A Picture's Worth

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[Voice sample for Ash. His accent's a little milder than this, having softened in the US.]

If you've used his number in the current incarnation of Digilife, it's probably his American one:
[English.] Hi, you've reached Ash Ward. I'll be in Japan until February 10th; after that I'll be back in Australia. Please update your contacts lists: My Australian number is +61 04 XXXX XXXX. If it really can't wait, my number in Japan is +81 80 XXXX XXXX [Japanese characters may recognize this as a Tokyo cellphone number]. I can't get messages on this number until I'm next in the US, which won't be until July. Please, update your contacts; again my Australian number is +61 04 XXXX XXXX. Thanks. [Beep! But listen to the boy, he's not going to get any messages on this until July.]

Australian number:
[English; mostly General Australian accent but going slightly midwestern American.] Hi, you've reached Ash Ward. Leave your name and number after the beep and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks! [Beep!]

Did you seriously just try his Japanese number:
[Japanese, with a mildly American accent. His Japan pavilion friends were right.] Hi, you've reached Ash Ward. I'm at home in Australia now; please update your contacts lists: My Australian number is +61 04 XXXX XXXX. Again, my Australian number is +61 04 XXXX XXXX. Thanks! [Beep!]

Chance at love vs. definite though temporary job?

Alternately: Almost regular floods vs. potential hurricanes?

(OOC: This is actually two posts a month apart; I just didn't want to spam with them as two separate posts, especially as one's so short! Please specify which post you're commenting to :))

Backdated: 2011-07-28 Current mood: confused [VOICEPOST]

[While the audio file is in Japanese, Ash has helpfully gone in later and transcribed this in both Japanese and English. It's a slightly deeper voice than Pukamon's, though still with that same youthfulness (hey he's only child level), and he still has the same accent; he does not have the same voice as Jyou's partner.]

I get from baby I to II on my own with time and food and all that.

I partner up, and don't evolve for twelve years. I'm eating and sleeping right, sure, but we're in very little real danger in that time.

First real fight in twelve years, my partner gets hurt, nothing; epic fail all round.

Second real fight in twelve years, my hurt partner's half-asleep and I evolve.

It's not like I've researched this or anything, but I always imagined we'd both be fully conscious when I finally evolved again. DISCUSS. I know most of you are way more experienced with the whole partnered evolution thing than we are.

Also, can I just say how much of a PAIN claws are? I can't use my iPod any more because I'm pretty sure I'm going to scratch it, and my accuracy on my oversized keyboard is way down.

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Current: 2011-08-28 Current mood: curious Is anyone else here watching the Rugby World Cup? [text, Japanese and English]

I need someone to talk about it with who isn't from A) Australia (I tend to agree with most of my Aussie mates so we kind of just end up giving each other blow-by-blow recaps) or B) New Zealand (it always deteriorates into caps lock and/or screaming matches and accusations of bestiality).

Also, has anyone heard from Wallace or Michael since Irene? I really hope they're just busy and not hurt or anything; we've had a pretty terrible storm here in Melbourne today but nothing as bad as a hurricane or cyclone.

This morning I finally got my Maingate for this year. A Maingate is a Disney cast member's pass to get up to three people into the Disney parks free a certain number of times per year, and spouses or registered dependents of cast members get them too (so Americans, please marry me; I'd quite like a green card).

Pukamon met my managers at the end of my internship to see if he could be registered as my dependent (not that he's totally dependent on me but he's certainly not my spouse) and get his own Maingate, as well as all my other Disney benefits but he mostly cared about the Maingate. They said it wasn't really up to them but they'd pass it on to the people who are in charge of all that, and seeing as they never mentioned it again I kinda figured the higher ups were like, nah.

But I guess they weren't, because Pukamon got a Maingate too, and now he's flying around the house lording it over my little sisters. I think we might have just made company history.

The only problem is that non-cast members have to show a government issued photo ID when they use a Maingate, and Pukamon is less recognized by the government than my dog. I'm serious: My dog is registered with the state and microchipped; Pukamon's just flying under the radar.

I'm trying to look into getting some form of ID for him, but does anyone here have any experience with digimon and IDs? I figure the procedure would be different in different countries, but some precedent somewhere might help my case if it comes down to that.

Anyone else looking forward to the World Cup final on Sunday? (Women's football, Japan vs. the US, for the confused.)

Naturally I'm disappointed that my own team didn't make it past the quarter finals, but this is amazing for Japan: They've never reached the finals before. So GO JAPAN! I will be dead on my feet for class in the morning but staying up for the game will be so worth it.

(For all the time I spend in the US compared to Japan, I still can't bring myself to care about American sports teams. :|a Sorry, Americans.)

Pukamon here! Ash's sister's been nagging us to come visit her (it's been hard between Ash's work and wandering off out of state; usually we just meet up for a coffee or something), so now that we're settled back in Melbourne, we spent last weekend at her flat in town.

And her boyfriend is a prick! Really condescending to me: I'm not interchangeable with the dog; I'm not going to play fetch. And I eat real food! Even make real food sometimes. Just ask our old flatmates! Honestly, Ash's managers treated me better!

He wasn't the nicest to Ash, either (mocking his job when the furthest abroad he's been is New Zealand; okay, then; won't be seeing you in Florida in two weeks), so we didn't spend the whole weekend there. But Kenzie seems really happy with him (I hear they got together last year) and swears she's gonna talk to him about it, so I guess we'll be seeing him around for a while. Ugh.

Dear G'day, teacher who is still convinced I'm American even after one term,

I lived in Florida for a year and worked there on break. This does not make me American.

I'm as Aussie as you are. No, you're a second generation Greek immigrant; I take that back: I can trace my family back to one of the first bloody convicts¹; I'm more Australian than you are².

I ride my kangaroo to class every day, where I turn in aerial photos of my pet koala taken by attaching my camera to a boomerang. At lunch I have Vegemite sandwiches and a pint. After class I go surfing and only barely avoid being eaten by sharks or stung by jellies, and when the sun goes down, I go and wrestle some crocodiles for fun. My sisters glow and I plunder. For dinner I toss another prawn on the barbie. At night I camp by a billabong under the shade of a coolabah tree.

My Christmas dinner was a roast ostrich. That I had Mum send me from my backyard. Because I'm that Australian.

In fact, I'm so Australian that I'm pretty sure my Digimon partner's going to evolve into a platypus one day.

Going to wear a cork hat to class tomorrow and finish every sentence with "mate", mate,

Ash

1: I'm joking. My auntie who's been doing the family tree says our ancestors were legit emigrants.
2: Also joking.

This whole post is a joke but I figured those two were the most blatantly offensive.

(OOC: I myself am actually a first/second generation immigrant (I was tiny) to New Zealand; if anyone told me in seriousness they were more of a New Zealander than me, a ditch would be smacked. :|)