I have been neglecting my blog, and it's all due to an influx of visitors. First family, then colleague, then friends. It's been a really tiring month for me. I am the kind, who can sleep late daily, for the entire week, but at weekends I must have at least one day of sleep in. I need that to recharge my energy and also to restore my humour. Needless to say, with all these visitors and also stress from work, I have been quite ill-humoured lately. My apologies to all of you who had suffered...

As the title goes, I have been doing a lot of shopping, no thanks to my friend's bad influence. Truth be known, we are both bad influence for each other. A typical conversation goes like this "hmm...I can't decide, yellow or red?" "well, take both, it's not like you get to come Tokyo and shop on daily basis" or "life's unpredictable, so just buy whatever you like, as long as they are within your means". Needless to say, we are now both quite many hundreds of dollars poorer. We are both so guilty of over-shopping, if there's such a word, and we have a pact that this shall stay a secret from the other musketeer, who is slogging away at work back in SIngapore. She's normally the voice of reason among us three.

/>My dear J! I am going to Iruma to check out the new factory outlet today with my colleague, Yui-chan. When you and M next come for a visit, I will be able to recommend if Iruma's is better than Gotemba's outlet. Though Gotemba has our favourite ST. Iruma has agnis b, so am going to check it out. It is golden week hols after all, so nothing much else to do!

I will write more about the past few weeks, and the places I've been too, tonight. See ya all later!