Channelnewsasia.com - Japan Hour

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/japanhour/highlights.htm
If I am at home during weekends, I try to catch the Japan Hour show - 7:30 pm on Saturday, or at 8 am (too early for me) or 1 pm on Sunday [Timezone GMT+8, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore].

It is not just because I've always liked travel shows or travel channels (waaah!..Skycable had one, but since it belonged to a higher-priced package I missed it after its trial run was finished).

It is not just because I enjoy seeing all that delectable food (remember that Japanese have probably perfected the art of food presentation) paraded before my ogling eyes and jaw-hanging visage.

And it is just not because I find it charming how pairs of grandma-grandson, siblings, son-mother, hubby-wife go to all these places (sometimes quite remote) such as onsens, springs, hotels, inns, gardens, mountains, parks and such and then ooh-and-ahh! over such splendors of nature, which are developed further into places we humans can rest comfortably in.

It is simply because I am such a lazy, hungry, comfort-driven person during weekends.

For me, what could be more satisfactory as a tribute to couch-potato-ness than watching all these interesting places from the comfort of your cushion at home, with a bowl of popcorn,bottles of pomegranate tea, peeled apples and feta cheese at your side?