Entries this day: nearly-back new-years-2015

nearly back

08:01 Thursday 01 January 2015 AWST

09:03 Thursday 01 January 2015 JST

Hmm. That date isn't correct. My computer battery died while I was writing an email (thank goodness for free wifi and that Gmail saved it in realtime) and I guess the clock battery died as well???

09:08 Monday 17 October 2016 JST

Okay this is more likely to be correct.

I slept for a good bit of the 7 hour flight from Perth to Honkers

16:11 Monday 17 October 2016 JST

Didn't see the TV guys when I got out of the airport, but I must say it's nice to not have to wait in a line 200 people long in order to go through immigration. Will it be even faster (not have to fill out an arrival card) when I have my permanent visa?

new years 2015

##01:25 Saturday 03 January 2015 JST##

It was my first time to go to a temple for New Years in Japan. It wasn't as crowded as I expected, though there was a pretty long line of people queued up to pray(?). There was a bit of a mob near the bell that emanated some great reverberations each time a group went up to ring it. I was like, "I wanna ring it!" but turns out we'd have to reserve a spot in advance.

Seo and Mika gave us a bunch of mikans. So delicious!

After we finished walking around the temple, it was about 12:45am, so the Ikegami line was no longer running. Mike and Seo walked home (not too far), while Lin and I walked to Kamata station, and then home from Kawasaki station.