8/13 1:57am OMG!!!

So…I just saw the biggest spider that I’ve ever seen in person…it’s a little bigger than the palm of my hand…Later, I’m going to get screens for the windows in the shower room and the WC cuz ain’t gone be nobody livin’ here without paying rent!

Now on to Karaoke Race Relations…Maybe it’s just me but…

The first time we went to Karaoke (in Kurume), I sang songs by Norah Jones, KT Tunstall, Roberta Flack, Franz Ferdinand, and John Legend. At the end of the night a colleague asked, “Tiffany, did you see Alicia Keys?” I reply, “No, why would I look for Alicia Keys? I don’t like Alicia Keys.” Then he said, “WHAT, why not?” And I told him what I tell everyone when discussing Alicia Keys, “She can’t sing.” He was so shocked and amazed that I did not like her that he went on for like five minutes about how great he thinks she is. In retrospect, I should have asked, “If you like her so much, why didn’t you sing one of her songs?”

The third and most recent Karaoke scenario (in Chikugo) took place last night. Another colleague kept referring to me as “Hot ‘Lana” (a nickname for Atlanta), which was no big deal. It’s not until he sought my approval of all songs he chose that were performed by Black artists, called me Regina, and when I corrected him about my name he said, “No, no, no you’re Regina,” that I expressly erased him from the “People I Like” list...By the way, my shirt was a hit!!! Moving right along...

I love how:




The pet store and McDonald's are next to each other!











Little kids are soooo fly...yes that's a High Fashion
Hump (hairstyle)!












Plastic food always looks sooooo gooood!









The Colonel manages to be at every KFC in Japan...at the same time!











In Japan, Super Heroes hang out with the common folk!