Shake and Bake

A couple days ago, there was this drama on TV about what would happen with a 7 point earthquake would happen in Tokyo. In the commercials they would show more disaster prevention tips. I watched about an hour of it and only really learned 2 things.

1. If there is an earthquake of a sizeable measure centred in Tokyo, we are all dead.

All this disaster prevention stuff will maybe save one or two people. Seriously, Toykyo is like a house of cards on top of a sleeping giant everyone knows will wake up sometime. Along with the grande idea of building New Orleans under sea-level, Tokyo is another bad city planning idea. But I'd love to be proven wrong on this. I just can't trust Japanese arcitechture (besides the ultra-hip modern ones). Half of these houses looks like they are built with toothpicks and discarded wrapping paper.

2. Japanese television actors can't act. Period.

This is kind of surprising since Japanese movies are always pretty high quality I think. But the television dramas are substandard to Mexican Novelas. Especially when buildings are falling down and fires are catching. The Japanese movie industry needs to lend some talent to the TV stations.

In other non-earthquake related news. Last night I bought some allergy (side note: it took me a few minutes to figure out how to spell "allergy". In Japanese it's Arugii, close but not close at all) medicine and it closely resembles mints. It even comes in a case with the words "COOLUP" on the transparent blue side. With no Japanese, it could easily be mistaken for a mint. Not something that makes you pretty drowsy and shouldn't be mixed with other drugs or alcohol.

Yeah, it's another useless post coming at you.