First morning in Osaka

Sarah and I have just woken up; it's quarter-past 7 in the morning and it's still warm. Totally didn't expect the weather to be so temperate - maybe we might be able to go play in the surf when we hit Miyajima next week?

Besides that, it's not that much different; had a box of sushi last night from the local convenience store to tide the hunger for 398 yen; there was also a chicken katsu don for that money, but I didn't know that a pair of chopsticks were included in the price and didn:t want to eat oyaki don (I think that's the Jap name for it) with my hands... ah well.

I'm currently waiting to get stuff to go take a soak in the hotel onsen atm. The hotel is seriously clean - I'm very impressed, it's not what I expected for paying about 2000 yen per night. It's a little run down (like, as in it looks like it was built in the 70's), but I'm liking this place.

There was also this Japanese cooking show last night that was a real blast. There was a jap idol showing the audience her cutie pose, and the middle-aged male host was copying the poses - the one where he tried to look cute with a chopping board was a classic!

There's also vending machines everywhere, mostly of drinks, but a few of ciggies as well... methinks they haven't cottoned onto the idea of lung cancer yet. Ah well.

Waking up to the sound of the trains is somewhat nostalgic, I must say; my grandparents' old place used to be directly under the flight path of the planes when they were using the old Kai Tak airport. Canberra is another world away in this respect - I still think it's a super huge country town - but it has it's own charm.

I again think I'm now just ranting again, so I'll see how it all pans out. Also, the blog website has listed my blog as a spam blog; hopefully they'll rectify the situation soon.

Signing out,

Lawrence