The year that flew...wizzed by in the blink of an eye! Time flies when having fun :-) A celebratory, reminescent weekend away planned for the romantic mountains in Gifu Town. Saturday morning saw us up and on the road before the crack of dawn, sleepy dust still ion the production line. Everything packed in just in case, and a list of possibilities researched by Tam in hand. We headed to the Gifu Pagoda, red coloured shrine on the hillside, visible to the...

Washigatake Ski resort scared the living daylights out of me. I was ready to call it quits - not for me. Rohan's work colleagues chose this resort knowing that we were not all that accustomed to this new sport of skiing. Ro decided to swop snow boarding for skiing, just so that we would both be in beginner land together, this time; not like the last. At the front counter, I bailed. Rohan's boss was so concerned, and of course the language barrier didn't help...