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Have just been transported to another world. Bought a ticket and entered a surreal umderground construction. Walked to dark hallways and down stairs looking down on square and triangular gardens. Ocassionally a creature dressed in white pointed me in the right direction. After loosing any sense of...
Nihonbashi, the center of japan, symbol of the Edo period and symbol of Japanese progress?
Went to see my ocha-sensei, my tea ceremony teacher, this morning and I was late because the train had a 30 minute delay. I could not believe it. Though the chuo-line is known as 'jisatsu-sen' for suicide line, but those delays used to happen at night not at 10am so not to inconvenience people on...
Just walked to the train station from ryoko and kenta's home and it felt like I have never left though it has been 10 years. Kenya and ryoko live approximately 300m away from the place I used to live when I did my internship at hitachi. All these memories are flooding back: the walks to umiyama, the...
I cannot believe it's been 3 years since I last visited japan. Being back gives me that warm rosy feeling like a nice hot bath ( though the complete lack of sleep for two days and considerable difference in temperature might have something to do with that) Trains leaving exactly on time, the...
You poor people are no longer able to keep up with the world of Val. So here are a few totally pointless updates. I'm listening to books on CD in my car. This week I finished On the Road by Jack Kerouac. About halfway through I caved and went to Wiki to find out who all of the characters were in...
So this is what happens when things don't go as well as you'd hoped when you go off a jump on a snowboard! Belly flopping on plastic stings a bit I have to say.
