trash and all in between : January 7 2025

oh i love how wide and clear this park road seemed to be. and these two friends, one walking while the other on his bike, just look cute. i could never bike that slow, i am a bad biker. and i would be stressed walking beside a bike. in short, this scenario will never happen to me.

it was just 10 minutes before 8 and the park is already this deserted. well it was cold that day so i guess it was the right thing to do, stay in the comforts of their homes. so how come i am outside? what am i really doing here?

as i wrote yesterday, i was having some intense headaches. a part of me thinks that it could be eye related. it has been a year since the last time i had my eyes checked and got a prescription glasses. here in japan eyeglass shops offer free eye exams, so i ended up getting my eyes checked. well... the suspense is over. it wasn't related. i still had the same "grade". so here i am, left the shop without any purchases. i went to a pharmacy instead and bought proper headache meds; paracetamol and propyphenazone did not help me at all so let's try ibuprofen this time. hope this will help. but this is but a side quest.

the search for trash

you heard it right, i was searching for trash. @friendlymoose 's #POBPhotocontest theme for this week is trash. this one is pretty difficult to capture. how would you even make a picture of trash look interesting? and wouldn't it be weird for someone to take lots of attention and take pictures of trash?

i was left with taking simple and one take-and-go pictures of trash. in this open market area, trash is carefully stacked outside each shop after they close. a garbage truck collects them each night, and that is how they keep even the markets clean.

late at night, trash is usually taken out and stacked neatly in designated places beside the road. in residential areas, trash is taken out in schedules, depending on the area you live in. in my place for example, burnable garbage is collected early morning on mondays and thursdays and recyclables on wednesday. for commercial areas that might probably be different, they have more burnable trash in a daily basis and that might be unsanitary if not collected daily. i'm not really sure but it works.

this one is near home. on a tuesday night recyclables are taken out for collection early wednesday morning. just look at the amount of beer cans in here. japan loves their beers that much. they must have had a new year's celebration.

and that brings me to my entry for the contest. it is difficult to take interesting trash pictures in a city as clean as tokyo. but i guess anywhere you go, no matter how rich a city is, poor people thrive and live in it. another person's trash is another's gold, so cliche but so true in this case. i know that this picture is not really the best, a night picture zoomed a couple of times will just have some bad quality, but if the theme is about "trash" i think the emphasis is not really on the picture but on the story it holds. so here is mine, the sad reality of poverty even in the richest of cities.

as always, AMPING KANUNAY!

_{all content is by yours truly unless otherwise specified}

^{all photos are taken with a galaxy s23 ultra}

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07/01/2025

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Daily Activity, Photowalking, Walking

Height 168.0 cm		Weight 71.3 kg		Body Fat %
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