Woke up today and had half of the obentou 二叔 bought yesterday. It's very aromatic but a little heavy for me.
I ended up sharting just before my poop???? ?????? At least it happened at home and not outside. Oh well wash my panties after that. And then I had to go poop again before I headed out.
二叔 was also gonna head out so I got a ride on the scooter to 四叔's shop. On the way, a lot of shop were closed and it was weird!!!! Cause usually the shops never close lol.
Once at 四叔's he had a visitor who was his friend. They were figuring out what screw to use to open up his smartwatch so he could replace the battery. And also settle a debt that 四叔 owed him for buying something for him. After a while he got a call from someone asking him to move his car. Then he left.
四嬸 arrived shortly before he left. Then 二叔 came shortly after he left. I got fed some fish strips. And tried a seaweed almond sandwich snack. Thank you.
Short chat, and then 二叔 took me home.
Once home I had to poop again.... Meilin ayi had made lunch. So I had the rest of my obentou which I really struggled to finish. Only with the help of Meilin ayi's 排骨竹筍湯 which was absolutely delicious. The bamboo was so tender. The pork bits too.
After lunch I headed out to where L & M is. I bought a big box for them but they forgot I was bringing that over and they headed over to the Comics Museum already. Ahhh well I'll ask reception to hold it.
Once I arrived, reception were OK to hold it, and I borrowed their toilet.
Then borrowed a Youbike next to the park and off I go down to the Comics Museum.
I parked the bike and found them near the info centre. We did the info centre first and they had a register via QR card and give you a stamp on the hand. And then they gave you a card to DIY your own manga using the step by step stamps. I somehow misaligned the blue on mine????? And came out with a weird one hahaha. So I lined up and tried again in my book. It was difficult because there was no flat surface for me to stamp so I had to line up on the wall and try it. It came out a little better.
After that we went to the buildings in order. 1 and 2 (the budokan and adjacent) were currently closed. 3 and 4, one of them was a café. 3 had an exhibit (I think it was 3).
There was a 3 year old having a party outside the Books and Basket café and their parents had hired a jazz band to play happy birthday just for her. Oh my god. It's like those rich parents parties. We had a look into the Bookshop café and there were manga homegrown artists and lots of queer material. I ended up buying a manga about 1960's Ximen ding and the hand painted posters. I wonder what it's about. It seemed interesting!
Then we went to the next building's exhibit which was for a 16ths Awards winner, which was gay-coded. Okay it's deeper than that but you know, you need some eye candy to appeal to the general audience. It also deals with loss and drug addiction and choices you make that you may end up regretting later in life, etc. It was pretty cool!
Ice cream time. We had gelato and the bowls they gave us was like a little bathtub. The 雞蛋糕 they included on top kinda looked like ghosts but you can taste old oil in it so I don't think they clean the iron properly... The gelato was delicious though. I got a peach tea flavour, and combination berry.
Then the next building had an exhibit for the entries of a Youth Comic Award. You can read the entries as well under each stand. I read two, and the one I picked up first was a time slip story with the grandson going back in time and meeting his grandpa as a kid. That was really enjoyable.
After this building we had 3 more to hit before the museum closes. There was a kids library building, which I found Origami Warriors in there.... Aaaaaaaaaahhh....
And the other one was another library and they had Corocoro Comics and 1/2 Prince....!!!!!
The baseball exhibit was a big one, and there was a set up outside where you can be the batter and scan the QR code to input a text for the marquee screen. Like your name or a catch phrase!! That was pretty cool! The exhibit was also really cool, it had English in it too. Before the regulations were lifted there were pirated versions of translated Japanese manga, and then there was a crackdown, and so published redrew/trace and enlarged the panels onto the pages to get around it. A lot were missing onomaetopaeia. Who knew such a history existed!
And, a certificate/permit for the book would be included on the back cover - and this explains why some old books I've seen have that. Aaaaaaah mystery solved, many many years later...
After the baseball exhibit, it was dinner time. We headed towards the gunpla store direction and found a shop that had open store front and we sat near the door. They had an extremely simplistic menu but the food was good!
Before that we had tried ChunShuiTang, but Google Maps photos lied and they did not have any outdoor seating. The second place had an outdoor waiting table ony. :/
The third place was a really unique shop with flavour, and also dessert. I got wonton soup and then silken tofu flower with peanut for dinner. After dinner L headed off to the gunpla shops and subsequently the sanrensei, while we had dessert. Then M and I decided to Youbike to where L is, but he finished when we were partway, so we told him to head back home and will meet him there. We biked and parked at the Park, and very shortly after L met us up at the crossing whilst we were waiting.
I had a look at their room, and used the toilet, and left.
I caught the 304 bus home to Maple Valley and walked back. The bus driver... Drive so hard like an F1 driver. Took turns super hard and braked hard. Everyone would topple.
I walked home and showered and then was too tired to blog so went straight to sleep. It started spitting on the way home and when I went to sleep it started pouring.
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