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it was one saturday morning when a gang of 9 went out of the city of tokyo to travel around two hours to the vacation spot of hakone. from 7am, that two hours of train time was worthily spent on chit chats

this was around 5 pm when the sun finally set, this winter atmosphere just got colder by the minute. we were in this park for around 3 hours just having fun. this is a badminton racket, not mine but borrowed.

it has been a while since my last entry and i miss blogging. the last days were simply spent indoors and in the gym. but this sunday, amidst the coldness outside, this feet took me to places. i just went

Road trip led us to being a foodie in Nakaminato Fish Market at Ibaraki prefecture!

ever heard of "100 famous japanese mountains (日本百名山)"? the list was actually from a book written in 1964. although the book was really based on the author's personal choice, i guess based on

A short but fun detour at Mentai Park Oarai in Ibaraki

@wittyzell has been rambling about this gorge for quite some time now. she mentioned it early november during our very first hiking trip for this season. and since i happened to be free this weekend, i

as a nightwalker, i have come to appreciate simple locations like these where i get to see simple life. and that orangey and reddish lights are just an icing. reddish orange lights taken at night is just

friends from singapore visited tokyo for a week. and they decided to meet us all up for a day of catching up. housemate g and i initially thought that only the five us with two of them and a bouncing

oh forgive me for the clickbait-ey title, but that is fairly inaccurate. but i did earn the sahara badge of my fitbit app for walking the length of the sahara desert. 4800 kilometers walked in less than

just when you thought that the last trip was enough to find lights, here we are again with another illumination quest. this one was still not on display the last time we were on the search for lights.

Here's my reaction to the movie Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution, and yes I watched in the Jujutsu Theater at Shibuya

here we are finally with the revenge nightwalk. but did we really have a revenge? housemate js really came with the plan for this. it was quite herculean to walk from home to the venue, just very far and

we just came back from a hike yesterday. and surprisingly, it wasn't that hard. we did took around 4 hours of walk and an hour more for lunch. it also had a good section of rocky faces which sounds good

the gang and i have a planned hiking this monday, november 3rd. it is the first hiking expedition(?!?) this fall season. as the first of probably many, i wanted to be as ready as possible. and that includes

Omi Jingu Shrine in Otsu: A must visit shrine in Shiga if you love the anime Chihayafuru or the Karuta game

this is the 2nd part of this entry below where we went up a dormant volcano which was also a reference for an anime movie. the events that transpired in this entry all happened in the afternoon. so if

do you guys know about this anime? who wouldn't be drawn in by that lovable character taking center stage? she is just so adorable and that was how i fell in love with the anime series. to me surprise,

i guess this is the best picture of the day. i was unsure why there was a rainbow like projection on the right, i looked at my phone lenses but found nothing there. but it really looked like something