"learnt anything new on the trip?"
My immediate response was about my 77 click bike trip through Shimanami Kaido and how it would be better to rent a bike and with a bigger gear range. Oh and bigger wheels as I pushed my bike up some of the bridges because the slopes were kind of steep for me to ride up.
Then he retorted saying it wasn't the bike trip. He meant if I learned anything from the trip itself. You know like those soul enriching lessons or experience.
I plainly replied that my trips are more like a vacation or get away from work. So I leave my brains at home and not in Japan.
Now after some more thought into that question. I just want to say I really do not expect any big life lessons out of the trips and considering how many times I have been to Japan I shouldn't learn a lot more unless I go to a different country.
I am not that pretentious to say that I learnt major life lessons during all those trips in Japan. Being there so many times did make me realize a few things:
- Singapore's train system can be better
- holy sh*t vending machines
- holy sh*t I f**king love eating in Japan
- convenience stores are awesome
- man Japan still has a lot of work to do with gender equality for females
- Do people in Japan ever stop working???
- I still don't get why Japanese ladies love Italian / European branded goods.. The companies are mostly dying or dead and production have almost fully moved to China.
- RAMEN!
- seat warmers for toilets during winters are a god send
- Can you show me the scratched on the 3DS which is like 3000 yen cheaper than the flawless used one? Oh that's a scratch? I can't even see it
- wooo looking at the retro games I can find here
- god d*mn bicycles everywhere
- 1 hour outside in winter? AWESOME! 6 hours of it? f**k that I am going under the kotatsu
- Look there's a Book off over there, going to head in there and check out used games
- no I am not interested in drinking with you lady. No I ain't looking for those services either, my Japanese is terrible and you wouldn't want to talk to me my broken Japanese
- free flow alcoholic drinks for an hour on top of the buffet pizza? I'm going to do this every time I get to Japan
- wooo look at the bike stores here. So many of them and so many variety
- the maids in the restaurants are too friendly to me as a customer. I am not used to this level of service
- ok this is the last gashapon. I meant it! Cr*p. Ok this next one will be the last one!
- I think I am glad I am over anime and figurines mostly. I think I will die in this shop
and so on...................................
