It made so much sense when I found out in Japan that the number for the popo fire department was 119, because like so many other aspects of Japanese culture, it was the exact opposite of what I was used to. Namely, 911. But it is kind of strange that Thailand has taken the only unique left in that series and dubbed 191 the number for emergency services countrywide.
So the real question is, why don't they standardize the number for emergency services worldwide?
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Flava Flav says "Ho!"
This origami tutorial kind of made me miss my island home on Awaji, with miles and miles of tetrapod coastline. The more times you see tetrapods, the more they start looking natural, beautiful even.
While I'm on this Japan stint:
Turn down your sound and watch this video (it's a must-see), then optionally poke your own eyes out/pierce your ear drums.
There's obviously a problem when someone decides to add pesticides to Japan's foreign-produced frozen food supply, but is the best answer for Japan truly another "buy local" scheme? I can see about 6,200 problems with this, not including shipping. I mean, this is the same country that makes airports for airlifting vegetables (which probably had the net effect of driving more agro business to China since it cost - duh - too much to ship fresh produce by air), right?
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In other Japan-related news, all of you from the camera-toting, chrysanthemum-kissing, anime-addict set are OFFICIALLY NO LONGER WANTED AT TSUKIJI FISHMARKET. That's what you get for questioning the validity of scientific whaling, yo.
