and it's really weird, and I don't know much about it other than that, but I'm a little bit nervous.

I don't really know what to expect, it might be good, it might not be good, but we are gonna find out.

Ryotaro - my friend Ryotaro is gonna be joining me down there to kind of help me out.

I told a good friend of mine about this award yesterday, and he said to me that it sounded like a "Sick award, mate!"

Yeah, it's "sick", and I thought, why do people use the word "sick" in that context?

When did that become a popular word? If somebody says to me, "Yeah, that was sick mate!"

I literally just picture a puddle of sick in my mind. I don't want to, you know,

I don't want to, but it's just there - a puddle, a puddle of sick

So we've got to ride the Shinkansen bullet train to Tokyo today, but I'm feeling a little bit anxious.

There was an event last week that shook Japan to its core:

They were supposed to leave the station at 9:44:40

What happened next was a global media storm, and even though the train company apologized, the damage -

the damage was done, so I'm keen to get there 20 seconds early today

especially as we've got to do at least one swanky time-lapse of Sendai before we go, so let's get a move on.

Just did the time-lapse, it came out pretty well.

I would say - I would go so far to say it was *sick*.

But as I came out the building while I was doing it, I noticed there was loads of people standing around

I peeked at someone's phone, and they're all playing Pokemon Go. I thought that died out ages ago.

I didn't realize that was still a thing. I know I never got into it.

Thought it was a waste of time - time better spent doing time lapses, and actually there's people here:

They're playing Pokemon Go as well. Didn't even notice.

So, we're on the train. Didn't leave 20 seconds early this time.

My little bento to see me through the trip:

I think it's chicken or pork or something. Should be there in 90 minutes.

So I'm gonna get some work done and have some lunch.

Looks alright, it's not gonna win any prizes for looking too nice, though.

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Day in My Life | Living in Japan

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