what do you see?

Pretty cold today. After church, and church lunch ("pig soup" and "cod-egg and seaweed rice" which shows why it's best not to translate Japanese food into English, because it was really good!) we went into town to pick up a few necessities and then had (new "winter offering", Hotness) macha-lattes and onion rings in Freshness Burger to get warm.

But here's something a tad strange, we bought some stuff in Matsumoto Kiyoshi which happened to come to 999 yen. OK, just a chance, a pretty uninteresting conincidence eh? Then we went to the grocery market part of Seibu and bought a few more things. Which came to

999 yen.

I can hear the chorus of "That's also a pretty uninteresting conincidence too Phil, just shut up and stop wasting our time". But, anyone who knows Japanese will know that 9-9-9 (kyuu-kyuu-kyuu) is not too cheerful, meaning things along the lines of "urgent first-aid" depending on how you translate. It's a really good job we are Christians and not superstitious, or we'd be worried piles of gel by now.