"Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there."

「海辺のカフカ」 ♥ 村上春樹
'Kafka on the Shore', Haruki Murakami



Monday, March 29, 2010

Samu! (It's damn cold, yo!)

I spent most of this afternoon looking around Kawaramachi-dori for a down jacket like this one from UNIQLO, while being told by all my friends and all the shop keepers that it's spring now. Japanese people tend to go by what "official" season it is rather than the actual temperature outside when it comes to buying clothes. So the shops are filled with cute little skirts and cotton cardies, schoolkids are walking around in shorts and skirts ... and it's 3 degrees outside. It was snowing as Ashley and I were heading home and it's snowing now:





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