Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
new pix
This is me with my 3 year old niece.
This is with my mom and twin brother.
The obligatory picture of the first grade boy.
milli & his bro
So the day, while I was washing the breakfast dishes, I was thinking,'Why didn't the real Milli Vanilli come out? Who are the real Milli Vanilli? Why did they let those guys be thought of as MV?'
Burning questions. I checked on the internet (I love wikipedia!)
Turns out MV was 4 guys and they didn't say anything cause they were getting paid not to. I feel bad for the singers and the models. One of the duo committed suicide/od'd. The producer did a pretty shitty thing, I think. The models became the biggest joke for years. I can't imagine explaining to the singers that they aren't good looking enough to be in the videos of their songs...
I don't even like MV!
Burning questions. I checked on the internet (I love wikipedia!)
Turns out MV was 4 guys and they didn't say anything cause they were getting paid not to. I feel bad for the singers and the models. One of the duo committed suicide/od'd. The producer did a pretty shitty thing, I think. The models became the biggest joke for years. I can't imagine explaining to the singers that they aren't good looking enough to be in the videos of their songs...
I don't even like MV!
Sunday, August 09, 2009
what to say
Lately I've read a lot of news in English about Japan and the Japanese government. And I've been feeling like things are getting tighter and stricter for foreigners. I have been extremely disappointed lately. I think it all started with the fingerprinting a couple of years ago. Then it was having our alien cards copied and sent in at our place of employment...our alien cards with all of our information on it-passport number, visa, address, nationality, etc. No word on how they will dispose of the information when they don't need it.
Then there was the passing of the bill/law lately-the one that says we have to report all of our changes at the immigration office, which could previously be done in our local city office. All of our changes means address, change of job, anything. It has to be done within a certain time frame or we can be penalized, like a $200 fine. I'm going to have to take time off work for that now. Oh, and not to mention that this has changed from the Ministry of Immigration to the Ministry of Justice for some unknown reason. Oh, and the bonus is that if someone thinks you haven't been behaving like you are married to your spouse (whatever that might mean!) in the last 6 months, they can cancel your spouse visa. Great, eh?
And now this
which says that unless you have national health insurance and pension, you can't get your visa renewed. If you read the article, you'll see that some people have been here for ages and weren't told about health insurance or don't want pension because when they leave Japan they can only get 3 years paid back to them. If they want to join national health insurance now, they have to back pay their insurance since they came here...ridiculous, really.
Then there was the passing of the bill/law lately-the one that says we have to report all of our changes at the immigration office, which could previously be done in our local city office. All of our changes means address, change of job, anything. It has to be done within a certain time frame or we can be penalized, like a $200 fine. I'm going to have to take time off work for that now. Oh, and not to mention that this has changed from the Ministry of Immigration to the Ministry of Justice for some unknown reason. Oh, and the bonus is that if someone thinks you haven't been behaving like you are married to your spouse (whatever that might mean!) in the last 6 months, they can cancel your spouse visa. Great, eh?
And now this
which says that unless you have national health insurance and pension, you can't get your visa renewed. If you read the article, you'll see that some people have been here for ages and weren't told about health insurance or don't want pension because when they leave Japan they can only get 3 years paid back to them. If they want to join national health insurance now, they have to back pay their insurance since they came here...ridiculous, really.
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