11th of March

11th of March. I'm sure most of you are well aware that today marks the first year ever since the 11th March earthquake that happened in Japan a year ago. It looks like Japan is still standing strong, overcoming a lot of difficulties. During that time, I was on a vacation at Shanghai, when I saw the news over the Internet I was shocked that an earthquake of such magnitude would hit Japan. And furthermore, the nuclear plant in Fukushima caused panic to the Japanese. A year has passed. Many people on twitter are mourning now, missing their loved ones and also hoping for a brighter future.

On this very day last year, I went to Shanghai's botanical garden and had my first sakura hanami (flower viewing) and also my first time seeing plum bossom (梅花) and they're very beautiful :)

Pretty Sakura flowers! Even though its not in season yet, but luckily there were 2 Sakura trees blossoming XD

Plum blossom. They're very beautiful too! And I think this is my best shot out out of all the plum blossom bud photos that I took ><

Le close up on flower. I love the pink ones !

I hope these pictures give you a warm and fuzzy feeling >_< Ganbare Nippon!