FUNNY TONGUE

my japanese got funny. dad and shuuhei snickered for the longest time when they overheard me conversing with the okami of the ryotei the other evening for my birthday. even doug casually mentioned my japanese was weird. well, i blamed aussie slang. it got the better side of my tongue, ain't it?
now that doug's back to sydney to get ready for the next fieldwork, my time will be devoted to my parents and of course, off to sayama to burn the airstrip with shuuhei and hiroyuki! shuuhei hardly flies instead he skydives, thanks to hiro's brain-washing. in fact he's being doing part-time instructing people skydive during his day off for the past year. nevertheless, it'd be so much fun again flying, y'know, playing on the bed of the clouds. i wonder if milo could still do it.
til then.

JUST ME

by him. phuket.

SHANGRI-LA

thank you for making my sydney trip amazing and it is indeed a heartbreak to have left sydney so soon.
so i'm back home in tokyo. parents are happy, need i say? LOL shuuhei took a couple of days off just for me. and oh how much i have missed milo and yuki! i forsee a great 2 1/2 months in tokyo :)
now that i'm probably someone who has the most free time in the world, frequent updates will be visible here for the next couple of months.
Til then :)

WE WENT TO PARADISE AND CAME BACK

it was great.

HOMEBOUND

good news mates, doug and i will be sydney-bound from May 25th to June 20th! it's definitely not an exaggeration for me to say that we are dying to meet you boys and girls again! we await good times! however i have to give caution that 50% of the time shall be spent with the family. :)
next destination would be phuket for a couple of days after which we'll be off to meet my parents in tokyo until me vacation ends in september and he'll be off to sydney again while ms kamata shall be crashing at oli's place in nyc for a week before being sent off to sudan.

UNTIL THEN

thank you for making my vacation a memorable. i almost didn't wanna go. :)

my next deployment, pristina kosovo.

じゃ、また.

HEAVEN BOUND

mom had been nagging at me to join her for a walk visit to rikugi-en and i was dodging (politely) like a dodgeball pro but i finally succumbed to her last friday for shuuhei finally lent me his slr to much around with. plus i should be a filial daughter, shouldn't i?

it was a gorgeous day the day we went there. our plan got dragged, reached there about 1700 which means i only had less than 2 hours to take day pictures of the park. the last time i was here was during summer and everything was just monotonously midori so it was pretty boring for me. now that it's fall and i'm few years wiser, i began to enjoy the simplicity of the scenery. the colours of autumn leaves are vibrant against the clear blue sky. i shall let the pictures do the talking.

when the sun set for the day, the garden revealed its true face, enhanced with coloured light, it became a live. it was beyond words. i almost didn't want to leave for dinner.