Cockroach

I ordered a setto at MakkuDonarudo tonight and it started off ugly. The soda machine had broken and only non-carbonated drinks were available. The anti-soda government lobbyists must've struck again. I settled for a random drink and received some satisfaction in seeing that they gave me a lot of fry potato. I noticed a small cockroach scurrying along the floor as I ate and tried to smash it with my foot. It escaped and I saw it crawling up the wall later. I guess the restaurants don't have much health standards. They can protect people's health by not allowing them to drink soda, but they can't protect people from the roaches. Perhaps I ate some roach eggs or roach poop with my setto. Delicious. At least I didn't eat pesticide-tainted rice sold by Mikasa Foods.

Sunblock

Sunscreen is rather expensive in the land of the rising sun. A 35mL bottle costs about 350 yen. In Norteamericana, a 236 mL tube costs about 900 yen. Notice the enormous difference in size there. The biggest bottle I've seen at the ordinary drug stores is 60mL. The Nippon natives must've developed a freakish natural resistance to sunlight. They're anti-vampires.