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#1   Toasty 

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    Posted 25 July 2010 - 02:05 AM

    Got back from Kentucky a week or so ago, and now I'm in Canadia. I'll be heading off to Japan tomorrow

    So yeah. If any of you Canadians wanna chill, I'll be in Vancouver/Richmond until about 12:30 tomorrow. But I'll be heading off to the airport at like, 9ish.

    Though I'll be passing through again about a week from now on my way back.


    Anyway, I'm planning on eating a lot of sushi and skewered dumplings. And apparently I do a really good job of pronouncing Japanese. =O

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      Posted 25 July 2010 - 04:24 AM

      Buy me a breast while you're there, please.

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        Posted 25 July 2010 - 10:04 AM

        Is this at all related to what you mentioned to us a while ago, about possibly living in Japan for a year? Though you did say it's a one week trip just now, so I'm guessing it's different.

        Enjoy yourself Toasty.

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          Posted 25 July 2010 - 11:04 AM

          View PostToasty, on Jul 25 2010, 04:05 AM, said:

          Got back from Kentucky a week or so ago, and now I'm in Canadia. I'll be heading off to Japan tomorrow

          So yeah. If any of you Canadians wanna chill, I'll be in Vancouver/Richmond until about 12:30 tomorrow. But I'll be heading off to the airport at like, 9ish.

          Though I'll be passing through again about a week from now on my way back.
          Anyway, I'm planning on eating a lot of sushi and skewered dumplings. And apparently I do a really good job of pronouncing Japanese. =O

          i'd come join you, but i'm on the other side of the country. plus, i mean, i prolly wouldn't be caught dead seen with you in canada (jk, love ya sir)...

          and while in our amazing country, if you don't try our Chinese food (i noe, going to japan and all, but fucking do it) and poutine then you're missing out on one of the wonders of live. HA, spell check has never heard of poutine.. GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE. Poutine is god here.

          EDIT - wrong topic

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            Posted 27 July 2010 - 10:35 AM

            View PostToasty, on Jul 25 2010, 01:05 AM, said:

            Got back from Kentucky a week or so ago, and now I'm in Canadia. I'll be heading off to Japan tomorrow

            So yeah. If any of you Canadians wanna chill, I'll be in Vancouver/Richmond until about 12:30 tomorrow. But I'll be heading off to the airport at like, 9ish.

            Though I'll be passing through again about a week from now on my way back.
            Anyway, I'm planning on eating a lot of sushi and skewered dumplings. And apparently I do a really good job of pronouncing Japanese. =O

            FUCK.

            I didn't see this topic at all until now. We could have bro'd it up.

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              Posted 27 July 2010 - 10:36 AM

              He is stopping in Canada on the way back.. you never know sir.

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                Posted 27 July 2010 - 11:07 AM

                Yeah I know. :3 There's a second chance.

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                  Posted 27 July 2010 - 11:46 AM

                  He better get poutine. If you guys chill you better get him poutine.

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                    Posted 30 July 2010 - 02:57 AM

                    View PostGolden Legacy, on Jul 25 2010, 09:04 AM, said:

                    Is this at all related to what you mentioned to us a while ago, about possibly living in Japan for a year? Though you did say it's a one week trip just now, so I'm guessing it's different.

                    Enjoy yourself Toasty.



                    No, this is part of a student/culture exchange program that my city has. That thing about living in Japan/China for a couple years fell through as my dad decided to let someone else have the opportunity (or something like that). Though now I believe we have the opportunity to live in India for either a few months or a year or something, though I'm not sure I'd really enjoy that. And my dad said he wouldn't bother with it unless I went because that'd be about half the reason for choosing to live in India for a while (to give me the opportunity to travel abroad some more).

                    Anyway, my city has a sister city in Japan called Yonezawa, which has incredibly good beef (famous all over Japan, infact). It's about the size of Spokane in Washington state.


                    The scenery is incredible. We went on a hike up a nearby mountain (and also stayed at a hot springs hotel). Probably the most incredible experience ever. You could see cloud covered mountains for miles, and the wind at the top was probably going at 50MPH.

                    I've been picking up the language very quickly (watching about 1000 episodes of Anime over the past 4 years has certainly helped), the food is great (except for Octopus), and there's even a pretty cute girl in the Japanese side of the exchange program. Too bad she's like 15, and about 3000 miles away from where I live.

                    Oh yeah, we're in the rainy season over here. :D


                    Anyway, I'm still here for a couple more days, but we're about to go to a festival with Fireworks. I get to wear a Yukata. Or whatever those things are called for the males. =O


                    [EDIT] The festival was pretty sweet. Got to meet a lot more of my exchange student's friends.

                    Also, though I know this sounds horribly conceited of me to say, I have yet to meet someone here who wasn't impressed or otherwise completely interested in me (and not in the "oh, it's an idiotic foreigner. He's so stupid it's funny!"). Likewise, pretty much every girl I've met has been at least somewhat interested in me. Most have said that I'm pretty cool.

                    You could argue that it's simply because I'm a foreigner, but the people in general seem to be a bit more interested in me than the other students in my group. Also, my chaperons pointed out that the people at the sushi restaurant we went to earlier this week even remembered who I was when the two of them went back their to eat again today. Which surprised me because I didn't even talk to any of them.


                    But none of that is really important. I'm having fun and making a lot of friends, and that's all that really matters.

                    I highly suggest visiting Yonezawa at least once in your lives. Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE is very nice and thoughtful (and will often go out of their way to help perfect strangers. A random chair lift operator even gave me his hiking stick to keep when I sprained my ankle (again) while we were on the hike through the mountains. There's also a lot of amazing things to see and experience.

                    Well worth the traveling expenses. Though I suggest you go as a group.

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                      Posted 30 July 2010 - 10:08 AM

                      So... did you get poutine?

                      Also, please say you played at least one rape-sim over there.

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                        Posted 30 July 2010 - 12:55 PM

                        Yeah, Kobe beef is the shit. Apparently in order to get all the marbling that Kobe is known for, they massage their cattle for hours a day so as to evenly distribute the fat.

                        As for the public interest in you, Toasty, it's because their culture hasn't been taught to hate on gingers. In all those anime eps you've watched, haven't you noticed half the guys are white with red hair? ;D Add in your somewhat considerable muscle mass and you've got it made. :3

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                          Posted 31 July 2010 - 01:22 AM

                          This is true. They have infact been quite impressed with my muscles. :O


                          Also, no on both accounts Skidz. And an absolute never on the second one.

                          As for the first, I'm not sure if I'll have a chance to try poutine on my way back home.

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                            Posted 01 August 2010 - 02:03 AM

                            Looks like I'll be in Canada for a little while. We get in at 10:30 AM, and our bus leaves the Amtrak station at like 6:00 PM or something. We'll be taking the sky train (lol, I'm sure some of you understand the irony) from the airport in Vancouver to the Amtrak station. From there, we might walk around a bit and go shopping or something, but we don't have to stay in groups, which is pretty cool.

                            So yeah, come say high or something. Though you should probably bring a sign with your screen name so I don't think your some random person trying to steal my money or something.

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                              Posted 01 August 2010 - 02:13 AM

                              If you can, take the Sky Train to Metrotown station. Metrotown is our biggest entertainment hub and you'll be able to kill loads of time there. If I'm not mistaken, if you take the sky train straight to where you want to go, you'll be there within 30 minutes and will have an entire day to kill. Metrotown has a three-story shopping centre and a movie theatre amongst other things. It'll be your best shot at not going crazy with impatience.

                              I should probably have a car so if you wanna PM me I'll give you my number, mayhaps we can work something out.


                              EDIT: Also, the food court has a few places where you can try Poutine! I would suggest New York fries. lmao

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                                Posted 03 August 2010 - 02:31 AM

                                Got back from Japan last night. A whole day's worth of traveling + jetlag made sure I slept in until 5 pm the next day.

                                All I can say is, I made a lot of friends and I really want to go back. :'(

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                                  Posted 03 August 2010 - 07:00 AM

                                  Meeting internet friends in "real life" is so surreal.

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                                    Posted 03 August 2010 - 07:47 PM

                                    View PostZeypher, on Aug 3 2010, 07:00 AM, said:

                                    Meeting internet friends in "real life" is so surreal.

                                    http://www.youtube.c...h?v=V_GHyvfCxKE

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                                      Posted 03 August 2010 - 10:47 PM

                                      View PostZeypher, on Aug 3 2010, 06:00 AM, said:

                                      Meeting internet friends in "real life" is so surreal.

                                      What the fuck is your problem?

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                                        Posted 03 August 2010 - 11:17 PM

                                        What? I was commenting on the fact that meeting someone you know on the internet in the real world feels weird. Like you've been posting with this person for a long time and have a mental image in your mind of how this person looks / physically acts like and then you actually get to meet them in the flesh. I met several people I write with online at E3 this year along with some journalists from places like IGN and it felt surreal.

                                        It's like meeting a sports figure in person. What's your problem?

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                                          Posted 04 August 2010 - 01:47 AM

                                          View PostMallick, on Aug 3 2010, 09:47 PM, said:

                                          What the fuck is your problem?

                                          You're doing that thing again.

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                                            Posted 04 August 2010 - 07:50 AM

                                            View PostMallick, on Aug 4 2010, 05:47 AM, said:

                                            What the fuck is your problem?


                                            Back off bro, we don't want no trouble round here.

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                                              Posted 08 August 2010 - 05:21 AM

                                              I brought back a rubber band pistol and a training sword from Japan if anyone needs them. =O

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                                                Posted 08 August 2010 - 08:55 AM

                                                you were actually allowed to bring a "pistol" and sword back? surprising.

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                                                  Posted 09 August 2010 - 03:39 AM

                                                  It was in my checked baggage, so it's really not that big of a deal. You can put whatever kinds of weapons in your checked baggage that you want as long as it's not meant to explode.

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                                                    Posted 09 August 2010 - 10:00 AM

                                                    Not whatever you want, cause my friend couldn't bring this back over from the States.

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                                                      Posted 10 August 2010 - 07:39 PM

                                                      That's because that knife is probably outlawed in whatever state he lives in (or whichever one he was passing through.

                                                      So let me rephrase what I said earlier. Things you can't bring on airplanes in checked baggage is explosives, fresh produce (except in some circumstances), and items considered illegal in the place you're traveling to.


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