Tuesday, March 30, 2010

I Guess I Should Just Quit My Life

I recently took a trip to Japan. It's a Japanese tradition that at the new year you go to the Shrine, or Temple and pull your fortune for the new year. When I went to the Asakusa Temple in Tokyo, I decided I better see what my year was going to be like.

So here's what you do.... You shake up this pewter tube with a little hole for a stick to come out.


Next you read the Japanese Symbols

and find the symbols that match to the front of one of these mini drawers where your fortune awaits (keep in mind that this is just a sample of the drawers and that there are MANY more adjoining this one and therefore many possibilities of fortunes you COULD pull.

Right after I pull my fortune I'm excited to see what it says...
and right there in front of me there you see it BAD FORTUNE. Please read it and note the amazing Japanese to English translation.


Just in case you can't read it let me enlighten you.

"Your wishes will not come true"
"The patient won't get well soon"
"The lost thing won't be found"
"The person you're waiting for won't be found"
"It's a bad to make a trip"
"Neither marriage nor employment is good"
"Marriage or employment is bad"
"Be careful to be more religious, because bad things come repeatedly"

I think I'm going to give up on life completely, or just hibernate for the rest of the year.

If you want your fortune to come true you tie it on the line. I tied mine anyways.






Japanglish

One thing I love about visiting other countries is seeing the English translation on signs. These are a few that I found in Japan. Need I say more?