Showing posts with label Satoshi Kitamura. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Satoshi Kitamura. Show all posts

Monday, 25 July 2011

O-chyo-ko-chyo-i (London)

I don’t know where I got it from, because it doesn’t happen with my siblings at all.  

I will:  

* walk through a doorway and brush my shoulder against the doorframe (I am only 5' 1.5" / 1.55m, and small in build);  

* pick up a vessel to drink from and miss my mouth, pouring the contents down my front;  

* open eye-level wall cabinets straight into my own face;  

* shut a door with one hand while the other hand is still on the door frame;  

and 

* open doors into my own knees.  

And all this while sober!  

My Japanese friend, Satoshi Kitamura (now a famous children's book illustrator), has even given me a nickname in Japanese — o-chyo-ko-chyo-i, which means “The Clumsy One”.