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Monday, January 02, 2006

im back!!! and i loved every bit of the trip.. i'll probably perfect my jap and seriously consider moving to japan. ha

just came back on the 31st at almost 11pm so i had offically only one hour to usher in the new year in singapore. and that was done by doing tonnes of unpacking and stuff and was too tired to blog so this is it man... its just gonna flow and u pple will just eat it all up. haha

for starters, we arrived at tokyo at 6am in the morning and instead of taking a cab to the hotel, (the cab prices there are insane), we took the subway which was not very much cheaper considering tickets were about $6 sing. (the more expensive ones cost about $30 sing) with all our barang barang, somehow we managed to squeeze onto the train. so it was a long two hour ride, switching trains, getting lost in the station with huge luggages, blocking everyone in our way, staring for a full ten minutes at all the different subway lines, trying to figure out how to get our damn tickets from the damn machines which only sprouts japanese and finally, we got to our hotel. the hilton tokyo. stress. and after that battle, my mum wanted to go our to walk walk like almost immediately. sheesh. apperantly she's never heard of the term jet lag. but did we care? she couldnt go out with all her kids in bed so yeah. she went to sleep too.

now i have a statement to make. all japanese are like in a perpetual hurry. they always walk damn fast and when they knoch into u, the one thing that they don't do is apologise. so after much apologising, we noticed that we were the only ones doing that so we decided that apologising was not needed very much. unless the person falls flat on his face of smthg then you apologise. other than that, no need. oh and the subway station that was near our hotel was like singapore's cityhall. always crowded except that at 6 in the morning and at 10 at night, there doesn't seem to have a decrease in pple. and there are like almost 13 different lines to get from one place to another so the whole map of the whole subway route is like lines and lines of different colours with super small words that reading or rather looking at it too long gives you a headache.

but anyway, went to asakusa which is that huge temple where all the stars went and did a bit of shopping. the food there rocks btw. the big head below belongs to my sister.

this is what the inside looks like. two rows of shops shops and more shops.

my mum and her holy water..

next was ueno which is smthg like this huge huge pasar malam where they sell all the seafood and stuff, so my mum bought like two big bags of food. that was probably all that we did on the first day cause we were too tired. the next day, we met up with my mum's friend and we went around with them cause her bro lived in jap for like two years already so yeah. went to hakone for more sight seeing and the best part was that there were eggs to be eaten. eggs that were cooked at the hot springs so yeah. climbed up some mountain breathed in sulpur filled air, just to get to the black eggs. ha fun though.

the mountain right at the back with the clouds is mt fuji. (view from the cable car)

that night was kinda scary cause my bro and i felt the hotel shaking but my mum and sister felt nothing and guess what? in the morning, my mum's friend told us that there was an earthquake though minor and japan sooo happens to be the land of natural disasters and earthquakes so yea. we were kinda freaked but that didnt stopp us.

third day was at tokyo tower where they had this trick museum and my sister and bro did all kinds of stupid stuff. hah and we went to ueno again cause we didnt finish it on the first day but befor e that, we dropped my bro off at akihabara which is like sim lim jap style. all the damn cool eletronics that singapore doesn't have. tempted by all the phones and mp3 players. if im not wrong, they already have a xbox 360 or smthg and the graphics are to die for. i even know what the latest game there is. kingdom hearts or smthg. beat that. hah

my bro was probably the happiest one cause after his trip to akihabara, he came back with 7-8 toys. all gundam. some for his friends some for himself and the best part or so he claims is that all are almost half price than in singapore. dunno what high grade, master grade and whatever. he bought like four for himself lah. hmmm oh we went to the fish market too. supposedly to see the bidding for the fishes and stuff but unfortunately, the bidding is not opened for viewing so we just went to see what it was like. real eye opener though. everything there is huge. even the crows there are HUGE!

cuttlefish alive and kicking. i lluuuurrrvvvee cuttlefish...

fish market done and we're off to osaka. in the bullet train and boy was that cool. omg.. haha

the rest of osaka was basically the same and i don't really have pictures cause i didn't bring my camera out so yeah.. only one thing to say. i love denny's. my favourite resturant.

that's probably about all about the trip. loads of pictures but too lazy to upload. so yeah. alot of stuff to buy but didnt buy cause too expensive. train tickets alone scare the pants off you, all the more shopping. oh and one more thing. i realised that there are alot of japanese guys who are way better looking than singaporean guys. haha. probably another incentive to moving to japan. cheers =) happy new year peeps! oh and to danni marshmallow: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! dun say i sotong never say 5 times. i say here.. haha =)

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