counting the days
It's taken almost two weeks but I think my body clock's back to normal after my holiday. Going to sleep before midnight ever since I've been back as I was too tired to do anything else but now I'm back to my pre-holiday sleeping pattern of post-midnight.

To finish off the previous post, since there was no net access after that, Mt Fuji never eventuated - we got screwed over yet again. The day we were suppose to go to Mt Fuji, the tour guide said we will go the next day since it was late. The next day she says we wont be able to go cos its in the opposite direction! I mean, its on the bloody itinerary so you'd have expected it to be organised a bit better. argh! wasnt happy. The only thing I was looking forward to over in Japan was Mt Fuji and the cherry blossoms, neither of which occurred since they were blooming late this year!
The onsen never happened either. Unless you count the public spa in the hotel as one, which we were led to believe was it! BLAH! (not that I was looking forward to getting wet and naked with other strange men around.....)

Walked through Shinjuku at night after having sushi train for dinner (I ate even less than I usually do here surprisingly..), and I don't think the X in Sydney compares. Didn't think I'd ever see gigolos walking the streets of Japan and sandwich board advertisers for massage parlours..

All in all it was o--kay, as it was a rush of a trip since it was a tightly scheduled tour with no time to do anything of your own. Only managed to get half an hour to go shopping for my (sis') digicam and that was it. Better than nothing I spose.
I'd really like to go back and travel around by myself without being on a tour. More things to see and do, and no restrictions. Some time.... Time and money is what I need.

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And another year goes by. 12 months later, it hasn't been a total waste, although I haven't achieved as much as I would have liked. I don't know where I want to be or what I really want to be doing, but I'm content for the time being. I think I should re-evaluate this in a few months time as the stuff I'm doing now wouldn't do much good elsewhere.

Let's see how it pans out. Well maybe not for you to see but definately for me.

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