Nintendogs + cats

Today you get "Nintendogs + cats", straps for you cell phone looking like dogs or cats if you buy tea.

More AKB48 straps

I keep getting AKB48 straps. They come with everything.

Christian Smith

I know a guy called Christian Smith from Sweden. I found a flier for some event where Christian Smith from Sweden is going to do something. Despite Sweden having a small population, it is not the Christian Smith I know. Although the one I know is also in Japan.

Vesicles

Today's find in the coop store: "Unshu-mikan is a juicy drink with juice vesicles of mandarin oranges". A juicy juice. With vesicles. Considering people in Japan are not very good at English, do they really expect people to know words like "vesicle"? Well, thinking about it, the English that is taught here may actually start with such words and then never actually reach words that you would hear a lot in normal conversation...

AKB48 strap

When buying fruit juice on my way home, all the juice came with straps for your cell phone that are supposed to look like singers from the weird group AKB48 (why would you need more than fifty members in a group, where no one even plays an instrument!?!) dressed up to look like vegetables. Great.

My friend says she usually pulls of the free gift and then goes to buy it without that crap when things like this happens, haha.

More snow

It keeps snowing. That makes our door here at the university difficult to open. Or even find...

Konnyaku

This is (probably) "konnyaku" (コンニャク). It is called "konjak" in English according to Wikipedia. Konnyaku is the name of a plant, and this is used to create a starch based food. It is like a very chewy jello. In Japan, quite a lot of food contains konnyaku. It has close to zero calories and the chewiness of it more or less means you lose calories by eating it.