{"id":9058,"date":"2011-03-12T22:43:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=9058"},"modified":"2011-03-13T22:39:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T02:39:11","slug":"rose-ho-reporting-from-nikko_2011-03-12-its-another-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=9058","title":{"rendered":"Rose Ho Reporting from Nikko_(2011.03.12) – It’s another day"},"content":{"rendered":"
March 12, 2011\u00a0 (Saturday)<\/div>\n
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The sun shines brightly this morning.\u00a0 It’s another day… hopefully a good day and things are turning bright.<\/div>\n
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The train service to Tokyo has not yet resumed.\u00a0 So, I am spending time in my host’s common room clearing emails and doing chats over Skype.<\/div>\n
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The aftershocks are still going on.\u00a0 Sitting here, there are the occassional long rocks.\u00a0 The same when I was on my tatami last night.\u00a0 The sway….the rattle….I am used to them.\u00a0\u00a0 At least, a roof, a hot shower, a comfortable and warm bed, a rest (despite the first part was wide-awake last night)\u00a0a coffee and hot tea now beside me…..I am happy.<\/div>\n
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My host went to the supermarket (a convenience store) and said all food were sold out.\u00a0 Boy!\u00a0 I should have grabbed more bento boxes last night.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Here I sit, waiting for train service, but at least I am\u00a0inside a home and not in the open air (the police had to get all people in the train station out in the open yesterday to play safe).\u00a0 And, I don’t need to keep going on those “Heritage Tour’ busloops to keep myself warm inside the bus and to kill time.\u00a0 (Good that I bought a pass with unlimited ride!!!).\u00a0\u00a0 Ha, ha, what an Ah Q.<\/div>\n
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According to my host, it’s more safe here in Nikko than in Tokyo.\u00a0 Nikko is a safe place, otherwise all the important shrines (Toshugo Shrine as an example) wouldn’t be bulit here.<\/div>\n
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Over the TV, statistics on the quake and tsunami impact are showing.\u00a0 I think I will get to learn Japanese if the TV is kept on.<\/div>\n
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I will have more tea and maybe work on the\u00a0Sudukos in the International Herald Tribune\u00a0paper.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Thanks again for all the other emails that flew my way and the information on HKSAR’s Help information.\u00a0 Yes, I do have my HK ID card with me.\u00a0 So, either I can be a HK citizen (and get rescued out as one) or I can use my Canadian passport and pay my fees (yes, the Canadian Govt. charges for foreign country evacuation service) to get out as a Canadian.\u00a0 But either way, I need to find my way to Tokyo first.<\/div>\n
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In fact, on the night of March 9, I felt some ‘movements’ while in the bathroom of my hotel in Tokyo.\u00a0 I thought it’s just me.\u00a0 But someone from NYC told me they caught the news of minor shock that day.\u00a0\u00a0 So…after all these instances, I have to give myself confidence….and tell myself that whenver such thing happens, it’s the earth that is shaking, not me!<\/div>\n
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I am glad I went up the mountain the first day when I arrived when the weather was sunny.\u00a0 I also went for my walk of 90+ minutes yesterday morning when the quake hadn’t happened.\u00a0 The feeling of walking in the dull overcast sky and amongst those dark dreary temples yesterday in the late morning wasn’t a good one.\u00a0 Now, the sky has brightened up and it does cheer me up.<\/div>\n
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My Skype is on.\u00a0 Anyone interested to chat, please do call me.\u00a0 My ID is Skyperoseho.<\/div>\n
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I am glad I set it up the day of March 9 in Tokyo when I tried to reach the booking agency to cancel my stay in the bunk-bed hostel.\u00a0\u00a0 Now that I have made quite a number of calls to HK, Canada, US and UK, I have only spent under HK$20!<\/div>\n
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Sorry for the long message….but it’s my killing time here!<\/div>\n
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I am OK.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 12, 2011\u00a0 (Saturday) \u00a0 The sun shines brightly this morning.\u00a0 It’s another day… hopefully a good day and things are turning bright. \u00a0 The train service to Tokyo has not yet resumed.\u00a0 So, I am spending time in my … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,96],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-9058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-earthquake","category-travel","tag-rose-ho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9058"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9089,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions\/9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}