In which I am very bored
Mon, Jan. 23rd, 2006 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterAka, they aren't feeding me for another half hour, and my book is boring. Oh internet, I hug you! *hugs internet*
Further notes on Taiwan:
1. Fancy Japanese toilet seats are becoming more and more common. They are heated and have assorted bidet functions and a whole lot of buttons. They used to really scare me, but given that my fingers are freezing, the heated seats are sort of nice. I'm still too afraid to use any of the buttons, though.
2. I keep forgetting that in America, there doesn't seem to be a good way of checking to see if someone's in the bathroom. Here, usually you give a little knock on the door, and if someone knocks back, you move to the next stall. Ok, maybe they do this elsewhere too, but it seems more prevalent here for some reason.
3. I had much fun browsing manga yesterday. Apparently there's now even a how-to book based on Nana called something like Love Advice from the Two Nanas! I am very tempted to get it, just because. Also, Angel Sancutary apparently ends at vol. 20, which I did not realize. Also also, the covers of Fruits Basket in the States are pretty close to the Japanese ones; only they take the figures and make them big and put them on the sea green background. In the Japanese and Taiwan ones, the figures are in a little box, probably just because that's how pretty much everything published from that publishing company is done. They've also reissued new versions of Yazawa Ai's Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai and Gokinjo Monogatari.
4. I saw a book called The Culture of Sex in Ancient China, or something to that effect, and really wanted to get it. Except.. it's giant and hard to carry back.
5. I actually browsed the non-English sections of the bookstore for what may be the very first time. I know. I am embarrassed as well. There are actually a lot of things scattered here and there, and there are, of course, giant sections on Taiwan sociology and cross-strait relations and all that stuff that I want to read. Except I'd probably take three years to get through a single book and only understand about half of the content. Le sigh. On the plus side, I found the knitting section and desperately want to buy books! And I want to find a yarn store here, just so I can see how different they are!
Further notes on Taiwan:
1. Fancy Japanese toilet seats are becoming more and more common. They are heated and have assorted bidet functions and a whole lot of buttons. They used to really scare me, but given that my fingers are freezing, the heated seats are sort of nice. I'm still too afraid to use any of the buttons, though.
2. I keep forgetting that in America, there doesn't seem to be a good way of checking to see if someone's in the bathroom. Here, usually you give a little knock on the door, and if someone knocks back, you move to the next stall. Ok, maybe they do this elsewhere too, but it seems more prevalent here for some reason.
3. I had much fun browsing manga yesterday. Apparently there's now even a how-to book based on Nana called something like Love Advice from the Two Nanas! I am very tempted to get it, just because. Also, Angel Sancutary apparently ends at vol. 20, which I did not realize. Also also, the covers of Fruits Basket in the States are pretty close to the Japanese ones; only they take the figures and make them big and put them on the sea green background. In the Japanese and Taiwan ones, the figures are in a little box, probably just because that's how pretty much everything published from that publishing company is done. They've also reissued new versions of Yazawa Ai's Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai and Gokinjo Monogatari.
4. I saw a book called The Culture of Sex in Ancient China, or something to that effect, and really wanted to get it. Except.. it's giant and hard to carry back.
5. I actually browsed the non-English sections of the bookstore for what may be the very first time. I know. I am embarrassed as well. There are actually a lot of things scattered here and there, and there are, of course, giant sections on Taiwan sociology and cross-strait relations and all that stuff that I want to read. Except I'd probably take three years to get through a single book and only understand about half of the content. Le sigh. On the plus side, I found the knitting section and desperately want to buy books! And I want to find a yarn store here, just so I can see how different they are!
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Mon, Jan. 23rd, 2006 04:27 pm (UTC)In Germany, there were some really cool public bathrooms. Most of them were unremarkable, and costed something like 20 cents to use, but there were a couple of really deluxe bathrooms, which costed like a $1. They were totally automated and cleaned the toilet seat and such after every use. However, the max. time you could sit and use it was 20 minutes. After that, the doors opened and you were then exposed to the public at large, (this was to prevent drug users from using it and passing out.).
Hmm, that bathroom was almost my fondest memory of Hamburg. It was so totally cool. Actually I did find one of those in San Francisco, but I can't remember the street corner, but it's exactly like that one in Hamburg. I'll try and think of the address.