Happy New Year 2009!

by **FG Lurker** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:24 am

Well, if you're reading this you survived 2008! Here's hoping that 2009 is a better year for everyone.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

by **fatslug** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:29 am

happy new yr .

sad ass new yr at home watching tv

by **Greji** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:46 am

Happy 2009 Everyone!

by **omae mona** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:55 am

Happy 2009 everybody!

by **IkemenTommy** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:55 am

Happy 2009

by **AlbertSiegel** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 1:31 am

Happy new year to all! I hope 2k9 is better for everyone. My new year is working and watching the NHK special. Not much of a life, but it's better than new year in Roppongi. Some real crazy people there.

by **Sentakki Fried Chicken** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:55 am

Happy New Year to all!
I hope and pray it's a great 12 months for everyone.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot....for all those going Japanese over the New Year break, don't choke on your mochi and make sure you've got a vacuum cleaner handy.

by **Taro Toporific** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:29 am

Happy Year of the Cow!

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by **gomichild** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:49 am

Happy New Year!

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 12:22 pm

Last night started off looking like it was going to be shit but ended pretty well. I hope that's a sign of things to come because the start of '09 is already shaping up to be a rough one.

But enough of my bitching ...

Happy New Year!!!

by **Tsuru** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 5:53 pm

Happy new year!

by **hundefar** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 6:59 pm

The guy in the flat below me had a party that lasted until 9.30 this morning. I kept waking up this morning trying to ID the tunes he were playing. It all sounded extremely weird when half asleep.

Happy new year!

by **Blah Pete** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:00 pm

Happy New Year from Korea.
Ended up going night skiing somewhere around Pyeonchaek. Didn't freeze my ass off and didn't pass out in a snow bank. Ski resort was open until 4:30 but quit around 1:30 to go drinking.

by **GuyJean** » Thu Jan 01, 2009 7:05 pm

[SIZE="6"][color="Lime"]Happy 2009![/color][/SIZE]

GJ

by **prolly** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 12:34 am

did the meiji shrine thing. too many fucking gaijins there. my guess it's like a 10 to 1 ratio of gaijin to nihonjin, and this is conservative since there are no doubt a lot of chinese with facemasks i assumed were japanese. jesus.

happy new year FG and let's have an even more fucked 2009!

by **Samurai_Jerk** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 4:52 am

prolly wrote:did the meiji shrine thing. too many fucking gaijins there. my guess it's like a 10 to 1 ratio of gaijin to nihonjin, and this is conservative since there are no doubt a lot of chinese with facemasks i assumed were japanese. jesus.

happy new year FG and let's have an even more fucked 2009!

I did it a couple of years ago and didn't see many. Did you go during the day? I waited in line and went in at the stroke of midnight. Maybe that's why.

by **Behan** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 11:33 am

GuyJean wrote:[SIZE="6"][color="Lime"]Happy 2009![/color][/SIZE]

GJ

Is she milking a bull?

by **kusai Jijii** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:23 pm

AlbertSiegel wrote:My new year is working and watching the NHK special. Not much of a life, but it's better than new year in Roppongi.

Realy? How so?

by **samuraiwig** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:32 pm

Behan wrote:Is she milking a bull?

She should be worried about that trap door right under her, too.

Meiji-jingu at midnight on new year is way more deserving of that "you're a fool to do it twice" line than Fuji. When I went and lined up for 3-4 hours there weren't many gaijin. The sensible people probably hit a bar and then go over on Jan 1.

by **IkemenTommy** » Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:01 pm

samuraiwig wrote:She should be worried about that trap door right under her, too.

Meiji-jingu at midnight on new year is way more deserving of that "you're a fool to do it twice" line than Fuji. When I went and lined up for 3-4 hours there weren't many gaijin. The sensible people probably hit a bar and then go over on Jan 1.

The whole idea of "when in Japan, don't do what the Japanese do" apply here unless you want to be stuck in the massive human congestiion jam.

by **Iraira** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 2:18 am

I just finished celebrating New Year's.....cohere...rant...no...I still have 48 hours until Monday right?

by **Dragonette** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:03 am

Yes, a happy, or at least better than 2008, New Year to all! (with 1 or 2 notable exceptions...) :devil2:

Our New Year celebration was quiet this year - we just watched the ball drop in Times Square via CNN, he whipped up some toshi-koshi soba and ozoni and the next day we went unsuccessfully in search of osechi ryori (my Resident Ronin's fault - he doesn't like to make reservations).

We could have partied on NYE, but RR wasn't feeling up to it which is both good and bad. I wanted to go, but I didn't want him drinking himself into total raving illness and insensibility as usual, so this is our first holiday season where he drank like a grownup!

Maybe this is an auspicious 2009 omen? :nice:

by **Greji** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:47 pm

IkemenTommy wrote:The whole idea of "when in Japan, don't do what the Japanese do" apply here unless you want to be stuck in the massive human congestiion jam.

In search of that ever elusive graffiti that no one is ever interested in, the custom of "hatsumo" only appeared in Japan in the late part of Meiji. Before that, any "omairi" for New Years was referred to as "ehou". This meant traveling in a specific direction appropriate to the calendar and visiting a Shrine in that same direction. This is similar to the directions shown on calendars for good and bad luck and the ones used in laying out a new home.

The developement of the Shinbashi to Yokohama trainline which had a stop at Kawasaki Daishi made it convenient to travel to the famous shrine. The trains to Narita (Narita line and Keisei) started a publicity war, offering discount tickets and "tea sabisu" if you used their line to go to a shrine, which really kicked off the Hatsumo custom. It is in fact, only 100 years old or less, under that name....

It also really doesn't matter if it is a Shrine or Otera as the most famous Otera's after so many hundred years are considered as a Shrine as well.

Now, I know you just want to run to the nearest pub and recite this to all the fellows at the bar...
:cool:

by **GuyJean** » Sat Jan 03, 2009 11:55 pm

Greji wrote:.. Now, I know you just want to run to the nearest pub and recite this to all the fellows at the bar...

I see you watched the same show tonight I did

.. Programming over 'dead week' is TERRIBLE!.. I guess everyone is on vacation]rent[/I] a fuckin' movie!

GJ

by **wuchan** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:37 am

GuyJean wrote: I actually had to rent a fuckin' movie!

GJ

?????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????
RENT HUH??????

We have this wonderful thing called the internet now.

by **IkemenTommy** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:55 am

GuyJean wrote:I see you watched the same show tonight I did .. Programming over 'dead week' is TERRIBLE!.. I guess everyone is on vacation]rent[/I] a fuckin' movie!

GJ

Do you realize that all those taped TV shows they have in the "dead week" were recorded back in December?

Damn, every show is a "variety" of some sort with the same fuckin recycled talentos.

by **IkemenTommy** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:59 am

wuchan wrote:?????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????
?????????????????????????????????????????
RENT HUH??????

We have this wonderful thing called the internet now.

The word rent was in italics which probably meant something. I will not go into further details.

by **Takechanpoo** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:00 am

by **Greji** » Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:02 am

GuyJean wrote: I actually had to rent a fuckin' movie!

GJ

With all the things available for rent in Roppongi and you rented a fucking movie?
:confused:

by **dimwit** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 12:30 pm

GuyJean wrote:I see you watched the same show tonight I did .. Programming over 'dead week' is TERRIBLE!.. I guess everyone is on vacation]rent[/I] a fuckin' movie!

GJ

Movies???.....Oh yeah they're the thingys you watch on airplanes. :cool:

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