Declan Murphy and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:

>The 2-Belo wrote:
>> Declan Murphy and fj.life.in-japan is a baaaaaaaaaaad combination:
>> 
>>>The 2-Belo wrote:
><snippity>
>>>>He was, no doubt, the Filipino chicks' handler.
>>>
>>>Certainly someone's handler.
>>  
>> I suddenly have the urge, when I go there next month to renew my reentry permit
>> (*coughcough*GAIGIN TAX*mumblecough*), to dress myself up in full Secret Service
>> splendor, complete with Frankenstein earphone radio. See if they smile *then*.
>
>Smile? Pffffffft. If they had any sense they'd laugh at you.

It would certainly be a change of pace for them, though, wud'nit?

>BTW if your last visit there was '99, and you are going in for a 
>re-entry-thingee, how long was it for? You have a PR visa?

Yeah. I received my life sentence in 1999. At the same time I got one of those
new three-year multiple-reentry permits, and it lapsed last autumn; I'll have to
go back in the spring to get another one.

Nowadays it's not a big deal, since I work in Nagoya just down the road from the
bureau. I could walk over there now.

Aside (or was this the original topic?): The bureau's a lot better than its
original state in 1992-3 when I first applied for a working visa. The old office
(on the 4th floor of the same building, if I remember right) was a cramped,
crowded, FUCKING MADHOUSE. And the staff was decidedly nastier back then, so
maybe it's the surroundings, and the very fact that traffic was light that day
that caused the staff to be hospitable to you.

>>>>>2 or 3 lost looking eikaiwa type gaigins
>>>>
>>>>I think they're all the same two or three who were there the last time I visited
>>>>the place in 1999. They like to hang around that little nursery room, right?
>>>
>>>Yeah, or in front of the mysteriously appearing/disappearing tv with 
>>>bloody cnn on it.
>> 
>> Hmm. They always had NHK ("Programming with No Sharp Edges") on when I was
>> there. I want to see them blasting Fox News one time. That would be a sight to
>> see.
>
>Come to think of it, I don't remember noticing the TV this time. I 
>wasn't there long enuff for my laptop battery to cark it on me, and it 
>took a fair bit of time to confirm that the 20 cute Filipinos were all 
>in fact cute and Filipino. Last time I went in was a few months earlier 
>getting a visa for a Hong Kong graphic designer now working for me. I 
>had a flat battery. He was frustrated as hell - so I practically made 
>him watch tv.

Hmm. I'm usually just chain-smoking and drinking canned coffee. I don't have a
laptop. I'll have to correct that.


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