made elastic cotton cardigan

gift

home-made cookies from Tallahassee, Florida.

thanks Mom and Dad.  ;-)

plaster a wall

Darrin's making random patterns on the wall with the cement. it looks quite fun.

after hard working at the back yard, he and i shared

the Korean ice-bars, Jaws(turns your tongue a scary deep gray color, ha ha). 

made Darrin's Christmas stocking

Merry Christmas in advance -_^/

traveller

city night_ Ginza. Tokyo

fun time

at the caricature shop in Asakusa

both of them asked me in shock, "oh my gosh,,, do i look like this, really?"

the Japanese beers we tried at the hotel room, ㅋㅋ

Asahi green was my favorite.  it was very clean and fresh taste.

Textile Street_ Tokyo

neighbourhood

excuse me or すみません!

none of us can speak in Japanese. 

sometimes even body language dose not work in Japan(-.ㅡ;;), 

but we still have got to go, got to eat, hah.^^

the ticketing desk at the train station(probably Sinkiba St.)

every time we transferred, we made sure the way with the counter officers.

most of them were willing to help us. thank you guys all. -.=

in front of the hotel we stayed.

we were discussing about which way to go base on the travel book.

at the counter to order for lunch.  

it was the small Tempura Udong shop near the hotel, Hatchobori.
Ah-hh, can't forget such a pleasant taste of the pumpkin tempura there.
humm,,, so yummy!

in Fuji Broadcasting Corporation, Odaiba.  

we found the interesting vending machine displaying all kindda cute key-chain accessories.

"かわいい~~~~." : )

yay! we can see the Big Observation Wheel.

Yup! no matter what, finally we had a great food and great great memories there.

photos by Darrin,  thanks, oxox!

Maneki Neko patterned pouch

photogenic town, Nippori

Rainbow Bridge day and night_Tokyo

きもの kimono in the city

DOUTOR coffee shop with nostalgia_ Tokyo

i used to go to one of the DOUTOR coffee shops very near by the Catholic church in Myung-dong, Seoul.  it's about more than 15 years ago.  there were so many branches of this shop in everywhere, Seoul before Starbucks and Coffeebean or so.  the price and coffee taste was very reasonable compared with the others, and the most thing i like about was the shop was very cozy rather than fancy.  almost every Sunday morning right after the church service, i spent time with the church friends having a cup of coffee there.  it's one of the great memories for me.  i remember very vividly how much i felt sad when i found the shop's gone.

guess what! in Tokyo, wow!!  you will see it everywhere.
i really enjoyed having some coffee in DOUTOR, not because of taste but for reminisce the past.

Hotel Marina Bay Sands. Singapore

this is the huge monster-sized 5star hotel in Singapore.  there is the rooftop swimming pool at 57 floor of this building to view the city.  when Darrin and i got there, we just said, "WOW!!"  there's totally unexpected 365degree city view. it's amazing!!

Ginza_ Tokyo

i tried on Japanese trendy winter earmuff.  

i look like a poodle dog, haha.~

one of the popular bakeries especially for the sweet-red bean buns. 

at ITO-YA stationary store_

i didn't know this family business company runs more than 100 years.  

wow, no wonder it had everything i needed. 

on the way to MUJI store_

walked around Ginza area all day, but one day still wasn't enough to take a look at the huge busy shopping town.  

the places in Giza we've been to_ 

• Wakai Tokeidai
• Yurakucho Marui
• Muji store
• Mitsukoshi
• Ginza core
• Apple store
• Kyukyodo store
• Matsuzakaya