in a slight defense of sun
I can now truly empathise with the tourists who flock to Singapore during winter in their respective countries.
This week brings a forecast of negative maximum temperatures, and that, I find laugable, because the word ‘maximum’, while still being factually accountable, has lost its relevance. What use is a maximum temperature forecast if it lingers in the subzeros? Water stays frozen, anyhow.
I think back, fondly, of the good sunshine days in Nagasaki and Okayama, and of those afternoons that don’t lapse into nights at three thirty pm.
It is true that you don’t miss something until it’s gone. And it is also true that you will go back to taking things for granted in a heartbeat.
Today, in Sapporo, it snowed and was cold. I did laundry, cooked rice, chatted online and read more chapters of a book (‘Then We Came to an End’ by Joshua Ferris). Later, I shall cook dinner, watch some telly and read.
Tomorrow is Tuesday, predicted to be the coldest day of this entire week. Thus, I shall head out and seek the comfort of overly heated underground malls.
Asahikawa. Give me a good day to visit you, please.
And my earphones need to stop giving me electric shocks.
Do you find the book you are currently reading remotely familiar? To jog your memory: cue Borders circa sometime 2008, we both picked up a book that we were suppose to exchange and talk about after a week or two, but of course that never happened because you never embarked on The Old Man And The Sea and well, since I judge a book by its cover, I chose “Then We Came to an End”, which has since been reread, twice. A feat, considering I don’t read tome, and my copy of the book spans over 400 pages.
And hor, do you lug the books along with you or do you post them back to SG or do you leave it lying around at the accommodation that you were last at as a souvenir? I foresee a mobile English library on two sticks hanging around Japan.
This has got to be the longest comment ever.
well, its about as long as my entry.
i do remember the book. oh how i wish that i have my hemmingway book here. i bet i can finish it in a day. that said, TWCtaE is high fun to read, and so entertaining. i see shades of everybody.
not sure if im leaving the books here, because people here have bad taste in books. really. i read this one called “A Faint Cold Fear” by some Karin Slaughter, and while it kept me entertained, it was not.good. and i just picked up a Stephen King this morning. ah. you laugh.