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Tuesday, 07 November 2006
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Friday, 04 August 2006
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kyoto - an inner zen / tokyo - collected chaos
an amazing trip taken alone. i met people along the way, and caught up with people from melbourne in tokyo, but was still mostly alone. and you know what? it wasn't bad at all. i think i can handle travelling alone
ok i know i've been procrastinating. but finally, here is a roundup of the recent trip to japan. i don't have adobe after having changed my laptop's hard disk, so no pretty layouts
and there are waaaay too many pictures for me to post everything up, but this is still a huge post. happy viewing! i'll put up the link to the photoalbums soon ~xoxoxo
arriving in tokyo
shinjuku
(ok i look bad because i wasn't prepared to take pictures
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with a promotor for kyoto at tokyo station
shinkansen to kyoto
regency hyatt kyoto
nijo-jo
can you see the 'da' character on the hill? it's one of 5 characters that are part of an annual festival in august where they are set ablaze with fire
kinkakuji
kyoto imperial palace
the biggest torii in kyoto (and in japan?)
heian shrine
sanjusangendo - a pity that the inner chamber where 1001 statues are housed don't allow any photography
on the way to kiyomizu temple
drinking from the spring of luurve
an okashi-ya - traditional sweet shop
kiyamachi-dori leading towards the restaurants and cafes where the younger crowd hangs out
dinner with the two sweetest japanese girls ever - kumiko and junko
10 storeys up (which is pretty high for kyoto) at some cool atmospheric cafe for dessert - i remember the cool toilet that had a tap made out of bamboo!
people lighting up fireworks along the kamo river
shoppinggggg at shijo-dori
i heart the iced macha latte at mos burger!
kawaii girls in kawaii yukatas in summer
the hauntingly surreal fushimi-inari (WHERE I GOT BITTEN BY TONS OF MOSQUITOS)
back downtown
shinbashi
starting on our deep-fried dinner buffet!
gion - home to teahouses of old
grand hyatt tokyo
walking around roppongi hills
with yuichi, risa and jay at shibuya
neoprint~!
roppongi hills again
too bad girls, yuichi's taken!
look at the doggies! *kawaii~*
at one of my favourite places to chill at night - starbucks/tsutaya next to roppongi hills
the waycool omotesando hills (done by the same company - mori - as roppongi hills)
harajuku / meiji jingu-mae
harajuku / shibuya
haha vain pic no1
harajuku
best ramen i've ever had! (2 consecutive days of lunch there)
shibuya by night
vain pic no2
takeshita-dori
incredible sashimi at grand hyatt's shunbou
crossing rainbow bridge
i think i left my heart somewhere in japan.
Friday, 19 May 2006
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the way you look at me
me and charlene talked over dinner at oriental spoon today, and the topic of relationships came up. how to test the strength of a relationship? i really think that it all boils down to this: that when it comes to making decisions, it's all about putting a value to things. say, whether the picture quality of a television is worth the money you're paying. whether the money you're paying for it can be better spent on another television.
and maybe more importantly, whether you really need that television or not. or maybe even how much you want it.
what really constitutes a relationship? love is never equal on both parts, tolerance can only take you so far, romance is overrated and barely surviving for that matter. some time ago, after a lot of thought, i thought love was about sacrifice and compromise.
it's just that sacrifice and compromise has to come naturally, willingly. not... at a price. not make you want to run in the other direction screaming.
in fact you know what, love is a lot harder to understand than we think it is. i don't think many of us actually reach that zenith of love; we easily scale the heights of lust, infatuation, obsession, delusion, seduction et all. love is overrated for the fact that people claim love so easily.
in the meantime, we play people for fools and are played for fools in return. it's all fair. no one ever said it was supposed to feel good.
IN OTHER NEWS:
this comes pretty close to love.
Monday, 15 May 2006
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- Name: cheryl
- Birthday: 3/2/1985
- Member Since: 1/16/2006
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