Thank you.


"Haluk Skywalker" <yokoolebiri@spam.net> wrote in message
news:bppt7n$1qifak$1@ID-201738.news.uni-berlin.de...
> Those who do not have much time or those who are not interested in this
kind
> of stuff may skip safely to the last paragraph. Those who'd like to know a
> little about me, please keep reading.
>
>
>
> About a month ago I found a brochure in my postbox. It was from Tokyo
> restaurant, located about 15 minutes walk from my apartment and brochure
was
> featuring the entire menu of the restaurant. Tokyo restaurant served
> Japanese home meals and izakaya sort of Japanese food and seemed to have
> targeted Japanese. As I was homesick at home, I ordered tendon and some
> sushi right that evening. I remember I have told you guys about this, on a
> message I have composed on a night I was as drunk as tonight.
>
>
>
> Taste of their food resembled that of my ex-wife's. I have taken my girl
> friend (a Turk) to this restaurant about two weeks ago. I showed her how
to
> use chopsticks etc. My intention wasn't to look cool or anything. All I
> wanted was to introduce her this culture, now an essential part of mine.
> Tonight, probably because I've been thinking since early morning about my
> children, my ex-wife and my previous life in Japan, I decided to go to
Tokyo
> restaurant again, alone this time, and to quench my desire.
>
>
>
> When I went in the place there was no one except the personnel. Perhaps
you
> have heard, there have been some bombings in Istanbul a few days ago and
> people do not go out very much since than. As Japanese are overly safe in
> Japan, such incidents scare them shitless. Therefore this place, normally
> packed with Japanese, was all empty.
>
>
>
> I went in, there was no "Irasshai", no "Maido"... I preferred sitting by
the
> counter rather than on table. Turkish busboy came and I ordered a bottle
of
> Asahi Super Dry. While sipping on my beer I's trying to make up my mind as
> to what to eat. I placed my order for gyouza, gyuu tataki and yakisoba. I
> have gulped down a few bottles of beer until my order delivered. I had a
few
> more with my meal. Then I ordered another bottle of beer and some sushi.
> Riyoricho, who had been quit until that moment, commented that I ate like
a
> pig, obviously he didn't think I could understand him. I had plenty of
time
> to think about my life, about what has happened, and about what has been
> discussed in this group today.
>
>
>
> Let me give you a short introduction about myself:
>
>
>
> I's living in Japan until 1999. My wife was a Japanese and we had two
> children, my two year old daughter and seven month old son. I had gone to
> Japan to learn about the culture and the language of my ex-wife for a
> predetermined period of 3 years. In 1999, having been in Japan for four
> years, although my initial plans were for 3 years, facts that we were
still
> living in Japan, that my children weren't likely to know anything about my
> culture were eating me. I's thinking of the entire Japanese education
system
> as a production line that made robots out of otherwise healthy Japanese
> children and the individualism and originality of my children mattered to
me
> most. I was determined, we must have moved back to Turkey.
>
>
>
> As the initial deal with my wife was we were to live in Japan for 3 years
or
> so only, I never thought it would be a problem for her to move back to
> Turkey. In the end a deal was a deal and we, right at the beginning, had
> decided to live in Japan for 3 years only. When I offered her to go back
to
> Turkey her response weren't negative. But eventually I'm suppressing my
> sorrow, drinking Asahi Super Dry and eating the stuff that my ex-wife
cooked
> best in a Japanese Restaurant located in Istanbul Turkey all alone and
It's
> been four long fuckin' years they are not with me.
>
>
>
> I watch yakuza movies, hoping to keep my Osakaben as fluent as it once
was,
> and study kanji although I hate it. I dine out in a Japanese restaurant
and
> I pay four times the money I'd normally pay for a fancy dinner. About 20%
of
> my monthly income is paid for international phonecalls. With the current
> education system of Japan, my children will never be able to speak English
> or Turkish fluent enough to communicate well with their father. Therefore
I
> must keep my Japanese sharp.
>
>
>
> There are different reasons I'm telling you all this stuff. First of all,
> these are not the kind of thing that I can tell about to my friends here
and
> I got to get these of my chest tonight. Second, I have had more beer than
I
> must have had. Third and the most important reason is, I know some of you
> have children from your Japanese wives, got sick of Japan and are willing
to
> go back home. All I wanted is to give you some insight on what could
> possible happen after you returned home. Your children and your wives will
> suffer as much as you once suffered and they will as much miss their
> hometown and their country as you now do. Most importantly, your life will
> not be as you now expect it to be either. As a wise man once said, you
never
> can go back home.
>
>
>
> Accept the transformation, you're something different now.
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