12-21

12-21 – 11:55

Well yesterday was essentially ‘sit around and watch movies’ day. After a short ordeal involving Trust documents, a trip to the internet café/post office and an email with revised documents after arriving home, I spent the afternoon and was up late into the night watching movies. See, Tim left his DVD movie collection here, so Ash and I have been dipping into it to keep ourselves occupied.
Let’s see, yesterday I watched the Transformers Movie, Mission to Mars, Akira, Shaolin Soccer, and Spiderman 2. The day before that I watched Underworld and the Animatrix. There might be another I’m forgetting; anyway the point is that since taking ill I’ve watched a shitload of movies.
And I’m feeling marginally better. I’ve kept myself pumped full of strange unknown Japanese cold medicine, which has worked magnificently so far. Despite Ash’s warning, they stuff doesn’t make me drowsy, or at least any drowsier than I already was, and it makes the entirely unpleasant sinus pressure I was experiencing much more bearable. Today it seems much less than yesterday waking up. That and the giant ball of gnarl I spit up today just after waking up was much less putrid looking than yesterday’s, always a good sign.
Japanese medicine is one of those weird things I’ve noticed that is either completely good for shit or about 1,000x stronger than American versions of the same treatment. Got a headache? Try this great herbal concoction, which I think relies on the placebo effect. Muscle pain? Better try this heat patch. Whoopee.
But if you’re tired…oh man, are you in for it. You think Red Bull packs a punch? You think Rockstar keeps the party going? You think even the mighty Bacchus F can compare? No, my friends. Nothing, nothing in this world compares to the Japanese 元気 Genki drinks.
Genki drinks in this country are an excellent source of vitamins and minerals, “refreshment with the right flavor, for today’s youth with special tastes.” This bottle of POWER VITA-11 is “a smooth carbonated beverage that performs double duty, quenching powerful thirsts quickly while delivering 11kinds (sic) of vitamins.” In addition to these vitamins, it also packs caffeine, duh, and 20mg of nicotine. Yes, that’s right folks, 20mg of nicotine. You know how many milligrams of nicotine are in a regular cigarette? Around 0.6mg. That’s about 33 cigarettes worth of the juice. Now, only the expensive ones have the juice in it, but, dude. You’re not capable of being un-Genki after drinking one of those. It hits you within moments.
Cleaning products? Deodorant? Good for shit. But they have mentholated eye drops, which are more intense than anything you could possibly imagine. I oughta pick myself up some of those today. Those sound nice.