Pieces of me in letters

I had my own first adventure to downtown area two days ago. Feeling somewhat lonely and a little stressed knowing that the only thing familiar to me in this city was my significant other, I decided to go out there hoping to find other familiar things.

Subway station is about 10-15 minutes walk from home. I stopped by at nearby supermarket to get some juice and snack, hoping to find a nice park and a bench somewhere downtown where I could sit and eat under the sun. Walking from isle to isle looking for snack that can fit into my handbag… and I found Asian food section! And it just got better… because I found my favourite Korean instant noodle, Indomie, and Kecap Manis ABC on the shelf. Yattaaaaaa!!! I couldn’t help myself smiling from ear to ear, and just felt so very happy. Happy to finally find other familiar things in this city!

Bought a bottle of orange juice (and very happy reading the label that it was not from concentrate) and a canister of Pringles (the big one, because I couldn’t find the small one, which fortunately fit into my handbag), then went off to the subway station. There were four ticket vending machines, and all was out of order. Aaa!!! For a few seconds I didn’t know what to do because I saw no station officer or guard around. But then a police officer and an old man came, talking about the machines that were out of order. The police officer told the old man to just go ahead on the train, and get his ticket at the next station. Got used to train system in Tokyo, I couldn’t help thinking… how was that possible to just go ahead on the train and get ticket at the next station??? But the old man seemed to think that it was a good idea, so I approached him… hoping to get some help. And lucky me, he was very kind.

(To be continued…)