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Monday, January 24, 2005
rice pounding on 23/1
rice pounding, or making mochi as it is known here, is something they do around new year time... haha dun ask me what for... i just tagged along with my frens. hehe
so anyway, we headed out to some ooloo station somewhere near shinjuku, to a temple called hachiman temple or something like that (as you can see.. i am really only just tagging.. hehe). when we reached the temple, there were some children playing the japanese drums. one cute little fat guy very cute... but too bad no photos to show you... yet =) so turn out the rice, they beat, then they add something that looks like red bean paste to me. its given out FOC, but the queue is so long that we decided to skip it.
afterwhich we went to the 花園神社 in shinjuku. its famous to us because it appeared in some crappy japanese language learning video tape we saw when we were learning jap in bunka language school. however, it turned out super disappointing as the hanazono jinja in real life is nothing like that in the video... sigh... another tiopian trip... looks like japan really has lots of overhyped and overpriced "attractions" and amenities... =p
afterwhich walked around shinjuku without buying anything (kinda sad...), played pool, and in the process kenna played a prank on by my dear family in collaboration with my dear fren and insurance agent, jeanette. yeah yeah.. u got me.. laugh all you want =p
posted by winz at 1:17 PM
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