“Before” pictures of the bathroom make over, as promised.
Note that the thing on the middle picture actually is a toilette and not some kind of home brewing sake machine. It looks kind of advanced with the pipes and everything.
The new toilette does not look as advance when it comes to the piping, but has a control panel on the wall that I think you can control the space shuttle with. All in Japanese. Stay tuned for the “after” pictures.
Big news about a big company today. Wal-Mart is the biggest in the world. 2.1 million employees. That is almost 25% of the Swedish population 🙂
This weekend we went to Tokorozawa already on Friday night. Once we arrived we could relax for a while before we started to watch soccer. If someone had missed it, it is World Cup in South Africa.
When we did not watch soccer we relaxed in the air-conditioned kitchen. And I replaced the cool kitchen with the hot and humid outside for walks with Coco. He seemed to enjoy it, though his tongue was looking something like the Rolling Stones licking tongue.
I also had a walk by myself to take some photos. The above sunflower above is one of them.
When you live in a city with a population that is larger than that of the whole Sweden, and even one of the train stations swallow almost half the Swedish population every day, then you think about crowded spaces. Because everywhere you go there is always a lot of people.
I think that to survive without going mad people withdraw from reality and shrink into their own space of living. Kind of being at home by them selves while standing cramped with thousands of other people on a train on the way to the office. You can see that people don’t think about where they are based on their behavior.
I’ve seen anything from girls putting on make up to old men picking their noses. Things I would think twice about doing in the middle of such a crowd.
The worst thing I happened to see not more than two weeks ago. On my way to the office in the morning. A guy watching his mobile phone intensively. With headphones. “What is he watching?”, was my first thought. And I peeped into his private life, that he displayed in public, and wished I hadn’t. He was watching an x-rated movie. On the train. In the morning. Most likely on his way to the office. ???
Sometimes you have to wonder what people are thinking about, or what people are not thinking about.
Kan is a Japanese contemporary restaurant. The food is based in Japanese traditional food but with a modern twist. And it was here that Chie and I spent our dinner tonight.
Although we ate too much, as we always do at Kan, the food you have here still don’t make you feel stuffed. You just get that feeling of having had just enough of everything.
I even had desert. Hojicha (roasted green tea) ice cream on top of a bed of anko (red bean paste), and edamame (soy bean) pudding with caramel sauce. There is only one word for it… Yummy!