T-Shirt Season

KAWAII OTONA NO ONNA! SMART PINK

It is getting warm again and everyone is starting to wear T-shirts (ti-shatsu), frequently with some kind of saying in English so I should report on that. Here are recent sightings:

• "Critical Beat Down" - Young man with neat appearance
• "I left all my exes in Texas" - 30's woman
• "By Bathing Ape" - Young woman
• "Napalm Death" - Long haired young man
• "I may not be perfect - but I'm getting pretty close" - Young woman with freckles
• "Paints - Power Groove has come" - Preteen girl
• "Loneliness is part of Being Human" - Pretty young woman
• "Freaks of GoGo Spectators" - Young man

What more can I say? Taken together, that pretty much sums up life.

Oh yes. The woman in the picture is one of the secretaries from work. Her T-shirt says "Kawaii Otona no Onna - Smart Pink". This is an interesting mixture of Japanese and English with the Japanese written in Romaji (western alphabet). It translates to something like "Cute Woman Person - Smart Pink". It is more polite to say woman person than just say woman. And she is using the traditional V sign for photographs called "pisu" (peace) and holding a "dijikamu" (digital camera).

Very Japanese. I like just about everything about Japan but the best part is the people. This picture was taken at the Bowling Party we had last weekend. The project team and their families all went bowling - see the group photo by pushing the Yebisu button.

Did you notice my counter is over 3000 viewings now? I should be charging people to read this foolishness. Since I am travelling back to the USA I'll see many of you soon...

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