[Mobile Update] Happiness in a Bag

Lookie at what I got. More happiness than I can carry.

Cute. And inside was my lunch. (o.O);; Claypot mee. Odd. But it sure cheered me up for lunch. Didn't make it out for lunch today. Ask PSP-san to tabao. It's pretty sad when you can't take a breather of fresh air during lunch break. Then again, I got a bag of happiness.

I guess that enough to make my day.

And night. *smiles*

Can You Smell It?

Something fresh. Something new.

At Hiyashibeeps.

*takes a deep breath*

Ahhhh!

A new header! It's been soooo long since I had one.

Mr Clean Hands was the one who complained a few weeks ago, the same day I got my interest back from the Clean Hands Choco Bank.

"Why no design one? So plain."

"......"

*so demanding*

So finally, I did something though without much thought, I just randomly search for a nice shot suit for a header and I found this.

It was a Goodbye gift from dearest YY the day we left Japan. And you know how we got this mindset of Japanese stuff is always more canggih, more trustworthy? That it's simply judged better with the words "Made from Japan" on it? It's hard to reject that fact when even a flower like this lasted way longer than any other fresh flowers I ever got. And to be stuffed into the laggage and come back still looking like that, that is one long-lasting flower.

Is it simply because it's from Japan?

*shrugs*

You tell me. o_O;;

Me Time

It's been awhile since I had a "Me Time" in the morning at the office. Just that 10 minutes of being alone with my music on, my head resting on my water tumbler, casually surfing the internet, taking a breather before the day's work starts coming in.

This morning just reminded me how I miss that

therapeutic 10 minutes.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate having someone to travel to and back from work with. Yes, it's safer, it's assuring and for that I am thankful to PSP-san. Yet, I don't mind having these occasional days where I have to go to work alone. Nope. Don't mind it at all.

A Japanese Summer: Chapter Four (i)

I made a blooper in my last post here. Wrote that the next destination was Kyoto. *oops* That's the problem of procastinating posts, details tend to be forgotten. *frowns* It's Disneyland! Disneyland. Though do you know there's also DisneySea in Tokyo? The one and only DisneySea. But since we can only spend a day there, we opted for the oh-so-famous Disneyland. No worries, DisneySea, we'll come to you soon, right Cubbie? *hopeful*

Our tickets! Why is there three? Because we decided to treat YY as a big thank you for letting us stay at her place while we're in Tokyo and her being such a nice host and assurance throughout our entire trip. Now, which was mine? Hmm... Pinocchio, Ariel or Goofy?

ATM Machines! Disney style! Hahaha...

Close Up! And yes that's me in the reflection. *grins*



Ah... a Must-Take-Shot!
Together with Sir Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse. *smiles*



Cubbie attempting to high-five? *lol*

Cubbie and YY fighted it out for Caption Jack Sparrow. Yup, our first ride was Pirates of the Caribbean and boy was the queue loooong. Then again, every queue in the park was looooong in which you spend most of the time lining up for rides than riding on them. *shrugs* It didn't helped that we were there on a summer holiday weekend. ^^;;

Coolness 100%

Such a beau isn't she? HAHAHA... I can't believe I'm describing a gun as beautiful but it was.

See how great Disneyland is! Not only do they allowed us to freely try on everything on the shelves, the kind sales lady even helped us took a group picture. Aiya, it's not like we so kiam siap okay, but don't forget we are budget travellers here. Budget budget! Got money, sure buy.

Again, got money sure buy! XD

Woohoo! Us and Captain Jack Sparrow!
See how happy Cubbie was. HAHAHA...

Next ride: Jungle Cruise.

Nama macam sungguh exciting but Disneyland being Disneyland it didn't get wee bit dangerous at all. Hahaha...

See the deers behind? They're fake. HAHAHA... but I totally loved our cruise guide. He was totally funny and adorable, not that we understood a word he said though. But his expressions were the highlights of the ride. I think I got a crush over Jungle Cruise-san.

*blushes*

We picked the best time to be here in Disney. It was Tokyo Disneyland's 25th Anniversary. So all the folks from Disney were out for a parade of celebration.

Meet all the princes and princesses.
Belle and former Beast. Hahaha...

Cinderella and Prince Charming.

I think this is Princess Ariel and Prince Eric. Correct me if I'm wrong, Cubbie, you're the Disney expert here. *grins*

Pooh bear said hi!

The truth is I don't like Pooh bear at all.
I'm a Tigger Lover! *hearts*

Piglet said hi too!

I think I take good pictures here. Muahahaha... capturing the moments. In fact, before the parade started we already discussed our plan - Cubbie in charged of video and I shall take the pictures. Yes, we now have a full length video of the parade and a set of wonderful pictures to go with it. *dang proud*

The little king of the jungle graced the parade as well and so did many other Disney characters. It's like reliving your childhood again at Disneyland. LOL.

The dancers were even more mesmerising with colourful costumes and big big smiles.

*chu*

Of course, there were so much more but I don't think I want to spam the scary amount of pictures I took over here. ^^;;

In the end the "Tai Koh" of Disneyland appeared. Honestly, Mickey being up there all white and grand really macam the "Tai Koh" of Disneyland, no kidding!

All hail Mickey! *bow*

Our lunch/tea/dinner all in one. One BIG SMOKED TURKEY DRUMSTICK for about RM16. Total indulgence I tell you. Hahahaha...

NEXT UP: A Magical Night of Disney

Stressnya!

Not Me! Him!

*points below*

Though I envy him for his "courage" in doing that in public.

*points to the date of the picture*

Am so "update" with my post these days.

*beams*

I think I can even catch up posting the photos I've
taken few weeks ago.

Wait me. Wait me.

XD

Morning Mr Cloud!

Mr Cloud seems lonely this morning.

And it goes to show that you can't survive alone.

Even lonely cloud sinks.

At least that's what I thought this morning.

Then as I edit the photo, I came to realise that's just me looking at the glass half empty.

Isn't that Mr Cloud striving his way upwards?

I think I prefer to think so. *smiles*

My First Time...

...buying clothes online.

XD

Not my first online purchase though.

Had doubts buying clothes online since there's this "No Trying" policy. Obviously. Ain't got no model-like body that fits any clothes either. So even after I was introduced to various shopping blogs by dearest Ching more than half a year ago, only now did I kick-start my first purchase.

Simply because I love it oh so much.

Efficient as always.

You may disagree but poslaju has never failed me till now.

Paid on Monday.

Sent on Tuesday.

Received on Wednesday.

Talk about efficiency.

Credit goes out to Lynn from Fashion-Loft.

Jeng Jeng Jeng!

This shot ain't pretty.

Simply don't do justice to the pretty piece.

This is a much prettier shot.
*gets whacked for her narcissim*

I'm talking about the dress/pinafore okay?

*innocent*

I did attempt to take a picture of the back but it didn't turn out good and I was lazy to keep taking pictures of myself. Am not that narcissistic.

All in all, I must say I really like it.

Now if only I got a pair of good shoes to go with it.

The Procastinator's Post

Procastinating. That be me.
I got a pile of clothes stacking up on the sofa.
All I need to do is arrange them into the closet.

*stares at the sofa*

Why am I proscastinating such a simple task?

*takes another glance*

I think I have clothes down there that hasn't been worn for awhile.
HAHAHA... I think I've been wearing the ones on top.
That's the problem of not hanging them up nicely.

*stares*

I rather type this meaningless post than do that.

*sigh*

.
.
.
.
.

*after 5 seconds of silence*

I think I go do it now.

*switch on the music and proceed to do the "work"*

This post might not be that meaningless after all.
At least it got me up from this chair.
Lazy bum. XD

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Edited 10 mins later:
Shhh! I was still sitting here. Yup. Switched on the music and still had my lazy bum glued to the chair and then mom called out from downstairs.

"Jo!!! You got a stack of clothes here and you still
don't want to take them up."

*sigh*

They are here now on the bed instead simply because the sofa is already fulled.

Arrrghh!!

A Japanese Summer: Chapter Three

Muahahaha... I'm 7 months late in my posting. By the time "A Japanese Summer" finishes, we'll be all set for this year's summer vacation. ^^;; Then again, these are all my memories and there is no deadlines to them. Writing them now brings back the memories and I always misses Japan every single time in write. *sigh*

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Continuing from where we left off with good old Sapporo Beer.

We left Hokkaido the very next morning. That's another 8 long hours back to Tokyo. (-_-) But hey, that does not mean we let the day go wasted. We head off to the famous Sensoji Temple in Asakusa.

Everyone attempts to take a picture under the "Thunder Gate" more accurately known as "Kaminarimon" or the outer gate of the temple.

Everyone including me. (^o^)

Hah! You'll be surprised that this is what greets you right after the gate. A long stretch of little shops selling every souvenir of Japan. This shopping street which spans over 200 meters is called Nakamise. It's interesting that most temple is surrounded by such hustle and bustle. According to dad it's because early community always develop around a temple.

Food: Biscuits, Mochi, Sweets in every colourful packaging you can ever imagine.

In every different shapes and sizes.



Headgears for you to go all Japanish.


You can even get your complete Ninja set with flying daggers and samurai swords here.

You name it! Nakamise has it!

From traditional geishas...

...to Jpop idols' uchiwas. o_O;;
What are those doing there? *blinks*

At the end of Nakamise is the inner gate to Sensoji Temple. This is actually the main gate, the Hozomon.

By then, the sun has begun to set and the skylight was beautiful.

Right behind the Hozomon was the Buddha's giant slipper! HAHAHA... imagine if Buddha-sama didn't clean his feet properly, how greatly the smell would be. *aiks.. disrespectful*
Gomenasai!

Ah... another shot with the crescent moon as backdrop.

One more shot of the lighted pagoda. *click*

By the time we stepped out of the temple and back to the streets the shops were all closed! o__O;; Hayai! But it was beautiful and there was music playing in the background. Old traditional music.

Click play and listen.

Ahahaha.. this shop was closed but we had a strong hunch it's a Comb Shop. *points to the giant comb as the shop's signboard* And what's fascinating about these shops are their gutters. Even upon closing, each shop has beautiful illustrations on its gutters.

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It was dinnertime and we were hungry but we were determined to find that little okonomiyaki shop featured in the Lonely Planet book. It is here we met with the sincerely helpful hospitality of Japan. After giving up wondering around, we stepped into a shop to ask for direction. The man in the shop had no idea of the shop but was so eagered to help us that he went on to take out a map and help us find the place.

Though it turned out we were the ones helping him navigate the map, pointing out to him where his shop was in the map. Ahahaha... we tried so hard to tell him it's okay but he was so determined to help us find the place. (^_^;;) Arigatou Ojichan. I hope your kindness will in return bring you lots of customers to your shop. The fabrics and yukatas there were pretty but they were too expensive for us to buy any.

After walking to where we think the right area of the shop is, we finally got some good reliable directions from a policeman. Hahaha... can't go wrong by asking a man in a uniform. Though he was really intimidating to approach. XD

The little humble shop. FINALLY!

It was REALLY REALLY HOT in there. Even standing at the entrance, we can already feel the heat. Cubbie was having her doubts of going in but come on, after all that effort?

The electrical fan aside, see how authentic the place is. And those white plastic bags? HAHAHA... we were given those upon entering.

Yup, we cooked our own okonomiyaki. That explains the heat of the entire place. Imagine tables of enthusistic guests cooking their okonomiyaki over the flat hot stove in front. And we pay for all that. Hahaha... Why did we pay to suffer?

For the experience lah of course.

For the experience.

=P

And mind you, after all that hassle, my okonomiyaki didn't turned out delicious at all. (-_-)

*bricked*

After our short adventure of the day, we finally called it a day and returned home to YY's place.

Tomorrow... we're out to Kyoto!

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Now Trivia of the Post:
Can you guess what were the plastic bags for?

And Cubbie you are not allowed to answer that!