1st Day - Kyoto

It was my first day in Japan and i was so excited! I reached Kansai Airport (KIX) at around 8.30am and took around 30 minutes to pass through the immigration. I went to 'Midori no Madoguchi' to exchange my JR Pass and bought a 'Haruka (Roundtrip) and ICOCA Card Package' for 4000Yen. The Haruka ticket allowed me to board the Haruka Shinkansen to Kyoto and back to KIX from Osaka. I won't be using my JR Pass in Kyoto and Osaka because my pass only valid for 7 days.

*Board the Haruka Shinkansen from here*

*In Shinkansen, on the way to Kyoto!*

After i dropped my luggage in my dorm, here starts my adventures!

I went to Philosopher's Path first since it's still early and not so crowded.

*Sakura along the path~ There are white and pink

sakura everywhere! It's just too beautiful.*

 *Green tea ice cream! 250yen and it was so delicious!*

*Somehow i managed to find the sakura ice cream seller!

The seller told me that the ice cream is made by sakura leaves~*

 *Sanmon (Three Gates)*

 *Keage Incline*

 *One of the most beautiful picture i took :D*

 *Maruyama Park*

 *Wash your hand before enter into a shrine or temple*

 *Heian Shrine*

 *Paid 700yen to enter into the garden behind Heian Shrine and sakura is everywhere!*

 *Write down your wish and tie it on the branches and your wish shall come true :)*

 *Kamogawa River*

 *Nabeyaki Udon~*

 *Street outside Pontocho Alley*

*Night time in Kyoto~ It was freezing!*

*Pontocho Alley*

Here is the end for my 1st day in Japan. Post for 2nd day trip will be post soon :)

Solo Trip to Japan for 11 Days (Kyoto, Tokyo, Kawaguchiko and Osaka)

I am back to my home after a 11 days solo trip in Japan! Finally i did it! I achieved one of my goal in my life which is to travel to Japan by myself! I can feel the excitement and joyfulness inside me :D And now, i am going to share my solo trip experience with all of you, ladies and gentleman. 

I started my trip on 11th April 2014 and ended on 22th April 2014. It was a 11 days trip and here is my itinerary for the trip. (I planned everything myself! Somehow i feel proud of myself for this haha~)

1st day - Kyoto (Philosopher's Path, Eikando Temple, Nanzenji, Heian Shrine, Pontocho Alley)

2nd day - Kyoto (Kiyomizudera Temple, Higashiyama District, Maruyama Park, Yasaka Shrine and Gion)

3rd day - Kyoto (Kinkakuji, Bamboo Forest, Tenryuuji, Togetsukyo Bridge Iwatayama Monkey Park)

4th day - Kyoto (Fushimi Inari Shrine)

               Tokyo (Asakusa Sensoji, Nakamise, Sumida River, Shin-Nakamise)

5th day - Tokyo (Akihabara)

6th day - Fuji Five Lakes (Side trip to Kawaguchiko Lake near Fuji mountain)

7th day - Tokyo (Harajuku, Shibuya)

8th day - Tokyo (Nakano Broadway, Ikebukuro Sunshine City, Animate)

9th day - Tokyo (Tokyo Skytree, Tour around with my Japanese friends)

10th day - Tokyo (Akihabara) 

                 Osaka (Tsutenkaku)

11th day - Osaka (Umeda Sky Building, Osaka-jo, Shinsaibashi-Suji, Dotonbori)

Tadaa! This is the itinerary for my trip! You can use it as reference if this itinerary is suitable for you. I will write in detail for the place i went and upload some photos i took for each day. Picture for Tokyo will be lesser since i was busy walking around and i don't even have time to take my camera out :D 

'My trip details will be in the next post.'

帰った～

　　こんにちは，皆！しばらくね。最後のポストは去年の九月ね。ちょっとつまらないので、今から新しいポストを書く。

　　今月の始めは中華正月ね。家族や友達に会ったよ！昨日久しぶりの小学校の友達に会ったり、一緒に遊んだり、ご飯を食べたりした。皆の顔がだいたい同じだと思う。一緒にいっぱい面白いの事を話した！いろいろな思い出した～でも、来ないの友達もいっぱいいるね。悲しい　T.T
それでも、皆に会いに良かったね！たくさんお年玉をあげてくれた～めっちゃ嬉しかった！　
（めっちゃー＞僕の一番好きな言葉です＾＾）

　　次は、今日僕が先週予約したのCDをもらった！このCDはMay'Nの新しいアルバム 'New World' だ！CDの中の曲が全部好きだ！でも、'Heat' アルバムは 'New World'アルバムより曲が良いと思うね。May'NとLiSAは僕の大好きな歌手だよ～もしコンサートがあったら、僕が是非行って見るよ！たくさんコンサートを見たいけど、お金がいつも足りない！お金があっても、全部使う。残念だった :(

　　じゃあ、もう眠かったよ。じゃあまたね。おやすみなさい～
　　
　　

　　

12th Group~

   Last Saturday, which is my country independence day, i toured another group of Japanese students from Tokyo, Setagaya-ku. They are around 17 to 18 years old but their look doesn't look like it >.< Japanese girl always look younger than their age.

   Nonetheless, i chat a lot with them and i had a lot of fun with them even though it's just 4 hours. Due to time limitation, i only brought them to KLCC and Central Market. Then when we are in Central Market, i saw some nice and cute wood crafted keychain so i bought it for all of them as souvenir :) The funny part is, i ordered tomyam seafood soup for my lunch and i let them try first before i eat it. Cocoro drank the soup and her face expression changed right away haha~ while Yuri have no feeling because she like spicy food. It's really spicy though.

  And so, we rushed back to hotel because we are late according to the time schedule. On the way back to hotel, Cocoro gave me a snack called 'Watame'. I ate it and it taste weird and sour. Then when they ask me whether i like it or not, i remembered my face was squished together because of the sour taste and i said i like it while showing that face, and they laughed. I like their smile very much because it spread to me too.

   Luckily i am not the last group to reach even though i late for 20 minutes. I was feeling kinda sad when we took the last few pictures before we leave. This is one of the most enjoyable group out of the 12 group. Anyway, i will find them next year when i go to Japan.

   September and October is gonna be tough. Tons of work in September and tons of tour guiding in October. But i enjoy tour guiding very much~ I learn something new about Japan whenever i tour a new group. October please come faster!

And of course, a group picture with them :)

 

11th Group~

  Once again after 5 months, finally there is a tour guiding job that i am able to join. I am consider very lucky to be able to join >.<  I toured them for 9 hours and my leg is in pain when i got home.This time, i met 7 girl students from Osaka! Their school is just in front of Osakajo (Osaka Castle). Guess it won't be hard for me to find their school when i go there since my 1st stop is Osaka :)

  I get a lot of information about food in Osaka because they like to eat! The words i learned from them is 里芋(Radish)、粘々(Stickiness)、鍋(Nabe) and おでんくん(Odenkun). They also said that i should try a food which consists of beef and onion on a stick. I forgot what is the name of the food already though. However, when i asked what they want to eat, they say the only know McD and KFC >.< Then i ask 'Always McD and KFC?!' and they say 'Yes!'! 

  And so, i bring them to KLCC food court so that they can choose from various variety of food. Some of them ordered Gon Lou Mee, Roti Canai, Spaghetti, Fried Rice and McD(again!) while i ate Curry Chicken Rice and it tasted not bad! Three of them are baseball player but i don't know anything about baseball so we just skipped that topic. 

  Besides that, i brought them to Tokyo Street in Pavillion. It's my 1st time going there and i am going with them :) Well, the little feel of being in Tokyo can be felt since the shops are mostly woodcrafted(i think so) and there are quite a lot of delicacies like cakes and popsicles. They keep saying 'おいしそう! (looks delicious!)' and it makes me feel like eating too haha.

  Anyway, this is a another fun group and i enjoyed touring them around KL! I feel that Osaka citizens is more humble and kind while Tokyo citizens is belong to a higher class society. Hopefully i can meet them next year! Lastly, a picture of them :)

   Time to sleep! Japanese class tomorrow~ Good night and have a nice dream :)

~

  Sometimes, i feel like going against the life that every human has been going everyday. For me, life is a cycle. The process is like (baby->child->goes to primary school-> then secondary school-> then university/college/work->have a girl/boyfriend->marry->have a family->then work for the rest of our life)

Some people might not agree to this. This is just my opinion. In this process, we learned a lot of things and see through a lot of things. What i mean by going against life is because i don't want to walk the way just like every human do. I want to do something special. Something that least people have the potential to do it. Not because i only live once, it's because i only die once.

Peoples are buying car and house when they got the money, but i don't want to do that. When i got the money, i want to travel around the world by myself without any hesitation and meet strangers from other country with different cultures. Peoples are having a girlfriend/boyfriend and marry around 17~30, but i don't feel the necessity for that. Maybe it's because i haven't meet one. 

I want to travel alone, to the world i have not seen before. I want to do something crazy, like Bungee Jumping, to feel the excitement of free fall. I want to meet travellers from other countries, to communicate and share things that we might not know in our life. I want to experience every world culture, food, technology, buildings, drinks, history and peoples life. 

I had been planning on my trip to Japan lately. It's a 10 days trip and i want to cherish every day i stay there. 

お金がありませんから、たくさんお金が欲しいです!

昨日、少し言葉を習いました。

あの言葉は　’おなかがすきました、おなかがいっぱいです、のどが乾きました’。

言葉は長いから、ちょっと難しいですね。

先週は友達の誕生日です。パーティーへいきました。

たくさん友達も行きました。とても楽しかったですね!

友達とお酒を飲みました。

午前五時ごろ帰りました。遅いですね。

とにかく、全部友達が大好きです!

今は午前二時半です。疲れます！

じゃあ、皆さんお休みなさい!

Travel Destination

  Did you ever think of travel to a place which is able to take you away from your daily hectic working life? Lately i have been doing research on places to travel even though i don't have the money to travel. There are some amazing places which i really want to go (after i met my special one lol).  Since i am going to Japan myself next year, Japan is excluded here :)

  The 1st destination will be... Italy! I really like the design and structure of the buildings in Italy. It's so beautiful, until i stare at the picture of Italy for half an hour and imagine myself in it. Rome, Florence and Venice is the 3 places that i must go! 

 Italy Town Square~ You will see lots of visitors and pigeons here.

 The Colosseum~ One of the well preserved ancient building.

 Venice~ Colorful building and various design of bridges is the attraction.

Florence~ The Skyline view of Florence Dome.

The 2nd destination will be... Maldives! Considering the sky clear sea water and tremendous view across the Maldives, this will be one of most awesome place to travel to! Just looking at the pictures makes me drool haha~ But the price.. Ehem. It will cost you between Rm3k - Rm16k PER NIGHT depends on your budget :) Not cheap eh? Then quickly back to work and earn money! Haha :D

Just look at the view.. It's like heaven in Maldives!

I swear to myself, 

if i am to have a special girl which i love very much,

i will bring her to all these places.

I don't care how much it will cost,

as long as we get to spend quality time together. 

But still, i hope the special one will be her.

鳥居あすか、あなたが好きです。

Gotta work harder to earn money now!

One job is not enough, planning to find one more.

So that i can travel to this two places.

Time to sleep! Good Night!

ここにあるうたがいい～

Addicted to an anime OST lately. The anime is Sword Art Online! The anime is about some player using NerveGear to connect to the game but later there are some serious problem occurred within the game and the players need to depend on each other to finish the game in the virtual world ( I don't want to be a spoiler so go watch it yourselves haha xD). It's the best MMORPG anime i have ever watched!

Well, the singer for the anime is awesome too! There are 4 songs since the anime released.
1)LiSA - Crossing Field (1st OP)
2)Haruka Tomatsu - Yume Sekai (1st ED)
3)Aoi Eir - Innocence (2nd OP)
4)Haruna Luna - Overfly (2nd ED)

I seriously like every song in this anime! It matched the anime so well! I have become LiSA fan ever since i listen to 'Crossing Field'. Every song in her 2nd digital album is amazing!

Addicted to this anime too much xD