Weekly update
As can be seen, I've been traveling a bit. On friday, we had Yamasa's SILAC classes common hanami (cherry-tree-watching) party - started 6 pm, and finished 9 pm. Shared some food/drink under the sakura, not bad experience.
On saturday I went for extended walk (2pm-9pm) and accidentally bought a new computer (Panasonic R3) as it was on 15% discount. Had lots of fun, first walked among the sakura by day, then went to Okazaki castle, enjoyed the sakura festivities (did some western-style archery, ate lots of strange food such as milk ice cream.. really!), and finally walked home in the dark. The lit sakura were unforgettable, I have ton of pictures (but only 3 here).
Sunday, I went to Kyoto. The imperial palace had it's one of rare open-for-public moments, so it was must-see. After that, I wandered around and during wandering lost my expensive sunglasses, gnnh. Kiyomizu-temple, some maiko wandering around (probably not real ones?), some book store shopping and so on, and I was well cooked (very hot day - 25 degrees or so) and ready to head home.
Missed first train, got home very late, and borrowed classmate's bicycle to get to the store in time to get my new computer (I had reserved it on saturday but it was being fitted until sunday morning). Lots of funny rapid bicycling in dark later, I had long discussion with shop clerks about why they would not sell it tax-free (Sigh), bought the computer+DVD-drive and headed home.
Since that have been mostly fighting urge not to play with the new computer too much, but have failed for most part - little sleep, studies suffering. Oh well. Picture total so far? About 400 pictures on this trip, over 200 of them within last week.
Except for the lost sunglasses (grr, 120 euros wasted or so) best week so far. Studies had also some interesting bits, but I'll leave them to my diary :)
On saturday I went for extended walk (2pm-9pm) and accidentally bought a new computer (Panasonic R3) as it was on 15% discount. Had lots of fun, first walked among the sakura by day, then went to Okazaki castle, enjoyed the sakura festivities (did some western-style archery, ate lots of strange food such as milk ice cream.. really!), and finally walked home in the dark. The lit sakura were unforgettable, I have ton of pictures (but only 3 here).
Sunday, I went to Kyoto. The imperial palace had it's one of rare open-for-public moments, so it was must-see. After that, I wandered around and during wandering lost my expensive sunglasses, gnnh. Kiyomizu-temple, some maiko wandering around (probably not real ones?), some book store shopping and so on, and I was well cooked (very hot day - 25 degrees or so) and ready to head home.
Missed first train, got home very late, and borrowed classmate's bicycle to get to the store in time to get my new computer (I had reserved it on saturday but it was being fitted until sunday morning). Lots of funny rapid bicycling in dark later, I had long discussion with shop clerks about why they would not sell it tax-free (Sigh), bought the computer+DVD-drive and headed home.
Since that have been mostly fighting urge not to play with the new computer too much, but have failed for most part - little sleep, studies suffering. Oh well. Picture total so far? About 400 pictures on this trip, over 200 of them within last week.
Except for the lost sunglasses (grr, 120 euros wasted or so) best week so far. Studies had also some interesting bits, but I'll leave them to my diary :)
posted by Wanderer at 11:00
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