This morning, a vending machine from which I always buy a canned coffee started to offer hot coffee, too.
That is a sign of official start of fall/winter – in Japan. I haven’t seen vending machines that sell hot canned coffee/tea in other countries. It’s my little pleasure that I drink a canned coffee or tea while on the escalator of the railway station.
At a reception where I was invited this past April, then PM Koizumi gave a remark that Japanese have traditionally found joys in day-to-day little changes, quoting an old verse that said “My pleasure is to find blooming flowers in the morning that were still buds the previous day.”
That also reminds me of the last episode of Season Four of Sex and the City – the scene that Carrie needs a blanket for the first time in a long time. I actually love this late fall/winter season.
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