That’s Just Weird
September 18th, 2007Following her suggestion to go and hangout at another place after buka puasa, we got into my car so she could guide me to this restaurant somewhere in the suburbs of KL. I just met her, and I was too full from the buffet to think of anything to talk about.
Then came Asian Kung Fu Generation – Rewrite on the CD player. She was nodding away at the guitar riffs, which got me wondering if she was familiar with Full Metal Alchemist. When the vocals came, though, she’s got this perplexed look on her face, and checked the LCD panel for the artist and song title.
“Eh, is that Japanese?”
“Yeah. Why?”
“Wow, you listen to Japanese songs?”
“Yeah. I do.”
She gave me a long hard look.
“What about Japanese songs?”
“Nah, it’s just… weird.”
“I don’t look like the type who listens to Japanese songs?”
“No. I mean…well,… not that I know how Japanese music fans generally look like to begin with. But, you know?”
That blind ignorance made me grin.
“Hmm…I suppose that means you’re not familiar with Japanese music, then?”
“Yeah. I really honestly didn’t expect you to be listening to Japanese songs.”
It was then my turn to give her a confused look, just to hide my amusement. She looked away, entertaining her own thoughts.
“That’s just weird.”
“…”
Hours later, I came back home to unfinished assignments, Mai-Hime downloads [I can hear you gasp in shock] and a freshly installed copy of Halo: Combat Evolved. Lots of things to distract me from life, but that short conversation just keeps playing itself in my head like a single-track playlist on loop. I wonder if her remarks mean that I’m actually an accomplished undercover ninja otaku?
Small Talk:
I don’t hate this country.
I just hate how it’s being run.
And I hate the fact that I can’t directly change it.
- Friends
- Photography
- Anime
- Design
- Extras
Eehehehehe.
…yeah.
Eh.. No.
Then again, it could be that I knew you as an otaku from the word go.
Silencers: The word go?
Nah.
She probably just find J-music a little too exotic for her own tastes, that’s all. A bit like, you know, Martian language to a human.
OK. Maybe she thinks you are really a Ninja, since she just found out your tastes. :P
Silencers: With her shallow knowledge of anything Japanese [other than food], I highly doubt that’s the case, hahaha.
Weird huh…hrmmmm I do agree with her..sort of. For listening to J-song is like listening to the music and the rhythm, for lyrics I say only 5% I understand. Its not like we do really understand every single words isnt it? Unless u went and search for translation. :D
Silencers: FYI, my Japanese is good enough to understand at least 50% of the lyrics. Thanks for assuming I’m stupid.
errr…its just MHO. I didnt tend to assume anything. Its a good thing if u r able to understand up to that level. Cool indeed. :D
That means you don’t look like Dusty! *runs*
Silencers: OMG PWNED! XD
OI bastard albert~~
i do love JMusic especially J-Rock
Totally my kind of music …
well i do understand around 70-80% of the lyrics
i suggest u spoon feed her with some of your fav JMusic
then do i gt the otaku look ?
Silencers: You yourself lie about your appearances on SO many levels, I can’t even figure out where to begin. XD
Eh… From the word “Go bloggers meeting and meet Fazri my hole-hunting partner also into DSLRs.” >d
Silencers: Hah? I don’t have a dSLR. Yet.
I guess you did managed to become a “stealth otaku”. Good job ^^
I’m also a master of being a stealth otaku… you look at me at school, you see me as a plain normal college student, and chances are if I see your chapters of Welcome to the NHK! and say something about that, you’ll answer with “Huh? You watch anime?”. All you have to do is dress normally, have a tasteful pic in your computer’s wallpaper (Riuva elaborates on that: http://www.riuva.com/?p=1095 ), don’t talk openly about anime, and that’s it. ^^