angsty emo bread

on saturday i woke up like 2 hours earlier than normal just so i could watch rurouni kenshin. no subtitles of course, but it was one of the earlier episodes so it didnt really matter. but man oh man is kenshin a badass. especially as a hitokiri.

then there was a 5-minute short called koge pan ("burnt bread"). the storyline is kind of complicated so instead of trying to explain it myself heres a plot synopsis that i found on lazyjuice.com:

I am Kogepan. I was from a bakery shop in Hokkaido. My bakery shop is very famous in Japan because the red bead buns that it churns out are so delicious that only 20 of such type are made each day. I was supposed to be a delicious red bean bun too, but an unfortunate accident had happened...

On the day I was supposed to be brought into the oven, I was thrilled because the moment has finally arrived for me to become what most breads have always wanted to be - a high quality red bean bread.
As I continue to ponder on that, I began to giggle in excitement.

When the baker began to take me and my friends out from the oven, I was ecstatic because everything had went smoothly. However, my happiness is somehow short-lived when the baker accidentally tilted the pan and...

And I fell back into the oven and disappeared into a cloud of smoke. I looked around for my friends but they were not there. I was very afraid. I was getting cooked again and there was a burnt smell seeping out from me. I thought to myself "Somebody please come and save me!"

Nobody noticed that I was missing and I waited in the oven for another 30 minutes. My skin was no longer a golden color and had turned dark brown. I smelt awful.

Finally, the baker saw me and took me out from the oven, but he did not place me back on the shelves where the other red bean buns were.

I am a burnt bread and certainly, nobody wants to buy me. I felt lonely and upset. I thought to myself that my life as a bread was very meaningless. I was so disillusion that my eyes turned white.

The other red bean buns always mock at me, calling me awful names. The baker did not even pay attention to me at all. I think the whole world hates me.

I decided to run away from home. Nobody will care anyway. I shall run to a place where nobody exists and nobody will make fun of me.

I spent most of my time smoking and drinking milk as beer. I became very depressed and pessimistic.

After a few days, I finally came to my senses, and decided not to live my life like this anymore. The bakery is still my home after all.

Back at the bakery I decided to read a book titled "How to become a delicious bread" to improve myself. I believed that if I continue to work hard, I will eventually attain my dream of becoming a delicious red bean bun.

But every time I see the other red bean buns I lose hope and become jealous again. I always lecture them about the life of being a bread and because of that, all of them were afraid of me.

before i continue id just like to say that i had no idea koge pan was THAT fucked up until just now. its not that i didnt understand the japanese, its just that even though koge pan is really out there, when youre watching it on tv you tend to go along with whatever they say without giving it a second thought. "angsty emo bread? okay."

my favorite episode is the one where koge pan gets ichigo pan drunk. ichigo pan is new to the bakery and is popular right off the bat, so when koge pan doesnt really show any interest in making friends she confronts him and asks whats up. then koge pan comes up with an idea. he asks ichigo pan if she wants to go out drinking, and ichigo pan jumps at the chance to fit in. so koge pan gets ichigo pan good and drunk, which makes ichigo pans cream filling sour. after that nobody wants to buy ichigo pan, but she was too out of it and hungover to notice anyway.

i think id get along with koge pan.

anyway. then moegi and i went to the shopping center near maiko station to get haircuts.

my hair is naturally curly, and apparently im the only person who knows how to blowdry it straight. even then it still has a little curl to it. usually when i get my hair cut the hair stylist will just roll with it, but this guy would just not give up. i wanted to say something but i thought about it a little and decided it was kind of fun watching him freak out when he couldnt get my hair straight.

moegis hair is curly like mine. she likes her hair straight but says she doesnt have the time to blowdry her hair every morning so she puts it up instead. so when she walked out of the beauty salon on saturday with her hair stick straight she was practically glowing. she couldnt stop playing with her hair and checking herself out in shop windows. i promised to take her picture but i never did. i know, i know, im a lying bitch.

we had lunch at loteria, which is pretty much just like mcdonalds, except when you order fries you also get a choice of flavor packets that you can shake up with your fries. its neat.

moegi said that after lunch we were going to a "surprise place," but it didnt take me long to figure out that it was awaji bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world and conveniently located right next to maiko station. you can actually walk underneath the bridge and over glass panels. the 2 of us ordered dessert at the awaji bridge cafe. i got your basic vanilla ice cream cone, but moegi got a bowl of green tea flavored shaved ice with azuki beans and a vanilla ice cream cone on top. it looked like this except 2 or 3 times as big. i didnt think shed be able to eat it all but she did.

that night i stayed up till like 2 in the morning playing simgirl. i wasnt sure i was going to make it but i got the girl to have sex with me before the end of the game. whew.