[2024-01-02] The earthquake that hit Japan and my situation [08Jd1zKhgvA]

So 2024 hasn't really gotten off to a very

good start for Japan. I'm sure many of you

have heard already that there was a

massive magnitude 7.6 earthquake that

happened in Japan in Ishikawa Prefecture.

And it's, you know, it's pretty sad and

everything. And I just want to make a

video. First of all, I want to say that

obviously this is a serious video. I'm not

trying to be funny or anything in case it

seems that way. First of all, I just want

to say that I'm safe. I'm completely okay

because, you know, I live in Thailand,

not Japan. But just in case you haven't

watched my channel in over a year and you

still think I'm living in Japan and you're

worried about me, I'm completely safe.

I'm completely okay. My ex-wife is also

safe. I haven't messaged her because we

got divorced and it'd be kind of weird if

I just messaged her saying, are you okay?

But I'm assuming she's safe because she

lives in Osaka, which is pretty far away

from Ishikawa. So yeah, it's always kind

of scary when these big events, these big

disasters happen right before you're about

to go to Japan. In case you didn't know,

I have plans to go to Japan in March this

year because it's 2024 now, which is not a

very long time away. And whenever these

big things happen just before you're about

to go, it does make you feel a little bit

worried. I remember back in 2011 when the

really big tsunami happened and I was just

about to go to Japan for my second time to

do the working holiday visa, and that

massive tsunami happened and it was really

scary and everything. And everyone in

Japan— well, not everyone, but a lot of

foreigners were actually fleeing Japan and

leaving Japan because they were scared and

I was just about to go there. So my family

were worried about me. My dad was worried.

He asked me things like, are you sure you

still really want to go? And I said,

yeah, I still really want to go. And I

went anyway and everything was fine. So

I'm not an expert about geography or

geology or earthquakes or anything, but

basically how an earthquake works is when

a really big earthquake happens, it's

going to take a very long time for another

really big earthquake to happen again

because it takes a lot of time for the

tectonic plates— what happens is the

tectonic plates are coming together,

pushing together, and they're pushing and

pushing and pushing, creating tension and

pressure. And this takes years to build

up, and then it finally pops and creates

like an earthquake. And then it could take

years or even decades for it to start

rebuilding the tension until it creates

another massive earthquake. So One way of

looking at it is if a really big

earthquake has happened, it's going to be

a while until another really big one

happens. It is a really big, unfortunate

shame that one of the best countries in

the world, which is Japan, happens to be

located on the ridge or the Ring of Fire,

as it's known, which is basically a region

of very high volcanic, volcanic and

tectonic activity. And it really is just

terrible luck that Japan finds itself

located in this area where 4 major

tectonic plates come into direct contact

with each other. You know, there's a lot

of countries in this world that I would

never want to go to, mainly because they

have a lot of problems which are 99%

caused by people. Like, they're dangerous

and dirty and they're just not very

pleasant places to be in. There's a lot of

crime and these are all problems caused by

people. But Japan, the one country that I

like the most in the world, mainly because

they don't have these problems, has this

one problem that is not caused by people

and it can never be fixed. There's no way

you can fix this problem of tectonic

plates moving and shifting and slipping

under each other. There's no kind of

technology that could ever be invented.

So even thousands of years in the

future or tens of thousands of years,

this problem is still going to exist and

you can't do anything to get rid of it

unless you can find a way to just fix the

tectonic plates in place so they can't

move anymore, which is physically

impossible. So you might be thinking, if

you're so scared of living in a country

that has so many natural disasters, then

why don't you just live in a country that

doesn't have so many natural disasters?

And I came to the conclusion that I'm more

scared of people than I am of natural

disasters, and I'll take my chances in

Japan than take my chances in a country

that has higher crime rates, where people

are kind of violent, where I might get

beat up on the street. So I think I'm

gonna keep on going to Japan every year,

probably for the rest of my life. Even

though there is this danger and risk of

natural disasters, I'm not canceling my

upcoming trip to Japan in March.

Definitely, I'm still gonna go. And it's

just kind of like a fact of life that

everything comes with a percentage of

risk. You just have to take risk when

you're alive because, I mean, there's no

other choice. There's no way to live life

100% risk-free because then you're not

really living life at all. You've got to

take some chances. Even though I've been

to Japan probably over 14 times at this

point since 2010, I never once really felt

scared that I'll be there when one of

these massive tragic events happens.

And it's only really happened once. There

was only one time when I was in Japan and

there was a fairly big earthquake. I think

it was like magnitude 4. So nothing

compared to like magnitude 7 or 8. And it

felt like It honestly felt like a car

drove into my apartment building. The

whole building vibrated and shook and the

sound was very scary. There was like this

vibrating, shaking sound that lasted for

half a minute. And that doesn't sound very

long, but when you're there in the moment,

it actually feels very long for that sound

to continue ringing and vibrating. Even

though the physical shaking has stopped,

the sound carries on going for a while,

which is, you know, kind of scary. And you

keep thinking, Is it over? Is it over? Is

another one coming? And also depends where

you are at the time. So if you're in the

shower not wearing anything and the whole

building starts shaking, that's obviously

very scary. And that's what I would be

scared of. It happened to me when I was in

bed, so I was already lying down. One

thing I am kind of scared of is what if I

am in Japan at the time one of these

massive earthquakes happen, like magnitude

8, and massive tsunami happens and I'm

there and it completely traumatizes me and

I never want to go to Japan ever again

because of it. That is something something

I am scared of and I can't really predict

how I'd react in that kind of situation

until that situation actually happens,

which I hope never does happen. So it's

kind of like a really bad omen for

something so bad to happen on the first

day of 2024. And it kind of gives me this

feeling that 2024 is going to be pretty

rough if that was our first day of the

year. I don't have a good feeling about

2024. I feel like something really bad is

going to happen. I don't know what it is

exactly, Yet, but I feel like something

really bad is about to happen and we just

don't know what it is yet. And that's all

I really had to say. Hope everyone in

Japan is doing okay, and hopefully this

situation gets repaired and resolved

quickly. Japan has a lot of experiences

with things like this and earthquakes, so

they've got the experience and the

equipment to repair things pretty quickly

after these events happen. But apart from

that, hope you had a nice Christmas and a

nice New Year celebration. I had an okay

New Year celebration, we just went to

Central World and I bought myself another

new laptop. So I've now got 2 laptops. I

got this MacBook here,

oh, this MacBook, and I got this Asus X13

gaming laptop. Now I have to decide which

laptop to keep and which one to refund.

So I got this on Christmas, I got this on

New Year's, and I've just been messing

around with them seeing which one's

better. So far I think the Windows laptop

is better, but the MacBook just looks and

feels better. I'll put some footage of

what it was like in Bangkok on New Year's

Eve so you can get an idea of what it was

like here. It was pretty chaotic. They did

this massive live concert right on the

main street, or the main road, in front of

Central World, which is a massive shopping

center, and they blocked off all the

roads, which caused massive traffic jam,

and they were just queuing and shuffling

people in different directions in almost

single file, which completely packed up

the whole place. It was just chaos.