I am spending the day in Kyoto. I am in a bad mood so this is somewhat strange.

I have been to a soaring and huge temple which frankly pissed me off. It is majestic and solemn, quite spectacular really. The annoying thing is it's story. It was built originally to house the painting of a dead monarch. I don't think this is such a bad thing in itself, but they lost many lives constructing it. They had to get the wood down the mountain which was very dangerous as there were avalanches and the temperature was at times freezing.

It just bugs me that they spent all these lives to make something totally awesome just so some dead guy can have a nice place for his painting.

Aaaanyway, kyoto is pretty cool. It is a large city ringed by mountains in this massive bowl. I went up to the top of an observation tower to check it out. They had really good zoom lenses on it, you can spy on people and see what they are doing and what kind of people they are.

I am now siting in a department store contemplating if there is anything cooler than free wireless internet. I'm leaning towards no.

My new plan is to go to a castle and check it out.

To be honest I just want to meet people. I find the people and the culture more interesting than the history. This is hard though and I understand more of the difficulty my Japanese friends experienced living in Australia. It is really hard to make friends given the language barrier. It is also really hard to find a bar or club that has like minded people.

I am staying in Osaka in a very young and uh cool area. This is nice enough, but it is all very showy and i'm not particularly looking to make friends with such people. Regardless, I plan to do some bar hopping tonight to see if I can't meet some cool people.

Bye bye