4:25am

Yes. Four Frickin' Twenty-Five A M.
I was woken up (awoken? awaked?) by the dreadful "It's a Small World" Alarm Clock next door.

Since then the neighbour's "It's a small world" alarm clock has gone off THREE TIMES.
I want to smash through the wall and 天罰 [tenbatsu] (divine punishment) しよう！ First I'd pick up the offending clock and throw it out the window... hard... Hopefully it would shatter satisfyingly into a million pieces on the pavement below. (Although, with my luck, it would continue to sing and smile at me in pieces... like in a bad horror movie.) And then, if I'm able to restrain myself from strangling him/her, at least work up a good sweat beating the stuffing out of my neighbor with his/her own pillow.

It is now 4:43am. The clock is going off *AGAIN.*

*muffled screams of frustration*
Hell hath no fury like this woman awakened...
unpleasantly...
repeatedly...
by the worst, most obnoxious, most ridiculous song ever written.
Curse this country and its incomprehensible fascination with all things Disney.

4:48am. (Yes, it's playing again.)