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Saturday, September 22, 2007

After 9 months of procrastination, I finally managed to connect the digital camera to the computer! And so I've taken some photos of Japan(where I went to last Dec) and uploaded them here. I don't like to post many pictures of people, so you won't see many here. Maybe only about 2. The different coloured font indicates the different days so you won't get confused.

Destination 1: Tokyo DisneySea

We chose DisneySea because we'd been to DisneyLand in USA(california) 8 years ago so we thought we'd give DisneySea a go. Besides, the crowd isn't as large in DisneySea as compared to DisneyLand.

THE SIGN!!!!

The huge globe fountain thing near the entrance. Yes, my winter jacket is GREEN!

The volcano roller coaster thing I told you guys about in my Dec post.

Quote:

"... one PARTICULAR ride I took in DisneySea. That PARTICULAR ride was called 'journey to the centre of the earth', the first part was really nice, full of gems and exotic flora and fauna and fungi. But then this giant lava monster appeard out of the darkness and I actually SCREAMED when I saw it, like screamed for REAL. Then we were suddenly blown back into the darkness and we SWOOPED all over the place(it was going really fast) then we started DROPPING, yes, I kid you not, DROPPING, like a downhill roller coaster. I had my eyes closed then, but I opened them when the drop stopped. HUGE MISTAKE. As soon as I opened them, I found out were at the top of some artificial volcano spewing smoke and ashes and we lurched down and all I saw was this black hole below me(I was in the front seat, worst luck) showing a drop that would last for all eternity. It was a long drop, REALLY long, even worse than the Jurassic Park, and it was really unexpected too ... "

Night time in Tokyo Shinjuku District(I think)! We had Sukiyaki for dinner, which was absolutely delicious(beef, egg, tofu, veg with sauce).

Shinjuku.

Mt. Fuji the next day! The weather was petty good so we got to the peak. It was REALLY windy.

Some scenery at the mountain. I've got loads more but most with people, so I didn't put them here. And besides, the uploading takes AGES.

Yes. They sell cans of OXYGEN at Mt. Fuji. If I'm not wrong, the words on the can mean "Fu Shi Shan de Kong Qi".

To Fujikyu Highlands for lunch. It's located somewhere in the middle of Mt. Fuji I think. It's some amusement park but no one really goes there.

Apparently, there's some roller coaster here thats famous worldwide. A few million people sat on it, and out of that amount, 2000 were carried away in an ambulance.

Our lunch. It's some barbeque thing, which we couldn't finish cuz there was too much food.

Night: Off to take the Shinkansen(a.k.a. Bullet Train)

It was really hard to get these shots cuz it moves really fast!

Kyoto the next day.

After viewing some kimono fashion show, we went for lunch. It was tempura lunch, and surprise surprise, I was last in the tour to finish my food. But ti was really good, needless to say.

Coah ride again.

Some photos of the beautiful old town of Kyoto.

Off to Kyomizu shrine(I think). Mean pure water or something like that.

Part of the roof.

Beautiful scenery at the shrine. Reds and oranges, and greens and yellows. I have about 10-20 photos in total but then I don't have time to upload them all.

Some random tiny cave in the midle of some pond.

Osaka!

The famous Shinsaibashi. It's like a maze there.

Universal Studios the next day
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I went on only about 4 rides. THe queue was so long and I waited approximately 2 hours per ride. I went on the Jurassic Park though, and it wasn't as scary as I expected it to be. In fact, I think the volcano ride was worse. Still, fabulous experience.

Lunch at this nearby comples. I insisted on ramen for lunch cuz the tour guide recommended it and I'm not leaving Japan without eating a bit of their ramen.So I had to go search for it in the complex, but it was worth it. The ramen was SO SO SO good., well, it was probably cuz we were hungry as well.

I went in to Hard Rock cafe and bought a Hard Rock cafe 'Osaka' badge. I have this habit of collecting Hard Rock Cafe badges of every city I go to. And I make my aunties buy them for me as well whenever they go overseas.

On the Blue Highway cruise to Kyushu Island(The lower portion of Japan, I think)

This was already the next morning in the cruise. I had to stand out in the deck and snap these shots of sunrise. I didn't know which mode in the camera would make the sun look nicer so I took about a shot for each mode. It was freezing out there, PLUS wind but I gather it was worth it. I personally prefer the darker shot, but some might like the lighter one more.

Breakfast!

Breakfast in the cruise with the sunrise. We didn't eat much because we were pretty stuffed from the dinner the night before. But of course, we still ate SOMETHING. Even though the plate looks empty.

And the cruise docks!

so THIS is what it looks like!

Lunch.

We had a great lunch. So many tiny dishes, it's like eating all kinds of Japanese food in one meal.

Ibusuki.

The dinner that night in Ibusuki was even more filling than the lunch. Most of the tour group wore our Yukatas to dinner but some didn't. I did, for the fun of it.

Breakfast the next day.

This was our breakfast in the same hotel. We were all stuffed from the dinner but I still ate some because I'll be cranky if I don't.

Scenery stops.

This is Mt. Kaimon, I think. If it isn't its some random mountain we went to. It's all mountains in Japan.

Sumo restaurant.

Dinner was at some Sumo Wrestler restaurant opened by a former sumo wrestler.

Our meal. It's basically a steamboat which the whole familt shares. Apparently, that's how much ONE sumo wrestler eats for a meal.

Nagasaki- site of atomic bomb explosion.

A statue in fron of the Atomic Bomb museum. Enough, the less said about the museum the better. I left the place heavily traumatised.

That's about it. still, it is a LOT of photos.

My Kitchen blogged at Saturday, September 22, 2007

May your light shine...
in the darkness...