Tell me this isn't true,
[ 12:10 AM ]
tell me it isn't you.♥Listening to: the tele
♥Mood: tired
♥Location: in the hall
"You're so awfully small to be so hugely irritating." said I, and Via just tossed a 'whatever' look at me. We both laughed. It was always fun going out with her. Pictures are on Facebook, as usual. Feeling a little somnolent now, after a day of shopping in heels which resulted with a blister, bubble, whatever it is called on one of my toes. Although getting a daily dose of fandom(2PM bias) kept me in an ebullient mood, it did take a toll on me after. After, being now. The headache's coming in, leaving my head throbbing in pain. That's the sign to turn in, but not without some reading. I find solace in one of my favourite past time, with music evoking different emotions to suit the story. Promise me you won't laugh when I say that I'm reading the Twilight Saga again, it's just that addictive. YOU PROMISED NOT TO LAUGH. The fic that I'm writing will have to be put on hold for now. With the ideas in my head and part of the story in the Drafts, it should make it's first chapter into the comm soon enough.
Cheers, might or might not be on hiatus from tomorrow onwards. Homework will be the death of me.
Labels: ♥, bittersweet, holiday fun
Hokkaido, Japan. 18th, 19th and 20th December 2009; Got to get that
[ 1:53 AM ]
boom, boom, boom.♥Listening to: Prologue, Beauty and the Beast OST
♥Mood: tired
♥Location: in the hall, home alone
The hotel was horrible. The alarm didn't wake me up. I'm not sure if it even rang. I mean, if normal alarms can get me up and going, why not this one? So, this post was originally written in point form of the places, so it's up to my memory to do the rest. While waiting for oppa to come down with the breakfast coupon(he is such a girl sometimes. Shhh!) I saw thia mini display turtle with a shell decorated with red diamons! Aka Kame! AKAME! <3 My fangirl side was squealing with joy. Again they forced me to eat up and we were the last people to arrive. First up was the Old village thing, where people donated old houses from that time and preserved it. We took loads of pictures, and some of the insides of the houses reminded me of Onimusha. Honest! The pictures will be up....tomorrow. There was also this playground with a swing and seesaw, basic stuff. While swinging high, it reminded me of that time in Australia. It was my first time swinging so high without any help, much thanks to Rachel who taught me during the retreat in June. I had fun pushing unnie since she couldn't get high enough. (:
It was time to get back to the second building on the map, to see the family of ultra man. HAHA. Anyways, they changed the exhibit and it was empty like nothing. ): Unnie was buying a drink and when she dropped 10 yen, the Japanese students picked it up and didnt even say anything. Watshi okane(which means my money in Japanese)! D<
Next up was the Zoo! :D I forgot how long ti took to get there, but it wasn't that long. We had to walk a long way from the east gate entrance to the penguin area where they are doing their exercise. They do it twice a year and it's a really popular attraction among the locals. They look so adorable and this little toddler, Sakura-chan was also adorable. She almost fell but her okasan picked her up in time. (: Umma and I were just cooing Sakura-chan until they bid farewell.
We went to look at many other animals too but first was the other species of penguins, then we sort of split up. We were sort of lost when trying to find our way to see the wolves but we found our way there anyways. On our way there, we passed the leopard cage, the panther and the grizzly. OH! The grizzly was just too cute. It was so cold that even the grizzly was pawing the door to get out of the cold. <3 When we got to the wolves, the viewing area was just so awesome. It was only when I heard the two guys near us excalimed, "Suge!" did I turn my head around and was shocked by what I saw. The white wolf was just inches away form my face, of course, I was behind the transparent glass. Oppa was still trying to find the wolves until I hit him on the arm who knows how many times before he turned around and caught the wolf walking away.
I hightailed out of the place as soon as the wolves went out of sight, hoping to catch them at the other side, which I did. I got insanely cool shots of them too. The white one smiled at me! It was so adorable. I smiled and waved back too, of course. The wolves then became very panicky and started pacing around when they heard the clock chime. It was then when the photo taking got hard. They must have been worried or afarid of something, or they were just mocking me when I was stupidly following them to get a good shot. The black wolf reminded me of Sam Uely(however you spell his surname) though. The eyes were like Jacob's. Went to see the white foxes later and the lazy polar bear next. Unnie and I laughed at it's laziness. It was so cold that our toes were freezing and hurting from the cold. In a desperate attempt to get warm, I bought hot chocolate for 120 yen. It was tasty, but not toasty. The six of us rushed back to the visitor's center where it was nice and warm. Got a couple more shots of the beautiful sunset and chatted with Yan and Peichuan.
After was the Snow museum, a lot more pictures and umma and I grumbled about appa, being a little annoying when he refused to take picures when the battery was low. So what if the battery was dying? It was almost the last stop. All of us were amazed by the different tyoes of snow flakes they are, amazed by God's creation. How great is our God! There was this room that looked like something out of Final Fantasy where they had pictures of all the different ypes of snow flakes. Beautiful.
Next was shopping again, since it was too early for dinner. Guess what? :D NEWS was advertising this perfume brand and I saw their little ad! Like, paper ad. <3 Precious Rose, if I'm not wrong. It was their anniversary. Adorable. The mall had like what, gap which was on 50% off for the WHOLE ENTIRE FRIGGIN' STORE! :D Unnie did all the shopping since I wasn't that interested in long sleeves(not until now that is). :/ We were late again, but thankfully after slpitting up with the boys midway, we met again on the escalator down. CK got a good saying from unnie. ^^' At least she bought a top from there. Next up was dinner, but before that was taking a brief look at the 30+ story watch tower where you can see the whole nightview. The guys had it better, as they got to see the view in their toilets too while the girls just had the normal cubicals. Dinner was delish ramen, where they greet you oh-so-enthusiastically when you enter and leave. One of the waiter is such a cutie, seriously. I wanted to ask if I can take a picture with him but...no guts. Heh. Okay, so the bullet for dinner says Dinner: Ramen <3 + fish :/ + pork :D + rice but I have no idea what led to the fish, pork and rice.
The outside of the hotel was cold, negative seven degrees celcius. The hotel was horrible, such a small room. Oppa and I had to tag team to lift the table with the tele so that there was enough space for his luggage. For the first time, there was no CNN, no English channels. ): There wasn't a hair dryer either, so we couldn't wet our hair when we showered. At least there was a nice Japanese movie to watch. Sure, I couldn't understand much but there wasn't a need to. Japanese has this ablity to capture the emotion and all that and make it understandable to one who doesn't understand Japanese. It was such a touching story about a dog named Mani and a family whose old house got destroyed in an earthquake. The rescuers saved everyone but the dogs(it was a small family!) and the girl was crying so bad which made me wanted to cry too. Mani just kept running after the helicopter but it was impossible to catch up with her. Mani had to live alone without any shelter from the crows that pecked it's child and the cold rain. Well, Mani did find shelter for the rain and a quilt to keep the pups warm. Long story short, they came back for Mani and the family was reunited again. Happy ending, as always.
P.S. Heat packs work when it's not suppose to, freezes when it needs to.
P.P.S. I wrote Kame(in Hiragana) <3 and part of the White Christmas lyrics on the window and hotel toilet(the mirror got foggy after shower) Also I wrote aishiteru, Kame(in Hiragana) <3 on the window and on the wooden seesaw in snow! <3 SPREAD THE AKAME.
I can't remember much, but I remember anything on 19th since I was too tired to write, much less do QT but on the 20th, we had to wake up at 5am, leave for the airport at 540am and have a mini breakfast on the bus. We had a delish lunch and had to run for our flight. At the check in point, it was so embarassing. We cut the whole queque and the Japanese couple behind me kept asking why and what are they doing to themselves. ): If only I knew how to converse in Japanese then I would have explained it to them. We made in in time, with unnie and I doing a lot of running in heels. The flight back was awesome! Who knew Yan was into Japanese and Korean pop too? :D We chatted throughout the whole flight back home(five hours!) and I ignored the pain in my ears. It was just so great to find a fellow fan. (: Yan and I were gradually getting jetlag on our way to collect the luggage. We were chatting about all the bands we knew, intorducing bands to each other and playing games on her itouch. TAP TAP, TAP TAP REVENGE! :D We took a group picture before separating and headed back home in a taxi after the rest of my family were done buying what they needed for their friends and themselves.
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Cheers, time to wrap presents! <3
Labels: ♥, holiday fun
Hokkaido, Japan. 17th December 2009; It's 4am and I'm waking up to your perfume
[ 12:44 AM ]
don't get up I'll get through on my own.♥Listening to: 너에게 미쳤었다, 2pm.
♥Mood: tired
♥Location: in the hall, home alone
Imma going to rush through this, since it's a day late(meaning I wrote it on the 18th). ): Got mad at appa last night and I'm not going to talk about it. It does have a nice ring to it though. Whatev, I like how it sounds. I gots an unlucky touch! It's out first Western breakfast today, not too bad. The bedside table alarm clock is amazingly cool. How I wish Singapore had such things, or sold such things. Their toilet bowls are awesomely cool too. It heats up! :d Anyways, the Hokkaido milk is tasty. I just saw the advertisment last morning and wanted to taste it and I finally did. We went to two places. I forgot what was the first place and oppa forgot too but the second place was the so called antique street where they sold coffee with the Hello Kitty cup for 480 yen, the six flavour ice cream for 500 yen, with the snowman on top would be for 850 yen and the mix flavour for 380 yen, five flavours.
We took a couple of pictures and went to the shop that sold musical boxes. Really expensive musical boxes. There was the organ, so called fairground organ where in the olden times themepark, the sounds were usually created by the large organ over yonder. After that, while unnie and her boyfriend went to look for a nice musical box, appa and the rest of us went to Uniqlo and did some shopping! I got a grey zip-up hoodie and a nice pair of jeans. :D The people there or rather, anywhere has exellent service! :D Dinner was near some lake, while we took pictures at freagin' negative four degrees celcius. We had a wonderful snowball fight after in the heavy snow, like really heavy snow! O: CK and I threw snow and snowballs into the lake before the fight began.
As we got near the restaruant, unnie threw a 'snowball' the size of an A4 size paper at CK. It was hilarious. Also, she realised that her scarf was missing only when she stepped into the BBQ restaraunt. CK found it at the place where she picked up a snowball *points at the sketchbook* ye big. Dinner was just too fishy, no pun intended. Cooked salmon fish especially and before we even started, we complained about the little amount of food given, and that they should have given more fish. LUCKILY, they didn't. We all got sick of fish when the last thing to finish was fish. D<
The hotel was nearby, and the rooms were huge. Had a nice soak in the tub before sleeping. We went to the 100 yen shop and bought things. Unnie stocked up on a lot of Stitch things.
Cheers, time to hit the pillows.
Labels: ♥, holiday fun
Hokkaido, Japan. 16th December 2009; Winter Wonderland
[ 11:18 PM ]
Can you feel the mountains tremble.
♥Listening to: Heartbeat, 2pm.
♥Mood: tired
♥Location: in the hall, home alone
(Just to let you know, the first part was written during the morning, and the rest written after part of the White Christmas lyrics by KAT-TUN at nine plus ten ten to eleven.)
Ohaiyo minna-san!
Guess who I saw on the tele? Miura Haruma! :D The guy who acts as Yamato's buddy in Gokusen 3! He was advertising some hairspray. Though he only appeared for a mere two to three seconds or so, HE WAS STILL THERE! :D Ah, Kotaro Seishiro-kun kawaii desu ne! He was being interviewed for some upcoming movie and sneezed half way while answering the question! <3 Oh and it's SNOWING! Ima yuki ga maichiru~
Even though I had more than enugh time in the morning to wash up and etc, big brother woke up late and with my parents forcing me to finish just about everything, we were once again the last group to get up the bus. While waiting for my parents and brother to come down for breakfast, it started snowing again! :D Unnie got so excited and bounced on her seat a couple of times before running up to the window near her. Kawaii. Our first stop was at some mountain, where endless amount of sulfur dioxide spewed out into the atmosphere. No life can be found really near it, hence it's like a mini 'the end of the world'. The snow last night was so heavy that we could finally have a snowball fight! the way u the observation point was so slippery, so much that most of us slipped but had the wooden handrail for support(and the kind Japanese people). O: Took a tonne of pictures while appa went back to look for umma's snow cap at the hotel. We went to another sulfur mountain and IT WAS SNOWING! :D It was freezing cold too, as we were so high up the mountain. The shoe thing came off while we were having too much fun with our snowball fight.
While walking to our lunching place, they were playing a DongBang song! :D I think it's from the Secret Code album, idk. I've listen to so many of their songs that I forgot what was what. ^^' Appa gave a couple of stares before I snapped out of my fangirl mode. Lunch was delish, but I couldn't finish the udon. It was either the udon or the vegge. Vegge owns, duh. It was another two hours to our next destination, and there was so much snowing. It was on and off though, like it snowed at one part and gradually stop, then after a little sunshine it got cloudly and started snowing again. A winter wonderland! <3 I woke up an hour later after losing the feeling on my right leg. After several failed attempts to fall alseep, I ended up fiddling with the seat belt. Out of the blue, the lady in front told me to look outside and I was awestrucked. Appa was asleep so there was no way to capture such a beautiful scenary. Darn. At least unnie managed to wake up at took some photos. By the time my parents woke up, they missed ost of it.
When we finally got to the place that was all about seaweed, it was still snowing. :D And cold. After tasting all the freebies-I <3 the ice cream-we had another snowball fight? Thanks to all the snowing, there were huge chunks of snow. *insert evil laughter here* Our 'snowballs' could go up to around the size of an A5 paper. :D I got totally snowed, thanks a lot unnie. But it was fun! Another forty minutes to the next destination and by that time, it was already dark and slippery. ): The mini mall-ish place had about five to six main shops. The ramen stall, the bakery, the wooden toys store, the whale *ahem donghae ahem* store, the glass antique store and the bear museum. The bear museum had musical boxes that went up to 160+ thousand Singapore dollars. D: The glass antique store had mirrors that went up to thirty over Singapore dollars. ):
There were pretty mirrors with a clock in it! Aww, but it was so costly. Another snowball fight started by the slippery floor on the way to and out of the seafood market and the chocolate store. Big brother asked me to hold his mochi while he hurled a snowball mercilessly at me. We had a couple of hits each and on his last throw, it hit smack at my face, in my poor eyes. My sister and I had a snowball fight too. While we were fascinated by the snow caught on the leaves, she threw a huge handful of snow at me while I was still oh-so-fascinated. Next was a short trip to the mountains for a breath taking scenary and I got my revenge on big brother. >D I asked if it was cold while patting his should with my hand full of snow. He was like, "Basket," and I just snickered.
Dinner was after and boy, was it filling. Three eggs in one day. Chawanmushi for dinner and half boiled egg for breakfast and lunch. Headed back to the hotel, this time there wasn't any shops outside so we didn't go out. D: Time to hit the pillows, morning call at 530 Japan time.
P.D. I wrote 'aishiteru Kame<3' tonnes of times todasy on the window and 'Kame<3' on the cable car window. Kame was once again, written in Hiragana.
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Second day done, third one up next! Gosh, it's tiring.
Labels: ♥, holiday fun
Hokkaido, Japan. 15th December 2009; when I hear my favourite song
[ 10:17 PM ]
I know where we belong.
♥Listening to: Fairytale, Alexander Rybak
♥Mood: busy
♥Location: in the hall, home alone
Today was our first day on the tour. The flight to Osaka was good. Thanks to Philip, I think I managed to get over the motion sickness. Surprisingly, the domestic flight was not too bad as well. The landing, though bumpy, was not as bad as the flight to Shanghai. The temperature in the morning was negative four degrees Celsius, gradually increasing as it got around noon.
The beer factory was our first stop, where we got to learn how beer is made, packed and in our hands. Since the eligible age for drinking here is 20, they offered apple and orange juice for those below 20. I picked apple of course, just love it so much. My family and I snagged a couple of food from the place(shhh!) and guess what I saw at the souvenir corner? POTATO-KUN! <3>
We headed to the hotel after that and it had a public bath, so all of us had to go in nude and all. The three of us were pretty embarrased at first, but we got past it soon after. My sister is so friggin' thin. ): I love how skinny her legs are and hate how disgustingly huge and ugly looking my legs are. Envy her for that. ): I got a little light headed after that, so I went back to the room which I shared with my brother. He too was slumped on the futonn, obviously feeling the same way as I am right now. Flipped through the channels and went down to have a delish dinner. Everyone was practically forcing me to eat! Well, just my family so that's everyone, right? Anywasy, it's either that or my stomach will growl with hunger 15 minutes later. The rice was good, but too filling.
We had a really long photo taking session later, while staying the the same pose for more than ten cameras. Oh, the smiling. My brother, sister, CK and I went to out to walk around the area and bought some snacks from Seven Eleven. Their faces lit up when I told them about the 100 yen shop and died down to the calm mask when I told them I had no idea where it was. Still can't find it though. :/
SNOW IS SO SOFT AND FLUFFY! 8D Hopefully it snows more so that we can have a snowball fight, build snowmen, etc. Hee. :D Big brother just made me milo. <3>
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So that's the first day, on to the next one then!
Labels: ♥, holiday fun
