★　it's so pretty it's sad.

☆Sunday, November 30, 2008

I AM BACK FROM JAPANNNNN! :DDDDDDDD
zomg zomg it rocks like dunno wht.
I ♥ NIPPON :D
the land of the rising sun and as qingaidee so aptly puts it, "the land of cute and pretty little boys and ~~horrid~~, breathy english and lovely flip-phones and long stripped socks and chocolate-banana crepes and school girls with thick make-up and scary otakus."
yes, pretty much so xD
but also, the land of NEWS, Arashi and JE!
hahaha and as a lot of people already know
I SAW NINOMIYA KAZUNARI IN JAPAN!!!
but i was so excited and nervous and rooted to the ground i didnt dare to take any photos.
plus they were filming something and aiba was in some robotish costume
probably one of the weird and adorkable segments in himitsu no arashi chan i think
haiz i feel such a failure as a fangirl
i wish i could have stormed up, gave him a huge hug, take a photo with him, ask him to sign it and run off to the bus
hahahaha but no.
i wont ever have the courage to do tht hahaha.
ok shall blog about the trip day by day:

day one
haha took the 8am flight from sg on Japan Airlines
reached there around 4 plus pm japan time
the sun was already setting at tht time.
checked into some hotel in narita then went off to Aeon Narita for shopping!
had delicious udon for dinner! (actually almost everything i ate there was delicious lah xD)
then also bought a boat of takoyaki!
very very nice :D
nicer thn singapore definitely hahah

looks like the one i whole day see in gokusen!! xD
and when we were walking around, i saw NEWS commercial for their precious rose products!

waahaha i love tht photoshoot la
they all look so good there and pi's hair is still nice and straight.
hahahha
day one was pretty much just shopping around in narita lah.
then went back hotel to watch teevee and sleeep (:

day two
tokyo disneyland dayyyyy!
zomg zomg cos we went on a sunday and the following monday was a holiday
it was freaking imba crowded
we had to wait at least 25 mins for the rides la
more popular rides took like 75 mins
siao siao
and like 90 plus percent were locals
hahahah
they really all look very good :D
the guys are stylish, the girls are preeety and the kids are sooo cute!!
and they all like wear the cute disney caps and hairbands around the park. haha
and disneyland is really really pretty
even the monorail (that links disneyland and disneysea) is so cute!!

they were celebrating their 25th anniversary this year!

i was impressed at how orderly the baby prams are lined up!! xDD
cos prams cnt be brought into the rides, so must leave outside
haha

okok some random pic spam at disneyland

then after disneyland, we went to some sunshine city prince hotel in ikebukuro
had dinner, then shopped about ikebukuro.
i was looking about for ikebukuro west park (yamapi's drama title and location) hahaha
i only could find ikebukuro east T_T
shopped around, bought my NEWS color album!
and two magazines :DDDDDD
one had arashi on the cover looking perrfecttt :D

day three
went to shinjuku in the morning
which was supposedly the red light district in tokyo
hahaha
saw a lot of host clubs and night clubs xD
immediately thought of all the host clubs tht appeared in dramas
hahahah
the host clubs had like the faces of the hosts outside of the clubs for all to see la
for the women to choose which clubs had best looking hosts bah
haha
photos of vibrant shinjuku!

then after tht we went to the asakusa temple!
i went to buy myself a fu3 like sirui's!
thn there was this nakamise avenue near the temple with many many different shops
selling all sorts of food and souveniers
very nice!

after tht we had some japanese lunch!

looks yummy right! haha was quite nice (:
then after tht went to take some boat to go to odaiba park
saw the magnificent rainbow bridge, many seagulls and the japan's statue of liberty there!

also saw the iconic building of the fuji tv headquarters!

then after tht went to some hotel at the botoom of mount fuji tht had an onsen!
changed into yukatas for the traditional japanese dinner! :D
i loved tht hotel lah!
so traditional and japanese-sy
the hotel room also!
thn we slept on tatamis at night!
very cute :D

oh and wenwen tried to zi4 pai1. so cute lah xD

hahahahah

day four
we went up to mount fuji!! :D
but due to weather conditions, we only went up a little.
but still, managed to see the beautiful snow capped mount fuji :D

then we went to some peace park near mount fuji.
it was in THIS FATEFUL PARK WHERE I SAW NINO AND AIBA.
i was just going around innocently picking up beautiful maple leaves for sirui and taking photos of the park.

then i trailed off to this smaller and more secluded region
then i saw this crowd of ppl
and this person with a towel on his head who looked strangely like aiba from afar
so i moved closer, praying tht next to him got somemore arashi members (i wasnt even thinking of nino, i was just glad to see another arashi member)
BUT NOOOO SOMEONE UP THERE LOVES ME SO MUCH
NEXT TO AIBA WAS MY LOVELY AND KAWAII NINOOOOOO
i was like zomg zomg zomg ITS NINO!!!!
i was so exicted and nervous and speechless
and i refused to leave the place
and stood about 10-20m away from nino, smiling like an idiot
hahahahah
and i swear our eyes met for a split second!!!!
hahahahaha
then after some time, after i regained some consciousness, i asked my brother to take a photo of ninooo
but he only managaed to take a photo of aiba in the roboty thing
nino disappeared from the photo T_T

haha after tht a very jittery me went for lunch at this very beautiful place with a very great view of the buildings below!
the restaurant building was like some windmill thingy

i couldnt really eat much lah. was thinking more about my beautiful encounter with nino the whole while
hahahahahahah (:
then we took the bus to hakone and visited this active volcano and went to visit the owakudani boiling valley
where there was like smoke emitting from the ground and this boiling lake
hahaha and there was a lot of super pungent hydrogen sulphie
and mdm ching was right, it really does smell like rotten eggs.
haha thn we also ate the eggs tht were cooked in the lake or sth i think
until it became blackk
and one egg is supp to extend ur life by 7 years .___.

then there was this souvenier shop at the bottom!
and i took photo with the hello kitty outside haha

there's like hello kitty everywhere in japan lah!
and they come in all forms
one region has its own specialised hello kitty
for eg this mountain famous for the black eggs, so they have hello kitty in the black egg form, or holding the black egg etc
and osaka is famous for the takoyaki, so they hello kitty cooking takoyaki sold there
SO CUTEEE :D
i wanted to get one.
but super ex, like S$8-9 for one handphone strap
haiz
oh after tht was qt exciting
we went to tk the shinkansen! (bullet train)
its really super super fast
cos we were waiting at the train stn, and some trains didnt stop at this stn, so they zoomed past us
wah piangs i think if someone really light stands there can fly off lah.
its freaking fast and scary
hahahah
can feel a force exerted on you kind.
hahah

but once ur inside the train, its really comfy and quiet
and you dun feel how fast its moving
cos like how dear physics has taught us, we are moving as fast as the train, so we dont experience the acceleration ahahahha

we took the train to this place called toyohashi
after eating dinner, we went to this department store called ito-yokado
shopped ard for a while
their shopping all close very early one lah!
like average 830 or 900pm close alr
haha so went back hotel to watch tv and sleep :D

day five
went to see some kimono show in the morning

very pretty!! haha stayed for a while only la then moved off to take this train thingy at ARASHIyama
hahahaha we went to a place whose name had the word arashi in it xDDD
anw the mountain was really beautiful
like lakes and maple leaves
and the train was really cute too
when it went thru the tunnels
it was all pitch balck except for the filament bulbs lighting up the carriages
had a very harry potter feel.

oh qingaidee! look! your old and forgotten love xDDDD

then we had very delicious tempura and soba lunchh before moving off to another temple called the kiyomizu temple

i wanna write on such a wooden wishing plague too!

the temple is quite cool cos its built fully on wooden beams
like no steel nails or hinges or anything
haha
and there was this really cute and traditional tea house on the way out

oh i got another fu3 for myself from this temple too
this time its for happiness (: (thinks of the arashi song)
hahahaha
and i got one for sirui too!
cos the temple's kanji is 清水
which can also be read as shimizu
who is her long distance love from waseda xDDDDD
then at night we went to osaka!!
the land where my dear ryo-chan is born!
my sexy osaka man xDDD
went to this shopping district called Shinsaibashi to shop

hahah its really really crowded
and longgg
lots of stuff to shop!
and the zara there is like 4 stories hahah
and i helped my brother buy his converse shoes while speaking to shop person fully in jap!!!
i think i am so imba :D
but it was just simple conversation lah. but still i felt satisfied. :D
oh i ate a chocobanana crepe here too! very very nice (:
and i saw a au by KDDI shop.
which is a brand of mobile phone operator tht arashi endorses!
and there were 5 blocks stacked up on top of each other outside the shop
one of each had a face of each arashi member
so i took a photo of the nino one!

after tht we had oishii shabu shabu for dinner!
and we went to our hotel
which was in universal city!
so we stayed in some universal studios themed hotel!
its damn damn cute
there was woody woodpecker everywhere!

and the lift was so cute!
instead of the normal digital thing tht tells u wht floor you are at, they have this clock thingy!
we stay on the eleventh floor (:

day six
on this day, there was a choice between going to kobe and going to universal studios
we chose to go kobe cause we figured wen wen cant really sit much of the rides also
but we still went to universal studios outside there to take some photos!

i bet jasmine would love those elmo earmuffs!

then aft tht we left for kobe~
went to see the world's longest suspension bridge!
it links honshu with shikoku
we went up to the observatory there
which was about 47m above the sea
then there was this section whereby you are stepping on glass
so you could see the see below you
qt scary hahaha
my legs were like jelly
i just hurried across and didnt really dare look down hahaha

after tht was lunch followed by moree shopping!
lunch was tonkatsu! very nice too (:
its like fried pork cutlet with rice and salad
we also visited the chinatown in kobe
which was selling you tiao for 200 yen each
SIAO
ahhahahaha

after tht went back to the universal studios hotel!(:
walked along the universal citywalk for yet some more shopping ahahha

(points above) its yet another crepe shop! :D
oh went back to the hotel
and watched himitsu no arashi chan on teeveee
and was very happy about it :D
but i was qt reluctant to go sleep ):
cos its my last night in japan alr.
damn sadddd x.x

day 7
last morning in japannnn x.x
went osaka castle to walk walk and take photos.
a lot of students were there too!
school excursions haha

another of their very traditional shops
this one sells takoyaki!

wenwen is so kawaii (((:
thn we left for kansai airport ):
the whole airport is like built on reclaimed landd
qt cool lah the whole land only got airport
hahah

haiz. then its bye bye japan and hello singapore
i miss japannnnnn ))):
and the beautiful people on the streets
and the courteous service staff (SO MUCH better thn sg)
and the cool autumn weather
and the chance to sprout a little japanese whenever possible (haha)
and the polite culture of japanese
and the clean air(wah the air there really very very clear)
and ninoo, and yamapi, and many more xD

ok i shall work hard to make lotsa money so i can visit it again nxt yr! (:
yay! (:

missingY O U