Japan '09 - Misc Part 3
When we lived here in the late 70's, there was no five-minute-walk to Livin, no Liquor Port down the corner and no Seven Eleven across the street. Nowadays it's so convenient with these stores so close to Moriya Mansion. But yesterday, my housemates got all sushi'd out so they ordered some Chinese. I found it a bit strange that the food got delivered in its own china.
Manami said if we leave the dishes out the door, they will be picked up in a day or so not unlike room service. And talk about food delivery, we ordered pizza a couple of days ago. It wasn't cheap but it was the greatest thin crusted pizza I've had in a while.
Remember I mentioned how good watermelon is around here albeit a tad expensive? Well, we were at the Livin grocery today and I thought I'd take a few pictures as proof. Here are some watermelons and just to give you an idea, the current exchange rate is 94 yen for every dollar. So these watermelons are roughly over $14 EACH! And that's like 700 pesos. Heck, they sell three watermelons for 100 pesos in the Philippines!
Go check out these peaches, a whopping $7.50 each.
So those of you living in the good ol' US of A, stop whining and be thankful with what you've got!
I almost forgot to mention, however, there are certain times of the day in Livin (like lunch and around 8 pm) that sushi and some tempura get to be on sale.
I sent my niece Jack an eMail a couple of days ago to try to make arrangements for Carding to pick us up from the airport this Saturday and today I received her reply saying that he's been notified. Thanks, Jack.
And talk about eMail, I was chatting with Sherwin yesterday and he sent me a link on the brand new website to his travel agency. Pardon the shameless plug but take a peek at Kairos Travel for your travel and touring needs.
Now I'm not sure if it was the cough syrup with codeine or the Vicks on the soles of my feet but I'm actually feeling much better. I had like a total of 3 cough attacks today.
WooHoo! Karaoke, here I come!
I'm not quite sure what got into Donna but she's been cooking like crazy over here. And she's been showing Manami how to cook all these Filipino dishes: adobo, arroz caldo, paradadas, nilaga, bistig, etc. Tomorrow, she's planning on cooking sinigang and bulalo. I think it was mostly Manami who cooked the adobo we brought to Mio's house last Sunday.
We haven't had the chance to go inside the base to do our laundry so I've done a couple of loads up here and have been hanging up our clothes outside to dry.
As soon as Reggie got home from work this afternoon, we went to an Ikea like furniture store called Nitori and they showed us the furnitures they ordered for their new place in Sasebo. They've also been eyeing these cool lamps that surprisingly are made in the Philippines which we probably could get for a much cheaper price back home.
Tomorrow we have another (and maybe the last) dinner date with Manami's parents. And perhaps Karaoke later, if I'm lucky?
Manami said if we leave the dishes out the door, they will be picked up in a day or so not unlike room service. And talk about food delivery, we ordered pizza a couple of days ago. It wasn't cheap but it was the greatest thin crusted pizza I've had in a while.
Remember I mentioned how good watermelon is around here albeit a tad expensive? Well, we were at the Livin grocery today and I thought I'd take a few pictures as proof. Here are some watermelons and just to give you an idea, the current exchange rate is 94 yen for every dollar. So these watermelons are roughly over $14 EACH! And that's like 700 pesos. Heck, they sell three watermelons for 100 pesos in the Philippines!
Go check out these peaches, a whopping $7.50 each.
So those of you living in the good ol' US of A, stop whining and be thankful with what you've got!
I almost forgot to mention, however, there are certain times of the day in Livin (like lunch and around 8 pm) that sushi and some tempura get to be on sale.
I sent my niece Jack an eMail a couple of days ago to try to make arrangements for Carding to pick us up from the airport this Saturday and today I received her reply saying that he's been notified. Thanks, Jack.
And talk about eMail, I was chatting with Sherwin yesterday and he sent me a link on the brand new website to his travel agency. Pardon the shameless plug but take a peek at Kairos Travel for your travel and touring needs.
Now I'm not sure if it was the cough syrup with codeine or the Vicks on the soles of my feet but I'm actually feeling much better. I had like a total of 3 cough attacks today.
WooHoo! Karaoke, here I come!
I'm not quite sure what got into Donna but she's been cooking like crazy over here. And she's been showing Manami how to cook all these Filipino dishes: adobo, arroz caldo, paradadas, nilaga, bistig, etc. Tomorrow, she's planning on cooking sinigang and bulalo. I think it was mostly Manami who cooked the adobo we brought to Mio's house last Sunday.
We haven't had the chance to go inside the base to do our laundry so I've done a couple of loads up here and have been hanging up our clothes outside to dry.
As soon as Reggie got home from work this afternoon, we went to an Ikea like furniture store called Nitori and they showed us the furnitures they ordered for their new place in Sasebo. They've also been eyeing these cool lamps that surprisingly are made in the Philippines which we probably could get for a much cheaper price back home.
Tomorrow we have another (and maybe the last) dinner date with Manami's parents. And perhaps Karaoke later, if I'm lucky?
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