I've mentioned before, about walks that I do, and still remember, while we travelled…
Again, I suddenly thought about these walks, into more details…
I enjoy, very much, of walks, in this type of big city suburbs, if not city centre, now, I remember the suburb walks, around our neighbourhood, where we stayed…
In fact, deep down, it could really really really be the after-effect of me reading too much of those HK writers work… (use your imagination) during my younger years…
Big city, night, high rise, and walks… don't these all, just resemble the typical life in places like HK??
And these elements sat in me, for that many years, till my first out-of-country trip, ie. london…
There, I now remember,
I enjoyed the walk, so much, around where I first stayed, ie. evelyn garden, and the nearby neighbourhood, fulham road, and further, king's road, towards the river thames…
(oops, suddenly I think of The Ting Tings' "we walk", haha!)
Each time when I was walking around these area, besides the neighbourhood life, the souls on the streets, in the restaurants, in the parks…
What I liked to see most (I still do) is.. If I do walk pass those flats with basement, and if the basement is lit, I like to take a look, not that I wanted to be a peeping tom, but what I wanted to see, is how these people set up their home… (ya, it linked to my "passion" about looking at apartmenttherapy.com)
I like to see, in reality, how people put their sofa,
If they're dining happily, or they're relaxing in front of the TV…
Ya, in a way, I do look into people's life, but not their dark secret that I'm seeking for, I hate knowing people dark secret, it's not because I'm such a proper person, it's just that, it's very very uncomfortable to know about people's dark secret, cos, you can't say it, and you've to keep this type of secret with you, to the grave, it's just not, enjoyable!!! (so, please do not happily and convenient share your dark secret with me, though, I really can keep it very well!! You don’t know LEH?? ^_^)
Back to the topic…
Yep…
I like to see other people life, especially those living happily, cosily, and ambitiously…
It's like…
"ooh, my life's been like this, and there's another type of life, totally different, just behind that door, just behind the house",
You remember the story of the little match girl??
Ya, something like this… of course I do not want to be the little match girl, but then… just to illustrate the "visualization", if you do read one of its illustrated book, it's just something like the little match girl, when she looked into the window…
… looking at a life, that she'll never live…
And that… I remember our night walk around essendon, melbourne, another lovely place… well, technically it's not that lovely, but it's the person I'm with, the season, the mood, that makes the whole thing, lovely… ^_^,
Around where we stayed, mt. alexander road junction with keilor road, there's a park, just next to our apartment, every night, after dinner, we went for a walk, round the park…
AND there's a reason, why I'm "attached" to where we stay now, I mean here, in this country… just next to our condo, in fact, in front, there's a park, similar size to the one in essendon, and it's well-maintained… everybody, old people to small kids, men and women, uses this park happily, and conveniently, I mean, the park, HERE!!!!! And yes, it reminds me of the park in essendon,
If one day, m'sian weather can be as lovely as those colder countries… (I pray very hard for that!!... Oops, suddenly I realize, I'm like a weather girl, cos, I tweet so much about the bloody hot weather, so much!) then, the place that I'm staying will be just PERFECT!!
Anyway… back to the topic again,
So, besides walking around the park, sometimes, we walked up the keilor road, to buy KFC, or, we walked down the mt. alexander road, junction with leake st., to take a bit in max café… simply… lovely!!
Oh!! I do miss those "walks in the neighbourhood" type of walks…
See see!!! I rarely talk about any walk in shanghai right?? Or HK?? (though my "fundamental's mostly affected by HK story style…)
Cos, in shanghai, we took taxi most of the time, and there no decent park, just next to where we stayed, same thing goes to HK, where we stayed, near honghum, is basically the kowloon main train station…
However, shanghai, I do miss those night walks around xintiandi, (especially with our friends who came visit us, took photos, different cameras, different angles, different lighting, same place, that's what I mean!) and also, the 1-time walk around fuxing park, plus fuxing middle road, around The Face(Rui Jin Hotel) and Maoming Nan Road…, I wish we'd better camera back then, WITH BIGGER MEMORY CARD, and I wish, we'd the "wisdom" to explore more, and more detailed around that area back then… (travel's not for fun, need experience too!! Haha!), and I wish, we did make a point to go to this Duo Lun Road (Famous Cultural Person St.) which is full of art galleries… (oh no!! Not that I'm an arty person, I just like to pretend that I am… but I enjoy the silence in any museum, ^_^)
But luckily, we frequented xintiandi, many times… kekeke…
That's about shanghai…
Then, it's tokyo…
First trip, I remember the quiet neighbourhood around the kogetsu ryokan we stayed, and though he's fallen asleep very early, cos he's damn tired, due to his back injury and kinki kids concert, I took my hot bath, open concept japanese bath, but I've the whole place for myself, wore the yutaka, even though it's winter, I felt warm, inside out, lovely!!
Then, we moved to khaosan tokyo, (those walk, really a lot of walk, around this khaosan tokyo, nothing specific to mention, or to recall..)
THEN, we moved again, to khaosan annex, across the sumida river..
It's fair bit of walk, from the asakusa metro station, walk, cross the komagata bridge, walk again, about 4 blocks away, there's khaosan annex…
Ooh… I actually enjoyed the part, not asakusa, but the quiet neighbourhood, though very few souls on the street, around khaosan annex…
Especially while we're there, it's winter, sometimes, at night, after a hot shower, we'd come back up again, just to go back to the busy asakusa area, to have ramen supper, then, to buy some japanese beer, to go back to the hostel room, drink, to warm ourselves up, cos, we happened to get a bigger room, bigger space, next to the window, ya, damn cold!
Next is,
Our second trip to tokyo…
Sometimes if we miss the shuttle bus from meguro station to the hotel (sheraton miyako) we'll take a walk from shirokanedai metro station, straight up the meguro road, to the hotel…
Again, it's quiet and peaceful neighbourhood,
Pass by a few convenient stores, big and small,
Normally we'll stop by one of them, get some snack, get the breakfast for the next day, and get some mineral water…
We walked pass some small neighbourhood park, and I remember there's one, mm… like community centre, I'm not sure, but it feels like one, cos, late at night, I thought I can hear cheery voices from children, it sounds like they're having some activities, maybe some training, or maybe some games, or maybe some club event, or maybe some classes, well… I don't know, just my imagination… remember the little match girl story?? Again, it feels something like that, "ooh… there're other lives, all different, behind the wall, behind the door…"
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Back here? In this place?? If I need to, maybe I can make up one "walk" tale…
But well… it's EARLY IN THE MORNING NOW!! I've gotta go to bed…
See if I recall anything later, maybe I'll update… ^_^, ja!
