Changsha and Changde

Left home at 12midnight

Had Supper at the SATS Premier Lounge

China Southern Airlines CZ 6084 to Changsha departing at 4.20am

737 3 seats on each side of the plane

No inflight entertainment :(

Tomato’s egg omelette with sausage

Char siew noodle

Small airport with flight arrivals from Phnom Penh, Bangkok, Singapore and South Korea

 

Trying Ghibli style photos

Harnessing the power of AI or is this copyright infringement 

It’s rather impressive, re-created within mins

 

Sunday

$56 for 3pax (fried cube tofu, wanton noodle, Sze Chuan soup and fried rice 

One Holland Village

Warabimochi matcha latte one for one 9.90 for two medium sized cups

Complimentary Potong ice cream from Far East Mall

 

Sakura at Gardens

Cherry blossoms in the tropics

Fleeting beauties

Fukuoka’s “Phantom Tower” castle, relic of the Edo period(1615-1868) 

#SakuraGBB

Shishi-odoshi punctuates a stillness of a Japanese Garden. As water from a garden stream fills the hollow bamboo tube, there is a faint trickling, soft and melodic. This encourages mindfulness. Repetition of sound and silence mirrors this Zen philosophy 

Cleft or tear-dropped shape petals, long stems, multiple flower clusters

Chozuya water ablution pavilion purification rite to clean body and spirit. Left then right hand, rinse the mouth and rinse the ladle before entering the shrine’s sacred space

Ema (small wooden votive plaques bearing wishes in both writings and drawings. Inscribed in reverent strokes, connecting which dreamer to something greater