Busy/Snow/Tokyo is changing me
Well it seems like Samrai-san is busy at work, and everyone else in Tokyo is freezing since we got hit with a snow storm. BRRR. They're saying 20cm of snow, but I think it will be more actually. The snow is showing no signs of stopping.
At times like these, the often impracticle architecture and building materials become viscious death traps. For some reason, someone thought it would be a good idea to put marble or slippery surfaces right in front of many buildings in Tokyo. This means, that even on a sunny day when you try to enter the building you will lost traction and slip at least once. Now, when you add rain to this equation, you see many people constantly tripping and falling(i've done it as well). Now, try adding SNOW.
It really is incredible sometimes - Tokyo is such an advanced, highly technological city, but some things are just so incredibly stupid. So stupid.
What scares me is that I am becoming less able to see these things that simply would not make sense to a fresh western eye. It takes a major slip and slide down a marble lobby to get me to notice. I am slowly becoming acclimatised to Tokyo/Japan, to the point where I don't see things as funny or crazy like I used to. These says, I can walk right past a box of "Pooh biscuits", or "Colon Pudding", and NOT EVEN CRACK A SMILE.
Tokyo is changing me... and I fear what I will become!
PS, if you dont believe me about colon pudding, check http://www.ezaki-glico.net/collon/.