Tonights dinner is a 驚き

My hotel gets NHK Satellite 1 which is the Tiger's satellite channel and NTV which is the National Giants channel.. NHK Satellite 1 is airing the entire Lions/Fighters game tonight, I guess because it's the final game of the series they are airing it. NTV is of course airing the Giants game from 7pm till 9:30pm with an allowance of an extra 30 minutes if needed! So, I've decided to hang out at the hotel and see how baseball is aired here. Before the games started I went to a quickie mart type store and got "dinner". Like the title said it's a 驚き tonight! A few items that are not a 驚き is Pocky and Octopus jerky. On top of those items I got some Triangle of rice and 驚き wrapped in Nori and a package of three smaller 驚き triangles wrapped in Nori and a package of what appears to be dried spiced meat. I was inspired by Alex Skolnick's blog about buying these rice balls wrapped in Nori, I got a big blue one and the smaller ones are orange, brown and green.. I will keep this blog going until I eat them and I will post what I think they are as I eat them.. Gotta love a good 驚き..

What some of you may find more impressive is that I completed the transaction at the counter in Japanese! How did I learn enough Japanese to buy stuff at a store? Just like any other kid does, from watching Anime... :D btw - don't expect me to speak Japanese when I get home, like any language I pretend not to know any thing.. :P

The Giants game just started, as the broadcast started they did a replay of the 3 runs that had already scored, the game is in the 4th at the beginning of the broadcast and the Dragons are winning 2-1.. The Lions game is in the 3rd and the they are beating the Fighters 5-0. I will be switching back and forth between the two.. I really hope the Giants sweep the Dragons so that I will be at the clinching game on Friday...

OK.. On to the food... 驚き 1 = White Tuna with mayo!! I win on that one! Can my luck hold out? Let's see... 驚き 2 = Hot peppers with sesame seed!! I win again! 驚き 3 = rice soaked in soy sauce.. A little disappointing that there was nothing inside, but it was still tasty.. 驚き 4 = plain rice with some fish spice? Again, not bad, but disappointing...

Giants just tied it 2-2 with a monster home run.. I don't really like the Dragons' uniforms, the Giants uniform looks exactly like the SF Giants. I do like the Lions (will try to get a better of picture of that but the Lions website is overloaded with traffic right now) and the Fighters uniforms but my favorite Japanese uniform is the Marines home uniform, I would like a Bobby Valentine jersey but it's $300!! I am going to see if they have a t-shirt version at the baseball hall of fame on Friday.

Giants just screwed up bad, an error, a double play ball that for some reason the third baseman held for too long so that the man on 2nd was safe, the throw to 1st was also too late and the ended up with men on 1st and 2nd with 1 out. Next batter singled, bases loaded, next batter walks!! 3-2 Dragons, bases loaded.. Had they turned that double play they would have been out of the inning with no damage, as I was typing this the pitcher was changed and the next pitcher threw one pitch before the batter grounded into a proper double play to end the inning... Going to bottom of the 5th Dragons winning 3-2.

I'm pretty full after eating those rice triangles. I will save the octopus jerky and the spiced meat for a bit later as a snack while I watch the game. I will post another blog (maybe tomorrow) with the verdict on the octopus and the meat as well as the final scores of these two games..

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For lunch today I had a Sushi platter which came with 10 pieces of Nigri Sushi and 1 Maki Roll.

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When I got back to the hotel before I went to get food I went upstairs to the executive club. They have reclining massage chairs overlooking the city. I sat in the chair with a glass of wine and was reminded of Boston Legal.. I started thinking that I missed having my Denny Crane sitting next to me.. Then I started thinking who is my Denny Crane? Yes, I consider myself Alan Shore.. So I guess my Denny would be AJ? He is the only staunch Republican I'm friends with, does my Denny Crane have to be a Republican? I don't really think so.. Sitting there with a wine in my hand on a reclined massage chair looking over the skyline made me really want to be able to teleport someone in the other chair so we could chat about the weeks events while sipping our wine and looking over a beautiful city skyline. I tried to take a picture but I don't think it came out..