It's Lunar New Year and I guess that I forgot that this was the case. I headed out to the local shopping center only to be greeted by basically everyone in town also being there. I came here for something really specific so I just got into a lift/elevator and headed up to what I came there for. During that journey I was kind of surprised to see that the arcade was basically completely devoid of kids running around and screaming as the rest of the mall was absolutely packed with them.
So I couldn't believe my luck that an arcade was actually the quietest place in the entire mall.
I don't expect perfect English when in Asia but it seems to me that this company could at least ask a native speaker if what they are printing on thousands of game machines is nonsense or not.
I guess it doesn't really matter because everyone already knows how to play these games and most people already understand what basketball is. Believe it or not Da Nang has a professional basketball team in it! The games are damn near free to attend and still nobody goes. I can't imagine that this is a very wonderful place for an international player to end up and they can't be paid very well.
It drives my English friends crazy when they see something like this. They are so up in arms about how "IT'S CALLED FOOTBALL!" not realizing that I don't really care. I think that the reason why it ends up being referred to as "soccer" so often over here in print is because the Chinese refer to the sport as such and they manufacture basically everything we have here.
The Vietnamese refer to the game as "football" in conversation though and once you have lived overseas long enough as an American you know that you should refer to the NFL sport as "American Football" unless you want a completely unnecessary linguistic argument.
I never really cared for either sport you can call it whatever they hell you want. I'm gonna call it "something I am not going to watch."
Then we also have games like this one. Another mildly sexual game (unintentionally so) is called "Crazy Squirting" and there is a girl in a bikini on the front of it. Thankfully, the kids here don't have such dirty minds like we do in the west.
After I played a game or to of basketball I left the arcade and returned briefly to the chaos that is the AEON shopping mall. I didn't last long. I got a taxi out of there and returned to my hood right away!
