Wet Market

I am not been to the Wet Market for a long time ! Wet market impression to many peoples are wet,dirty,smelly, crowded and etc ! Most peoples today just grab their groceries from shopping malls with big ass car park and powered by air condition that kill this planet slowly.

I feel like back to the past and nostalgic. I used to help my father at his stall during my early childhood and most of the memory is still very visible in my left/right brain. The old shops are still there although some of them have renovated or change of ownership. But the things I like the most are the peoples ! When I usually shops at malls and I cannot stand the crowd. I do not know how to describe it but it is just a place of havoc. I just hate it ! Usually I just grabbed the stuffs I need and get the hell out of the there ! I am just tired of these peoples behavior.

I usually went to the wet market (with confinement lady) around 7am or 7:30am to avoid the traffic congestion. Traffic is always nightmare for me (at least). I used to be very impatient when I got stuck in traffic jam. But things have change a bit, perhaps age is catching up on me. I need the confinement lady who I called "Ah Yee" to select and buy groceries for my wife. The usual groceries lists are pork,chicken,vegetables and some spices or herbs. One good things about wet market , you can get most of the stuffs you want to from here. Unlike the malls , sometime you just to search around from one mall to one mall.

However I got the feeling this kind of wet market will not last long. As peoples are getting use to the mall with big air conditioning and indirectly killing our planet slowly and our future generation. This is the price of developing nation as peoples used to say. Oh well , I do not agree with it but for sure I have to been to the wet market before and hope their existence will continue in the near future even with the current onslaught of modern shopping malls.

I have been upgraded to Daddy

on 25 Dec 2007 , my little princess was born. Weight at 3.04 kg , she look so damn cute ! But the most important now , I am a DADDY now ! Daddy ! Papa !
My only wish for this year is both mother and baby are safe and healthy. Nothing more and nothing less. Most peoples asked me , are you ready to become daddy ? My answer to them is always "YES" even tough I am not ready or to be honest , there is no such thing as ready ! I am that kind of person that do not think too much about future and past. Most of the time I will think about present ! This is the biggest gift I have ever got i my entire life in this planet. Thank you so much !

I missed this so much ...

The daily morning drink. It keep me extra energy boost !
Chai-latte -> Tall size -> Hot-to -> Take out !
That is my order line !

There are a lot of coffee shops around the Ericsson office at Shin Yokohama. Coffee shops like StarBucks or Tully Coffee are easily accessible. In Malaysia , most StarBucks are available at big shopping malls and some others specific locations. But the shitty things , I have to drive, pay the toll and jam and struggling to find a parking place or spot. In my country , you can built a bank branch just by the busy roadside. Impressive right !
Prices are not much differences between here and Malaysia. But in Malaysia , I can have the local Malaysia coffee drink like the white coffee or coffee-mix-tea (cham) from shops like OldTown Coffee.

Back home ....

Bumper-to-Bumper

It have been 2 weeks since I left Japan and still struggling to fit in myself again. Most peoples will say , it is an excuse. You have been leaving here for past 30 years , you bastard ! What the hell you talking about ? Well ...

One thing that really upset me is the weather. It is hot and then rain and become cloudy. It is just like human mood. I never like hot weather and instead I hate it so much ! When it rain , floods definitely the major news. It is like a festival and events every years ! Then next is traffic jams. I just hate it so much!
And now since it is raining season, clothes will not be able to dry for the next fews hours and days and it will have those dampen SMELL like wet dogs ! Arghhh...

I have really hard time to eat the Malaysian food nowdays. I used to love it so much but not now. Not in future.My taste changed. It is so salty ! I need to start to learn Japanese cooking as soon as possible.

Autuum Beauty

Yellow leaves , one of my favorite !

Christmas

Christmas is jut around the corner. In Japan , I think it is quite a big event judging from the decoration they put in. My usual favorite shopping place in Japan is Lazona in Kawasaki. Access to the mall is extremely easy. It is just near the JR station.

I usually started my journey to the Loft store before I go to the Akachan Honpo.
Loft is just like Tokyu Hands where you can get almost everything from there from stationary, kitchen or bathroom stuffs , cosmetic , watches and etc.

Akachan Honpo is one stop shopping store for parents where you can get almost everything you want to your coming little prince or princess. I usually spend about 30 to 45 minutes looking for baby and mother stuffs. In fact I have bought quite a lot of baby and mother stuffs from various brand such as Pigeon. Pigeon brand is quite popular in Japan.

After that I will move on to Graniph store. This is one of the shop I really enjoy very much. They sell mostly t-shirts , awesome t-shirts ! I just love this shop !

Maybe sometime I will dropped by the Gap shop or the Asbee shoe shop.

And of course , I cannot miss the Bic Camera. The shop have several floors where each floor display and sell different items. My favorite floors are the gaming floor where you can find Sony PS3/PSP , Nintendo , X-Box and etc. You can also find all the toy models in the same floor such as Tamiya. Awesome !!!! I can spend 1 or 2 hours here even not buying anything at all !

Then I proceed to the basement where you can find the usual suspects such as groceries shop and Japan famous outlet shops such as UNIQLO and Muji.
UNIQLO is similar to Gap in America and Muji is another store similar to UNIQLO. I like the UNIQLO in summer time where they sell a lot of t-shirts ! These t-shirts are actually from the competition UNIQLO held every year ( I think). And UNIQLO recently just opened an outlet near Harajuku. I love to patron this shop because it sell a lot of terrific t-shirts. And UNIQLO held a t-shirts contest design yearly (I think) and here are the 200 winners for year 2008.

Time Fly

One thing for sure that time passed really fast. What I meant ,even tough we have a watch for example to see what time it is, we sometime did not realized it is already Friday. I thought it is still Wednesday or whatever but definitely not Friday.

Without knowing it, it sucks ! That means I never actually realized what I have been working like a dog and my mind was only focus on one thing ! It have been almost 3 weeks in Japan.

I always tried very hard to live at present not in the past or future. For sure to enjoy or to more understand ourself nowadays is to live in present. I have met with a lot of peoples and observed them but not really truly understand but maybe just a quick assumption based on daily conservation or interaction. Human are so complex in behavior or characters but do we need to understand them truly to enjoy a good conversation. No , I don't so.

Nah~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

But for one thing finding a common thing or topic in a new conversation is a quite a tough job. It is like striking a jackpot if the topic is right but you will end up surrounded by wall if the topic just reduce to one or two answers : Yes or No or worst Yes and No.