Dinner with the Hong Kong guy

I met this guy from Hong Kong last year at

immigration here in Japan, and he's still

in Japan, and he asked me if I wanted to

go for dinner, and I said yes. So I'm

gonna go and meet him now. I feel a bit

nervous about it. He's supposed to be

somewhere here.

He's not here. He told me to

come to the restaurant.

There's no one here.

He was

inside the whole time. I was waiting

outside, and they've been up there eating.

Just a video ticket.

Come on,

come on.

Do something interesting.

That's gonna be tough.

You can, you can introduce yourself.

What should I say? Uh, your name. Hey

guys, so I'm Kong Ho, also known as Casey.

It's my honor to meet Daniel. Thank you.

This is awkward. Should I make a YouTube

channel? If yes, press like.

If no, unlike, dislike.

Finish. Finish. Okay, I don't know.

It's very

dark. Light it

up. Okay, is it better?

A little bit.

Okay. Whoa. Okay.

Let me open the door for you.

Thank you. Bye. Bye.

Look, I just got back home expecting my

wife to be here to greet me. It's It's

nearly half past 9 PM in

the evening and she's not home. I thought

she'd be here.

Maybe she didn't expect me to come home so

early. You see, she can't even go one

evening by herself. If I tell her that I'm

gonna go and meet a friend one evening,

then instead of coming home and being by

herself, she'll just go out with a friend

or several friends. I don't know where she

went or who she's with or when she's

coming back. It's her day off tomorrow,

so she might end up spending all evening

out, not coming back until midnight, and

then I'm here like a loser. I feel like

I'm being punished just because I told her

I was going to see a friend. Maybe she

thought I was just making that up and I

was actually going to see another woman.

Yeah, well, I have videos to prove it,

okay? So I'm back from my dinner

trip, dinner date. It was a bit of a

surprise because I wasn't expecting there

to be a girl there as well. Not a bad

surprise, I like girls. I had to blur out

her face because she said she didn't want

her face to be shown on YouTube and I said

okay. But, um, yeah, it was a pleasant

surprise I guess. I actually nearly didn't

go because I went all the way to Osaka and

I got lost. And the station we had to meet

was so far away and there were so many

stops, so many changes to get there, and I

got a bit nervous and I nearly chickened

out. And I sent him a message saying that

I didn't want to come and I was going to

go back home instead because I was too

lazy to find the station. But, uh, he, he

convinced me to come in the end and I

found the train station. And I had

a nice time, I guess. It was okay. Yeah,

I'm glad— I'm glad I went. I don't

regret going. It was, um, it was a nice

change from being stuck in here every

single day. I know I didn't film much. I

only got about— didn't even get 3 minutes

of footage. I was hoping to make a

10-minute vlog out of the whole thing.

But I just feel really awkward filming

other people. I feel fine filming myself

when I'm by myself like this, but I feel

extremely uncomfortable filming other

people. I've just noticed that, and I'm

not sure why. Even though the Hong Kong

guy, he gave me permission and I asked

him, he said that's fine, that's okay, I

still felt really awkward just shoving the

camera in his face, in his direction, and

then expecting him to say stuff. It just

felt very invasive. I didn't feel

comfortable doing it, so I only ended up

with a couple minutes of footage.

Actually, it took me a very long time

before I felt comfortable filming my wife.

I feel fine now because I know she's not

really going to complain about it, but at

the beginning I felt really uncomfortable

filming my wife as well. So yeah,

that's, that's why the Didn't get

much footage unfortunately. It was a

little bit tricky for me because it's been

a really long time since I've been in that

kind of situation where I've met up with

more than one person in a social setting

where the objective wasn't to get cereal.

It's been a very, very long time since I

just met up with a guy for non-cereal

purposes. Apart from the initial

awkwardness, I— yeah, I did quite enjoy

it. Maybe we'll meet again, maybe I'll

meet other guys. I was kind of hoping that

we would do something else after dinner so

I'd have more things to film for the

video, but after we finished dinner, the

girl wanted to go straight back to her

hotel. I think she was staying in a hotel.

She isn't from around here, she was from

Tokyo and she just came to Osaka for a few

days. Maybe— maybe she and the

Hong Kong guy hooked up, who knows?

That's why they wanted to get rid of me

quickly after dinner. And that's

completely understandable. I'd want to get

rid of myself as well if I was in his

shoes. I was a bit worried that they were

going on a date and then I was

interfering, kind of like a third wheel.

And I asked him if it was okay, and he

insisted that it was okay and it wasn't a

date. So, so you might be wondering, why

did I suddenly go out and meet a guy? And

there's mainly 2 reasons. The 2 reasons

don't involve cereal. Reason number 1,

I'm really bored. And reason number 2,

I need content for my YouTube channel and

I don't really know what else to do. So if

this video does okay, maybe I'll go out

and meet more guys. If you're a guy and,

you know, you want a no-cereal kind of

meetup in Osaka and you're not crazy and

you don't mind me filming you or talking

about you, then yeah, maybe we can meet up

and do stuff. We can be— we can be

friends. Yeah, maybe I should try having

friends. Everyone keeps saying— telling me

that I should go and get friends, and I've

always argued that I don't need friends.

Friends are boring. Can't have cereal with

friends. What's the point? Maybe I've been

wrong. Maybe having friends would be fun.

I'm not sure. I'm not 100% sold on the

idea after today's experience, but I'm not

put off the idea from today's

experience. It wasn't a negative

experience. It was an okay experience,

I guess. I've just been so bored recently.

I've got nothing to do. I just sit in this

room every single day, all day long.

Trying to make videos, playing video

games, trying not to go crazy,

and I'm starting to lose the battle of

not going crazy, and I'm starting to go a

little bit crazy. If I'm going to be in

Japan long term, then I guess having some

friends wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Hmm. It's now quarter to 10. My wife is

still not back. And I'm a bit annoyed that

she didn't tell me she's going to go out.

A bit annoyed she didn't tell me when

she's coming back. A bit annoyed that that

girl at the barbecue place today looked

quite similar to my ex-girlfriend. I found

her quite attractive, but I can't do

anything because I'm married and she

probably didn't like me anyway. I was

pretty shy during the whole thing. I

didn't talk a huge amount. I did try a

little bit. I did ask a few questions. I

asked the girl where, where she came from

in Japan, and I asked her if she drove

from Tokyo to Osaka. I asked her how many

days she was staying here. I tried to make

conversation, so I feel quite proud of

myself. I could have done better, yes, I

could have spoken more, but it's been a

while since I've I've had to speak to

people. I just find it a little bit

difficult to think of things to ask

people. I don't really know what to talk

about, which is weird because when I'm by

myself, I don't really have that problem.

I find it quite easy to just talk about

random things, but when there's other

people, when I have to talk to people

directly face to face, I don't really know

what to say. I kind of close up and I

become very self-conscious, maybe overly

self-conscious, and I get worried that I

might say something that makes me sound or

look silly. Oh, oh, oh,

you're late! You're late!