awakening to the rhythm

Tokyo Trip Part 2

2007-06-11T07:00:00.000-07:00

Day 8
Lazed around. 'Nuff said.

Day 9
Ikebukuro. UHM We kept making stupid jokes out of the shopping centres. Cos on the left/right was like Seibu, then on the opposite side was Tobu, and my brother kept going N__bu (go figure). It was quite boring I guessss and I had Really Horrible Udon. :( BUT I BOUGHT CRAYONS AND STICKERS TO KEEP ME HAPPY SO YAY :)

Day 10
Went to the Fish Market which smelled.. fishy and I didn't take any pictures cos I was too busy trying not to get my shoes dirty and they had a lot of live OCTOPUS AND ALL SERIOUSLY IT WAS STILL ALIVE and i didn't wna get eaten by them (Pirates, anyone?) On the way back..

Bakery at the Shimbashi station.

THESE LOOK REALLY GOOD RIGHT? :)

Korean food at Ueno. My brother thinks the bean sprouts are Really Good.

MISTER DONUTTTTT

DONUTS! (and 3 sad muffins)

Okay I'm like lazy to type stuff cos all I did that day was Shop Shop and Shop at Ueno for food to bring homeeee! :) All the YUMMY POCKYs :) Let the pictures speak (okay so I got lazyyyyy and took lesser pictures..)

The Machine!

It's calling me over to it! :)

Sister's stitch, brother's stitch, my stitch, aunt's stitch!

*I skipped the Harajuku bit cos I was quite lazy and it was just like Ueno only MORE CROWDED with more clothes shops (3 storey high Gap) and VERY BIG TOPSHOP & TOPMAN. AND ONE RALPH LAUREN ON ITS OWNNN.

Day (dunno what day already lost count; oh it's dayyyy 11)

Shinkansen aka bullet train which was sleepy.

YAY OSAKAAA!

Day 12

The Really Good CharSiewMen (Ramen) shop! :)

Everyone please swoon. This is orgasmic.

this just looks interesting. my sister ate this salmon/egg rice thing :)

i like this chinese word! we were walking aroundddd i guess :)

DINNER. (it is very filling yesyes. very yummilicious too.)

Day 13

Universal Studios day! We had to take the train from Uehonmachi to Universal City Station.

Beard Papa is in the train station! Yessss beside the train tracks!

Blurry :( It's Mango Cream Puff which is rly good!

Universal studios shopping strip

Self Explanatory

I swear this is famous.

The Hollywood Dream Rollercoaster thing.

Again, the roller coaster thing.

CARTS! selling random Universal Goodies :)

Really cute vending machines! :D I love the cookie monster one xD

SPONGEBOB!

Random New York building.

The theatre! :)

DEAR DANIEL! :D:D:D (Daniel Lau, this is for you!)

The skeleton of the giraffe in the cafe at Jurassic Park.

The famous Jurassic Park ride.

The wonderful set of WaterWorld. It was REALLY GOOD. :)

Random pic.

Backdraft.

THE MOST WONDERFUL RIDE, LIKE EVER!

Okay I'm just lazy to write stuff now actually but srsly everyone should go to Universal - It was really fun! I also sat Terminator (which was scary I don't like robots) andddd the Peanuts rides which were meant for kids, actl it was just the Peanuts rollercoaster I sat and it was really fast for a kiddo rollercoaster? xD Universal is worth it cos they have wonderful shows like Shrek 4D. Shrek 4D is really funny even though they speak in Japanese! Of course, the effects are fantastic. When they showed spiders on the screen, and then the spiders crawling towards the audience, you actl feel it! (freaky freaky!) :D Spiderman was wonderful. You put on 3D glasses and you follow Spiderman to save New York! :) Queued 45 mins for that, but it was so worth it :D

Day 14

Last day at Osaka! Breakfast was fattening donuts xD But I'll miss Mister Donut! Mister Donut is wonderful I swearrrrr!

Donuts from Mister Donut

Cakes from that cake shop downstairs.

Actually I love Japan a lot. Japan is NEVER LATE. Seriously. The trains come on the dot, and I love them! I love the toilets too! They wash your butt for you at the press of a button :) And the toilet seat is warmed. Japan has Seattle's Best Coffee, which is like Starbucks & Coffee Bean but Seattle's Best Coffee, according to my dad, is waaaaaay better :) Ohwel no comment! And Osaka airport was pretty boring to me actually. The movies on the plane were boring, so I watched Zodiac which was reaaaaally long and as usual I didn't enjoy the plane ride :(

Okay this is such a crap post I'm sleepy.

Japan Trip!

2007-06-11T06:00:00.000-07:00

I owe Daniel this - cos I'm just lazy to talk about my Japan trip :) Hahahah :D Um okay I think I'm supposed to talk about my entire 14 days but half the pics are inside the lap so I can't upload most of them (the disneyland ones!!!) :( But i got the universal studios ones! :) Yay.

Day 1
The flight was HORRENDOUS, WE HAD TO TAKE A BUS TO THE AEROPLANE AND WALK UP A STAIRCASE (yeah like how George W. Bush comes out of Air Force One only that my flight was at night and I was lugging a luggage with me) AND IT WAS NOISY AND THE AIRCON SPOILT AND I WAS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE :( Mum & I sat business but the aircon ruined everything :( Okay reached aunt's house in Tokyo (Tabata, if you want specifics) and at night we went to this Okonomiyaki (japanese pancake which is rly yummy) restaurant where we made our own pancakes!:):):):)

Day 2
Woke up early! Took a super long train ride down from Tabata to Odawara, bout 1.5hours long? Had YUMMY TUNA SUSHI FOR LUNCH yay! Okay then it was another one hour ride to the Hakone Kogoen Hotel (it was up some mountain, and go figure I slept again) and it was sooooo cold like 18degrees! It's really coolio the typical Japanese hotel? Tatami mats! :D yay! and they even give you robes to change into! (Hot springs!) The onsens (hot springs) are REAAAAALLY Hot, yeah you go in nakedddd! But the first day we went it was raining so it was only bout 38deg BUT IT WAS SO HOT. (but soothing though) Dinner was Traditional Japanese Food and I didn't touch half the stuff on my plate! :( I had Haagen-Dazs for dessert from the vending machine they have (HOW COOLIO IS THAT) and I won a Stitch (from Lilo & Stitch) stuffed toy from some arcade machine that goes "OH MY GOD!". By the way I love the toilet, it washes your butt for you!

Day 3
Breakfast was some Japanese-American buffet at the hotel it was good stuff :) Went to Mount Fuji!! It was boring. Okay but I liked the mountain. And we won another Stitch toy from the "Oh My God" machine. And my sister trashed 2 people in table tennis! :D

Day 4
Boring day. Drove round and round and round mountains and my head kept spinning. Seriously they have roads on mountains and the mountains seem to pile up on top of one another and they never seem to end! FINALLY REACHED TOKYO.

Day 5
Today we went to Asakusa Kannon Temple, one of the most famous temples in Japan. It was really interesting! Tried some rinsing water thingy which was quite fun :D And did some chou1 qian1 thing in which you shake this tin and a stick with a number comes out, and you take your 'fortune' from the number which corresponds to the stick? It was pretty fun! :) After that we went to Ueno! UENO ROCKS! ROWS AND ROWS AND ROWS OF SHOPS. Had lunch at this noodle shop underneath the train tracks so there were a LOT of vibrations. HMMM andddd we won another Stitch! This time from some arcade machine! Cos in Japan, if you want a stuffed toy from those machines, all you have t do is tell the guy in charge and he will manouevre it such that half the stuffed animal is already in the hole! :D And it was funnnnn Ueno has different rows of shops, all selling different stuff! From stuffed toys, to clothes&bags, and raw fish! It was reallllllly cool.

Day 6
DISNEYLAND DAY! Yay! :) But we woke up late-.- AND EVEN ON A WEEKDAY DISNEYLAND IS SOOOO FRIGGIN CROWDED :( First thing we did was to get fastpass for Buzz Lightyear AstroBlasters cos I didn't want to wait 45 mins in line first thing in the morning! We went to sit Grand Circuit Raceway (Autopia in the US) after that I drove my COOLIO GREEN CAR!:) YAY! :) Hahaha then we went to Fantasyland and sat the kiddo rides (i requested it hehhh) But Snow White was quite scary okay cos the witch popped out halfway!!! Pinocchio wasn't as scary as Snow White :) And I think I also sat It's A Small World! It makes you happy I swear but then I felt sooooooo hotttttt inside so yeah :D Oh after lunch we went to buy popcorn! Cos my brother wanted a Stitch bucket (yeah the popcorn comes inside that, like 1200yen, which is almost 15bucks) and thennnn we went to sit BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN RAILROAD! It was such a long queue omgggg 45 mins BUT IT WAS SOOOOOO FUN? :):):):) I LOVE BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN RAILROAD! I like rides that don't keep dropping cos I hate that Negative-G feeling thing.

Then we went back to Fantasyland and sat PeterPan (YESSSSSS IT'S ONE OF MY FAVOURITE RIDES IT HAS BEEN FOR ELEVEN YEARS!) and it was soooo coolio as usual! Then my brother dragged me to sit Mad Tea Party which is teacups spinning round and round. I think the teacups were cute. And Finally we went to sit Buzz Lightyear where I PWNED everyone! Cos you sit in the car and you shoot at Zurg's icons and stuff? All I did was wave my Blaster madly and started shooting wildly hehh :D I think there was a Stitch parade after that but I didn't understand anything cos it was in Japanese :\ And then we went to sit Space Mountain! I was super Freaked Out when it started climbing cos I was afraid it was gna drop but it moved sooooooo fast! But the design was really really really good stuff? :) Then we went to sit Splash Mountain, I DON'T LIKE RIDES THAT MAKE ME FEEL LIKE I'M GOING TO DIE okay i cheated by shutting my eyes so uhhhh i can't rmb how i felt like i'm afraid of heights!!! at night!there was this supercoolio lights parade?? :) And dinner was at 10pm in the form of Pizza from Pizza-La which was heavenly.

Day 7
DISNEYSEA! It was a wonderful glorious day! Because it rained and hardly anyone went to Disneysea which means NO QUEUE! YESSSSSS! I loved Disneysea's architecture, it was much more elaborate than Disneyland's? I love the old town New York feel, and of course, the Medieval Castles that they had! It was wonderful.

I LOVE THIS.

Disneysea just turned five :)

The volcano in the middle of nowhere.

Old town Europe :)

The first thing we did was to buy Strawberry Popcorn which was surprisingly good! Then we went to sit Journey To The Centre Of The Earth which had this stupid slope that I kept screaming and I swear the stupid insect blew fire at me!! :( It was so hot! Roarrr! Then we sat 20,000 leagues under the water which was pretty cute! cos you really pretend you're underwater when you're not? :) Ummm walked around Mermaid Lagoon after that in search of the Indiana Jones ride! Which was REALLY VIOLENT. okay it was less scary than I expected :D My mum wanted us to go on the Raging Spirits ride but I chickened out at the thought of a 360deg LOOP. NO THANKYOU!!!! And then we went to sit some Sindbad ride which was like It's a Small World! :D Hehhh ummmmm OHHHH THE SHOW! Yesss we watched some Aladdin show which was like really good only that I didn't understand ANYTHING. But it was soooooo good! Cos they do the 3D thing really well :) Lunch was SO YUMMY at this Japanese restaurant in Disneysea!

Mermaid Lagoon!

I think this is the Arabian Coast

The Ah-Ma Rollercoaster which CRAWLS.

submarine thingy! :)

My sister's lunch.

MY lunch.

Sebastian's Calypso Kitchen (sorry for the poor lighting)

Okay after that we went to Port Discovery and sat Stormrider which was a simulator ride about riding into the Storm Of The Century. There was also an Aquatopia ride in which we just spinned around in water. And it started to rain again so we went off to Mermaid Lagoon where I sat Kids Rides with my siblings! Hahaha they were so cute! It was really dark in there so we cldn see anything much :( The show at the Mermaid Lagoon was WONDERFUL. They perform dangling from the ceiling! And the effects, are FANTABULOUS. The people control these puppets and they were amusing, and it was good showmanship! :) Eh nothing much happened except I shopped for presents :)

YUMMY WONDERFUL HEAVENLY SUSHI FOR DINNER!

Shall update the next 7 days in another postttttt :) This is Hui Shan signing out.. for now! :D

Arafura

2007-05-20T02:19:00.000-07:00

Okay 1st post

Day 1, 12/05/07:

Jon Ong stayed over to send me off, it was pretty cool actually. The both of us slept damn early so that we could get up. Though I'm quite happy he did stay over, so fun.

Anw reached the airport at 0500 and stoned till like 0700. Thank god mom didnt like cry or anything. Haha=) The plane ride was lame and the food was disgusting all the way there. Brunei is super boring and have EXTREMELY expensive drinks

Got safely to Darwin and put the guns at some guy's house. Dude its a house not even a proper armoury to put our stuff. Checked in and zoned out for the night.

Day 2, 13/05/07:

Woke up damn early to go to the stupid lousy HOT range. I swear my first impression was 'Omg. We're gonna shoot here?'
I missed the Safra range.
The four of us (Isaac, Abel, Mark and I) decided to go shoot empty metal cans. Talk about lame.
The first day was so stupid that i thought the mall was 'nice'.
A supermarket and that was just about it. We bought hell lot of maggi and a chicken for dinner.

Btw did i complain about the range? It really sucks balls.
And the food. 'How much for the sandwich?'
'Five dollars.'
It wasnt worth it.

Day 3, 14/05/07

I did NOTHING.
except eat the stupid chicken again.=)

Day 4, 15/05/07

I woke up pretty late and got scolded for it. I had to brush my teeth,wear my clothes and stuff and run to the bus. I accidentally dripped toothpaste my pants and it looked like ... Haha.
Crappy i finished in 40 mins and shot 552. Good enough wasn't that bad, still managed to win the gold :) though there's still so much room for improvement.

Anw Abigail is a pisser.
A really really irritating pisser.
Just because she shot like 364? which is so lousy already la and she feels so good.
what a noob.

CHICKEN AGAIN=)

Day 5, 16/05/07

Today was SHOPPING!

I bought a bangle for jie, two shirts, a belt, and haviannas for myself, and a medal for dad!

gotta get the pics from cheston.

Day 6, 17/05/07

I think we went to the hub in the morning to watch the games.
The Papua New Guinea people are really really good at basketball . Ownage slam dunks and stuff.

AND WE WENT TO THE NIGHT MARKET.
Wow its just like our pasar malam.
It actually owns our pasar malam

The highlight of the market is the PORK!
OMGOMGOMG damn damn nice the nicest i everever tasted!
and the muscles were nice too.

Day 7, 18/05/07

Shopping again and finally something cool other than the usual playing cards on the room floor.

We had a barbeque at night!
Damn ownage la!

Haha and we all got really wet.Thanks to Cheston and Isaac.

Day 8, 19/05/07

Packed up and went off to the airport to go fly off to Brunei.
Nothing much other than the dinner we had.
I had 40 satays. tyvm

Day 9, 20/05/07

Reached Singapore and here I am in my boxers typing this=)