Washism

We are back from SINGAPORE!!!

It’s durian season and i managed to satisfy my craving on the last 2 days we were there.

first day, fresh from the husk, the next day, nice and chilled (this is real durian gelato man, since it is creamy and rich enough on its own)!

And after unpacking our stuff yday and cleaning up the place, we fainted in the sofa a bit before catching the awadori along the street outside our place...

Awaodori is traditionally a festival from the Shikoku region. But it seems that this is getting quite common as one of the festivals in Tokyo too.

This is the season when people go out in the streets in their yukatas (summer kimono made with very light cotton) and basically catch on with the beats of the drums and tap their fans to the rhythm of the dancers. Summer is here... really hot, but i see the streets coming alive at night with all these weekend street festivals (we call them natsu matsuri, natsu being summer and matsuri=festival), and i feel my spirits lifting seeing how everyone is enjoying.

Yakisoba (fried noodles, usually done on the hot plate), is commonly sold at the mini stalls set up, like most school funfairs.

the 2 tired but happy fellas

Really knocked out last night after all that fun.

Woke up this AFTERNOON with the hot hot sun shing on our buttocks.

Quickly did my laundry and hurried out to snap a shot of this row of pretty sunflowers that were smiling at me while i was hanging out the clothes.

Lunch, was our favourite cool somen (thin rice noodles) topped with a HUGE serving of sauteed shimeji mushrooms (yes, simple sauteed with bonito and salt, fullstop), yummiliciously sweet tomatoes and asparagus.

I really cant live without the vegetables here. If jun decides to migrate out of japan, i will shoot him.

Makes my day watching these flowers bask in the sun =)