Hope the people who celebrate it (like me) had a very happy Purim! :D Purim is about celebrating Esther and how she saved the Jews of Persia from annihilation. We're supposed to be joyous and have fun. If you can drink, you're supposed to drink enough that you can't tell the difference between Mordechai (Esther's uncle and one of the hero's in the story) and Haman (the man who wanted to kill all the Jews). That's a lot to drink! :P You usually dress up, eat candy, listen to the story of Esther (the megillah), maybe watch a skit put on by the kids of the congregation, eat other desserts like Hamantashen, and shmooze. Hamantashen are triangular pastries with some sort of filling in the exposed middle. It's supposed to represent the shape of Haman's hat. You can put almost anything as a filling. Chocolate, strawberry jam, poppyseeds, apricot, etc. A very fun holiday!
I didn't dress up this year, but I still had fun. We went to our synagogue's service. I liked how at the beginning the person leading it asked us how the story went, instead of just reading it. She did just read the last few lines, though. The kids' skit was horrible this year! Seemed almost like torture! You couldn't hear them, nothing was very original, and it seemed they weren't too enthusiastic about it. When I did it, we were thrilled to do it. Although, we were a little scared to do that in front of people. I was Esther. (Wahoo! I was happy to get the main role!) During ours, I was knocked out in the middle of Hebrew school (or Sunday school, can't remember which), by a rock. Then, I some how traveled through history and relived it all. It was actually fun to do! These kids didn't look like they were having fun.
The adults kept passing around the alcohol and seemed a bit tipsy by the end, not really drunk enough, I think. ;) There was a lot of Hamantashen. Good stuff! Also, some brownies, dark chocolate malt balls, zucchini bread, pie, and something else. Every family got a bag of stuff. Usually it's filled with candy, nuts, masks, groggers (noise makers) and other things. There were people dressed as the characters in the story, as cats, as a peacock, fairies, ninjas, etc. Kind of funny to see.
I tried to watch a good J- horror movie, but didn't find any online. (At least one I haven't watched before.) So, I started another J- drama called Bambino! It's hilarious! The music and the way they cut away dramatically added to the humor. (They obviously did these intentionally.)
It's about a guy named Ban who wants to become an Italian chef. He's pretty good at his local restaurant, so he decides to study it and work at a special high end restaurant in Tokyo. He has a bit of a culture shock while walking the streets of Tokyo, since it's such an international city. He says while looking at everybody, "Is this really Tokyo?" :P When he gets to the door, there's a dramatic cut saying at the bottom Door to Adulthood. None of the other workers were very welcoming to him at first. In fact, the only friendly one after a while was Yona. Who's a bit of a womanizer and gets a little too friendly with everyone. But, he's the only one who believes in Ban. He's the capo cameriere, which is the head waiter. The first entree Ban is told to do is not good enough. When he makes it the way they want him to, he breaks the plate. He's then demoted to dishwasher. Almost everything in the restaurant is said in Italian, it's practically a requirement for the workers to know it. Ban doesn't know Italian. :D This paired up with the not being able to keep the pace of the kitchen, Ban has a meltdown, but keeps perseveres.
The closing ceremony for the Olympics were interesting. It was pretty funny towards the end. Having people act like maple leaves, giant inflatable beavers, moose, mounties, cut outs of hockey players, etc. It was great how they poked fun at it. :D
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