This thread is to express my thoughts behind the photographs. Inside every picture there is a story. And I am a story teller. And I will add in posts periodically.

During my trip to Kansai in Japan, the post box impress me.
WhenI looked at the postbox at NARA, I found out that the postman collects letters for 4 rounds on the weekday, and 2 rounds on the weekend.
Oncontrast in some countries, I think the postman just works for 2 roundson the weekday, then 1 round on saturday, no round on sunday. Is it because Nara has a large number of population? The population ofNara is 373,189 (up to 2005).

Does postman need to collect letter for so many rounds?
Haveyou encountered that you need to force yourselves to send out letterson friday, because you cant wait until monday to send the letters?
Have you received greeting cards after your birthday or Christmas?

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Surely, they have forgetten that they have seen me.  But I should have gone to help them

Onthat night, when I was taking photos inside the Tokyo tower at thatnight, I encountered two Japanese girls. I saw that they were usingflashlight to take photos. But their cameras were unable to record thebeautiful night scenes. They tried, failed, and tried again with theflashlight, and failed again.Half an hour ago, I also made the samemistake. Then, I realized that the glass of Tokyo Tower is highlyreflective. When the flash is used, the flashlight would reflect backand blind the camera. At that moment, I was urged to tell them aboutthis. But something, which I could not describe, stopped me inapproaching them. Then I think they said forget about taking pictureand vanished from my eyes.

I should have helped them.

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In 2006, while I was travelling in Kansai, I took a picture on a woman.  she carried an umbrellaand shouted out, trying to attact sales for some products.

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Andin 2004, while I was travelling in GuanZhou, I  took a picture on anotherwoman. She  slept on a chair. I believed that she was a staff  of the shop, although there were many touristsaround.
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If I were her, will I carried an umbrella, or will I slept on the chair?

This is the picture I have taken outside  one of the Shrines in Japan.
There are different prices for blessed items. And how is the pricing policy done?

The more desirable the blessings, the more expensive the items.
The more beautiful the item, the more expensive the items.

When the blessings are tagged with the price tag, this gives me some strange feelings.

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Year:  2007
Date: 11 June
Time: 0945

JR train  was late . It is surprising. It is well-known that trains and bus in Japan are quite punctual.
Although the train was late, and many people were rushing for time, commuters were queued up properly.
So different from Singapore


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