Hey guys, after procrastinating quite a bit, it's now my turn to start blogging my post-trip thoughts. Exactly one week ago, we would all have just landed in Changi, you know, just right at this moment Yanting and I would be at the baggage claim section waiting for our luggage and wondering why it hasn't come. Haha.
I guess you can see that we all miss the trip really badly. We miss the weather, even the rainy days, the thrill of exploring a country, a city as individualistic as Tokyo, on our own, and we miss all the things we see and hear that are foreign to us. Japan has always been a place of dreams for us, and no amount of tired legs can take away that exhilaration.
And I'm glad I spent this eleven days with three people who can enjoy it as much as me. I love the fact that we managed to go everywhere we wanted to go ourselves, with the help of a handy tour guide map, and our zeal to make it work. To Andy, Yanting and Darryn, I'm sure we will all look back at this and savour every memory.
Eh, my entry also become emo le.
There were many moments of real joy in this trip - a lot of places we loved, Disneyland, Mitaka, Odaiba being a few. People we met, Akiko-san and Akimoto-san at the Tokyo Teleport station in Odaiba, taking the Rinkai Line home.. Yanting's hairstylists, the Burberry Blue Label guy in Harajuku, Ameyokoyaki guy and the shoes salemen in Ameyokocho.. Travelling seems all the better, when you meet people in that country who welcome you with a smile.
Pictures are being put up on facebook, slowly but surely, and you can access the first day here: Tokyo Travels Day 1
and slowly make your way through the other albums.
I will go to Japan again, like Chelsea said, the other seasons are as amazing. And perhaps then, another blog as wonderful as this will spring up, and will serve as my memory of another great journey.
=) loves
velda
Saturday, April 26
Wednesday, April 23
Post-Trip Thoughts: The Closing Chapter
Well, it has been almost a week now since we arrived home from our most wonderful trip in Tokyo. In fact, at this very moment exactly a week ago, we should have just returned from Odaiba after taking the Ferris Wheel. And the next day would be a shopping day in Harajuku. Fast isn't it? Life's back to the usual again and inevitably the Tokyo trip is dearly missed.
Post-Tokyo Syndrome, i call it. Haha. Looking at the photos we took brings back all the memorable moments that we had. From Day 1 to Day 11. From our little cosy place in Shinjuku that we call home for 11 days to almost every single part of Tokyo. It was truly fun and enjoyable, to say the least.
This blog was read by our avid fans during the 11 days, and I'm glad that it is also a blog that the 4 of us share, a blog to reminisce. We can read it over and over again without getting bored. Good job guys! :)
Okay, to lighten the mood of my entry abit... (i realise it's abit emo, haha)
I just wanna say that I'm happy and proud of the 4 of us for making this trip, for allowing everything to go according to plan. But most importantly that we enjoyed ourselves tremendously. Japan is a nice place to be, nice people, nice places, nice scenery, nice weather. And we managed to take a total number of 845 photos! Amazing!
Not to mention a whole lot of videos from Yanting's videocam as well. Haha.
Andy the Tour Leader,
Signing off now, with a picture of the 4 of us...
@ VenusFort, Odaiba
Saturday, April 19
Day 11
We checked out of Shinjuku Kent Hotel at 11am, and left our bags at front desk counter to make our way to Shinjuku Sta. to buy our Narita Express tickets. The moment we came out of the Narita Express ticket office, it was to see the way back shrouded in a mist of heavy rain. *thunderclap*
5 minutes later, the people on the streets of Shinjuku saw 4 drenched tourists lugging around 12 baggages, walking desperately fast to seek the nearest sheltered way to the subway station.
"Yanting I can smell your hair's salon smell from here!" - Velda in the rain
We waved goodbye to Tokyo as we sat on the Narita Express on the way to the airport, and got more omiyages from the airport mall. We even made overseas calls from the telephone booth to our parents back in Sg. And I made a domestic call to HAIR DRESS Tachibana... Hehe it was fun.
I am proud of Darryn and Andy for being able to refuse the temptation of the 'pull ball' catchers, so that we managed to catch our 11.40am train. Proud of Velda for getting us to the Shinjuku train station in the rain. Proud of myself for really getting down to studying on the airplane for my Japanese exam on Sat.
Most of all, I am glad that the four of us had fun! ^^
"Shin-ju-kku, Shin-ju-kuu."
"Tsugi wa, Takadano-baba. Takadano-baba."
love from
yanz
PS: T3 rocks my socks! And Sg is HOT!
5 minutes later, the people on the streets of Shinjuku saw 4 drenched tourists lugging around 12 baggages, walking desperately fast to seek the nearest sheltered way to the subway station.
"Yanting I can smell your hair's salon smell from here!" - Velda in the rain
We waved goodbye to Tokyo as we sat on the Narita Express on the way to the airport, and got more omiyages from the airport mall. We even made overseas calls from the telephone booth to our parents back in Sg. And I made a domestic call to HAIR DRESS Tachibana... Hehe it was fun.
I am proud of Darryn and Andy for being able to refuse the temptation of the 'pull ball' catchers, so that we managed to catch our 11.40am train. Proud of Velda for getting us to the Shinjuku train station in the rain. Proud of myself for really getting down to studying on the airplane for my Japanese exam on Sat.
Most of all, I am glad that the four of us had fun! ^^
"Shin-ju-kku, Shin-ju-kuu."
"Tsugi wa, Takadano-baba. Takadano-baba."
love from
yanz
PS: T3 rocks my socks! And Sg is HOT!
Thursday, April 17
Day Jew - Jyu - 10
Holla to da homies back in SGland! Today is our last adventurous day in TOKYO! Ok not that much to do today except catch up on last minute shopping and eating!
We started out late in the morning at 11am where we headed out to Isetan to get Andy's papa his document bag and shirt! Burberry Black Label is da rox arse cause its exclusively in Japan only.
But before that, we had Brunch! Roar! At Isetan's Casual Dining Restaurant... But the price wasnt casual at all :) haha. But the food was like godsend again!
After shopping and eating, we MOVED to HARAJUKU to search for the BAPE store + Yt's Hair Salon. We left Yt at Tachibana and me vel and andy walked to omotesando (aka HIGH CLASS place) to look for BAPE. We saw like all the branded goods shop along the way like LV, Gucci, Prada, Kate Ashley etc. Wa lau... Super chor sia see liao also scared! Vel bought some make up from Shu Uemura. Rich kia. Tour guide so rich de :(
WE finally found the BAPE store (legitimate one). Everything was super nice... to me that is. haha. Vel bought boxers for her bro... Nice sexy blue camo one haha. I bought... A long sleeve shirt. quite sexy also la :) haha.
We went back to Burberry Blue Label Men's section to get my sexay shoesss. Ok la abit Haolian la. but then vel they all richer then me. buy wallet same price as my shoes! :(.
Ok yt shall blog about her hair curling experience! HAHAHA.
DINNER was a FULL AFFAIR!!! Andy and me ate the exact same thing, bento + sushi. Vel was eating some bento crap + soba from convenience store cause she always fugging hungry! haha. Yt ate some kucheeroookie (Yanting says it's Sakana Koroke) or some shit like that also.
and now they are talking about nipples and shit. god they are hilarious dipsters!
/wrist
darryn
- yanting here desu!
we are talking about hokkien versions of japanese song desu. anyway, i went to a hair salon called Tachibana in Harajuku. The owner, Tachibana, speaks English, according to the website I saw. But because he was out today, I met 2 other hairstylists, Ai Saotome (五月女和) san and Hiroki Ohmori (大森浩希) san...
First of all, Hiroki san shampooed my hair, and gave it a long, comfortable head massage. Then they sat me in the chair, draped a blanket over my legs, and started chatting with me about our tokyo trip and about Singapore. Usually I don't like trying out new salons, because I don't usually hold up conversations well, but they made an effort to get me to start talking and feel comfortable. And despite the fact that only Ai san knew a bit of English and me talking in super broken Japanese, it was the first time I felt that I shared the same frequency as my hairstylists. I had a good time chatting with them... :)
Like the website said, if you are looking for a professional and careful haircut by friendly staff, this is the place to go. If you reside in Tokyo, that is. Hahaha.
The review of the place: http://www.englishok.jp/shops/tachibana/review.php
We started out late in the morning at 11am where we headed out to Isetan to get Andy's papa his document bag and shirt! Burberry Black Label is da rox arse cause its exclusively in Japan only.
But before that, we had Brunch! Roar! At Isetan's Casual Dining Restaurant... But the price wasnt casual at all :) haha. But the food was like godsend again!
After shopping and eating, we MOVED to HARAJUKU to search for the BAPE store + Yt's Hair Salon. We left Yt at Tachibana and me vel and andy walked to omotesando (aka HIGH CLASS place) to look for BAPE. We saw like all the branded goods shop along the way like LV, Gucci, Prada, Kate Ashley etc. Wa lau... Super chor sia see liao also scared! Vel bought some make up from Shu Uemura. Rich kia. Tour guide so rich de :(
WE finally found the BAPE store (legitimate one). Everything was super nice... to me that is. haha. Vel bought boxers for her bro... Nice sexy blue camo one haha. I bought... A long sleeve shirt. quite sexy also la :) haha.
We went back to Burberry Blue Label Men's section to get my sexay shoesss. Ok la abit Haolian la. but then vel they all richer then me. buy wallet same price as my shoes! :(.
Ok yt shall blog about her hair curling experience! HAHAHA.
DINNER was a FULL AFFAIR!!! Andy and me ate the exact same thing, bento + sushi. Vel was eating some bento crap + soba from convenience store cause she always fugging hungry! haha. Yt ate some kucheeroookie (Yanting says it's Sakana Koroke) or some shit like that also.
and now they are talking about nipples and shit. god they are hilarious dipsters!
/wrist
darryn
- yanting here desu!
we are talking about hokkien versions of japanese song desu. anyway, i went to a hair salon called Tachibana in Harajuku. The owner, Tachibana, speaks English, according to the website I saw. But because he was out today, I met 2 other hairstylists, Ai Saotome (五月女和) san and Hiroki Ohmori (大森浩希) san...
First of all, Hiroki san shampooed my hair, and gave it a long, comfortable head massage. Then they sat me in the chair, draped a blanket over my legs, and started chatting with me about our tokyo trip and about Singapore. Usually I don't like trying out new salons, because I don't usually hold up conversations well, but they made an effort to get me to start talking and feel comfortable. And despite the fact that only Ai san knew a bit of English and me talking in super broken Japanese, it was the first time I felt that I shared the same frequency as my hairstylists. I had a good time chatting with them... :)
Like the website said, if you are looking for a professional and careful haircut by friendly staff, this is the place to go. If you reside in Tokyo, that is. Hahaha.
The review of the place: http://www.englishok.jp/shops/tachibana/review.php
Amazing ne, these things!
1: The chairs where they shampoo your head is AUTOMATIC. So you just sit there upright, and the chair will lower you down to the basin... And it was ticklish!
2: They give you a CUSHION (shaped like a banana to put around your waist) to hug just cuz it's cute and comfortable.
3: There's like a small special ROOM for customers to come in and change out of their coats into a GOWN provided by the salon on a rainy day.
4: Their 'Omizu' (water) / 'Ocha' (tea) is served in a paper cup placed within a plastic cup holder... So every customer gets a new cup instead of sharing. Smart eh?
5: Not to mention they have nice apple and honey flavored sweets... ^^
The website: http://www.hairdress-tachibana.com/p/
Yanting after salon
Vel refused to let me take a picture of her new dyed eyebrows though... But she did it because it was cheap! At 1500 yen, it is almost SGD 21. Okay la maybe it sounded a little cheaper than we thought... *sheepish smille*
*Back at the hotel*
We were playing a hide and seek game of some part of Andy's body, and we even have a winner for the contest, ME! But, Andy shy, so I shan't tell you what contest it was. Maybe you can ask Vel for the pictures... Haha... Good night all!
so says,
Yanz
Wednesday, April 16
Day Nine (9)!
Today we went to Odaiba!
Odaiba is, according to very knowledgable Vel Khoo, a sort of futuristic view of how Japanese scientist expect Japan to be like as it progresses. Even the Yurikamome train had tracks that ran above and overlooked the sea and the Rainbow bridge...
At 19 degrees c, it was the perfect temperature for us to visit our Oedo ONSEN Monogatari!
At the Onsen, we got to choose a yukata and met up at the foot bath area, which is shared by both females and males. (BTW, it was Ladies' Day today, which means females pay 500 yen LESS than the usual price! WHEE...) From there on, we separated into our different gender baths; and because we obviously were not allowed to take a camera into the area of naked bodies, we don't have photos! ^^ It was a bit wierd for me but Vel kept telling me whatever everyone else had we also had; and by the time you go into the onsen area and you see all the ah mas and little kids running around, it's almost like going back to younger days of public baths at swimming complexes.
The onsens there was shiok-anathans! There was the 'introductory' tang, at body temp of 38 degs. Vel's fav. And there's a shio-onsen (saltwater onsen, very good for injured skins) at a temp of 40 nearly 41 degs, which Vel so totally cannot take it, but I loved... And we keep going from the hot one to the cold one at 20 degs, which feels like it's freezing after the 40 degs one! But the one we both loved, was the nemu-tang (sleeping onsen), where you just lie down in the jacuzzi and sleep... ^^
They really pamper you at that place; hair dryers and lotions for body and hair were provided for you after you finish bathing, and everyone walks around the place looking refreshed, glowing and in their nice yukatas.
We left Oedo Onsen and headed for Palette Town! Which we suspect Pokemon 'koped' the name from this place to put as one of their towns. It consists of VenusFort, the Palette Ferris Wheel and SEGA Joypolis.
Has expensive shops like Burberry Blue Label and a lot of other shops that don't ring a bell. But we found this shop: www.lush.co.jp, and we got a lot of nice gifts from this shop! go check it out.
Then we went to the Ferris Wheel...
Had to go past the Toyota showroom, where they had the Toyota MotorSports Simulator (the racing type). Looked super fun but we weren't allowed to go cuz it was filled with high school students on their school trip again.
We ate 4 meals today... HELP! Japan's food is really too good to resist. Andy asking what's for breakfast tomorrow now... save us...
Meal 1: MacDonalds
Meal 2: Soba, Ramen, Udon, Ice Kachang, Soft Serve
Meal 3: Hayashi Omu-Rice
Meal 4: ODEN! + Soba AGAIN
~ We met bery nice people while waiting for the train back to Shinjuku from Tokyo Teleport Station. We boarded a train headed for the depot, and the 2 ladies behind us gestured to us and pulled us back from the train doors. So paiseh! Then they laughed at our paisehness, and we started chatting with them. Their names are Akiko san and Akimoto san.
Akiko san knew English, while Akimoto san spoke more with Vel cuz she only spoke Japanese. Then we talked about where we came from, Singapore, and when they asked us to describe what was the difference between the two countries. We talked about how Japan's weather is so nice while ours is hot like all year round; and how there is so much to see in just tokyo and like maybe they can visit bukit timah nature reserve in sg... And the food is much better here! How Sg cars are super expensive, and yet we can travel from one end to another within an hour by MRT... ^^ Quite interesting convos we had, trying to think about what can best describe our country.
Akimoto san very cute; she said, "Oh! You've visited so many places in Tokyo that even I haven't gone. I've only been to Hawaii and Guam..."
*pengs* ~
Haha so this concludes the end of our very wonderful day at Odaiba, a beautiful place with nice weather, nice scenery and interesting surprises around every corner.
so says Yanz
Odaiba is, according to very knowledgable Vel Khoo, a sort of futuristic view of how Japanese scientist expect Japan to be like as it progresses. Even the Yurikamome train had tracks that ran above and overlooked the sea and the Rainbow bridge...
At 19 degrees c, it was the perfect temperature for us to visit our Oedo ONSEN Monogatari!
CUTE!
At the Onsen, we got to choose a yukata and met up at the foot bath area, which is shared by both females and males. (BTW, it was Ladies' Day today, which means females pay 500 yen LESS than the usual price! WHEE...) From there on, we separated into our different gender baths; and because we obviously were not allowed to take a camera into the area of naked bodies, we don't have photos! ^^ It was a bit wierd for me but Vel kept telling me whatever everyone else had we also had; and by the time you go into the onsen area and you see all the ah mas and little kids running around, it's almost like going back to younger days of public baths at swimming complexes.
The onsens there was shiok-anathans! There was the 'introductory' tang, at body temp of 38 degs. Vel's fav. And there's a shio-onsen (saltwater onsen, very good for injured skins) at a temp of 40 nearly 41 degs, which Vel so totally cannot take it, but I loved... And we keep going from the hot one to the cold one at 20 degs, which feels like it's freezing after the 40 degs one! But the one we both loved, was the nemu-tang (sleeping onsen), where you just lie down in the jacuzzi and sleep... ^^
They really pamper you at that place; hair dryers and lotions for body and hair were provided for you after you finish bathing, and everyone walks around the place looking refreshed, glowing and in their nice yukatas.
us around the shops inside the place
doesn't darryn look like he's having the time of his life?
a tatami room for relaxation... *kimochii*
We left Oedo Onsen and headed for Palette Town! Which we suspect Pokemon 'koped' the name from this place to put as one of their towns. It consists of VenusFort, the Palette Ferris Wheel and SEGA Joypolis.
They have a casino in the middle of the VenusFort mall square... How tmd is that?
VenusFort is beautiful! Need we say more?
Has expensive shops like Burberry Blue Label and a lot of other shops that don't ring a bell. But we found this shop: www.lush.co.jp, and we got a lot of nice gifts from this shop! go check it out.
Then we went to the Ferris Wheel...
The Ferris Wheel is beautiful.
We went at night, after like spending 2 hours at these m.o.f.o catchers again.
Had to go past the Toyota showroom, where they had the Toyota MotorSports Simulator (the racing type). Looked super fun but we weren't allowed to go cuz it was filled with high school students on their school trip again.
our Ferris Wheel ride momento... ^^
We ate 4 meals today... HELP! Japan's food is really too good to resist. Andy asking what's for breakfast tomorrow now... save us...
Meal 1: MacDonalds
Meal 2: Soba, Ramen, Udon, Ice Kachang, Soft Serve
Meal 3: Hayashi Omu-Rice
Meal 4: ODEN! + Soba AGAIN
~ We met bery nice people while waiting for the train back to Shinjuku from Tokyo Teleport Station. We boarded a train headed for the depot, and the 2 ladies behind us gestured to us and pulled us back from the train doors. So paiseh! Then they laughed at our paisehness, and we started chatting with them. Their names are Akiko san and Akimoto san.
Akiko san knew English, while Akimoto san spoke more with Vel cuz she only spoke Japanese. Then we talked about where we came from, Singapore, and when they asked us to describe what was the difference between the two countries. We talked about how Japan's weather is so nice while ours is hot like all year round; and how there is so much to see in just tokyo and like maybe they can visit bukit timah nature reserve in sg... And the food is much better here! How Sg cars are super expensive, and yet we can travel from one end to another within an hour by MRT... ^^ Quite interesting convos we had, trying to think about what can best describe our country.
Akimoto san very cute; she said, "Oh! You've visited so many places in Tokyo that even I haven't gone. I've only been to Hawaii and Guam..."
*pengs* ~
Haha so this concludes the end of our very wonderful day at Odaiba, a beautiful place with nice weather, nice scenery and interesting surprises around every corner.
so says Yanz
Tuesday, April 15
Day Eight
Yo! I guess you all missed me because i haven't been blogging. =) My sore throat is now better, yay, and we had a sunny day today, in tokyo.
We went to Yokohama today! Yatta! Went to visit a place I have been wanting to visit for a loong time alr, the Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum.
The inside of the museum is styled according to old-style Japan, with all the famed ramen shops around a small square. Weird, they even made the clean toilet look dirty. -_-"
We had ramen from Shinasobaya, one of the ramen shops there. It was really good, loved the charsiew! Andy and I had the special egg which was 300 yen each (about S$4.20). It came from chickens that only laid one egg A WEEK. The taste was really good.
After the ramen lunch, we moved on the Yokohama's famed Chinatown. It was a great experience, even though we were tired. =) The place was full of... Chinese people. >_< And chestnut shops, and pork buns shops, and ice cream shops, and Chinese souvenir (ie panda) shops. Yanting met a reallllly cute puppy on the street, and we managed to make a few people stop and stare at the doggie too.
I had pandaman! It was a bun with a panda face, and filled with chocolate custard. yumm.
We went on to Sweets Forest in Jiyugaoka after that (imagine how tired we were, after walking all that distance), and sat down to a delicious sweet dessert. Sweets Forest was a great place where they congregated some of the best dessert houses in Japan. Something like the Raumen Museum, but desserts instead.
It was great sitting al fresco eating the desserts, and there were warm blankets provided on the chairs if you were cold. =) wow. Yanting was really excited at the blankets because it ngam her bag. heheh.
We went to walk the shops that sold baking stuff, and Yanting was really impressed with the chocolate cellar! woohoo!
After a loong day we stopped at Family Mart for dinner, and I just thought I would try the Oden. It turned out to be reallly good, and everyone was impressed. So you can guess what we'll have for supper tmr!
Andy and Darryn are both addicted to the UFO catching things in Japan. It's become a daily affair, to go down into Shinjuku and try the arcades around. Yanting and I follow around, and sometimes we get some stuff too =) You'll see when we come back. =) We met some tourists who managed to catch a watch in the machine, and they hi-fived us. haha. I was sort of addicted to the Taiko Drum machine too, and Yanting and I sang and danced with the beat. Damn fun.
Okay, now Yanting and Andy are trying to outdo each other in Macdonald's and Disney jokes. Really very lame ones. And they're speaking in baby voices. And they're racist. Tsktsk.
It's ONSEN DAY tomorrow! =)
Signing off,
Velda
We went to Yokohama today! Yatta! Went to visit a place I have been wanting to visit for a loong time alr, the Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum.
Arashi went there for a variety programme many years ago.
The inside of the museum is styled according to old-style Japan, with all the famed ramen shops around a small square. Weird, they even made the clean toilet look dirty. -_-"
We had ramen from Shinasobaya, one of the ramen shops there. It was really good, loved the charsiew! Andy and I had the special egg which was 300 yen each (about S$4.20). It came from chickens that only laid one egg A WEEK. The taste was really good.
Andy loved it so much he finished the whole bowl.
After the ramen lunch, we moved on the Yokohama's famed Chinatown. It was a great experience, even though we were tired. =) The place was full of... Chinese people. >_< And chestnut shops, and pork buns shops, and ice cream shops, and Chinese souvenir (ie panda) shops. Yanting met a reallllly cute puppy on the street, and we managed to make a few people stop and stare at the doggie too.
I had pandaman! It was a bun with a panda face, and filled with chocolate custard. yumm.
We went on to Sweets Forest in Jiyugaoka after that (imagine how tired we were, after walking all that distance), and sat down to a delicious sweet dessert. Sweets Forest was a great place where they congregated some of the best dessert houses in Japan. Something like the Raumen Museum, but desserts instead.
It was great sitting al fresco eating the desserts, and there were warm blankets provided on the chairs if you were cold. =) wow. Yanting was really excited at the blankets because it ngam her bag. heheh.
We went to walk the shops that sold baking stuff, and Yanting was really impressed with the chocolate cellar! woohoo!
After a loong day we stopped at Family Mart for dinner, and I just thought I would try the Oden. It turned out to be reallly good, and everyone was impressed. So you can guess what we'll have for supper tmr!
Andy and Darryn are both addicted to the UFO catching things in Japan. It's become a daily affair, to go down into Shinjuku and try the arcades around. Yanting and I follow around, and sometimes we get some stuff too =) You'll see when we come back. =) We met some tourists who managed to catch a watch in the machine, and they hi-fived us. haha. I was sort of addicted to the Taiko Drum machine too, and Yanting and I sang and danced with the beat. Damn fun.
Okay, now Yanting and Andy are trying to outdo each other in Macdonald's and Disney jokes. Really very lame ones. And they're speaking in baby voices. And they're racist. Tsktsk.
It's ONSEN DAY tomorrow! =)
Signing off,
Velda
Monday, April 14
Day Seven
disneyland day! have been looking forward to this day cos it's a day to have fun, fun and more fun!
supposedly tokyo disneyland is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year on the 15th of april, which means that we missed it by a day. saw posters in shinjuku station promoting disneyland's spring carnival, which of course starts tomorrow. seems like quite a big event and probably something very different as well, the spring carnival. but well, it sure is gonna be crowded so on the brighter side we avoid the crowd tmr by going today.
woke up to a morning with light rain. but that didn't deter us from going to visit mickey. fortunately the rain cleared by noon. anyway we reached disneyland early in the morning at 9am right when its gates open. and we managed to try almost all the rides at the individual sections, namely adventureland, westernland, critter country, fantasyland, toontown and tomorrowland. it's interesting how the rides are divided like for example toontown is more for kids and tomorrowland comprises of all the more exciting and thrilling rides, and so on and so forth, you get the picture. darryn and i took the space mountain, though both of us have tried it before, in hong kong and LA respectively, but i kind of forgotten how it was like already. and even i got a little dizzy at the end of the ride cos it was just turning and turning many rounds in super high speed.
we watched two parades as well. pictures can be seen below.
disneyland is such a happy place, everybody is smiling and happy!
and i was quite disappointed because i was so looking forward to the fireworks at night because the one i saw at disneyland LA was super spectacular. but what we saw were just ordinary fireworks. no music, no storyline, no tinkerbell, no shaped fireworks. but it's alright in the end because we really enjoyed our day at tokyo disneyland! :)
at the entrance!
we all love eeyore!
but eeyore prefers to gay with darryn!
train ride!
vel likes salted popcorn
and i like my honey popcorn! i'm a pooh bear, hahaha
we have dumbo ears!
lunch and yanting had nice dessert
walt disney & mickey mouse and cinderella's castle in the background
group picture!
oh, i bought a house in disneyland, heh heh
go-kart in disneyland! super fun! we took it twice, hahaha
'jubilation' parade started with minnie mouse!
so cute, all the pui pui ones. eeyore was looking out for darryn
and presenting...the real dumbo!
mickey mouse!
we watched a 3D show
and the show at 5:30pm after all our rides. one man's dreammm!
the castle, really pretty at night
the electrical parade
nicenice! :)
and at the end of the day, i guess i took almost all the rides in disneyland, the most ever in my total 3 trips to disneyland.
vel, darryn and yanting had a lot of fun too. :)
signing off,
andy.
supposedly tokyo disneyland is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year on the 15th of april, which means that we missed it by a day. saw posters in shinjuku station promoting disneyland's spring carnival, which of course starts tomorrow. seems like quite a big event and probably something very different as well, the spring carnival. but well, it sure is gonna be crowded so on the brighter side we avoid the crowd tmr by going today.
woke up to a morning with light rain. but that didn't deter us from going to visit mickey. fortunately the rain cleared by noon. anyway we reached disneyland early in the morning at 9am right when its gates open. and we managed to try almost all the rides at the individual sections, namely adventureland, westernland, critter country, fantasyland, toontown and tomorrowland. it's interesting how the rides are divided like for example toontown is more for kids and tomorrowland comprises of all the more exciting and thrilling rides, and so on and so forth, you get the picture. darryn and i took the space mountain, though both of us have tried it before, in hong kong and LA respectively, but i kind of forgotten how it was like already. and even i got a little dizzy at the end of the ride cos it was just turning and turning many rounds in super high speed.
we watched two parades as well. pictures can be seen below.
disneyland is such a happy place, everybody is smiling and happy!
and i was quite disappointed because i was so looking forward to the fireworks at night because the one i saw at disneyland LA was super spectacular. but what we saw were just ordinary fireworks. no music, no storyline, no tinkerbell, no shaped fireworks. but it's alright in the end because we really enjoyed our day at tokyo disneyland! :)
and at the end of the day, i guess i took almost all the rides in disneyland, the most ever in my total 3 trips to disneyland.
vel, darryn and yanting had a lot of fun too. :)
signing off,
andy.
Sunday, April 13
Day Roku - aka 6
Hello avid readers of Shinjukupore! Its my turn now to broggg (blogg)... GOD! The one thing about Japan... are the amount of Chio Buussss walking around! You turn like 4 corners and you see like... WOAH WA WEET! hahaha. Beware though, if you have low tolerance of too chio stuffs, haha your nose will bleed. Not like me and Andy, can tong one :D. The other thing that me and Andy love is the PUDDING. Its as interesting as My Boss My Hero that pudding! HAHA. I ate like 187987987 of it everyday :)
Ok we had breakfast in bed (duh bought stuffs back to eat the night before) before we headed out to Shibuya -> Harajuku.
Shibuya!
We decided to go walk walk around Shibuya because it was supposedly like Orchard Road. Along the way, we made an interesting discovery!!! ALL OF THE people in Shibuya all gek shuai/chio ONE!!! haha. Very jialat. 1st time I see this level of beauty :x haha Anyways, the weather was cold and raining (10deg). My hands were numb like *(!&(*!&@!@. But andy the heater aka polar bear said it was alright. Geez... I broke my umbrella cause I was too strong :( There was this shop called Shibuya 109 which was an all girls departmental store and Shibuya 109 (Men). Nothing nice to see in there though, not our style (ATAS STYLE IS NOT ACHIEVED).The style there resembled our dear friend WeeOiii (Jason haw han siang) HAHAHA. really funny. We also bought another set of Bento! It was way cheaper than those in Isetan...-_-"
Takeshita street was packed!
After leaving that act shuai/chio place, we headed down to Harajuku! The street which we started our walking was called Takeshita and the crowd was like what the flying *(!&@? It was packed!! Spotted like a Crepe shop and decided that our starving stomachs needed some major sexy Crepe. I had the smoked salmon + cream cheese one, Andy had the Banana Chocolate Banana one. GODDDD those crepes were to die for. THAT TASTE! SOME ONE RE-CREATE IT!!! Vel and Yt just stared at our expressions while we finished it :) hehehe. walked around somemore and Andy suggested to us we should have another one! There was a shop up ahead! This time however, Vel and Yt joined in! HAHAHA they could not resist that SEXY CREPE! Laooochiii :)
Greedy Andy and Hungry Me :)
Crepe and more crepes!
Condom Man along the street! Live Advertisement
We walked like abit further and decided to check out the Burberry Blue Label. Vel and Yt decided to pamper themselves and bought like a wallet each for SGD $200+. Andy COULDNT resist the Blue label too! He bought a shirt there! $SGD 200+ also!
Burberry Blue Label. Exclusive to Japan only ^^
After that expensive kick ass happy shopping, we decided to go back. We spotted this hotdog van on the way back! Yt couldnt resist that cheesy + long hotdog! Tasted fatas - bulous!!!
New York Hotdog Stand in Japan
Preparing the hotdog with superb skills
Yanting famished + ready to eat look
Rested a while in the hotel and ate our so called dinner around 4:45pm. I slept till like 6+ and Andy proclaimed that he was hungry again! (as usual la). We tried out the Lotteria Burger! Was good also. WARM and CHEEEEEESY!!!
Burger Set... Tastes better than Singapore patties :)
END OF DAY 6!!! DISNEYLAND IS TOMORROW! cant wait to smack Mickey Mouse's Butt :D
/wrist
Darryn the cool kick buttcheeks dude :0!
Ok we had breakfast in bed (duh bought stuffs back to eat the night before) before we headed out to Shibuya -> Harajuku.
We decided to go walk walk around Shibuya because it was supposedly like Orchard Road. Along the way, we made an interesting discovery!!! ALL OF THE people in Shibuya all gek shuai/chio ONE!!! haha. Very jialat. 1st time I see this level of beauty :x haha Anyways, the weather was cold and raining (10deg). My hands were numb like *(!&(*!&@!@. But andy the heater aka polar bear said it was alright. Geez... I broke my umbrella cause I was too strong :( There was this shop called Shibuya 109 which was an all girls departmental store and Shibuya 109 (Men). Nothing nice to see in there though, not our style (ATAS STYLE IS NOT ACHIEVED).The style there resembled our dear friend WeeOiii (Jason haw han siang) HAHAHA. really funny. We also bought another set of Bento! It was way cheaper than those in Isetan...-_-"
After leaving that act shuai/chio place, we headed down to Harajuku! The street which we started our walking was called Takeshita and the crowd was like what the flying *(!&@? It was packed!! Spotted like a Crepe shop and decided that our starving stomachs needed some major sexy Crepe. I had the smoked salmon + cream cheese one, Andy had the Banana Chocolate Banana one. GODDDD those crepes were to die for. THAT TASTE! SOME ONE RE-CREATE IT!!! Vel and Yt just stared at our expressions while we finished it :) hehehe. walked around somemore and Andy suggested to us we should have another one! There was a shop up ahead! This time however, Vel and Yt joined in! HAHAHA they could not resist that SEXY CREPE! Laooochiii :)
We walked like abit further and decided to check out the Burberry Blue Label. Vel and Yt decided to pamper themselves and bought like a wallet each for SGD $200+. Andy COULDNT resist the Blue label too! He bought a shirt there! $SGD 200+ also!
After that expensive kick ass happy shopping, we decided to go back. We spotted this hotdog van on the way back! Yt couldnt resist that cheesy + long hotdog! Tasted fatas - bulous!!!
Rested a while in the hotel and ate our so called dinner around 4:45pm. I slept till like 6+ and Andy proclaimed that he was hungry again! (as usual la). We tried out the Lotteria Burger! Was good also. WARM and CHEEEEEESY!!!
END OF DAY 6!!! DISNEYLAND IS TOMORROW! cant wait to smack Mickey Mouse's Butt :D
/wrist
Darryn the cool kick buttcheeks dude :0!
Day Five
I finally am blogging now, am trying to recover from my sore throat =( Have taken some medicine, but I lost my voice. But well, we had a fulfilling but tiring day today, and I'll try to tell you all here bahh. It started with a Macs brekkers. Yanting and I had Mcgriddles, which was really interesting, because it was like a McMuffin with cheese sausage and egg, but the bread holding it together is sweet pancakes. -_-" It was not too bad, but a little too sweet after a while. Below is what Andy and Darryn had, the new Megaburger!
And then we headed to the famous Kaminarimon in Asakusa, to visit the Sensoji Temple. It was a great experience, and really crowded, because it was the weekend. The temple itself was kind of cool as well.
After leaving the crowd behind we headed for Kappabashi, which was about a fifteen-minute walk away. There we searched for the plastic food sample shops to get uh- plastic food samples - that were freakin real, by the way. You'll see us using them when we come back!
Then we made our way to Ueno's Ameyayokocho Market, where they got their seaweed, and Japanese snacks, and everything in between. It was crowded (duh), but damn fun. Cheap stuff!
This guy was selling Ameyokoyaki, which was a little like okonomiyaki, but hundred times better than the one you have in Singapore pasar malam. Which sucks, a lot. He was nice! After asking where we were from, he said "hor jiak!". >_<"
And then we went home after a short stop at Akihabara to get Yanting's friend's electronic dictionary, tired out. Dinner was a chinese affair. See Yanting had sheng mian of sorts..
And the rest of us had ramen, and fried rice, and gyoza. Darryn loved the gyoza loads think he was really hungry? But it was not too bad.
So that concludes Day Five of our trip - forecast's for rain tomorrow, and we're heading for Harajuku! Hope we get good pictures back. =)
Missing everyone,
Velda
And then we headed to the famous Kaminarimon in Asakusa, to visit the Sensoji Temple. It was a great experience, and really crowded, because it was the weekend. The temple itself was kind of cool as well.
After leaving the crowd behind we headed for Kappabashi, which was about a fifteen-minute walk away. There we searched for the plastic food sample shops to get uh- plastic food samples - that were freakin real, by the way. You'll see us using them when we come back!
Then we made our way to Ueno's Ameyayokocho Market, where they got their seaweed, and Japanese snacks, and everything in between. It was crowded (duh), but damn fun. Cheap stuff!
This guy was selling Ameyokoyaki, which was a little like okonomiyaki, but hundred times better than the one you have in Singapore pasar malam. Which sucks, a lot. He was nice! After asking where we were from, he said "hor jiak!". >_<"
And then we went home after a short stop at Akihabara to get Yanting's friend's electronic dictionary, tired out. Dinner was a chinese affair. See Yanting had sheng mian of sorts..
And the rest of us had ramen, and fried rice, and gyoza. Darryn loved the gyoza loads think he was really hungry? But it was not too bad.
So that concludes Day Five of our trip - forecast's for rain tomorrow, and we're heading for Harajuku! Hope we get good pictures back. =)
Missing everyone,
Velda
Day Four
Finally, a day where we woke up to find it SUNNY. ^_^ Of course, Andy the polar bear was complaining that the weather was hot, at a 'fantasically' high temperature of 20 DEGREES. now we call him andy the heater.
I am feeling proud of ourselves, we managed to find the Chuo line at the correct exit / entrance without having to walk through all the other 3 exits. And we headed to Mitaka to visit the whimsical Studio Ghibli Museum!
Wah, Mitaka was really pretty ne... It's a little far from Central Tokyo, and it really looked quite different from the Tokyo we've seen so far... As we walked down the streets of Mitaka, we saw these residential houses. Sakura petals were drifting down from the trees as the wind blew in our direction, and we were practically walking in a shower of sakura petals. There would be an occasional cyclist, a student returning from school, or people walking their really small dogs.
Studio Ghibli was amazing... The whole place was decorated to replicate scenes from animations done by SG. There was a room where they showed the film strips of the animation, and a replia of the workspace of the illustrators and scriptwriters of the shows. And there was a free movie viewing of the animation Koro no Osampo. KORO was super cute! A watery eyed look and you are sure to melt. Except got some wierd people behind us who kept laughing for no reason whatsoever. I think maybe it's cuz there were no English subs. TOO BAD ~ ... ^^ Unfortunately the Museum disallowed cameras in the place, so we cannot take pictures to show you all how beautiful it all looks! But here are some pictures on the outside of the museum..
Andy says, "Have to write that Darryn had to wear 4 layers of clothes on a sunny day." lau-jii... (lousy). hehe.
After a good lunch of hotdogs at SG cafe, we walked back to take photos of the nice quaint houses along the road.
Then, we took the train back to Shinjuku eki, and walked Isetan. The amount of food!!! at the basement of Isetan was oishii-looking! There were so many varieties, and every single one was in a nice packaging with delicious-looking food. I wanna bring Isetan basement home in my luggage...
Anyway, now we are back in the hotel, and Vel and I are offically sick. So we didn't do much during the afternoon. Play daidee lo. Haha, nvm, we'll make up for lost time these next few days. We also managed to come up with some secret code sign language, for words not very suitable of saying out loud. *does the pull ball action*
so says Yanz.
I am feeling proud of ourselves, we managed to find the Chuo line at the correct exit / entrance without having to walk through all the other 3 exits. And we headed to Mitaka to visit the whimsical Studio Ghibli Museum!
Wah, Mitaka was really pretty ne... It's a little far from Central Tokyo, and it really looked quite different from the Tokyo we've seen so far... As we walked down the streets of Mitaka, we saw these residential houses. Sakura petals were drifting down from the trees as the wind blew in our direction, and we were practically walking in a shower of sakura petals. There would be an occasional cyclist, a student returning from school, or people walking their really small dogs.
Studio Ghibli was amazing... The whole place was decorated to replicate scenes from animations done by SG. There was a room where they showed the film strips of the animation, and a replia of the workspace of the illustrators and scriptwriters of the shows. And there was a free movie viewing of the animation Koro no Osampo. KORO was super cute! A watery eyed look and you are sure to melt. Except got some wierd people behind us who kept laughing for no reason whatsoever. I think maybe it's cuz there were no English subs. TOO BAD ~ ... ^^ Unfortunately the Museum disallowed cameras in the place, so we cannot take pictures to show you all how beautiful it all looks! But here are some pictures on the outside of the museum..
Andy says, "Have to write that Darryn had to wear 4 layers of clothes on a sunny day." lau-jii... (lousy). hehe.
After a good lunch of hotdogs at SG cafe, we walked back to take photos of the nice quaint houses along the road.
Then, we took the train back to Shinjuku eki, and walked Isetan. The amount of food!!! at the basement of Isetan was oishii-looking! There were so many varieties, and every single one was in a nice packaging with delicious-looking food. I wanna bring Isetan basement home in my luggage...
Vel's superb bento of sukiyaki beef, lu dan, mushrooms, tofu, and rice! yummy!
My bento of wafu hamburger in mushroom sauce and ricee =)
Darryn's one is superb too!
And Andy's bento is the most expensive - omurice and roast beef/steak.. yums.
Anyway, now we are back in the hotel, and Vel and I are offically sick. So we didn't do much during the afternoon. Play daidee lo. Haha, nvm, we'll make up for lost time these next few days. We also managed to come up with some secret code sign language, for words not very suitable of saying out loud. *does the pull ball action*
so says Yanz.
Saturday, April 12
Day Three (Part Two)
Picking up where we left off... -->
It was raining like shiat when we left Tsukiji market, and it was also the first time my heat pack had a reason for existence. We were stuck at the Tsukiji-shijo station, because it was raining too heavily and too cold to make a trip to Asakusa, Akihabara and Ueno. Our convo at the station went something like this:
"So. What do we do now?"
"We definitely can't go with our original plan."
"Then where can we go now?"
*silence for 5 mins"
"Ok la, let's go back to the hotel."
It was only 8am then, and we were running out of things to do?? Hmm. don't believe. And true enough, TADA! We saw the light, that we can go to Namjatown!
Cat = Namja??
What's in Namjatown? ICECREAM and GYOZAA!!
available ice cream flavors range from vanilla to dracula premium. i wouldn't be surprised if we saw a durian one.. ^^
Now our boys are super addicted to the UFO catcher in Namjatown. Look at what we caught in 1 hour.
Andy san's fav machine started it all... - no. of toys we ate from this machine: 2 -
Vel's fav machine - no. of toys we ate from this machine: 4 -
i think the staff there was running out of bags for us... ne?
acting innocent
goodnitez, super tired now.
so says,
Yanz.
It was raining like shiat when we left Tsukiji market, and it was also the first time my heat pack had a reason for existence. We were stuck at the Tsukiji-shijo station, because it was raining too heavily and too cold to make a trip to Asakusa, Akihabara and Ueno. Our convo at the station went something like this:
"So. What do we do now?"
"We definitely can't go with our original plan."
"Then where can we go now?"
*silence for 5 mins"
"Ok la, let's go back to the hotel."
It was only 8am then, and we were running out of things to do?? Hmm. don't believe. And true enough, TADA! We saw the light, that we can go to Namjatown!
Cat = Namja??
What's in Namjatown? ICECREAM and GYOZAA!!
available ice cream flavors range from vanilla to dracula premium. i wouldn't be surprised if we saw a durian one.. ^^
Now our boys are super addicted to the UFO catcher in Namjatown. Look at what we caught in 1 hour.
Andy san's fav machine started it all... - no. of toys we ate from this machine: 2 -
Vel's fav machine - no. of toys we ate from this machine: 4 -
i think the staff there was running out of bags for us... ne?
acting innocent
goodnitez, super tired now.
so says,
Yanz.
Friday, April 11
Day Three (Part One)
Hey guys.. I lost an ooh yah pay yah som so im gg to have to blog for two days straight =( everyone's asleep except me. We woke up to a very dreary morning today - 9 degrees with wind and rain - not v good for tsukiji market outings. We were out of the hotel at 5.30am, and when we reached tsujiki, we didn't know that we could be killed in the traffic. People in boots were driving about in some funny trolley thingie at fast pace around the whole of the market, we literally had to look 360 degrees to make sure we wouldn't get knocked down. But other than that, Tsukiji was fun - I have never seen a fish market of this scale in my whole life. And the maguro.. woohoo.
Oops. Blogger seems to have hung on me, I'll try to blog on another post. To be continued!
Signing off,
Vel
Octopus lined up in a box: we saw sea urchin, some eel thingies, tons of fish, and a lot of stuff I didn't recognise. The fishmongers (?) were really reverent with it - look at the length of this thing!
That's the maguro, or tuna. It can go up to ten thousand US bucks a fish. tmd.
The market stretched on for metres ahead, and we only managed to walk one row.
This was what almost hit us every new crossing. Shat scary lah.
And we decided, we had to go for a real sushi breakfast. This chef was nice =)
Sushi! Proud of Huanggers for trying something she didn't like!
Oops. Blogger seems to have hung on me, I'll try to blog on another post. To be continued!
Signing off,
Vel
Wednesday, April 9
Day Two
hoho. today is my turn to blog. Day 2 in Tokyo and our very first full day.
awoke at 8am this morning after a rather sleepless night. darryn and i woke up countless number of times. the radio was on the whole night and at 2:30am it played 'a whole new world'. haha quite gay laa when darryn was sweaty and i was sleeping half naked (it was really warm in the hotel room without aircon) and then a love song starts playing. but a pleasant surprise as we were just listening to tons and tons of unfamiliar songs and then a nice song plays.
anyway, we ventured into the city of tokyo today. while looking for a lawson convenience store to buy our studio gibili tickets. (refer to entry on 11th april, fri) haha. and we didnt expect that lawson is so difficult to find despite so many convenience stores in the area that we are staying.
some selected pictures of the day...
we saw cherry blossoms! what's left of them though.
we found anpan man!
and in between, a lot of just walking around..for example ginza area.
then we proceeded to tokyo tower in the evening
went to the trick art museum
i'm sitting down, can you see?
magic show...
ta-da!
ahhhh!
where's my reflection?
tokyo at night
and lastly, tokyo tower at night
awoke at 8am this morning after a rather sleepless night. darryn and i woke up countless number of times. the radio was on the whole night and at 2:30am it played 'a whole new world'. haha quite gay laa when darryn was sweaty and i was sleeping half naked (it was really warm in the hotel room without aircon) and then a love song starts playing. but a pleasant surprise as we were just listening to tons and tons of unfamiliar songs and then a nice song plays.
anyway, we ventured into the city of tokyo today. while looking for a lawson convenience store to buy our studio gibili tickets. (refer to entry on 11th april, fri) haha. and we didnt expect that lawson is so difficult to find despite so many convenience stores in the area that we are staying.
some selected pictures of the day...
and in between, a lot of just walking around..for example ginza area.
signing off now.
andy.
Tuesday, April 8
Day One
Moshi Moshi!
we are officially in japan! YATTA!! *gestures to rainy pavement and people rushing in their trenchcoats and boots*
reporting from our hotel, Shinjuku Kent Hotel near Kabuki-cho. It's cold like SHIAT!! about 10 degrees? despite the cold, we spotted tons of people in mini skirts and stockings, and the neonlights splash KA-RA-O-KE everywhere!
ok now that the tour clown is properly fed and showered, he is ready to wreck some jap chiobu world :d hehe. anyways its damn cold here, the kuku sure shiver one. so cannot wear disposable undies. our room kan funny... the air con = hot air leh! wtf. andy cannot take the heat lo... cause he so hornest hahaha :D ok... next up to blog, is... undies (andy)
but he went to bed alr.
so tata, guys, we'll make undies blog tmr =)
Meanwhile, some pictures:
Darryn, Yanting, Velda
Boarding.
Heyheyhey! Yanting and i are here, in the boarding holding area of our flight. Yatta! And there's free net, double yatta! so I'm writing a last blog before we leave. As our flight only stopovers in Narita, and goes on to Washington DC, we have a holding area full of angmohs to oogle at. Wahaha.
T3's great, except that we keep walking in the wrong direction. ^^"
Some shops are just opening as we head for the gates, but still, the place is impressive enough to make us wooh and ahhh.
Arriving in Narita in seven hours exactly. Forecast's for rainy skies in Tokyo, but we're crossing our fingers!
Signing off,
Vel
+ loveee from Huanggers
T3's great, except that we keep walking in the wrong direction. ^^"
Some shops are just opening as we head for the gates, but still, the place is impressive enough to make us wooh and ahhh.
Arriving in Narita in seven hours exactly. Forecast's for rainy skies in Tokyo, but we're crossing our fingers!
Signing off,
Vel
+ loveee from Huanggers
Saturday, April 5
Oh God, only two more days?
Woowweee! Now's my turn to blog, since everyone on the tour group have already blogged, how can we not have a pre-Japan blog entry from our dearest beloved tour guide right? Haha.
Japan is so close I can feel the smell of the streets already. Okay, a bit qua zhang, but I just wanna say I am so proud of our itinerary. People have exclaimed at our trip (Tokyo for ten days) but I can tell you, there's not enough time to see everything! It's going to be a fun-packed ten days, and as I have said from the beginning, we're going to enjoy getting lost too. =)
And we are going to go crazy with the cameras (and video camera), and my luggage's alr full with the clothes I'm going to bring. That means, packing an extra bag for shopping! It will definitely not fit in the end.
This blog is up for everyone to enjoy our trip together with us, so that we can all love Tokyo in springtime together. ^^ Please do check back for news of us; I promise that we will update faithfully when we can. Links are up to places that we're going, and a tagboard so that you all can miss us properly. Heheh.
Yanting and I are leaving from T3! Yes, we're both excited little bunnies, because I simply love the water feature in T3. Photo-taking starts before we even step down on Japanese soil eh. Muahaha.
Getting really excited about the trip. A great big heartfelt thanks to everyone who made it happen for us, we love you all! <3
Signing off,
Vel
Japan is so close I can feel the smell of the streets already. Okay, a bit qua zhang, but I just wanna say I am so proud of our itinerary. People have exclaimed at our trip (Tokyo for ten days) but I can tell you, there's not enough time to see everything! It's going to be a fun-packed ten days, and as I have said from the beginning, we're going to enjoy getting lost too. =)
And we are going to go crazy with the cameras (and video camera), and my luggage's alr full with the clothes I'm going to bring. That means, packing an extra bag for shopping! It will definitely not fit in the end.
This blog is up for everyone to enjoy our trip together with us, so that we can all love Tokyo in springtime together. ^^ Please do check back for news of us; I promise that we will update faithfully when we can. Links are up to places that we're going, and a tagboard so that you all can miss us properly. Heheh.
Yanting and I are leaving from T3! Yes, we're both excited little bunnies, because I simply love the water feature in T3. Photo-taking starts before we even step down on Japanese soil eh. Muahaha.
Getting really excited about the trip. A great big heartfelt thanks to everyone who made it happen for us, we love you all! <3
Signing off,
Vel
pre-japan jitterbugs!
Yo! loyal readers of shinjukupore! *makes a note by the side to buy heat pack*
though we aren't exactly in shinjuku (or anywhere near) YET, i thought we should let everyone have a feel of how relaxed we are preparing for this trip. *rushes away from comp to pack my moisturizer*
da tour enthusiast is, of course, feeling really ethusiastic about the trip and can't wait to get my hands on all those 100 yen wooden keychain thingys to give to my long list of people awaiting with wide eyes and outstretched hands, haunting my dreams. *runs to parents room to find travel adaptor*
*ticks off checklist of clothes. toiletries. electronics. to bring there*
*ticks off checklist of estimated number of bags to hold all the shopping i'm coming back with*
as the official appointed shoppi.. *ahem* tour enthusiast of the group, i hereby declare all orders of items from land of rising sun to be CLOSED. haha if you were really desperate though, we don't rule out a little under the desk dealings. provided you know which member of the group to approach. wa ha ha.
it's officially 5th april, 2am now.
Counting down to our flight: 2 days
signing off with ^^,
yanz
though we aren't exactly in shinjuku (or anywhere near) YET, i thought we should let everyone have a feel of how relaxed we are preparing for this trip. *rushes away from comp to pack my moisturizer*
da tour enthusiast is, of course, feeling really ethusiastic about the trip and can't wait to get my hands on all those 100 yen wooden keychain thingys to give to my long list of people awaiting with wide eyes and outstretched hands, haunting my dreams. *runs to parents room to find travel adaptor*
*ticks off checklist of clothes. toiletries. electronics. to bring there*
*ticks off checklist of estimated number of bags to hold all the shopping i'm coming back with*
as the official appointed shoppi.. *ahem* tour enthusiast of the group, i hereby declare all orders of items from land of rising sun to be CLOSED. haha if you were really desperate though, we don't rule out a little under the desk dealings. provided you know which member of the group to approach. wa ha ha.
it's officially 5th april, 2am now.
Counting down to our flight: 2 days
signing off with ^^,
yanz
Wednesday, April 2
Tour Clown of the Year
Ok, the tour clown concludes this! We are the ATAS team! ATAS I say.
We shall present the sexy itinerary in due course, when our favourite auntie khoo aka tour guide khoo has finished the timeslot for some places.
AND YES! Jap ChioBus HERE I COME WOOT WEE WEE
Ok, clown signing off. checkmate!
/wrist :D
darrynnnnnnn
We shall present the sexy itinerary in due course, when our favourite auntie khoo aka tour guide khoo has finished the timeslot for some places.
AND YES! Jap ChioBus HERE I COME WOOT WEE WEE
Ok, clown signing off. checkmate!
/wrist :D
darrynnnnnnn
Tuesday, April 1
Pre-Tour Thoughts
blog is created!. many thanks to our tour guide, ms velda khoo a.k.a. my lovely girlfriend. haha.
so our itinerary was finally planned as well, with 8 full days of packed activities. i'm sure we're gonna have lots of fun. hehh.
time now is 5:12pm local time, 1st of april. it's 7 more days to our trip! exactly a week from now we would have already touched down in tokyo. haha exciting.
and i'm the tour leader! haha.
signing off now,
andy.
so our itinerary was finally planned as well, with 8 full days of packed activities. i'm sure we're gonna have lots of fun. hehh.
time now is 5:12pm local time, 1st of april. it's 7 more days to our trip! exactly a week from now we would have already touched down in tokyo. haha exciting.
and i'm the tour leader! haha.
signing off now,
andy.
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