Yesterday was my wife's 30th birthday, so we went to Takashimaya in Kashiwa together to buy her a present.
Normally, I would have prepared a gift in advance and handed it to her, but this time I wanted to buy him something he wanted, so I decided to go shopping with my wife.
In the preliminary hearing, she said he wanted a wallet.
I bought a wallet for my wife at Takashimaya soon after she arrived in Japan.
This was because I had never seen anyone carrying a wallet, not even my wife, and I had seen many people handling their money carelessly.
Money is important and I don't think there is a Japanese person who doesn't have a wallet.
However, as far as I have seen, many people in the Philippines keep their bills crumpled up.
I have never seen such people in Japan.
It may be standard practice not to carry a wallet because of the risk of being pickpocketed or snatched if you do so.
In Japan, a wallet is a necessity to keep your precious money in.
So I bought him a Paul Smith wallet, but she said he wanted a long wallet because she has been going out more often for work lately and a bifold wallet is too bulky.
We looked at Louis Vuitton, Coach, and Gucci wallets, but most of them were leather, and none of them had the cloth wallet that my wife was looking for.
She didn't like the scratches and fluffiness of leather wallets.
There didn't seem to be anything she liked much, so we went to the jewelry section.
My wife had recently been measuring her ring size very carefully, and I knew she must want a ring as well, so I looked at rings as well.
We also looked at the Tiffany store, but soon retreated because all the items cost hundreds of thousands of yen.
As we walked around, She found a ring she liked at Star Jewelry, so I bought it.
My wife said she would buy her own wallet, but since it was her 30th birthday, I decided to give her a gift and bought her a long wallet made of cloth (leather inside).
I didn't care what brand it was, but when I got home, my wife said it was the same watch she bought on the plane to Singapore for our honeymoon. When I looked at them, they were both Pierre Cardin.
After shopping, we went to KFC Sky Plaza Kashiwa because my wife said she wanted to eat KFC chicken for her birthday.
We were going to buy the crunchy spicy chicken, but they didn't have it, so I bought the "Garlic Soy Sauce Eating Comparison 4 Piece Pack" and went home.
By the way, Kentucky Fried Chicken is abbreviated as KFC in the Philippines. So I was a little puzzled when my wife asked me, "Do you have KFC in Japan? I was a little puzzled.
In Japan, the commercials used to have a sound logo that said "Kentucky Fried Chicken," so we call it Kentucky instead of KFC.
In recent commercials, they seem to have lost the sound logo, just the KFC logo, so maybe they will eventually be called KFC in Japan.
For birthday this year, my wife, who has been concerned about calories lately, said she didn't want a cake, so we had grilled meat.
I don't know if it's calorie-wise since it's a combination of yakiniku and Kentucky Fried Chicken, but we don't care since it's my wife's birthday.
Happy birthday!
