Today's video is gonna be a little more relaxed

I kinda feel like it's going back to my old style of video

If you've been following me since the beginning

You know I used to make really random videos

about products that I thought were funny or interesting

that I just came across at the grocery store

and I kinda miss that style of video

Today I found something funny at the grocery store

It's almost Valentines Day - and Japan is obssesed with giving chocolate on Valentines Day

It's the big thing here - people don't really give flowers or jewellry too much

It's really just chocolate, and you'll see it everywhere

The grocery stores are packed with special Valentines chocolate

Even in the stations there will be little stands everywhere where you can buy chocolate

So I was at the grocery store doing some shopping and came across these

SUKKY POCKY

And it took me way too long to figure out why the hell they say SUKKY on them

If you speak Japanese you can probably figure it out if you think about it for a little while

And at the bottom it says "anata ga suki desu"

I like you, or I love you

Suki means like, but it means like-like not just regular like when you use it for a person

So yeah it's SUKI not SUKKY

But when they write it like that without the Japanese characters and 2 Ks and a Y

I can only read this is SUCKY and I can't get over how funny it is

I just love this so much

So yeah, they came out with these special edition Pocky

Not only SUKKY POCKY, they came out with like 8 others I think

I got them all, I got all the ones they had at the store

So I have lots of Pocky to eat now

Let me show you the other ones

I thought these ones were really cute

These are Papacky and Mamacky for your Dad and your Mom

I thought those were really adorable

Too bad my parents aren't in Japan so I could give these to them

But isn't that cute?

At the bottom it says "papa arigatou" and "mama arigatou"

Thanks Dad, Thanks Mom

They also have THANKY

For those people that you're not in love with but you wanna give them a little treat on Valentines Day

So this is kinda like a casual thing you can give them

The bottom says "itsumo sankyuu desu"

Sankyuu is another way to say thank you in Japanese, more casual

than arigatou or arigatou gozaimasu, so you can use it with your friends

Here's a very Japanese phrase that I can attempt to teach you guys

YOROCKY! If you speak Japanese you can probably figure this one out

It says "yoroshiku onegai shimasu"

Which is actually very hard to translate into English

It's not really a phrase that we have

It has so many different meanings

For example when you meet someone for the first time you'll say "hajimemashite"

"my name is Sharla, blah blah blah" and then at the end you'll say "yoroshiku onegai shimasu"

Which is kinda like "from here on lets have a good relationship"

or something... it's honestly really hard to translate

But it's just something like yeah let's get along, let's have a good relationship

Let's work together, or I'm looking forward to working with you

That kinda thing

You could give this one to your coworker or your friend

Anyone really, but I guess it has kinda like a "let's work together" feeling to it

probably would be best for a coworker or something like that

That's one thing that's very different about Valentines Day here in Japan

You actually give chocolate to everyone you know

It's not just your bf or your gf

Last Valentines Day I was working at a Japanese tech company

All my coworkers were Japanese people

And all the men gave me chocolate, and it was really awkward

Because in Canada we don't have the culture of giving presents to anyone other than your significant other

So that was just weird for me

But in Japan it's expected here

If you don't get something for your coworkers you're kind of seen as like the office bitch

So you probably wanna do that

So you can get them something like this so you don't have to spend too much money on them

Actually one that would be really good for your coworkers would be this

GIRICKY - another very Japanese thing

At the bottom it says "giri choko desu"

Giri choko means "obligation chocolate"

So literally you're obligated to give this chocolate to them because it's Valentines Day

It's not that you have any feelings for them or anything, you just have to give them something... so

"Here you are." I don't know if I would be very thrilled to receive this

But I guess it's better than nothing? I dunno, honestly not giving anything might be better

So giri chocolate is usually just like a small cheap chocolate

that you give to someone because you have to, not because you love them

On the other hand, honmei choko, or real feeling chocolate

would be something more expensive or fancy

and that would be the type of chocolate you would give to your bf or gf

Another one they have is GANBACKY

It says "ganbatte kudasai"

Which is, try your best! or good luck!

So you could give this to someone who has exams, or a sports competition or something like that

I like that one, I think that's cute

And that would be nice all year round, not just Valentines Day

But I'm pretty sure these are just a Valentines Day special

So I think they're gonna stop selling them soon

Those are the Valentines Day special Pocky that I found at the store

But yeah, this is just my favourite thing ever. Can we just all agree on that?

Please don't ever get rid of these I friggen love these

On the back they have this cute little space where you can write a message

I thought that was adorable

So yeah that's my Valentine's video for this year guys

If you're looking for something more useful

I made a couple chocolate making videos over the years, I will link them up in the i button

thing on whichever side it is

So click that and you can see some other videos to watch!

Hope you guys have a really awesome valentines day, and I'll see you soon! Bye!