if money can't buy happiness...you don't have enough of it! hahahahha
Just to keep you in perspective, here’s a little recap of my financial situation in Japan. Okay, so I make pretty good money over here. However, I spend barbarous amounts of aforementioned money just staying alive.
Here’s a basic rundown:
I make around $2000 (net) a month. Then I pay for utilities and cellphone and internet and all that rotten shyte. This is approximately one million dollars (umtee-squillion yen) and puts me $998 000 in the hole. Roughly. Then, I spend about $30 a day on grocery store food (one broccoli the size of my fist costs $3. Then I have to drink copiously to offset the depression of how much money I’m spending, so that’s another ten thousand dollars (Guinness costs $8 a can here, $9 or $10 for a miserably poured pint). So as you can see, I’m down to about -$1 008 000. Then, from time to time, I like to go out on the town and go to Tokyo for the evening, or go out for dinner, or snowboarding and the like. Each of these activities costs between 5 and 10 billion dollars (500 kajillion yen) each. So if you’ve been doing the math and paying attention, that leaves me around 3 cents to save for myself or to begin to pay back my student loans (har har, that’s a little joke) or to donate to charity or some other noble and worthy cause (such as the Give Grum the Funds Fund).
But let's face it, Japan is a pretty sweet time, a fun place, a place of learning (how to feel retarded because your speaking skill is approximately on par with a native-born 3-year-old crippled mute whose only real advantage in life is to die before everyone else), a place of many wonders (both cultural and scenic) and is even a place to make money (LOADS of money). But Japan is a place of mandatory and reckless extravagance, of boundless expenditure; a place where existence and meaning is measured in hundred dollar bills (or rather, 10 000 yen bills). But to figure this out, you have to read the fine print...which is Japanese size and, unfortunately for me but not surprisingly, written in Japanese...
I'm the king and I'm in my counting house, counting all my money
But it'll soon be spent on food and drink, my life's so sad it's funny
Yet your jealousy is much deserved, you'll find it'll take you far
So when poverty's got you by the throat, you can join me, we'll go to the bar
Here’s a basic rundown:
I make around $2000 (net) a month. Then I pay for utilities and cellphone and internet and all that rotten shyte. This is approximately one million dollars (umtee-squillion yen) and puts me $998 000 in the hole. Roughly. Then, I spend about $30 a day on grocery store food (one broccoli the size of my fist costs $3. Then I have to drink copiously to offset the depression of how much money I’m spending, so that’s another ten thousand dollars (Guinness costs $8 a can here, $9 or $10 for a miserably poured pint). So as you can see, I’m down to about -$1 008 000. Then, from time to time, I like to go out on the town and go to Tokyo for the evening, or go out for dinner, or snowboarding and the like. Each of these activities costs between 5 and 10 billion dollars (500 kajillion yen) each. So if you’ve been doing the math and paying attention, that leaves me around 3 cents to save for myself or to begin to pay back my student loans (har har, that’s a little joke) or to donate to charity or some other noble and worthy cause (such as the Give Grum the Funds Fund).
But let's face it, Japan is a pretty sweet time, a fun place, a place of learning (how to feel retarded because your speaking skill is approximately on par with a native-born 3-year-old crippled mute whose only real advantage in life is to die before everyone else), a place of many wonders (both cultural and scenic) and is even a place to make money (LOADS of money). But Japan is a place of mandatory and reckless extravagance, of boundless expenditure; a place where existence and meaning is measured in hundred dollar bills (or rather, 10 000 yen bills). But to figure this out, you have to read the fine print...which is Japanese size and, unfortunately for me but not surprisingly, written in Japanese...
I'm the king and I'm in my counting house, counting all my money
But it'll soon be spent on food and drink, my life's so sad it's funny
Yet your jealousy is much deserved, you'll find it'll take you far
So when poverty's got you by the throat, you can join me, we'll go to the bar
posted by -Jubei- at 11:05 PM
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