It’s early in the morning now, and as usual, I can’t sleep. The sky is red and you know what they say about red skies in the morning and red skies at night. Tonight the moon is full, as it was last night, but tonight the moon hung low behind the tree outside my house and I had to look harder to find it. It’s just like most things, which disappear without you noticing in the hope you’ll look ever harder for them.
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This post is about Yokohama, with which I think I might have a special love affair. This is not to say that I didn’t love all the other cities I went to, but that they mean different things to me. Tokyo is the place of childhood and dreams, mainly because I went there so many times when I was younger, though as you grow older you discover its ever-increasing adult attractions. Osaka was all about food and relaxation and just generally having fun doing everything and nothing. Kyoto was full of history, but Yokohama…
Yokohama is full of lights and romance. Yokohama is the place you bring girls to when you want to impress them. It doesn’t seem like much because it’s so near Tokyo and it’s so easy to overlook, but it retains that particular, off-centre, sort of feeling. It’s near but not too near. It has its own voice, its own attractions, its own history. Some people say Chinatown wasn’t too interesting; sometimes you just need to know where to look. Stepping into Minato Mirai is fascinating precisely because we’re at an age where we can appreciate it, still: the free theme parks, ferris wheels, lights across the sea, the red brick warehouses and the smoke curling up from beneath the windows. It seriously is the number one place to bring a girl on a date. It is so romantic you can choke.
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Shuks 10:26 pm on January 18, 2009 Permalink
tell me about it. for a while my housemate had long-ish and terribly messy hair but he looked no where as pretty as that. :X
r 11:07 pm on January 18, 2009 Permalink
i guess the face also has something to do with it… ;p
lifangyi 11:45 am on January 19, 2009 Permalink
Hipbones?! hahaha…. that made me laugh for awhile.
nurul 9:27 pm on January 27, 2009 Permalink
bedhair OMF. haha okay i finally got to see the whole picture because my roomate’s letting me use her com while shes out. omg je love. im printing out a whole selection tonight for my wall. come and see!!!!
and omg i am not looking forward to going back to the livejournal coms after MORE THAN 3 WEEKS OF NOT ENOUGH INTERNET.
miss you, stay strong. keep away from carshrimp. -hug-