Display
One of my very favorite things on earth is a good display. A shop window, a well-merchandised table, a refrigerated case. It makes me go ga-ga in the same way that my other strange preoccupations — paper goods, things in miniature, ginger anything — make me swoon. As far as presentation goes, Japan basically kicks [...]
A few favorites
A few favorite things during my first week:
Bicycles
Mornings on the patio
Miso baked halibut with genmai and seaweed soup for lunch ($8)
Powerpoint
(Actually, no. But it owns me. OWNS ME!)
The vast selection of convenience store puddings and custards
French shows on Japanese TV (the only ones I understand)
The flower shop around the corner
Walking to work
The curtains over restaurant [...]
By popular demand…
It’s really not important that one has furniture or an apartment of one’s own, for that matter, when one stumbles upon something that one knows will pull a whole room together when one has said room.
I believe I’ve mentioned before that I previously lived in a cave in the netherregions of southeastern Seoul. It was [...]
