tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021839.post113242364805441047..comments2023-09-28T07:49:42.300-04:00Comments on Serendipity Islet: Some thoughtsJason Yuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14737963277524695314noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021839.post-1132586591681661832005-11-21T10:23:00.000-05:002005-11-21T10:23:00.000-05:00Alan: Cool, what a coincidence.. I've been listeni...Alan: Cool, what a coincidence.. I've been listening to a lot of Escaflowne music lately. I've yet to see one whole episode though... =P<BR/><BR/>Bao: That's probably Singapore, since it's like the total opposite here. I walk past a line of like 15 taxis by Toyoda station everyday, and all of them -- including the 15th guy at the end, who has to wait like 10+ minutes at least -- keep their engines running, even while they get out of the cabs and talk with each other...<BR/><BR/>Yeah...Jason Yuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14737963277524695314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021839.post-1132550001487780332005-11-21T00:13:00.000-05:002005-11-21T00:13:00.000-05:00That Word thing happens to me a few times. The fir...That Word thing happens to me a few times. The first time, or the most memorable time was with the word "LINE", I'm not sure why. Then it happens with other words.<BR/><BR/>I don't think I really had a problem with smoking in Japan. Of course, I wasn't in residential areas or offices, and I wasn't close to Japanese people all the time, so I guess that's a difference.<BR/><BR/>In Singapore (or it might've been Japan?), I noticed the opposite for the car thing for taxi drivers. I guess it's expensive to operate the taxi, but it was quite peculiar.<BR/><BR/>Whenever there was a stop light, the taxi driver would do a combination of: Turning off the headlights, turning off the engine, putting the gear into parking, and turning off the air conditioning and opening a window - like they really wanted to save as much energy as possible.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13639231349508952220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7021839.post-1132540945609351552005-11-20T21:42:00.000-05:002005-11-20T21:42:00.000-05:00Hey, if China had done that, we might've seen a wa...Hey, if China had done that, we might've seen a war like in C&C Generals instead of WW2! haha...dunno if that would be a good thing or not though.<BR/><BR/>Was the word "hubris" or "forcibly"?<BR/><BR/>It's kinda interesting to hear that those kinds of problems exist in Japan, since I haven't seen much evidence of them around here. Seems like every society has its share of disadvantages. Weird though, I thought smoking laws would be even more strict over in Japan. <BR/><BR/>For some reason, after rereading your post, I thought of Escaflowne, and how the bad guys in that series were using a "Fate Altering Device" to change people's destinies. It could do weird things, like make an archer's bow string snap at an inoppourtune moment (did I spell that right? :P) or even change the past so that someone who was born as a girl becomes a guy instead. It made for some really weird plot twists. But the now the themes of time travel and parallel universes have become overused. Just curious though, what made you think of your different timeline?Theomnifishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07087248827085317634noreply@blogger.com