Thursday, June 11, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
The break up... :(
Once I got back home, I heard a stocking news... :( Tina and Hans was breaking up :(:( I was really really worry and feel very sad lerh~~~ I kinda know hows it happen a few days after and um.. it's really a difficult situation... but Hans gonna make his step, actually he started but things happen before Tina knows it... Hope that it's not too late la~~ It doesn't seems too great at the time I was leaving tho ~_~ finger cross~
A week in LA
Was working in LA for a week. I was feeling a bit weird that everyone in the office just tried too hard to be good to me... ~_~ It's a good sign anyway... I know I have nothing to complain... just felt a bit weird... I know it's so bad to say it but I did feel a bit embarrassing...
I still prefer working in SB... but seems that next time come to the State, I will probably work in LA office... hope that they will still save me a place to work in their SB house... :P I still enjoy to work a bit, talk to Zag a bit and play with Nina a bit and then go back to work... :)
Stayed in Darius & Carina's home... I love their house... :) good environment
Made friend with their neighbors Billy and Ethan. They are Jewish, and big fan of Lakers... We spent a few fantastic NBA payoff nights in their flat :D It's interesting to meet people with different background, different culture~~
At the end of the week, I went to the LA Museum of Natural History to see the butterfly exhibition :) love it!!!
The weather wasn't very warm and all the butterflies were being lazy lying everywhere. And it's the best time for photograph!!!! :D haha... the first second I step into the room, a butterfly just laid on me and not leaving even I try to put it away softly :D... how amazing~~
It's a bit dangerous on my way back to SB :S I almost fell asleep when I was driving again :( super scary... actually on my way to LA I was very tired too but I kinda knew it and stop by somewhere, rest a bit and go again.. but on my way back, it's a bit late and I wanted to go home asap and... yep... I will really take rest next time when I feel I gonna fall asleep lerh~~~scary scary
I still prefer working in SB... but seems that next time come to the State, I will probably work in LA office... hope that they will still save me a place to work in their SB house... :P I still enjoy to work a bit, talk to Zag a bit and play with Nina a bit and then go back to work... :)
Stayed in Darius & Carina's home... I love their house... :) good environment
Made friend with their neighbors Billy and Ethan. They are Jewish, and big fan of Lakers... We spent a few fantastic NBA payoff nights in their flat :D It's interesting to meet people with different background, different culture~~
At the end of the week, I went to the LA Museum of Natural History to see the butterfly exhibition :) love it!!!
The weather wasn't very warm and all the butterflies were being lazy lying everywhere. And it's the best time for photograph!!!! :D haha... the first second I step into the room, a butterfly just laid on me and not leaving even I try to put it away softly :D... how amazing~~
It's a bit dangerous on my way back to SB :S I almost fell asleep when I was driving again :( super scary... actually on my way to LA I was very tired too but I kinda knew it and stop by somewhere, rest a bit and go again.. but on my way back, it's a bit late and I wanted to go home asap and... yep... I will really take rest next time when I feel I gonna fall asleep lerh~~~scary scary
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Burn After Reading (7.5)
It is such a cool weird film~~ I think the story is really good and the actor did very well too... It's ridiculous in an imaginative way~~~ And Brad Pitt is so hilarious. Maybe when those the handsomest guys act funny, everyone would love to see haha...~~~ and I love it~
Kids (6.5)
I'm a bit disappointed by this movie... maybe because too many people saying it's such a good movie and I'd too high expectation... or maybe I found it too much emphasis on the sex scene.. um... but more or less it's the reality and part of the society. um... maybe just about the timing... it would be much surprising if I saw it when the movie just out... It's not a bad one really... lalalalala... it's not a waste of time at all... I put it into my can-see list~~
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Ladybird~~
Yea the baby goat in our house, she's given a new name and she just keep running with me, eating everything in the garden... jump jump jump~~~ she actually jump quite high lately~~ :D:D:D super super super... dont know if she might forget me when I come back again ~_~
Thai dinner~~
I was asking Tina what can I make some dishes with my peanut butter on Friday and it's how we start thinking of this lovely Thai farewell dinner :)... She suggested making a Thai Satad sauce and roast chicken~~ ^__^ and then she gonna make Thai chicken coconut soup~~:P woooohooo~~~~
So I woke up on Sat morning~, went to hardware shop and make the office key I've lost :P went to Peet's and spend a morning there~~ back home, had a simple lunch... and go to shop and get things prepared... everything were running smooth~~ and I marinated the chicken and prepared the sauce before I went out~~:D I went to Goleta beach, laid under sun a bit... and went for basketball, gym (I realised I should train up a bit my thigh muscles so that I can jump higher)~~ Super nice day~~~ start cooking lazily....
The dinner was super nice~~ I do love the soup and of cause the roast chicken and the sauce was super good.... everyone loves it lalallalala :D
After dinner I went to Darius' home and meet Carina's friends. Both of them are super cute~~ They're from Canada (French Canadian) and one of them works in Paris and another worked in London and moved to LA~~~ they are just super nice~~~
It's such a great day~~ ^__^.....
So I woke up on Sat morning~, went to hardware shop and make the office key I've lost :P went to Peet's and spend a morning there~~ back home, had a simple lunch... and go to shop and get things prepared... everything were running smooth~~ and I marinated the chicken and prepared the sauce before I went out~~:D I went to Goleta beach, laid under sun a bit... and went for basketball, gym (I realised I should train up a bit my thigh muscles so that I can jump higher)~~ Super nice day~~~ start cooking lazily....
The dinner was super nice~~ I do love the soup and of cause the roast chicken and the sauce was super good.... everyone loves it lalallalala :D
After dinner I went to Darius' home and meet Carina's friends. Both of them are super cute~~ They're from Canada (French Canadian) and one of them works in Paris and another worked in London and moved to LA~~~ they are just super nice~~~
It's such a great day~~ ^__^.....
Big Green Big Sur~~
So happy to have a half day off and go camping~~ The only time I went for a camping was like 10 years ago... with Chow Chow and friends~~ It was pretty horrible experience tho. Yellow rainning alert~~ got wet through out the whole day and night...wao... can't believe that I did that really...
Anyway, we've got ready and leave SB at 3...a bit later than we thought but it's great day to go... It's a warm sunny day (normally it's quite cold over there)... It was a nice drive too... I've slept for a tiny bit :P and we arrived at around 7:30. It takes quite a bit longer than I thought... but it worthy~~:D
The red wood there was amazingly tall... It's such a beautiful place to go.... Thanks soooo much for Amber's the best camping planner...~~ woohooo~~~ She's prepared everything and all the meals when we're there~~!!! We set up the tants, and setlle down everyhting... start cooking dinner... played a game called Blockus... which is a very fun stredgy game :) and I won Amber in the first game... lost the second one with Darius. When we were waiting for grilling the salmon for dinner, we smoked too much weed :P and me and Darius we soooo stone, couldn't even really taste the dinner and had to liad down ~_~... Supposed it's some life music there in the bar,,, but we couldnt make it :( aiya~~~~~
The second day was super chill out~~ basically did nothing but eat eat eat and eat... big breakfast, big burger lunch and big steak dinner~~~ We went for a hike, took pictures around~~~ super relax and had a nice dinner. We'd played some games again and I really get the blockus game this time, I won Darius for over double points~~ woohooo~~ We've played another game, I cant remember the name and a card game called Romera too...~~
On Sunday, I've waken up a bit earlier than them and did a little bit yoga... really a tiny tiny bit~~ haha... and being lazy again... packed up a bit of things... had a breakfast and did nothing until we have to leave...
We then went to the Pfeiffer Beach... it was an amazing place too~~ dont know how to explian... see those pictures~~ I just love those foggy beaches in general~~~
We then went to see some Elephane Seals~~ wao wao wao~~~ it is just soooooooooo many of them lying down on the beach~~~ !!! amazing amazing~~~ They are super funny doing stupid things but quite smelly >_< ~~
Just when I thought it's the end of the trip, Amber brought us to a very interesting Hotel, Madonna Inn~~~ and it's just sooooo over the top~~~ everything are super crafted a lot of pinky stuff~~ pink sugar pink rooms... balblablalbal wah~~~ the cakes there are amazing tho~~~ Somehow... I was just thinking too much about how great if would be if I come with someone that I love... wao... and I did imagine and put someone in that fit for the sinerio~~ haha :P yea~~~ shit... I was just thinking too much.... ~_~ just about to arrive SB, Darius got a speed ticket >_<>
Anyway, we've got ready and leave SB at 3...a bit later than we thought but it's great day to go... It's a warm sunny day (normally it's quite cold over there)... It was a nice drive too... I've slept for a tiny bit :P and we arrived at around 7:30. It takes quite a bit longer than I thought... but it worthy~~:D
The red wood there was amazingly tall... It's such a beautiful place to go.... Thanks soooo much for Amber's the best camping planner...~~ woohooo~~~ She's prepared everything and all the meals when we're there~~!!! We set up the tants, and setlle down everyhting... start cooking dinner... played a game called Blockus... which is a very fun stredgy game :) and I won Amber in the first game... lost the second one with Darius. When we were waiting for grilling the salmon for dinner, we smoked too much weed :P and me and Darius we soooo stone, couldn't even really taste the dinner and had to liad down ~_~... Supposed it's some life music there in the bar,,, but we couldnt make it :( aiya~~~~~
The second day was super chill out~~ basically did nothing but eat eat eat and eat... big breakfast, big burger lunch and big steak dinner~~~ We went for a hike, took pictures around~~~ super relax and had a nice dinner. We'd played some games again and I really get the blockus game this time, I won Darius for over double points~~ woohooo~~ We've played another game, I cant remember the name and a card game called Romera too...~~
On Sunday, I've waken up a bit earlier than them and did a little bit yoga... really a tiny tiny bit~~ haha... and being lazy again... packed up a bit of things... had a breakfast and did nothing until we have to leave...
We then went to the Pfeiffer Beach... it was an amazing place too~~ dont know how to explian... see those pictures~~ I just love those foggy beaches in general~~~
We then went to see some Elephane Seals~~ wao wao wao~~~ it is just soooooooooo many of them lying down on the beach~~~ !!! amazing amazing~~~ They are super funny doing stupid things but quite smelly >_< ~~
Just when I thought it's the end of the trip, Amber brought us to a very interesting Hotel, Madonna Inn~~~ and it's just sooooo over the top~~~ everything are super crafted a lot of pinky stuff~~ pink sugar pink rooms... balblablalbal wah~~~ the cakes there are amazing tho~~~ Somehow... I was just thinking too much about how great if would be if I come with someone that I love... wao... and I did imagine and put someone in that fit for the sinerio~~ haha :P yea~~~ shit... I was just thinking too much.... ~_~ just about to arrive SB, Darius got a speed ticket >_<>
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Milk (8.5)
Love it love it love it!! Really can't imagine, it is just 30 sth years ago... The people in US was still so uncivilized.... um... it's really lucky that we're born in this era... ~~ btw, Sean Penn was doing great in the movie! :)
Friday, May 8, 2009
The Way We Are 天水圍的日與夜(7)
It's just one of the stories around us happen... super simple, real story of the framily probably just next you. A lot of people might find it boring and I wouldn't say I love it very much neither. Yea... A single mum, a kid who's not drug addict, doing okay in school, having a normal relationship with his mum, gradma and his relative. People help each other. We do see the kind of love and connection from it. And ya, it is just the way we are... I am so glad that some people have made this film and I did enjoy watching it...We seldom find this kinda film in HK anymore which simply recording real, nothing-really-specail, no violent, no sex kinda stories.... I am more appreciate the intention of making a film like this really...
I like its English name more than the Chinese one... it's just simply about the movie... while I m feeling the name with 天水圍 is kinda a talking point at that time... well... maybe that's the whole point of taking the movie, at least the starting point I guess... Well, Im just saying it. I dont dislike it or what...
Life in SB (1 month passed)
4MAY09
Switched the car in the morning after paying the penalty on parking ><>
5MAY09
Work work work... and basketball today, I am feeling I m getting much fitter then when I just came... esp in basketball court!! :D
7MAY09
I did play some good basketball games today~~ :D And then watched a nice movie...
The fire in SB is getting more serious! The smoke is just next to us...super close... and we might needa evacuate.... >_<>
Switched the car in the morning after paying the penalty on parking ><>
5MAY09
Work work work... and basketball today, I am feeling I m getting much fitter then when I just came... esp in basketball court!! :D
7MAY09
I did play some good basketball games today~~ :D And then watched a nice movie...
The fire in SB is getting more serious! The smoke is just next to us...super close... and we might needa evacuate.... >_<>
Poor Car
03MAY09
Actually it's poor me ~_~... It's a nice weekend but not for my car~~ First I've got a packing ticket which I really didn't know it was a time limit parking zone! It's no sign around I sware!
And then on the lovely sunday morning... Tina found that it's a flat tire on my car! kinda undrivable flat tire...~~ Hans was just super nice helping me to chage to the spare tire... The first time I realise that it's actually pretty simple to change tires~~ :D Hans does it all... but I kinda know how to do it now :)
Actually it's poor me ~_~... It's a nice weekend but not for my car~~ First I've got a packing ticket which I really didn't know it was a time limit parking zone! It's no sign around I sware!
And then on the lovely sunday morning... Tina found that it's a flat tire on my car! kinda undrivable flat tire...~~ Hans was just super nice helping me to chage to the spare tire... The first time I realise that it's actually pretty simple to change tires~~ :D Hans does it all... but I kinda know how to do it now :)
An Inconvenient Truth (9)
Everyone of us should see it! It's the only thing in my mind after seeing it... It's a documentory about saving the world... All of us really should do something urgently. I did know some of those but it made a very storg statement that it is serious, it is urgent, we all can do something, and it could be a significant change if we do. It's not just slowing the world breaking apart but we could heal the world.
City Without Baseball (2)
I m sorry to say it but I do find this movie disgusting... A lot a lot of random naked scenes, the director dont even know what's he trying to say himself kinda movie. Well I guess the marketing of the movie did save him a bit I guess but I very much feel the actors were cheated to show their muscles and dicks to satisfy the director's own desire. They might have dreamed their naked acting could help promoting their love baseball development in HK... yea... I dont want to be mean but it's never gonna happen~~ The movie wasn't cool, the people inside wasn't cool, the story was boring, kinda shit movie that I had to fastforward quite a bit when I watched it. Unless you are interested in those not very handsome guys taking shower and run naked. Don't waste your time~
Not having Internet is okay sometimes...
I dont have internet here at home most of the time... and I m really not feeling disappointed... well... it's not very convenience sometimes but most of the time I do enjoy without it... I m feeling I m having much more time to do other stuff.... play basketball, watch movies, play with animals... whatever I dont have much time to do in HK I can do here~~ :D
Death Note 1,2 & 3 (5, 4.5 & 1.5)
Have seen quite a few movies that I wanted to see for a while lately... not that I think they would be good... but somehow... I wanna have a look... Death note is one of them... I kinda expected it wouldn't be good (I did love the comic!) but I keep asking people if they have that DVD... finally I've got them from DV998 :P I did feel a bit guilty but um... Even Daat Daat and Leo do that... plus the whole Advertising industry... I really can't find a reason not to... and HK don't have Amazon ma... quite a lot of those DVD are just not worth the money~~~ I wouldn't even thought of watching them if they are not as cheap~~~~ anyway... all are just excuses I know...
Back to the movie, first of all... the casting of Kira was really disappointing... He is so not handsome and not looking smart which lost most of the charm of the movie... L was fine. Probably his acting was good... He's that kinda weird which just fit the charactor. Another good one was Misa Misa... haha she is very cute, looking exactly the same as the comic book~~ haha... They have cut off a lot of necessary scenes and some interesting stuff from the comic... Anyway... it's just boring and not great.
The third episode was just a lie... nothing related to the original story... Just a money making kinda film follow with the heat from death note. hate it hate it hate it.
Back to the movie, first of all... the casting of Kira was really disappointing... He is so not handsome and not looking smart which lost most of the charm of the movie... L was fine. Probably his acting was good... He's that kinda weird which just fit the charactor. Another good one was Misa Misa... haha she is very cute, looking exactly the same as the comic book~~ haha... They have cut off a lot of necessary scenes and some interesting stuff from the comic... Anyway... it's just boring and not great.
The third episode was just a lie... nothing related to the original story... Just a money making kinda film follow with the heat from death note. hate it hate it hate it.
Soundless Wind Chime (8.5)
Forgot to say something about this movie~~ I do love it! It's one of the best, most touching low budget movie taken by a new director (he's only 29/30) I have seen these few years... I hate people making this kinda comment saying it's not a gay moive but a love story really... Yep... why can't it be labeled... It's nothing wrong with it really... The way the director treat the way to tell the story and the editing was very mature as a new new director. He does put a few not-really-necessary-sexual-scene in the movie but he also kinda gave them some reasons to happen... Well maybe that how we make up stories and have more "selling point" to people... And it was 1 scene that I wasn't sure why was it there... but anyway, I was touched and I would give it an 8~ haha... yea.... recommended~~~
Friday, May 1, 2009
Tracy in SB 09
Tracy just came to SB for a weekend~~ We hanged around SB a bit...
We were (acutally it was only me) thinking to go to Solving but didn't get ourselves too rush and decided not to go... Played with the animals... taken some pictures.... super lay back~~~ wowohooo~~~ The beach was super windy and we only stayed for 20mins maybe? and left. Had a very very very nice dinner in boat House, a restaurant by the beach... super nice food :D except the fish wasn't as good as the one I had in the Harbour.
We went for a crazy shopping in an outlet on the way to LA... I was more crazy than Tracy as usual... I m a bit scared of myself if I am prepared to do some shopping... Everytime I prepared to do some shopping, I would really buy a lot... maybe I really shouldn't plan any shopping really...
And then, it's some more shopping in Melrose. Mainly got some super cheap stuff but nice and cool~~ :D
Dinner with Henry in a Spainish Restaurant... nice nice~~ except the seafood rice wasn't that nice.... meatball pasta was unexpectedly delicious~~~ had some good time with Henry... :D:D Suddenly found that he's really handsome... haha... yea yea~~~ Bought a way too sweet cheese cake from cheesecake factory... went to sleep just after the cheesecake...
We were (acutally it was only me) thinking to go to Solving but didn't get ourselves too rush and decided not to go... Played with the animals... taken some pictures.... super lay back~~~ wowohooo~~~ The beach was super windy and we only stayed for 20mins maybe? and left. Had a very very very nice dinner in boat House, a restaurant by the beach... super nice food :D except the fish wasn't as good as the one I had in the Harbour.
We went for a crazy shopping in an outlet on the way to LA... I was more crazy than Tracy as usual... I m a bit scared of myself if I am prepared to do some shopping... Everytime I prepared to do some shopping, I would really buy a lot... maybe I really shouldn't plan any shopping really...
And then, it's some more shopping in Melrose. Mainly got some super cheap stuff but nice and cool~~ :D
Dinner with Henry in a Spainish Restaurant... nice nice~~ except the seafood rice wasn't that nice.... meatball pasta was unexpectedly delicious~~~ had some good time with Henry... :D:D Suddenly found that he's really handsome... haha... yea yea~~~ Bought a way too sweet cheese cake from cheesecake factory... went to sleep just after the cheesecake...
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Super nice Saturday~
Was struggling a bit on the website project yesterday~ after a night of good sleep, I finally figure out something this morning~~ :) It's such a nice weather this morning... I couldn't stop myself going out to the beach :D
haha... I went to the nice nice beach in Montecito~ :) super happy... slept a bit... get some sun tan and think a bit further on the project~~ :)
Got a lunch from Habit~~ Double Char~~ wao~~ so full... and then went to basketball~~ :) my feet is still a bit painful after like half an hour running tho. My stomach was a bit pain coz of the heavy late lunch :P But I was in good today... scored quite a bit~~ :) Ho ho ho~~~ and did a bit of gym... and go back home.. dinner's waiting for me :D vegetable soup plus a few piece of ham :) simple and nice~~
um... hope that I can get the whole plan done tonight ^__^ and tmr I can continue with some other things~~
haha... I went to the nice nice beach in Montecito~ :) super happy... slept a bit... get some sun tan and think a bit further on the project~~ :)
Got a lunch from Habit~~ Double Char~~ wao~~ so full... and then went to basketball~~ :) my feet is still a bit painful after like half an hour running tho. My stomach was a bit pain coz of the heavy late lunch :P But I was in good today... scored quite a bit~~ :) Ho ho ho~~~ and did a bit of gym... and go back home.. dinner's waiting for me :D vegetable soup plus a few piece of ham :) simple and nice~~
um... hope that I can get the whole plan done tonight ^__^ and tmr I can continue with some other things~~
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Finish a season~~
It's taken me 4 months to finsh the first season while only take me 2 weeks to finish a season of Six Feet Under here~~ :D the 2nd season is getting boring tho...not sure if I will start the 3rd when I go home :P maybe just return it to Josphe ba la~~
Easter Dinner~
It was such a warm Easter dinner ^__^... a huge piece of harm and some very nice vegi soup~~
The first time I've done Easter eggs in my life~~
And Ishi shows us how he play with a rat until it dies when I was doing the Easter eggs~
The first time I've done Easter eggs in my life~~
And Ishi shows us how he play with a rat until it dies when I was doing the Easter eggs~
Basketball Days~~~
Start playing basketball almost everyday now :) and start workout a bit too... you know my chest part only :P
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Drive a Porcshe
I drove Hans to work so that I can use his car during the day~ When I was sitting in a cafe, playing with the car key, I suddenly found that the car I was driving is actually a Porcshe! The model that looks nothing like a Porcshe in my mind but like a family car tho :Phaha... but it's such a once in a life thing~ wooohooo~~~ it worthy a whole project.. I should do his project for him for free~~ :D hohohoo~~~ for that experience! But I have to say... I feel like I m driivng a very heavy car... I have to keep giving gas to have it running while the cheap car I drove before would actually go for a while even I dont give it gas~~Everything in the car is actually very convinence... I can feel all those little details from the people who create it~~~~
Arrive SB
I m feeling I love here much more than I thought~ The air, the weather, the places and people... I m not very sure about LA but I would love to come to SB once a while really~ :) Tina and Hans were just sooooooo nice to me... I m staying in a room that much nicer than the one I used to stay... we have dinner together and talk a lot~~Met Hans friend Eddie and his wife from Austria. They are just super nice people came to west coast for 3 weeks travelling around. just about to leave tmr~ She's cooked a very good meal with Pumpkin! all pumpkin meal :):) happy happy~
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Kinn n Japan - Tokyo again
2/1
(11.00a) It’s similar to HK’s CNY, except some chain store and chain restaurants open. So, I went to a temple nearby with Paulo and walked around Nakano area. There was a big queue in front of a city hall building. It seems like they are having a New Year short trip together. ^_^ very local lerh…
(4.00p) Paulo was having fever and had to take rest. And I went out by myself to Shijuku to have some random walk. Actually most of the department stores were open. I heard that they would have big sale from this 2 days, but obviously it’s not started yet :). Kinda meaningless walking and walking, trying to look for a headphone to replace my broken one T____T. Somehow I went to one of the food market section. Their sushi were in big sale!!!! Wao wao wao…. A box of long leg crab rice was selling 800yen only and a pretty nice sushi box (10+ pieces) were selling 580yen!!!! Yea… even cheaper than those lunch box stores :D I’ve bough dinner for me and Paulo + lunch for next day too… But then I remembered I would meet up YJ and Aya for whole day~~~ oops… maybe that’s too much then :P. but a big sushi for 2 was only 1500yen! How worthy was it!
(9.00p) Nothing much to do. Had a dinner and sort out some photos and work on the proposal a bit. Sleep sleep sleep~~~ and ready for the meeting next day!!! I’ve 5+ years haven’t seen them ^__^ woowo…. So exciting :)
3/1
(10.00a) Sorted out some photos taken during the trip, I started preparing to go out to meet YJ and Aya ^__^.
(11.30a) Meeting them in the JR station called Kichi Jo Ji (吉样寺). Taka, Aya’s brother and his gf, Heishi (hope that I it’s the correct spelling :)), Aya’s best friend and her bf (can’t remember their name lo) has come too~~~ woowowow… and we went for a walk for a while around the area.
I’ve bought a next year forecast for myself in the New Year day and forgot to ask for the meaning from the guesthouse in Kyoto. So I asked Aya about it and it seems that it will not be a easy year lerh… it said, I have to be patient and keep waiting and the solution of problems will be appearing eventually. On my love life, it will be someone comes up to block the real one. Just needs to be honest and do not care that much about that person who block the way, and it will be fine :D. It also said I will lost something that I can never find it back -_-…. And THE MOST IMPORTANT one it recommends me not to travel by myself but to travel with friends or lover next year! Otherwise, I will be in accident or what T_T okay… lover and friends, listen, go with me if I tell you I gonna go travel :D… etc etc…
Aya’s bought a pair of glasses from an optical shop. Surprisingly, the glasses there were actually not expensive at all and in quite good quality. Some okay nice frames including the lens, it’s around 6000yen. Of course it’s some more expensive ones but most of them are pretty reasonable price. I was thinking to buy a pair of sun glasses but finally didn’t buy it.
(1.30p) We then went to a curry shop and the curry there were very nice… it’s like 1000yen each and much much better than the one I’ve had last time in Osaka station! And the environment there was very nice too. very closy and friendly ^__^ + good food :D love it…
(2.30p) We went to Inokashira Park, quite famous part locally, for a walk and went to a shrine to make a wish (again). Yea.. they told me and YJ that we can go to the 工崎俊 museum quite close to the part while local people have to make an appointment to go there. Um.. and I decided not to go lu… everyone has been there anyway :)
(3.30p) We walked a bit around and then we went into a coffee shop to have tea :P haha… keep eating and eating… I’ve ordered a glass of ice-cream. I wanted to have ice-cream from the first day I arrived Japan and never had one. Haha… the one I’ve chosen was very very good. Sesame ice-cream + coffee jelly + some mesh beans + cream. Nice nice… ^_^ btw, Heishi was super nice! I don’t have enough cash and wanted to change some money from US dollars but the bank will not open these 2 days. She said she could change it with me first and she could do it later in the bank. :D soooooo happy lerh… feeling so good to have cash with me again!!!
(5.30p) We went to Shijuku together and had a walk in a department store. :) I thought it would be big sale around but seems that it’s not much on sale. There are a lot of shops selling their “lucky bag” which you don’t know what they put in but normally worth more than the money gum lo….
(8.30p) Went back and sort out some more photos… and think of a bit the proposal for Hans’ product. It’s such a peaceful relax day :)
4/1
(11.00a) Went to Yokohama today by myself:). It’s just 30mins train from Tokyo directly from Shijuku.
(11.45a) Yokohama is much nicer city than Tokyo to me. It’s much spacious and less crowded than Tokyo. Maybe partly because of the weather (sunny and much warmer) and also it’s by the sea (it’s just an add-points factor). Went to the information center and asked for directions and started my half day walking trip in Yokohama.
(12.30p) Anpaman Children Museum!!!!! Woooo… It’s such a great place for families to spend a half day. I can so much feel the happiness around. The whole thing, inc. the foods, the souvenirs, the entrance fee… probably earns a lot of money. Regarding the conversation with Paulo about fairness, I mean, you can tell people who made the museum have spent a lot of time and money to create something which makes a lot of families enjoy some time there. They should be paid some good money. Also people who invest money on the park has take the risk of not earning money from it and made a right decision to trust some good people who finished the project nicely. Of course they are earning much more than the people who sell breads and check tickets in the park. And eventually, the difference between them (in terms of wealthiness) is getting much bigger. But to be honest, it’s how the world moved forward. Maybe there is making some kind of unfairness but this idea itself isn’t the problem, ya? It might be some other ways to reduce the unfairness but I really can’t see the problem of some people earning more than some others. Anyway… nothing much gonna change anyway. haha… it’s a nice place to go.
(1.30p) Lunch time~~~~ I sat in an area under the tallest building in Yokohama (quite an ugly one) and 2 western guys were juggling. A lot of people were looking but actually they weren’t playing that brilliant.
(2.00p) Yokohama Pier was amazing!!! The wooden architecture was entirely impressive! I had seen some photos about it before but still I was very impressed when I went there.
(4.00p) China Town + Yokohama Stadium + area around. To be honest, I like Yokohama much more than Tokyo. Well, the part of Tokyo I’ve been. (I quite like Kichi Jo Ji and Nakana but still Yokohama seem to be a bit nicer to me). I walked a bit around more and passed through Anpanman Museum again and went to buy something for Sui Hang… :) ya yea yea
(7.00p) I went to Shibuya by myself. I think it’s not my first time to be there but I had no memory to this place. I thought I would see a lot of people dressing up weirdly but turn out it was kinda normal and I feel that I was in Causeway Bay. I really find the area around shijuku quite boring really. Either buying or eating, and really nothing much to do.
(9.00p) Went back to Nakano and had Indian food with Paulo. It was nicer than the western food I’ve had here. At least the chicken was quite juicy and taste good.
(10.30p) sorted out photos and feeling a tiny bit illness.
5/1
(11.30a) Went to Tokyo Dome with Paulo. He is still on holiday until next week… lucky him… It is quite a nice area with a big rolling coaster on top of a shopping mall and a lot of attractions like free falling and stuff. We went into a Jump shop and found quite interesting toys there too :D suddenly really want to read One Piece a lot!!!!
(12.05p) Had lunch in American Restaurant which Paulo recommended. The food there was not good indeed but….. the DESSERT was absolutely amazing! I ordered a cup of dessert called “very chocolate” or something like that. It’s actually a baked brownie with ice-cream + cream + raspberry sauce on top. It’s just so delicious and made me super stuffed!!!! Really need a lot of exercise once I get back to HK!! Yoga tmr :)~~~
(14.00p) Akihabara. The very famous electronic street. We went into a video game shop and played a bit. I still want to try the Gundom game but it’s a bit expensive (500Yen) for 2 games lerh. Anyway after the game shop, he had another meeting and I just hang around by myself. I wanted to buy a headphone there but walked for almost an hour and couldn’t find any nice one or they are super expensive. I finally saw a Panasonic one and find it quite familiar. It’s quite an old model but I do like it. Thought for a long time and decided not to buy it. It probably cheaper in HK I thought.
(5.00p) D-Department is one of the places I planed to go in Tokyo. They collect old furniture and old design products and fix them and resell them. Unlike a lot of 2nd hand shops that they only trade the used stuff, they really take extremely care about the things they are selling. I quite like the idea but it would never work in HK I guess. I saw a headphone and wanted to buy it too… very simple and old style, 6600yen is affordable too. But I guess I really should save money. The only thing I’ve got from there is a magazine that I think it might be useful for reference for the meeting with Alex.
(6.45p) Left the D-Department. It’s actually a little bit outside the central part of Tokyo. I went to Harajuku afterwards. I leave the train and walked down the street. It’s just some more shopping in MK quality maybe a tiny bit nicer. I keep walking down the road and found that it is actually connected to the place I went last time nearby the MoMA Design shop. Walked a bit and still nothing really worth buying… Almost the time to meet up Eiji and Kauru for dinner.
(9.00p) Dinner with Eiji and Kauru. We had Kansai style Okonomiyaki (關西燒). The one I’ve had in the market called Hiroshima Okonomiyaki (or Hiroshima-yaki 廣島燒). They didn’t let me pay for the dinner and offer me a gift too T_____T such a pair of nice couple. Well, they are having some problem between but I do hope that they will be together again eventually. The problem was actually all about the changing environment and different expectations but I can tell they do still care about each other. Finger cross~
(11.50p) Keep on thinking to go back to HK these few days in Tokyo… didn’t really enjoy the time here to be honest. It was super good to meet up my old friends and having good food with them but still not entirely. Probably not the first time I so much feel I miss HK but it’s the most recent one thus most real one :D. Packing my stuff and prepare my last day morning trip and heading bed :)
6/1
(10:00a) I went to the famous fish market in Japan. Surprisingly the fish rice there was quite cheap. They are very delicious though. I think I will go there again when I come back to Tokyo next time. There is actually not much making me love or hate Tokyo but I guess it’s a place that I don’t mind to come again. I wouldn’t really pay to come again soon :)
(2.00p) Carried a lot of luggage and take the train by myself. The Shinjuku station is still confusing and too complicated to find the right way. Go go go go go go…. Going home soon :)
(6.00p) In the last minutes, I’ve decided to buy 2 travel magazines which just cost 2880yen altogether. I didn’t plan it but I just spent alllllll of my coins on my pocket and I have 1000yen left at the end! wao wao wao~~~~~~…
Finally come to the end of the trip, 2 of the wealthiest regions in the world, the 2 most materials countries. They are very different in terms of everything basically. People have different concepts of good and bad. They are having different lifestyles different way of spending money. In a way, ya, unfortunately, I think I do prefer the American way of living more. And, if it’s the choice of Japan and HK, I would definitely choose HK. :)
After this 7 months, I still haven’t much saving (probably still a bit more than I could save if I stay in HK) but I’ve earned so much different things that could never get from staying in HK. Hope that everything will be smooth in the coming year and it’s my new year from today :) Bye~ my lovely 2008~~~
(11.00a) It’s similar to HK’s CNY, except some chain store and chain restaurants open. So, I went to a temple nearby with Paulo and walked around Nakano area. There was a big queue in front of a city hall building. It seems like they are having a New Year short trip together. ^_^ very local lerh…
(4.00p) Paulo was having fever and had to take rest. And I went out by myself to Shijuku to have some random walk. Actually most of the department stores were open. I heard that they would have big sale from this 2 days, but obviously it’s not started yet :). Kinda meaningless walking and walking, trying to look for a headphone to replace my broken one T____T. Somehow I went to one of the food market section. Their sushi were in big sale!!!! Wao wao wao…. A box of long leg crab rice was selling 800yen only and a pretty nice sushi box (10+ pieces) were selling 580yen!!!! Yea… even cheaper than those lunch box stores :D I’ve bough dinner for me and Paulo + lunch for next day too… But then I remembered I would meet up YJ and Aya for whole day~~~ oops… maybe that’s too much then :P. but a big sushi for 2 was only 1500yen! How worthy was it!
(9.00p) Nothing much to do. Had a dinner and sort out some photos and work on the proposal a bit. Sleep sleep sleep~~~ and ready for the meeting next day!!! I’ve 5+ years haven’t seen them ^__^ woowo…. So exciting :)
3/1
(10.00a) Sorted out some photos taken during the trip, I started preparing to go out to meet YJ and Aya ^__^.
(11.30a) Meeting them in the JR station called Kichi Jo Ji (吉样寺). Taka, Aya’s brother and his gf, Heishi (hope that I it’s the correct spelling :)), Aya’s best friend and her bf (can’t remember their name lo) has come too~~~ woowowow… and we went for a walk for a while around the area.
I’ve bought a next year forecast for myself in the New Year day and forgot to ask for the meaning from the guesthouse in Kyoto. So I asked Aya about it and it seems that it will not be a easy year lerh… it said, I have to be patient and keep waiting and the solution of problems will be appearing eventually. On my love life, it will be someone comes up to block the real one. Just needs to be honest and do not care that much about that person who block the way, and it will be fine :D. It also said I will lost something that I can never find it back -_-…. And THE MOST IMPORTANT one it recommends me not to travel by myself but to travel with friends or lover next year! Otherwise, I will be in accident or what T_T okay… lover and friends, listen, go with me if I tell you I gonna go travel :D… etc etc…
Aya’s bought a pair of glasses from an optical shop. Surprisingly, the glasses there were actually not expensive at all and in quite good quality. Some okay nice frames including the lens, it’s around 6000yen. Of course it’s some more expensive ones but most of them are pretty reasonable price. I was thinking to buy a pair of sun glasses but finally didn’t buy it.
(1.30p) We then went to a curry shop and the curry there were very nice… it’s like 1000yen each and much much better than the one I’ve had last time in Osaka station! And the environment there was very nice too. very closy and friendly ^__^ + good food :D love it…
(2.30p) We went to Inokashira Park, quite famous part locally, for a walk and went to a shrine to make a wish (again). Yea.. they told me and YJ that we can go to the 工崎俊 museum quite close to the part while local people have to make an appointment to go there. Um.. and I decided not to go lu… everyone has been there anyway :)
(3.30p) We walked a bit around and then we went into a coffee shop to have tea :P haha… keep eating and eating… I’ve ordered a glass of ice-cream. I wanted to have ice-cream from the first day I arrived Japan and never had one. Haha… the one I’ve chosen was very very good. Sesame ice-cream + coffee jelly + some mesh beans + cream. Nice nice… ^_^ btw, Heishi was super nice! I don’t have enough cash and wanted to change some money from US dollars but the bank will not open these 2 days. She said she could change it with me first and she could do it later in the bank. :D soooooo happy lerh… feeling so good to have cash with me again!!!
(5.30p) We went to Shijuku together and had a walk in a department store. :) I thought it would be big sale around but seems that it’s not much on sale. There are a lot of shops selling their “lucky bag” which you don’t know what they put in but normally worth more than the money gum lo….
(8.30p) Went back and sort out some more photos… and think of a bit the proposal for Hans’ product. It’s such a peaceful relax day :)
4/1
(11.00a) Went to Yokohama today by myself:). It’s just 30mins train from Tokyo directly from Shijuku.
(11.45a) Yokohama is much nicer city than Tokyo to me. It’s much spacious and less crowded than Tokyo. Maybe partly because of the weather (sunny and much warmer) and also it’s by the sea (it’s just an add-points factor). Went to the information center and asked for directions and started my half day walking trip in Yokohama.
(12.30p) Anpaman Children Museum!!!!! Woooo… It’s such a great place for families to spend a half day. I can so much feel the happiness around. The whole thing, inc. the foods, the souvenirs, the entrance fee… probably earns a lot of money. Regarding the conversation with Paulo about fairness, I mean, you can tell people who made the museum have spent a lot of time and money to create something which makes a lot of families enjoy some time there. They should be paid some good money. Also people who invest money on the park has take the risk of not earning money from it and made a right decision to trust some good people who finished the project nicely. Of course they are earning much more than the people who sell breads and check tickets in the park. And eventually, the difference between them (in terms of wealthiness) is getting much bigger. But to be honest, it’s how the world moved forward. Maybe there is making some kind of unfairness but this idea itself isn’t the problem, ya? It might be some other ways to reduce the unfairness but I really can’t see the problem of some people earning more than some others. Anyway… nothing much gonna change anyway. haha… it’s a nice place to go.
(1.30p) Lunch time~~~~ I sat in an area under the tallest building in Yokohama (quite an ugly one) and 2 western guys were juggling. A lot of people were looking but actually they weren’t playing that brilliant.
(2.00p) Yokohama Pier was amazing!!! The wooden architecture was entirely impressive! I had seen some photos about it before but still I was very impressed when I went there.
(4.00p) China Town + Yokohama Stadium + area around. To be honest, I like Yokohama much more than Tokyo. Well, the part of Tokyo I’ve been. (I quite like Kichi Jo Ji and Nakana but still Yokohama seem to be a bit nicer to me). I walked a bit around more and passed through Anpanman Museum again and went to buy something for Sui Hang… :) ya yea yea
(7.00p) I went to Shibuya by myself. I think it’s not my first time to be there but I had no memory to this place. I thought I would see a lot of people dressing up weirdly but turn out it was kinda normal and I feel that I was in Causeway Bay. I really find the area around shijuku quite boring really. Either buying or eating, and really nothing much to do.
(9.00p) Went back to Nakano and had Indian food with Paulo. It was nicer than the western food I’ve had here. At least the chicken was quite juicy and taste good.
(10.30p) sorted out photos and feeling a tiny bit illness.
5/1
(11.30a) Went to Tokyo Dome with Paulo. He is still on holiday until next week… lucky him… It is quite a nice area with a big rolling coaster on top of a shopping mall and a lot of attractions like free falling and stuff. We went into a Jump shop and found quite interesting toys there too :D suddenly really want to read One Piece a lot!!!!
(12.05p) Had lunch in American Restaurant which Paulo recommended. The food there was not good indeed but….. the DESSERT was absolutely amazing! I ordered a cup of dessert called “very chocolate” or something like that. It’s actually a baked brownie with ice-cream + cream + raspberry sauce on top. It’s just so delicious and made me super stuffed!!!! Really need a lot of exercise once I get back to HK!! Yoga tmr :)~~~
(14.00p) Akihabara. The very famous electronic street. We went into a video game shop and played a bit. I still want to try the Gundom game but it’s a bit expensive (500Yen) for 2 games lerh. Anyway after the game shop, he had another meeting and I just hang around by myself. I wanted to buy a headphone there but walked for almost an hour and couldn’t find any nice one or they are super expensive. I finally saw a Panasonic one and find it quite familiar. It’s quite an old model but I do like it. Thought for a long time and decided not to buy it. It probably cheaper in HK I thought.
(5.00p) D-Department is one of the places I planed to go in Tokyo. They collect old furniture and old design products and fix them and resell them. Unlike a lot of 2nd hand shops that they only trade the used stuff, they really take extremely care about the things they are selling. I quite like the idea but it would never work in HK I guess. I saw a headphone and wanted to buy it too… very simple and old style, 6600yen is affordable too. But I guess I really should save money. The only thing I’ve got from there is a magazine that I think it might be useful for reference for the meeting with Alex.
(6.45p) Left the D-Department. It’s actually a little bit outside the central part of Tokyo. I went to Harajuku afterwards. I leave the train and walked down the street. It’s just some more shopping in MK quality maybe a tiny bit nicer. I keep walking down the road and found that it is actually connected to the place I went last time nearby the MoMA Design shop. Walked a bit and still nothing really worth buying… Almost the time to meet up Eiji and Kauru for dinner.
(9.00p) Dinner with Eiji and Kauru. We had Kansai style Okonomiyaki (關西燒). The one I’ve had in the market called Hiroshima Okonomiyaki (or Hiroshima-yaki 廣島燒). They didn’t let me pay for the dinner and offer me a gift too T_____T such a pair of nice couple. Well, they are having some problem between but I do hope that they will be together again eventually. The problem was actually all about the changing environment and different expectations but I can tell they do still care about each other. Finger cross~
(11.50p) Keep on thinking to go back to HK these few days in Tokyo… didn’t really enjoy the time here to be honest. It was super good to meet up my old friends and having good food with them but still not entirely. Probably not the first time I so much feel I miss HK but it’s the most recent one thus most real one :D. Packing my stuff and prepare my last day morning trip and heading bed :)
6/1
(10:00a) I went to the famous fish market in Japan. Surprisingly the fish rice there was quite cheap. They are very delicious though. I think I will go there again when I come back to Tokyo next time. There is actually not much making me love or hate Tokyo but I guess it’s a place that I don’t mind to come again. I wouldn’t really pay to come again soon :)
(2.00p) Carried a lot of luggage and take the train by myself. The Shinjuku station is still confusing and too complicated to find the right way. Go go go go go go…. Going home soon :)
(6.00p) In the last minutes, I’ve decided to buy 2 travel magazines which just cost 2880yen altogether. I didn’t plan it but I just spent alllllll of my coins on my pocket and I have 1000yen left at the end! wao wao wao~~~~~~…
Finally come to the end of the trip, 2 of the wealthiest regions in the world, the 2 most materials countries. They are very different in terms of everything basically. People have different concepts of good and bad. They are having different lifestyles different way of spending money. In a way, ya, unfortunately, I think I do prefer the American way of living more. And, if it’s the choice of Japan and HK, I would definitely choose HK. :)
After this 7 months, I still haven’t much saving (probably still a bit more than I could save if I stay in HK) but I’ve earned so much different things that could never get from staying in HK. Hope that everything will be smooth in the coming year and it’s my new year from today :) Bye~ my lovely 2008~~~
Kinn n Japan - Kyoto
30/12
(8.30a) Take a train to Kyoto. It’s only 30mins from Osaka to Kyoto. Everyone told me and also the travel books say Kyoto is a city full of traditional buildings and old temples. The first impression for me is, the architecture of the station is so contemporary, pretty cool~ :D
(10.00a) Changed to subway for 3 stops and I was arriving the guest house.
(11.00a) Settled down everything and had a little rest, I started my bicycle trip lo :) It was quite exciting to ride around the little streets between those little old houses… The first temple I went to which is quite close to the guesthouse was closed though. -_- and then I head to one of quite famous temples in Kyoto called Kiyomizu-dera Temple (清水寺).
(12.00a) On the way I passed through the most famous Nishiki Food Market. It was extremely crowded! It’s like the flower market during Chinese New Year in HK. So so so many people tried to stuff into the market from outside. The sell fish, fresh meat, a lot of traditional Japanese foods and New Year food too! It was one shop specialize on selling eggs and the Japanese egg cake. You know the one they use for sushi but of course not the very yellowie one you see in cheap cheap Japanese restaurants. Everything are very expensive there though. I’ve seen a extremely ridiculous one which is a pack of red beans. I think it’s about 500g, they sell it 1500Yen!!! I was like… huh?! A pack of red bean should be 50 Yen, no? I’ve bought a piece of Tofu sushi, they stuffed octopus inside :D very tasty and it cost 130 Yen. And then I’ve bought a piece of fish cake for 250 Yen. To be honest, I prefer those from HK lo… they made it a little too sweet lerh. Ah, it remind me now, the best fish cake I’ve had in Japan is one they stuffed bbq eel with a bit of sauce inside. It was very delicious. Will try to find it next time when I have enough cash :D. Btw, even it was so crowded and they almost sell everything wet and dry in the market, I can still find my shoes very clean after going there. Very impressive ^_^…
(1.30p) Arrived the Kiyomizu-dera Temple. It’s built by the mountain with a lot of trees. The environment was super nice. It cost 600Yen or something, so I didn’t get into it :P. haha very budget Kyoto tour I m having. I just keep on riding around the area and found a lot of girls wearing Kimono and walk around. It’s quite interesting that there are quite a lot of Kimono rental shops around that area.
(3.00p) I keep riding and riding around and passed a few more temples. A funny thing is, on this street, there are like hundreds of people, but the next one you can almost find no one and super quiet too. I tried to ride into all those streets without people. Haha made a turn when I see people ahead… It’s just too many temples and old buildings in the city. I guess it would be much nicer to have a company to walk around to be honest. It’s actually a lot of nice ceramics around too, but they are all quite expensive. The cheapest one I like was a little cup cost 2800Yen . Those a little bit nicer and irregular shape ones are at least 5000-6000 Yen, which I can’t really afford ~~… maybe someday… I mean, will be someday. I wanted to learn ceramics too… ya… will be someday.
(3.30p) Found a bakery in a street called 古川町商店街and bought a piece of amazingly delicious bread! Crispy outside and soft inside, Black sugar taste with red beans and some black beans:P:P.
(4.00p) Went to Jusco! And they accept credit cards!!! Went back to my room quite early today and took a nap. My body was pretty tired after the skiing day :D
(8.00p) I went out and buy some more food for dinner… 2 pieces of dai gun and and 1 piece of something I don’t even know its name. Did some works and finished the cover for Little Diggtak ^_^
31/12
(9.00a) had a nice breakfast in the guesthouse and it was quite nice. Interesting that Japanese use to put crème in coffee. It seems that they never thought of putting milk. Anyway, it wasn’t a bad coffee.
(9.30a) Saw some emails and worked a bit for POP/Pixi
(11.00a) Why are those works taking so long to finish?!?!?!!? Ahhhhh… anyway… went to Arashiyama for one little temple. It’s 7 stops by JR from Kyoto. Btw, I called Aya finally this morning. :) We gonna meet up on 3rd Jan just knew that her family is actually not in Tokyo but she will make a trip to Tokyo as a tourist with YJ :D… Haven’t seen them for sooooooo long!!!! Miss them very much.. and she told me, YJ is arriving JP today ^__^ yeahey~
(11.30a) Arrived the main temple in that area and didn’t go in again :D budget trip ma… haha… It’s a nice area to walk around even not getting into any temple, Somehow, although there are quite a lot of people around, it’s still quite a silent place, and very beautiful. It’s quite cold and windy today, even that’s sunshine. I finished walking around the main area, and heading to the little temple called Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple (愛宕念仏寺). It’s pretty small and doesn’t even shows in my Kyoto map. On the way I passed through a path full of bamboo on the side. A big big bamboo area, it’s just bamboo and more bamboo after 5 mins walks. The sky start getting dark and raining ~_~ and it becomes even colder.
(1.30p) Passed by a leather shop, I pop in and have a look. The designer told me he designed everything in that little workshop. The wallet I quite like was hand made too… and of course the nice stuff cost money which I can’t afford :) I gave him a smile and shouting to him in my heart, “good job! You are talented, work hard, mate! You are getting there.” Yea, I would buy something from him next time when I have money and if he’s still there.
(2.00p) It’s raining and start a bit snowing too… I still haven’t got there… It takes longer than I thought. It’s a bus to go there indeed, but budget travelers walk :D
(2.30p) I found it super worthy after that long walk in snowy rain and a 300Yen entrance fee. Don’t know how to explain. See photos :D They are just so cool! Yea… cool to me :D I love this temple sooo much! It’s small, quiet and very few tourists going but super interesting. :D At least to me, I’ve been in so many big temples since I was young. Japanese ones smell better but other than that, they are the same as the ones in China, even in HK. But this little one is just unique… :D
(3.30p) Tried not to spend anything for lunch today but still spent 110Yen for a bun from convenience store. I got back to the guesthouse and had my yogurt as lunch. it’s quite a good yogurt. Somehow, I don’t know how they do it, but Japanese foods, even yogurt, are much fine and mild taste.
(4.00p) I was quite stuffed but I remember the bakery yesterday and couldn’t stop myself to go there again :D
(4.30p) The bread was a bit cold but still tasty :) and then I was in a rush to go that very famous Fushimi-inari-taisha Shrine (伏見稲荷大社). Why I go there because I remember I’ve seen a programme about this Shrine when I was really young, probably 6-7 years old. And I still remember it!! :D See, this kinda promotions really work ga and last for over 20 years ga! But I didn’t spend any money there bor :P dead poor ghost. It’s the most people visiting shrine in western Japan during the New Year. I’ve seen a lot of counters are preparing food and stuff for the even tonight already. Very exciting!! If it’s a bit closer, I would go there for New Year. I thought it’s quite close but it took me 45 mins by bike to get there! I couldn’t ride too fast in the city, but it’s still quite far.
(6.00p) Getting really cold and I went back to the guesthouse to sort out some stuff… gonna go to a closer one at night.:)
(11.00p) Went out to a Shrine nearby called 八板神社 for New Year. I ride a bike from the guesthouse and it’s super cold even I wore 5 layers clothes! It’s so so so many people when I reach about 500 meter from the Shrine. The police just block people in different sections and let people go into it section by section. I was waiting in front of the Shrine for 45 mins and didn’t know what’s going on and what’s gonna happen. I didn’t even know why people are queuing there. I was expecting something to happen like count down to stuff… so, keep waiting and waiting…. And New Year had passed, and no one even do a count down. Only a few foreigners were shouting happy New Year~ and that’s it. -_- Super disappointing and boring! Since I was expecting to buy something eat from the Shrine, I didn’t have my dinner. Super cold and hungry ~_~ But I was trapped in the block of people, couldn’t go anywhere T__T. About 15mins later, the police let us passing through the road and we walked up the Shrine. It’s actually not much happening there still… some counters sell food and stuff. The queue was still going. In not too far away, and we arrive the temple. And then I knew that what I was queuing for finally. Well, I made a wish and went to buy something eat… walked a little bit around. It’s actually quite boring to go to this kinda thing by myself. Had some food and start having stomachache >_<… And the first biggest decision I’ve made in 2009 was I decided to eat something from McDonald’s! Yea, it helps a bit to fill myself up… around 1.20a, I head back to my guesthouse.
1/1
(11.00a) A homemade Japanese New Year breakfast this morning :D how exciting!!! I do love everything she made ^__^. Another great thing is I met some new friends in the house!! The girl (oops, what’s her name?), the landlady’s nephew, she speak perfect English and Mandarin with me. Again, she found my European ascent cool :p. I never expected to speak Mandarin with someone here in Japan. She’s studied 1 year in China, 1 year in US and she is working in Japanese embassy in Canada! She looks like she’s just graduated and quite a bit younger than me. Another 2 guys from America, Nathan from Boston and Andrew from Washington, they both came to Japan to study Japanese for 1 year. It’s quite fun to talk to them while having the nice Japanese breakfast :D.
(12.40p) Left the house and decided to walk to the JR station to save the 210Yen! It’s such a nice day, sunny and not as cold as yesterday. Spent about 15mins to walk to the station thinking of the good time in the morning :).
(1.56p) Got on the train, heading back to Tokyo :). Gonna be a doing nothing day, and I decided to take no photo today! And to set 1st Jan as a “No Photos Day”. These years, people are spending too much time to take pictures that they might not even have time to look at again. We spent too much time to look at the screen of the cameras instead of looking around the world and probably missed a lot of good moment around us and also forget to enjoy ourselves. Haha, lets take a break in the new year day! :)
(4.30p) it’s quite a nice journey. The train passed through a lot of places that’s raining, snowing, very sunny, a bit cloudy and finally very nice and cloudless sunset when we almost arrived Tokyo. :) Such a good doing-nothing day!
(8.30a) Take a train to Kyoto. It’s only 30mins from Osaka to Kyoto. Everyone told me and also the travel books say Kyoto is a city full of traditional buildings and old temples. The first impression for me is, the architecture of the station is so contemporary, pretty cool~ :D
(10.00a) Changed to subway for 3 stops and I was arriving the guest house.
(11.00a) Settled down everything and had a little rest, I started my bicycle trip lo :) It was quite exciting to ride around the little streets between those little old houses… The first temple I went to which is quite close to the guesthouse was closed though. -_- and then I head to one of quite famous temples in Kyoto called Kiyomizu-dera Temple (清水寺).
(12.00a) On the way I passed through the most famous Nishiki Food Market. It was extremely crowded! It’s like the flower market during Chinese New Year in HK. So so so many people tried to stuff into the market from outside. The sell fish, fresh meat, a lot of traditional Japanese foods and New Year food too! It was one shop specialize on selling eggs and the Japanese egg cake. You know the one they use for sushi but of course not the very yellowie one you see in cheap cheap Japanese restaurants. Everything are very expensive there though. I’ve seen a extremely ridiculous one which is a pack of red beans. I think it’s about 500g, they sell it 1500Yen!!! I was like… huh?! A pack of red bean should be 50 Yen, no? I’ve bought a piece of Tofu sushi, they stuffed octopus inside :D very tasty and it cost 130 Yen. And then I’ve bought a piece of fish cake for 250 Yen. To be honest, I prefer those from HK lo… they made it a little too sweet lerh. Ah, it remind me now, the best fish cake I’ve had in Japan is one they stuffed bbq eel with a bit of sauce inside. It was very delicious. Will try to find it next time when I have enough cash :D. Btw, even it was so crowded and they almost sell everything wet and dry in the market, I can still find my shoes very clean after going there. Very impressive ^_^…
(1.30p) Arrived the Kiyomizu-dera Temple. It’s built by the mountain with a lot of trees. The environment was super nice. It cost 600Yen or something, so I didn’t get into it :P. haha very budget Kyoto tour I m having. I just keep on riding around the area and found a lot of girls wearing Kimono and walk around. It’s quite interesting that there are quite a lot of Kimono rental shops around that area.
(3.00p) I keep riding and riding around and passed a few more temples. A funny thing is, on this street, there are like hundreds of people, but the next one you can almost find no one and super quiet too. I tried to ride into all those streets without people. Haha made a turn when I see people ahead… It’s just too many temples and old buildings in the city. I guess it would be much nicer to have a company to walk around to be honest. It’s actually a lot of nice ceramics around too, but they are all quite expensive. The cheapest one I like was a little cup cost 2800Yen . Those a little bit nicer and irregular shape ones are at least 5000-6000 Yen, which I can’t really afford ~~… maybe someday… I mean, will be someday. I wanted to learn ceramics too… ya… will be someday.
(3.30p) Found a bakery in a street called 古川町商店街and bought a piece of amazingly delicious bread! Crispy outside and soft inside, Black sugar taste with red beans and some black beans:P:P.
(4.00p) Went to Jusco! And they accept credit cards!!! Went back to my room quite early today and took a nap. My body was pretty tired after the skiing day :D
(8.00p) I went out and buy some more food for dinner… 2 pieces of dai gun and and 1 piece of something I don’t even know its name. Did some works and finished the cover for Little Diggtak ^_^
31/12
(9.00a) had a nice breakfast in the guesthouse and it was quite nice. Interesting that Japanese use to put crème in coffee. It seems that they never thought of putting milk. Anyway, it wasn’t a bad coffee.
(9.30a) Saw some emails and worked a bit for POP/Pixi
(11.00a) Why are those works taking so long to finish?!?!?!!? Ahhhhh… anyway… went to Arashiyama for one little temple. It’s 7 stops by JR from Kyoto. Btw, I called Aya finally this morning. :) We gonna meet up on 3rd Jan just knew that her family is actually not in Tokyo but she will make a trip to Tokyo as a tourist with YJ :D… Haven’t seen them for sooooooo long!!!! Miss them very much.. and she told me, YJ is arriving JP today ^__^ yeahey~
(11.30a) Arrived the main temple in that area and didn’t go in again :D budget trip ma… haha… It’s a nice area to walk around even not getting into any temple, Somehow, although there are quite a lot of people around, it’s still quite a silent place, and very beautiful. It’s quite cold and windy today, even that’s sunshine. I finished walking around the main area, and heading to the little temple called Otagi Nenbutsu-ji Temple (愛宕念仏寺). It’s pretty small and doesn’t even shows in my Kyoto map. On the way I passed through a path full of bamboo on the side. A big big bamboo area, it’s just bamboo and more bamboo after 5 mins walks. The sky start getting dark and raining ~_~ and it becomes even colder.
(1.30p) Passed by a leather shop, I pop in and have a look. The designer told me he designed everything in that little workshop. The wallet I quite like was hand made too… and of course the nice stuff cost money which I can’t afford :) I gave him a smile and shouting to him in my heart, “good job! You are talented, work hard, mate! You are getting there.” Yea, I would buy something from him next time when I have money and if he’s still there.
(2.00p) It’s raining and start a bit snowing too… I still haven’t got there… It takes longer than I thought. It’s a bus to go there indeed, but budget travelers walk :D
(2.30p) I found it super worthy after that long walk in snowy rain and a 300Yen entrance fee. Don’t know how to explain. See photos :D They are just so cool! Yea… cool to me :D I love this temple sooo much! It’s small, quiet and very few tourists going but super interesting. :D At least to me, I’ve been in so many big temples since I was young. Japanese ones smell better but other than that, they are the same as the ones in China, even in HK. But this little one is just unique… :D
(3.30p) Tried not to spend anything for lunch today but still spent 110Yen for a bun from convenience store. I got back to the guesthouse and had my yogurt as lunch. it’s quite a good yogurt. Somehow, I don’t know how they do it, but Japanese foods, even yogurt, are much fine and mild taste.
(4.00p) I was quite stuffed but I remember the bakery yesterday and couldn’t stop myself to go there again :D
(4.30p) The bread was a bit cold but still tasty :) and then I was in a rush to go that very famous Fushimi-inari-taisha Shrine (伏見稲荷大社). Why I go there because I remember I’ve seen a programme about this Shrine when I was really young, probably 6-7 years old. And I still remember it!! :D See, this kinda promotions really work ga and last for over 20 years ga! But I didn’t spend any money there bor :P dead poor ghost. It’s the most people visiting shrine in western Japan during the New Year. I’ve seen a lot of counters are preparing food and stuff for the even tonight already. Very exciting!! If it’s a bit closer, I would go there for New Year. I thought it’s quite close but it took me 45 mins by bike to get there! I couldn’t ride too fast in the city, but it’s still quite far.
(6.00p) Getting really cold and I went back to the guesthouse to sort out some stuff… gonna go to a closer one at night.:)
(11.00p) Went out to a Shrine nearby called 八板神社 for New Year. I ride a bike from the guesthouse and it’s super cold even I wore 5 layers clothes! It’s so so so many people when I reach about 500 meter from the Shrine. The police just block people in different sections and let people go into it section by section. I was waiting in front of the Shrine for 45 mins and didn’t know what’s going on and what’s gonna happen. I didn’t even know why people are queuing there. I was expecting something to happen like count down to stuff… so, keep waiting and waiting…. And New Year had passed, and no one even do a count down. Only a few foreigners were shouting happy New Year~ and that’s it. -_- Super disappointing and boring! Since I was expecting to buy something eat from the Shrine, I didn’t have my dinner. Super cold and hungry ~_~ But I was trapped in the block of people, couldn’t go anywhere T__T. About 15mins later, the police let us passing through the road and we walked up the Shrine. It’s actually not much happening there still… some counters sell food and stuff. The queue was still going. In not too far away, and we arrive the temple. And then I knew that what I was queuing for finally. Well, I made a wish and went to buy something eat… walked a little bit around. It’s actually quite boring to go to this kinda thing by myself. Had some food and start having stomachache >_<… And the first biggest decision I’ve made in 2009 was I decided to eat something from McDonald’s! Yea, it helps a bit to fill myself up… around 1.20a, I head back to my guesthouse.
1/1
(11.00a) A homemade Japanese New Year breakfast this morning :D how exciting!!! I do love everything she made ^__^. Another great thing is I met some new friends in the house!! The girl (oops, what’s her name?), the landlady’s nephew, she speak perfect English and Mandarin with me. Again, she found my European ascent cool :p. I never expected to speak Mandarin with someone here in Japan. She’s studied 1 year in China, 1 year in US and she is working in Japanese embassy in Canada! She looks like she’s just graduated and quite a bit younger than me. Another 2 guys from America, Nathan from Boston and Andrew from Washington, they both came to Japan to study Japanese for 1 year. It’s quite fun to talk to them while having the nice Japanese breakfast :D.
(12.40p) Left the house and decided to walk to the JR station to save the 210Yen! It’s such a nice day, sunny and not as cold as yesterday. Spent about 15mins to walk to the station thinking of the good time in the morning :).
(1.56p) Got on the train, heading back to Tokyo :). Gonna be a doing nothing day, and I decided to take no photo today! And to set 1st Jan as a “No Photos Day”. These years, people are spending too much time to take pictures that they might not even have time to look at again. We spent too much time to look at the screen of the cameras instead of looking around the world and probably missed a lot of good moment around us and also forget to enjoy ourselves. Haha, lets take a break in the new year day! :)
(4.30p) it’s quite a nice journey. The train passed through a lot of places that’s raining, snowing, very sunny, a bit cloudy and finally very nice and cloudless sunset when we almost arrived Tokyo. :) Such a good doing-nothing day!
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Kinn n Japan - Himeji & Awaji Island & Kobe
27/12
(10.00a) Going to Himeji this morning quite late coz I think it wouldn’t be much to do except to visit the castle and walk a bit around the area… :)
(12.00n) Arriving Himeji Toyoko-Inn. It is quite cheap and good hotel. Very clean and professional, money worthy! I’ve seen it almost every main train station in Japan. Honestly, I will take this next time I come to Japan. And I think the single bed room can actually fit in 2 persons that make it even cheaper. :D
(12.30p) I walk to the Himeji Castle passed through a shopping street again. Basically all cities I’ve visited in Japan (except Tokyo) have a very long shopping street like this. The combination of shops is pretty much similar too. They all have more than on Mister Donut (the one in Osaka looks very dull tho) some shops selling mochi and Japanese snacks, balablbablala… The very unique one in Himeji is optical shops. There are a lot of optical shops around and I don’t see too many people wearing glasses around. It’s like the hair salon in Sayamaike. Seems to me they are more than enough. I had my lunch in a restaurant that I needa buy the ticket from the machine before go in… haha very unique cheap restaurant in Japan. They are all in Japanese and I’ve bought one which is not exactly the one I want :P but it’s okay, coz I’ve eaten my first udo in Japan now… even a cheap restaurant do the udon not too bad. Of cause it’s not very good, but at least the noodles were quite smooth. You know udon can be very bad sometimes.
(12.50p) Finally, I got into the famous Himeji castle. This most visited castle and one of Japan's "Three Famous Castles" is honestly quite disappointing. Well, I mean it is nice but as a castle, it looks like they were trying to save money when they build it. The outside was looking okay, but the inside was just totally undecorated, dark and very raw.
(1.50p) Already finished the castle visit and it’s not yet the check in time… So I walked around and found a very nice park there. There were 2 young guys playing base ball and really impressive. I never see a baseball match in real. The first time I feel the speed and the strength so closely!
(3.30p) I went into a 2nd hand shop there and try a few coats. It didn’t tag the price and I went to the counter and asked. I thought it could be quite expensive and I probably can’t afford. The sales put the coat onto a scale and told me it’s only 2200Yen! Funny that they count the price by weight!!!!! I remember I’ve seen it once before in another second hand shop. Yea… so, I tried everything that I can possibly fit in :D and bought another leather jacket, 1800Yen!!!! And a very simple bag for 590Yen, I’ve seen a similar one in SF selling like US$15! Such a satisfy shopping with only 5000Yen spent! Yooooho~~~
(4.30p) I found that when the sales put my camera into the counter, they break my filter! .\ /. So annoying… She should at least tell me she’s drop it or what!!!! Anyway, I went back to hotel and try to ask if they know any camera shops around but obviously they don’t know and told me I might find one in the main street -_-. I hang around a bit, bought a fish shape red bean cake. So nice :)
(7.00p)I got back to the room and search a bit on internet. haha internet is our best friend la… just not too far away on the opposite direction the staff shown me. There is a chain photos/camera shop. It cost me 3680Yen lerh T__T it hurts. But luckily they didn’t break my lens! And the staff was very good to help me to clean the lens a bit and now I m ready to take more photos lo… Before going back to Hotel I’ve bought my dinner from a Japanese burger shop. When I get back to Hotel, I found that it is a super tiny burger! It’s almost like just a third of the size in America! I’ve okay with it, but I really can’t imagine what would happen when American come and bought that burger, haha...
(7.30p) Online and Donald told me Garfy was just pass away today T_____T… kinda upset…
28/12
Time is just passing too fast… it’s already 28th and almost the end of the year! Every time I am having a long trip, I think it is probably the last long trip like this in the coming few years… (Actually my California trip was quite long too :D) The real last one should be the Greece + Amsterdam trip before I went back to HK. Well, after that, I actually went to France with Stef for a few times too and didn’t work for a while. Wao… it’s a few years ago from now… People must think I can earn a lot of money so that I can travel so much :P but indeed I actually spend very little every time (which is all I could spend tho). I will probably spend around US$2000 for this trip inc all hotel and transport. I am thinking somehow it’s good for me to visit Japan when the Yen is so expensive. I can’t carry anything more back to HK anyway… I can concentrate more on my sightseeing :). -_- hai lo, Japan without shopping lo…
Awaji Island, a nice place to go but better go only with a company I think...
(10.00a) It’s about an hour to take train + bus to Awaji Yumebutai from Himeji. The first time I use the locker in train station in Japan! :D Only 400Yen for a medium size one per day which’s big enough for me to put everything in.
(11.00a) It’s a big area with an expensive hotel, a conference hall, a huge greenhouse, a big big park by the sea a open-air theater and a flower ground. Very green and not much to do. It’s more a place for family or couple to spend a day or 2 to relax. The most amazing thing there are few big areas cover with water and most of these areas are made with shells! Real ones! All are about the same size too! It’s definitely a place to go in Spring or summer btw, coz most of the places supposed to be covered with colourful flowers were nothing there. Walked and walk and walk and seems that I can never finish everything there. Btw, it’s an entrance fee for the huge green house + the seaside park. I was thinking not to get into them but seems that there is nothing else to do in that area. It could be a nice and romantic place to go if I wasn’t alone~~ It’s not bad, just that if I had at least bought my pen and paper there, I wouldn’t be bored as it was. :)
(2.15p) I decided to leave there and go to Water Temple. I thought it would be some obvious sign or direction around bcoz they are quite close on the map. I only knew the direction but didn’t have a map on hand :P so I keep walking and walking and walking for like 20mins and still haven’t seen any sign there. I went into a little tea house and asked the old lady for direction :D obviously she doesn’t know English and not very well in written Chinese too. Luckily they have a map there, and the only one in the shop. It’s still some walk from there but at least I was in a right direction :). Btw, coz I didn’t have enough coins and she doesn’t want to give me changes with my 5000Yen notes, she gave me a 50Yen off!!! :D woooooo…. Happy happy.
(3.00p) Finally, I arrived the Water Temple. It’s not a big temple but very unique one. It’s built under a rounded Lotus pool. The architecture just keeps you walking for a while (within the limited space) in a quiet path before getting into the main temple building. And the way you enter the temple is very symbolic. It’s like you walking into the Lotus pool to enter the temple. It’s an entrance fee of 400Yen but I didn’t have changes + it’s no staff there. So I decided to skip the fee :P and just quickly take a walk. Haha… I guess that’s the coolest part of Tendao Ando. He’s built probably the most unique Buddish temple and also probably one of the most famous contemporary Catholic Church in the world. And they were built before he’s getting famous!
(5.00p) Got back to the JR station and got back my heavy luggage and going to Kobe tonight! :) People in Kobe is quite different to the other cities in Japan I felt it once I arrived. Or maybe just because of the long holiday had just started? :D
(6.00p) The guest house is 5mins walk from station and quite easy to find. The Owner there was super nice and her daughter is quite pretty too. Her daughter speak quite good English indeed and we talked a bit. She actually not living there but a few stops away with her son. :D Her son is very cute too. You know the age around 6-7 is almost the cutiest age. :) Yep, she show me a map in town Kobe and another one for foreigner showing all around the city too. There’s a skiing center thing in Rokko. It looks a bit complicated to go there though, needa take train and change to bus and then change to cable car and another bus to go there. Since they don’t have Internet there, I asked her if I can get some more information and weather. A few minutes she bring a printout with all the information to me. The weather forecast was perfect but it is actually quite expensive to ski. The entrance fee 2000Yen which I thought is quite cheap and that’s why I thought I could go, is actually not include the equipment rental things. I have to pay for the buses + train + cable car + entrance fee + equipment probably over 10000 Yen to actually ski there -_-… um.. probably not I thought. But thanks for the information anyway :)
(7.00p) Walked to China Town in Kobe. Haha… sounds interesting to have a China Town in Japan, isn’t it just a bit too close to China… well anyway it’s quite a good walk to go there at night. Most of the China Towns around the world are mainly about food but probably not as much as the one in Kobe. ALLLLLLL shops here are only food, and food, and more food. Very Japanese Chinese food though. Although I m quite hungry, I have no reason to have food in China Town, ya? :D So I quickly finish the whole street. It’s a bit smaller than the one in London but still quite big. And I actually found a lot of Chinese food all around Kobe, which is much frequent than Tokyo and Osaka. And, there are quite a lot of Chinese Medicine Shops in Kobe too! which I never really see any in the other cities in JP.
(8.00p) I had my dinner in a BBQ beef rice restaurant, or course a comparatively cheap one. It’s only 690Yen :P and quite delicious. Just that it’s a bit too little beef. The beefs actually look like they are filling up the bowl but they are super thin cut ~_~. Anyway they taste quite good. One more thing, maybe just me, but I found the girls in Kobe are actually quite pretty. Obviously, they are much prettier than in Osaka and also much fashionable too. While the guys there were not too cool.
(9.00p) Passed through a few video game shops and went into one. They have the Gundam game set there. I finally see it 1 or 2 years after it released. Very impressive indeed! The screen is round and fill up the all the space inside!! I only look at people playing and already feel that coolness. On my way back to the guest house, within that 25mins walk, almost all of the shops I passed by are either café or restaurants! There are some karaoke too. I went to another video game shop which is very close to the station. Seems that all the new games come with cards now. They all looks interesting too :D but of course they are not included in my budget trip~~
29/12
(10.00p) Went out quite late in the morning coz I felt that I have not much to do in the city. I am not feeling more infamous galleries and museums. I start with the closest spot in my area called Kitano. That’s an area foreigners used to live in. They kept all the old houses and become a tourist spot somehow. They might be quite interesting to local Japanese coz it’s actually so much different from most parts in Japan. Well, but to me, they are just some old western houses and not beautiful at all. I went into one of the houses anyway coz it’s free :P and saw some tourist information there. I saw the one about Nokko and the skiing park is there tooooo. Haha… such a temptation~ 3 seconds, I spent 3 seconds and I decided to leave Kobe and go to Rokko! Well, to go up the mountain, even not going to the skiing park, it would be much more interesting than staying in Kobe city I thought.
(11.00p) Goooooo from Kobe! Rokko is actually just 2 shops away. I then went on the bus to the cable car station. Surprisingly, it’s only 200Yen (I thought it’s 790Yen). When I went to the cable car station, I asked for the way to the ski park lo~~ and the staff show me the ticket including the entrance fee was only 2780Yen!! Haha 1/2 second and I decided to go for my first ski in my life lo~~ I knew it’s a 5000Yen equipment rental fee, but that’s why I go to the other countries to experience different things… I so much want to ski for long time, and indeed 5000Yen for ski is not that much, ya? It’s probably a double as I remember when I went to Switzerland.
(12.00p) The cable car is located kinda under of the mountain but it’s already quite cold~~ I started worry a bit lerh…
(12.30p) Arrived the ski park!!! So exciting!!! Wooohooo~~~ okokay enter the park and have a look frist~ wao… snow snow snow~~~~ yea… go and rent the gears! Is it actually includes the entrance fee?? Who cares~~ Started feeling hungry, oops… I have had some milk and bread this morning! I can’t be hungry so quickly I thought! Um… I can’t be bother now~~~~ googoggo~~~ get change and have my first ski ever! ^__^….
(12.55p) The first time was quite scary indeed, coz I have no idea about skiing indeed :P it’s all about how to stop and balance I guess… but I didn’t know how to stop at all lerh ~_~… gogogo… it’s going much faster than I thought, oh… and I fell very beautifully :D and I got up and finish the second half. It’s basically the same theory as ice skating but the things under my feet are much longer. Yea… that’s my first ski (1.00p). And I went on the queue to take the little cable car up the hill and try again… But when I pass through the counter, the guy (looks like a gal) asked me if I have the ticket. I was like huh? It’s another ticket for the cable car??!?! Ding nei!!! Tricky huh, Japanese .\ /. Okay… I went to the ticket office. To take the cable cost 150Yen once! Or 1500Yen for 12 times! Or 3000Yen a day!!! Or 2000Yen for 3 hours. Oh… of course I’ve chosen the 3 hrs one. I’ve rented the gear already and I probably wouldn’t leave there too late. But I felt that I had used up my energy while I was doing my calculation. I didn’t want to waste any of my 3 hours on eating so I walked up the hill… haha… seems that it’s only a few idiots do this. It’s not too far indeed, but uphill lo… The queue to buy food ticket was so long and that’s quite expensive too -_- so I decided to buy a bread instead hopefully I could survive until I get back to Kobe~~ ho ho ho… Yea~ the second time, I aimed not to fall! But, I fell again in the middle. This time was a bit ugly coz when I tried to get up, my legs were crashing each other and the thing jumped off. Haha anyway, done, and go to get the ticket. Another 2000Yen~~~ “happy money happy spend” ~ haha… So, the third time, yohooooooo~~~ I did it (1.30p)! Haha yea~~~~
It takes about 2-3mins to take the cable from bottom to top, and it’s quite boring indeed. I looked at how people ski and try to learn from them. And another thing I do to kill the time was….. dun dun dun dun~~~ to clean up the snow on top of the bars. It’s not that easy actually, coz they are not totally flat and it takes a bit time to do it. Yea, but cool, that kill some times~~ So in the rest of the time I kept falling, and skiing, skiing and falling… ^__^ It’s such a good day ^__^.
One thing I don't really understand, why people needa pay so much for the lessons?? Maybe people would find me stupid to take lesson to learn surfing too :P... but the thing is, even if you don't know how to ski, you would move forward and go down the hill anyway while if you don't learn surfing you can't even stand. Worst come to worst, even if you can't stop, you just fall and that's it. And the main thing is, you fall anyway even you take the lessons. Well, maybe if I have money I would take a lesson too :P...
(4.40p) Returned everything and left the park. Maybe the temperature is quite low but I do think it’s because I didn’t really eat for whole day and I felt super cold. I’ve bought a can of hot coffee from a machine which helps a lot.
(6.15p) Went back to Kobe and got my luggage. Gonna stay in the cheap hotel in Osaka tonight.
Very tasty milk dessert
(7.00p) Had a dinner in a restaurant I passed by near the station. 650Yen a full set of katsu meal~~ It’s okay la, at least to fill up my stomach ^_^.
(8.00p) Wanted to go out around at night but pretty tired. Chill a bit in hotel~~ Heading Kyoto tomorrow morning! :)
30/12
(12.03a) Got a email from the Guesthouse, saying I had booked the room but didn’t show up :O I totally miscount the date! Shit~~~ luckily they don’t charge me extra and the landlady there was super nice just worried about if I’ve got on any problem during my trip… ^__^….
(10.00a) Going to Himeji this morning quite late coz I think it wouldn’t be much to do except to visit the castle and walk a bit around the area… :)
(12.00n) Arriving Himeji Toyoko-Inn. It is quite cheap and good hotel. Very clean and professional, money worthy! I’ve seen it almost every main train station in Japan. Honestly, I will take this next time I come to Japan. And I think the single bed room can actually fit in 2 persons that make it even cheaper. :D
(12.30p) I walk to the Himeji Castle passed through a shopping street again. Basically all cities I’ve visited in Japan (except Tokyo) have a very long shopping street like this. The combination of shops is pretty much similar too. They all have more than on Mister Donut (the one in Osaka looks very dull tho) some shops selling mochi and Japanese snacks, balablbablala… The very unique one in Himeji is optical shops. There are a lot of optical shops around and I don’t see too many people wearing glasses around. It’s like the hair salon in Sayamaike. Seems to me they are more than enough. I had my lunch in a restaurant that I needa buy the ticket from the machine before go in… haha very unique cheap restaurant in Japan. They are all in Japanese and I’ve bought one which is not exactly the one I want :P but it’s okay, coz I’ve eaten my first udo in Japan now… even a cheap restaurant do the udon not too bad. Of cause it’s not very good, but at least the noodles were quite smooth. You know udon can be very bad sometimes.
(12.50p) Finally, I got into the famous Himeji castle. This most visited castle and one of Japan's "Three Famous Castles" is honestly quite disappointing. Well, I mean it is nice but as a castle, it looks like they were trying to save money when they build it. The outside was looking okay, but the inside was just totally undecorated, dark and very raw.
(1.50p) Already finished the castle visit and it’s not yet the check in time… So I walked around and found a very nice park there. There were 2 young guys playing base ball and really impressive. I never see a baseball match in real. The first time I feel the speed and the strength so closely!
(3.30p) I went into a 2nd hand shop there and try a few coats. It didn’t tag the price and I went to the counter and asked. I thought it could be quite expensive and I probably can’t afford. The sales put the coat onto a scale and told me it’s only 2200Yen! Funny that they count the price by weight!!!!! I remember I’ve seen it once before in another second hand shop. Yea… so, I tried everything that I can possibly fit in :D and bought another leather jacket, 1800Yen!!!! And a very simple bag for 590Yen, I’ve seen a similar one in SF selling like US$15! Such a satisfy shopping with only 5000Yen spent! Yooooho~~~
(4.30p) I found that when the sales put my camera into the counter, they break my filter! .\ /. So annoying… She should at least tell me she’s drop it or what!!!! Anyway, I went back to hotel and try to ask if they know any camera shops around but obviously they don’t know and told me I might find one in the main street -_-. I hang around a bit, bought a fish shape red bean cake. So nice :)
(7.00p)I got back to the room and search a bit on internet. haha internet is our best friend la… just not too far away on the opposite direction the staff shown me. There is a chain photos/camera shop. It cost me 3680Yen lerh T__T it hurts. But luckily they didn’t break my lens! And the staff was very good to help me to clean the lens a bit and now I m ready to take more photos lo… Before going back to Hotel I’ve bought my dinner from a Japanese burger shop. When I get back to Hotel, I found that it is a super tiny burger! It’s almost like just a third of the size in America! I’ve okay with it, but I really can’t imagine what would happen when American come and bought that burger, haha...
(7.30p) Online and Donald told me Garfy was just pass away today T_____T… kinda upset…
28/12
Time is just passing too fast… it’s already 28th and almost the end of the year! Every time I am having a long trip, I think it is probably the last long trip like this in the coming few years… (Actually my California trip was quite long too :D) The real last one should be the Greece + Amsterdam trip before I went back to HK. Well, after that, I actually went to France with Stef for a few times too and didn’t work for a while. Wao… it’s a few years ago from now… People must think I can earn a lot of money so that I can travel so much :P but indeed I actually spend very little every time (which is all I could spend tho). I will probably spend around US$2000 for this trip inc all hotel and transport. I am thinking somehow it’s good for me to visit Japan when the Yen is so expensive. I can’t carry anything more back to HK anyway… I can concentrate more on my sightseeing :). -_- hai lo, Japan without shopping lo…
Awaji Island, a nice place to go but better go only with a company I think...
(10.00a) It’s about an hour to take train + bus to Awaji Yumebutai from Himeji. The first time I use the locker in train station in Japan! :D Only 400Yen for a medium size one per day which’s big enough for me to put everything in.
(11.00a) It’s a big area with an expensive hotel, a conference hall, a huge greenhouse, a big big park by the sea a open-air theater and a flower ground. Very green and not much to do. It’s more a place for family or couple to spend a day or 2 to relax. The most amazing thing there are few big areas cover with water and most of these areas are made with shells! Real ones! All are about the same size too! It’s definitely a place to go in Spring or summer btw, coz most of the places supposed to be covered with colourful flowers were nothing there. Walked and walk and walk and seems that I can never finish everything there. Btw, it’s an entrance fee for the huge green house + the seaside park. I was thinking not to get into them but seems that there is nothing else to do in that area. It could be a nice and romantic place to go if I wasn’t alone~~ It’s not bad, just that if I had at least bought my pen and paper there, I wouldn’t be bored as it was. :)
(2.15p) I decided to leave there and go to Water Temple. I thought it would be some obvious sign or direction around bcoz they are quite close on the map. I only knew the direction but didn’t have a map on hand :P so I keep walking and walking and walking for like 20mins and still haven’t seen any sign there. I went into a little tea house and asked the old lady for direction :D obviously she doesn’t know English and not very well in written Chinese too. Luckily they have a map there, and the only one in the shop. It’s still some walk from there but at least I was in a right direction :). Btw, coz I didn’t have enough coins and she doesn’t want to give me changes with my 5000Yen notes, she gave me a 50Yen off!!! :D woooooo…. Happy happy.
(3.00p) Finally, I arrived the Water Temple. It’s not a big temple but very unique one. It’s built under a rounded Lotus pool. The architecture just keeps you walking for a while (within the limited space) in a quiet path before getting into the main temple building. And the way you enter the temple is very symbolic. It’s like you walking into the Lotus pool to enter the temple. It’s an entrance fee of 400Yen but I didn’t have changes + it’s no staff there. So I decided to skip the fee :P and just quickly take a walk. Haha… I guess that’s the coolest part of Tendao Ando. He’s built probably the most unique Buddish temple and also probably one of the most famous contemporary Catholic Church in the world. And they were built before he’s getting famous!
(5.00p) Got back to the JR station and got back my heavy luggage and going to Kobe tonight! :) People in Kobe is quite different to the other cities in Japan I felt it once I arrived. Or maybe just because of the long holiday had just started? :D
(6.00p) The guest house is 5mins walk from station and quite easy to find. The Owner there was super nice and her daughter is quite pretty too. Her daughter speak quite good English indeed and we talked a bit. She actually not living there but a few stops away with her son. :D Her son is very cute too. You know the age around 6-7 is almost the cutiest age. :) Yep, she show me a map in town Kobe and another one for foreigner showing all around the city too. There’s a skiing center thing in Rokko. It looks a bit complicated to go there though, needa take train and change to bus and then change to cable car and another bus to go there. Since they don’t have Internet there, I asked her if I can get some more information and weather. A few minutes she bring a printout with all the information to me. The weather forecast was perfect but it is actually quite expensive to ski. The entrance fee 2000Yen which I thought is quite cheap and that’s why I thought I could go, is actually not include the equipment rental things. I have to pay for the buses + train + cable car + entrance fee + equipment probably over 10000 Yen to actually ski there -_-… um.. probably not I thought. But thanks for the information anyway :)
(7.00p) Walked to China Town in Kobe. Haha… sounds interesting to have a China Town in Japan, isn’t it just a bit too close to China… well anyway it’s quite a good walk to go there at night. Most of the China Towns around the world are mainly about food but probably not as much as the one in Kobe. ALLLLLLL shops here are only food, and food, and more food. Very Japanese Chinese food though. Although I m quite hungry, I have no reason to have food in China Town, ya? :D So I quickly finish the whole street. It’s a bit smaller than the one in London but still quite big. And I actually found a lot of Chinese food all around Kobe, which is much frequent than Tokyo and Osaka. And, there are quite a lot of Chinese Medicine Shops in Kobe too! which I never really see any in the other cities in JP.
(8.00p) I had my dinner in a BBQ beef rice restaurant, or course a comparatively cheap one. It’s only 690Yen :P and quite delicious. Just that it’s a bit too little beef. The beefs actually look like they are filling up the bowl but they are super thin cut ~_~. Anyway they taste quite good. One more thing, maybe just me, but I found the girls in Kobe are actually quite pretty. Obviously, they are much prettier than in Osaka and also much fashionable too. While the guys there were not too cool.
(9.00p) Passed through a few video game shops and went into one. They have the Gundam game set there. I finally see it 1 or 2 years after it released. Very impressive indeed! The screen is round and fill up the all the space inside!! I only look at people playing and already feel that coolness. On my way back to the guest house, within that 25mins walk, almost all of the shops I passed by are either café or restaurants! There are some karaoke too. I went to another video game shop which is very close to the station. Seems that all the new games come with cards now. They all looks interesting too :D but of course they are not included in my budget trip~~
29/12
(10.00p) Went out quite late in the morning coz I felt that I have not much to do in the city. I am not feeling more infamous galleries and museums. I start with the closest spot in my area called Kitano. That’s an area foreigners used to live in. They kept all the old houses and become a tourist spot somehow. They might be quite interesting to local Japanese coz it’s actually so much different from most parts in Japan. Well, but to me, they are just some old western houses and not beautiful at all. I went into one of the houses anyway coz it’s free :P and saw some tourist information there. I saw the one about Nokko and the skiing park is there tooooo. Haha… such a temptation~ 3 seconds, I spent 3 seconds and I decided to leave Kobe and go to Rokko! Well, to go up the mountain, even not going to the skiing park, it would be much more interesting than staying in Kobe city I thought.
(11.00p) Goooooo from Kobe! Rokko is actually just 2 shops away. I then went on the bus to the cable car station. Surprisingly, it’s only 200Yen (I thought it’s 790Yen). When I went to the cable car station, I asked for the way to the ski park lo~~ and the staff show me the ticket including the entrance fee was only 2780Yen!! Haha 1/2 second and I decided to go for my first ski in my life lo~~ I knew it’s a 5000Yen equipment rental fee, but that’s why I go to the other countries to experience different things… I so much want to ski for long time, and indeed 5000Yen for ski is not that much, ya? It’s probably a double as I remember when I went to Switzerland.
(12.00p) The cable car is located kinda under of the mountain but it’s already quite cold~~ I started worry a bit lerh…
(12.30p) Arrived the ski park!!! So exciting!!! Wooohooo~~~ okokay enter the park and have a look frist~ wao… snow snow snow~~~~ yea… go and rent the gears! Is it actually includes the entrance fee?? Who cares~~ Started feeling hungry, oops… I have had some milk and bread this morning! I can’t be hungry so quickly I thought! Um… I can’t be bother now~~~~ googoggo~~~ get change and have my first ski ever! ^__^….
(12.55p) The first time was quite scary indeed, coz I have no idea about skiing indeed :P it’s all about how to stop and balance I guess… but I didn’t know how to stop at all lerh ~_~… gogogo… it’s going much faster than I thought, oh… and I fell very beautifully :D and I got up and finish the second half. It’s basically the same theory as ice skating but the things under my feet are much longer. Yea… that’s my first ski (1.00p). And I went on the queue to take the little cable car up the hill and try again… But when I pass through the counter, the guy (looks like a gal) asked me if I have the ticket. I was like huh? It’s another ticket for the cable car??!?! Ding nei!!! Tricky huh, Japanese .\ /. Okay… I went to the ticket office. To take the cable cost 150Yen once! Or 1500Yen for 12 times! Or 3000Yen a day!!! Or 2000Yen for 3 hours. Oh… of course I’ve chosen the 3 hrs one. I’ve rented the gear already and I probably wouldn’t leave there too late. But I felt that I had used up my energy while I was doing my calculation. I didn’t want to waste any of my 3 hours on eating so I walked up the hill… haha… seems that it’s only a few idiots do this. It’s not too far indeed, but uphill lo… The queue to buy food ticket was so long and that’s quite expensive too -_- so I decided to buy a bread instead hopefully I could survive until I get back to Kobe~~ ho ho ho… Yea~ the second time, I aimed not to fall! But, I fell again in the middle. This time was a bit ugly coz when I tried to get up, my legs were crashing each other and the thing jumped off. Haha anyway, done, and go to get the ticket. Another 2000Yen~~~ “happy money happy spend” ~ haha… So, the third time, yohooooooo~~~ I did it (1.30p)! Haha yea~~~~
It takes about 2-3mins to take the cable from bottom to top, and it’s quite boring indeed. I looked at how people ski and try to learn from them. And another thing I do to kill the time was….. dun dun dun dun~~~ to clean up the snow on top of the bars. It’s not that easy actually, coz they are not totally flat and it takes a bit time to do it. Yea, but cool, that kill some times~~ So in the rest of the time I kept falling, and skiing, skiing and falling… ^__^ It’s such a good day ^__^.
One thing I don't really understand, why people needa pay so much for the lessons?? Maybe people would find me stupid to take lesson to learn surfing too :P... but the thing is, even if you don't know how to ski, you would move forward and go down the hill anyway while if you don't learn surfing you can't even stand. Worst come to worst, even if you can't stop, you just fall and that's it. And the main thing is, you fall anyway even you take the lessons. Well, maybe if I have money I would take a lesson too :P...
(4.40p) Returned everything and left the park. Maybe the temperature is quite low but I do think it’s because I didn’t really eat for whole day and I felt super cold. I’ve bought a can of hot coffee from a machine which helps a lot.
(6.15p) Went back to Kobe and got my luggage. Gonna stay in the cheap hotel in Osaka tonight.
Very tasty milk dessert(7.00p) Had a dinner in a restaurant I passed by near the station. 650Yen a full set of katsu meal~~ It’s okay la, at least to fill up my stomach ^_^.
(8.00p) Wanted to go out around at night but pretty tired. Chill a bit in hotel~~ Heading Kyoto tomorrow morning! :)
30/12
(12.03a) Got a email from the Guesthouse, saying I had booked the room but didn’t show up :O I totally miscount the date! Shit~~~ luckily they don’t charge me extra and the landlady there was super nice just worried about if I’ve got on any problem during my trip… ^__^….
Kinn n Japan - Osaka
25/12
(12.37p) Got on a trip to Shin-Osaka. It stops on every stops it pass by, making the supposed to be 2.5 hrs trip today 3.5 hrs -_-… Now I see why google map asked me to get back to Shin-Yokohama and take a train from there. It probably save me 30mins in total but I’m with all my luggage with me. I was just too lazy to move after I found it on the train. Anyway… it’s a good time for a nap and write some blog on my way. :D
(3.53p) Arrived Shin-Osaka, needa change to Osaka, and then to a small station to the hostel today.
(4.30p) The tourist information centre was very good. Luckily I’ve dropped by, otherwise I would have bought two 3-day travel ticket (for 5000Yen!). That’s for all subways and trams which doesn’t included in JR system. But indeed JR can bring me to most of the places I need to go anyway :D… So much feeling I have got back to a city. The interesting thing is Osaka is kinda quite different from Tokyo, even the direction people walk and stand on escalator are different. I do feel the people in Osaka are not sticking with the rules too tightly, and not as stressful as in Tokyo.
(5.00p) Finally arrived the hotel. It is a 2800Yen/night hotel!!!! Hahaha… super budget… one half of the hostel in Hakone if you remember!!! Haha… it is pretty old and not extremely clean. Haha… what can you expect to pay for 2800Yen/night in Japan tho. It’s kinda recommendable, to my friends who don’t have money like me. They have a new wing on another side maybe I can check check if there’s any chance I may come here again :D Indeed the hotel is located in an interesting area and super convenience to access from station.
(6.30p) I had had a little walk from hotel to Namba, one of the center in south Osaka. I passed through a local area which has a lot of interesting small restaurants and some chess shops. A lot of people young or old, were sitting there and playing chess!!!!!! I also passed through an area called Nippombashi DEN-DEN town. It’s a lot of electric stuff, toy shops and comic shops there!!!! I tried to ask leo if he needs anything but he didn’t reply me msn -_-… anyway I can’t carry much back to HK… haha.
(8.00p) Walked into a gay shop by mistake on my way to the station. It’s in a corner of a random street… haha open my eye wide lerh… The dido are bigger than my arm! Wah… how does it work??? And a lot of funny underwear and stuff which I never seen them even in London’s soho. Haha…
(9.00p) Couldn’t’ find a curry rice shop! And get back to hotel and buy some light food from convenience store~~~~ 400Yen, including the milk (140Y) for breakfast… super budget!!! :D
And, this is how I had my Christmas day in 2008.
26/12
(9.00a) Went out a bit late :P coz of my laziness :P and write a bit on blog.
(9.45a) Thought I’d forgotten to lock the room door and got back to Hotel on my way to Sayamaike(狭山池).
(10.04a) Went out from the hotel again and got on the train to Osaka Prefectural Sayamaike Museum (大阪府立狭山池博物館).
(11.30a) Didn’t expect to take so long to get there but truly worth going!!! The architecture is soooooo nice… can’t really show it from picture. All the information there are in Japanese but I can still understand the history of how they build the place! It is soooooo amazing how they keep part of the old gate and put it into the Museum!!!! I really think “civil” might be an interesting subject to study in Uni after seeing this museum!
(1.00p) Before leaving the area, I walked a little bit around and tried to find something eat. It was so many hair salon around that area… more an restaurant and convenience store! Haha… you know how often you see convenience store in Japan? And more salon than that!
(2.30p) Somehow during my trip, only the morning part are impressive and getting boring in the afternoon. I arrived the Bay area and found that there are some usual tourist stuff around there… Ferris wheel, some shopping facilities some so-so galleries + museums, and expensive. Yea… just walked around and didn’t do much and left. -_-
(4.00p) Went to the Universal Studio as the tourist information recommended haha… Very universal stuff lo… with a bit Japanese touch (luckily) which make it a bit less American… I had some octopus balls and bought a lat from Starbucks. Probably the milk they use is different, which make it better than HK, UK and US ones. I have to say the Starbucks in America is more like water and tasteless while Peet’s coffee is the best I’ve ever try in US.
(6.00p) Walked a bit the shopping mall and bought a gift for Tracy :D lucky you… almost bought nothing in Japan for anyone.
(7.15p) Had a curry pork rice with fire eggs in Tennoji station for dinner:). Very typical Japanese curry, mild and sweet, a bit too sweet indeed but okay la… Um… I think I can have the rest of my meal pretty much in convenience store after this. The only thing I still wanna try is Udon and the Japanese style burger and not that necessary really.
(9.00p) Back to hotel uploaded some photos and already time to sleep~ haha… this is how I had my boxing day in 2008.
(12.37p) Got on a trip to Shin-Osaka. It stops on every stops it pass by, making the supposed to be 2.5 hrs trip today 3.5 hrs -_-… Now I see why google map asked me to get back to Shin-Yokohama and take a train from there. It probably save me 30mins in total but I’m with all my luggage with me. I was just too lazy to move after I found it on the train. Anyway… it’s a good time for a nap and write some blog on my way. :D
(3.53p) Arrived Shin-Osaka, needa change to Osaka, and then to a small station to the hostel today.
(4.30p) The tourist information centre was very good. Luckily I’ve dropped by, otherwise I would have bought two 3-day travel ticket (for 5000Yen!). That’s for all subways and trams which doesn’t included in JR system. But indeed JR can bring me to most of the places I need to go anyway :D… So much feeling I have got back to a city. The interesting thing is Osaka is kinda quite different from Tokyo, even the direction people walk and stand on escalator are different. I do feel the people in Osaka are not sticking with the rules too tightly, and not as stressful as in Tokyo.
(5.00p) Finally arrived the hotel. It is a 2800Yen/night hotel!!!! Hahaha… super budget… one half of the hostel in Hakone if you remember!!! Haha… it is pretty old and not extremely clean. Haha… what can you expect to pay for 2800Yen/night in Japan tho. It’s kinda recommendable, to my friends who don’t have money like me. They have a new wing on another side maybe I can check check if there’s any chance I may come here again :D Indeed the hotel is located in an interesting area and super convenience to access from station.
(6.30p) I had had a little walk from hotel to Namba, one of the center in south Osaka. I passed through a local area which has a lot of interesting small restaurants and some chess shops. A lot of people young or old, were sitting there and playing chess!!!!!! I also passed through an area called Nippombashi DEN-DEN town. It’s a lot of electric stuff, toy shops and comic shops there!!!! I tried to ask leo if he needs anything but he didn’t reply me msn -_-… anyway I can’t carry much back to HK… haha.
(8.00p) Walked into a gay shop by mistake on my way to the station. It’s in a corner of a random street… haha open my eye wide lerh… The dido are bigger than my arm! Wah… how does it work??? And a lot of funny underwear and stuff which I never seen them even in London’s soho. Haha…
(9.00p) Couldn’t’ find a curry rice shop! And get back to hotel and buy some light food from convenience store~~~~ 400Yen, including the milk (140Y) for breakfast… super budget!!! :D
And, this is how I had my Christmas day in 2008.
26/12
(9.00a) Went out a bit late :P coz of my laziness :P and write a bit on blog.
(9.45a) Thought I’d forgotten to lock the room door and got back to Hotel on my way to Sayamaike(狭山池).
(10.04a) Went out from the hotel again and got on the train to Osaka Prefectural Sayamaike Museum (大阪府立狭山池博物館).
(11.30a) Didn’t expect to take so long to get there but truly worth going!!! The architecture is soooooo nice… can’t really show it from picture. All the information there are in Japanese but I can still understand the history of how they build the place! It is soooooo amazing how they keep part of the old gate and put it into the Museum!!!! I really think “civil” might be an interesting subject to study in Uni after seeing this museum!
(1.00p) Before leaving the area, I walked a little bit around and tried to find something eat. It was so many hair salon around that area… more an restaurant and convenience store! Haha… you know how often you see convenience store in Japan? And more salon than that!
(2.30p) Somehow during my trip, only the morning part are impressive and getting boring in the afternoon. I arrived the Bay area and found that there are some usual tourist stuff around there… Ferris wheel, some shopping facilities some so-so galleries + museums, and expensive. Yea… just walked around and didn’t do much and left. -_-
(4.00p) Went to the Universal Studio as the tourist information recommended haha… Very universal stuff lo… with a bit Japanese touch (luckily) which make it a bit less American… I had some octopus balls and bought a lat from Starbucks. Probably the milk they use is different, which make it better than HK, UK and US ones. I have to say the Starbucks in America is more like water and tasteless while Peet’s coffee is the best I’ve ever try in US.
(6.00p) Walked a bit the shopping mall and bought a gift for Tracy :D lucky you… almost bought nothing in Japan for anyone.
(7.15p) Had a curry pork rice with fire eggs in Tennoji station for dinner:). Very typical Japanese curry, mild and sweet, a bit too sweet indeed but okay la… Um… I think I can have the rest of my meal pretty much in convenience store after this. The only thing I still wanna try is Udon and the Japanese style burger and not that necessary really.
(9.00p) Back to hotel uploaded some photos and already time to sleep~ haha… this is how I had my boxing day in 2008.
Kinn n Japan - Hakone
22/12
(8.30a) Heading Hakone, I’ve taken the train from Sendai and changed in Tokyo. I’ve almost taken the slow train from Tokyo to Odawara. Just before it was about to depart, I got off the train and went the to Shinkansen ticket office. The 1hr40mins train instantly become 25mins!
(10.30a) At Odawara station, I was trying to get on the train but the staff there asked me to take the bus instead. And the biggest mistake I’ve had in the trip was that, I forgot to buy the Hakone Pass before got on the bus -_-… it cost in 100Yen.
(12.00n) Arrived the Hot spring hotel :) It is totally out of the main area in Hakone and pretty old hotel. The staffs are very traditional, it means it’s almost over polite to everyone. I mean it’s very good. It’s a bit too early to check in and I went to a station 15mins by bus from the hotel (wasted another 370Yen) and bought the day pass, after leaving everything in the reception.
(1.00p) Let me have a deep breathe and announce, the “Best of the Best Art Museum of the Year” (it was De Young before I came to this one) and the “Most Money Worthy Museum of the Year” is… The Hakone Open-Air Museum!!! It’s so incredibly amazing! There are so many different sculptures and cool art pieces spread around the open area of hill. I was like hanging in a big park with a lot of masterpiece surrounding me. I was already very excited after I spent about an hour to finish half of the Museum (I thought it was half). There are another 4 individual exhibition halls. The first 2 I’ve seen were just okay. Most of the descriptions are in Japanese only or I have to rent the recorder in English. I saw one of the exhibition halls called Picasso. I thought it was only the name of they have one piece of his works there, which a lot of museum do. But when I step into the hall, all the ceramics, sculptures and some paintings there are form him! A lot of them are very interesting and I never seen most of them even on books! I didn’t know he’s done so many ceramics!! Really keep my eyes wide opened~~ After that I went into a tower like sculpture there. It’s a cylinder wrap with church glass window like all around! It was so nice to look around from the top!!! The environment, the quantity and quality of works plus the little surprise from Picasso, it becomes my “Best of the Best Museum of the Year”! 2008 is such a good year :)
It's supposed to fill with 2 persons romantically, in such a relax afternoon~
(5.00p) Back to hotel and check myself in. Have taken a rest and went to the Japanese bath (hot spring). :) It was very foggy there… almost see nothing in the bath room.
(6.30p) I swear it is the best Japanese meal I have ever had! The whole set of dinner, all dishes just make me cry from my heart. It was just too good to have each dish. I think it could cost me more than the total I spent to stay in this hotel if I want to have a decent Japanese full set of meal like this in HK. Super worthy stay honestly!!!
(8.00p) The private bath (which needs to reserve, and half hour only each day) was a bit disappointed. There’re 3 type of private bath. I’ve chosen the open hot spring one. It was a bit tricky, just like toilet size room made of bamboo outside the building and it’s no wall on one side. They put some kinda plants in front of the open end. And ya, that’s it. But when I take it, it’s quite good feeling actually. Haha… I’m sure there are some nicer hotspring resorts around (obviously much more expensive) anyway… the dinner is already worth money I’ve spent. With a limited budget and want to have a resort experience, it is doubtlessly one of the best choice ^__^
23/12
(6.00a) Woke up early to have a yoga this morning :). I’ve had quite a while haven’t do yoga in the morning. Feeling quite good to start a day like this.
(8.30a) A big big breakfast in the morning! Yummyumyum~~
(9.00a) Wrote a bit my blog before leaving~~~~
(10.00a) Went out and found it pretty cold today. Luckily I’ve missed the bus and having enough time to go back and change. Otherwise, I must catch a cold today! It is a bit sunshine today but actually feeling even colder than the snowing day in Towada.
(11.00a) Walked around the area by the lake Ashi. It was a nice walk in a path surrounded by super tall tress. It was a few spots to see the Fuji Mountain. they are actually some of the best places to see Fuji mountain. But the weather today were not even good enough to see the mountain :) The clouds blocked the view. The mountain has come out for a few minutes and disappear again~~
(12.30p) A lot of snack free-tasting + the big breakfast in the morning just keep me stuff for whole day. I’ve eaten a famous black egg in the port. Well… it’s just the same as normal eggs. Obviously those lovely eggs from the Hope Range are much better than these.
(2.00p) It was damn freezing even under sunshine especially when I was up the hill in Owakudani. It’s were the hotspring eggs originally came from. They are actually not that great, but it’s something when you go there you wouldn’t mind to spend 500Yen to buy 5 of them. And they has to be in a bags of 5. I still have 3 on my bag now ~_~.
(3.00p) Went to the main station in Hakone-Yumoto where the entrance of Hakone area. It took me an hour to get there, to buy the Hakone Pass for the coming 2 days. Since they don’t normally do next day ticket, I just give it a try from the bigger station. Hopefully people are not as stupid as the smaller stations. The information centre still told me I have to buy tomorrow morning. It was quite a busy tourist area in Hakone-Yumoto. A lot of souvenir shops there. Some more food tasting :D I pass by the ticket office on my way back to hotel, and I had my last try there. The guy said no at the beginning too, but when I try my best to descript my situation to him (surprising he understand what I mean even he doesn’t really understand English!!!), and the sold the ticket to me :) and I saved 370Yen by spending almost 3 hours travel in the same area.
(6.30p) Dinner time again~~ It is even better than yesterday. All ingredients are obviously more expensive than those yesterday. I saw the girl next to me are eating the same set I’ve eaten yesterday :D Taste-wise, some dishes are stronger and some are much mild & pure. Such a nice contrast! I love it!!! The first time in my life I’ve had the long leg crab. The first time in my live I’ve eaten such an expensive piece of tuna. Those tuna sashimi I’ve eaten before that made me misunderstood tuna, please, never come back to me :D
(8.00p) writing this blog for this week :)
(10.00p) Private bath
(11.00p) Drawing time, if I still awake.
24/12
(8.00a) Didn’t wake up too early today, went to the breakfast hall at 8 and found that it is a buffet breakfast today. A bit disappointed but then I decided to go a quick bath before eating :D.
(8.30a) The breakfast wasn’t bad at all, although that’s a buffet. There are quite a lot of Japanese traditional foods and obviously they would force you to have some rice. I do like the one yesterday much more tho. Anyway, it’s a big breakfast that enough for me until dinner time :D.
(10.00a) Check out the room and it’s the end of the luxury part of the trip~~ oooo….. It’s such a great experience though. I told myself I would bring mama here when I earn enough money :D. Gonna move to the hotel for one more night in Hakone.
(11.30a) The hostel is pretty easy to find but it still took me like an hour and half. -_- There were sooooo many local tourist, the time they get on and off the bus were probably a double as usual time. It’s like a third of the price as the hotel but it’s still very nice… They have a proper outdoor Japanese bath and also an indoor one too. The room was quite big too, probably one third of the room last night but still big enough. The most important thing is, the staff speak English and I could use internet at my room!!!!!!!! :D
(12.00n) The staff recommended me to go to a place called Otome-toge, saying I can see Fuji Mountain from there. The day before, the view on the lake and on the mountain was almost totally blocked by clouds :).
(1.00p) When I just stepped down the bus, I was totally stocked. The Mount. Fuji was just right in front of me! It’s huge and very close! The sky was much clearer than the day before but somehow, a thick cloud was form right on top of Fuji Mountain and covered its head -_-. Really don’t know why it is so difficult to have a proper look on it .\ /. But I was quite happy already. At least I was very closed. And I still have one chance next day coz I will go on a bit hiking in the morning. And the staff told me I can see Mountain Fuji from there too.
(2.30p) Waited the bus for over 40 mins -_- and cold.
(3.00p) I feel lucky that I decided to go to Otome-toge :D It was only a few people there and only me took a bus there. Everyone else were driving. When I arrive Gora, it’s still a lot of tourist there. The Hakone Art Museum was incredibly crowd. I went to Gora park instead. The park was very empty! Almost no people were there… It was a ceramic house and I went into it. They have a class for experience ceramic making! And I looked at those some other students made, I went to the counter at once and want to learn (although it’s like 4000Yen each). There are a few finishing to chosen. Obviously, the student only do the shape and the instructor there will do the colour and finishing coz they look like they are very sophisticated. It must be complicated to get the surface finish as it is. But the staff told me the class of the day were all finished :). And even I take the class the day after, they only send out the work in 2 months time within Japan only :):)…. Ah………. And then I went to their greenhouse there. Japanese can really impress you on everything even it’s just a greenhouse. The plants there are so decent and nicely taken care of.
(4.00p) Went to buy dinner :D and then went back to the hostel. Used a bit internet, chill out a bit and try to finish some work for POP/PIXI…
(6.30p) Dinner
(8.00p) Some more works
(11.00p) Sleep early at night for the hiking in the morning :)
25/12
(6.00a) Woke up at 6! and take a early baht… seems that I m taking bath too much lately… my skin start getting a bit dry.
(7.30a) Nice nice weather today… I felt that I would see Fuji today!! :D. I decided to wear my green shoes as its last trip… haha… at least it has a last mission before I throw it away and I would remember it all in my life because of the memorable hiking trip ^__^. The road was not as comfy as I thought. It was quite wet, muddy, snippy and uphill. Luckily I changed to this pair of shoes. I walked for 30mins and didn’t see anyone until I saw 2 old ladies walked very slowly in front of me. It seems that I shouldn’t have felt the way difficult at all
And then few mins later a man with a kid just finished the trip and in the opposite way, downhill. Haha… I can’t even feel tired, go on go on… Finally I were on top of the hill. I almost forgot my purpose on the first sight of Mountain Fuji!!!! Obviously I get back a bit and take a picture for it and go on one of the best view of Fuji. The sky was very clear today! And I took quite a few pictures, feeling very satisfied and I can finish my JP trip already :D. Super windy and cold up there… only spent like 20 mins there and walk down the hill lo… There were 11 people I’ve meet in the whole hiking trip including the very old lady in the shop on top of the hill. She’s just so old. I think she lives there probably the rest of her life and won’t get down the hill.
(10.15a) Already got back to hostel :D took a shower and head to Osaka today. Seems that it will take the whole day on train and bus… but I m okay with it coz I’ve done enough today. :D
(11.00a) Leaving Hakone… hope that I will come back some time ^__^
(8.30a) Heading Hakone, I’ve taken the train from Sendai and changed in Tokyo. I’ve almost taken the slow train from Tokyo to Odawara. Just before it was about to depart, I got off the train and went the to Shinkansen ticket office. The 1hr40mins train instantly become 25mins!
(10.30a) At Odawara station, I was trying to get on the train but the staff there asked me to take the bus instead. And the biggest mistake I’ve had in the trip was that, I forgot to buy the Hakone Pass before got on the bus -_-… it cost in 100Yen.
(12.00n) Arrived the Hot spring hotel :) It is totally out of the main area in Hakone and pretty old hotel. The staffs are very traditional, it means it’s almost over polite to everyone. I mean it’s very good. It’s a bit too early to check in and I went to a station 15mins by bus from the hotel (wasted another 370Yen) and bought the day pass, after leaving everything in the reception.
(1.00p) Let me have a deep breathe and announce, the “Best of the Best Art Museum of the Year” (it was De Young before I came to this one) and the “Most Money Worthy Museum of the Year” is… The Hakone Open-Air Museum!!! It’s so incredibly amazing! There are so many different sculptures and cool art pieces spread around the open area of hill. I was like hanging in a big park with a lot of masterpiece surrounding me. I was already very excited after I spent about an hour to finish half of the Museum (I thought it was half). There are another 4 individual exhibition halls. The first 2 I’ve seen were just okay. Most of the descriptions are in Japanese only or I have to rent the recorder in English. I saw one of the exhibition halls called Picasso. I thought it was only the name of they have one piece of his works there, which a lot of museum do. But when I step into the hall, all the ceramics, sculptures and some paintings there are form him! A lot of them are very interesting and I never seen most of them even on books! I didn’t know he’s done so many ceramics!! Really keep my eyes wide opened~~ After that I went into a tower like sculpture there. It’s a cylinder wrap with church glass window like all around! It was so nice to look around from the top!!! The environment, the quantity and quality of works plus the little surprise from Picasso, it becomes my “Best of the Best Museum of the Year”! 2008 is such a good year :)
It's supposed to fill with 2 persons romantically, in such a relax afternoon~
(5.00p) Back to hotel and check myself in. Have taken a rest and went to the Japanese bath (hot spring). :) It was very foggy there… almost see nothing in the bath room.
(6.30p) I swear it is the best Japanese meal I have ever had! The whole set of dinner, all dishes just make me cry from my heart. It was just too good to have each dish. I think it could cost me more than the total I spent to stay in this hotel if I want to have a decent Japanese full set of meal like this in HK. Super worthy stay honestly!!!
(8.00p) The private bath (which needs to reserve, and half hour only each day) was a bit disappointed. There’re 3 type of private bath. I’ve chosen the open hot spring one. It was a bit tricky, just like toilet size room made of bamboo outside the building and it’s no wall on one side. They put some kinda plants in front of the open end. And ya, that’s it. But when I take it, it’s quite good feeling actually. Haha… I’m sure there are some nicer hotspring resorts around (obviously much more expensive) anyway… the dinner is already worth money I’ve spent. With a limited budget and want to have a resort experience, it is doubtlessly one of the best choice ^__^
23/12
(6.00a) Woke up early to have a yoga this morning :). I’ve had quite a while haven’t do yoga in the morning. Feeling quite good to start a day like this.
(8.30a) A big big breakfast in the morning! Yummyumyum~~
(9.00a) Wrote a bit my blog before leaving~~~~
(10.00a) Went out and found it pretty cold today. Luckily I’ve missed the bus and having enough time to go back and change. Otherwise, I must catch a cold today! It is a bit sunshine today but actually feeling even colder than the snowing day in Towada.
(11.00a) Walked around the area by the lake Ashi. It was a nice walk in a path surrounded by super tall tress. It was a few spots to see the Fuji Mountain. they are actually some of the best places to see Fuji mountain. But the weather today were not even good enough to see the mountain :) The clouds blocked the view. The mountain has come out for a few minutes and disappear again~~
(12.30p) A lot of snack free-tasting + the big breakfast in the morning just keep me stuff for whole day. I’ve eaten a famous black egg in the port. Well… it’s just the same as normal eggs. Obviously those lovely eggs from the Hope Range are much better than these.
(2.00p) It was damn freezing even under sunshine especially when I was up the hill in Owakudani. It’s were the hotspring eggs originally came from. They are actually not that great, but it’s something when you go there you wouldn’t mind to spend 500Yen to buy 5 of them. And they has to be in a bags of 5. I still have 3 on my bag now ~_~.
(3.00p) Went to the main station in Hakone-Yumoto where the entrance of Hakone area. It took me an hour to get there, to buy the Hakone Pass for the coming 2 days. Since they don’t normally do next day ticket, I just give it a try from the bigger station. Hopefully people are not as stupid as the smaller stations. The information centre still told me I have to buy tomorrow morning. It was quite a busy tourist area in Hakone-Yumoto. A lot of souvenir shops there. Some more food tasting :D I pass by the ticket office on my way back to hotel, and I had my last try there. The guy said no at the beginning too, but when I try my best to descript my situation to him (surprising he understand what I mean even he doesn’t really understand English!!!), and the sold the ticket to me :) and I saved 370Yen by spending almost 3 hours travel in the same area.
(6.30p) Dinner time again~~ It is even better than yesterday. All ingredients are obviously more expensive than those yesterday. I saw the girl next to me are eating the same set I’ve eaten yesterday :D Taste-wise, some dishes are stronger and some are much mild & pure. Such a nice contrast! I love it!!! The first time in my life I’ve had the long leg crab. The first time in my live I’ve eaten such an expensive piece of tuna. Those tuna sashimi I’ve eaten before that made me misunderstood tuna, please, never come back to me :D
(8.00p) writing this blog for this week :)
(10.00p) Private bath
(11.00p) Drawing time, if I still awake.
24/12
(8.00a) Didn’t wake up too early today, went to the breakfast hall at 8 and found that it is a buffet breakfast today. A bit disappointed but then I decided to go a quick bath before eating :D.
(8.30a) The breakfast wasn’t bad at all, although that’s a buffet. There are quite a lot of Japanese traditional foods and obviously they would force you to have some rice. I do like the one yesterday much more tho. Anyway, it’s a big breakfast that enough for me until dinner time :D.
(10.00a) Check out the room and it’s the end of the luxury part of the trip~~ oooo….. It’s such a great experience though. I told myself I would bring mama here when I earn enough money :D. Gonna move to the hotel for one more night in Hakone.
(11.30a) The hostel is pretty easy to find but it still took me like an hour and half. -_- There were sooooo many local tourist, the time they get on and off the bus were probably a double as usual time. It’s like a third of the price as the hotel but it’s still very nice… They have a proper outdoor Japanese bath and also an indoor one too. The room was quite big too, probably one third of the room last night but still big enough. The most important thing is, the staff speak English and I could use internet at my room!!!!!!!! :D
(12.00n) The staff recommended me to go to a place called Otome-toge, saying I can see Fuji Mountain from there. The day before, the view on the lake and on the mountain was almost totally blocked by clouds :).
(1.00p) When I just stepped down the bus, I was totally stocked. The Mount. Fuji was just right in front of me! It’s huge and very close! The sky was much clearer than the day before but somehow, a thick cloud was form right on top of Fuji Mountain and covered its head -_-. Really don’t know why it is so difficult to have a proper look on it .\ /. But I was quite happy already. At least I was very closed. And I still have one chance next day coz I will go on a bit hiking in the morning. And the staff told me I can see Mountain Fuji from there too.
(2.30p) Waited the bus for over 40 mins -_- and cold.
(3.00p) I feel lucky that I decided to go to Otome-toge :D It was only a few people there and only me took a bus there. Everyone else were driving. When I arrive Gora, it’s still a lot of tourist there. The Hakone Art Museum was incredibly crowd. I went to Gora park instead. The park was very empty! Almost no people were there… It was a ceramic house and I went into it. They have a class for experience ceramic making! And I looked at those some other students made, I went to the counter at once and want to learn (although it’s like 4000Yen each). There are a few finishing to chosen. Obviously, the student only do the shape and the instructor there will do the colour and finishing coz they look like they are very sophisticated. It must be complicated to get the surface finish as it is. But the staff told me the class of the day were all finished :). And even I take the class the day after, they only send out the work in 2 months time within Japan only :):)…. Ah………. And then I went to their greenhouse there. Japanese can really impress you on everything even it’s just a greenhouse. The plants there are so decent and nicely taken care of.
(4.00p) Went to buy dinner :D and then went back to the hostel. Used a bit internet, chill out a bit and try to finish some work for POP/PIXI…
(6.30p) Dinner
(8.00p) Some more works
(11.00p) Sleep early at night for the hiking in the morning :)
25/12
(6.00a) Woke up at 6! and take a early baht… seems that I m taking bath too much lately… my skin start getting a bit dry.
(7.30a) Nice nice weather today… I felt that I would see Fuji today!! :D. I decided to wear my green shoes as its last trip… haha… at least it has a last mission before I throw it away and I would remember it all in my life because of the memorable hiking trip ^__^. The road was not as comfy as I thought. It was quite wet, muddy, snippy and uphill. Luckily I changed to this pair of shoes. I walked for 30mins and didn’t see anyone until I saw 2 old ladies walked very slowly in front of me. It seems that I shouldn’t have felt the way difficult at all
And then few mins later a man with a kid just finished the trip and in the opposite way, downhill. Haha… I can’t even feel tired, go on go on… Finally I were on top of the hill. I almost forgot my purpose on the first sight of Mountain Fuji!!!! Obviously I get back a bit and take a picture for it and go on one of the best view of Fuji. The sky was very clear today! And I took quite a few pictures, feeling very satisfied and I can finish my JP trip already :D. Super windy and cold up there… only spent like 20 mins there and walk down the hill lo… There were 11 people I’ve meet in the whole hiking trip including the very old lady in the shop on top of the hill. She’s just so old. I think she lives there probably the rest of her life and won’t get down the hill.
(10.15a) Already got back to hostel :D took a shower and head to Osaka today. Seems that it will take the whole day on train and bus… but I m okay with it coz I’ve done enough today. :D
(11.00a) Leaving Hakone… hope that I will come back some time ^__^
Kinn n Japan - Sendai & Towada
19/12
(9.00a) Had a super quite breakfast with Eiji... he is kinda stress out to buy his gift for his friends in London... He is going home for Xmas tmr and still needa work today afternoon. Well... it's the way asian do.. ^_^ get use to it Eiji...~~~
(11.00a) Decided not to go to Asakasa with Eiji again.. instead, go to take the earlier train to Sendai :) Tokyo is really easy to travel even you dont know Japanese at all... just jump on the metro or JR.. you can go wherever you want within Japan almost, especially if you can read Chinese.
(2.18p) Arriving Sendai ^__^ Nice weather~~~ yea~~~ It was a nice journey. The train passed by a lot of old style Japanese buildings... they built the house very close to the nature and they work very well with the environment. Very much feeling they are part of the nature.
(2.30p) Obviously Sendai is a tourist spot. There were soooooo incredibly a lot of souvenir shops selling local snacks and the famous OX tong :D~~
(4.00p) The hostel is quite easy to find actually but with my heavy bag… it’s like a mission to complete really.
(5.00p) Had my first raman in Japan! Miso raman ^__^ delicious~~ it is the Japanese food I thought I would have eaten all the time in Japan~~~
(6.00p) Chill a bit in the room and walked out to town. Quite a nice 30 mins walk to town… passed through some interesting streets. And saw the people mountain people sea on the main street. Maybe similar to the xmas lights in HK haha… doesn’t sounds very interesting to say in this way :P But ya, that’s different style… all the tress on the 1km streets were warp by thousands of light. Sounds much better like this… yea~
(7.00p) Found an interesting building on the street and walked into it. It’s kinda a city hall thing showing some free exhibitions and stuff, a big art library, a mini traditional Japanese music show. And you can see it’s where all the local people would hang around. We should have more buildings like this in HK. But first thing is to make more people finding this kinda art buildings are important to them… egg first or chicken first?
(8.30p) Found a square with a lot of Japanese food and a ice-skating site in the middle. Successfully stop myself buying anything from there by convincing myself to have them tomorrow :D!!! wao~~~~ and tomorrow will have a bike with me. It would be much easier to access the site again.
(9.00p) Back to the hostel and sort out some photos and stuff.
20/12
(8.00a) Rent the bike from the hostel cost 1000Yen. Ride a bike around the city.
(8.30a) Passed by a coffee shop, the old man was preparing the shop and the coffee beans… look like he’s taking care of his baby! :D
(9.15a) Miyagi Museum. Nothing looks interesting, didn’t get in.
(10.00a) Site of Sendai Castle. It was a nice ride all the way to the site, uphill :D, a lot of trees and not too far. Basically the whole city is quite small. It’s a site where the Sendai Castle was. Nothing much left now, and they’ve built a temple for that. But it’s nice to look at the whole city from there.
(11.30a) It was a big exhibition in Sendai City Museum but quite expensive :P didn’t get in finally.
(12.00n) Ride to another side of the city and found the Zuihoden Mausoloum. It was a temple and again, needa paid like 1000Yen entrance fee and didn’t get in :D
(1.00p) 1.5 set lunch!!! The famous ox tong lunch set. 1200Yen~~~~ Super nice!!! Somehow they put something to take out a lot of typical ox tong weird taste (I don’t hate that taste actually). I love it! The texture was super soft and the taste was mild. Somehow I’ve found most of the Japanese food have mild taste. It’s just simply a BBQ ox tong + rice but already super satisfy for whole day. Happy can be very simple, especially me :D
(2.30p) City walk~~ Tried the Mister Donut! Super good!! Again the texture was nice and a mild taste. That’s very much different from American ones.
(4.00p) Back to hostel and take a nap~~~~
(6.00p) Dinner at the hostel. I’ve bought a sashimi salmon and some seaweed. Pretty nice :D and cheap..
(8.00p) Went out again to the night food market square and had a 廣島燒~~~ super stuffed!!!!
(10.00p) Hang a bit around and went back to Hostel)
I m sure I’ve missed quite a few temple or whatever tourist spot but I have had a comfortable bike riding day… :)
21/12
Gonna take 3 hours to Towada today and back to Sendai at night. So I’ve woke up quite early
(8.00p) Walked to the station from hostel. When I almost arrive the station, I found that I forgot the JR pass with me -_- and missed the train.
He is very Japanese Japanese, init?
(9.00p) Take the train hour later to Hachinohe (八戶). Change a train to三沢. It was north from Sendai, very country side and start snowing when I arrived三沢. The train station to Towada (十和田) was super old and small :D but very cool to me…
(12.30p) Arrived the Towada Art Center finally. It was quite confusing map from the station and it was snowing on the way… ~_~ Luckily I asked direction from a hotel I passed by, otherwise I must have lost. I’ve seen an installation from “ball dim por por” was building just opposite to the art centre. The Architecture of the art centre was incredibly cool! It’s a combination of few boxes like exhibition room. All of the artworks are spread around and inside the building. I’ve seen some of the artists’ works and they are all cool! One of the totally unforgettable artwork is a room with a table and 2 chairs, all painted in white. And you climb upon the table and look at the hole on top of the ceiling it was a totally different world up there… like a fairy tails environment. It’s one of the best art galleries in the world I m sure.
(3.00p) Walked back to the station and passed by a temple, a super old one. Look like it is breaking down :D, pretty cool though.
(3.30p) Had a lunch in a chain Japanese food restaurant. The steam egg was very very very delicious!
(4.30p) The snow was getting heavier on my way from the restaurant to the station. A long journey back to Sendai, feeling even longer than the way come to Towada. Probably because it was quite dark already… nothing much to see and seems to be never finish.
(7.30p) Walked around the Loft in Sendai and found quite a lot of interesting products there. It was some fake beard for guys like me don’t have much beard and wanted to look cool. And you can see the packaging and instore promotion materials are pretty cool.
(9.00p) Couldn’t find the oyster I saw yesterday, I’ve bought a sashimi rice bowl from supermarket instead. It was pretty good too :D.
(9.00a) Had a super quite breakfast with Eiji... he is kinda stress out to buy his gift for his friends in London... He is going home for Xmas tmr and still needa work today afternoon. Well... it's the way asian do.. ^_^ get use to it Eiji...~~~
(11.00a) Decided not to go to Asakasa with Eiji again.. instead, go to take the earlier train to Sendai :) Tokyo is really easy to travel even you dont know Japanese at all... just jump on the metro or JR.. you can go wherever you want within Japan almost, especially if you can read Chinese.
(2.18p) Arriving Sendai ^__^ Nice weather~~~ yea~~~ It was a nice journey. The train passed by a lot of old style Japanese buildings... they built the house very close to the nature and they work very well with the environment. Very much feeling they are part of the nature.
(2.30p) Obviously Sendai is a tourist spot. There were soooooo incredibly a lot of souvenir shops selling local snacks and the famous OX tong :D~~
(4.00p) The hostel is quite easy to find actually but with my heavy bag… it’s like a mission to complete really.
(5.00p) Had my first raman in Japan! Miso raman ^__^ delicious~~ it is the Japanese food I thought I would have eaten all the time in Japan~~~
(6.00p) Chill a bit in the room and walked out to town. Quite a nice 30 mins walk to town… passed through some interesting streets. And saw the people mountain people sea on the main street. Maybe similar to the xmas lights in HK haha… doesn’t sounds very interesting to say in this way :P But ya, that’s different style… all the tress on the 1km streets were warp by thousands of light. Sounds much better like this… yea~
(7.00p) Found an interesting building on the street and walked into it. It’s kinda a city hall thing showing some free exhibitions and stuff, a big art library, a mini traditional Japanese music show. And you can see it’s where all the local people would hang around. We should have more buildings like this in HK. But first thing is to make more people finding this kinda art buildings are important to them… egg first or chicken first?
(8.30p) Found a square with a lot of Japanese food and a ice-skating site in the middle. Successfully stop myself buying anything from there by convincing myself to have them tomorrow :D!!! wao~~~~ and tomorrow will have a bike with me. It would be much easier to access the site again.
(9.00p) Back to the hostel and sort out some photos and stuff.
20/12
(8.00a) Rent the bike from the hostel cost 1000Yen. Ride a bike around the city.
(8.30a) Passed by a coffee shop, the old man was preparing the shop and the coffee beans… look like he’s taking care of his baby! :D
(9.15a) Miyagi Museum. Nothing looks interesting, didn’t get in.
(10.00a) Site of Sendai Castle. It was a nice ride all the way to the site, uphill :D, a lot of trees and not too far. Basically the whole city is quite small. It’s a site where the Sendai Castle was. Nothing much left now, and they’ve built a temple for that. But it’s nice to look at the whole city from there.
(11.30a) It was a big exhibition in Sendai City Museum but quite expensive :P didn’t get in finally.
(12.00n) Ride to another side of the city and found the Zuihoden Mausoloum. It was a temple and again, needa paid like 1000Yen entrance fee and didn’t get in :D
(1.00p) 1.5 set lunch!!! The famous ox tong lunch set. 1200Yen~~~~ Super nice!!! Somehow they put something to take out a lot of typical ox tong weird taste (I don’t hate that taste actually). I love it! The texture was super soft and the taste was mild. Somehow I’ve found most of the Japanese food have mild taste. It’s just simply a BBQ ox tong + rice but already super satisfy for whole day. Happy can be very simple, especially me :D
(2.30p) City walk~~ Tried the Mister Donut! Super good!! Again the texture was nice and a mild taste. That’s very much different from American ones.
(4.00p) Back to hostel and take a nap~~~~
(6.00p) Dinner at the hostel. I’ve bought a sashimi salmon and some seaweed. Pretty nice :D and cheap..
(8.00p) Went out again to the night food market square and had a 廣島燒~~~ super stuffed!!!!
(10.00p) Hang a bit around and went back to Hostel)
I m sure I’ve missed quite a few temple or whatever tourist spot but I have had a comfortable bike riding day… :)
21/12
Gonna take 3 hours to Towada today and back to Sendai at night. So I’ve woke up quite early
(8.00p) Walked to the station from hostel. When I almost arrive the station, I found that I forgot the JR pass with me -_- and missed the train.
He is very Japanese Japanese, init?
(9.00p) Take the train hour later to Hachinohe (八戶). Change a train to三沢. It was north from Sendai, very country side and start snowing when I arrived三沢. The train station to Towada (十和田) was super old and small :D but very cool to me…
(12.30p) Arrived the Towada Art Center finally. It was quite confusing map from the station and it was snowing on the way… ~_~ Luckily I asked direction from a hotel I passed by, otherwise I must have lost. I’ve seen an installation from “ball dim por por” was building just opposite to the art centre. The Architecture of the art centre was incredibly cool! It’s a combination of few boxes like exhibition room. All of the artworks are spread around and inside the building. I’ve seen some of the artists’ works and they are all cool! One of the totally unforgettable artwork is a room with a table and 2 chairs, all painted in white. And you climb upon the table and look at the hole on top of the ceiling it was a totally different world up there… like a fairy tails environment. It’s one of the best art galleries in the world I m sure.
(3.00p) Walked back to the station and passed by a temple, a super old one. Look like it is breaking down :D, pretty cool though.
(3.30p) Had a lunch in a chain Japanese food restaurant. The steam egg was very very very delicious!
(4.30p) The snow was getting heavier on my way from the restaurant to the station. A long journey back to Sendai, feeling even longer than the way come to Towada. Probably because it was quite dark already… nothing much to see and seems to be never finish.
(7.30p) Walked around the Loft in Sendai and found quite a lot of interesting products there. It was some fake beard for guys like me don’t have much beard and wanted to look cool. And you can see the packaging and instore promotion materials are pretty cool.
(9.00p) Couldn’t find the oyster I saw yesterday, I’ve bought a sashimi rice bowl from supermarket instead. It was pretty good too :D.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Kinn n Japan - Tokyo
Maybe I shouldn't put this post in the US blog :D but I am kinda lazy to open a new one really... and it is part of my US trip really. I have this JP trip because of my US flight ticket after all... US extension trip I would say :D... will make a new one when I go back to HK lerh..
16/12
(4.30p) Tokyo Narita Airport
(8.00p) Shijuku Station. Kinda got lost in Shijuku Station. It was a disaster to get lost with 3 heavy luggage -_- Surprisingly there are almost no disable facility like escalator or anything for Wheel chairs. It was all stairs and-_- I’ve brought my luggage walked all the way down over 50 stairs and finally couldn't find the way to the metro and spent 2000Yen to go to Paulo's home... ~_~
(9.00p) Finally got to Paulo's home... sorry I have to say, it is a flat where a typical poor student lives in :P haha...well... we all had this stage before, kinda miss that smell and feeling... Anyway... it's more than great to have a free staying in Tokyo :)
(10.00p) Western style restaurant. It was a restaurant serving Japanese style western food like pasta and pizza… not very delicious honestly but good to have a quick dinner and go home and sleep after the long flight.
17/12
(9.00a) It's all raining in my first day in Tokyo. Luckily it's not as cold as I thought really... actually the day I left LA was even colder than here... I went to Eiji's flat in the morning... He is staying in a really nice flat in Nakano... I do feel lucky to stay in Nakano. Feeling it is really where normal Japanese would stay and live in. I went to Asakusa with him... where I remember I had been the first time I came to Tokyo 12-3 years ago... and it looks exactly the same as before... I kinda hate this kinda tourist spot... a lot of souvenir shops and a lot of tourist plus some remade traditional culture... the worst combination, well.. to me.
(12.00a) We then went to a local market around that place... which is much better place to hang around... we had super cheap sushi (they were in half price in lunch hour) and octopus ball... :D delicious~
(2:00p) He need to go back to office and I went to a Park in Ueno... It was a Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum... nothing interested and i obviously didn't pay to get in the exhibitions there :D nice to have a little walk around the part tho... it's another temple there again... nothing really interesting.
(4.00p) MOMAT... They are having an exhibition about Okinawa Culture... I think it would be very interesting for local people:P unfortunately I don't understand Japanese at all... But it wasn't totally useless, I know there are a lot of artists are doing the same things as I m doing... I m not alone :) Somehow we are all contributing the world. And I need to find some ways to publish what I have done.
(6.00p) Shijuku meet up Eiji and had a little BBQ with Eiji~ haha... it was in a little street... but the waitress in quite a few restaurant there speak Chinese :O... somehow... they are not extremely good but expensive... um...
(8.00p) Having Nabe in Eiji's home. Super nice nice :). Yep... they call this kinda hotpot Nabe... not Shabu Shabu~~ Btw, their strong insist on separate tush for recycle are really impressive! I love them... But I m thinking even if we separate the waste in HK, they are probably going to the same place and burn away... kinda a shame... Come on... our dearest government... We are ready and well educated enough to do this too! even Taiwanese doing better than us...
(11.00p) Very chill out night :) feeling a bit jetlet at around 10pm... but much better than when I went to US... maybe just because in general, I m not as tired as I was in HK... Listening to the mp3s from Megan all the time these few days... Some of them are really great. I like the 80s 90s (I might be wrong on timing but retro style anyway :P) music arrangement from Camera O... Also I quite enjoy the way Kate Nash sing... Kinda story telling singing, it's like your frined talking to you. Instead of hip hop, she found a new way. The topics are actually for much younger kids, but I found them interesting to listen to too... remind me the time in London a lot :D I bet a lot of people around me in that age would think in this way.... It was the #1 last year in UK. You can tell how vary their pop music style can be... yea... That's why we like England so much I guess :) they are not necessarily beautiful but never leak of new ideas.
18/12
(9.00a) Rearrange a bit my luggage. for my next 2 weeks' trip. yea... Just a bit :D
(11.00a) Super nice weather today :) went to a Thai restaurant with Paulo... my soup noodle was very not Thai honestly... and not that great... :( haha.. but his curry rice was okay... maybe I am in America for too long... I find their portion super small really... although I don't eat much in US (maybe just comparatively).
(1.00p) Roppongi. Midtown Tokyo, It looks pretty much the same as IFC2 :D but they put a lot more galleries are art related stuff there...
(1.20p) 国立新美術館 Art Centre, Tokyo. The Architecture was incredibly cool! The cafe there was cool too... But the exhibitions showing weren't too impressive. It will be an exhibition I really want to see start from mid January to March ~_~
(2.00p) 21_21 Design Site. The crystal chair was very impressive when I first saw it. Everyone of us have probably done the same experiment in high school. But they made it big! And the result were nice tooo. However, when I talked to Eiji about it... he told me it has been done in London by someone else which they made the whole house (interior) as crystal! um... somehow, even Japanese, they start copying.
16/12
(4.30p) Tokyo Narita Airport
(8.00p) Shijuku Station. Kinda got lost in Shijuku Station. It was a disaster to get lost with 3 heavy luggage -_- Surprisingly there are almost no disable facility like escalator or anything for Wheel chairs. It was all stairs and-_- I’ve brought my luggage walked all the way down over 50 stairs and finally couldn't find the way to the metro and spent 2000Yen to go to Paulo's home... ~_~
(9.00p) Finally got to Paulo's home... sorry I have to say, it is a flat where a typical poor student lives in :P haha...well... we all had this stage before, kinda miss that smell and feeling... Anyway... it's more than great to have a free staying in Tokyo :)
(10.00p) Western style restaurant. It was a restaurant serving Japanese style western food like pasta and pizza… not very delicious honestly but good to have a quick dinner and go home and sleep after the long flight.
17/12
(9.00a) It's all raining in my first day in Tokyo. Luckily it's not as cold as I thought really... actually the day I left LA was even colder than here... I went to Eiji's flat in the morning... He is staying in a really nice flat in Nakano... I do feel lucky to stay in Nakano. Feeling it is really where normal Japanese would stay and live in. I went to Asakusa with him... where I remember I had been the first time I came to Tokyo 12-3 years ago... and it looks exactly the same as before... I kinda hate this kinda tourist spot... a lot of souvenir shops and a lot of tourist plus some remade traditional culture... the worst combination, well.. to me.
(12.00a) We then went to a local market around that place... which is much better place to hang around... we had super cheap sushi (they were in half price in lunch hour) and octopus ball... :D delicious~
(2:00p) He need to go back to office and I went to a Park in Ueno... It was a Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum... nothing interested and i obviously didn't pay to get in the exhibitions there :D nice to have a little walk around the part tho... it's another temple there again... nothing really interesting.
(4.00p) MOMAT... They are having an exhibition about Okinawa Culture... I think it would be very interesting for local people:P unfortunately I don't understand Japanese at all... But it wasn't totally useless, I know there are a lot of artists are doing the same things as I m doing... I m not alone :) Somehow we are all contributing the world. And I need to find some ways to publish what I have done.
(6.00p) Shijuku meet up Eiji and had a little BBQ with Eiji~ haha... it was in a little street... but the waitress in quite a few restaurant there speak Chinese :O... somehow... they are not extremely good but expensive... um...
(8.00p) Having Nabe in Eiji's home. Super nice nice :). Yep... they call this kinda hotpot Nabe... not Shabu Shabu~~ Btw, their strong insist on separate tush for recycle are really impressive! I love them... But I m thinking even if we separate the waste in HK, they are probably going to the same place and burn away... kinda a shame... Come on... our dearest government... We are ready and well educated enough to do this too! even Taiwanese doing better than us...
(11.00p) Very chill out night :) feeling a bit jetlet at around 10pm... but much better than when I went to US... maybe just because in general, I m not as tired as I was in HK... Listening to the mp3s from Megan all the time these few days... Some of them are really great. I like the 80s 90s (I might be wrong on timing but retro style anyway :P) music arrangement from Camera O... Also I quite enjoy the way Kate Nash sing... Kinda story telling singing, it's like your frined talking to you. Instead of hip hop, she found a new way. The topics are actually for much younger kids, but I found them interesting to listen to too... remind me the time in London a lot :D I bet a lot of people around me in that age would think in this way.... It was the #1 last year in UK. You can tell how vary their pop music style can be... yea... That's why we like England so much I guess :) they are not necessarily beautiful but never leak of new ideas.
18/12
(9.00a) Rearrange a bit my luggage. for my next 2 weeks' trip. yea... Just a bit :D
(11.00a) Super nice weather today :) went to a Thai restaurant with Paulo... my soup noodle was very not Thai honestly... and not that great... :( haha.. but his curry rice was okay... maybe I am in America for too long... I find their portion super small really... although I don't eat much in US (maybe just comparatively).
(1.00p) Roppongi. Midtown Tokyo, It looks pretty much the same as IFC2 :D but they put a lot more galleries are art related stuff there...
(1.20p) 国立新美術館 Art Centre, Tokyo. The Architecture was incredibly cool! The cafe there was cool too... But the exhibitions showing weren't too impressive. It will be an exhibition I really want to see start from mid January to March ~_~
(2.00p) 21_21 Design Site. The crystal chair was very impressive when I first saw it. Everyone of us have probably done the same experiment in high school. But they made it big! And the result were nice tooo. However, when I talked to Eiji about it... he told me it has been done in London by someone else which they made the whole house (interior) as crystal! um... somehow, even Japanese, they start copying.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Instantly~~
Just got the film for my SX-70!!!! haha... really can't wait to see the 'instant' result~~ :D ho ho ho... US$89 (inc shipping) for 24 film >_< http://www.polapremium.com/shop/film/sx70/fi_sx70_1_0909_artistic
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Boss's Party
I just lost my wallet the night before I went to Andrew's party. I was thinking not to go really coz I wasn't 100% sure if I wanted to go actually... But then I thought, you don't wanna let me go? no way! I'm going I'm going I'm going... haha... anyway... decided to go just after talked to Don....
I went to the police office and report the lost... hopefully someone might found it and hand it to the police office... the police lady was kinda tough but willing to help... it was an interesting experience. The lady before me left her sunglasses. :D yea but I gave it to the officer straight away... hope that I can gain some Karma with it haha :D yea~~ fill my Karma up a bit~~~~~ Some guys after me came for their tolled car.
And the I had my last try to look around the area I lost my wallet... honestly it is no way that I can lost it... coz I never really take it out of my pocket. and it happened within that merely 5 mins after I left my car and before Nestor arrived. :( either someone stole it or what... :(:( anyway...
I went to Carina's flat in Culver City straight after... She has a nice and big flat with Darius :) in a nice area. We walked around the area a bit... she actually moved in for a week only and never hang around the area.
We almost spent 3 hours to drive to Andrew's home in Palm Spring coz of the traffic. Kinda a new area that a lot of US celebraties are moving in and supposed it's a lot of nice architecture. Well the only best part of the whole day is actually the drive tho... we have some nice and fun talk :)
It's about 100 people there, almost a totally gay party! only a few girls were there. I've never seen so many gays in a same place... (well.. I did in the gay pride in London and Brighton but not in a house party) maybe I should say I had never talked to so manay gay guys at one night haha... a lot of them are pretty old tho. The best part of the party was Andrew dance as a christmas tree haha and the HOT cocktail bar! Those guys were so meaty really.. its like the california porn stars haha... Other than that.....it was quite boring really... fake people, fake plastic face, fake huges, fake smiles... I was kinda hide behind Carina all night :P surprisingly, A lot of old man or couples came to me, which is kinda scary. And you can feel the only thing they wanna do is to bring you to their hotel for a fun night or something... keep saying sth non-sense like ur skin's so smooth kinda shit ~_~ and trying to touch. oh my... California gay communicty? The only nice and normal guy I met the whole night was a French guy, um.. similar age, cant really remember his name tho. Quite shy and fun guy...
I finally went to that DelTaco and try that greezy flys haha... And it isn't good at all haha.. and fat. But at least I tried it finally :P yea... American junk food!!! bye~~~~~~
I went to the police office and report the lost... hopefully someone might found it and hand it to the police office... the police lady was kinda tough but willing to help... it was an interesting experience. The lady before me left her sunglasses. :D yea but I gave it to the officer straight away... hope that I can gain some Karma with it haha :D yea~~ fill my Karma up a bit~~~~~ Some guys after me came for their tolled car.
And the I had my last try to look around the area I lost my wallet... honestly it is no way that I can lost it... coz I never really take it out of my pocket. and it happened within that merely 5 mins after I left my car and before Nestor arrived. :( either someone stole it or what... :(:( anyway...
I went to Carina's flat in Culver City straight after... She has a nice and big flat with Darius :) in a nice area. We walked around the area a bit... she actually moved in for a week only and never hang around the area.
We almost spent 3 hours to drive to Andrew's home in Palm Spring coz of the traffic. Kinda a new area that a lot of US celebraties are moving in and supposed it's a lot of nice architecture. Well the only best part of the whole day is actually the drive tho... we have some nice and fun talk :)
It's about 100 people there, almost a totally gay party! only a few girls were there. I've never seen so many gays in a same place... (well.. I did in the gay pride in London and Brighton but not in a house party) maybe I should say I had never talked to so manay gay guys at one night haha... a lot of them are pretty old tho. The best part of the party was Andrew dance as a christmas tree haha and the HOT cocktail bar! Those guys were so meaty really.. its like the california porn stars haha... Other than that.....it was quite boring really... fake people, fake plastic face, fake huges, fake smiles... I was kinda hide behind Carina all night :P surprisingly, A lot of old man or couples came to me, which is kinda scary. And you can feel the only thing they wanna do is to bring you to their hotel for a fun night or something... keep saying sth non-sense like ur skin's so smooth kinda shit ~_~ and trying to touch. oh my... California gay communicty? The only nice and normal guy I met the whole night was a French guy, um.. similar age, cant really remember his name tho. Quite shy and fun guy...
I finally went to that DelTaco and try that greezy flys haha... And it isn't good at all haha.. and fat. But at least I tried it finally :P yea... American junk food!!! bye~~~~~~
Monday, December 1, 2008
Joshau Tree Desert~
It was Stef's highly recommendation :D Just go and have a look before I leave~~~ haha... cool cool...
Just found a friend to go with me in the last min. :D lol... Very good company, Joey~~ he is super talkative and nice~~ :D Everything I've seen there are amazing! I expected a bit more sand tho :P haa... but cool enough to see so many Yucca trees and weird plants... It is super weird that why some people in 100 years ago would found this place and start digging?!?!?! how could it possibly happened? On the way to the National Park, I've seen the biggest windmills ever in my life... It's amazing too.... and I missed the junction to go to the park coz of them too... :P
We spent 2 hours something to walk to a place called Lost Horse Mine (longest of the day). Super windy and cool ~_~... and actually nothing much happening there... but he start being moliu and we took video during the tail too kinda fun :D haha... on the way back, I was kinda too cold and tired... couldn't make more jokes and keep walking and walking... hope that he wasn't bored... lalalla~~
On our way back driving... We were in traffic again -_- and I almost fell asleep... But luckily he can drive too :D yea... saved 2 persons life at least~ we switched in a rest area and I slept for 10 mins... It was such a nice day~~ :) and then went back Henry's home for his "very good friend"'s birthday :D haha... nice nice... drank some alcohol "_" and slept at 11:30! haha...
Just found a friend to go with me in the last min. :D lol... Very good company, Joey~~ he is super talkative and nice~~ :D Everything I've seen there are amazing! I expected a bit more sand tho :P haa... but cool enough to see so many Yucca trees and weird plants... It is super weird that why some people in 100 years ago would found this place and start digging?!?!?! how could it possibly happened? On the way to the National Park, I've seen the biggest windmills ever in my life... It's amazing too.... and I missed the junction to go to the park coz of them too... :P
We spent 2 hours something to walk to a place called Lost Horse Mine (longest of the day). Super windy and cool ~_~... and actually nothing much happening there... but he start being moliu and we took video during the tail too kinda fun :D haha... on the way back, I was kinda too cold and tired... couldn't make more jokes and keep walking and walking... hope that he wasn't bored... lalalla~~
On our way back driving... We were in traffic again -_- and I almost fell asleep... But luckily he can drive too :D yea... saved 2 persons life at least~ we switched in a rest area and I slept for 10 mins... It was such a nice day~~ :) and then went back Henry's home for his "very good friend"'s birthday :D haha... nice nice... drank some alcohol "_" and slept at 11:30! haha...
Friday, November 28, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving!
Super lazy on my extra thanksgiving holiday :D:D slept until 10sth and went out to drive around the Hope Range area again... People are just extremely wealthy! crazy crazy!!! waowaowao~~~ All of the houses are huge... I think a football court is a basic min size there... I had a feeling that if I have a stylist house like that... having a view as it is... I really find no reason to travel for holiday... haha... well... if I m wealthy like this... I probably have some more other adventure trip I can do, ho ho ho.... The most popular pet in the area is probably horses! I've seen a lot around :D..
I took these night photos in my birthday night! :D
I wanted to take this photos for long time... every time I passed there, I wanted to take a photos like this :D yea... finally made it!
Found these cool blossoms :D
And then I went back to and took a nap.. Went out to town and thought I could do a little shopping.. but ALL of the shops even cafe and stuff are closed!!!!
wao.... ya... and then went to Darius' friend, Ada's home for the Thanksgiving dinner!!!! It was amazing!!! All the food there I never had before but all of them are sooooo delicious... the best I have ever had in the US and the best western food I have ever had too!.... ya... Ada is a professional chief in a restaurant... and she is making a salad dressing for Trader Joe's!!! wao wao wao.... happy happy thanksgiving! :)
Super nice house!
Cool friends, delicious food~~
Little nap after main course~ lol
I took these night photos in my birthday night! :D
I wanted to take this photos for long time... every time I passed there, I wanted to take a photos like this :D yea... finally made it!
Found these cool blossoms :D
And then I went back to and took a nap.. Went out to town and thought I could do a little shopping.. but ALL of the shops even cafe and stuff are closed!!!!
wao.... ya... and then went to Darius' friend, Ada's home for the Thanksgiving dinner!!!! It was amazing!!! All the food there I never had before but all of them are sooooo delicious... the best I have ever had in the US and the best western food I have ever had too!.... ya... Ada is a professional chief in a restaurant... and she is making a salad dressing for Trader Joe's!!! wao wao wao.... happy happy thanksgiving! :)
Super nice house!
Cool friends, delicious food~~
Little nap after main course~ lol
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Told you an old "new function" :P
haha... today I m in such a good mood :D although it's a rainly day... Everything are smooth, I think... (well even thats not smooth... I think they are smooth.. coz I m in good mood ma :D:D) The first day after my 28th birthday... haha... let's celebrate~~ haha....
Today I just notice a function that exist for probably more than half year and was so excited about it!... haha... how stupid I am... I can't believe that I keep using google map almost everyday and I missed it! until you told me you've played with it already :D:D haha... and I just remember.... actually the first time I use google map to find the way to LA, the function was there already!!!!! wao... and I was impressed once already... haha... well, I used it in another way and it was in a different view la.... anyway... this time I found my house! haha... thats what excited me so much :D..... yup... I m planning to go Joshua Tree National Park this weekend.. hope that it will be good weather :)...
Today I just notice a function that exist for probably more than half year and was so excited about it!... haha... how stupid I am... I can't believe that I keep using google map almost everyday and I missed it! until you told me you've played with it already :D:D haha... and I just remember.... actually the first time I use google map to find the way to LA, the function was there already!!!!! wao... and I was impressed once already... haha... well, I used it in another way and it was in a different view la.... anyway... this time I found my house! haha... thats what excited me so much :D..... yup... I m planning to go Joshua Tree National Park this weekend.. hope that it will be good weather :)...
Monday, November 24, 2008
28th Birthday
Wao... I've started my 28 yo with my animation works :D:D haha... does it mean it will be a busy year lerh? haha.. hopefully it will be haha... otherwise my studio may be closed very soon after it started :P lalallaa.... busy busy busy... yea...
Let me check what I did I do in my last bday :D..... OOhohoh.... I didn't write my blog at all last birthday...! um... probably another boring working bday in the office, didn't do much... 2 years ago, I just back from London and kinda just lost my love... I invited like 20sth friends to come to my bday in a karaokae room? wao... can't remember why did I do that :D haha... maybe just need some noise from people. When was the last birthday I celebrate bday in karaokae? haha highschool maybe? :P well anyway... nothing about the k room but it was great to meet up so many good friends in one day... haha...and it was an excuse to gather friends all in one time I guess... :D ah... I remember even Garfield has come that time too waoooo! :D
I used to ask this question a lot... "why do we celebrate bday so seriously??" (esp when i forgot people's bday) haha... and I use not to celebrate much on birthday... It's still the same kinda day, it wont be longer or shorter, and we normally still needa work... The only thing I want, is to be in a quiet place with someone I love and have a nice dinner... haha... but somehow it didn't happen in the past few years! why why why... keep my finger cross for that will happen in the coming year... :D looking at the messages from facebook and tried to reply them all... and then I think... haha.. it's like it gives the bday a purpose now :D haha... I m glad to have a birthday like this... thanks facebook too :)
I planned a photo shoot around Hope Range area in my birthday in the morning and at night too.. but I couldnt' really sleep last night until 4:30 -_- and then when I woke up, it was no sunshine at all!!!!! I probably be spoiled since I came here, use to the sunshine everyday.... feeling disappointed and fell asleep again :P.. and then Igot a call from Donald but I didn't really awake when I talk to him :P can't remember what did I say lo haha... the only thing I remember is, it was 7:44 when he called... The very surprise thing was my boss bought me a bday sushi lunch plus a $150 gift vouture!!!! and haha... they bought a some super sweet cakes as well!!! haha.... shit... start loving them now :S...
wao wao wao... and I went to coffe shop after work to do some drawings.... but I found that I forgot my wallet at home after I ordered -_-!!! how ambarrasing~~~~ but then the girl gave me the tea for free :D haha... my lovely bday free tea :D:D ho ho ho... and then I started my night shooting... Nothing much... I found that the long explosure always make the image blury... unless I use the smallest aperture... um... it's still far from the quality we've got from the hammersmith bridge shoot with Bernard... I guess film is still winning sometime in some specific shoots... I've taken one shoot to the sky... which I will try more when we have a clearer sky... I can shoot the stars here!, which I never succeed to do so!!! everytime it came out with a very red sky with some really weak starts... but this time it is very clear stars!!! one more reason I love Santa Barbara ^__^ ~~
It's a few more mins to the end of today~ haha... 1 year older and I can poundly say that I did learn a lot this year too... :) It will be a tougth year I guess, I made my wish this year on........ hope that it will happen really... :)
Let me check what I did I do in my last bday :D..... OOhohoh.... I didn't write my blog at all last birthday...! um... probably another boring working bday in the office, didn't do much... 2 years ago, I just back from London and kinda just lost my love... I invited like 20sth friends to come to my bday in a karaokae room? wao... can't remember why did I do that :D haha... maybe just need some noise from people. When was the last birthday I celebrate bday in karaokae? haha highschool maybe? :P well anyway... nothing about the k room but it was great to meet up so many good friends in one day... haha...and it was an excuse to gather friends all in one time I guess... :D ah... I remember even Garfield has come that time too waoooo! :D
I used to ask this question a lot... "why do we celebrate bday so seriously??" (esp when i forgot people's bday) haha... and I use not to celebrate much on birthday... It's still the same kinda day, it wont be longer or shorter, and we normally still needa work... The only thing I want, is to be in a quiet place with someone I love and have a nice dinner... haha... but somehow it didn't happen in the past few years! why why why... keep my finger cross for that will happen in the coming year... :D looking at the messages from facebook and tried to reply them all... and then I think... haha.. it's like it gives the bday a purpose now :D haha... I m glad to have a birthday like this... thanks facebook too :)
I planned a photo shoot around Hope Range area in my birthday in the morning and at night too.. but I couldnt' really sleep last night until 4:30 -_- and then when I woke up, it was no sunshine at all!!!!! I probably be spoiled since I came here, use to the sunshine everyday.... feeling disappointed and fell asleep again :P.. and then Igot a call from Donald but I didn't really awake when I talk to him :P can't remember what did I say lo haha... the only thing I remember is, it was 7:44 when he called... The very surprise thing was my boss bought me a bday sushi lunch plus a $150 gift vouture!!!! and haha... they bought a some super sweet cakes as well!!! haha.... shit... start loving them now :S...
wao wao wao... and I went to coffe shop after work to do some drawings.... but I found that I forgot my wallet at home after I ordered -_-!!! how ambarrasing~~~~ but then the girl gave me the tea for free :D haha... my lovely bday free tea :D:D ho ho ho... and then I started my night shooting... Nothing much... I found that the long explosure always make the image blury... unless I use the smallest aperture... um... it's still far from the quality we've got from the hammersmith bridge shoot with Bernard... I guess film is still winning sometime in some specific shoots... I've taken one shoot to the sky... which I will try more when we have a clearer sky... I can shoot the stars here!, which I never succeed to do so!!! everytime it came out with a very red sky with some really weak starts... but this time it is very clear stars!!! one more reason I love Santa Barbara ^__^ ~~
It's a few more mins to the end of today~ haha... 1 year older and I can poundly say that I did learn a lot this year too... :) It will be a tougth year I guess, I made my wish this year on........ hope that it will happen really... :)
Friday, November 21, 2008
Having a good day...
:) a day start with a sweet call is always good...~~~ wooo :D:D thanks~~ not too busy but have quite a few projects done today... and then went for a basketball... almost didn't play games today... but only a 3 on 3 game and I played well :D haha... And then I went back home, cook (okay, reheat) a dinner, and worked a bit on my animation... the title is confirmed! :) probably the tagline too... unless I can come up with a nicer one with Eiji... I will use the existing one! :D he said it's not entirely correct grammatically but it does has a little charm in it :D lallalalla~~~~ (Eiji is my friend from London by the way~ I did told you about him, didn't I?) A little bit slow... the progress... but I am trying to do it in a time saving way... hopefully it will work nice... otherwise I will have about 100 frames to finish... and thats super un-flexible. if I wanna change anything on the tiltle and tag lines... I will have to redraw those 100 frames again.. -_-... finger cross~~~ btw, the logo for another friend of mind are almost done! haha... the whole book are almost finalized... hope that it will be on shelves soon! Hopefully my friends will buy this one too :D haha... yea... and and and... all names on Little Diggtak are done!!! Lets finalize the simple presentation and check out some book publisher next week!!!! wawawa... have to book the hotels this weekend!!!! otherwise I may sleep on street in Japan :P.... sounds cool... but not in winter time :D... and and and... dont know if I will have time to upload the tees I've done for long time during weekend :D and and and.... still haven't finish the drawing for my brother's new flat :P wah w hwh a...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Tout Doucement - Feist
You guys know me well, I seldom put lyrics on my blog... but this is really a good one. I quite like song even I didn't know its meaning... and somehow I wanted to find the lyrics of it tonight and found the translation. The song's in French and here is the translation listen to it on ilike or wherever you can find it la :D:D I really like Feist sososo much... don't know how could I missed her show in LA!!!!?!?!?!?! damn it (in American ascent)!!!!!
All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Life is amazing.
All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Life, I understand it.
Never go too fast
You got all the time you need
Beware of the dynamite
Take care of volcanoes
Of those young nervous ones
Who don't know how to go
All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Strolling prettily
Never go too fast
Loving simply
To get success
Be very very cautious
Love will then come
And snuggle up in your arms
All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Strolling prettily
Smiling prettily
Strolling prettily
All slowly
All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Life is amazing.
All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Life, I understand it.
Never go too fast
You got all the time you need
Beware of the dynamite
Take care of volcanoes
Of those young nervous ones
Who don't know how to go
All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Strolling prettily
Never go too fast
Loving simply
To get success
Be very very cautious
Love will then come
And snuggle up in your arms
All slow, all slow, all slowly
Always, all slow, all slowly
This way
Strolling prettily
Smiling prettily
Strolling prettily
All slowly
Monday, November 17, 2008
The Mist (8.5)
I was very very very very tensed throughout the whole movie.... I think it is one of the most scary horror movie I have seen. I use not to give high rating to horror movie but have to give a 8.5 this time!!!! It's based on a novel by Stephan King. And the director is the one who did the screenplay of green miles too... Doubtlessly the story and the screenplay was great... Supposed to be a 9 but the soundtrack esp at the end of movie wasn't that great... and one other thing I am not sure about is the motion graphic and the design of the monsters... well... even though... it scared me for whole night. Luckily, you wasn't here... otherwise you would see me scared and laugh at me probably!!! haha.... or the other way around...
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Rey @ The Coral Sea
Rey, the guy who is going to do me the music for my animation, is from a band called The Coral Sea... http://www.thecoralsea.net/ (you can actually listen to more of their songs in myspace http://www.myspace.com/thecoralseamusic. He said they are invited to go to asian next year... possibly go to HK too :D wao... see hows it go lo... Let me show him around when he comes sin!! :) It seems that he will do it for me for free lerh... hehe...
Gain a bit weight back... :D
After a few weeks of hard workm, I've gain a few pounds back!!! haha.. 143lbs now :D:D get back to normal but still thinking i m tooo thin... maybe just that the people around me are too big... how depressing it is everyone in the basketball court saying I have to gain more muscles.. -_-... shit... I m short, thin, unskillful play now~~~~~ today I played with a black guy, similar height as i m but he can Alle-oop easily -_-... dunk super hard too... chi sin ga!!!!!
wahwahwah... btw, today I went into the fitness room... by the time I step in, I thought, it is really not my place... and I measured my weight and ran away straight lo... :D
wahwahwah... btw, today I went into the fitness room... by the time I step in, I thought, it is really not my place... and I measured my weight and ran away straight lo... :D
a107 studio
Well... seems like I do have to start thinking about it like now... :D and write them down. It must be funny when I look at such a rough thought at some points later. Probably my concept is very wrong now :P I won't understand how it works until I go and try it.
Okay, the key of my studio is "to share". Share ideas, share creatives, share moliu thoughts. I believe we always have some stupid thought or some brilliant ideas that we have never used and somehow put it aside and wasted... I suppose we all want our ideas to become real somehow. Of course it is great if we can make it happen by ourselves. But to me, as long as it comes to real, it's not necessary to be done by our own hand. Why don't we put them into a pool so that everyone can use it? Mix and match and get inspired by each other... That's what creative supposed to be at the beginning, ya?
The ideal size of my studio is around 6 ppl. Me and one of my friend (anyone interested to join me? I will try to convince Mike, Tracy, Leo and Daat or not necessary from my existing friends indeed) + 1 senior creative + 1 junior creative + 2 technical people.
My studio will work on 3 areas.
1. Something that earns money. haha... thats the most diffiuclt part I guess :P Let's 100% concentrate on it at least in the first year really... It will include mostly BTL works, branding, printing works, Photo retouching, Product photos, websites, etc) to make sure me and people who work for me (if any :D) can get paid! Hope that pixi&pop can pay off all of my bills haha :D
2. New areas that can earn money in the future. Some works that I m not entirely familiar with but I believe I can handle it with some help from other parties. I will do these with less profit but to gain the experience for later jobs. (Create products?
3. Non profit projects. It's for our name and also for our own interest. (like the animaiton I m doing :P, illustrations for books, paintings, Siu Diggtak, more experimental stuff target on international awards)
Hopefully I can get a balance on those 3 areas eventually....
haha... above just my silly thought... let me do some research... see how's people do it outside sin~~~
Okay, the key of my studio is "to share". Share ideas, share creatives, share moliu thoughts. I believe we always have some stupid thought or some brilliant ideas that we have never used and somehow put it aside and wasted... I suppose we all want our ideas to become real somehow. Of course it is great if we can make it happen by ourselves. But to me, as long as it comes to real, it's not necessary to be done by our own hand. Why don't we put them into a pool so that everyone can use it? Mix and match and get inspired by each other... That's what creative supposed to be at the beginning, ya?
The ideal size of my studio is around 6 ppl. Me and one of my friend (anyone interested to join me? I will try to convince Mike, Tracy, Leo and Daat or not necessary from my existing friends indeed) + 1 senior creative + 1 junior creative + 2 technical people.
My studio will work on 3 areas.
1. Something that earns money. haha... thats the most diffiuclt part I guess :P Let's 100% concentrate on it at least in the first year really... It will include mostly BTL works, branding, printing works, Photo retouching, Product photos, websites, etc) to make sure me and people who work for me (if any :D) can get paid! Hope that pixi&pop can pay off all of my bills haha :D
2. New areas that can earn money in the future. Some works that I m not entirely familiar with but I believe I can handle it with some help from other parties. I will do these with less profit but to gain the experience for later jobs. (Create products?
3. Non profit projects. It's for our name and also for our own interest. (like the animaiton I m doing :P, illustrations for books, paintings, Siu Diggtak, more experimental stuff target on international awards)
Hopefully I can get a balance on those 3 areas eventually....
haha... above just my silly thought... let me do some research... see how's people do it outside sin~~~
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Muddy Water
My friend host a show in a cafe called Muddy Water Coffee Bar tonight :) It is such a nice place there! a very closey cafe + bar with live band every weekends? They have some cool decoration and interesting artworks around. Very chill place... And surprisingly, they do good coffee!! I think I will go there every week in my rest of time in SB :D.... I m feeling I gonna miss SB a lot!!!! hahaha... Everyone around me just keep saying it is a nice place but boring when you stay here for long.. I really don't feel it! I just simply love this place :D Can't imagine how amazing it will be if I move here with you in some point of life :D haha... Sometimes I think, to save some money and open a cafe bar like this; letting musicians and artists to performs and show their arts; make some little money for living; very chill, and it is also a way of living... Just a dream I guess :P We belong to city, and we need that "something" from the city somehow...
Yup... Rey is a friend of mine that I met the first day I came to SB in Carina's birthday dinner :D Ya... I talked to him lately and he said he can do me the music for my animation :D:D how exciting...! I think I do have to finish it asap... and ready for some other challenges! :D cool cool.... just wait and see...
Yup... Rey is a friend of mine that I met the first day I came to SB in Carina's birthday dinner :D Ya... I talked to him lately and he said he can do me the music for my animation :D:D how exciting...! I think I do have to finish it asap... and ready for some other challenges! :D cool cool.... just wait and see...
The Spiderwick Chronicles (6.5)
For the opening and the ending scenes I give it a 6.5... :D the 3D stuff were quite good indeed.. but well... thats a movie in 2008. I guess it has to be as least in this standard... The story was okay, just a fairytell stuff... no expectation and reasonable... nothing really surprised me... yea... kinda boring... :P I wouldn't suggest you to see it I guess...
Friday, November 14, 2008
Soya-cream VS Icecream~~
I've bought a Vanilla with chocolate chips with cherry soya frozen dessert (I call it soyacream :D) from Trader Joe's few weeks ago~~~ And it's like less than half calories than normal icecream and taste quite good too... So I bought the chocolate favour one last week but found it not as good as the other one... And 2 days ago... I've bought the real iceream there! Just ate both together... and found that how bad the soya one is!!! The texture is almost like Dairy Farms icecream~~~ well... it still taste like icecream tho... haha... I gonna try some other taste later too... haha... half calories lalallala~~~~ haha
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Basketball tonight~~
I went to UCSB tonight but the leisure centre didn't open!!! close for Tusday 11NOV -_-.... damn it.... and then I went to the outdoor court and saw 2 ABC playing there... Very obviously they are ABC by seeing their built... i think they are like 50% bigger than me (very scientifically) Well anyway... I start playing a game with them... One of the guys was surprisingly very fast... and I didn't catch his speed at until the 2nd game! And, he shoot so well outside the 3 points line! The ball was quite slippy and I didn't use to it and made a few air ball :P haha... but then the guy said to me (in a nice way indeed) "hey dude, you actually shouldn't jump shoot outside the lines unless you have your muscle built better", eeeer...... I mean... yea... I guess I am strong enough to throw the ball from 3 points... just that I am not use to you ball dude... Well of course I didn't say that, but just made a few 3 points and won the game :P haha... lalalala.... and I thought I won the last game too. We play 21 points and I got 21 first... but they said I had to make a 3 points before actually win the game.. but I missed the shoot and start from 15 points again -_-... what a rule... and then I reached 21 points 3 times before them but didn't make that last fucking shoot -__- come on.... 3 times... so totally I've got 40 points and couldn't win the game... It was fun though :)
Self-defensive mode
Somehow it started itself. Every time when I am in this kinda situation, my self-defensive mode (that's what I call it) starts at some point... No one can make it started. Nothing I can do to start it too... but it just start at some point. It takes longer to come lately tho... It's not like happening after I have a good sleep or what... it can happen in the middle of the day, when I was doing sports, or at the 3rd sip of coffee in a cafe. pretty random, pretty unpredictable. The situation still there... and I do still care about that... but the negative feeling would just gone or go out of my brain. haha... I m such a lucky person~~~~ can't imagine how people survive in all negative feeling all time (like anthony... :P shhhhhh......). I understand it really... We all know it doesnt help anything if we dont get away from that feeling, but we just can't at the moment. Human being... thats human being~...
btw, suddenly this song played on my player... how funny, just see the first 2 lines...
十二號 漫步加州的果園 遺失一臉幽怨 沒對你 再有留戀 (really? I can try bor)
十六號 沐浴九州的溫泉 遺失癡心一片 大概我 情緒快要復元 (wah... a bit far from Tokyo lerh...) 黃偉文, 你好啦你~~ enough~~~~!!! :)
btw, suddenly this song played on my player... how funny, just see the first 2 lines...
十二號 漫步加州的果園 遺失一臉幽怨 沒對你 再有留戀 (really? I can try bor)
十六號 沐浴九州的溫泉 遺失癡心一片 大概我 情緒快要復元 (wah... a bit far from Tokyo lerh...) 黃偉文, 你好啦你~~ enough~~~~!!! :)
Lakers won!!!
09NOV08!!!!! (quite difficult to remember a number like this lerh, but I should :D)
It's the first time I went to see a NBA match in my life!!! LA Lakers vs Houston Rocket. Yea~~ Yao Ming! Indeed, the atmosphere there wasn't as HOT as I thought... haha it's just one of the 82 season games this year after all... people are reasonably quiet throughout the game...
Me and Nestor sat on the last row! haha I didn't know it was the last row when I bought it. But indeed the court is not that big... and I can see the game quite clearly... I think the view was just a tiny bit wider than the widest view when you play NBA TV games. I can still recognise most of the players from the distance. haha... The court wasn't full at all at the beginning... but about 10mins after it started almost all seats were filled up.. I think they must have some super cheap ticket to sell after the game started. um.. probably cheaper than what I was playing... -__-.... anyway... It was a cool experience :D
I actually support Lakers! but Yao Ming was against them ma... With the (Chinese unique) especially strong national emotion, I don't mind if Huston win the game :D haha...
The game was good in the first half. Rockets lead Lakers for over 15 points in the first quarter... Seeing them playing from that distance, it's like they are making shoots super easy. But then they were same points in the half-time... People started getting super big popcorn blows and eat eat eat.... wao... The half-time show was quite good too... it was a pair of gymnastic people... doing quite well really. Kobe was awesome esp. in the 3rd quarter! He made every single shoots and no one could actually stop him! McGrady sucks ~~ He had 3 points in the whole game... He was in the court almost 40 mins I guess. Aaron Brooks was playing quite good tho!
SUN YUE didn't play at all (I found that he is inactive in the roster list when I check him online)... but I saw him on the court before Lakers doing their warm up! haha.. yup... not in the warm up time but before that, how weird! He looks like very thin and not that tall really... but indeed he is 6ft 9 la! come on... 1 ft taller than I m!!
Final was a 2-30 points won of Lakers... People said Rockets might have chance this year... I can't see it from this game really..
After the game, we went to a super old American dinner... super retro! haha... I would be a nice place to take photos. You may consider a bit lo... :)
The food was quite bad tho, haha... I haven't discript the food as bad for a while la... eer... They are super big portion... I should take the photo of the steak! its like a double size we do in HK!.... the guys sit next to me ordered the steak and also eggs and ham too! At last he couldn't finish the eggs! and pack the eggs and 1/3 or the steak back!!!!!! yes, the egg white more precisely. He finished the egg yuk and pack the egg white home! My friend said, ya, thats Americano :D~~~~~
It's the first time I went to see a NBA match in my life!!! LA Lakers vs Houston Rocket. Yea~~ Yao Ming! Indeed, the atmosphere there wasn't as HOT as I thought... haha it's just one of the 82 season games this year after all... people are reasonably quiet throughout the game...
Me and Nestor sat on the last row! haha I didn't know it was the last row when I bought it. But indeed the court is not that big... and I can see the game quite clearly... I think the view was just a tiny bit wider than the widest view when you play NBA TV games. I can still recognise most of the players from the distance. haha... The court wasn't full at all at the beginning... but about 10mins after it started almost all seats were filled up.. I think they must have some super cheap ticket to sell after the game started. um.. probably cheaper than what I was playing... -__-.... anyway... It was a cool experience :D
I actually support Lakers! but Yao Ming was against them ma... With the (Chinese unique) especially strong national emotion, I don't mind if Huston win the game :D haha...
The game was good in the first half. Rockets lead Lakers for over 15 points in the first quarter... Seeing them playing from that distance, it's like they are making shoots super easy. But then they were same points in the half-time... People started getting super big popcorn blows and eat eat eat.... wao... The half-time show was quite good too... it was a pair of gymnastic people... doing quite well really. Kobe was awesome esp. in the 3rd quarter! He made every single shoots and no one could actually stop him! McGrady sucks ~~ He had 3 points in the whole game... He was in the court almost 40 mins I guess. Aaron Brooks was playing quite good tho!
SUN YUE didn't play at all (I found that he is inactive in the roster list when I check him online)... but I saw him on the court before Lakers doing their warm up! haha.. yup... not in the warm up time but before that, how weird! He looks like very thin and not that tall really... but indeed he is 6ft 9 la! come on... 1 ft taller than I m!!
Final was a 2-30 points won of Lakers... People said Rockets might have chance this year... I can't see it from this game really..
After the game, we went to a super old American dinner... super retro! haha... I would be a nice place to take photos. You may consider a bit lo... :)
The food was quite bad tho, haha... I haven't discript the food as bad for a while la... eer... They are super big portion... I should take the photo of the steak! its like a double size we do in HK!.... the guys sit next to me ordered the steak and also eggs and ham too! At last he couldn't finish the eggs! and pack the eggs and 1/3 or the steak back!!!!!! yes, the egg white more precisely. He finished the egg yuk and pack the egg white home! My friend said, ya, thats Americano :D~~~~~
Saturday, November 8, 2008
The Heartbreak Kid (6.5)
Quite a typical comedy with Ben Stiller... Seems that he has been fixed to do this kinda charactor :D well... I am surprised how similar is this movie to the others of him! Relationship, by the beach, balblabla haha... they are all too similar haha... well... not a bad one tho... at least there are nothing I feel bad about... and the girls in the moive are quite pretty too :)
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Blow (7)
Wanted to see this movie since I was on cinema! but haven't seen it until now :D It's a movie about a life of a durg dealer (I hate the Chinese name btw) kinda base on a real story kind movie la.... But dont they need to make it so educational?! very sick america! It is quite a good movie with a lot of little touch and detail stuff... They are not surprising when I see it now in 2008, but it must be pretty cool when the movie showed on screen... The first half of the movie was quite nice I have to say but the story was pretty crab I have to say... not surprising at all... it's like he had a few years great time earned good money good life... blalblbabla but then got into the jail a few times... coz of his family and wife... things like that.. and at last he went to jail again and his daughter never came to see him in rest of his life.... come on, can it be even more boring?!
Well... Johnny Depp was still doing okay... but the makeup or styling really have to improve a lot la.... we can see their research on 50s 60s 70s.... but it's too obvious they were trying too hard to do that making the movie quite weird somehow... maybe only to me... Johnny Depp just looks exactly the same age throughout the movie, while the movie is about his life from his 20sth to 40-50 -_-... we are not stupid man.. We would never think he is older if you only add a big belly under his shirt, just looking fake and thats it.
Well... Johnny Depp was still doing okay... but the makeup or styling really have to improve a lot la.... we can see their research on 50s 60s 70s.... but it's too obvious they were trying too hard to do that making the movie quite weird somehow... maybe only to me... Johnny Depp just looks exactly the same age throughout the movie, while the movie is about his life from his 20sth to 40-50 -_-... we are not stupid man.. We would never think he is older if you only add a big belly under his shirt, just looking fake and thats it.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Ishi's back!
haha... My land lady came back from holiday and Ishi came back on last Tuesday too.... woooo.... hello Ishi Ishi~~~~ welcome back... he's lost weight since he didn't use to the food and place there lerh~~ poor him... but when he came back he ate a double meal instantly!! ho ho ho~~~
Monday, November 3, 2008
Still hurt
I have hurt my chest from basketball like 2 weeks ago and stopped doing any sport from last week. I just feel painful even I have a deep breathe. :( I thought it was just muslces and suppose to be recover quite quickly. But I don't see I m recovering since then. Especially the time when I just wakeup, it hurts. I should go to doctor if it's still the same after this week. But turn out, I am having more time to do other stuff and I can concentrate on the website a bit more. Well... maybe that's not bad...
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Tattoo shop in Ventura
Haven't been writing so often in my blog for loooooong time :)
This morning I came to Ventura to find the tattoo shop recommended by Jeff :) Super nice weather, typical California autumn sunshine but cool. Went to the tattoo shop the first thing... As most of other tattoo shop I've been, there's a girl with short hair, and tattoo all over, very chill but friendly (you know their kind of friendly) sitting there. Asking me if I have any question? asked a few things.... $100/hr min $80... booking and things... and saw a bit their portfolio... Evil Dave is the best as Jeff recommended... pretty good in colour really... but I do not have the feeling of, oh I have to do a tattoo here... um... if I have decided the thing I wanna do at any chance before I go, I will come here again :) well... no rush as usual :) and I am thinking maybe I should wait until I meet you~~ Maybe we can do something together... hehe... I was thinking a half pattern could be nice, ya?
Then I walked around the little main street, and went into an Antique shop... things are pretty expensive but a bit better than Santa Barbara ones :) I did find something and bought it for you... ho ho ho... maybe your bday gift? haha... Well, I m not a person who love to celebrate dates.... but I really dont mind to do it.. just that when I wanna buy something to someone... I will buy it... I could never find something perfectly fit when I try to buy sth for people bday~~ haha.. and I always can't wait to send out the gift... haha... anyway... the first time I see you will be close to your bday.... and most likely it will be your bday gift~~~ haha... Will force you to put in studio... coz it will be your first gift :D haha, even if you dont like it~~
Just ate a burger in Habit. They do good stuff there! you can try when you come. They do gill sandwich without meat as well :) I m thinking maybe I should stop eating beaf too :D I m now sitting in a very nice cafe ssuper quiet nice little (but spacious) one :) Gonna do some more research on japan and porbably book some hotels... and will start doing the layout things lo~~~~~~
(A week later, I found that Ventura is actually a very big city! haha the little main street I've been was just a tiny part of Ventura :D)
This morning I came to Ventura to find the tattoo shop recommended by Jeff :) Super nice weather, typical California autumn sunshine but cool. Went to the tattoo shop the first thing... As most of other tattoo shop I've been, there's a girl with short hair, and tattoo all over, very chill but friendly (you know their kind of friendly) sitting there. Asking me if I have any question? asked a few things.... $100/hr min $80... booking and things... and saw a bit their portfolio... Evil Dave is the best as Jeff recommended... pretty good in colour really... but I do not have the feeling of, oh I have to do a tattoo here... um... if I have decided the thing I wanna do at any chance before I go, I will come here again :) well... no rush as usual :) and I am thinking maybe I should wait until I meet you~~ Maybe we can do something together... hehe... I was thinking a half pattern could be nice, ya?
Then I walked around the little main street, and went into an Antique shop... things are pretty expensive but a bit better than Santa Barbara ones :) I did find something and bought it for you... ho ho ho... maybe your bday gift? haha... Well, I m not a person who love to celebrate dates.... but I really dont mind to do it.. just that when I wanna buy something to someone... I will buy it... I could never find something perfectly fit when I try to buy sth for people bday~~ haha.. and I always can't wait to send out the gift... haha... anyway... the first time I see you will be close to your bday.... and most likely it will be your bday gift~~~ haha... Will force you to put in studio... coz it will be your first gift :D haha, even if you dont like it~~
Just ate a burger in Habit. They do good stuff there! you can try when you come. They do gill sandwich without meat as well :) I m thinking maybe I should stop eating beaf too :D I m now sitting in a very nice cafe ssuper quiet nice little (but spacious) one :) Gonna do some more research on japan and porbably book some hotels... and will start doing the layout things lo~~~~~~
(A week later, I found that Ventura is actually a very big city! haha the little main street I've been was just a tiny part of Ventura :D)
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss...
Seems that it is becoming real soon :)~~ but I m also scared at the same time... um.. what if.... what if.... um.... just don't think too much...how can I not thinking of it tho ~_~
Big Big Party..
It was a Halloween party in Darius' home... The biggest house party I was in!!! It was over 100 people there!!! can you believe it? more than 100 ppl in a house!!!! everyone are dressing super cool ^__^ Petra was there as well... she was quite drunk and keep telling people I m the most important employee in the office... hehe... Honestly I think Darius is 100 times more important than me la... just that they never lost him and they dont know how bad it will be without him in the office jei..
haha anyway check out the photos on my flickr la :D:D
haha anyway check out the photos on my flickr la :D:D
Friday, October 31, 2008
Did I waste my time?
Well... it did hurt me a bit, um... I know you ve such a strong personality, and I like it very much as a part of you... but sometimes it might hurt me.... Frankly , I didn't angry for your emotion at all after you talk to your client... I do understand how is it happen and I probably do the same when I deal with those stupid people... I was more worry about your feeling than those shitty little things...
What I am talking about is the other conversation about selling makeup products... I haven't thought of it because I was not interested in it at all... I don't think it is impossible for me now but does it mean I was wasting my time if I didn't learn the makeup related things from the job? I felt quite bad with it...
Just wanna say... I m a actually very straight forward person... I always try to do my best on one direction instead of thinking of a lot of different directions and not doing them well. (I only mean myself.... I know you are doing your work very well) Most of the time, I only do what I am interested in. I might do them slowly but I always want to finish them nicely. I don't want to rush myself and do something not even pleasing myself. I never really thought of money seriously when I work on something I m interested. It's good to be with someone who can teach me more about it tho ^_^
I did thought of making my own products lately... But I was thinking about snacks but not makeup... I think I m a bit slow on everything but it doesn't mean I am wasting my time in any point in my life... I do think every little experience count... maybe I didn't learn on that way but I must learn something else from other ways...
haha... I don't know what I m talking now... you are probably even more confused... they don't seems to related to the makeup conversation :P haha anyway... hope that you would understand more about me if you have a chance to read it...
What I am talking about is the other conversation about selling makeup products... I haven't thought of it because I was not interested in it at all... I don't think it is impossible for me now but does it mean I was wasting my time if I didn't learn the makeup related things from the job? I felt quite bad with it...
Just wanna say... I m a actually very straight forward person... I always try to do my best on one direction instead of thinking of a lot of different directions and not doing them well. (I only mean myself.... I know you are doing your work very well) Most of the time, I only do what I am interested in. I might do them slowly but I always want to finish them nicely. I don't want to rush myself and do something not even pleasing myself. I never really thought of money seriously when I work on something I m interested. It's good to be with someone who can teach me more about it tho ^_^
I did thought of making my own products lately... But I was thinking about snacks but not makeup... I think I m a bit slow on everything but it doesn't mean I am wasting my time in any point in my life... I do think every little experience count... maybe I didn't learn on that way but I must learn something else from other ways...
haha... I don't know what I m talking now... you are probably even more confused... they don't seems to related to the makeup conversation :P haha anyway... hope that you would understand more about me if you have a chance to read it...
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Changing status
If you may notice, I've changed my status on my facebook :P quite a lot of friends has feedback on it... ~_~ but you still haven't got any feedback or done anything lerh... :D probably you dont check facebook that much... :) um.. dont know when will you notice lerh :D haha....
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Email to Petra
There are a lot of things that upset me in the office this week... Suddenly I m not allowed to msn in office hour -_- A lot of works in unrealistic schedule... everyone was chasing me for works like every 2 minutes... either him or her or her or her or even him... I mean... it's okay if you let me do it... but if you just keep asking "hows it going" like every 2 mins... it would be super annoying! especially some people like to ask abt the status of works once our bosses step into our office... no matter if she just asked the same question 30 sec before... anyway... I sent a email to Petra today telling her I can't work in this way... it's not making anything more efficient and I do need more flexibility on works. I thought she wasn't in her office and I email her all these.. but when I was about to leave the office and went to say good bye to Tony. She suddenly came and say it's just their unorganise and they will make a realistic time line for me... and gave me a huge~~~ :D it just happen too sudden... and I couldnt make any respones until I went on my car.... I was almost crying lerh... um... very touching at that moment... I was really exhausting and suddenly feel the support lerh... no matter if that real... it works :) and we gonna talk abou tit tmr at 2... see what happen lo...
Sweet sweet...
Today... I've been asked for a kiss :P It was kinda rough... haha... zero sweetness... but it makes it very cool and :P I like it haha.... lalala.. another kinda sweet~~~
Duk Duk Duk Duk was angry :P ...
Didn't have time to write it down yesterday :P I was thinking maybe I shouldn't write it here... seems like he might be angry... but I think even something not super sweet... when we have a chance to read them again... we will probably have a lot of laugh :) um... haha... so... hope that you wont feel bad la...
Duk Duk Duk Duk... (haha I named you like this on my mind for a while already but never tell you :P and you have no choice coz it's just on my mind...) had shown me the work just taken hours ago and share some of them to me... when I think of it now, I really feel sorrty lerh... :P I really shouldn't make this kinda comment (I said they are good but they looks familiar :P)... um... but trust me, I didn't mean to let you down or what, I was thinking to say something to inspire you to make your works nicer. um... I didn't think of it well before emailing ma... forgive me la... (i've been already forgiven ya? :D) haha... no matter what... they are all quality works which you are the only one I know who can do them... And haha... you are the best in my life la :D hehe... xxx
Duk Duk Duk Duk... (haha I named you like this on my mind for a while already but never tell you :P and you have no choice coz it's just on my mind...) had shown me the work just taken hours ago and share some of them to me... when I think of it now, I really feel sorrty lerh... :P I really shouldn't make this kinda comment (I said they are good but they looks familiar :P)... um... but trust me, I didn't mean to let you down or what, I was thinking to say something to inspire you to make your works nicer. um... I didn't think of it well before emailing ma... forgive me la... (i've been already forgiven ya? :D) haha... no matter what... they are all quality works which you are the only one I know who can do them... And haha... you are the best in my life la :D hehe... xxx
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Sweetie Moments
Can you believe it? It's not even a week yet... ahhhhhh......~~~~~~~ Last week I was still thinking maybe I should really take the offer in LA, do whatever shit for a while until things are getting back to normal... save some money and go back to HK to start my own studio... bablbala... I cant see thats a plan honestly :P
The same day of last week... I was still saying to Daat Daat about why is it such a long time we still can't find any one even just a target, not even close...~~ Daat said she was thinking to hang out a bit, like bar or sth, around to meet some people... otherwise it doesn't seems that's any chance she can meet any one... but of cause she didn't la.. :) Its just not her style and she probably wont find her type... And probably that's why I talked to some friends and check out some profile things... and then I've got his contact from Nestor. haha~~~ and now... We've planned to meet in Japan in December... and gonna go a lot of places for diving... probably work together for some projects, how sweet... Feeling even a bit unreal~~~ I always say my life is full of unexpected and uncertain (I always plan things ahead but it always turn out something else not following the plans :P) and that makes life interesting... But then I think sometimes, it might be good to have things happen following plans now :D Well... Indeed it was just another totally unexpected.
Things are suddenly going well, all those shit feeling are gone like a click time... And then I thought, we always forget things too easily, good or bad... When 2 person go together for a while... they forgot how sweet they had been. Forgot how to please each others with just some little things... It might be nice to spend some little time everyday to record those sweetie moments... maybe it will help the relationship someday.
Yesterday I saw the movie, Fur, Nicole Kidman and her husband was actually was almost break up... It was a scene, the husband had been asked to say something to everyone in his wife's bday party. he started saying how did they met blabalblala and then he said, remember the first time I met her, I can't move my eyes off her... And today I look at her. He stared at her for a second, and said I still can't move my eyes off her... It does made a different I guess, at least for a while... what I am trying to say? haha I dont know neither... um... seems that i m becoming a thoughtful person these few days :P:P I mean.. I am thinking too much...
Yup... you picked a photos from my Amsterdam trip, said you can eat that fish everyday... haha I really feel you are in some point of my life :) It's very touching to me somehow :)
The same day of last week... I was still saying to Daat Daat about why is it such a long time we still can't find any one even just a target, not even close...~~ Daat said she was thinking to hang out a bit, like bar or sth, around to meet some people... otherwise it doesn't seems that's any chance she can meet any one... but of cause she didn't la.. :) Its just not her style and she probably wont find her type... And probably that's why I talked to some friends and check out some profile things... and then I've got his contact from Nestor. haha~~~ and now... We've planned to meet in Japan in December... and gonna go a lot of places for diving... probably work together for some projects, how sweet... Feeling even a bit unreal~~~ I always say my life is full of unexpected and uncertain (I always plan things ahead but it always turn out something else not following the plans :P) and that makes life interesting... But then I think sometimes, it might be good to have things happen following plans now :D Well... Indeed it was just another totally unexpected.
Things are suddenly going well, all those shit feeling are gone like a click time... And then I thought, we always forget things too easily, good or bad... When 2 person go together for a while... they forgot how sweet they had been. Forgot how to please each others with just some little things... It might be nice to spend some little time everyday to record those sweetie moments... maybe it will help the relationship someday.
Yesterday I saw the movie, Fur, Nicole Kidman and her husband was actually was almost break up... It was a scene, the husband had been asked to say something to everyone in his wife's bday party. he started saying how did they met blabalblala and then he said, remember the first time I met her, I can't move my eyes off her... And today I look at her. He stared at her for a second, and said I still can't move my eyes off her... It does made a different I guess, at least for a while... what I am trying to say? haha I dont know neither... um... seems that i m becoming a thoughtful person these few days :P:P I mean.. I am thinking too much...
Yup... you picked a photos from my Amsterdam trip, said you can eat that fish everyday... haha I really feel you are in some point of my life :) It's very touching to me somehow :)
Monday, October 27, 2008
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (6.5)
See? how long haven't I write anything about movie... you can tell how long didn't i see a movie... I wanted to see it since it was on screen... but almost forgot to buy its DVD until I saw the name on Sammy's msn. Seems that he is touched by some part of the movie lerh... well... anyway... I felt not bad after seeing this movie... The opening of the movie does create a mood and everything seems to be going well as well... One thing I have to say, the styling and costums are very nice... only thought the ending could be much much better... But when I think about the whole movie again now. The story line is kinda weak... and it is definitely not about Diane Arbus. Feeling Diane can be anyone after seeing the movie. The ending is kinda crap... and it makes the openning stupid as well... Maybe thats why its rating is so bad in IMDB... :D um... but I have 2 copy of this DVD -_-
YOU....
YOU... you are fail on the test la... deduct your marks~~ lalala... um... I will keep on talking to myself, and I can't stop you listening anyway....
I tried to search some more things about you as well... but can't see much around -_-.... aiya... maybe thats good for me... I'll read you bit by bit... slowly... later... haha... I m a slow person (compare to general hknese la)
oooh... just had a glance, but your photos there are much nicer lerh... probably they are more updated :) obviously the lighting are different... let me do some promotion to my friends for you sin... most of my best friends are in 4As indeed :p hehe....
I tried to search some more things about you as well... but can't see much around -_-.... aiya... maybe thats good for me... I'll read you bit by bit... slowly... later... haha... I m a slow person (compare to general hknese la)
oooh... just had a glance, but your photos there are much nicer lerh... probably they are more updated :) obviously the lighting are different... let me do some promotion to my friends for you sin... most of my best friends are in 4As indeed :p hehe....
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Feeling weird...
um... please do not read it if you can... it's embarrassing...~~ yesyesyes... I mean you... dont read!!!
In case you read it by mistake... let me say some rubbish before that... haha...
I hurt my chest the other day from basketball... didn't know it until I played again... since then I can't even do yoga properly... -_- tried to swim but couldn't :( but then I went to play a bit basketball again :P it hurts even I breathe a bit harder ~_~ it should be just the not-too-much chest muscles... aiya... why m i so weak I never notice before coming here~~~
And then, it's something stupid I've done again... yes... it's the second time I've bought the same item twice from amazon... it was a DVD last time as well? can't remember really... :P yea... it is embarrassing enough ya? :D so... stop reading, now! I am just talking to myself, which I always do...
It's been a long time (well, not very long for some people maybe but me) since I miss someone as it is... 2 years? less than less than... it was when I went back to HK... I guess... but that's different, at least we were together for few months last time... Anyway... I still can't understand why people can miss someone who never met each other... Any psychology specialist here? Tell me! It was a few times, some people I never met said they miss me... I was like, wat? come on, dont be silly. we'd never even met. Indeed, it just happened like 2 days beforehand. And then I am the silly one. Can't concentrate on what I was doing Thinking of something I don't know what was it. I almost forgot how is that feeling already... Miscalculating time different from hk! Seriously, what was it? I guess it is the thing... Actually, it happen twice in my life... but I still can't understand... weird people!! And... I m a bit scared -__- coz one of the twice wasn't work out at all... :S..... And it was the time I thought I knew that person very well... but it's kinda another story when we met. Well, it wasn't a misunderstanding or what... but what I knew was just a very little part of the whole story. haha... photos don't lie... but they don't tell too much neither :P I can feel them... but still very blurry.... um... sometime it doesn't tell much even when you see the person in real... I think I always fall into this kinda thinking lately -_-... Never have the answer but just keep thinking, and cant concentrate... aiya... gig sei yan la~~ um... I m a bit worry about the website things... I feel the pressure~~ but I m sure I will do something cool... Key should be reliable... Daat Daat I know you don't like his style... but I will handle the design part ma :D haha... btw, why you guys feel I m in love ga!? I don't feel it wor! .\/. um... a bit ja ma... .\/. ding! you guys are too sensitive la...
Ah... forgot to show Donald Dickjai's drawings tim... I do wanna extend the project, ar... Tracy! dont be lazy la!!!... I gonna sell it to publishers soon ga la... I do think we have to have the whole plan in order to sell it easier... I've got a children books publisher contact lately from my excolleague... but I do think we should try overseas publishers first :)
In any case if you have really read it... don't tell me you didn't know who I was talking about up there... Think of some other excuses... or... try to lie to me, tell me you didn't... I always trust people easily, too easily :D :D.... lalala~~~
In case you read it by mistake... let me say some rubbish before that... haha...
I hurt my chest the other day from basketball... didn't know it until I played again... since then I can't even do yoga properly... -_- tried to swim but couldn't :( but then I went to play a bit basketball again :P it hurts even I breathe a bit harder ~_~ it should be just the not-too-much chest muscles... aiya... why m i so weak I never notice before coming here~~~
And then, it's something stupid I've done again... yes... it's the second time I've bought the same item twice from amazon... it was a DVD last time as well? can't remember really... :P yea... it is embarrassing enough ya? :D so... stop reading, now! I am just talking to myself, which I always do...
It's been a long time (well, not very long for some people maybe but me) since I miss someone as it is... 2 years? less than less than... it was when I went back to HK... I guess... but that's different, at least we were together for few months last time... Anyway... I still can't understand why people can miss someone who never met each other... Any psychology specialist here? Tell me! It was a few times, some people I never met said they miss me... I was like, wat? come on, dont be silly. we'd never even met. Indeed, it just happened like 2 days beforehand. And then I am the silly one. Can't concentrate on what I was doing Thinking of something I don't know what was it. I almost forgot how is that feeling already... Miscalculating time different from hk! Seriously, what was it? I guess it is the thing... Actually, it happen twice in my life... but I still can't understand... weird people!! And... I m a bit scared -__- coz one of the twice wasn't work out at all... :S..... And it was the time I thought I knew that person very well... but it's kinda another story when we met. Well, it wasn't a misunderstanding or what... but what I knew was just a very little part of the whole story. haha... photos don't lie... but they don't tell too much neither :P I can feel them... but still very blurry.... um... sometime it doesn't tell much even when you see the person in real... I think I always fall into this kinda thinking lately -_-... Never have the answer but just keep thinking, and cant concentrate... aiya... gig sei yan la~~ um... I m a bit worry about the website things... I feel the pressure~~ but I m sure I will do something cool... Key should be reliable... Daat Daat I know you don't like his style... but I will handle the design part ma :D haha... btw, why you guys feel I m in love ga!? I don't feel it wor! .\/. um... a bit ja ma... .\/. ding! you guys are too sensitive la...
Ah... forgot to show Donald Dickjai's drawings tim... I do wanna extend the project, ar... Tracy! dont be lazy la!!!... I gonna sell it to publishers soon ga la... I do think we have to have the whole plan in order to sell it easier... I've got a children books publisher contact lately from my excolleague... but I do think we should try overseas publishers first :)
In any case if you have really read it... don't tell me you didn't know who I was talking about up there... Think of some other excuses... or... try to lie to me, tell me you didn't... I always trust people easily, too easily :D :D.... lalala~~~
Thursday, October 23, 2008
ALMOND~~~
Today I went to Costco with Nastor.... Everything there are so big and cheap! This is how much almond I've bought today! Amazing, huh?
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tracy in US - Los Angeles
09OCT
(9.00a) went to the car rental to change a car...
Nothing much to plan to do in LA~~ and Tracy doesnt want to go to beach -_-... um...
(11.00a) Getty Museum... as I thought, I find it nice and boring... but it was a lot of kids visiting there as well... they are cute... much happier than children in HK....
(1.00p) I prefer to visit this little park more :P
(2.00p) We found Giordano in Hollywood!!!!!!! They dont have any branding at all~~~ except the logo... selling pretty random modern Indian like stuff... super weird... And look at that! they are next to Louis Vuitton!
(3.00p) Great shopping in Melrose Street! :D really good stuff and good price!!
(6.00p) Disney Concert Hall :) super nice as usual
(7.00p) Dinner with Leslie n his "friend"~~ super nice! also thanks Leslie to let us stay in yours :D
10OCT
Kinda ran out of things to do :P
(10.30a) We went to Universal Studio!!!
(1.30p) we went to Santa Monica... and we had a ticket for parking -_-.... Took some very nice photos tho~~
haha... almost forgot to go to Union Square Station!!!!! almost the coolest station I've been~~~
And some more shopping in Melrose Street! :P I did buy a lot seriously :P
11OCT
(9.00a) Brought Tracy to airport lol and she's gone lu~~~~~~
(1.00p) I went to yum cha with Leslie and his friends~~~~~ :D:D ho ho ho~~~ and went back to his home for a nap :P
(7.00p) Drove myself home~~~ relax relax relax~~ and tried to refund the GPS but they said they couldnt find my record -_- but get it refunded when I got back to SB the next day~~ ho ho ho~~~~~~
(9.00a) went to the car rental to change a car...
Nothing much to plan to do in LA~~ and Tracy doesnt want to go to beach -_-... um...
(11.00a) Getty Museum... as I thought, I find it nice and boring... but it was a lot of kids visiting there as well... they are cute... much happier than children in HK....
(1.00p) I prefer to visit this little park more :P
(2.00p) We found Giordano in Hollywood!!!!!!! They dont have any branding at all~~~ except the logo... selling pretty random modern Indian like stuff... super weird... And look at that! they are next to Louis Vuitton!
(3.00p) Great shopping in Melrose Street! :D really good stuff and good price!!
(6.00p) Disney Concert Hall :) super nice as usual
(7.00p) Dinner with Leslie n his "friend"~~ super nice! also thanks Leslie to let us stay in yours :D
10OCT
Kinda ran out of things to do :P
(10.30a) We went to Universal Studio!!!
(1.30p) we went to Santa Monica... and we had a ticket for parking -_-.... Took some very nice photos tho~~
haha... almost forgot to go to Union Square Station!!!!! almost the coolest station I've been~~~
And some more shopping in Melrose Street! :P I did buy a lot seriously :P
11OCT
(9.00a) Brought Tracy to airport lol and she's gone lu~~~~~~
(1.00p) I went to yum cha with Leslie and his friends~~~~~ :D:D ho ho ho~~~ and went back to his home for a nap :P
(7.00p) Drove myself home~~~ relax relax relax~~ and tried to refund the GPS but they said they couldnt find my record -_- but get it refunded when I got back to SB the next day~~ ho ho ho~~~~~~
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Tracy in US - San Fransciso
03OCT
(8.30p 02OCT) Called Tony see if they can help to rent a car coz they promised to provide me a car after my holiday anyway... But then he was super rude as usual when it goes to money... come on... I was just trying to ask for help... if he doesn't want to help... just not to... how could he say sth like "I am not your mother or father, I am not supposed to cover you up when you make mistake"... honestly thats nothing help, no matter how many times of apologies afterward...
And another thing upset me even worse was Tracy wanna leave me in SB and go to SF by herself... T_T well.. fair enough... it's kinda stupid to stay in SB without a car and internet... but for that moment... should it be hey... let's find some other ways to go to SF together maybe? I know she didn't mean it but I felt I was only a driver... I didn't feel we were traveling together T__T. I m sure it is the worst thing Tracy has done on me because she never thought of how hurt it could be... it still hurt even I think of it now... :(
(9.00a) Went back to office trying to get my car sorted. Tony's attitude has totally changed... Honeslty, if they dont help... I would go back to HK straight away..
Sourced quite a few car rental company and only enterprise would do it in the quickest way. But when everything almost sorted after a long waiting to the rental company reply. But when I brought the form to tony to sign so that they can charge his card. He was rushing out and didn't sign it before he left and saying why everyone use his card don't need his signature but I do... it must be my bad English or what... I was like, huh? and he left before things sorted T___T Last night, I was kinda annoyed, but at that moment I did wanna cry... um... haha... of course I got my car eventually... ya... shhhh...... I did sign it :D with our wise Amber encouragement... lallallal~~~~
(3.00p) Finally, I've got the car sorted... We grabbed something eat and also some other things sorted, it was already 4. As we were going to Point Reyes (30 mins north from SF) directly.. it will take abt 6 hrs drive
(9.00p) We were almost in SF and the GPS ran out of battery!!!!!!!!!!!! coz the both of the electric plugs weren't working and we didnt notice until it's battery low... And it was super heavy raining!
(10.00p) We kinda lost our way and drove all the way up North to Santa Rosa (45mins from the junction we needa make a turn -_-) And the hostel we supposed to stay were closed :(
(12.00) We found a pretty nice hotel in Corte Madera but much more expensive of course.... yohoooo I could use free Internet there!!!~~ haha
04OCT
Weather wasn't as bad as the night before but pretty foggy...
Yea the weather getting much better in the afternoon but doesnt need to be so high ar ma? :D
(2.00p)We went to Berkeley in afternoon... bought 2 "The Kills" CDs~ yea yea.... Passed this bridge.
(5.00p) Mithila Hotel, the hotel was super bad! Hate it a lot and I've written my first hotel review in my life...! You can tell how angry I was from my review!
(7.00p)Gene~~~~~~~ he brought us to have dinner in a Italian Seafood restaurant ^__^ nice nice~~~
(10.00p) We went to this cafe for coffee :D such a good day~
05OCT
(10.00a) SFMOMA, We were there a bit too early... nothing was opened.. I was kinda depress that day... Tracy went into MOMA and I stayed around the park... took some photos around... felt much better
(2.30p) We went to Cheesecake Factory for lunch... It was super long queue, but food were okay...and the cheesecake was good :)
(7.00p) Poor him, needa work on sunday... but we pull him out for dinner!!! :D
Dinner with Gene in another Italian restaurant... the food were very impressive!!
06OCT
(10.30a) Move out of the nightmare hotel -_-
(12.00p) We went to Castro for a brunch in the morning... pretty chill~ hang around a bit that area... went to the Diesel and met the super nice super cool and handsome sales again :)
A lot of Museums were not opened including the one I planned to go.. I m sure I had seen it somewhere saying it's open... but anyway.. obviously I was wrong...
(5.00p)Cable car~~ It's probably the most popular photo angle and moment :D
(5.30p) Fisherman Market, Seems that everything we've done today are so touristy :D:D
(7.00p) Have Korean dinner with Gene and his friends!! :D food was okay la... but did enjoy the time to eat with a lot of friends :D
07OCT
(10.00a) Finally, we got into DeYoung!!! wooohooo... It's free of charge on that specific day (only once in a month)!!! Feeling my luck has come back!!! It is such a cool Museum! I love it... just behind Tate Modern... It was a great variety of works they have collected there!
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(12.00n) ya.. went there...
(1.00p) We went to a cool American Chain restaurant~ food are reasonably nice..,
(2.00p) I went to San Jose to meet Evan and Tracy stay in SF to meet Chris :D
(3.00p) Thats nothing much happened in San Jose... but we went to the Museum... quite a memorable exhibition about robots. some of the works are impressive... and would never find them from famous galleries I guess~~
(6.00p)thanks Evan to bring me around :) and we had a nice dinner~~~~~
08OCT
(10.30p) Nice breakfast to start the day~~
(12.00p) Drive back to SB on Freeway No.1!!! :D super nice... but I think it would be nicer to drive the opposite direction... passed through Big Sur, just too nice to my eyes :D
and we met some cows :D
(7.00p) Arriving SB, take a rest, do some laundry~~~ going to LA the next day morning!!
(8.30p 02OCT) Called Tony see if they can help to rent a car coz they promised to provide me a car after my holiday anyway... But then he was super rude as usual when it goes to money... come on... I was just trying to ask for help... if he doesn't want to help... just not to... how could he say sth like "I am not your mother or father, I am not supposed to cover you up when you make mistake"... honestly thats nothing help, no matter how many times of apologies afterward...
And another thing upset me even worse was Tracy wanna leave me in SB and go to SF by herself... T_T well.. fair enough... it's kinda stupid to stay in SB without a car and internet... but for that moment... should it be hey... let's find some other ways to go to SF together maybe? I know she didn't mean it but I felt I was only a driver... I didn't feel we were traveling together T__T. I m sure it is the worst thing Tracy has done on me because she never thought of how hurt it could be... it still hurt even I think of it now... :(
(9.00a) Went back to office trying to get my car sorted. Tony's attitude has totally changed... Honeslty, if they dont help... I would go back to HK straight away..
Sourced quite a few car rental company and only enterprise would do it in the quickest way. But when everything almost sorted after a long waiting to the rental company reply. But when I brought the form to tony to sign so that they can charge his card. He was rushing out and didn't sign it before he left and saying why everyone use his card don't need his signature but I do... it must be my bad English or what... I was like, huh? and he left before things sorted T___T Last night, I was kinda annoyed, but at that moment I did wanna cry... um... haha... of course I got my car eventually... ya... shhhh...... I did sign it :D with our wise Amber encouragement... lallallal~~~~
(3.00p) Finally, I've got the car sorted... We grabbed something eat and also some other things sorted, it was already 4. As we were going to Point Reyes (30 mins north from SF) directly.. it will take abt 6 hrs drive
(9.00p) We were almost in SF and the GPS ran out of battery!!!!!!!!!!!! coz the both of the electric plugs weren't working and we didnt notice until it's battery low... And it was super heavy raining!
(10.00p) We kinda lost our way and drove all the way up North to Santa Rosa (45mins from the junction we needa make a turn -_-) And the hostel we supposed to stay were closed :(
(12.00) We found a pretty nice hotel in Corte Madera but much more expensive of course.... yohoooo I could use free Internet there!!!~~ haha
04OCT
Weather wasn't as bad as the night before but pretty foggy...
Yea the weather getting much better in the afternoon but doesnt need to be so high ar ma? :D
(2.00p)We went to Berkeley in afternoon... bought 2 "The Kills" CDs~ yea yea.... Passed this bridge.
(5.00p) Mithila Hotel, the hotel was super bad! Hate it a lot and I've written my first hotel review in my life...! You can tell how angry I was from my review!
(7.00p)Gene~~~~~~~ he brought us to have dinner in a Italian Seafood restaurant ^__^ nice nice~~~
(10.00p) We went to this cafe for coffee :D such a good day~
05OCT
(10.00a) SFMOMA, We were there a bit too early... nothing was opened.. I was kinda depress that day... Tracy went into MOMA and I stayed around the park... took some photos around... felt much better
(2.30p) We went to Cheesecake Factory for lunch... It was super long queue, but food were okay...and the cheesecake was good :)
(7.00p) Poor him, needa work on sunday... but we pull him out for dinner!!! :D
Dinner with Gene in another Italian restaurant... the food were very impressive!!
06OCT
(10.30a) Move out of the nightmare hotel -_-
(12.00p) We went to Castro for a brunch in the morning... pretty chill~ hang around a bit that area... went to the Diesel and met the super nice super cool and handsome sales again :)
A lot of Museums were not opened including the one I planned to go.. I m sure I had seen it somewhere saying it's open... but anyway.. obviously I was wrong...
(5.00p)Cable car~~ It's probably the most popular photo angle and moment :D
(5.30p) Fisherman Market, Seems that everything we've done today are so touristy :D:D
(7.00p) Have Korean dinner with Gene and his friends!! :D food was okay la... but did enjoy the time to eat with a lot of friends :D
07OCT
(10.00a) Finally, we got into DeYoung!!! wooohooo... It's free of charge on that specific day (only once in a month)!!! Feeling my luck has come back!!! It is such a cool Museum! I love it... just behind Tate Modern... It was a great variety of works they have collected there!
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(12.00n) ya.. went there...
(1.00p) We went to a cool American Chain restaurant~ food are reasonably nice..,
(2.00p) I went to San Jose to meet Evan and Tracy stay in SF to meet Chris :D
(3.00p) Thats nothing much happened in San Jose... but we went to the Museum... quite a memorable exhibition about robots. some of the works are impressive... and would never find them from famous galleries I guess~~
(6.00p)thanks Evan to bring me around :) and we had a nice dinner~~~~~
08OCT
(10.30p) Nice breakfast to start the day~~
(12.00p) Drive back to SB on Freeway No.1!!! :D super nice... but I think it would be nicer to drive the opposite direction... passed through Big Sur, just too nice to my eyes :D
and we met some cows :D
(7.00p) Arriving SB, take a rest, do some laundry~~~ going to LA the next day morning!!
Having time
I should start from meeting a hknese friend in SB lately... yea... just met a friend Chi, a Canadian hknese working in Santa Barbara!! well in Goleta actually but close enough... haha.. He gave me some RTHK TV programmes~~~~~ "Tuesday Report" and 鏗鏘集 (kinda documentary TV program about HK's everyday life, politic and social problems, etc) I use to watch them frequently when I was in high school and ... I use to love them a lot... but I just notice I never have a chance to see any of those the time I work in HK! It is kinda sad... I am feeling like, I never have time to know what's happening around me... not to mention to do anything for it... -_- kinda sad... anyway... now i m having time... but I do lost a lot of time to gain experience... -_-..... um...
Friday, October 17, 2008
Tracy in US - Las Vegas & Grand Canyon
30SEP
(10.00a) Back to office, telling them I gonna stay until the end of my visa :)… Petra asked me to get some work done for them before we went to Vegas =_= (our flight was 2:30) ng sai chur doo gum chung ar ma~ haha stayed for an hour and half and head straight to airport lo~~~ :D
(12.00n) We lost our way to return our car… Avis!!! It is such a big car rental company but they don’t have a place next to airport while all the other companies does! Instead it's like hiding on a road which couldn’t be found even by the GPS!! Anyway we’ve got there somehow…
(12:30p) SB airport~~~ it wasn’t look like an airport at all :P haha
Mistaken effect by exposed the films accidentally..~ but I love it!!
(4.00p) Arrived the Las Vegas airport, got the car rented, and we head straight to the hotel which is almost cheaper than the 2 beds in a hostel I’ve booked afterward. The hotel was actually okay… indeed, better than I thought. The weather in was super dry. Well, it’s a desert after all…
Yup... very plastic, init?
(6.00p) We walked a bit the shops there, and went to Venetian, the only casino I know the name. We don’t really gamble haha…but tried $5 for that machine thing and won $10… And we had a very good burger in the restaurant there, the salad was huge but in that’s the kinda a lot of mayo salad which I don’t like too much. It taste okay indeed, just doesn’t look like a salad to me…
(10:00p) I found that I’ve lost my wallet when I was trying to pay for the dinner :(:( luckily I’ve got my passport separated which I normally put inside the wallet!! Otherwise I probably can’t go back even to SB!!! Reported to the hotel but not having much luck on it…
01OCT
(8.00a) Woke up a bit late for our Grand Canyon day!!! And we needa go to Avis to change to another car, coz that’s super stinky -_-… the Toyota was easier drive than the Ford obviously. But the orange colour is just so much nicer :D
(9.00a) We went to get our breakfast + lunch + dinner in McDonald’s! :D haha… surprisingly, it was actually quite good... but I can still find the McDonald’s taste in it~~~~ but indeed there are restaurants all the way from LV to GC~~~
I’ve chosen the North Rim of Grand Canyon simply bcoz it’s the less tourists visiting part :P. Indeed they were about to close during winter time. It was a 275 miles drive from Las Vegas, almost 5 hours drive. Of cause, it’s super long drive for me, it is still such a cool experience though. I had to overcome the biggest challenge for me, my sleepiness!!! And I made it!!! I probably couldn’t make it without Tracy’s moliu speaking and snacks… Wooo… We drove through some desert like places, some little villages and then a bigger town, and when we were almost there, it was a forest. The trees was about to change their colour in fall and it was soooooo beautiful… it was definitely the most beautiful nature scene I’ve ever seen!!! We are indeed super stupid didn’t plan to stay there for a night or more… There are a lot of hiking routes there and a few really nice house for people to stay in. um… that’s definitely a place that we will go again…
A few critical mistakes of the Grand Canyon trip:
1. I haven’t bought the spare battery for Tracy :(
2. Lid of my film camera suddenly open itself… and lost some super important photos :(:(:(
3. We should have planned a much longer stay in Grand Canyon, but it was only 3 hours, with the 9-10 hrs driving. Kinda stupid :P... but these also make sure that I will be back again :D maybe West + South + North next time~~ and for a week sth...
(10.00p) We drove all the way back from Grand Canyon and just made the time to see the show in Las Vegas “O”. It was absolutely stun! From the idea of the show, the story, stage design, costume, to the skills of the performers, to the music, even the smells in the show, everything… every little details are just prefect! Every part of the show is definitely the top of the top of the world. It is undoubtedly the best performance I’ve ever seen in my life… wah wah wah~~~ and it worth more than the price of ticket for sure (it was almost US$200 indeed, but still)!!!
02OCT
(11:00a) We went to a outlet around!!!! and bought a few things from Diesel!!! :D:D ho ho ho~~~~ and Coast are very cheap there as well~~
(4:30p) Returned the car just just just on time!!!! LV Airport heading back to SB~~
(8:00p) We couldn’t rent a car coz I lost my card :( and Tracy doesn’t have a driving license. :( I still don’t know if we can drive up to SF…. All I can do is to put finger cross and pray for it… yea... and Darius drove us home while he was rushing to see his friends ~~ thanks~~
(10.00a) Back to office, telling them I gonna stay until the end of my visa :)… Petra asked me to get some work done for them before we went to Vegas =_= (our flight was 2:30) ng sai chur doo gum chung ar ma~ haha stayed for an hour and half and head straight to airport lo~~~ :D
(12.00n) We lost our way to return our car… Avis!!! It is such a big car rental company but they don’t have a place next to airport while all the other companies does! Instead it's like hiding on a road which couldn’t be found even by the GPS!! Anyway we’ve got there somehow…
(12:30p) SB airport~~~ it wasn’t look like an airport at all :P haha
Mistaken effect by exposed the films accidentally..~ but I love it!!
(4.00p) Arrived the Las Vegas airport, got the car rented, and we head straight to the hotel which is almost cheaper than the 2 beds in a hostel I’ve booked afterward. The hotel was actually okay… indeed, better than I thought. The weather in was super dry. Well, it’s a desert after all…
Yup... very plastic, init?
(6.00p) We walked a bit the shops there, and went to Venetian, the only casino I know the name. We don’t really gamble haha…but tried $5 for that machine thing and won $10… And we had a very good burger in the restaurant there, the salad was huge but in that’s the kinda a lot of mayo salad which I don’t like too much. It taste okay indeed, just doesn’t look like a salad to me…
(10:00p) I found that I’ve lost my wallet when I was trying to pay for the dinner :(:( luckily I’ve got my passport separated which I normally put inside the wallet!! Otherwise I probably can’t go back even to SB!!! Reported to the hotel but not having much luck on it…
01OCT
(8.00a) Woke up a bit late for our Grand Canyon day!!! And we needa go to Avis to change to another car, coz that’s super stinky -_-… the Toyota was easier drive than the Ford obviously. But the orange colour is just so much nicer :D
(9.00a) We went to get our breakfast + lunch + dinner in McDonald’s! :D haha… surprisingly, it was actually quite good... but I can still find the McDonald’s taste in it~~~~ but indeed there are restaurants all the way from LV to GC~~~
I’ve chosen the North Rim of Grand Canyon simply bcoz it’s the less tourists visiting part :P. Indeed they were about to close during winter time. It was a 275 miles drive from Las Vegas, almost 5 hours drive. Of cause, it’s super long drive for me, it is still such a cool experience though. I had to overcome the biggest challenge for me, my sleepiness!!! And I made it!!! I probably couldn’t make it without Tracy’s moliu speaking and snacks… Wooo… We drove through some desert like places, some little villages and then a bigger town, and when we were almost there, it was a forest. The trees was about to change their colour in fall and it was soooooo beautiful… it was definitely the most beautiful nature scene I’ve ever seen!!! We are indeed super stupid didn’t plan to stay there for a night or more… There are a lot of hiking routes there and a few really nice house for people to stay in. um… that’s definitely a place that we will go again…
A few critical mistakes of the Grand Canyon trip:
1. I haven’t bought the spare battery for Tracy :(
2. Lid of my film camera suddenly open itself… and lost some super important photos :(:(:(
3. We should have planned a much longer stay in Grand Canyon, but it was only 3 hours, with the 9-10 hrs driving. Kinda stupid :P... but these also make sure that I will be back again :D maybe West + South + North next time~~ and for a week sth...
(10.00p) We drove all the way back from Grand Canyon and just made the time to see the show in Las Vegas “O”. It was absolutely stun! From the idea of the show, the story, stage design, costume, to the skills of the performers, to the music, even the smells in the show, everything… every little details are just prefect! Every part of the show is definitely the top of the top of the world. It is undoubtedly the best performance I’ve ever seen in my life… wah wah wah~~~ and it worth more than the price of ticket for sure (it was almost US$200 indeed, but still)!!!
02OCT
(11:00a) We went to a outlet around!!!! and bought a few things from Diesel!!! :D:D ho ho ho~~~~ and Coast are very cheap there as well~~
(4:30p) Returned the car just just just on time!!!! LV Airport heading back to SB~~
(8:00p) We couldn’t rent a car coz I lost my card :( and Tracy doesn’t have a driving license. :( I still don’t know if we can drive up to SF…. All I can do is to put finger cross and pray for it… yea... and Darius drove us home while he was rushing to see his friends ~~ thanks~~
I m such a genius -_-
It was the most stupid thing I have ever done in my life! I’ve locked myself outside the car!!!!!! I went out of the car and open the gate in front of my house… and the door just closed itself T___T…. and I was locked outside!!!! Luckily, I can get back to my room and wait for the emergency help… they came like 1.5 hrs afterward… and amazingly, they open the door in 5-10 second! I m sure they can steal any car within a quarter minute!! What they do was basically pull the door open for 2 inches with a tool and unlock the button with another very long tool…. Seriously, that was taking them less than 10 second… From they arrived, said a hi to me to they left. The whole process was less then 2 minutes. And they charged me $75 T_T… hope that I wont pay for it… coz it’s on my boss’s card :D haha… yea…
Btw, I met a friend from internet today… a guy from HK who stay in Goleta!!!!!!!! Wao… we talked a bit on msn! You don’t know how amazing it was to meet a HKnese in SB!!! There are almost no one working in SB… only students, students and students… honestly I don’t mind to meet students but so far I never meet any… :P haha… yea… seems that I will have a good company to hang out with But…. the first thing I called him was to ask for help on the locked car things -_-… very “sut wai” ~_~….
Btw, I met a friend from internet today… a guy from HK who stay in Goleta!!!!!!!! Wao… we talked a bit on msn! You don’t know how amazing it was to meet a HKnese in SB!!! There are almost no one working in SB… only students, students and students… honestly I don’t mind to meet students but so far I never meet any… :P haha… yea… seems that I will have a good company to hang out with But…. the first thing I called him was to ask for help on the locked car things -_-… very “sut wai” ~_~….
Tracy in US - Santa Barbara
27SEP
(1.00p) Tracy grand arriving~~~ haha…
(2.30p) her hair was all a mess @_@ and I forced her to have a hair cut… ho ho ho… And the normal Tracy’s back!!!
(4.00p) I only planned a sleeping section for her but she was “so much awaked as if being hit by a ghost”. So, I brought her to State St and hang around downtown area…
(7.00p) We had a nice Mexican dinner and went home to sleep~~~
28SEP
(10.00a) Lompoc, that’s an hour away from SB. It was super foggy also can’t see anything… but indeed I like to take picture in fog… but Tracy was obviously not happy with it :D she only like sunshine so that everything are in bright colour~~ ho ho ho~~~ we hang out a bit around that area, and had some bread on our way :D it was a good olive bread!!!! The sun was coming out when we almost finish the trip at around 1.00p :P
I love this picture!
(3.00p) Santa Barbara Art Museum
(4:00p) Had more bread on SB Beach and it was a Beach Volley Ball US Open Final playing there!!! Not much people were watching though….~~~
(7:00p) We bought food from Trader Joe’s and cooked a Scallops Pasta!!! I am sure it was the best pasta I have ever made!!!! Super delicious!!!! I will make it again later… :D
29SEP
(10.00a) Mountain Adventure!!! We Drove all the way up the mountain in SB! It was a closed road sign on the midway to the top! haha… of cause I ignored it and drove up there… it was absolutely stun! We saw the whole SB from there plus the Channel Island. There was some white smoke coving almost half of the island! It’s probably the fog…. But it’s really nice when you look at them…
(3.30p) Montecito beach, We’ve been told afterward that’s a very famous beach where the most expensive beach house located. And Bred Pitt actually own a house there…
(5:30p) Went to buy a GPS, plan to refund it at the end of the trip :P ho ho ho~~
(6:30p) Decided to have a longer stay in SB until the end of my visa.
(7.00p) BBQ in Darius’ house. (coz Petra has forgotten the BBQ with us -_-) anyway it was cool to meet up Darius and his friend from London… I actually met him once in London! But I still can’t remember his name, as usual :P Simon? he’s a common name as I remember… hehe…And we met Ryan... he is such a cool guy... keep bringing his dog hiking almost everyday, he knows everywhere in SB!!! haha... nice night :) maybe better than a BBQ night in the office :P
(1.00p) Tracy grand arriving~~~ haha…
(2.30p) her hair was all a mess @_@ and I forced her to have a hair cut… ho ho ho… And the normal Tracy’s back!!!
(4.00p) I only planned a sleeping section for her but she was “so much awaked as if being hit by a ghost”. So, I brought her to State St and hang around downtown area…
(7.00p) We had a nice Mexican dinner and went home to sleep~~~
28SEP
(10.00a) Lompoc, that’s an hour away from SB. It was super foggy also can’t see anything… but indeed I like to take picture in fog… but Tracy was obviously not happy with it :D she only like sunshine so that everything are in bright colour~~ ho ho ho~~~ we hang out a bit around that area, and had some bread on our way :D it was a good olive bread!!!! The sun was coming out when we almost finish the trip at around 1.00p :P
I love this picture!
(3.00p) Santa Barbara Art Museum
(4:00p) Had more bread on SB Beach and it was a Beach Volley Ball US Open Final playing there!!! Not much people were watching though….~~~
(7:00p) We bought food from Trader Joe’s and cooked a Scallops Pasta!!! I am sure it was the best pasta I have ever made!!!! Super delicious!!!! I will make it again later… :D
29SEP
(10.00a) Mountain Adventure!!! We Drove all the way up the mountain in SB! It was a closed road sign on the midway to the top! haha… of cause I ignored it and drove up there… it was absolutely stun! We saw the whole SB from there plus the Channel Island. There was some white smoke coving almost half of the island! It’s probably the fog…. But it’s really nice when you look at them…
(3.30p) Montecito beach, We’ve been told afterward that’s a very famous beach where the most expensive beach house located. And Bred Pitt actually own a house there…
(5:30p) Went to buy a GPS, plan to refund it at the end of the trip :P ho ho ho~~
(6:30p) Decided to have a longer stay in SB until the end of my visa.
(7.00p) BBQ in Darius’ house. (coz Petra has forgotten the BBQ with us -_-) anyway it was cool to meet up Darius and his friend from London… I actually met him once in London! But I still can’t remember his name, as usual :P Simon? he’s a common name as I remember… hehe…And we met Ryan... he is such a cool guy... keep bringing his dog hiking almost everyday, he knows everywhere in SB!!! haha... nice night :) maybe better than a BBQ night in the office :P
Monday, September 29, 2008
Decided to stay until 15th Dec
Walking on the beach side in SB with Tracy, suddenly thought why should I go back to HK all in a hurry... when there is nothing I m going back for... ya... I have lost my job offer in HK coz they are an US company and stopped head counting due to the bad economy of US, if I didn't mention... um, anyway... so I decided to stay here until the end of my Visa in mid December... and then I can have a bit more time and money to have my travel in Japan :D... yea yea yea~~~
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Surprisingly cool The Raconteurs concert!
Thanks Darius for asking me to the show!!!!! yea ye ayea... I know they are famous but I really never heard of their name before this :P but of cause I know the key member, Jack White, the one who also play in The White Strips... hahaha... he is kinda cool but I m not a big fans to his kinda musci.. anyway... he is pretty cool :D... The most unexpected thing is their supporting band is THE KILLS!!!!!!!! damn.... and I didn't know before going there!!!!!! woooo... haha.... Jamie Hince is just simply super cool... love them....
The show was played in Santa Barbara Bowl... and I love the venue so sooo much.... It's probably the best venue in the world! It's an open space, medium size (can probably fit in 5000-10000 ppl I guess) venue. Very casual place which people can just walk around in the middle of the show.... It's just amazingly beautiful when you look up to the sky... It's like all the stars are enjoying the show with us :D:D haha....
Back to the show, it is just simply cool... even though this is not the kinda music I love the best... Live is just different... I did enjoy every single second there :D:D ho ho hoo....~~~~~
The show was played in Santa Barbara Bowl... and I love the venue so sooo much.... It's probably the best venue in the world! It's an open space, medium size (can probably fit in 5000-10000 ppl I guess) venue. Very casual place which people can just walk around in the middle of the show.... It's just amazingly beautiful when you look up to the sky... It's like all the stars are enjoying the show with us :D:D haha....
Back to the show, it is just simply cool... even though this is not the kinda music I love the best... Live is just different... I did enjoy every single second there :D:D ho ho hoo....~~~~~
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Meeting Euniz and Yannick in LA!!!
Euniz came to LA with Yannick all the way from London to visit me!!! :D:D haha... soooo happy happy... ~~~~~~ We've done almost everything tourise would do in LA ho ho ho~~~ We had a super good weekend there and will show photos here very soon :D:D...
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Bye, Mr Lee......
Finally it's the time to say good bye to Mr Lee today lo T_T.... I've sold mr lee to 2 Norway girls.. I made $100 from that! :D:D
and then I heard a bad news from them 2 days after I'd given mr lee to them, that they had broken down in 50 miles away... -_-.... and the funny thing is they left the car there... called me and ask for a full money back~~~~~ And keep calling saying I sold them a broken car -_-.... but the thing is we went for a car checking together before they were buying my car and my car passed the smog test perfectly... um... well... anyway... I refused to give them money back for sure... and they gave up calling me lo... um.. but Mr Lee.... is just dying in 50 miles away from me................... but he's always in my heart :P lalallalalalal~~~~
Sunday, September 7, 2008
San Francisco
29AUG Everyone just keep telling me how a nice the city is, how good the foods in SF, blabalbalbablbala.... haha.... finally I'm there, after a 6 hours journey from SB to LA to SF... kinda a waste of time... but its good that I left the office at 3:30 :D but arrived at 9 sth, even slower than driving... :S I saved about $100 for the ticket indeed... but doesnt sounds worthy at all lerh..
10:15p SF Airport
Gene pick me up from airport... and started my SF trip on the lovely Friday night :D... Super foggie in SF the first night I've been there... It's not as cold as I thought... kinda a good temperature really :D It was basically a preview of my later trip with Tracy in SF :D haha... it's nice that Gene just drive me everywhere which save us a lot of time...
30AUG
The 2nd day, we went out to have a blunch in Cartro with Curt ^__^ He is a ABVitnamiese.. very typical American... Just keep talking talking and talking in a very American way...I thought we gonna chat for longer but anyway... we then walked a bit around Cartro, a gay area in SF... By the way, the first impression of SF to me is a very gay city really (or you can say a very gay friendly city)... once I step out of the gate, I could tell the different of this city from LA or SB... anyway... Cartro is nice That's pretty similar to some streets in Europe. little shops... kinda quite but a lot of things happening... the stuff in Diesel is surprisingly cheaper then in HK and London... :D seems that I should buy some next time (funny, they only have a few shops in Cali!!! and only in LA, SF and SJ)~~
3:00p MoMA
With the free ticket from Gene's friend :), the MoMA in SF is nicer than in LA in a way. Ssomething quite interesting there :) And I m impressed with their cool architecture! they are showing an exhibition of Chinese comtempory artist... They are also showing the Frida one but I've seen that in London already... so I didn't spend time on that :P I mean her life is always more interesting then her works to me... btw, they put a painting from Picasso in the photography exhibition room.... interesting huh? and thats the only non-photo piece in the room...
4:30p Jewish Comtempory Museum
It is a surprisingly cool museum! the building is already cool enough to pull you in :D and the pieces inside are quite different from other museums... well you might not like them but you might not find them anywhere else... And they have a very cool room which surprised me a lot... go and check it out!! :D
5:30p Sausalito
Crossed the Golden Gate Bridge we when to a very nice area by the sea... kinda tourise spot I guess but a silent place which I like :) I've had a peanut butter icecream, some roasted peanuts, and a peanut candy!!! very heavy~~ haha... I love them tho..
7:00p Nuel's home (sorry if I spell your name wrong :P)
Just relax and had a little nap before dinner~~ ho ho ho~~~ I love her flat :D:D its so comfy and clean...~
8:30p Hotpot dinner with Gene and friends
It is called Japanese ShabuShabu but obviously thats not that... -_-... well reasonable price with reasonable amount and quality of food and I just prefer my own cook more maybe :P
11:00p Nuel's home Watched Ocean Elevent again... yea... again.... :P
31AUG
Wah... finally managed to went out at 1:30~~
2:00p Freemaket - Bekerley
I love free market all the time :D:D I've found some cool vinyls one from Nina simone!!! and a Polaroid SX-70 for $10!!!! wahwahawhwah
2:30p Lunch in Bekerley
It was a Mexican kinda fast food... well... quite nice indeed... better than the hotpot :P haha...
4:00p Crazy shopping in a record shop!!!
I've bought 6-7 vinyls :D:D 1 Floyd Pink, 1 rolling stone~~ lol~~~
6:00p Neul's home again :D
Met Ray, Gene firend. He is pretty cool... I like him ^__^...
8:30p Japanese Food:D
It is much better today... at least sushi always looks Japanese... and they kinda taste good... just not very Japanese... kinda fusion... not bad :)
10:30 Gene's home~
He went out to meet up his ex :D and I was happy chatting with Willis~~ and fix some photos~
1SEP
2:00p Lunch Vietnamese noodles~~
IT IS the best meal in SF honestly :D haha... the noodles are very well cooked, and the super simple soup with a suitable amount of chicken. :) delicious~ The Vietnamese coffee is not that great tho... I've had some very good ones in London... :)
3:00 DeYoung Museum
The best exhibition I've seen these 2 years I think... Dale Chihuly!!! He made glasses sculpture!!! Amazing amazing!!! Love you very much!!!! Thanks Curt, he told us about the exhibition...
4:30 Haight street
A trendy place in SF... um.... okay la :D
5:30 Gene Home
Pack things up and go to airport lu :D thanks thanks Gene for these few days lerh~~
6:30 SFAiport Wait wait wait~~
1:30 SB home :S
Taken so long to go back home ~_~
10:15p SF Airport
Gene pick me up from airport... and started my SF trip on the lovely Friday night :D... Super foggie in SF the first night I've been there... It's not as cold as I thought... kinda a good temperature really :D It was basically a preview of my later trip with Tracy in SF :D haha... it's nice that Gene just drive me everywhere which save us a lot of time...
30AUG
The 2nd day, we went out to have a blunch in Cartro with Curt ^__^ He is a ABVitnamiese.. very typical American... Just keep talking talking and talking in a very American way...I thought we gonna chat for longer but anyway... we then walked a bit around Cartro, a gay area in SF... By the way, the first impression of SF to me is a very gay city really (or you can say a very gay friendly city)... once I step out of the gate, I could tell the different of this city from LA or SB... anyway... Cartro is nice That's pretty similar to some streets in Europe. little shops... kinda quite but a lot of things happening... the stuff in Diesel is surprisingly cheaper then in HK and London... :D seems that I should buy some next time (funny, they only have a few shops in Cali!!! and only in LA, SF and SJ)~~
3:00p MoMA
With the free ticket from Gene's friend :), the MoMA in SF is nicer than in LA in a way. Ssomething quite interesting there :) And I m impressed with their cool architecture! they are showing an exhibition of Chinese comtempory artist... They are also showing the Frida one but I've seen that in London already... so I didn't spend time on that :P I mean her life is always more interesting then her works to me... btw, they put a painting from Picasso in the photography exhibition room.... interesting huh? and thats the only non-photo piece in the room...
4:30p Jewish Comtempory Museum
It is a surprisingly cool museum! the building is already cool enough to pull you in :D and the pieces inside are quite different from other museums... well you might not like them but you might not find them anywhere else... And they have a very cool room which surprised me a lot... go and check it out!! :D
5:30p Sausalito
Crossed the Golden Gate Bridge we when to a very nice area by the sea... kinda tourise spot I guess but a silent place which I like :) I've had a peanut butter icecream, some roasted peanuts, and a peanut candy!!! very heavy~~ haha... I love them tho..
7:00p Nuel's home (sorry if I spell your name wrong :P)
Just relax and had a little nap before dinner~~ ho ho ho~~~ I love her flat :D:D its so comfy and clean...~
8:30p Hotpot dinner with Gene and friends
It is called Japanese ShabuShabu but obviously thats not that... -_-... well reasonable price with reasonable amount and quality of food and I just prefer my own cook more maybe :P
11:00p Nuel's home Watched Ocean Elevent again... yea... again.... :P
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Wah... finally managed to went out at 1:30~~
2:00p Freemaket - Bekerley
I love free market all the time :D:D I've found some cool vinyls one from Nina simone!!! and a Polaroid SX-70 for $10!!!! wahwahawhwah
2:30p Lunch in Bekerley
It was a Mexican kinda fast food... well... quite nice indeed... better than the hotpot :P haha...
4:00p Crazy shopping in a record shop!!!
I've bought 6-7 vinyls :D:D 1 Floyd Pink, 1 rolling stone~~ lol~~~
6:00p Neul's home again :D
Met Ray, Gene firend. He is pretty cool... I like him ^__^...
8:30p Japanese Food:D
It is much better today... at least sushi always looks Japanese... and they kinda taste good... just not very Japanese... kinda fusion... not bad :)
10:30 Gene's home~
He went out to meet up his ex :D and I was happy chatting with Willis~~ and fix some photos~
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2:00p Lunch Vietnamese noodles~~
IT IS the best meal in SF honestly :D haha... the noodles are very well cooked, and the super simple soup with a suitable amount of chicken. :) delicious~ The Vietnamese coffee is not that great tho... I've had some very good ones in London... :)
3:00 DeYoung Museum
The best exhibition I've seen these 2 years I think... Dale Chihuly!!! He made glasses sculpture!!! Amazing amazing!!! Love you very much!!!! Thanks Curt, he told us about the exhibition...
4:30 Haight street
A trendy place in SF... um.... okay la :D
5:30 Gene Home
Pack things up and go to airport lu :D thanks thanks Gene for these few days lerh~~
6:30 SFAiport Wait wait wait~~
1:30 SB home :S
Taken so long to go back home ~_~
Monday, August 25, 2008
Eatting less...
I suddenly found myself eating much less than when I just came here...
I m just having a stupid though. Since I come here, I find that people can actually eat a lot... and i can't really understand why we need to eat so much... where are those food gone exactly!!! (seems to be a questiona I should have asked when I was young, huh?)
But i do find it very intersting... If I do not eat on time... I really feel hungry...!!!!! And then I try not to eat as much... and i really feel hungry earlier in the day... I tried to play this with myself day by day... see how much I eat and when would I feel hungry if I eat such amount of food... very moliu but quite fun... :D and I would never have a chance to play this in hk.. coz I dont cook for myself...
The 1/2 bl pasta, I used to finish it in 3 meals.. seems that I can make it 4 or if i have some salad, i can make it even 5 meals now! yup... btw, if I did exercise... during the day... I do need to eat more... it is very interesting!
I am trying to just eat what I need now... unless I feel really hungry... I wouldn't eat more.. On the other hand coz I live with myself and throw my bin by myself... Just find that i am actually making quite a lot of rubbish!! If I eat more... obviously I would have to make more rubbish... coz even i buy food from the most enviormantal friend store now... they still have some plastic bags or containers to place the frash foods... I put most of them on recycle indeed, but who the hell know where are they really going... -_-... um...I guess it is a good start for myself :D hope that I can keep it even when I go back to hk... ^__^
I m just having a stupid though. Since I come here, I find that people can actually eat a lot... and i can't really understand why we need to eat so much... where are those food gone exactly!!! (seems to be a questiona I should have asked when I was young, huh?)
But i do find it very intersting... If I do not eat on time... I really feel hungry...!!!!! And then I try not to eat as much... and i really feel hungry earlier in the day... I tried to play this with myself day by day... see how much I eat and when would I feel hungry if I eat such amount of food... very moliu but quite fun... :D and I would never have a chance to play this in hk.. coz I dont cook for myself...
The 1/2 bl pasta, I used to finish it in 3 meals.. seems that I can make it 4 or if i have some salad, i can make it even 5 meals now! yup... btw, if I did exercise... during the day... I do need to eat more... it is very interesting!
I am trying to just eat what I need now... unless I feel really hungry... I wouldn't eat more.. On the other hand coz I live with myself and throw my bin by myself... Just find that i am actually making quite a lot of rubbish!! If I eat more... obviously I would have to make more rubbish... coz even i buy food from the most enviormantal friend store now... they still have some plastic bags or containers to place the frash foods... I put most of them on recycle indeed, but who the hell know where are they really going... -_-... um...I guess it is a good start for myself :D hope that I can keep it even when I go back to hk... ^__^
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Exciting and annoying
I've had a full sport day on Saturday again :D.... haha dont know how long can I have this kinda life still.... :D
I've sent out my first job application finally... it is a very rough and informal one indeed... in order to try out if my works interesting enough :P And of cause this is not the best one I am looking at... My experience is before I can send my CV to the best I m looking at, I do have to have some rehearsal time :D haha... well, it is the exciting part... the annonying part is coming.. I just can't think of a better way to do my CV cover... Although Stef said he doesnt like this cover too much and maybe I was affected by him too much on it... (coz I did it when I was staying with him...) , I really do not feel comfortable to make up something in a rush to put on my CV... Also, I dont want that oil paint style too domainate my CV.... i know it is already very much... just can't be too much really... um... unless I could find another way to make it nicer... I wouldn't change it in this bunch of applicaitons... but my feeling is... I know there is something not good enough.. and I still send it out ... very annonying...
um... this is the cover... shit.. the more i look at it... the more I dislike it -_-
I've sent out my first job application finally... it is a very rough and informal one indeed... in order to try out if my works interesting enough :P And of cause this is not the best one I am looking at... My experience is before I can send my CV to the best I m looking at, I do have to have some rehearsal time :D haha... well, it is the exciting part... the annonying part is coming.. I just can't think of a better way to do my CV cover... Although Stef said he doesnt like this cover too much and maybe I was affected by him too much on it... (coz I did it when I was staying with him...) , I really do not feel comfortable to make up something in a rush to put on my CV... Also, I dont want that oil paint style too domainate my CV.... i know it is already very much... just can't be too much really... um... unless I could find another way to make it nicer... I wouldn't change it in this bunch of applicaitons... but my feeling is... I know there is something not good enough.. and I still send it out ... very annonying...
um... this is the cover... shit.. the more i look at it... the more I dislike it -_-
Saturday, August 16, 2008
It is such a great day!
I went to cafe for internet this morning watch some news, had some chats... and I met a lady and chat with her in the cafe... her hasbond is from China... :D super nice person... haha and she is the 4th or 5th person saying I have a nice ascent :D some of them said it's british... but I guess its kinda a mixup really... I didn't have much british friends tho... haha.. anyway and then I headed to UCSB for my sport day today!!! :D haha... I played a bit basketball with a guy and a gal :P they are super nice... and then I went to discover a bit the area around the uni... and I've bought 2 vinyl record from a store for $1 haha... they are a bit squashy tho.... haha 2 for $1...
I had a lunch in the Uni centre... it was redicious! that's almost no food selling during weekends! anyway... the young pretty lady who sell the lunch to me was super nice ^__^ I went to play more basketball after the lunch... :) which is very nice... and I met the guy I played once with him in the outdoor court last month..! and the guy called Peter from Gong Chau was very nice as well... he play basketball every single day!!!! how good is it to be a student! I might go there more often from now on ^__^..... yea...
and after that I went to swim.... but I could only made 250metres... :( I was clonus in the water lerh :S very cham cham... but then I found thats a spa next to the swimming pool!!!!! wao... such a great one at that moment!! :D I gonna fall in love with that sport centre now :D haha...
and when i went home, my luck is not finished yet..!!! haha... Tina just invited me to have the dinner with them!!! :D how great!!!! they made a traditional Vienna dinner!! ^__^ I love it... and I started missing mama's beef belly dish ^__^ ho ho ho~~
I had a lunch in the Uni centre... it was redicious! that's almost no food selling during weekends! anyway... the young pretty lady who sell the lunch to me was super nice ^__^ I went to play more basketball after the lunch... :) which is very nice... and I met the guy I played once with him in the outdoor court last month..! and the guy called Peter from Gong Chau was very nice as well... he play basketball every single day!!!! how good is it to be a student! I might go there more often from now on ^__^..... yea...
and after that I went to swim.... but I could only made 250metres... :( I was clonus in the water lerh :S very cham cham... but then I found thats a spa next to the swimming pool!!!!! wao... such a great one at that moment!! :D I gonna fall in love with that sport centre now :D haha...
and when i went home, my luck is not finished yet..!!! haha... Tina just invited me to have the dinner with them!!! :D how great!!!! they made a traditional Vienna dinner!! ^__^ I love it... and I started missing mama's beef belly dish ^__^ ho ho ho~~
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Edge of Heaven (9)
I found that I haven't seen a great movie for soooo long after seeing this :)... seems that my movie luck is coming back :D:D haha... The story is indeed quite complicated but I do like how imdb summerize it - A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend. Well... I think this is the simpliest way to tell about the movie... without telling you too much but interesting enough, huh? :D
I do love the way they shoot the movie a lot... He (Rainer Klausmann) should be one of the best cinematographer in the world :D.. I've seen some familiar scenes in it but can't recall where did I see them but all come together just make a such a good movie!
See if you may find the DVD in HK... Or let me try to find it here :D haha... ask me if you want to see. :D
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Made 2 new friends!!!
Wooooo I've met 2 new friends today... I saw them everyday indeed just never have a chance to talk to them and didn;t even know their name :P
Haha.. but Hans introduce them to me today ^__^ I m happy now~~
Emale... :D
Haha.. but Hans introduce them to me today ^__^ I m happy now~~
Emale... :D
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
2nd trip to LA
it's such a great weekend in L.A. :) I went there for the international surf festival!! and there are a lot of things happening over there... just that I couldn't find the surfing competition :P but I do enjoy the beach volley ball tournament!!
It was kinda hazel on sat... it's much worse than what you see on photos :P haha
but ya... it's still nice~~~~
There were like 40-50 courts playing competition!!! and a lot of them are super great! I can't imagine how could they all jump so high on the sand!!!
Spanish team~~
This is one of the best photos during the day :D
American team, obviously... haha
Some random parties on beach...
They are very good team!!! playing-wise, and looking-wise :D
this is from the other team... female team... dont mix up :P
They were winning.............. 1 point :D... they did that almost every point~~
some cool people
I think this style is fit for LA :)
We were in a super nice restaurant for lunch.. and saw this little cute girl with super blue eyes playing with ice :P
It was kinda hazel on sat... it's much worse than what you see on photos :P haha
but ya... it's still nice~~~~
There were like 40-50 courts playing competition!!! and a lot of them are super great! I can't imagine how could they all jump so high on the sand!!!
Spanish team~~
This is one of the best photos during the day :D
American team, obviously... haha
Some random parties on beach...
They are very good team!!! playing-wise, and looking-wise :D
this is from the other team... female team... dont mix up :P
They were winning.............. 1 point :D... they did that almost every point~~
some cool people
I think this style is fit for LA :)
We were in a super nice restaurant for lunch.. and saw this little cute girl with super blue eyes playing with ice :P
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
The Night Knight (7.5)
I just simply love Christian Bale.. :) and it is a reasonable cool Batman movie... not too exciting, not too bad... Just that the theator I went to was the biggest I've even been!!! wao!!!! it was called Metropolitan Arlington Theatre... it is the most classic theator in Santa Barbara... they have lot of decoration around the side... and thats a dark sky with stars shinning on top of the theator!!! how amazing :D:D they do some musicals there sometimes... :D... I am feeling I will go there again soon... when Tracy come I have to go with her :D:D haha... yea...
Monday, July 28, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Crazy shopper ~~~
haha.. sounds like i m a crazy shopper today..
all these above... can you believe it, $100 only! :D
all these above... can you believe it, $100 only! :D
Friday, July 25, 2008
Forgot to do Promotion here~~~~~~
Yea... the book's been published lo... if you still haven't seen it or you didn't know thats my illustrations throughout the book... haha go to some bookstores and take a look lo ^__^ I do find that book inspirative~~~ and thats my first book illustration :D:D
Forget the name... I hate it -_-.... but do have a look inside... there are some good articles and of cause full of nice drawings from me :D:D
瀛男寶鑑 from online store <-- but dont buy it there... double price as in store!:P
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Super scary LA trip!
Yea~~~~ I made it eventually!!!... I drive all the way to LA and came back safely last night :D:D next time I go, I do have to prepare a bit better :) haha a good sleep... and a lot of music... what happened on my way to LA was... I ALMOST FELT ASLEEP in the freeway!.... and almost crashed on the block whcih separate cars from 2 directions!!!! I was driving in 70miles... !!!! Super scary... wah wah wa... and I do hate dricing automatic car!! it's like a stupid car... reacting a second delay... feeling like I m not actually stepping on the gas pedal... it's like more like a button to tell the car... yea.. I wanna move... and then the car think... oh... ya? okay I let you move... -_-... which takes a second at least... and I drove with the GPS thing... LA is just too big to recog the road I thought... and indeed it is difficult... but it just bored me even more... coz I didn't even need to see the sign... ~_~... the First day was not super smooth... but getting much better in my second day :). I spent most of my time on driving and look for places I've planned to go in the first day...
First I went to Griffith Park Observatory... they said on website, thats the best place to see the hollywood sign..
the best coffee in the State I've drunk!
dai gun playing with the famous building by Frank Gehry :D:D
Yea~~ love this photo soo much ^_^.... ah mung, you are the best!
The second day was super good... !!! slept a lot on sat night :D and hang out wiht Blue, (Henry's flatmate, a Taiwanese) he's quite a nice person... :D:D he treat me breakfast, tea and pay for my gas :D:D haha...
We went to a place where I thought thats a thrift store... but indeed it's a kinda sunday car park market... I've bought 3 cool old CDs and a vinyl!!! :D the guy who works there showed us a way to Old hollywood :) a typical tourise area... very plastic... playing old american music around the area... shops... foods... whatever... I dont hate it... just prefer something else :D
We then tried to find the TBWA cool cool building!! but found that their office moved to a boring building now... :S and we couldnt find the cool one lerh :( anyway... we then head to the Venice Beach!!!! it's a super huge beach! kinda horribly massive... quite difficult to tell form the photos... but anyway... Probably, the biggest beach i've ever been. and we went to surf!!!! yea!!! finally I surf in the State!!! :D:D quite good wave there... I am super no good tho :P with that shorter board which I never try on.. :P stand on it for 2 second I guess...
Hilarious!! the gym by the beach! and the people in the gym are weird as well!!
We had good dinner in this very american restaurant...
Love the interior there :D:D and the food are not expensive! ^__^ yumyum~~
Have driven 419 miles in total!!! wao!!! probably more than the total distance I've driven in my life!! the car rental was only US$83.3 :D quite cheap lerh~~~~
First I went to Griffith Park Observatory... they said on website, thats the best place to see the hollywood sign..
the best coffee in the State I've drunk!
dai gun playing with the famous building by Frank Gehry :D:D
Yea~~ love this photo soo much ^_^.... ah mung, you are the best!
The second day was super good... !!! slept a lot on sat night :D and hang out wiht Blue, (Henry's flatmate, a Taiwanese) he's quite a nice person... :D:D he treat me breakfast, tea and pay for my gas :D:D haha...
We went to a place where I thought thats a thrift store... but indeed it's a kinda sunday car park market... I've bought 3 cool old CDs and a vinyl!!! :D the guy who works there showed us a way to Old hollywood :) a typical tourise area... very plastic... playing old american music around the area... shops... foods... whatever... I dont hate it... just prefer something else :D
We then tried to find the TBWA cool cool building!! but found that their office moved to a boring building now... :S and we couldnt find the cool one lerh :( anyway... we then head to the Venice Beach!!!! it's a super huge beach! kinda horribly massive... quite difficult to tell form the photos... but anyway... Probably, the biggest beach i've ever been. and we went to surf!!!! yea!!! finally I surf in the State!!! :D:D quite good wave there... I am super no good tho :P with that shorter board which I never try on.. :P stand on it for 2 second I guess...
Hilarious!! the gym by the beach! and the people in the gym are weird as well!!
We had good dinner in this very american restaurant...
Love the interior there :D:D and the food are not expensive! ^__^ yumyum~~
Have driven 419 miles in total!!! wao!!! probably more than the total distance I've driven in my life!! the car rental was only US$83.3 :D quite cheap lerh~~~~
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Goleta Advanture
It's the first time I try to make a trip with Sui Lee haha... kinda success... not going too far... just somewhere around UCSB, the university (A uni famous on parties) nearby... and it's funny.. coz it's just next to the airport..... is it a little but too close to a uni? -_-...
It's a nice little trip after work again ^__^ haha.. a little bit tired but super good mood!!!!
Hello Sui Lee :D
It's a nice little trip after work again ^__^ haha.. a little bit tired but super good mood!!!!
Hello Sui Lee :D
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Kayaking after work lol~
Haha... so happy to go Kayaking today after work :D ho ho ho... good exercise and super nice view!!! should bring my camera with me next time :D
ho ho ... and this is life... haha... finish work and go Kayaking, and went back home and cook for myself... and everything done... and go on internet... it was only 9:30 pm haha... what a life... woooo...
It's my lovely bowl and my pasta for dinner ^__^
ho ho ... and this is life... haha... finish work and go Kayaking, and went back home and cook for myself... and everything done... and go on internet... it was only 9:30 pm haha... what a life... woooo...
It's my lovely bowl and my pasta for dinner ^__^
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
A break through in my life!
wao... it's such a break through in my life!!! I did my first expenses sheet in my life!!!! haha... I brought my car to repair on Tuesday la.. coz the alternator was gone... :S... which cost me US$244!!! shit!!! and they said I should change my axle!!! which will cost another 300!!! :S ai.... anyway... and I had to wait sth like 2 hrs for that... I went to a cafe (they have free internet wireless!) with my Fufu la... but the internet just not working on Fufu... :( ... Fufu have to be in a super battery save mode coz I forgot to bring his charger... I kinda thinking... ah... I have to get something done without using too much of Fufu's brain... then I start calculate how much I have spent for Sui Lee lo... and then... I start doing it in excel... haha... and thats done in a min.. still have a lot of time to burn ma... how about do an expenses in US? I thought... wah wah wah, kinda organised :D
wah wa hwah~~~ ging ar lerh?! :D
wah wa hwah~~~ ging ar lerh?! :D
Saturday, July 12, 2008
I m learning
Bad luck is coming to me so often these 2 weeks... after I the ran out of car battery by forgetting turn off front light... got lost in the dark "the door of that gas thing couldn't open with super little gas left!) I've got in serious problem again!!! a pipe of the cooling system was broken... and a lot ofLiquid coolant were leaking like hell, keep evaporating by the burning engine... giving horrible smell and smoke!!! >_<>that some yellow liquid are leaking... how scary... um.. for a new driver >_<
But after all these... I do find myself improving :P hehe... seems that I have better problem solving now :D . Luckily Darius is always here to give me little help... he wouldn't do that for me but at least I would have some guidance... otherwise it could be worse... I used to be super crap... trying to fix everything with paying people to do for me :D haha... seems that it's kinda fun to get things done by myself lerh :D Maybe just that I never have time to sort out these stuff in HK... it is horrible!!! imagine.. after living for some years in your life... and found yourself are very new to your "living"... It sounds a bit stupid to feel happy with this kinda too-late-improvement :P but anyway, it's always good to see some self-improvement :D haha... And I m so glad that I have made my choice to come over US... it's always good to experience something different from the guy next to you.... Thought of a bit more about life... I proud of myself not having a routine life :) The best thing here is I have much more time to think... maybe something little stupid... but really important...
ah.. btw, I found myself able to do Vinyasa (one of the yoga posture I never able to do) haha!!! happy happy day :D~~~~~~
haha... some more photos on picasa's uploaded!!
Fat n Bert in SB!!!
Ichi :)
But after all these... I do find myself improving :P hehe... seems that I have better problem solving now :D . Luckily Darius is always here to give me little help... he wouldn't do that for me but at least I would have some guidance... otherwise it could be worse... I used to be super crap... trying to fix everything with paying people to do for me :D haha... seems that it's kinda fun to get things done by myself lerh :D Maybe just that I never have time to sort out these stuff in HK... it is horrible!!! imagine.. after living for some years in your life... and found yourself are very new to your "living"... It sounds a bit stupid to feel happy with this kinda too-late-improvement :P but anyway, it's always good to see some self-improvement :D haha... And I m so glad that I have made my choice to come over US... it's always good to experience something different from the guy next to you.... Thought of a bit more about life... I proud of myself not having a routine life :) The best thing here is I have much more time to think... maybe something little stupid... but really important...
ah.. btw, I found myself able to do Vinyasa (one of the yoga posture I never able to do) haha!!! happy happy day :D~~~~~~
haha... some more photos on picasa's uploaded!!
Fat n Bert in SB!!!
Ichi :)
Friday, July 4, 2008
Big fire in california
It's such a huge fire close to my area... and I can actually see that burning... how horrible... it's burnt for 3-4 days until now... and yesterday the smoke was covering the whole city...
Heard that it's fire somewhere in CA through out the whole year... ~_~
you see that orange colour smoke... maybe a bit difficult to tell how serious from the photos... but everywhere looks orange coz of the smoke... even the car photos I've taken today..
Heard that it's fire somewhere in CA through out the whole year... ~_~
you see that orange colour smoke... maybe a bit difficult to tell how serious from the photos... but everywhere looks orange coz of the smoke... even the car photos I've taken today..
Settle down
Yea... finally, I found myself settle down now:D:D haha... got into my new flat... got a car and I really started driving it :D:D got a phone... haha... I should start my work and travel plans lerh haha :D btw, just talked to the CD in JWT.. seems that I will have quite a good job offer lerh
haha... everything are going well gum ^_^
yea... I named my car 李白 haha... you can call him 小李... or 李生 ho ho ho~~
It does has a coooooooool back light!!!! I do love it!!! dont you?
my kitchen :)
It's not very spacious but kinda enough for me lerh ^__^... dont know how big is it... maybe about 400ft... :) kinda nice...
haha... everything are going well gum ^_^
yea... I named my car 李白 haha... you can call him 小李... or 李生 ho ho ho~~
It does has a coooooooool back light!!!! I do love it!!! dont you?
my kitchen :)
It's not very spacious but kinda enough for me lerh ^__^... dont know how big is it... maybe about 400ft... :) kinda nice...
Thursday, July 3, 2008
A cool guy in the backyard
Just met a cool cool guy Darius' house... There are a very cool backyard bar area in Darius' house... and thats a guy stay in the laundry room for quite a while... He was just playing guitar when I arrived... he also dose some screen printing which are quite nice :) haha... the most important thing to lead me talk to him was the yoga book on his sofa... haha he read astanga lerh~~~ wohoooo.... haha... and I start talking to him quite a bit... ah... yup.. his name Lowe (hope that's a correct spelling :P)... he is a black guy with handsome face haha... He just started Astanga for a few months.... self-learning...... just keep talking a bit with him... and he's shown me his printing and his album :D and the drawing of his girl friend... nice nice... I like his colour... haha... seems that black people have their own way to use colour no matter where they grown up :D haha... ho ho ho... anyway... he is the first friend I made in Santa Barbara... expect Amber lo.. but she is my colleague ma :D Amber is another very cool girl... I do love her decoration in her house ^__^... all the chairs, all the paintings and all her kitchen stationaries... are gorgeous! ^__^ US does have some cool people...
Really dont know where did they find those good stuff... I went to some antique shops here... they are not that great... and expensive... really needa explorer a bit more sin duk!
Really dont know where did they find those good stuff... I went to some antique shops here... they are not that great... and expensive... really needa explorer a bit more sin duk!
Monday, June 30, 2008
my office
Just found that my office.... the size of whole property is bigger than a football court!!!! can you imagine how crazy is that....!!!!
yea... it is the house...
yea our swimming pool... :P but I dont think its a good idea to go into that water... its construction in the property still... kinda dirty :D:D
My bosses :)
super like this chair
yea... it is the house...
yea our swimming pool... :P but I dont think its a good idea to go into that water... its construction in the property still... kinda dirty :D:D
My bosses :)
super like this chair
Sunday, June 29, 2008
I love backyard sale!! :D:D
we went to some kinda backyard sale things... some are free and some are super cheap... Darius's bought a very cool chair in $2! crazy!! and I should have got that surf board in $5... but he didnt let me to buy it -_-... shit...!!! super regard! anyway... gonna go on some more sale like this next week!! :D
I'll have my car soooooon~~~~
how exciting it is!!!! tell you wat.. I am getting this car soon probably on Monday :D:D haha soooo happy. It's a Nissen from1988!!! wao... haha.. just a little younger than me...
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Its such a good day!~~
It was such a good day last sunday!!!! We went to the beach and the beach was gorgeous!! there are a lot of beach houses around, most of them for rental~~~ and they all built in a unique style... well... maybe some are similar style but never be exactly the same looking...
had a bit swimming and walked around... :) such a relaxing weekend.... life just cannot be better than this :) nice weather, good mate, nice beach, cool music... what else?
Ichi Ichi~~
Just moved in the new place where they have a lot of cats and dogs there and what's more amazingly they have a horse and a goat in the house!!!! woooho~~
The cat named Ichi keep coming to my room... sleeping on my bed all the time, waking me up everyday at 4 sth... asking for food... a bit annonying but he is cute :D haha... See... it's good to be cute :D you can be a bit anonnying but you are still being loved a lot haha~~~
The cat named Ichi keep coming to my room... sleeping on my bed all the time, waking me up everyday at 4 sth... asking for food... a bit annonying but he is cute :D haha... See... it's good to be cute :D you can be a bit anonnying but you are still being loved a lot haha~~~
Friday, June 20, 2008
My first photos in US
A photo taken in front of my flat.
Finally, I've take myself a photo properly (well.. not that propler indeed:P) in US :D... It's impossible that such a self-lover haven't taken photos for himself for almost 2 months, hahaha!!! shhh.... ya.. did some secret photos but wouldn't show them here :P. Anyway I will take some more around! wait and see :) (no one is waiting indeed ~_~)
Finally, I've take myself a photo properly (well.. not that propler indeed:P) in US :D... It's impossible that such a self-lover haven't taken photos for himself for almost 2 months, hahaha!!! shhh.... ya.. did some secret photos but wouldn't show them here :P. Anyway I will take some more around! wait and see :) (no one is waiting indeed ~_~)
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Party SB~~
It's 2.5 hours bus from LA to Santa Barbara... The weather was just so perfect.... no cloud on the sky... pretty similar to what I've seen from Greece... It looks a bit hazel on the air tho... it is much much better than in HK for sure :P haha~~~~~ I got off just next to a beach... :P pretty nice one :) and waited for pick up from Darius... yea... he looks like he is a bit more American way :D haha... his belly, size-wise...
They first settle me in a hotel for short stay... it was quite a nice relaxing place to stay... At first, I didn't feel that I was in jetlac at all but then after around 9pm local time... I was like... collapse... really weird... and few the next 2 days as well...
We're just having so many parties when I arrived Santa Barbara~~~~~ I arrived on Wednesday... and then from Thursday, it's Carina's Bday... and Friday, the mid-summer party by POP.. And then it was a mid summer big big parade things in town~~~~ so funny~~~~
my boss's son~~ Felix
my very lovely colleague Carina~~~~~~
colleague's friend Carry and colleague Darius
one of my bosses and her bf
another son of my boss
Amber and Carina
They first settle me in a hotel for short stay... it was quite a nice relaxing place to stay... At first, I didn't feel that I was in jetlac at all but then after around 9pm local time... I was like... collapse... really weird... and few the next 2 days as well...
We're just having so many parties when I arrived Santa Barbara~~~~~ I arrived on Wednesday... and then from Thursday, it's Carina's Bday... and Friday, the mid-summer party by POP.. And then it was a mid summer big big parade things in town~~~~ so funny~~~~
my boss's son~~ Felix
my very lovely colleague Carina~~~~~~
colleague's friend Carry and colleague Darius
one of my bosses and her bf
another son of my boss
Amber and Carina
On Board
The flight was arriving Tokyo~~~~~~ ho ho ho~~~~
Look at that! Thats top view of Japan
Which is so different from the Los Angeles ones...
Even the golf areas are different~
Yea~~~~~~~~ hi LA~~~~~
I've thought a lot during the 17 hrs flight... I've thought about the story about dick jai a bit... I've read some of that shitty love story... thinking maybe I can write a book as well haha.. if I see that as a reference... I may write an English book either...~~ lalalalalal~~~~~~~~
Look at that! Thats top view of Japan
Which is so different from the Los Angeles ones...
Even the golf areas are different~
Yea~~~~~~~~ hi LA~~~~~
I've thought a lot during the 17 hrs flight... I've thought about the story about dick jai a bit... I've read some of that shitty love story... thinking maybe I can write a book as well haha.. if I see that as a reference... I may write an English book either...~~ lalalalalal~~~~~~~~
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