On keeping cool and fried chicken

In the heat of summer, to stay cool while sleeping through those hot muggy nights, one must inevitably use an electric fan at least. But! The fan should not be pointing directly at you, the sleeping individual, but rather away from you, at a wall. This is so that the wind from the fan can hit the wall and circulate back to you, wafting you with a light, gentle coolingness, rather than blasting you with cold gusts that are somehow bad for your body (it might have been something about how it will make your body less resistant to the outdoor heat?). The fan should also be kept on non-rotate mode while pointed at the wall.

If you're feeling particularly rich, sweaty, or don't pay your own electricity bills, consider using both the air-conditioner and the fan while sleeping. Position the fan directly below the air-con, so that the cool air from the air-con will waft through the fan and cool down the room faster than if just using the air-con alone (approximately 8 minutes faster, in case you were interested).

Summer's not just about keeping cool, however. It's also about fried chicken. And the competition's heating up in hip-cool youth hangout Shibuya, Tokyo, where a KFC and a Macdonald's are located side by side, resulting in some fierce fried chicken wars. The Macdonald's, within 3 days of KFC opening next door, started giving out free fried chicken pieces to every single customer, including those who just went in for a cup of coffee. In this way, a cool one million pieces of Macdonald's fried chicken changed hands one million times and entered the stomachs of one million fried chicken eaters.

Which was just as well for the fried chicken eaters anyway, because KFC's strategy was to make their restaurant interior all hip and chic, and introduce oven-roasted chicken to their menus in a bid to win over their target market of young health-conscious office ladies. That's right, folks. A Kentucky Fried Chicken with non-fried chicken. It's enough to make a grown man weep. Next thing you know, they'll be selling boiled baby potatoes with organic green beans grown in-house. Oh wait, that's Subway.

Ijyou desu!