[#76] Tokyo International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

Goldfish Memory Films

Sexual minorities are the subject of celebration and reflection in the 13th annual Tokyo International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival that kicked off yesterday. With a selection of films that considers the diversity of sexuality, the event is intended not only for gays, lesbians and other sexual minorities, but as an introduction to alternative sexuality for the wider public as well. This year's program is divided into five sections: 'Humor', 'Romance', 'Touching', 'Packs a Punch!' and 'Sexy', with films by directors from Japan, North America, Europe and beyond. Ranging from light-hearted comedies to hard-hitting films such as Yossi & Jagger, a sensational 2002 Israeli movie about unintended romance in the armed forces, all films are screened with either Japanese or English subtitles.

This is what Metropolis said about last week's L&GFF. I spent 2 days and a half there in the theatre experiencing this wonderful cinema paradiso and I felt like WOW! I'm walking on clouds 9! I never watched movies so intensely in my life, good movies, one after one and sometimes I was laughing to death and sometimes crying throughout the whole movie whilst the cast list rolling up untill the next movie is on (of course that was one of the shorts)! And some movies are on DVDs already so I will definitely keep two eyes on that! Check out the site here for Japanese or  here for English, hope you'll have fun there.

[#75] I Just Signed The Contract Of ...?

A) A New Job

B) A New Apartment

C) A New Master For 10 Years...(!)

[#74] Party? Job? Spidey 2!

What has happened in my life since my last update...almost half a month ago?

Went to a friend's birthday party, and the bar Kinsmen, which is now a very quiet bar with few people visiting during normal time, was PACKED with people. Here are some fotos:

Me and Eriko and her Monalisa-ish smile, as always...

Yuki's great shirt:  'My body belongs to me...'

...    'But I share...'

Finally last Saturday I went to this Job Conference at Sunshine City, Ikebukuro. Not that I've decided to run away from current company right away, but having a look won't hurt...okay, I hate my current job!

It was a job fair for bilingual people, mostly undergraduates and a total of 150ish companies came to set their booth recruiting people. I only went there for one company: Deutsche Bank Group, and the only detailed resume I prepared had Deutsche Bank Group's name typed in the 'Objective' collumn. But the whole thing went weird. First of all the booth didn't look like a booth of an  'international company'. Secondly, I found out later that they were only recruiting newly graduates since next April! Shame that I brought that resume...

But when I went past GE (General Electric) booth and saw the recruiting lady again (I saw her two years ago at exactly the same conference and same booth), I decided to take a chance though I knew that GE is a hard one to try. So I approached her and talked in Japanese...very hard and awkward coz we were communicating in Japanese..which is a very difficult-to-communicate language. Then I just assumed she speaks English and started talking to her in English, turned out that her English was amazing coz she was brought up in the states. The whole conversation just lit up so much and after a little chat she asked where were I brought up in the U.S.? I was like...lady I have never live there! LOL! She took my resume (another one I brought with no company name on it...)and gave me a little presentation about what does one have to go through during this 2 year program I'm applying for, I was like: HOLY SHIT! This is gonna drive people crazy: Working till 2 - 3 am and then worrying about the next day's test? I wonder if I'll survive but hey guess what, I was feeling a little exciting. How challenging will it be to work for the world's top company and suffer a little then have a bright future! She said she'll screen my resume and contact me via email in two weeks, then give me a phone interview in English...Well I was thinking who cares if they'll call me, I already had fun at the job conference and I'm a happy man. I never thought I'd have the chance to use the 'emergency resume'. Well aren't lots of things in life like that? You probably get something that's totally different from what you expected.

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