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Being yourself what does that mean
Seeing yourself is the hardest thing
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I've been here with my mom for a few days now, and soon we will be packing our things up and heading to Nara. i hear it's lovely but from the past few days' experiences i really dont think you can trust what people say online or in person either!
Fact one: NO, you cannot walk from Shijo station to Sun Hotel in 10 minutes. especially not if you are carrying 20 kg of luggage.
Fact two: Japan is so expensive you will be flat broke. well, that's a myth i'd like to bust - and strongly too! things here cost about the same as in Singapore; just that there's no friendly hawker stall to get your starch load from; instead for about 300 - 500Y you can get lovely Takopachi, or Okonomiyaki, or even a wonderful junk food fill at First Kitchen which makes the coolest float with ice-cream in a sea of matcha. yummm.... and shopping in Kyoto is extremely satisfying; even my mom, who shops like a guy, LIKEs it here. and that means it's good. I bought a pair of black cowboy boots, stockings, a skirt, two tops, loads of souveniers, silver accessories, snacks, tonnes of snacks, Kafka on the shore, and the list goes on... i'm probably going to get a few more clothes and also that wonderful and amazing Rollei digi baby camera that i saw across the street from my hotel that i've been pining for for months and months! yum. and you won't bust your bank shopping - kyoto zest has a lot of cool and reasonable shops. i totally dig that mall.
the main Kyoto station - Porta, has lots of shops too; they're a little more pricier but the variety is better too. Porta also boasts of a long street of restaurants - all of which are underground so you never really have to worry if it's pissing it outside.
Flea market shopping is also pretty fun; TOji temple was open today and we did a two hour browse - loads of kimonos, chopsticks, preserves, fresh fruit, clothes, antiques and artifacts (no, i am not talking about the temple goers) and more...
We are off to Arashiyama tomorrow, which will be good. being surrounded by so many shops and stuff has turned my primal collecting gene on full blast and it's pretty scary.
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next entry will be on FOOD... *slurp*
OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT I AM IN KYOTO!
One of the most beautiful places to be in Autumn. Momiji they call it, and i'm totally enraptured. the leaves, the weather, the people, the clothes, the shopping, the food, the sky, the trees... the castles... i am just completely in love!
anyone in Japan want to give me a job??
it's my pappa's birthday this week, and i'm home to say hello and to drop my gift off for him. of course, he isn't at home. which is pretty much fine with me in fact. every year i don't know what to get for him - no one in the house does. we end up getting cheesy things or nothing at all. this year i bought him a bottle of wine that he says he likes. and some pastrami and salami. Lame or what, but really - i have no idea what the first man in my life really would like to get on his 50th.
anyway, the month of October has passed; and the end of it, Halloween, is always a weird one for me. Things seem to fall apart on that day; and this year was no exception. People falling sick, things not working out the way they should and me always, vacant in my head.
I've come to realise that there are certain things that are better left unsaid and in fact, unknown. you know how i love the mystery of a middle-aged single man - i realise i like it like that. i like mysteries to stay mysteries. i don't want to get to know some people who i am attracted to because sometimes the mystery is the only thing i really like about them.
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