The long-lost Chinatown

Original link: https://blog.shuiba.co/kobe-china-town

Po Po at Kobe Chinatown

This post was updated purely to post these two photos. Although it is not good as a photographic work, it is really worth commemorating, so I am not reconciled to just putting it in Google Photos, so I posted it on the blog. What a great place to blog!

Ever since I switched to the iPhone 14 Pro, wide-angle photography has become very popular. Many ordinary scenes are cut into wide-angle mode, which is particularly impressive. I originally used panoramic vertical shots for this kind of scenes, but children are hyperactive and it is difficult to shoot normal characters, so I mostly use it to shoot landscapes.

These two photos are from the night of last Wednesday, taken on Nanjing Road, Kobe’s Chinatown. November 23rd is a public holiday in Japan – Hardworking Appreciation Day, similar to Labor Day? But the weather is not good, so I can’t go out to play all day. In the evening I couldn’t hold it any longer, so I proposed to take a bus to Motomachi shopping street, anyway, there is shelter there so I won’t be afraid of the rain. So we left as soon as we said, we put on our rain boots and brought our umbrellas, and set off in a mighty way.

Get on the bus smoothly and head west all the way. Popo looked at the scenery outside the window and said that she had seen this road before. I answered yes, because we used to go to Sannomiya by this road, the name is quite flamboyant, it is called Flower Road. After arriving at the station, because there was still some time before the meal, I dragged Brother Dou and Popo to accompany me to the department store to buy facial cleanser. Before, Xiao F made a list of facial cleanser recommendations for me. Finally, the facial cleanser at home was more than half used. I couldn’t help but want to try it quickly, so I decided to buy it immediately!

After buying facial cleanser, I strolled casually in the department store, and when I went out, I found that the rain had stopped. Brother Dou said that we should go to Chinatown for dinner, and we all agreed with it. It’s been a long time since I visited Chinatown seriously. After all, there is basically only one street, and the concentrated essence will be finished soon. We originally wanted to find a restaurant, but it turned out that Popo could hardly resist the temptation of snacks around. Anyway, we were not hungry, so we decided to fill our stomachs with various snacks. Popo was very excited. He ate while walking. He ate pandan bean paste buns, Peking duck, scones, and fried shrimp balls. Of course, his favorite was strawberry hawthorn because it was sweet enough! I couldn’t help but bought a bunch, and we squatted in the open space next to the stall and ate it. As a result, I couldn’t finish it, so I gave some to Brother Dou. But Popo ate everything bit by bit, and the sugar water dripped everywhere, her clothes were red, her little mouth was also red, she was really cute.

After eating and drinking enough, we still took the bus home. Kobe often has gusts of wind after autumn, so the body temperature is always lower, and I am not willing to ride a bicycle. The bus is warm and comfortable, and it has become my designated car for travel and fun!

It’s been a long time since I updated my daily blog posts in such a timely manner, thanks to the experience of “taking a fixed time to write every day” I learned from Elizen . Now my life is too full, everyone should be able to understand the phrase “working mother”. I have to work and spend time with my baby, and I insist on taking time to exercise, so it is difficult to find time for myself. After thinking about it, there is only me-time after the baby falls asleep at night. Not to mention that I am still awake when the baby is asleep, which is an example (she has been going to sleep lately recently, but I have been going to bed earlier and sooner), and it is always difficult to control myself to do some “business” when I can wake up. What a hard day.” So I simply “follow the plan”, sleep with my baby until the early morning, and wake up in the morning to write a blog. Although the baby sleeps soundly at night, I feel more secure, but it is easy to stay late at night, because basically the willpower has gone to sleep, and it is not in my mind. On the contrary, I can always “easily” start blogging in the morning. Although I wake up too early because I am afraid that my baby will wake up and see me. Now I am leaning on the bed and writing in the notepad of my mobile phone. But when I have time, I will turn on the computer It takes less than ten minutes to produce a blog post with rich pictures and texts, which is very efficient. And thanks to the strong alliance between FarBox and Dropbox, I can do pure text blog posts directly with my mobile phone.

I caught a cold from Popo last week, not only me, but Brother Dou too. In the video with my parents-in-law, my father-in-law beat around the bush and said that our resistance is not strong enough. I didn’t refute it either, after all, I have to face a new round of “disgust” after explaining it. Brother Dou has been going to bed late all the time, and he came back early recently, so he needs me-time after spending time with us, and he tends to get addicted at night. But he is much better than me, he can fall asleep at one or two o’clock, and I often get three or four o’clock, or even early in the morning, so this is why I dare not stay up late easily, stubborn. Probably because he has to get up early to go to work. After all, coming back early means going out early. The commuting time is there, and the total working hours of flexible cannot be less. So I’m not getting enough sleep for a long time. I can use afternoon naps and lazy sleeps to make up for it on weekends, but it’s still a drop in the bucket. As for me, because I just increased the intensity of training a while ago, I have been aerobic for two consecutive days, and my body is relatively weak. And she always sticks with Popo almost all the time, she always coughs and launches virus forcefully at me, and I fall down if I can’t hold it alone.

I had a sore throat at first, and I ran out of the Tylenol that my parents had brought, so I went to the drug store to buy the cold medicine I saw in the advertisement, it was very effective, and the sore throat was gone, I will take it again next time! I specially bought a four-day serving and shared it with Brother Dou. Each person ate it for two days, and it was basically ready. But this time the virus is very good at making people cough, and my “cough and wheeze” recurred after coughing. I don’t know how to translate it, it’s probably a low-level version of asthma. I took two cough medicines, but they didn’t help. I couldn’t sleep well at night, and I felt very resentful. This Tuesday off, I ran to the respiratory department far away to see a doctor in the rain. The doctor read the medical record and said “Long time no see” and made me laugh. The last time my cough was not good was a year and a half ago, and I went to many hospitals near my home but it didn’t get better, so I decided to go to a more professional respiratory department. Although it is a bit far away, but fortunately there is still a place to see a doctor. I took a film to rule out pneumonia. I had a new crown test in another hospital before and ruled out the new crown. I also did a lung function test and said it might be “coughing and wheezing”. In short, according to the treatment of this disease for a month or two, it will be fine. It’s okay, I didn’t pay much attention to it.

As a result, this time I coughed so hard that I couldn’t sleep at night, and I was faintly worried. Still took an X-ray to rule out pneumonia, because there was no fever and no new crown was suspected. After hearing the symptoms and my “previous record”, the doctor said that it should be treated according to asthma, take anti-allergic drugs for a week, take a hormone, and see the effect before returning. In fact, when I went to work during the day on Monday, I already felt that my cold was almost gone, and I even thought that I would not have to travel far to see a doctor on Tuesday. As a result, I coughed again at night and doubted my life. Looking at the ghostly weather outside the window on Tuesday morning, I decided to go. On Tuesday night, I sat up in bed without taking any medicine and getting ready for bed. When Brother Dou asked, I said I didn’t feel like coughing, so I wondered if I could try not to take medicine. As soon as the words fell, there was a commotion in the trachea. I didn’t expect the slap in the face to come so quickly, so I got up and took medicine immediately. After taking the medicine and chatting for a while as usual, I was so sleepy. I thought I wouldn’t be sleepy at night after sleeping all afternoon. I don’t know if it’s the effect of the medicine or I just felt that I could sleep well tonight. I fell asleep very quickly and slept until dawn, feeling refreshed!

A good night’s sleep is really important, I burst into tears, and the long-lost sense of happiness welled up in my heart. I checked before and said that common cough medicines are useless for “cough and wheezing”. Thinking about whether I have taken two kinds of cough medicines, it is not helpful at all. I took the anti-allergy medicine prescribed by the doctor. It seems that I really have asthma. . I’m curious, I didn’t have it when I was young, I asked the doctor, the doctor said it might increase with age… ok I know. I asked again if there were any preventive measures, the doctor replied to me, try not to catch a cold. I… okay.

In short, the condition is stable, and my mood is also stable! Good morning, Popo. Brother Dou is still coughing, and he always covets my medicine. I said I was on hormones and couldn’t take it indiscriminately, so he didn’t dare. Sleeping well is better than anything else. I said it’s fine if you can sleep, but the key is that he doesn’t sleep and wants me-time. I understand very well, because this was also where I was very entangled. Now that I have time to write a blog, this problem has been solved by the way, which is also a surprise. Of course, not relaxing at all is unsustainable in my opinion, so I still use the 80/20 rule, work hard on weekdays, and “kill” on weekends.

Because I have a fixed time to write a blog, I don’t have to think so much when I accompany my baby. I feel relaxed and accompany my baby well. Now I have a lot of free time because I take breaks every now and then, and I am very amiable. Starting next year, I will resume working five days a week. I hope I can quickly adapt to my new life. It’s the end of the year in a blink of an eye, so fast, I don’t know if this year’s blogging task can be successfully completed. In short, if I can write an article, I still love to write a blog, and the rest will come naturally~

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