Darlo's World

While writing an essay, a friend of mine showed me these 10 adverts. Because they’re interesting, informative, and above all too cute, I thought I’d show them to you guys.

Enjoy!

Green Pea

Black Bean

Peanut

Natto

Edamame

Red Bean

Sweet Bean

Coffee Bean

Cashew Nut

Jelly Bean

Yesterday I took the last of my things from Telford and made my last trip to Leeds, never to return … well ‘never’ is a bit of a strong word, let’s just say I won’t be back for a bit. Already I can feel my ears adjust to a quieter environment, which is weird when you consider I’m smack bang (20 minutes walk) from a city center. At the moment most of my mates from Leeds are either in Japan (those lucky sons of bi … urm) or at home, so it’s quite lonesome. This emphasised somewhat by the fact I’m in a 5 bed house alone, but with no queue for the shower it does have it’s advantages.

I’ve already hit my old pizza place and made use of the great (well, not bad) Leeds free city bus, but this time around I want to actually take a real bus at some point. Actually that’s not so much want, but need to. I haven’t brought a car with me this time because of what happened to the last one. I know it’s wrong to blame an entire city for what happened to it, but since I’m living pretty close to where I was before I didn’t fancy risking it either way.

On the subject of unfortunate things, my beloved television that I bought with my paper round money when I was 14 (I’m 25 now) and has travelled with me on many adventures (not to Japan though), has finally died. At some point between leaving Telford and arriving in my new room in Leeds, it suffered damage to the power button and won’t turn on. It’s also making strange ‘ticking’ noises when I try to power up. It’s gutting I know, but I know I will have to move on (and get a new TV).

So what happens now for this Anglo-Carribbean student of Japanese in Yorkshire? Tomorrow I’m off to the Parkinson Building to work on my Japanese, and also write up my final report of my year of studying at Konan University. Why not tonight I hear you (Simon) ask? Because I’m gonna pop t’ pub.

So I’ll leave you with something weird; the cast from Spongebob dubbing three classic films (Godfather, Singing in the Rain & Casablanca).

So I officially have a new place in Leeds which means I can crack on with my Japanese studying; something that’s been close to impossible most of the time here in Shropshire. Today me and Simon took the first lot of things over to my new house, aswell as set up the gas, lecky and water.

After freaking out Simon in the cellar (that does sound pretty bad doesn’t it) when we were looking for the gas and electric meters, we headed to Swedish superstore Ikea where he stunned me with this line.

I feel like we are in America being in this Ikea.

After getting back home I tuned into good old Mock the Week (on Dave) where of all the jokes, one of Hugh Dennis’s one liners really stood out.

These Korean meatballs really are the dogs’ bollocks.

So while sitting at home faffing about, randomly on the telly pops the Mr Bean cartoon. Not really paying too much attention to it as I was killing time googling pointlessly random sentances such as “Mike’s reading a menu” and “Screw you Webber”, something grabs my attention in the distance. It was Japanese … but it was in Bean-style.

In a particular episode called “Gadget Kid”, Mr Bean meets a (somewhat) stereotypical Japanese boy at a museum, with neither of them speaking each others language. So folks I present to you (because not much else has happened lately worth blogging about (aka still looking for a house in Leeds)) the episode via youtube.