GACKT OFFICIAL WEIBO – AUG 09 2017

GACKT Official Weibo update. Translation below:

In these few days,
no matter what kind of buildings or sceneries
what I feel most are the “people” who live here.

And the number of beautiful women I passed by on the streets is much more compared to any country in this world.
Through this, I truely realised what I like most.
What I like is the invincible “smile”
Beauty alone will not attract my attention

The action “A smile can be passed on to anyone”
can be said it’s the only gift given to human.

I asked a local friend.
“Why doesn’t the guys reply with a smiling face? Does everybody have something against smiling?”
The answer is very interesting.

“Of course, they will laugh if it’s something funny.
This is only “laugh”, and it’s different from a “smiling face”.
There’s obvious reason for laughing,
many men would make fun of people who smile saying that they are ‘retard'”

I’m shocked by this fact.
“Retard” refers to
people who are late in developement, the way people used to describe delay in the developement of wisdom,
saying smiling face = “retard” is a little scary.
People being instilled with such a concept from their education and environment is pretty scary.

Met a weird driver while I took the taxi to town.

He said something to me angrily when I was winding down the window to take some photos.
I tried to explain in English, but he couldn’t understand me.

“Because the outside soooo HOT, right??”

I don’t know why but he heard my English pronunciation as “Sahara”

“yes, yes, Sahara Sahara!!! Dubai, Dubai!!!!”

He said.
He laughed, and I got scared by his loud laughter.

I drove towards the airport as I need to go to Albania from Ukraine.
Even though it’s 7am
I was surprised by the fact that there were many passengers in the airport.

So coincidentally, there’s some problem with my ticket,
and I was made to go around a few other sections.

They just used their fingers to to indicate to me “go there”!

“Is this for real…”

I didn’t see anyone smile within this period of time,
even the passengers were sullen.

I thought
“What the hell is going on…”

They directed me to use the express passage way for business class,
there were many of them just seated there doing nothing and spacing out.
It’s my first time seeing a county with such lax security check.

I transited at Vienna.
Every staff in the shops were with welcoming smiles.

I still like smiling face…

Even so
I asked the hotel staff, what’s the situation of the war between Ukraine and Russia.

They said,
“Whatever happens more than 600km away from us has nothing to do with us,
you have to take a 8 hours train ride to reach that place, so we’re not interested.”

There are many people who do not think of these things as their own,
this is also the reason why the wars are never ending.

All these are negative examples
let’s not forget these as an experience.

That said
let’s go to Albania!