I have a confession that will surely wound the delicate Christian Filipino feelings of my family: I don't enjoy Christmas. It's been years since I last looked forward to it, perhaps even a decade since I last actually liked it. This realization came to me only relatively recently and I didn't have the courage to admit it until much later because I grew up in a culture that prides on its Christmas traditions. I might as well confess to committing a murder than not liking Christmas.
We're almost at the end of 2015 so 'tis the season for looking back to see how far you've come. Like every year since the day I was born I have not accomplished anything of significance this year either, but I figured I'd have nothing else interesting to write about otherwise so I thought it'd be fun to take a leaf out of those end-of-year art summary things. Even if I'll end up regretting this blog entry, that is. It's always rather embarrassing to look at old works, after all!
Okay, so we didn't really do much in Dahilayan Forest Park. Everything was too expensive and I, for one, am too cheap to shell out that much for like a five minute slide down a slope. Anyway, I've experienced their zip line and luge before. That should be enough, right?
Unfortunately, it was raining on the day we came back to Fushimi Inari. We didn't let the weather defeat us, though! And this time we got to drag our mom with us. She was probably not too happy about all the walking we did.
Day 2 was easily the best day in our Tokyo stay. Of course, it's not without a few misses, but the good stuff outweighed the not-so-bad by tons!
We arrived in Tokyo in the afternoon. After checking into our hotel in Akihabara, we ate late lunch at a restaurant nearby.
My brothers and I went to Kyoto by ourselves with goals that were probably a little too big considering how we only had one day. The adults visited two places in Western Kyoto the day before, neither of which we got to visit ourselves, but we did get to see four places, so it wasn't a complete loss in my opinion!
Excuse the pun. I felt like I had to do it! Anyway, you have to admit that Namba, home to Dotonbori and Den-Den Town, is an awesome place for shopaholics and specially the nerds. Maybe not the number one, but it's pretty close, right?
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As someone who gets too emotionally invested in fictional characters, I also enjoy doing the art thing and pretending to be good at writing amateur fiction. It is unfortunate that I don't get paid to write stuff on this blog but I sure wish I did.
