engrish and cliffdiving

Today is monday the 18th.

Saturday was a free day. Crystal and I went shopping in Tenjin and bought a lot of shirts. All but one of them are engrish shirts. the other is jsut a nice shirt.
for the uninitiated, "engrish" is nonsensical english that the japanese write on things because they think english is cool and they dont understand it. The shirts say things like "notorious pipsqueak" and "get disgustingly drunk" and "the spare time which should go to sleep is spended by the sports. he goes to school. Also play the game and chat with friends. then, what the special thing for this guy is the concert halls are in all over the world. the soul is supported by a wonderful family. this sleepy man is still in a growth phase. his only hope is to get up when he wants."
that last was the first of four paragraphs on the shirt i`m wearing right now. What does it mean? Who knows! Nothing! That`s why it`s funny. For some engrish fun yourself, write a sentence into any web translator program and translate it to Japanese and back. good for hours of wholesome fun!
here`s a website to help: http://steinhoffen.tripod.com/engrish.html

Sunday we went touring by bus a long way. the first stop was a bee farm. I bought a sampler of flavored honeys full of tastiness and joy. then we went into the caldera of a big volcano, and some of the guys and i tried to climb a mountain. a bush stole my shoe, and i fell in a river. it was great fun. there were a couple other stops as well. one was a mini-niagara falls, whereat Kevin tried to take the quick way down. perched precariously on the precipitous precipice (that`s alliteration) he tried to film over the edge, slipped, and almost went over the edge himself. That would have pretty much spoiled his trip, i think. And his shot. I wasn't looking forward to all the stairs down to the bottom to climb in the boat and fish him out, only to have him tell me to save the camera first. Yes, there was a small boat. yes, there were a lot of stairs. no, the camera wouldn't have made it. yes, writing like this gets annoying. I shall stop.