Friday, December 28, 2007
4:50 PM
Spent yesterday with a group of frens, watching National Treasure at CWP, having dinner at Swensens and exchanging x mas gifts. I just dunno why but to me, sad to say they are just frens already... From family ---> best buddies ---> frens... i wonder if the trend will continue and eventually ---> ???. Many problems brought up yesterday, a day of anger, considerations, recollecting of memories, both sad and happy ones. The tears shed, the laughter enjoyed. How shld we end it, or rather how can we end it when things are already this way? Somethings are not within our control, we or shld i say i nva wanted it this way. When things just appear like this, i'm rather miserable too as u guys said. But what to do? Things aren't the way they were before, we dun even recognise each other anymore...
I just hope things turn up for the better. Sorry for not being understanding if u guys think of it this way, i just tried too hard le.
Its hard to forget, this i regret all these mistakes...
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sun set or sun rise; up to us to decide
Thursday, December 20, 2007
8:57 AM
Woots, com fixed. I dunno how my sis did it( though she just pressed the switch on button), its fixed. Well, she was the one that spoiled it in the first place but, oh well, "jiang gong su zui".Anyway, as promised, entry about the japan trip.
DAY 1
We took off from singapore changi airport at around 8 and with a long 6 hours 15 minutes aeroplane ride on Japan Airlines's plane, we finally arrived at Narita International Airport of Tokyo. By that time, it was like 4.30 already. What surprises us was that although its just 4.30, the sky was already very very dark. It was as if the time was 8.00p.m. We then came to know that during winter( its late autumn already), the days are shorter than the nights. at around 5, the sky will be fully dark and shops closes at 8.00p.m. So after we arrived at the airport, our tour guide came to fetch us to our first hotel of the night Narita Excel. After we arrived, we placed our luggage in our respective rooms b4 going out to a nearby mall for dinner. The dinner was ok, it was a pure japanese sushi restaurant that sells nth but pure sushi, not even ramen or those tori karaage that we have in suki sushi. And for sushi lovers, u sure faint with joy there man. The contents of the sushi were all thrice as big as those in Singapore though the amount of rice they attached to each sushi is the same. So we had abit of a scrumptious meal b4 going to "JustGo" - their supermarket for a walk. As for this, i had to comment on their technology man. The cashier right, will put the cash collected from the customers into this platform thingy and the platform thingy will calculate and emit out the change while sucking in the money collected at the same time. In this way, the employee have no need to waste time calculating and also have no chance of stealing money, cool isn't it? So oh well, after all that we went back to our hotel and rest for the night.
DAY 2
Woke up at 6.30 in the morning and wash-up. Oh haven i mentioned to u guys, japan's toilet bowl is dam special too =x Each and every of its toilet bowl is fixed with this remote beside it that allows u to keep the seat warm and also washes ur dirty ass when the business is done so the lazy bums dun even need to clean their butts with toilet paper, mad de.
This is a pic of the toilet bowl:
But anyway, we had our breakfast in the cafe of the hotel. Whats different is that jap loves to mix their own style of cuisine with the western cuisine such that in every meal, miso soup is sure to be found and that raw sushi are sometimes main part of the course too. After breakfast, me and my sis went down to the garden of the hotel and took some random shots. =x
Our first hotel.
Mum, Me and sis at the garden.
Beautiful Scenery
Cool water flow...
Anyway, back to the main topic. The main focus of day 2 was.... DISNEYLAND! haha, and so we set off after everyone was done with breakfast. Disneyland, what more to say? Only words i can use to describe it are big, Sugoi(amazing), super good service, fun and most importantly LONG QUEUE.
The christmas Tree in Disneyland, dam huge man.
Since it is so world famous and everyday, ppl from all over the world come to disneyland, the queues of most rides are naturally long. In order to cope with that, japan disneyland have came up with this clever idea of a Fast Pass where u can collect this fast passes and have priority entry to the rides at later part of the day. and so, fast passes here we come.. LOL. The first few rides were guided by our tour guide as he was afraid that we might missed out the most entertaining ones. The first one was my favourite, the ride of the Pirates Of Caribbean.
Entrance to the Pirates Of Caribbean Ride.
Anyone have any idea where the queue came from and where it was heading? =)
Dead man tells no tales.
Brace yourselves =D
You'll all remember this day because this is the day that u almost caught( waves splashes against his face), captain Jack Sparrow. LOL.
Jack Sparrow preparing himself. LOL
<<< --- Captain Jack Sparrow versus Captain Babusa --->>> Die u noob Pirate. =P
So there are alot of nice rides such as the ride in the haunted mansion, the space mountain ride, the big thunder mountain, the explorer, the toon town and many many more. But there was this major event that was emphasize by our tour guide that it is a must to go watch, and that is the daily Disney Marching Parade. And here are the photos =)
The marching in.
First up we have Stitch!
Stitch's Frens.
Lilo and stitch.
Then came pluto.
some baby angels.
Noddy in toyland.
Snow white.
Some random princes and princesses.
The cute abominable snowman!
Donald and Daisy the duckys.
Closeup on Donald Duck
Closeup on Daisy.
The Legend of Disneyland, MICKEY MOUSE.
another shot of mickey mouse.
another cute abominable snowman. =x
Even raindeers came out to march
Some random dances.
random dance 2
random dance 3
random dance 4
random dance 5
Btw if u haven noticed, Japan is a place of order and it is dam organise. This statement is supported by the next photo =)
and i tot only cars need parking lots. =P
Some other random pics of Disneyland:
Welcome to Tokyo Disneyland!
cool castle
Mickey and Minnie in a show.
The Chip Munks.
Goofy the Director.
Cast of A bug's Life
The Disney Cast!
Christmas Tree at night.
Goodbye Disneyland...
And so at 6, we left Disneyland for dinner and back to the next hotel for the overnight stay.
DAY 3
Usual stuff in the morning and today is the day of the big towers. We went to tokyo for sightseeing. We went to a couple of high rise sky scrapers. One of them is the metropolitan tower.
one of the shots taken from the top of the tower.
another shot taken.
Other than the towers, we also went to a temple. one shot taken:
After the few towers, we set off to a few shopping streets of Tokyo, one of them is the famous Ginza Street. Used to be one of the world's most expensive rental places, Ginza Street has Branded goods all along the street. U name it, they got it. Burberry, LV , Prada, Zara, Hermes and shiseido, all these brands owns at least a building along the streets.
Clock tower at Ginza Street.
Ok, task one fulfilled =P
Another one ;D
Ok so after Ginza street we went some across the Rainbow bridge as they called it - 3.7km long. Some random shots taken too.
The bridge at the back is the rainbowbridge. Dun ask me why, i dunno why there is this statue of Liberty here too. =x
The Tokyo bridge taken from inside the bus.
After the long day, we went to the bottom of mount fuji and rest in a resort. Btw, for ur info, there are 5 lakes in mount Fuji. We stayed by one of the lakes called " He Kou Hu". And yea, at night as stated in our schedule, we went to hot spring ^^. Well first attempt is always special, i cherished it alot. We had to go FULL NAKED into the "soups" as they call it. Imagine when u step out of the "soup", the temperature was like super cold and the pool was of 41 degree celcius, omg man. But it was still a nice and enjoyable experience =)
DAY 4
Okay so after a good night's sleep, we went ahead to Mount Fuji. But how would we know that even heaven is not on our side. =( Because of bad weather ( heavy rain), we are unable to make it up to the top of mount fuji. haiz, and so, we have to abandon our trip.
The feeling sux, really.
The signboard at Mount Fuji.
So after the trip up Mount Fuji was abandon, we went on with our schedule to a few lakes with fresh "holy water" flowing down Mount Fuji.
So after that, we went on to Lake Ashi. Well, i've nth much to say about this, its just a lake =x. KK, soon after everyone finish viewing Lake Ashi, we went up to another hill which i forgot the name but all i know is that it is a volcano hill and that up on top of the hill, there is hot spring whereby u can cook eggs. lol. here are some photos.
Hot sulphur water flowing down from the top of the hill.
And ya, heres the name - "Da Dong Gu"
And yea, after few hours of long ride. We arrived at Hamamitchi bullet train station where we took our bullet train ride to Toyohashi.
Bullet train front view.
Side View
The Interior is just like a budget airline.
Btw, they dun call it bullet train there. they call it "Shinkansen".
Ok, so that was the end of the 4th day and we stayed in Nikkon International hotel of Toyohashi for the night.
DAY 5
Okay this is the most boring day and i duwan to talk too much about it, seriously boring. Its just long bus rides and temples whole day. I'll let the pictures do the talking.
Ahah, so watever, the day ended =x
DAY 6
Ok, Day 6 is another highlight of the trip, the trip to UNIVERSAL STUDIOS Japan =)
Ladies and gentlemen, i present to u... Universal Studios Japan.
Me and Betty Boop ^^
Sesame Street!!!
Mr tin man from the Wizard Of Oz.
I'm stronger than Popeye, I DUN CARE! =P
The Hard Rock Cafe.
Well, we didn took too much photos at the Universal Studios cause we dun have too much time. Most of the time were spent playing =P. In case anyone of u wanna go Universal Studios, some of the rides recommended are Jurassic Park the ride, E.T. adventure, Back to the future the ride & water world. So we left Universal Studios at 4.30 and head on to another shopping street. That street, too bad we didn took a photo there, is very very long. few km of shopping stalls and of all sorts of goods. High class to mid class. So after that, our last night in Japan was ended off with a meal in a Skewed Meat Restaurant in Japan.
Ok, day 7 was actually nth, just airplane ride back to Singapore. We woke up early in the morning to have breakfast and went outside the hotel to another shopping mall where dad and mum bought some goodies for their frens in Singapore before we set off to the airport at 11. Our Flight took off at 1p.m. and at 7.30, we touchdown to HOME SWEET HOME - SINGAPORE ( A place where ppl understand English, woots).
Overall, what to say about japan? Its a fun place with friendly ppl and good service. But the thing is that the ppl there only speak Japanese, not even their high school students understand english which makes it hard for us to communicate with them and most of the time we were nodding our heads pretending to know what they are saying =x But it is nevertheless a nice place for a holiday and if u think litter bins are hard to find in Japan(for those who went b4), litters are even harder. Their streets and all are all so clean and green.
Ok with that, i end off my super duper long entry on japan. First time i wrote such a long entry and uploaded so many photos. Sense of accomplishment =P
YOKOSO JAPAN ^^
CREDITS TO GEELYN NG FOR URL EDITING. (By the way I did not spoil the computer. It merely spoilt when I was using it. ^^ )
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