{"id":7845,"date":"2010-02-21T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T06:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/21\/women-expectations\/"},"modified":"2010-02-21T16:40:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T08:40:10","slug":"women-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/21\/women-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no pleasing Ling sometimes. When I showed her my draft itinerary for a possible Japan trip in December to the Kansai region, she gave the sort of look that said it all \u201cBut I want to go to Hokkaido, darling\u2026 :(\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Problem is that given the timeframe of the trip \u2013 in December \u2013 the sort of spectacular sights in snowy winter is different than in say September. And unfortunately, after our skiing snafu in South Korea during our Honeymoon in 2006 \u2013 I tripped too many times and upon return back home suffered through an excruciating period of back pain \u2013 won\u2019t really be participating in snow-centric activities. OK, so there\u2019re still sights like dancing cranes at Tsurumidai or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japan-guide.com\/e\/e6868.html\">Ryuhyo Drift Ice Cruises<\/a> so it won\u2019t be a total loss \u2013 but still\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"blog-hokkaido-01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bloghokkaido01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-hokkaido-01\" width=\"375\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In any case, a colleague of mine at work was showing me his Blurb book on his Hokkaido trip, and he remarked that the SGD10K he spent on the trip was worth every cent. So, it\u2019s back to the drawing board: created a new tab on the spreadsheet to see if I could work out another 10 day itinerary for a December-Hokkaido trip, <strong><em>and <\/em><\/strong>still keep it under budget!<\/p>\n<p>Or just for kicks \u2013 I\u2019ll also cook up an equivalent itinerary for Egypt. Just for fun.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no pleasing Ling sometimes. When I showed her my draft itinerary for a possible Japan trip in December to the Kansai region, she gave the sort of look that said it all \u201cBut I want to go to Hokkaido,<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2010\/02\/21\/women-expectations\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Women Expectations<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}