This will be my last post from Kagawa, Japan.

Its 2:30 am (Friday morning) am still up doing bites and pieces of packing and rechecking for the trip tonight. Before that around 12 mid night i had these:

This is my favourate Japanese dish, Sashimi with wasabi and the famous Kikoman sauce. Yes, they are raw and yummy too. Well, 12 midnight! what would i say? Dinner, breaky or mid-nightlunch….lol… don’t know. Oh! maybe “excited-hunger”. :mr green:

These are some Japanese dishes i love:
Sushi with marinated ginger on decoration. Raw fish over the rice (specially prepared). Gently dip it into the sauce and then shove all of it into your mouth….yummy. Thats how they do it here. Then slowly munch it absorbing all the taste.

Yes! Oshi-so ne minna-san. All raw sea food. Yes, i had the pleasure of eating almost all of it, and boy did it go down well with Asahi biru.

And more Japanese dish. The white silver tray with dark green strip is Onigiri. That is my son ToTut’s favourate. The green strip is the dried sea weed or Nori in Japanese.

Now that i have shown you some of my favourate Japanese dishes, why don’t you go find a Japanese restaraunt.

Last night we were invited for dinner at ToTut’s friends house. They informed us that another powerful Typhoon is heading towards Kyushu and Shikoku (its here already). Kagawa is on the island of Shikoku. They were worried cos our trip to Tokyo will start tomorrow night.

Gosh! another Typhoon! Just three weeks ago Japan was hit by the most powerful Typhoon in decades. Typhoon Man-yi killed three people and leaving thousands homeless. It came over Kagawa, caused some damaged and left people homeless too. Thank heavens i still have the roof intact. At one stage i thought the roof was torn apart.

Am hoping the Typhoon will pass by the time we arrive in Tokyo. Some reports have aired that some flights have been cancelled in Kyushu. Now, we are bound for home sweet home on saturday night. I just hope the wheather will be on our side by the time we reach Tokyo. Well, hope the Typhoon does not go to Tokyo.

As am typing, there’s rain, strong winds and unfamiliar sounds outside. There’s rattling noises every where. The trees are swaying from side to side, i hear no roaring noise. All the sounds are drowning in the wind and rain. The storm is strong, but not as strong as the last one.

Am sure all will be well tomorrow.

Oops sovey! sorry! i have been very busy this week. Packing & shifting, here and there! there and here! Am not sure if this will be my last post from Kagawa, Japan. Yes, the long awaited trip is just two days away.

I can’t wait to go home. Home sweet home awaits us. Calling our names, whispering even. I thought they did. I was only dreaming. If only dreams were real. Would the world be different. I don’t think so. The world would be less interesting. Seems so real, but it was just a dream. Only a dream. Minds playing about. Generating some thoughts thought for the trip. How I will wait, not so long away i feel it. Soon, very soon it’s here already.

And so its Saturday…..like this time next week i will be in Tokyo. Am having mixed emotions as the days are nearing. Should i be happy, sad, excited…i honestly don’t know this unfamiliar feelings.
But it is good for me, for us, the future.

ToTut is out again, am relaxing with the ac full speed… the packings? well we are half way there.
We have dinner tonight with ToTut’s best friends… adult best friends. Well, he has no friends his age. I think the only time he plays with kids his age are when we go to Ehime for weekends and holidays with family friends. No wounder he acts like adult most times. We have been shifting things here and there for the last few days… its so tiring.

Am not sure if this is my last post from Kagawa, Japan. If tomorrow (Sunday) permits you’ll see some thing up. Otherwise sayounara.

I have the empty house all to myself. It’s so quite with my boys out on their seperate dates. ToTut left the house with his adult friends at 2pm, Rod got picked up at 5pm….and ME..well i have decided to stay back and enjoy some quite time on my own. I wont be expecting eaither of them till around 10pm…well ToTut gets dropped off around this time.

There’s this elderly Japanese couple that love ToTut and his baby charms. And they have asked if they can babysit Totut some times. Well ToTut has been to their home many times…his probably having a good time tonight.

oh! well…i feel so bored with out ToTut. Am so used to hearing all his noises that when he’s out it just feels so strange.

Vanilla ice-cream packed in a small pumpkin. I found this very attractive to look at. This is what i always love about the Japanese food preparation….they not only produce best tasty dishes but they make sure it is appealing to the eyes. And boy!!! was it tasty….left my tongue numb there.

Yummy strawberry soft ice-cream. I thought this looked interesting too. The way the cup full of ice-cream crushed down with the cone. Nicely decorated, left me with a watery mouth too…what better way to enjoy a summer day with some fancy looking ice-creams

We made our last trip to Ehime on Saturday. Ehime is another prefecture/province just an hour thirty minutes drive from Kagawa.
We were given a BBQ party by Teru’s best friend and his family.

We got picked up at 4:30pm by 6:45pm we arrived in Ehime where the party was held. Presents and letters were given as we took our seats, followed by beers and Kampais as aroma of mixed food and scent from the sea filled the air. Yes, the party was held at the boat yard… thankyous and more bows followed as gifts were given. I read our letters in Japanese….very touching.

Totut as usual was the center of attention…did alot of running around, imitating and singing too. Things i like about partys in Japan…is the food and beer followed by jokes and laughter then once in the mood, you hear people trying their best to converse in english. The Japanese food am going to realy miss. For how long…? I don’t know. Not for long I hope.

ToTut went out with his friends yesterday evening and came back all dressed in a Japanese traditional summer wear. I thought he looked so cute and handsome in it. His friends thought so too.

Hooray! Hooray! I have a reason to be happy.
I have managed to fix my camera. Finally Was alittle worried there. Now don’t ask me how i fixed it. I did not. I was cleaning around the house and found this little button- that was missing from the camera. So with calm excitment i managed to squeeze the button through….and now its back to snap click click
My camera is working again. Yatah

There has been warning that typhoon man-yi will come over Kagawa today. The powerful typhoon is slamming southern Japan with heavy rains and strong winds leaving people homeless and hundred of flights grounded.

It has already arrived in Kagawa, we are feeling the force of it now. It’s quite windy and raining outside. The winds are so strong i can just feel them rushing and squeezing through what ever gap they can find through the sliding doors and windows of our apartment. The curtains are dancing with the blow of the wind. The road outside is flooded, but not enough to stop the moving vehicles.
The doors, windows, trees, roofs and roaring sounds are producing combine unfamiliar noise of warning to the general public.

The TV programmes have been interupted every 45 miutes bringing the latest wheather update and news.

We planed to go for some ice-cream party today however our trip was cancelled. Maybe some other time cos according to the whaether report it will be wet for the whole week. Well it has been raining since last week.