Hello again
Sashiburi ne (It’s been a long time). I’ve been shite updating this beloved blog.
There’s been lots of potential work, actual work and ambien came to visit Tokyo. I wish I could’ve spent more time hanging out with her and her hubby. We ate yummy Jap food and spoke Singlish, which made me very happy. Haha. Unfortunately they were rained out on half of their trip and the poor things found it super cold. The week they were here was unusually chilly for spring.
Alas there has been more change and to be honest I’m struggling to understand what I want out of life. Perhaps there’s no point mulling over this too much and just do what I can for now. Have a little faith in things and people while being in a state of uncertainty. All I know is, this is my time to toughen up, forget about following safer roads, to take risks and to remain optimistic about it all. If I keep worrying about the future, I’ll ignore the wonderful present. My now is really not too bad. I kinda enjoy the travel opportunities that are available to me, thanks to my kangaroo pookiemun.
I didn’t realise how much I miss Singapore. The predictable weather to easy transport, warm and chatty folks, big apartments and cheap cheap food and shopping. Oh I just hoovered a curry puff from Old Chang Kee — foodgasmic. Sigh, I’m not going to try to cram in all the things I love to eat because it’ll just be impossible and I’ll likely end up with a troubled tum.
I just took a cab ride from Toa Payoh to River Valley — it was only SGD6.70. Okay, before I would think it was a fair rate but this amount is what I spend taking the train four times within a tight circle of no more than three or four stations apart in Tokyo. A small packet of brown rice is $0.55 from NTUC while it’s 900 yen for 2 kg of short-grained brown rice which I am frankly not so fond of.
Just now, I went crazy and loaded up on pre-mixes, tea (yes, camomile tea in Tokyo costs 500 yen or SGD6.50 for 10 bags!), cereal and toiletries (I got a huge pot of Pantene conditioner for SGD6 (1,000 yen in Tokyo); three super-sized packs of Watson’s cotton pads for only SGD4.50 whereas in Tokyo I have to pay 400 yen for a small packet). I only spent SGD100 for the load I brought home. Usually a basket of groceries in Japan costs me 5,000 yen (SGD65) and I shop twice or thrice a week, depending if the kangaroo is home or not.
Sorry this is probably not very interesting to Singaporeans but I’m amazed that six months away completely shifted my view of prices. I’m just wowing at how everything is so cheap here. No wonder so many people want to live here. But I can’t buy the experiences I’m having in Japan.
Will update on my visit back home and look out for my Kamakura day trip photos. When I return to Tokyo, I’ll have a full weeks’ worth of public holidays with only bits of work to attend to. I hope to head out of the city for some adventuring. PLUS, more blogging from moi.
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April 23rd, 2007 at 7:41 am
welcome home babe!!!
see you tomorrow.
May 10th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
wowee, so cheap here ….