A good friend of ours, Tak (a.k.a. The Asian Sensation or The Citizen of the World) just left our house. He came over to hang out with us for his last few days in the States. He called the US home for over ten years, and now is returning to his native Japan.
His last weekend with us wasn’t very exciting. It was full of mall-walking, movie-watching, and game-playing. Oh, and some drinking. Not a lot, but enough to get a nice buzz. Conversation topics included:
- American movie audiences are content with watching inferior remakes of older films
- How American and Japanese gamers differ
- Apple will one day dominate the computing industry
- Vodafone will merge with an American mobile phone company (perhaps T-Mobile)
- Marlon Wayans should leave Shawn behind so he can advance his career
Basically, movies, games and tech. This is better than the topics I feared we would get into this weekend: patriotism, philosophy and politics. We have extremely differing views in these areas, and often argue bitterly about them, so I was worried that our last weekend together would be marred with ugly debates. Luckily, that did not happen.
Be careful on your trip back home Tak, and good luck. We’ll come visit some time soon (I’ve always wanted to go to Japan).
