Instantly Growing Mankind: Visiting Around Japan

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Wednesday, 22 September 2010

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!

Monday, 10 May 2010

A Sunday

7.00am. NO ONE wake as early as that during weekends. I mean SUNDAY. Another meeting with AYNJ, mainly to discuss the upcoming ASEAN Festival which MSAJ is the host this time. Being the AJK of Bureau of Cultural & Social, it's our show time! Haha. As if I'm really happy to be doing it. :P

1hours 40minutes of journey to Tokyo, of cause it's a waste not to hang around Shibuya (for me). Haha. Got myself more than what I wanted that day. Satisfied. And, I'm starting to get bored with Shibuya now. Wth.

Shibuya Station.

Extra:

If only ...

I'm strong like Rooney,

I'm brilliant like Berba,

I can pass the ball as accurate as Giggs & Scholesy,

I can run like Nani,

I can tackle like G. Neville, (sorry lar, I know I did hate u before :P)

I'm consistence like Evra,

I have good partners like Ferdinand & Vidic,

I can stretch my hands like Van Der Sar!

Glory Glory Man United . . .

We'll be back next season!

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

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!

Monday, 12 October 2009

Foreign Students Program 留学生交流会

12th of October, is a public holiday for Japan. Sports Day. I have no idea what is it all about though. Haha. It falls on Monday this year so we had 3 consecutive days of holiday dragging from Saturday to Monday. As scheduled months ago, I participated a short program organized by the Japanese. It's a program mainly for foreign students from colleges located in Kanto region(mainly around Tokyo) fully sponsored by the Japanese government. This is a yearly program which will be held at different places every year and it goes to Gunma this time.

10/10

Depart from Oyama College at 9.20am, reached Takasaki Station, Gunma at 11.50am. D. Sheng, Kazi (Bangladesh), I and another teacher were representatives from Oyama College. We met our bunch of friends not at the meet up point, but at McD where we headed for our lunch. Haha.

Our first destination was Gunma College. We had our opening ceremony in one of the halls. Next, our journey continued with a drop-by at a daruma,tumbling doll shop(factory?) which is a famous point at Gunma Prefecture. We were each gave a palm sized of doll before we went into the shop. Next, we were 'lectured' by the sifu, owner of the shop. The place where the dolls were made is actually holly but was open for those who want to try out making those dolls. Sifu then had a brush on one of his hands and started working on the gigantic dolls placed in front of him. Everyone watched the way he painted the face of the dolls as we had to do so with ours then.

My master piece. :)

Next we had a brief walk at the festival held just a stone throw away from the hotel we stayed. It was the second time I went to Gunma and the second time I went for a festival at Gunma and both are held at the same area ! Unbelievable. Haha.

Japanese Festival.

We enjoyed our buffet dinner at one of the mini ballrooms in the hotel, followed by speech from each and everyone of us.

Kisarazu College Representatives.

Japanese programs always ends after dinner and we had our spare time together for the whole night. It surely won't be the same case as programs organized by Malaysians as they will make sure they torture you until the last minute of the day before they let you go to bed. Me and few other friends talked about it and found out maybe Japanese have more important 'business' of the day to be settled at night. That's why. Haha.

11/10

Mount Haruna. The temperature was roughly 8 celsius up there despite bright sunshine.

Ropeway.

Mountain View.

Next, we headed to one of the most famous hot spring in Japan, Kusatsu Onsen.

Hot spring. Haha.

After walking around the hot spring area, we were finally brought to our Kusatsu Onsen Resort where we spent our second night. I must say that it was a really nice resort to stay in. Clean, comfortable and most important, there is a open-air hot spring in it! Damn nice man. We enjoyed another meal at the resort as our dinner and whole night we went crapping and playing all sorts of games together with the company of one of our chinese senior, Elvin. We walked around the resort, walked to seven eleven to buy cup noodles, played 'thief and police' until 3 am. I bet he might be surprised by our batch eh siao kia-s. Haha.

12/10

Our plan was to wake up at 6.45 am and have a last bath and hot spring, but slept at 3 am the night before, everyone was late even for the breakfast. Haha. After checking out, we went to the Fukuoka silk factory. I was pretty frustrated the our tour guide as he treated us as we don't understand Japanese and repeating the same thing in English every sentences he said in Japnaese. Luckily one of the teachers stood up and explained to him. Sign. But even so, it was a boring sightseeing in the factory as I was sleepy for the whole journey(result from sleepless night).

Fukuoka Silk Factory.

Oppss. Made a mistake. Before that, we went for a sightseeing view of volcano. Too bad the top of te volcano was clouded and we got nothing. Haha.

View.

We had our lunch at one of the shops located beside Fukuoka Silk Factory and were sent back to the nearby train station as each and everyone of us waved goodbye and continued our journey back to Oyama Station.

It was a great experience throughout the 3 days 2 nights trip. Too bad such trips are just mainly for 3rd year foreign students each year. (We prayed that not too many juniors will come to our college next year. Haha) An enjoyable way to spend my 3 days holiday. =)

Saturday, 3 October 2009

Foods during my summer break.

This suppose to be posted long time ago, but I just didn't have that 'push' to flip through all my photos and make a collection of it. This won't be a storytelling post, but a long dragging one with photos taking center show of it. Here we go ! =)