Posts Tagged ‘summer’

the depression that is tokyo on a rainy day.

the southern island of kyushu has been going through a week of floods and landslides in some of the heaviest rainfalls ever experienced for this period of the year. and we haven’t even had any typhoons yet.
i was so exhausted from the two-day singing marathon that i [...]


had a late night but woke up bright and early to the sound of cicadas – the first of the season. you need no surer sign that summer has arrived. i learnt about cicadas in japan, where before, they used to exist only in storybooks, city girl that i am. did you know that a [...]


several blogs i follow do this wordless wednesday thing, where they put up pictures on wednesday in place of blog entries, and let the pictures speak for themselves.
somewhere between the terrible uphill slope lined with gorgeous, giant trees, and the little old lady who shocked me with a konnichiwa (because this is tokyo, and people [...]