Thursday, March 20, 2008 / 8:08 AM
weather: sunny, bright weather
21st march 2008
music: I just dont love you no more.
OKAYY. HERE I GO, TO BLOG ABOUT OSAKA TRIP. muahahs. haha. hey, this is gonna be an uber long post yo. haha. so read if you have the time and, if not time, scroll through the pictures yeah. haha. those got my face one is not i take one and those which dont have my face is i take one. haha.(obvious). haha. okay so here goes...
DAY 1- the day we leave for osaka
okay. that day, clear skies, what not. was alone at home cos family went genting. that day, I went out earlier to meet xinyun and ke jian to buy stuff for the japan ppl. haha, we went to marina square i think. went around really long, window shopping, arcading and looking for the gift. In the end, we decided to buy 3 bags of candy for them. haha. oh yeah. and something relaly funny happened at the arcade. haha. we were playing this game where you are a pilot and you shoot and stuff. haha. it was really fun though. and xinyun left her grey bag there, and took her wallet and phone with her(lucky), we left the arcade. After walking damn long, I suddenly realised that she wasnt carrying her bag and i went, "wheres your bag arhh?!". haha, then we ran all the way back to take her bag. luckily it was still there. haha. okay. after when i reach home, it was about 5 pm.
kooma called, and asked me out for dinner. to my GREAT suprise, haha, I saw xue mei jie jie, ah xiang jiejie, kooma , my nephew and my niece. It was a really really fun. we had pizza hut. haha. kooma didnt wanna send me off at the airport cos for xue mei jiejie, it will be relaly really far for her. haha. MY NIECE LET ME CARRY HER. YAY! haha. fun fun. chloe and jovan. haha hoho. and jovan is growing arhh. thats really cool mannn. to be honest, i cant wait to have my own children to carry next time. XD. haha. okay, so anyway, yeah, we had pizza, shopped around and everything. it was a really warm and fufilling meal. haha. pushing around jovan in his pram, carrying chloe around when xue mei jiejie is trying on clothes. then at pizza hut, kooma and ah xiang jiejie they all taught me some jap(of which i didnt even use in the trip). haha. like,
watashiwa jermain des(i am jermain)
and some stuff of which i wrote down laa. haha.
anyway, er yi and er yi zhang picked me up thereafter to the airport, haha. am really glad that i have loving aunties, uncles and cousins all there to look after me. haha. we sat around T3, and they were reallyr eally nice to follow me until i found my friends. haha. alot of ppl were there though. haha. talked around then we headed up for departure. then at there, we kindda took some time to take pictures, etc etc.
and then i said AGAIN! haha. and kenneth popped in. hahaha. =). nice one! haha.
okay. haha. thereafter, we headed to factory outlet to buy stuff. but everyone apparently was tired. so, we headed back to the hotel thereafter. we checked in. haha, i was bunking with nicholas chua from trombone. but apparently, i didnt take picturelaa. mother monkey. ughh. haha. but yeah, the hotel first floor has computer, used it for msn and everything, then headed up to sleep. and that was the end of day1. btw, haha, travelling from 1 place to another in japan is like a trip from tampines to jurong east by mrt. haha.
i strongly think that history students should get to see all of this, its REALLYR EALLY cool stuff. haha. (not the part where lots of ppl get killed of which we get to see and all that). as in, the events laa. oh gosh. nvm. i dunno how to explain. haha. we then headed to a cherry blossom place where theres REALLY REALLY REALLYR EALLYR EALLY REALYY nice scenery. haha. we took pictures there. ..
we took some pictures with some of the charcters. That day, my camera went out of battery, so credits to jing jing for the pictures. XD. haha. you see the one above, withWOODY WOOD PECKER. haha. that shot was to make lavina jealous. haha. speaking of which, lavina has this duper unique laughter. haha. =). oh wells. anyway, yeah. haha. woody woodpecker has this duper nice laugh. it goes something like.
oh yeah, wanna comment something here. haha. look at me with the sitting on teachers desk thing. do I look like a teacher? oh gosh. haha. wo der zhi yuan. =). but oh well. haha. the shot below(jingjing and I) haha, its like jing jing posed being sian, so its like i said wait! then i pretended to be the teacher and acted like i was scolding her. haha. =).
at the snoopy shot, i took a picture with jolene! XD. snowball!=))))). haha. reminds me of my sister. haha. oh well. jolene is a very very nice person=). haa.
21st march 2008
music: I just dont love you no more.
OKAYY. HERE I GO, TO BLOG ABOUT OSAKA TRIP. muahahs. haha. hey, this is gonna be an uber long post yo. haha. so read if you have the time and, if not time, scroll through the pictures yeah. haha. those got my face one is not i take one and those which dont have my face is i take one. haha.(obvious). haha. okay so here goes...
DAY 1- the day we leave for osaka
okay. that day, clear skies, what not. was alone at home cos family went genting. that day, I went out earlier to meet xinyun and ke jian to buy stuff for the japan ppl. haha, we went to marina square i think. went around really long, window shopping, arcading and looking for the gift. In the end, we decided to buy 3 bags of candy for them. haha. oh yeah. and something relaly funny happened at the arcade. haha. we were playing this game where you are a pilot and you shoot and stuff. haha. it was really fun though. and xinyun left her grey bag there, and took her wallet and phone with her(lucky), we left the arcade. After walking damn long, I suddenly realised that she wasnt carrying her bag and i went, "wheres your bag arhh?!". haha, then we ran all the way back to take her bag. luckily it was still there. haha. okay. after when i reach home, it was about 5 pm.
kooma called, and asked me out for dinner. to my GREAT suprise, haha, I saw xue mei jie jie, ah xiang jiejie, kooma , my nephew and my niece. It was a really really fun. we had pizza hut. haha. kooma didnt wanna send me off at the airport cos for xue mei jiejie, it will be relaly really far for her. haha. MY NIECE LET ME CARRY HER. YAY! haha. fun fun. chloe and jovan. haha hoho. and jovan is growing arhh. thats really cool mannn. to be honest, i cant wait to have my own children to carry next time. XD. haha. okay, so anyway, yeah, we had pizza, shopped around and everything. it was a really warm and fufilling meal. haha. pushing around jovan in his pram, carrying chloe around when xue mei jiejie is trying on clothes. then at pizza hut, kooma and ah xiang jiejie they all taught me some jap(of which i didnt even use in the trip). haha. like,
watashiwa jermain des(i am jermain)
and some stuff of which i wrote down laa. haha.
anyway, er yi and er yi zhang picked me up thereafter to the airport, haha. am really glad that i have loving aunties, uncles and cousins all there to look after me. haha. we sat around T3, and they were reallyr eally nice to follow me until i found my friends. haha. alot of ppl were there though. haha. talked around then we headed up for departure. then at there, we kindda took some time to take pictures, etc etc.
okay nevermind. haha. the above shots are nice yeah? haha. oh yeah, the shot with xinyuna nd cheryl in it, we were inside the airport already. haha. the ducks cute. we walked around etc, and then headed onto the plane. I was sitting with bao hui(baozhu) haha, and yeah. talked quite a bit.
below are some shots in the plane. haha. oh yeah. and the plane has pokemon to play. haha. i watched lots of movies and etc.
okay. so we reached the floating garden, of which it was an observatory tower. it was reallyr eally high up about 50 something stories? haha. ITS DUPER HIGH UP. haha. and apparently xinyun was afraid of heights. haha.
took section pictures. haha. a lot of ppl were going around to take pictures and all that stuff laa. haha. okay. i shall distrupt the viewing of pictures here a while. haha. below is a nice shot of gino and xinyun. haha.
and then i said AGAIN! haha. and kenneth popped in. hahaha. =). nice one! haha.
okay. haha. thereafter, we headed to factory outlet to buy stuff. but everyone apparently was tired. so, we headed back to the hotel thereafter. we checked in. haha, i was bunking with nicholas chua from trombone. but apparently, i didnt take picturelaa. mother monkey. ughh. haha. but yeah, the hotel first floor has computer, used it for msn and everything, then headed up to sleep. and that was the end of day1. btw, haha, travelling from 1 place to another in japan is like a trip from tampines to jurong east by mrt. haha.
DAY 2- HALF DAY CULTURAL TOUR/ HALF DAY EXCHANGE PROGRAMME.
we first headed down to the osaka peace centre where we viewed lots of cool stuff on world war 2. haha. cheryl has the pictures for these but i havent received it yet. oh well. guess i have to wait. haha. but i do have one withjing jing. =). haha.
i strongly think that history students should get to see all of this, its REALLYR EALLY cool stuff. haha. (not the part where lots of ppl get killed of which we get to see and all that). as in, the events laa. oh gosh. nvm. i dunno how to explain. haha. we then headed to a cherry blossom place where theres REALLY REALLY REALLYR EALLYR EALLY REALYY nice scenery. haha. we took pictures there. ..
haha. oh mann. i realised i didnt take a picture with cheryl lim zhi ru. =.=. oh goshh. haha. nvm. but anyway, the scenery IS NICE. right? haha. there were lots of children there and painters and all that. SO COOOOOLLL. mamamiya. haha. we headed off to osaka. [ will get pictures from other ppl again] to have lunch and all that. the castle is like way back in history all the way till now laa. UBER COOL. haha. i kept on imagining pictures of ninjas there. haha. oh well. hanged out with lots of ppl there. haha. oh yeah. and the j1 gang spotted this cute twins. haha.(1 boya nd 1 girl) i forgot their names. but they were DAMN CUTE. haha. oh yeah. did i mention that all japan kids look like pikachu? haha. their cheeks all are pink in colour one laa. haha.
OKAY AND LIKE, WE WENT WITH A BAND EXCHANGE WITH KYODAI HIGH SCHOOL. haha. they played for us postcards from singapore and 1 more song. haha. they're good though. ahha, they are really good. the discipline is GOOD. haha. really. like theres no grumbling whatsoever. haha. and the flute section theres good too. haha.
the 2nd picture was clearer. we played for them our piece. my lips were cracking badly. haha. so apparently, starting was okay, but as the inn piece went on arhh, oh gosh. it hurts.. haha. really. guess i kindda screwed up the piece for inn, with my horribile out of tune last not, am sorry okay? sighs. =(..
LESSON LEARNT: APPLY LIP BALM FIRST THING REACHING JAPAN. AND KEEP ON APPLYING IT.
and to be honest, japan bands ARE good. haha. its like, my first time seeing a japan band live. they are good. as in, i also learnt that as long as the section is in tune, waa. mighty section already. haha. but i guess, for the 2 exchange pieces, the march and die flemadaus. it was okay. talked to the piccoloist. haha. cos i was playing piccolo for die. haha but for the march actually is cheryl supposed to play one, but was damn crammed, so nvm. haha. we exchanged with them thereafter, like talk and all that stuff of which we laughed and all that. lots of simple english and hand signs used.
and apparently, we werent done with the gifts yet, we were panicking. then kj ling ji yi dong, haha. we can give our collar pins. haha. with the band gifts. its sad really when we had to go. haha. we left the school everyone left with indelible impacts on our minds. we learnt lots of stuff that day too. and to be honest, i really hope that bands in singapore can be something like that. the enthusiasm there is so real. oh well. we headed back to the hotel for dinner. and hanged around, and slept. oh yeah, and that night, my stomach was feeling damn uncomfortable. so apparently i was puking.. so rested. and Cheryl fell sick that day too, got fever. haha. got some of us worried for a while. mmm..
DAY 3- TRIP TO KYOTO.
haha, the band headed there. not me. haha. that day, as i said, i still wasnt feeling well. I stayed in the hotel the whole day. was worth it i think. haha. I slept all the way until 1pm(singapore 12pm). then, woke up. walked arount eh hotel of which i couldnt find a single soul(for band ppl). walked around the area of the hotel, when i reached mos burger, i saw siew yuan, jit rui and bao hui, haha. they kindda invited me to eat with them. thereafter, we headed back to the hotel and we slacked in bao hui and siew yuan's room for 4 hours. did work, talked alot, prank called. haha. fun yeah. the band came back. yeah. oh yeah, that day, some ppl also didnt go along with them. haha they went shopping on their own. haha.everyone came back tired i guess haha. yeah. and some of them had tepenyaki for dinner. i had mos burger. haha. oh well. that was day 3. and to be honest, at the end of that day, i felt much better. haha. went off to sleep. and the next day, it was the BEST DAY Of all in japan. okay, except for the days of 2 exchanges. haha.
DAY 4- universal studios japan, full day.
That day, we left quite early for universal studios. The day was still young yeah. When we reached there, we took a photo as a band. some shots. and headed right in into the theme park. I spent my day there with Bao hui, jit rui, siew yuan, jing jing, vanessa(eupho), chiaw hong, wee shan, yun xi. yup. haha.
enterance.
see that duper BIGG coaster at the background? that was like the FIRST RIDE THAT I HEADED TOO. haha. will blog about it in a minute.
we took some pictures with some of the charcters. That day, my camera went out of battery, so credits to jing jing for the pictures. XD. haha. you see the one above, withWOODY WOOD PECKER. haha. that shot was to make lavina jealous. haha. speaking of which, lavina has this duper unique laughter. haha. =). oh wells. anyway, yeah. haha. woody woodpecker has this duper nice laugh. it goes something like.
he3he3he3he1he(chromatic 1 down)
haha. damn cute bird. okay. we queued for the roller coaster ride.(hollywood dream) for 2 whole hours. it rained somehow when we were queueing.
THERE. LOOK AT THAT SLOPE OF HORROR. haha. i cant believe i managed to survive through that. its like 2 hours of queue for 2 mins of fun. haha. ITS DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN NICE. hahaha. kindda enjoyed the ride. the adrenaline rushes when going up. then, ZOOOOMM. the coaster whoozes and swishes down, going through turns ups downs left right of every degree. and at the first drop, we literally flew upppp! as in. yeah. flew out of our seats. I was screaming like a little girl.(hey ppl, for those who know me well, dont underestimate the power of shaolin's scream xD) okay. jing jing was beside me, and gino and elliot chong, was sitting same row. everyone was screaming damn madly. oh gosh. you feel all the stress coming out of you when you scream. haha. it was damnnn fun~. oh well. Thereafter, we went to watch shrek 3. haha. 4D. its kindda in japanese. so i didnt understand anything. I just enjoyed the graphics. its so damn cool. haha. If only school lessons can be taught that way. =)
Thereafter, we went for this ride called. SPIDERMAN. haha. its damn cool also. you sit in this car thingy and you get swirled around and enjoy the graphics and effects. Like, theres this point when some bad guy swish fire thingy came to us and sprayed fire to us. really felt the fire effect. as in you felt the heat. and they really used fire! but it was some place much further from us laa. then at the last part. you let the graphics whisk you away. haha. its like the car is falling falling down the building, and theres this wind effect. oh gosh. haha. my 2nd most favourite ride.=). woa. but 1 thing is that 1 ride 1 hour- 2 hours of queue. damn long. ahah.
we then sat back to the future. something like spiderman but spiderman was better. haha.
At the last part of the day, we were left to choose btw Snoopy and jurrasic park. the girls all wanted snoopy. haha. only wee shan and I wanted jurrasic park.(its like, water log ride. haha. where the last part is this 25.9m drop). haha, But oh well, after some time, we went to snoopy. OF WHICH THERE WERE SOOO MANY THINGS. haha. we sat the rollercoaster there, but it was not as scary as holly wood dream.=)
oh yeah, wanna comment something here. haha. look at me with the sitting on teachers desk thing. do I look like a teacher? oh gosh. haha. wo der zhi yuan. =). but oh well. haha. the shot below(jingjing and I) haha, its like jing jing posed being sian, so its like i said wait! then i pretended to be the teacher and acted like i was scolding her. haha. =).
at the snoopy shot, i took a picture with jolene! XD. snowball!=))))). haha. reminds me of my sister. haha. oh well. jolene is a very very nice person=). haa.
when we had to leave that day, everyone was kindda reluctant. but oh well. we had dinner at some chinese restaurant nearby. haha. theres this very very interesting toilet urinal at the guys toilet that moves and sings as you pee. haha. can go tommy's blog or gino's blog to see. haha. but i didnt pee into it laa. haha. =).
DAY 5: HALF DAY EXCHANGE AT KONKO HIGH SCHOOL, HALF DAY CULTURAL TOUR
zomg. KONKO IS LIKE DAMNNN AMAZING. haha. i kindda enjoyed konko more than koyodai. cos, haha. we had sectionals with them. and spent a longer time there to get to know them. kindda changed my accent when i talke to them. haha. but that day, i guess, mmm. i think it was kindda better for me. cos my lips were still in a cracked state, but it was MUCH better. haha. And surpirsingly that day for die flemmadaus, managed to pitch the high high Cs and B flats. =). flute playing was okay. but i wouldnt say it was good. cant remember exactly. but i think i kindda ruined some parts of the playing as well. sighs. oh well. yeah. but the exchange was so fun. we played arsernal for the exchange piece. haha. and we exchanged our ties with themmm. OH GOSHHH. haha. so damn cooollll!=)))). haha. they look GREAT with our ties laa. haha. the pictures are still with Cheryl, but she hasnt sent me yet. guess i'll have to wait. haha. oh yeah, and then oh gosh! they sing during their sectionals. uber cool. like all the rest parts, they sing the melody. sooo coool~. haha. then its like, they were so in tune. thats like so cool. they played a satoshi piece for us too=). satoshi pieces rocks my socks mann. haha=)
after that, we had shopping at this place called shushibashi. haha. I went with audrey, xinjun and kejian. haha. there was a Yamaha there, no wait. 2 yamahas there. AND ITS LIKE SO FREAGIN COOL~~. you guys should have seen man. that place was FANTASTIC. haha. 3 stories, intruments, and ALL SORTS OF SCORES. BAND SCORES, ENSEMBLE SCORES. WHATEVER YOU NAME IT. i spent ALOT of time theere looking at scores with kj. haha. kindda cool. oh man. that reminded me of a situation. that is like, ....
kj: hey, take a look at this score
jerm: omg! so cool! its bach!(of which bach, I prounounced it as batch, bash, something liddat)
then he started laughing. =.=. okay. nvm. haha.
chopin, i pronounced it as, chor-pin? when it was supposed to be, CHOR- PARN.
and malher(this in the case for xinyun), MAL-HER, when it was supposed to be pronounced as MAR-LER.
oh goshhh. horrible man. my pronounciations. oh well. haha. walked aruond the place with xinjun, audrey and kj. shopped for stuff, etc. haha, got closer to xinjun and audrey too i guess. haha. xinjun can talk one! haha. oh gosh. its so freagin cool. kj bought himself an addidas shirt. at that time at shunshibashi, haha, i thought i had no more money left with me already at the end of the day, when i still had some, of which i hid it in my luggage. arghhh. if i would have brought it with me, i could have spent on some stuff? I dunno. haha. but yeah, that place is UBER COOL. we had dinner that night, where 8 of us, 2 stoves thingy. haha. rachel, cheryl, may, kj, me, wei xiong, jing jing. haha. yeah. and i cant remember who else, had a very very nice dinner that night. its so warm, though we got burnt sometimes from cooking, had a great night that night. haha. =). and i somehow also talked to wei xiong a lot that night also. haha. damn funny senior. haha. alot of lame stuff=). [BEING LAME IS COOL KAY.] haha. okay okay. haha and yeah, crapped alot on the way back also. haha. like rachels hong kong accent, etc. =). conversations btw everyone telling jokes was pretty interesting as well. =).
sunday-last day of japan.
packed up. damn sad to leave though. am glad to be going home cos home sick, but am sad to leave cos of ALOT ALOT of reasons of which i wont list out. oh man. i miss the schools, universal studios and yamaha. =((. oh well. before we left, we went shopping at factory outlet. haha. as i said, my money was in the luggage and i thought i didnt had any left. haha. over there okay laa, didnt fancy anything much. but it's a girl haven mann. haha. its like clothes, shoes and stuff. uber cool! spent the time there with Tommy and kj. haha. had a great time there too yeah. haha.
damn interesting. haha. had a nice lunch there too yeah=). then we headed to airport, checked in, bla bla. then 7 hour flight home. haha. i sat with xinjun and jeryl. haha. crapped a bit, watch tv, slept. haha. but the first flight was better. haha. =). oh well. and then reached singapore, reached home and slept.
i miss osaka.):. but i love home too. :). contradicting yeah? haha. and so, that concludes this long long post.=)
-jErM
