Short term serviced apartments

[Mike Oxlong]

Kunreishiki (I like how it's written using the Hepburn system ) was developed after contact and trading commenced with the Dutch. Hepburn came later, after the Americans and English started lobbying for a share of the pie.

J-kids are taught the former in elementary school, and the later in JHS. They graduate generally using a combination of the two. The reason I was given by a professor who is on some Ministry of Education commitees is that the Ministry feels the kids must learn the official system first, then allows them to switch to the system better facilitating English education once they're unable to shake the Borg-like grip of their early education.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

That comment literally makes you sound like a Grammar Nazi, with the emphasis on the latter....

it's why we're married.

[Doctor Stop]

oakwood would definitely be my preference if i can swing an 11 night stay.

That's eleven days in an apartment being serviced by swingers? There's not question that that wood, oak or not, definitely is your preference.

[Screwed Up Eyes]

it's why we're married.

Oh, la, la...so you, er, like a man in a dark uniform with an armband, do you? (I bet you he's even got a jacket that says "Staff" and "Since 1992" on it).

[Samurai_Jerk]

[Screwed Up Eyes]

[quote="Samurai_Jerk"]You're the last person that should be teaching English. ]

That's what I love about you, SJ...you're so subtle and always take pains to beat around the bush when you have to offer constructive criticism to someone....

[IparryU]

That's what I love about you, SJ...you're so subtle and always take pains to beat around the bush when you have to offer constructive criticism to someone....

none the less, fucking true. i shouldnt be teaching anyone english. a mexican/hick accent and grammar dont ammount to shit.

[waruta]

My inlaws want me to teach her english, but i told them that i dont tolerate katakana and I am strict on pronuciation cause i dont want her to sound stupid. they were slightly offended, but couldn't avoid my point.

Maybe learn to spell? Apologies....I'm the spelling nazi to SJ's grammar nazi....

[IparryU]

Maybe learn to spell? Apologies....I'm the spelling nazi to SJ's grammar nazi....

now i have the whole gasstoppo on my ass

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

now i have the whole gasstoppo on my ass

Mein amigo, das ist Gestapo

Just being a right pain in the arse!

[Greji]

Just being a right pain in the arse!

I can help you with that

[IparryU]

I can help you with that

Nah, after all them Goats Out Nights with ya, dont really phase me.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I can help you with that

Shit, I hope not....just being reading Freddy Mercury's Wikipedia entry. It was so horrifying, I'm getting nightmares even before I've gone to sleep.

[McTojo]

Kunreishiki (I like how it's written using the Hepburn system ) was developed after contact and trading commenced with the Dutch. Hepburn came later, after the Americans and English started lobbying for a share of the pie.

J-kids are taught the former in elementary school, and the later in JHS. They graduate generally using a combination of the two. The reason I was given by a professor who is on some Ministry of Education commitees is that the Ministry feels the kids must learn the official system first, then allows them to switch to the system better facilitating English education once they're unable to shake the Borg-like grip of their early education.

Well, I'm glad these Anglo-Christian types tasted Tokugawa's cold iron blade. These systems only reinforced poorer pronunciation in both languages.

[omae mona]

Well, I'm glad these Anglo-Christian types tasted Tokugawa's cold iron blade. These systems only reinforced poorer pronunciation in both languages.

I love your encyclopedic knowledge of Japanese history, McTojo. I knew kunreishiki was standardized by the government in the 20th century, based on nihonshiki which was invented by a Japanese guy in the Meiji era. And I knew Hepburn was invented by an American guy also during the Meiji era.

What I didn't realize was there was a part where these guys traveled back in time to meet their demise during the Tokugawa shogunate. I did not think the J-government invented time travel until the 1990s, as part of an attempt to make the existing textbooks correct.

Thanks for the educational post!

[McTojo]

I love your encyclopedic knowledge of Japanese history, McTojo. I knew kunreishiki was standardized by the government in the 20th century, based on nihonshiki which was invented by a Japanese guy in the Meiji era. And I knew Hepburn was invented by an American guy also during the Meiji era.

What I didn't realize was there was a part where these guys traveled back in time to meet their demise during the Tokugawa shogunate. I did not think the J-government invented time travel until the 1990s, as part of an attempt to make the existing textbooks correct.

Thanks for the educational post!

You're welcome.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

sorry to distract you all from McTosser's insights, but I am still looking for somewhere in Tokyo to hang my hat.

So if you don't mind, I'll re-hijack my thread and ask for more suggestions of short term places and if anyone has got any connections with Oakwood or similar.

[GomiGirl]

Saw this on the internets today.

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/34560?af=1&c=cs&i=wuobgllfi

Sublet in Daikanyama. Might work for you.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Saw this on the internets today.

http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/34560?af=1&c=cs&i=wuobgllfi

Sublet in Daikanyama. Might work for you.

oooooo fab! unfortunately the dates i want aren't available, but i'll have a look at the other listings. thanks very much!!

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Oakwood Roppongi central, 252.000 for 9 nights in a 2 bedroom. got the 'we ONLY have one room available and it's a very special deal that is kept quiet but we would like to promote our property to someone in your business, blah blah blah'.

if anyone wants the contact for future reference, PM me.

[Screwed Up Eyes]

Well, I won't PM you about the apartment, but I was just thinking...my surname is Delic and I thought that if we tied the knot, even if only for a night or two while you're here, you'd have the coolest name on the planet...

[IkemenTommy]

Oakwood Roppongi central, 252.000 for 9 nights in a 2 bedroom. got the 'we ONLY have one room available and it's a very special deal that is kept quiet but we would like to promote our property to someone in your business, blah blah blah'.

if anyone wants the contact for future reference, PM me.

I will warn you ahead of time that Oakwood Roppongi Central is super ghetto and they are currently having a huge building construction right next to it.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

I will warn you ahead of time that Oakwood Roppongi Central is super ghetto and they are currently having a huge building construction right next to it.

considering the amount of time i've lived in africa and moscow, there is no such thing as a true ghetto here, and i am on the 10th floor with a 10th floor balcony view overlooking tokyo tower. with all the modcons, including the warm toilet seat, the self-prepping singing bathtub, wi-fi and a gazillion cable channels, with roppongi station nearby and loads of conbenis.

if you think this is slummin it in the ghetto, then you need to get out and see more of the world.

[IkemenTommy]

considering the amount of time i've lived in africa and moscow, there is no such thing as a true ghetto here, and i am on the 10th floor with a 10th floor balcony view overlooking tokyo tower. with all the modcons, including the warm toilet seat, the self-prepping singing bathtub, wi-fi and a gazillion cable channels, with roppongi station nearby and loads of conbenis.

if you think this is slummin it in the ghetto, then you need to get out and see more of the world.

For the amount you are spending, that place is crap. Maybe "ghetto" was not the best choice of word, but I can tell you again that it is a shit hole. If you find warm toilet seats and wi-fi as such luxury items, then obviously you have not been out in the world enough..

[Cyka UchuuJin]

[quote="IkemenTommy"]For the amount you are spending, that place is crap. Maybe "ghetto" was not the best choice of word, but I can tell you again that it is a shit hole. If you find warm toilet seats and wi-fi as such luxury items, then obviously you have not been out in the world enough..]

tommy, we will just have to agree to disagree on this. what i pay here for 9 nights for a 2 bedroom is what i pay for 3 nights at the park hyatt. and when i am staying somewhere for more than 5 nights, i actually prefer to be in an apartment where i can be more self sufficient. i don't know when the last time you actually saw oakwood apartments, but this property has been recently refurbished and as someone who works in the design business, they did a pretty ace job. by comparison, the link you posted for Mori buildings was somewhere i'd never stay. the apartments are smaller and looked cheap. (edit note: yes, the 2 bedrooms are the same size as oakwood, it's 1.300.000 million per month and they have copies of designer furniture instead of the real thing, which is a makes anywhere look cheap and immediately puts me off staying there.)

different travellers have different standards, and trust me, i have seen much more of the world than you have. i remember a few years ago you critised the place we stayed in kohama-jima as also being overpriced without actually having seen it. so let's just end this discussion here.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

i am on the 10th floor with a 10th floor balcony view overlooking tokyo tower. with all the modcons, including the warm toilet seat, the self-prepping singing bathtub, wi-fi and a gazillion cable channels, with roppongi station nearby and loads of conbenis.

Would you fancy chilled champagne, hand-fed fresh strawberries coated in chocolate and a delectable foot massage with that?

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Would you fancy chilled champagne, hand-fed fresh strawberries coated in chocolate and a delectable foot massage with that?

i just got back from the supermarket and have got two of those three.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

i just got back from the supermarket and have got two of those three.

Wow! I had no idea you could buy a foot massage at the supermarket these days...I've just been made redundant.
I forgot strawberries were out of season...

[waruta]

Would you fancy chilled champagne, hand-fed fresh strawberries coated in chocolate and a delectable foot massage with that?

I didn't know there was such things as hand-fed strawberries, is this another amazing Japanese invention like beer-fed massaged cows?

*edit* : Oh where are you SJ when we be out patrollin' these mean streets for the grammar law breakas?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I didn't know there was such things as hand-fed strawberries, is this another amazing Japanese invention like beer-fed massaged cows?

*edit* : Oh where are you SJ when we be out patrollin' these mean streets for the grammar law breakas?

I was subtly trying to seduce her...Subtlety isn't really my forte, though, so I had to spend the night with my hand again. I still wish some women would spend the night with my hand, too.