Friday, December 01, 2006
Autumn leaves and breath-taking chills.
Japan was awesome! The weather there was incredible. After you deck yourself in two shirts, a jacket, a pullover, and a muffler, its just nice and cooling (: Didn't sweat a drop for seven days.
Too much to blog about and I'm too lazy to recap in detail so I'll just write whatever I feel like. Will upload pictures another day!
THE TOILETS!Man, some of the toilets there are so quirky! They have like a thousand buttons; buttons you press to warm the toilet seat, buttons you press so a jet of water shoots out to wash your butt, even buttons you press so there's this gushing sound so no one knows you're shitting! Hahah!
DISNEYSEA!Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse and Pluto (or is it Goofy I can't tell the difference) and Chip and Dale! Muahahah! soooo cute! The whole place was so ethereal and fantasie-fairytale its as if I've entered another world altogether! It is so very pretty (:
My mom and my brother didn't take most of the scary rides so it was just my dad and sister and me! Damn, I salute my Dad! He is fearless! The rollercoaster ride was damn exhilarating with this three hundred and sixty degree loop that makes you go completely upside down in one gargantuan whoosh! Damn fun! I really love rollercoasters! (: But the ultimate was this attraction called "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" where you ride this little cart inside the volcano. At first it moves at a nice pace and you can go ooh and ahh over how pretty they have made the inside of the volcano, complete with jewels and the likes then it suddenly plunges into complete darkness and starts winding around in top speed to God-knows-where and the next thing you know, you find yourself plunging down a sudden, sharp near-vertical drop!! omg for this one my heart nearly popped out of my ribcage! Definitely one of the best and most electrifying rides ever! :D
HARAJUKU!The japanese version of "town" for teenagers to hang out. Its damn interesting cause the whole street is lined with loads of super cool teenage bands and they all play damn well! The lead singers are like whoaaaaaaa lah! There are even people singing solo! So brave O.O
Visited a shrine too and its just like in tv shows! You can write your wishes and desires on little wooden plagues to hang it on the pegs. I saw some there that reads, "Hoping that my Mom gets well soon" and "May who and who be happy forever!". So sweet to think that the shrine holds so much beliefs and hopes for the people. After hanging the plague on the wall, you'll really feel a strange sense of peace and hope (:
MT FUJI!omg that place was freeeeeezing! We didn't expect it to be that cold cause we didnt even go up the damn mountain but it was like 2 degree celcius and our clothes were meant for 14 degree celcius-type of weather. Yikes! I swear my teeth were clattering so hard they were about to fall out one by one! And to make matters worse, WE GOT LOST! Almost became a family of popsicles /:
But Mt Fuji is very very pretty with its peak capped in snow that reflects the soft sunlight. Nice!
THE FOOD!The rice there is super nice! (yes, I know its just rice) But it is reeeeaaalllyyy super nice! :D So soft and moist and smooth and it separates on your tongue, grain by grain, when you put it into your mouth (:
I decided to be adventurous and try raw food for once but ugh!, really not my type! /: I didn't go further than raw salmon and tuna and salmon roe. The big fat juicy-looking salmon roe was the grossest! Its like eating chicken pox lah!! Weird juice spurting out /: /: /: I couldn't bear to stomach the fresh raw squid nor the pufferfish either, despite the fact that its suppose to be very good food! hahah! Damn gross!
Oh, and I tell you sth! Their supermarkets have loads and loads of generous samples! Like, generous helpings of samples! My whole family spent half a day walking around this huge supermarket eating everything! Hahahah! Cheap thrills! :D
So Japan was a really nice place. The people are really courteous! Their favourite word is probably "Arigato Gosaimasshita" or however you spell that cause they say it all the time to every single person who walks into their shop! And they actually line up while boarding the mrt! What the! I was so amazed lol!
And I guess who I missed most when I was in Japan!
YOU!haha just kidding! I missed MooMoo terribly! Poor little thing was at the pet hotel :D Right after we touched down and had dinner, we went to fetch the lil' dear home (: That retarded dog was so excited he pee-ed the moment he saw us! He seems a bit sad to leave his little furry friends there though. Poor thing!
I've got a freaking sorethroat and running nose now ): I'm killing millions of trees with the tissue I'm using. The energy that I use to blow my nose can be used to run 10k already lah.
And I havent started on my homework. Shit man.