Um...ew?

[akujunkan]

Japanese trash disposal is dumb.

Trash is picked up twice weekly. Japanese law forbids the installation of garbage disposals in one's home. Take the fact that there's nowhere to dispose of uneaten food for about five days at a time, then multiply it by the fact that during the day, temperatures in my apartment reach 100 degrees Farenheit, one can only imagine that my kitchen gets a teeeensy bit funkalicious. It's really quite gross.



Roaches are dumb.

I don't even need roach motels. I all I do is leave the pan from my rice cooker in the sink, filled with soapy water, during the day, and the roaches come and drown themselves in it. I woke up yesterday morning to discover one cockroach, not wanting to be outdone by its peers, had drown itself in the glass of water I keep by my bedside.



Roaches are really disgusting.

I woke up today to find a three inch long cockroach snacking on the head of my toothbrush. Of course, roaches tend to shit where they eat. I've been using roach brush for gods know how long. Comforting thought, really.



That will be all.

Comments

[fragilistikal.livejournal.com]

BLEH. Don't make me tell you about the time I stepped on a two-inch roach in bare feet and thought nothing of it until ten seconds later: "Wet plop underneath feet - grape? Grape?? o.0" and yes.

I think I went ahead and told you, didn't I?

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

BLEH. Don't make me tell you about the time I stepped on a two-inch roach in bare feet and thought nothing of it until ten seconds later:

Hey, Spring! Don't ever tell me about the time you--

"Wet plop underneath feet -

NooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

grape? Grape?? o.0" and yes.

I think I went ahead and told you, didn't I?


Spring, how could you??? ::theatric sob::

[fragilistikal.livejournal.com]

I do my best to see a person break down in sobs for me benefit. At least once a day. Twice if I'm real, real good. =)

[metal-dog5.livejournal.com]

Don't you have an outdoor bin to put the rubbish in? Do you just put out bags on rubbish collection days?


one cockroach, not wanting to be outdone by its peers, had drown itself in the glass of water I keep by my bedside

That happened to my brother-in-law. Unfortunately for him, he didn't discover this until he'd had a drink.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Don't you have an outdoor bin to put the rubbish in?

Nope. Trash is only allowed to be placed outside 1/2 hour before pickup. Until then it has to sit nice and funky and ever so attractive to roaches, in one's apartment.

Unfortunately for him, he didn't discover this until he'd had a drink.

Yeah. I was waaay lucky I was too lazy to take a drink until I'd got up and put my glasses on. Because I had been thinking about it as soon as I woke up.

Trash weirdness

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

Dear God. You have to sit around your apartment WAITING for the moment when you're allowed to put your trash out? I have enough trouble remembering to drag the can out to the curb the night before pickup.

And if I forget, and it's summer, the outdoor trashcan is fragrant with eau de dead whatever my cat brought in for another week. I can't even imagine if I had to keep that in the kitchen.

Other cultures are just... odd.

Re: Trash weirdness

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

have enough trouble remembering to drag the can out to the curb the night before pickup.

When I lived in Nagoya, we were allowed to do the night before too. I'm not sure why the rules are so strict where I live now, but they are.

I can't even imagine if I had to keep that in the kitchen

I've been burning a lot of incense. And eau de dead? That is a pretty accurate description - thanks for the laugh!

Re: Trash weirdness

[sara-tanaquil.livejournal.com]

>>I've been burning a lot of incense. And eau de dead? That is a pretty accurate description - thanks for the laugh!

You're welcome... I live to amuse. ;-) Seriously, few things on this earth smell worse than half-chewed shrew left in the trash in 90 degree heat for a week and a half. I'm grateful and all that my cat thinks I don't get enough to eat and offers me these things, but really.

Regarding incense, I was laughing over a scene that I was just translating in the next chapter of Koori 11, where Rapunzel explains that he erected a kekkai while casting the illusion spell so that Wild wouldn't notice the "atmosphere" (if I'm actually getting the translation right, which is always a doubtful issue). I wondered if this was like burning incense so your parents won't know what you've been smoking in your room? Kinda like the idea of Rapunzel as a rebellious teenager...