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akujunkanJapanese 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.
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.
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Re: Trash weirdness
on 2004-07-13 01:54 am (UTC)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
on 2004-07-13 02:25 pm (UTC)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...