Returned with New Flavours

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Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 5:21 am. 3 comments

Hey! Hey! Hey! I am back from my mid-year trip, and I feel super energized right now at 5 a.m., jet-lagged.

The trip was nice and it felt very needed afterwards. Not that I got to visit more places than usual or did anything extraordinary, but it was a perfect balance of relaxation and relaxation. I went to places I wanted to see, took pictures I have always had in mind, ate enough for my summer hibernation, and met up with friends unexpectedly. The nicest part was it felt long, even though it only lasted two weeks. Long, as in I-had-enough-time-to-do-everything long, not I-bored-myself long.

I even got to be all Zen-ish about my life, thought about what I want to do, and what needs to be done to take myself to the glorious era of “25″. There is a big smiley face in my Zen garden.

Weather was fine in both places (have I mentioned I went to Tokyo and Hong Kong again?). It rained once in Tokyo and it was not steamy hot. I carried a jacket with me all the time. That said, I look like I haven’t showered for a few months because of the uneven sunburn on my arms. More about that later.

Speaking of Japan, every time I go there is a new buzzword. The current one (well, as of last week) is “eco”. There are eco cars (gas-saving), bottles (which are just overpriced water bottles), chopsticks (any non-disposables) and everything you can imagine. Kimura Takuya is running on a hamster wheel because Pocari Sweat has a new eco bottle (link).

Last time I went (in January), the buzzword was メタボリックシンドローム (me-ta-bo-rikku-shin-do-rou-mu). We call it metabolic syndrome here.

You know how this works. I visit Japan/HK every N months, blog about the trip two months after and finish posting all the photos one month before my next trip. If you know me, poke me in person before my snacks run out.