Good / Annoying Commercials (and Fish)

This is the fish I made for supper. I thought it would be a disaster, but it was shockingly edible! And I don't care what the judges on Top Chef say, I think the bloodline is the most delicious part.

Anyway, with little introduction, a few Japanese commercials I love and/or hate. (No, that's not a mistake -- it's possible to both love AND hate these commercials.)

LOVE:

One of the less-weird Meiji commercials. I want to play a chocolate bar.


This was a year-end advertisement (hence the praying). That bear should be creepy, but I love it.


HATE:

The jingle is actually kind of catchy, but sometimes this actress's voice sets my teeth on edge (wait for the end for full effect). If they changed the spokesperson, it could move to the "love" category.


It doesn't seem to fit, since it's not a jingle, but I hate this.



LOVE / HATE:

This is a famous singer, but lately it seems like she only makes music intended to be used for cell phone commercials. If you can't tell, this song's lyrics are, "A winter fairy is melting a snow man. A winter fairy is melting a snowman. A winter fairy is melting a snowman. It's a melting snowman."


I loved/hated the same singer for a summer cell phone ad. The lyrics, you can probably figure out are, "Ring a ding dong ring a ding ding dong. Ring a ding dong ring a ding ding dong."

Well, it's 2011

Well, it's 2011. I haven't posted anything in this blog since 2009. Oops!

Well, I'm going to try again, but instead of just spending a lot of time posting about my life, I'll probably be writing more about Japan in general.

... I don't really have much for this post, so... here's what I'm eating right now:

It's nikujaga (肉じゃが). What you see there is pork, potatoes, onions, carrots, and green beans.

I've decided to become a better cook, in case I some day have to make food for more than myself. I've managed to build up a repertoire of about five dishes that I ate on a rotating basis, but at the new year I actually went out and bought a Japanese-language cook book so I can try to stretch my abilities.

So far, so good.