Yet another bleak fact about Japan's obsession with cleanliness - there are like absolutely no dustbins ANYWHERE around the place, perhaps to emphasize to everyone that eating on the streets is generally frowned upon (as my friend said, it's akin to having sex on the streets.. WOW)... so honestly i was pretty miffed to have to clutch my finished food wrappers round the train stations, searching in vain for a dustbin. Eventually i gave up and flushed it down the toilet bowl. =)
Today was like some amazing-train-race, seeing us criss-crossing Tokyo taking all sorts of railway and subway lines and trying to figure out which line connected to which and how the fares differed if we swapped lines and so on. Honestly, now I quite understand why TAR never came to Japan before, it's like Amazing Race Master Class here with a snake-and-ladders jumble of squiggly train lines interspersed with black-and-white JR railway lines. Ditzy teams would have gone round and round Tokyo without a clue of where they were.
Went to a Japanese friend's house in Chiba and was treated to a sumptuous lunch and a nice guided tour around the house where we saw each and every broom closet and toilet accesory... (the mom insisted - it's the pride of every housewife) We were most impressed by the toilet, which had *he-he!* a toilet-cover that automatically flapped up when you entered the toilet, and also came with many various functions from small flush, big flush to butt-washing functions. Call me country bumpkin but I think that's darn cool. =)
After that me and my sis were left alone to pursue our amazing-race fantasies of getting to somewhere obscure in the country. We managed to get to the Tokyo-Edo architecturual museum in pretty sakura-city,Koganei without much hiccups.. (except a spastic detour at a place called Mikata where the train looped and went back in the oppostie direction) The museum is pretty fun but what captivated me was seeing all the Japs dressed down from their normal black suits and having a blast, enjoying traditional Jap activities like the traditional badminton, stilt walking and fishing for baubles.. (The Japanese were having their Golden Week holidays starting today... hence the dress down) I was particular interested in the stilt walking, especially after seeing Tammy win the crucial immunity challenge in Survivor 4 which involved stilt walking.. (haha.. i have no life).. and aniwez when I tried it out, wah.. not simple sia.. couldn:t even stand for a few secondws without toppling.. wondered how people could stand and even joust like that...
Ok.. back to the main point of an architectural museum, it featured houses of different eras but what made it relevant to me was that the facade of the public-bath building as well as the replica train was drawn into the famous anime "Spirited Away".. so it was pretty cool.
That's about it for today.. going to sleep early for once cause I think I've been falling asleep on the trains too easily today.. ciao! (oh.. and i heard Katherine bombed her songs.. sigh.. hope she stays alive and performs well next week)
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