The place where Broadway and musicals are located.
The place where I will begin the next chapter of my nomadic life.
The place where I turn into an eccentric academic out of sync with normality.
NEW YORK.
Welcome.
The place where Broadway and musicals are located.
The place where I will begin the next chapter of my nomadic life.
The place where I turn into an eccentric academic out of sync with normality.
New York.
An aspiring hikikomori/ gomiyashiki owner who will get 3 dogs, 1 cat and a herb
garden when she is in her 40s.
Currently a second year Phd student in East Asian Studies, NYU; a self-proclaimed OTAKU; a
clumsy but avid snowboarder; and absent oneechama of Variel.
8 Sept 2010: West Side Story, WICKED
19 Sept 2010: Chicago
8 Oct 2010: Promises Promises
29 Oct 2010: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
14 Nov 2010: American Idiot
18 Jan 2011: Billy Elliot
8 Feb 2011: La Cage Aux Folles
6 Mar 2011: Paul Taylor Dance Group
5 Apr 2011: Catch Me If You Can (Broadway preview)
2 Dec 2011: La Boheme
9 Jan 2012: Rent
22 Mar 2012: Phantom of the Opera
23 May 2012: Avenue Q
26 Sep 2012: Newsies
2 Oct 2012: Turandot
4 Oct 2012: Once
15 Oct 2012: Sleep No More
28 Nov 2012: Lion King
7 Feb 2013: Book of Mormons
14 Mar 2013: Jersey Boys
25 Mar 2013: Sleep No More
21 May 2013: Kinky Boots
26 Sep 2013: Big Fish
Sunday, December 23, 2007
2:57 PM
My english-ness is F**king not for sale or to be objectified
I guess I only blog when I have something to say. Which becomes an oxymoron cos I don't like to write wordy blogs.
Ok, a quick update:
1) Busy with several presentations of which I have just finished last week
1.5) Thus, watched all the latest episodes in this season's Boston Legal and Grey's Anatomy.
2) Very cleverly (if I may say so!) made a teacher (Dr K!) convinced that I should write my masters thesis in English by writing an english essay with my 'orrible 'orrible Japanese presentation. He was so pleased with himself as he could read my english essay while he totally don't understand what I am talking about in my Japanese presentation
3) Expecting to spend a non-lonely Christmas this year as compared to last. Most of my friends will know that I am usually very passive when it comes to friendship. If not for Eleanor, I would have a very very extremely lonely Christmas last year. This year, Ayu (my friend frm Okinawa who is currently studying here), invited me to an onsen trip tomorrow. And Dawn invited me to her house for a christmas lunch. Two friends!! I am not on an island!!
4) And now we come to the title of this post. The title says it all anyway. I know from my year 3 module, Sociology of Religion, that religious institutions provide a brand of service to its consumers. Thus, it needs to sell a product that caters to the needs of the consumers. But I am a consumer and I refused to be perceived as a product!!!
I think I blew my top today when this lady brought her gaggle of friends to be introduced to me and Erica during the church's Xmas celebrations. I am already not pleased when she introduced her friends to me in her halting english. She knows I can speak Japanese as we have briefly chatted in the past. To be honest, my mind is already starting to cloud in anger when I heard somebody saying I am an ENGLISH TEACHER. Maybe it's not that "SPG" Japanese lady who said that. I am so angry that I am really not sure at that point. I just burst out in Japanese that I am a Hokkaido Uni student and NOT an english teacher. Then, I walked off. I do not anger easily but I hate seeing pathetic Japanese forcibly trying to practice english on others and I hate to be objectified as someone you can practice your english on. She does NOT try to be my friend cos I am only something to be used.
Imagine how would that Jpn version 'SPG' feel if she goes to her 'land of the free America' and all americans spoke half-mast Japanese to her?
Disclaimer: I still love God and I still love my church here even though I know it is not perfect.
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