Shopping in Japan

Japan is a shopping paradise where every fashionista covets make pilgrimages to. Most people may think Japan is one of the world's most expensive country, but perhaps it is not as notorious as it once was. The fact is, it is cheaper to travel and shopping in Japan then some countries in Europe. There are wide range of choices, from budget flea market, middle range shops to top end houses of haute couture. It would not burn your pocket if you shop wisely, and you will get many goodies from small boutiques.

Harajuku is my favorite place for shopping in Tokyo, it is so trendy and spendy. Name any brand you want, Vuitton, Prada, Gucci, Gap, Zara, Forever 21.... ect.. There are also small designer's boutiques and second hand shops. For other places in Tokyo, do not miss out the flagship stores, Uniqlo in Ginza and Muji in Marunouchi, but there are branches all over Tokyo. I get many T-shirts for myself and gifts for my brothers from Uniqlo.

Louis Vuitton, Harajuku

Sapporo was nothing compare to Tokyo for shopping, but there was a Kinokuniya book store near JR Sapporo Station. We spent an entire lovely evening there, while snowing outside. A small cafe at 2nd floor served smooth coffee, nice cakes and sanwiches. Kinokuniya has all branches all over Japan too.

I bought some scrapbook making books, scrapbooking is my new hobby and I was so happy to find these books. I get so many ideas and inspirations from these book.

Car repair day

I overslept this morning. My alarm didn't work and at the time I woke up it was already 9:30am. Stock market starts at 9:00am and I had not read any news from the internet yet. Gosh.... I got a bad bad feeling that it was going to be a bad bad day.

And yes, bingo! My shop driver called up to inform me that our goods delivery van was not in good shape. He claimed that he could not hold the break, so I asked him to send the van to a nearby workshop for check-up. Half an hour later, he called back and said that it was clutch problem and the repair cost would be around RM600.00. Well, this time my pocket is going to burst. Frankly, I do not know anything about car and not to say car repair, I always leave this kind of problem to my dad and hubby. How I wish there is a local reliable online car workshop that I can get repair estimation for price comparison purpose. After some consideration, I decided to wait for another 2 days when hubby and dad come back from KL to settle this problem.

Then, the worse thing come after i finished all my morning tasks. My car couldn't start after some tries. General knowledge, it must be battery weak. This time, I could not wait until Friday, i called hubby to get some car repair advices. Luckily, my car finally started after many tries, and I drove to a nearby car workshop for the battery replacement.

When all bad things happen, make sure you settle it with calm. The day is smooth after the two incidents ( I have to call it incident, because it was a very difficult task for me, lol!), and now I am sitting in front of my laptop, drinking coffee and writing my blog.