Majlis Hari Raya, Yebisu beer, Ueno seafood.

my first outing to Tokyo since I came back.
attended an event organized by the embassy, a majlis hari raya together with the Malaysian Minister of Tourism, Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen.
venue was a M'sian restaurant, Rasa in Ginza.
the whole thing is, yea so M'sian.
we get to enjoy M'sian cuisine in Japan is like HEAVEN. trust me.
nasi lemak, satay, curry mee was great.
speeches from all the BIG guyz, kay not gonna share anything nor talk about it. don't ask why or whatever sh**. :))
read on Malaysia woos Japanese senior citizens to find out what was shared on the day. reporter from The Star was there too. :)

anyway this is the only photo of the event taken via iPhone. too shy to lift up my camera. haha.

met with dongsheng, yangherk and siangthye after that.
went to yebisu, ehemmm just because I've never been to there. haha.

Beer Festival #1.

Beer Festival #2.

Yebisu was great, Yebisu Garden Place was marvellous with nice buildings. not those japanese-like ones but european-like ones. :P
luck was on our side as we get to enjoy a beer festival held that day! :))

Got to wear this whenever u buy your first beer there. so that you don't get caught for being young drinkers(?) but they didn't even check when we bought. -.-

Siangthye.

Dongsheng.

Yangherk.

You guyz must be wondering what is it all about for the last 3 photos.
it was to decide who is going to throw the plastic cups. siangthye, who DIDN'T even drank went. lol

We then decided to meet up with Agung, an Indonesian Oyama senior of us last year, who is now already a university student. our meeting place was initially Roppongi, once again because I've never been there yet (haha!) but rain was pouring. :(
went all the way to Ueno and it took around 1 hour to decide what to eat. haha.

Seafood don.

There's a street named Ameyoko which sells all kinds of things. particularly those u can rarely get from supermarkets. saw mooncakes too, but yea I got some tasty homemade ones u see. :P *thanks mum!!*

decided to get some seafood, and was great!

Mt. Fuji I Conquer

Hell yeah, I conquered Mt. Fuji man! 

Ha. A lil bit too much? :P

It was an event organized by MSAJ, with 20 something of participation.

Honestly it didn't really felt like an MSAJ's event, maybe have to do better next some other time. 

We gathered at a train station named Kawaguchiko and went up to the 5th station of Mt. Fuji together by bus. Ya, most people start climbing from the 5th station. There we went climbing around half past nine. At first it was like a night walk on top of a mountain. Haha. It was a flat tar road for some distance. Things somehow felt challenging, no like a mount climbing finally, just by going up some rocky path ways. One serious thing that certainly surprised me was that there were thousands of them, like us on the way to the top man! Mt Fuji was seriously CROWDED! 'Traffic jam' all along the way up. We broke up into few small groups and some went cutting Qs (don't worry, it's OK to do so, I guess. :P) and some of us who decided to be in the last group 'protecting' the others from the back. lol

Some of us were just too weak due to lack of exercise got stucked right away before we reached the 6th station. Haha. Brave enough for him to actually got himself til the top in the end. Some idiot we-so-called-BAKA even tried to ring up his mum to inform that he's on the way to the top of Mt. Fuji, while climbing. His call failed, and guess what's next. He's phone actually rang on the way! He just took out his phone and chit-chat with the someone at the other end as if he was just having his evening walk after dinner. WTF.

Honestly, we got pretty bored Q-ing all the way and found that we were way out of the scheduled time to enjoy the sunrise from the top. Me and Ling Cheik (both AJK who supposed to look after the weak ones) went running up. Haha. Trying to find ways to get through the lines, from the left, right and even the middle. FUN. Haha.Not to mention of cause a lil bit dangerous as well.

5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, H8th station, a total of 5 station before we could reach the top and a total of 3.4km if I'm not mistaken. No, you underestimate it as a normal 3.4km marathon run, then you got it wrong. The path way got narrow and narrow from the 8th station and nothing can be done but to QUEUE. Just imagine, you're on top of the mountain, with a bloody shit of crowd around you, cold wind hits your face, and you're moving step by step. HELL. I almost felt asleep when I tried to close my eyes while waiting to get moved. Then, it was the time to get to know who's around you. Haha. You can find grandpaSs and grandchildren all the way along up, of course cute ones too. :P Nah, it wasn't really a time for you to 'scan' for cute chicks as once you have a glance on someone, the flash light on top of your head would shot on that person. Then, you know, that someone knows, everyone know. lol

The stations operate as a pit stop or some kind of resting place for climbers, but just a LIL bit extraordinary. You find pay-toilet outside M'sia, 200yen (RM8) per entrance and it was 300yen (RM12) at the top! I wasted 500yen. >.< Bananas, 200yen for a bunch. Dreaming, for ONE. To future climbers, load your backpack with foodSss.

We past by H8th station, half way to the top. One of us turned around to have a look at the sky at the back and saw it was getting bright! Basically what we saw were just rocks lighten up by our 'head-light' along the way. We got ourselves out from the path way, to the side. Sat on the rocks, on the slopy mountain. I actually got my left foot pushing a rock in front as I was so scared of falling down all the way the slope. Haha. 

So you call it day or night? :)

While waiting for the sunrise, seniors brought out hot water in thermos, and Milo 3in1. Haha.

Hot Milo on the top of Mt. Fuji companied by the sunrise.

I leave it to you to imagine the feeling. :P

Sunrise from the very top of Japan. :)

The 'ah pek' at the right actually sat just right in front of us. Out of a sudden, he turned around and said, 'Keep quiet!!' M'sians talking loudly on Mt. Fuji get scolded. Haha.

See how slopy it is.

We reached the top around 6 in the morning and if you ask me how was it up there? I can't say anything else besides, CROWDED. I quickly went to Q up for the 300yen toilet straight away and we left around 7. The way back wasn't that easy as expected, but at least easier than the way up for sure. Same, we were like snails at first and then started running down the mountain. It wasn't really that tiring but what kept irritating me was my stomach. No idea what got it so pain and just imagine I run all the way from the top til the 6th station until I got myself to the toilet. Haha. 

The climb would be way way way easier, nicer, quicker if there weren't that much people.

Anyway, it was a all around great lifetime experience to conquer the highest mountain in Japan. Never been to Mt. Kinabalu as an M'sian, not even a mount climbing experience before and straight away the top of Japan. To those who wanted but never tried before, give it a go!

extra: Finally, my 2nd summer break! Today was the last class of the first semester in my 4th year. Exam passed a week ago but yet reports kept me busy the whole week until the very lasy day. 

ehmm, honestly speaking, I'm starting to feel hard to express myself in English... @.@

 

 Daddy welcomes you. :P

The 5th ASEAN Festival 2010

Finally it came... and ended...

I'd just done with the final report for both MSAJ and AYNJ, so obviously I won't be typing once again. Haha. Let's go by photos guys. :)

Preparation the day before.

This got me furious. Haha

Our main stage.

A small birthday celebration for two of the Japanese members before the festival started.

特定非営利活動法人　日本INGO　副会長. He invited me to a ASIA 50 PEOLE event. :)

Japanese model of the day.

Sopha from Cambodia.

Angga from Indonesia.

Arakinbo from SNIE (Japan).

Amy from Brunei.

Michiru. :)

Japanese friends.

Erika-chan.

The whole Japanese team. :)

The organizing team.

We Malaysian! :))

It was probably the greatest day I've ever gone through in Japan. We worked in a team, which includes people from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Phlippines, Myanmar, Brunei, and of course Japan and Malaysia. They were very helpful volunteers, great people, and I mean really nice friends. Very grateful to know everyone there. You know what, I'm even willing to fail one of my subject to know everyone of you. Yes, I say it I mean it. :)

On that very real day of the festival, there were more new friends I met. :) 

Guess what was the best thing, on the way back from the hall, out to the Komaba International House, until the train station. There were many people who were my friends. 'Otsukaresamadesu!' 'Jya,mata ne' 'Bye-bye'. It felt like home. There weren't once since I came to Japan last year where I get to met someone I know on the road. I mean not that often. :P There were even two Japanese who got onto the same train with me until Shibuya where we spilt to our different path. Chit-chat all the way long was I mean great. Sorry, I realized I said the word 'great' for quite a many times but that's the only word to descibe my feeling. 

Oh ya, many thought I'm a Japanese. Haha. It happened when I was talking with the Indonesian juniors who just arrived Japan last April, when I said I'm Malaysian, they were like HAH? 'USO~' (Don't bluff) Haha. Many Japanese thought so too. It's my browny hair maybe which makes everyone thinks so I guess. :P But everything will be clear when I open my mouth and speak lol. Only lousy Japanese I speak. :)

Without doubt it was the biggest classroom I've ever been in. Thanks to MSAJ and AYNJ for this precious chance. It's just sad that it seems like not many people are interested in organizing events or even participating them. Experiences like these are even valuble than the money we get from JPA every single month I bet. None of them are taught in lectures, none of them can be bought by money and of course none of them can be changed with. 

Nah, but I'm tired of doing recruitment, bla bla bla to anyone as some might think I'm too pushy. Haha. 

Looking forward for the next event where once again the new and old faces get to meet. :)

Non-holiday Golden Week

Finally the 5 days stretch of holidays which almost everyone in Japan were waiting for anxiously came and ended, Golden Week.

Schedule was quite similar with last year's as we had our Golden Week Gathering with everyone all around Japan. The only thing that differ, is that we were the organizer this year. Most of the things did by our mates from Kisarazu NCT which is a tradition (?), and we were there to help out. 3 days 2 nights were indeed short for us to get along with those who stays far apart from the Kanto region. Yea, we will and do miss ya guyz a lot man. :( Seniors who we seldom meet, juniors who we weren't close to before, newbies to our big family in Japan, this is the only precious moment to get things right. Yes, it isn't an easy job to be the organizer. Mentioning about the activities, there were some who complained about it being too bored or bla bla bla . . . Sorry if they really were, but our main objective is just to get everyone together and communicate with each other. :)
Thanks for those who turn out that day despite ya guyz' tight schedule. Do really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. Last but not least, everyone of our organizing members who gave handS! :D
p/s : All the best to juniors in adjusting yourself in this Cold Land and ganbarimashou!

 

Nah, it wasn't the end. It's MSAJ's Career Fair 2010 next! Being one of the organizing committee, we (those who took part in the gathering) rushed to the venue early morning on the last day. Me and a few mates were in charged of the electric parts of the hall. Sambungkan the electric cords for each booth of the companies before the event starts and collecting them after the event ends were our main jobs. It was an easy one not to mention dealing with those companies who didn't write in that they need external cords but keep asking for it on the spot. :P
It was a great opportunity for me to get involved with such event. Sharing words with companies, working together organizing an event is unforgettable. We MSAJ don't get paid by doing all these, but experiences which weigh more than gold. :)

Our batch didn't miss the chance to share our dinner together! Thanks to Sze Yang who went to find out and book the place for us. Maruhachi at Shibuya is it. I was hoping for osake (alcohol) nomihoudai (drink-all-you-can) but . . . too bad. Haha. After that it was karaoke till the dawn. BURGER KING for breakfast then greeted buhbye. :(

The last day of Golden Week, tons of undone reports. lol
Gotta get it done and recharge myself for more upcoming events which may keep me busy yet happy!