News From The Big Rice Bowl 2010/07/01

Here is a little Rice Bowl News for you to chew as I enjoy my lunch.

Happy Canada Day!!!

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Anything for a princess...

A weekly magazine claimed the Imperial Household Agency asked administrators at Princess Aiko's elementary school to supplement the school meals with ADD medication in order to calm down "unruly" boys who were scaring the little princess. The agency denied the story and demanded an apology and a correction.

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You're kidding, right?...

A man walked into a koban (local police box) in Itabashi with a kitchen knife and tried to make the officer on duty hand over his gun so he could rob a bank. The cop used his nightstick to knock the knife out of the perpetrator's hand and then arrested him.

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And here's one from my old stomping ground...

A 61-year-old man in Kanazawa o trial for using a stolen bank card to withdraw cash from an ATM was xonerated in a case of mistaken identity. ALthough the man bore a remarkable resemblance to the culprit, who was caught on a surveillance tape, he was freed after the police lab "determined that the defendant and the man on the tape were different based on the shape of their ears."

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Have a great week. I love you!

Cam

Monkey Business

Here is a little tidbit of local news that might tickle your monkey's fancy...

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"Japan world record-holder Masanobu Sato announced that he will not be defending his title at this year's World Masturbate-a-thon in San Francisco.

His current record for consecutive monkey-spanking is 9 hours, 33 minutes."

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Maybe GSK, Pfizer or one of the Big Pharmas could create some biopharmaceutical megahit drug to help men with premature ejaculation syndrome out of the DNA from Sato-san's semen...

One foreseeable problem with that, however, is that we might possibly see a dramatic increase in women visiting the ER for Grade 3 burns to their private parts...

Talk about going the distance!

Have you spanked your monkey today?

I love spanking --- I mean...

I love YOU!

Cam

The other two videos of our visit to experience His Holiness The Dalai Lama are now on my YouTube Channel if you are interested: Morning!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUa8OkiKRbY and Afternoon!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62fAZO4BLcg&feature=channel

Interpreting His Holiness The Dalai Lama's Interpreters

During a lunchbreak between the morning and afternoon sessions with His Holiness The Dalai Lama (Pacifico Yokohama, 2010/06/26), Jaime and Jessica talk about what it meant to them to hear His Holiness The Dalai Lama .... get interpreted.

The Dalai Lama is an excellent speaker. The only problem is the translators during his discussion on Buddhism and Happiness (not Happyness)... well, they sucked the sweat off a dead yak's balls.

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

I love you!

Cam

P.S. Jaime, link to this video.

Heavenly Message / Hellaceous Translation

Ask Jaime and Jess... Oh My Buddha!

Seeing HHDL was awesome. He became a real person to me. (The Pope is not real, not yet. And neither is Christ cuz I haven't met him yet either). He smiled, waved, sneezed, blew his nose. Oh and he talked. In Tibetan. Because some of the simulcast translators dont speak English. He wanted to use English but they asked him not to. The translations were hell...

The Japanese was done by a Japanese translator and her Japanese was immaculate... for written Japanese. However it was so hard for Mayu (Japanese with excellent command of her native language) to understand that she actually went and rented a simulcast translator device so she could listen to the English!

But the problem is that the Japanese over the speaker system was so loud that it overpowered the halting, broken, sometimes absent English.I think the Taiwanese was the smoothest as they seemed to do simultaneous translation as HH spoke.

I figure that HH is accustomed to simultaneous translators because he talked and talked and talked (in Tibetan) and then the J-translator would talk for 15-20 minutes along with the drowned-out neo-English translator.

The music was pretty impressive for an hour and the Japanese monks did an amazing chant using about 10 taiko, or Japanese drums. It was very dynamic. The last performer was Sadao Watanabe!!!!! Now if you are a jazz fanatic you will likely know this name as he is a worled-renowned sax player (getting on in age I see). Very good!

The first two hours HH talked about buddhism and with the poor translations we couldnt understand anything other than suffering is suffering until you examine the suffering closely upon which you break down all the components of suffering and you cannot find anything that defines suffering... well watch one of my videos on this trip to get a better feel for what I'm trying to depict. You may understand better.

We went outside for lunch, then back in to the chanting, then the second half of the talk. HH had to use Tibetan again so Jaime and Jess left as it really was killer to understand.

Then there was a 40minute Q&A time. Some strange questions handled extremely diplomatically by HH. And one very fanatical woman with... crazy eyes (if you know what I mean) asking? yelling? her query into the mic so loud that nobody could understand what she was saying so they had trouble explaining it to HH.

The Dalai Lama eats meat!!! Yaaay! Good for him! He became total vegetarian for twp years and developed gall stones. At the orders of his tibetan and western doctors he started eatin meat and got better. He said some sects are strict vegetarian and some in the world eat meat. Neither is right or wrong, they simply are.

I liked that.

Anywhoo... it's over and Mayu and I had a beer and some meat before parting ways. Im at my office station writing thiss on my keitai while taking a coffee break. Its humid. Time to go home, get naked and go hang out on the balcony.

It was a great experience!

I love you!

Cam

P.S. Oh yeah... the main message was violence breeds unhappiness within. Even if the purpose is good, using force will corrupt the purpose and badness and suffering will result. We all need to focus more in our daily lives on love, respect and compassion toward others in order to shift the energy of this world to a more positive, peaceful direction.

Kind of sounds an awful lot similar to my Globalized Love, don't you think? I do! I love, respect and appreciate you!

@ Jen: Have you downloaded many apps to your iPod Touch? Here is one I just found that is FREE and you might be interested in downloading. It's called, "The Scoop" and you can visit the NewYork Times review of it, and then follow the links: http://nytimes.com/thescoop/?yahoo Enjoy!

HH Dalai Lama & Yokohama Chinatown

Something just occurred to me...

We (outside China) know how the Chinese government is (mis) leading her citizens into believing how "bad" the Dalai Lama is...

We also know how the Chinese government controls the news about what is REALLY going on in the outside world, or in places like Tibet ("ethnic cleansing" by the Han Chinese Race)...

We also know how the government tends to set up rallies and protests wherever the Dalai Lama goes...

Now take all of the above, and combine it with the knowledge that Yokohama, where HH the Dalai Lama will be speaking tomorrow, June 26th has the largest China Town in Japan right in the vicinity where the venue will be...

And you have a recipe for something very interesting tomorrow outside the venue!

We are not allowed to take photos or video of HH, but I plan to make a before and after video to capture our thoughts for the world regarding this event, and what we "feel". I also wonder if I will be capturing anything else on film tomorrow...

Better charge my video camera batter! This could be an exciting, unexpected addendum to tomorrow's adventure.

I love you!

Cam