Hong Kong!!! Pow!

Enjoy the photos of my trip to Hong Kong! I spent 3 days there. Day 1 Disneyland Day 2 Toy shopping Day 3 Around town I found a lot of nice vegetarian restaurant but the Astroboy Shop was closed already so I could not shop there. Victoria's Peak by night is fantastic, it really does feel like Ghost in the Shell (like Nat said) but the new terrace is pretty up high and it gets cloudy and humid really fast! Anyways HK is fun but the street signs look pretty dangerous LOL and walking through the people is like a videogame where you have to kill zombies.

Bangkok - Thailand.

Here are the pictures of my weekend in Bangkok. The temples you see in the photographs are: Wat Pho (the temple of the reclining buddha), Wat Arun (the temple of dawn, the one with a 76 meters tall stupa), Wat Kaev (the temple of the emerald buddha) which is inside the Grand Palace (king Rama the v's palace) and then Erawan Shrine (the four faced buddha). The restaurant is called The Blue Elephant.

Bali

First upload, more pictures will come tomorrow! :D This is Ubud in Bali where I stayed for 3 days and 2 nights.

Malaysia

New Year's Eve and January first

I post these two albums together just to show how long are the lines to the temple for the first visit of the year.
... and the Japanese aren't even religious (more superstitious), imagine if they believed! But probably superstitions drive men more than faith. Who knows?

In this second album there are also pictures from Shibuya and Harajuku.

I also have sketches to show you and more picture of Ginza that I just received.

Day 8: comiket, cruise and asakusa!

Day 7: Shopping day - Akihabara and Nakano.

Here's where I went toy and books shopping: Akihabara and Nakano, along the way we stopped at this station that is supposedly nearby Tezuka Pro and everything around the area is Tezuka themed.

Day 6: Kansai - Here is Kyoto!

I updated the previous albums as well because I had lots of pictures still missing (I still don't have all the Ginza ones) But here's the complete and updated album of my 1 day in Kyoto! Where I managed to check out 7 different things in 7 hours... a record indeed.

Day 5: Kansai - takarazuka, tezuka museum, oosaka

Day 4: Mitaka, ghibli museum, Shinjuku and Bath

things to do in Japan See a yakuza, check! Being talked to by a toilet, check! See host-hostesses going to work to a host club, check!

Day 3 , Christmas day, Musashi Koganei

Day 2: Tokyo Disney Sea

Mickey Mouse!!!!

Day 1 : Tokyo, Ginza.

Arrival at Narita, Marunouchi Tokyo eki station. First day in Tokyo celebrating the Emperor's birthday in the Imperial Garden... follows a walk in Ginza (of which I do not have photos because my camera died)

Christmas in Singapore.

You see this smart ass going: oooh, look at me, short sleeves and Christmas lights.... you do?
Look as she freezes her ass off tomorrow in Japan.

Singapore 26 C
Tokyo 2 C

There's an excursion of 24 degrees between here and Tokyo! Look as the grin gets wiped out of this smart ass face of mine! LOL

the night before...

Disneyland tickets... purchased. Tonight I fly.

I am supposed ti take the train from Narita and meet Enju in Tokyo central station...

And here is our meeting point.... Take a deep breath and go...

Japan trip update

Update on the Japan trip. Japan Rail pass done. Disneyland tickets coming up next.

Singapore zoo

For every lizard that dies at the paws of a cruel otter... another one climbs a tree and start eating eggs in a nest.

Japan trip schedule update

In red the changes in the schedule!

December 23rd : landing. Collecting Japan Railpass. Take train to Tokyo from Narita. Reaching Tokyo Eki, meeting with Enju, run to the Imperial Palace, check out the gardens, stroll, get out of there, stroll around the city.

December 24th: Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Sea.

December 25th: Stroll in Tokyo, KFC, Cake, kotatsu, romance with a cat.

December 26th: onsen day and Ghibli Museum.

December 27th: Trip to Kansai start, visit Tezuka Osamu Museum in Takarazuka.

December 28th: Confirmed from Oosaka to Kyoto).  Staying in Kyoto in this Ryokan here!

December 29th: Back to Tokyo.

December 30th: Comiket, Odaiba, romantic Cruise on the river. Maybe Ice Skating?

December 31st: Temple and fireworks.

December 1st: Temple with style.

December 2nd: bye bye, flight at 10:40


Wishlist for now: Dolls shops, Mayonnaise Kitchen, Akihabara, Shibuya by night? (and mandarake), Asakusa. Must go to this shop for art supplies.

Japan trip schedule.

December 23rd : landing. Collecting Japan Railpass. Take train to Tokyo from Narita. Reaching Tokyo Eki, meeting with Enju, run to the Imperial Palace, check out the gardens, stroll, get out of there, stroll around the city.

December 24th: Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Sea.

December 25th: Stroll in Tokyo, KFC, Cake, kotatsu, romance with a cat.

December 26th: onsen day and Ghibli Museum.

December 27th: Trip to Kansai start, visit Tezuka Osamu Museum in Takarazuka.

December 28th: Still in Kansai (Oosaka or Kyoto).

December 29th: Still in Kansai but coming back to Tokyo.

December 30th: Comiket, Odaiba, romantic Cruise on the river. Maybe Ice Skating?

December 31st: Temple and fireworks.

December 1st: Temple with style.

December 2nd: bye bye, flight at 10:40


Wishlist for now: Dolls shops, Mayonnaise Kitchen, Akihabara, Shibuya by night? (and mandarake), Asakusa.

Getting ready for Japan!

I do so miss spending Christmas in cold weather.

Actually I miss the cold weather, the snow... freezing my ass off, not feeling my fingers...

I spend my whole year between 28 and 31 celsius and it's not fun at all.
Everything rots in hot weather, it rots right away and smells bad.

 For instance, and this is the most disgusting thing that happens to me every two weeks, the sponge you use to wash the dishes... grows worms on it. I
 have decided to switch to a brush.

 So then last year I remember going around the malls during Christmas season thinking: why the Hell do shops sell winter clothes?
Let me tell you, it's because even Singaporeans get tired of warm weather and run away to Japan.

This year is my turn... I shall meet many S'poreans there, I know it. Ha ha ha.

So I bought meself a nice little ticket and I will be going there from the 22nd of December to January 2nd.
Cousin Enju will keep me there with her cat for a while, take me around too, we're planning ahead like crazy. So here goes the first round of shopping. I went to Uniqlo (saw many things, decided, worse come to worse Uniqlo is from Japan, I'll buy more clothes there and then leave them to the cousin to use).

Oh, I do so love winter clothing! All the pretty colors, the browns and the blues... and the pattern... and the textures and the materials... aaah, I do so love winter clothing!

 So I've decided to start posting about the planning as well. Here's my album dedicated to the planning of this trip. Clyda and Grace offered to lend me more clothes... but Pj's and socks are personal items, so I had to go and purchase myself.