the plan was to head straight from tokyo to hakodate. due to unforseen circumstances, we were forced to spend a night in aomori then move to hakodate the next morning. read the story here: hokkaido/july 2014 – preamble. the port city, onsen town, capital and dessert paradise from aomori 青森 […]
We were back. Last year, we stood on the other side, watching, observing, from the steep steps halfway down sunset peak. The long, narrow and rather straight trail leading up to Lantau peak but we lost sight of both trail and peak where they pushed past and into […]
1 year 5 months later, we are back in Hong Kong. The city didn’t change much, in spite of the crippling umbrella protests that started in Sep 14 and went on for 79 days. When we set foot once again in Wanchai district on Friday the 13th Nov […]
Not First World Yet I almost feel guilty for liking this song. On 7 July, 715pm, a power trip caused the entirety of both the North-South line and East-West line (nsew) to shut-down, leaving an estimated 250,000 commuters stranded at stations. I was lucky. I was out of […]
A not-so-perfect plan Last July, we packed the whole family to Hokkaido. Because the venerable ones decreed that if we were heading to Japan, then to Hokkaido, they must go. Since the planner was given a free rein, and in spite of a few, not-so-minor constraints (no driving, […]
the last word 