[Self] Japan Day 11-15
Day 11: Gosh regretted not taking Shinkansen as I had bought an overnight JR bus ticket back to Tokyo instead. Spent the whole day walking Osaka's great street malls, underground malls and malls proper. This was like some weird torture where I walked, window shopped in a semi conscious state - occassionaly even nodding off as I walked!
Caught some shut eye in the weirdest of places - eg: otearai (toilet), Starbucks, and even McDonalds. Rained the entire day too, so I had no access to a bench to doze.
And finally, when my 2220 bus came, I couldn't sleep for 2 freaking hours! Ugh. So my last day in Osaka was excruciating tiring and fun in the most anti-fun of ways. Wouldn't have wanted it any other way though, it was the variery of experiences I was looking for.
Day 12: Upon reaching Tokyo, proceeded with the recovery process. Probably slept half the day once I got into bed.
Woke up around 1300hrs, saw CSI, did some laundry which was severely overdue, then sat in the apartment to catch some B grade English movie. Total lethargy.
But then, I was just saving up for the night. That was when the action started (if you can call what happened "action"). Anyway the night was cool - this is where KC and I spent the night walking in the rain looking for the AIG building somewhere near Odemachi Station, recycled a broken umbrella and roamed around Shibuya (which was dead due to the rain), talked a lot of crap at some Isakaya, got wet many times, and wound up in some Japanese cybercafe drying up & watching Ocean's 12 (but I dozed off at the couch).
Day 13: Was a direct continuation from Day 12. The whole drenched up affair prior to this was to make sure we could go to Tsukiji at 0500~0600hrs. Wanted to see the price-mongering and bidding for fish, and bite into one on the spot. But when we reached there admist the rain (non stop rain since the day before), damn marketplace was closed.
Disheartened, we headed back for some sleep and woke up around 1400hrs. I only managed to get a pic with the "we are closed" signboard .
But the better part of the day was saved by a cool baseball game we went to at 1800hrs - Tokyo Giants vs Hiroshima. The Tokyo Dome stadium was 3/4 packed, with loads of babes selling beer and goodies, a rather interesting twist of culture there they were all cute.
Oh yeah - and the baseball game was interesting too ;)
And after that, we managed to find Ji Yin's friend Caroline and had a quick ramen at an "authentic under the bridge noodle store run by an old Japanese man". Cool. Another item from my "to-do in life" list struck off.
Day 14: Last real day in Japan, so packed up in the morning, then lingered around Kameido and walked to Kishincho.
Then went to Asakusa nice place has still an "old" Japanese feel to the area. And then had dinner with Caroline. Was a bit rainy into the night. Saw her off and then managed to catch the last train back. But then had to wait about 2 hours plus for KC to balik from his sessions with fellow colleagues.
And into the wee hours of the morning - had some late night trash talk with KC - it's a male bonding thing :)
Day 15: Flight back home to Msia. Ku-ra-pu!! Back to reality, and so life does have to go on. All I can say was that Japan was a totally great trip, enjoyed myself thoroughly and its time to work hard again and focus on work for a while before the next one (probably either Russia, Shanghai or Sweden plus UK).
Caught some shut eye in the weirdest of places - eg: otearai (toilet), Starbucks, and even McDonalds. Rained the entire day too, so I had no access to a bench to doze.
And finally, when my 2220 bus came, I couldn't sleep for 2 freaking hours! Ugh. So my last day in Osaka was excruciating tiring and fun in the most anti-fun of ways. Wouldn't have wanted it any other way though, it was the variery of experiences I was looking for.
Day 12: Upon reaching Tokyo, proceeded with the recovery process. Probably slept half the day once I got into bed.
Woke up around 1300hrs, saw CSI, did some laundry which was severely overdue, then sat in the apartment to catch some B grade English movie. Total lethargy.
But then, I was just saving up for the night. That was when the action started (if you can call what happened "action"). Anyway the night was cool - this is where KC and I spent the night walking in the rain looking for the AIG building somewhere near Odemachi Station, recycled a broken umbrella and roamed around Shibuya (which was dead due to the rain), talked a lot of crap at some Isakaya, got wet many times, and wound up in some Japanese cybercafe drying up & watching Ocean's 12 (but I dozed off at the couch).
Day 13: Was a direct continuation from Day 12. The whole drenched up affair prior to this was to make sure we could go to Tsukiji at 0500~0600hrs. Wanted to see the price-mongering and bidding for fish, and bite into one on the spot. But when we reached there admist the rain (non stop rain since the day before), damn marketplace was closed.
Disheartened, we headed back for some sleep and woke up around 1400hrs. I only managed to get a pic with the "we are closed" signboard .
But the better part of the day was saved by a cool baseball game we went to at 1800hrs - Tokyo Giants vs Hiroshima. The Tokyo Dome stadium was 3/4 packed, with loads of babes selling beer and goodies, a rather interesting twist of culture there they were all cute.
Oh yeah - and the baseball game was interesting too ;)
And after that, we managed to find Ji Yin's friend Caroline and had a quick ramen at an "authentic under the bridge noodle store run by an old Japanese man". Cool. Another item from my "to-do in life" list struck off.
Day 14: Last real day in Japan, so packed up in the morning, then lingered around Kameido and walked to Kishincho.
Then went to Asakusa nice place has still an "old" Japanese feel to the area. And then had dinner with Caroline. Was a bit rainy into the night. Saw her off and then managed to catch the last train back. But then had to wait about 2 hours plus for KC to balik from his sessions with fellow colleagues.
And into the wee hours of the morning - had some late night trash talk with KC - it's a male bonding thing :)
Day 15: Flight back home to Msia. Ku-ra-pu!! Back to reality, and so life does have to go on. All I can say was that Japan was a totally great trip, enjoyed myself thoroughly and its time to work hard again and focus on work for a while before the next one (probably either Russia, Shanghai or Sweden plus UK).
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Saturday, April 15, 2006
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