Times and Life of Jason Chi-Wing Ng

2007-05-23T22:05:00.000-07:00

short post

Jason is still alive and happy : )
working at a place called Australia Post start next monday.
Running out of money but still upbeat about things in general

p.s
To anyone who tries to keep up with my life and happenings, Sorry i havent posted in such a long time.

2007-04-12T22:38:00.000-07:00

I have just been back in brisbane for about less than 2 weeks and not much productivity in my life. Took me about a week to sort out my resume and that was tough. (yawn) me being tired

but here is a pic of my eldest sis with her little baby, my nephew. His name is Kai and he is my little Special K. Lets hope he grows up to be a better looking guy than his uncle, which is no impossible feat and here hopes he does better with the women too, which once again compared with me is not impossible.

2007-04-03T22:45:00.002-07:00

The bottom pic is a baby pig and it is delicious and the top is what i ate at the changi airport in singapore, its a triple whopper but i liked the pig better and also we cant eat that in australia because there is some law about not eating baby pigs in Oz or something.

2007-04-03T22:45:00.001-07:00

On the second last day i think we went to the Kin Seng Estate to visit my aunts cousin, this is in tsuen wan. He is the guy on the right and i am in the middle and thats my aunt on the left looking sideways that is.

2007-04-03T22:45:00.000-07:00

In my last week in Hong Kong I met a lot of my aunts friends, My fathers sister, my aunt is on the far left and sitting in the centre is aunt Peggy I think, i cant remember if that is correct and the other is aunt Patsie, I think, it could also be the other way around. anyway we had yum cha shanghai style together and it was great, later on we went to buy pirated cd's and that was great too.

The rest of the day i think we just went shopping for stuff, nothing really interesting.

2007-03-27T03:14:00.000-07:00

Be hold this is Hong Kong. The building you see is in the top 10 tallest buildings in the world. Its the IFC building and the second pics are from the most famous peak in HK.

to sum this view would be best told from a friend of mine in his words.

American Paul, "Manhatten is nothing compared to Hong Kong, Manhatten is Hong Kong's Bitch"

2007-03-27T03:12:00.000-07:00

Had yum cha with my aunt and am uncle, yeah in chinese even people who aren't directly related are uncles and aunt's, so this kind looking chap is uncle Robert and he grew up with my old man. he had great stories all day i was with him, the best being how back in the day in order to be a naturalised Australian you had to live in OZ for at least 16 years and do a test. the test is to grade your ability of english and see if you can survive making an order at a Macdonald's restaurant , no jokes but he refused on the grounds that he did most of his senior high schooling and university in sydney and that would be an insult to Australian education if they couldn't even teach him english after that long. He was never going to take the test and was almost never granted being a naturalised Aussie but turns out one of the guys that worked in immigration was his high school friend and gave him a call when he saw Uncle Roberts name on the list of potential to be naturalised aussies and granted stamped his papers and that was that. Great story and a great guy and the bottom pic is just something we ate at yum cha, tasted good and cost aussie 5 bucks a pop.

2007-03-27T03:09:00.000-07:00

Meet the Family.
Here are the pics of my family direct and not so direct. in the first pic is my fathers sister who lives in Boston in the U.S of the A (America) and she is holding a cat named creamy who is pretty lazy and cute.

next is my mothers sister and fathers sister together with about 4 cats, dont worry their names are really important, the cats that is.

And last but not least is my Aunt's husband who is a teacher in Hong Kong and he really a nice guy who i like talking to.

2007-03-23T07:20:00.000-07:00

Ill keep it simple. This is the osaka aquaruim (Kaiyukan) price 2000 yen, got a lot of fish, a big whale shark ie the main attraction, other fun weird looking creatures, so if you got some time to kill I recommend it. its located on the chou line at Osakako and its got directions from the station to the actual aquarium so you got no excuse of getting lost.

2007-03-23T07:14:00.000-07:00

Sorry these photos are on the side, this will be a common happening on my website. This is Orange Hell oops i mean Orange house, a youth hostel in osaka in tennoji. these are the facilites, paying about 55000 yen per month nothing too great but survivable, i did after being in japan for about a year. I made a lot of great friends from the U.S, Canada, france, Italy, England and Indonesia, yeah indonesia. If you ever think about staying in Osaka give this place like a week and try moving onto something better but if you get stuck here it would only be for the company of other foreigners.

2007-03-21T18:14:00.000-07:00

I had the day off and felt bored at home so I went to Rays Osaka, they are a wheel manufacturing business making nice shiny and cool wheels naturally. I saw this hot s15 nearby so I decided to take a photo but when I did the owners saw me and thought I was going to steal it. there were about 4 - 5 guys witht the owner but luckily they didnt do anything because to put it simply Japanese guys have no balls, they wouldnt do anything anyway. Once again in the shop I saw a lot of things i wanted but couldnt afford, tlaked to one of the workers about drifting, he`s got a sil-eighty and after that I just came back home. nothing really interesting but thought somebody might enjoy some more photo`s of japan and a nice local product, i.e the car.

2007-03-19T05:45:00.000-07:00

Do you know what this is.............? well its alcohol shaped in the form of sperm, yes you guessed right or maybe not. I saw this at an alcohol store in tokyo and actually it comes from germany so maybe your reaction of surprise is not of surprise now, typical horny sexually liberated germans, if im wrong please feel free to correct me.

2007-03-19T05:38:00.000-07:00

Another photo of my beloved student and how I touched their lives in a non pedapholic way. This girl doesnt like foreign people for some unknown reason maybe she had a harrowing experience with a foreigner like they had to ask for directions and she pointed them into the woods when they just wanted to find the nearest station. anyway im glad i was liked in some way even if my lessons were half assed, or maybe even completely assed, if there is a term.

2007-03-19T05:33:00.000-07:00

Here is another beautiful site near a place called harajuku. More shrines and parks and actually completely different to osaka in general. Tokyo I have to say is really kick ass and so much better than Osaka, i should add i have lived in Osaka for the past year and that all of my exerience of Tokyo has been only the past week so my opionion is completely based on that I was sick of Osaka and I felt that tokyo wouldnt be any different, how wrong I was.

2007-03-19T05:25:00.001-07:00

Here are some photo`s from the cable car after we saw Mt fuji. On the way it was funny because our guide said the cable cars can only maximum 13 people and then she said 13 japanese people so about 9 - 10 foreigners cause japanese people are small. luckily my aunt and i were part of the last straglers so we only had to share the cable car with 3 other people 2 elderly brits and another chinese guy. if you can see the white smoke its actually sulfur and the smell was so strong, it smelt like sulfur but after about an hour the smell wasnt really a problem.

2007-03-19T05:14:00.000-07:00

Well after quiting my job as an english teacher I felt I needed some memories of my students and in particular their english abilities. It`s not the best of course but some kids do like english and here are some more interesting examples of my students english, one is a boy with a dream, i.e to find a dream and the other a girl who wants to be a housewife, they are both 15 years old and I hope they pursue and succeed in achieving their dreams.

2007-03-19T05:05:00.000-07:00

This is the A.V (Aunty Vicky) my new nickname i call her and this is her at Mt fuji. It took us just over an hour to get to Mt fuji from Tokyo. It was okay but we only spent like half an hour there and then we went to another site.

2007-03-01T00:05:00.000-08:00

The low down: 3 foreigner guys slightly lost and looking for some fun girls to hang with, possibly get lucky........ hoping for the latter.

plan: Go up to some fun good looking girls, ask for help and hope something eventuates...

reality: My freind goes up to a guy, a random guy, a dude who could not serve us any purpose unless he`s the asian Hugh Hefner and asks for directions, they like the majority of Japanese people help us to whereever we were headed and along the way we all got acquainted. As always the questions go "Where are you from?" and you say "blah blah blah" and then they say they`ve been to your country and you get into a boring conversation about countries, language and of course english. After those most interesting guys we go to a bar which looks to expensive and is too expensive. we see more foreigners int he lift and my friend says something like, "more foreigners" and a big looking dude from america says, "Whats wrong with foriegners?", like we`ve offended him.

Thats where the storey ends cause this is how amany saturday nights have ended lately.

2007-02-05T06:50:00.000-08:00

Who is this sexy guy you say? Well he`s from Texas, America yeeeeeeeee hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

He`s an ultra nice guy who has been trekking over asia for a while i.e Korea and Japan now. He speaks a few languages like Japanese, Korean and American.

2007-02-04T05:08:00.000-08:00

No dancing kids, see that movie Footloose? well they weren`t kidding. Its a crime to dance and enjoy and have fun so don`t do it because the results maybe you`ll have fun and we can`t have that now especially for the kids in Japan when they should all be studying, studying, studying.

2007-02-04T04:52:00.000-08:00

Its another one yeah, The question is does God work in Mysterious ways and the answer is yes but apparently he works in this restaurant in Japan making burgers becuase the preparation of making burgers which requires divine intervention.

2007-01-28T08:07:00.000-08:00

What can I say guys a few things; only in Japan, must see DVD.

Saw this when I went to tower records in Umeda, the central hub of Osaka. Its a real DVD but not my taste because actually I don`t know which category or genre it would fall into? you think after living in Japan for 10 months these kinds of things would not be so funny but that`s Japan, a never ending story of misunderstandings in interpreting meanings of the english language, but they get two thumbs up for trying.

2007-01-28T07:59:00.000-08:00

Well this was outside my Japanese mansion the other day and well if you think about it your guess is correct if you said its the local ice cream man where he pops out and rings the bell waiting for all the kiddies to come.

sorry folks no its not the local ice cream guy but its a hearse, you know they car for carrying the deceased, the people no longer with us going into the other world, heaven or in my case hell.

what cha think?

2007-01-28T07:54:00.000-08:00

This guy is great, I met him at my current job and this guy has spent the last odd 10 - 15 years in many parts of the U.S. He ended up coming back to Japan and he`s great to have a chat with and have a laugh with. If you have a look closely you can see how professional our school is because we have these dodgy little name badges that a 10 year kid looks like they could`ve made in 5 mintues and it says Teacher. I feel so previleged and I really feel like i can move mountains and change people`s lives when I put that name tag on, its the next best thing to feeling like a superhero.

2007-01-28T07:42:00.000-08:00

So For anyone that cares this is me bored in my room in Noda Osaka, I havent posted on my blog for a while now I will probably be on for a while tonight because i can`t get to sleep.

2007-01-28T07:30:00.000-08:00

So everyone that knows me knows I have a liking for cars, thanks to my friend in the sunnybank area of brisbane ahmmmm you know who you are ahhh not to name anyone cough cough Sokha Chea.

But I was just browsing on the internet and I am pretty sure I would like to get the same front styling done to my car as I have a little rice burner aka Nissan 180sx but I would like to change and update the front sexify it up a little.

2007-01-02T02:05:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year All

Living in Japan has given me plenty of experiences I will probably A) have never been given an opportunity to do because I never really tried to pursue what was being offered or B) never get to do in Australia because im not qualified which brings me to my New years story. A friend of mine whom I met in Japan about four to five months ago asked me to be a security guard for a club in Kobe. My friend is a really cool guy, let me give you a little info about him; he`s from Hawaii in America and he has served in the army for about 16 years. There is some sort of system in the U.S forces where if you serve for about 20 years you`ll be looked after for a very long time, from what I hear from my friend but he got out while the getting was good. That and killing innocent people wasnt for him anymore. He`s been to Iraq and afghanistan twice so, he left pride intact and more importantly limbs and all as well.

I keep thinking if i say something wrong i might resurface a bad memory for the guy which in turn will lead to a outbreak of violence and bloodshed mostly upon yours truly but i haven`t said anything of the like so far so lets hope it stays that way.
hmmm so if you hear about an Australian guy being severely bashed or murdered by an american in Osaka, Japan you`ll know its because i said something wrong but back to my New Years story.

So my american buddy ropes me in and tells the staff at the bar i`m a student at the dojo studio at which Jerome (my friend teaches Ikeda, a form of martial arts, and at his dojo the master sensei is Steven Seagal`s first Ex-wife but thats another story). So I meet the other staff on the night and they are all pretty cool. One guy from America as well, he`s a big stocky guy who loves his alcohol and an argentinian guy who is one of many gaijins (foreigners) married to his japanese bride and sticking around in japan, hopelessy doing nothing in particular and living it up. so with the four of us patrolling the grounds you think things would be ok but for about most of the night its ok.

Come 3am and people are wasted and as you would expect thats when the work began. A many brazilian boys, about 5 dressed hip-hopper style get into a fight with some americans about who knows what? I see it about to erupt and I do what was in my best interests and tell my american friend because he`s about 6`3, got a lot of muscles and black, so pretty much intimadating for any person. he rushes over and breaks it up before it really gets hectic but as the american guys who were evoked walk out intot he hall, one of the brazilian guys follows and sucker punches him and opens up the guys eye to which blood comes gushing out. Hell breaks out, and now theres hands flying in every direction, im hearing english, japanese and portugese similtaneously.

eventually all the guys go outside and thats when things really get fun because the war of words start and now everyone is erking each other, testosterone is in overdrive but the club is now closed, the two groups of guys now head toward some alleyway and continue but I dont follow.

So that was basically the gist of the night and morning, in the end i got my 14000 yen and another great story and as one of the Japanese bar girls asks me, `How was your first night`? I promptly reply back, `That was my first, last and only time i will be a security guard.`

2006-09-23T10:52:00.000-07:00

Thought for the day, High school politics never die.

Let me just say my top prioroty in life is finding love however I have been making friends along the way which is just incidental and ok at the same time. What I have come to discover is that the parallels in making friends are similar to those in finding love because your dealing with complete strangers, so you dont know if they are putting on a versade. harbouring secret ambitions for their greater purpose or personal benefits, in their own life.

So let me give you some background information into my experience with a German guy. So he comes accross like every other White foreigner chasing Japanese pussy but putting on the versade of "Nice white guy from overseas." So ladies of the world especially in Japan, let me tell you what happens behind the scenes.

Its always strategic to get you women into bed because before hand there is so much plotting and planning, so we are more meticulous and smarter than you think. I know what women might say, "If only that energy and concentration could be devoted to something more constructive and beneficial, maybe the world would be a better place to live." But this is Japan, an amoral society where everything is sublty communicated and evil acts and behaviour are swept under the carpet or never talked about in greater society.

So in other words its kids playing games and never telling the adults and hoping to never get caught.

In his stupid hokey German accent he said, "Jason would screw things up." Im not going to even try and analyse completely why the idiot would say something like this but my calculated guess is because he saw me as Competition. That`s the one thing about this country and foreign guys, espescially white foreign guys, they are the most insecure people in all of Japan, they know they are a novelty and Japanese women tend to look upon them very favourably so they are always in competition with each other. Now the game works differently for myself as I am caught in between with an asian face and westerner mentality and native english tongue.
(also I havent figured out the dating game yet and maybe never will, but thats a whole other story)

So to try and cut it short he sounds like an insecure bitch, just like in high school, when it comes down to a lot of he said, she said and unfounded rumors that get blown out of proportion. funny thing is, he is a bitch.
In the end I went to the party with my Spanish neighbour and 4 genki and slightly drunk japanese girls and we all had a great time.

So my advice in life would be choose your friends carefully and try to be aware as much as possible because a ripple in the lake can lead to a tsunami in the ocean.

What I have learnt is try to ignore idiotic people who think like him and do those petty things but never forget them, learn from those experiences and build upon your own character because incidents like these as small and petty as they are, reveal character.

A great quote from a great movie, Batman returns, "It`s not whats underneath but what you do that define you."

one thing I have learnt is that sooner or later a persons true colours will always be revealed, its only a matter of time.

2006-09-02T21:44:00.000-07:00

Osaka Drift

Nowadays I`ve become a person who easily doubts and disbelieves everything I see and hear, especially when it comes to movies, Hollywood and the like.

I`ve constantly questioned - Why is it that, even though something might be true and real I never fully believe it until I see it or experience it first hand. For me its always been a lack of faith and easier to be a nay-sayer than a beleiver.

The movie, The Fast and Furious is a perfect example to me that generated images and all that electronic wizardry could trick the eye into beliving all those car stunts could be performed with such precision and expertise.

Last night I was proven wrong yet again and that the car culture here is almost exactly like the film.

I went with my American boss and Spanish Neighbour to the port of Osaka to watch a gathering of Japanese teenagers and young adolescents in their hotted up rice burners to practice the art of Drifting.

My boss and I share a common interest in japanese sports cars and he stumbled upon the Nanko port area by accident and was informed that it was a weekly ritual for these car heads to burn some rubber and enjoy their vehicles by sliding side to side.

The night started out with my boss picking us up from Umeda and we then headed to his freinds bar in Amemura (American Village) and had a drink in his bar. Funny thing my neighbur is legally underage (20 is the legal age to drink in Japan) to drink but what the hell thats Japan for you. So after we had a drink on my boss we then headed to Nanko where we were searching for the hot spot where everyone was practicing.

On our way we saw a Bad omen that i thought would ruin the night - a cop car (Kesatsu) On our way to the port we headed under a tunnel that was literally under water and i mean deep into the ground for about a good kilometre or two.

When we arrived at the port we heard the screeching of tyres and smoke burning and were greeted with three turbocharced cars sliding in formation not perfectly mind you right past us as we were at the traffic lights. it was a sight to behold.

After the police did a round and scared everyone off, we still had hope everyone would come back. My boss was assured of this and lo and behold he was right. after everyone scattered it was only less than an hour and the tyres and were loud and screeching once again.

that was when things really started to get exciting as car after car kept sliding and sliding and sliding.

please enjoy the pictures and short video.

2006-08-31T08:53:00.000-07:00

The Road not Taken

By Robert Frost 1920

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, i kept the first for another day
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if i should ever come back

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

To me this is a great poem because its saying you`ll have two choices in the way you lead life, either be a follower and conform to the world around you and do what everyone else is doing around you or choose to do it your own way and take a risk. Who cares about what other people think because in most cases who are they? Are they your friends, family or just strangers and what does their opinion count for, pretty much nothing and if they are a true friend they will either support you or give you valuable constructive criticism which will benefit yourself in whatever it is your trying to set out to do.

How does this apply in Japan?

Japan is a homogenous (ethnically uniform) society and the Japanese people feel secure by being loyal memebers of a rigid society. If placed outside of their group they feel out of sorts and uncomfortable. A famous Japanese proverb reinforces my point, Deru Kui-Wa Utareru ~ A nail that sticks out is pounded down.

2006-08-31T08:05:00.000-07:00

So I have finally started my blog. I wont bore you all with all with too much reading so ill try and keep it as short and to the point.
I have been in Japan for six moths now and have so many stories to share with you all. I have met people from an interesting aray of countries such as America, Canada, Germany, Spain, Nepal, New Zealand and France. I hope you have the time to read my stories.