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I used to have a love-hate relationship with MAS. When i first flew MAS, it wowed me. It gave the best landing, ever, and I’m loving all the services on board. Cabin crew was very friendly (plus eye candies are an extra. I noticed MAS tend to have more male crew than the female :P), food tasted better than other airlines too.
Just that, MAS is relatively quite expensive. Everytime i was going for a holiday, i was always in a dilemma. Go for the 5-star service, or go easy on the wallet?
In the end, i chose to forgo comfort because $ is more useful! I can bear with the backache and crap food and narrow seats if that means i get to save more $ for shopping.
But i just received good news from MAS and it really really delighted me. MAS has launched Value Fares–4 new fare options for economy class travel, giving everyone to choose whatever matches their travel needs.
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I love best deals and MHvalues fares is just what i have been looking for. The four choices are:
1. MHlow fares
This is my favorite value fare. As i always like to plan my holidays way ahead, i get to save a lot so i can spend more on shopping! Offers up to 70% (seventy, tujuh puluh, nanaju, qi shi, chat sap!!!)discount but the ticket must be purchased online at least 21 days in advance. If you plan everything properly already, go for this option!
2.MHbasic
If you are looking for discounted fares but can only firm up your plans closer to your date of travel, this is the one to go for. It offers up to 50% discount and requires 14 days advance purchase. That means you can still join your friends last minute for their holidays two weeks before traveling and yet enjoy a half-price ticket!
3.MHsmart
Offers 75% Enrich Miles. Tickets can be bought 4 days before departure. This option is good for family shopping spree as it offers baggage allowance up to 25KG. I had to leave some of my stuff in Japan because i can’t even fit even a sesame into my luggage anymore. This value fare is also best for family holiday, or for those who can splurge a bit more because now you can go on an impromptu trip whenever you want!
4.MHflex
Most flexible, as its name suggests. Tickets can be purchase anytime and bookings can be changed at no extra cost! Go for this if your company is paying la. Plus you get to enjoy 125% Enrich Miles. If i can afford it for sure i will or would have gone for this option, because there were so many uncertainties and so many last minute changes to my plan due to TK’s work schedule.
More details:
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With these four options now we all can have full control over the travel experience, and choose only what we value and pay accordingly. Even with the Low Fare option, we still get to enjoy MAS’s 5 Star services!
Comfy seats. They have new seat covers! Very colorful!
And good food that leaves you tummy satisfied.
I’m loving MAS more and more with the previous All-in fare policy and this new offer. More flexibility and transparency.
Right now, all value fares are available for domestic travel. But from Feb onward there MAS value fares will be available for international flights.
WHICH MEANS….
😀 😀 😀
Oh my god i can’t wait i can’t wait i can’t wait i can’t wait i can’t wait i can’t wait i can’t wait!!!!
For those who are planning to fly anytime soon, i have a super good news for you all. MAS has just launched a no fuel surcharge for their domestic flight, which means even cheaper flights for traveling around the country. Flying is a bliss now, especially for a compulsive traveler like me.
Now, go to www.malaysiaairlines.com to plan your next holiday! I’m already planning mine. 🙂
Still my favorite airline.
MAS is constantly giving us really sweet surprises– from ‘the all inclusive low fares to UK and Europe’, to MATF. Too many cheap fares, too little time to travel! Guess I will be constantly be checking out www.malaysiaairlines.com from now on for more great deals!
PS: Check out MATF (MATF stands for Malaysia Airlines Travel Fair. The fair is once a year and it features the best fares for the year to domestic and international destinations)! From 10 – 19 February 2009 – 10 days only. One way to Tokyo or Osaka is only RM1060! You can book online, or call your travel agents. Full fare listing can be found here.
Osaka is a strange city. I’ve witnessed the most disturbing scene in my life when i went to Osaka one day.
But i will come to that later.
It was a sunny but very cold day. In the afternoon it snowed a little.
Osaka is full of strange people. It is said to be the dodgiest place in Japan. I didn’t believe it.
And dirty too. I didn’t believe it.
We went to Shinsaibashi (心斎橋) at night. Which is the best shopping place in Osaka.
Which is where i bought my 1000 Yen gorgeous heels. Soooo many people.
And then hor, you must must must go to this indian curry shop.
Ya, it’s called Indian Curry. And it’s so small and completely missable. I dunno how to guide you, but it’s nearby Shinsaibashi!
There are prolly only like, 7 or 8 stools around the bar table. But the curry rice was just…
700 Yen for white rice + curry + an egg on top. That’s all. I swear it’s good. A little sweet (amaguchi) at first, but after the first few mouthful it was just perfect.
Forget about Coco Ichiban.
Still hungry, we went for snacks.
Best takoyaki in the world.
And then we went home.
Oh ya, the tragic experience actually happened on the day we went to Tsūtenkaku. But because i have too much to blog about it, i will tell you my tragic experience separately, which is now.
It’s liddis one.
So we saw this Porn Theatre, and wanted to watch (!!!).
I was also curious, so we both paid 800 Yen each and walked in. Apparently you can watch as long as you want, because they will keep rotating the AVs, you watch until you get sextified.
As soon as we entered the theatre, we regretted.
It was old, dodgy, and smelly.
I suddenly had very bad vibes about this place. I dunno where the smell came from!! I suddenly pictured thousands of stinky horny bald old hentai men (with itchy, hairy balls) jerking themselves off in the theatre, and their semen spilled all over the seat, hence the unpleasant odor.
But since we were in already might as well watch la! Right now i feel a need to explain and illustrate the hall in detail.
Imagine this is the theatre la. Of course not so pretty. I added dirt and flies to illustrate the smelliness.
So we sat down (ewww). On the big theatre screen, the hero was already ******* the heroine’s *****.
There were maybe a total of 10 or 12 people in the entire theatre, i assumed they were all stinky horny bald old hentai men (with itchy, hairy balls) who planned on jerking themselves off in the theatre.
So then we spotted a strange couple sitting about three rows in front of us.
It was an old man (in yellow), with grey hair, so i assumed he was about 50-60 years old. Next to him was this woman (in blue) with a BIG HAT. They sat next to each other, watching and concentrating on the hero ****** the heroine’s *****.
But then 2 minutes later, something very disturbing happened…
The man sat nearer and nearer to the woman, and started whispering into her ears in such an intimate manner it was only appropriate in, ironically, an AV movie. For a moment i thought she was a hooker who followed the man into the theatre for “work”.
At this moment, TK nudged me to watch and we already couldn’t take our eyes off them, completely ignoring the theatre screen.
Then the impossible happened.
The man went down on the woman.
His head completely disappeared from the seat, and right now we could see the woman’s hat moving up and down, her back arched back and forth.
(How turf is it possible?!??!)
The rest of the audience seemed to notice it, and they all turned around to watch. Nobody seemed to pay attention to the big screen, although now the heroine was ****** the hero’s ***** with a *****. Then again, we’ve got live action in the threatre, who gives a **** about the porn!!!!
But the strange couple didn’t seem to care. They continued doing what they did. Only this time, the woman started to let out a little moan. TK and I exchanged a glance, both aghast, and froze in disbelief.
If by now you think whatever we witnessed was disturbing enough, you are so. dead. wrong.
What happened next, or rather, what we discovered next, was the mostest, disturbingest scene one could ever see in a theatre.
It didn’t strike us until the woman started moaning louder and louder. I think she came.
Guess what happened.
Guess.
Guess.
Guess.
Guess.
Guess.
Guess.
Guess.
Guess.
Well. Nothing happened.
The woman was moaning. Except that…
It wasn’t a woman’s voice.
It was a man’s.
A man.
He was wearing such a big hat we couldn’t tell that he was a he.
You tell me. What could be more disturbing than watching two MIDDLE AGE GAY MEN HAVING SEX IN A THEATRE?
They left the cinema after some cleaning up (i know la cuz i heard plastic and tissue noise). I could see them clearly then. Both men are in their 50s or 60s.
TK and I couldn’t bear to stay in that disgusting place a second longer. Not to mention i kinda got molested by this stinky horny bald old hentai men (with itchy, hairy balls) on the way out. He didn’t molest la, but he gave me this grotesque, hamsup glare as i walked out, and when i passed him by he suddenly gave a heavy pat on my left shoulder and shouted something in Japanese which i was too shocked to remember.
Then he ran away. I almost cried and i kept having this paranoid feeling that my left shoulder was itchy. TK brought me to game center to cheer me up.
I swear i will never go to a porn threatre in Osaka ever again.
ARRRGH.
(Maybe i will go to the ones in Tokyo next time.)
is my MSN nick (and this is a pointless post).
This is like the, spur of the moment kind of thing. Something you feel like doing but dunno why kind of thing.
I think i am slowly melting away.
This is an official announcement. Please do not call me Ringo anymore.
My name has melted to Ring. Or Rin. I can’t decide. Seems like the shorter the better.
Because i got sick of explaining my name to people. Especially to Japanese people.
(Once and for all, please do not ask me this again) In Japanese Ringo means apple. TK calls me Ring because he prefers my real name, which ends with “Ling”. And you know the missing pronounciation of L in Japanese so everything with L becomes R. Hence the name Ring. Then again in Japanese character there’s no such thing as a G ending so it’s literally Rin in writing. りん。Geddit? (Ok nvm.)
So yea. I like Rin very much but i have trouble pronouncing it. Is it reen? Or rin as in “sharing” and “caring” without the G? But i think would like people to pronounce it the Japanese way, which is, a cross between “Ling” and “Ring”. Diffiucult leh. But you must learn!
So please call me Cheesie/Ring/Rin in the future.
Eh hold on. I might change my mind. I might further reduce the letters and i might be Ri in the future (Like Ok So-ri), but it’s kinda funny. Does it sound better as ree , or rye?
Oli said,
Your name will slowly disappear until only *R* is left
Oh it is so funny. It’s an inside joke. Ok la i’ll see if i can explain the insidejokeness successfully. It’s liddis one. On MSN right my favorite emoticon is the roll eye yellow man. 
I use it so often (almost abusively) Oli got supper annoyed so he disabled emoticon on his MSN so whenever i roll eye him it won’t show up. So then i replaced it with typing *R*. And Oli is very mean.
*R*.
Anyway my friends are very concerned about my melting name. They said, “i’d start getting worried if your nick changed to “disappearRin” and “we’re gnna make sure you don’t lose your name “. You know like, in Spirited Away, Chihiro lost her name (along with her childhood memory) and became “Sen”. In American Gods too, Shadow gave his real name away when he walked the underworld path to death.
Then again, Ring Tan sounds like Zero. Then then again, Ling Dan never got zero. He freaking beat Lee Chong Wei and won a freaking gold olympics medal.
Anyway, say hi to Ring/Rin.
(I’m serious)
(Until i change my mind)
PS: Go buy some clothes from Wardrobe. Got new items!!
PS2: I swear is soooooo addictive, and it annoys the hell out of everyone. Try it!!! =D
Rihanna.
I wonder how would she look all covered up!! Cannot imagine it!
I’m feeling very ambivalent towards Rihanna to be honest. Some of her songs i like reallllly a lot and some i hate with a passion. Especially when they get overplayed to the max. They get stuck in your head like UHU. And you will be like, okay i think i have had enough of her songs that’s gonna last me for maybe 8209137 life times. So annoying until you refuse to turn on the radio just because she is simply omnipresent and you just wanna go please stop the music please stop the music music music…
Then hor, you go to the club and they start playing Umbrella. And you go all crazy about it. So strange.
I can’t believe how prevalent her songs are. Now we call that thing we use to protect ourselves against the rain ella ella e. I think Yee Hou started it.
But if you give me her concert tickets i will be very happy to go!!!! 😀
I have two songs which are rated 4 star in my iTune, and they are “Take A Bow” (haven’t got sick of it because i stopped listening to radios and i think this song is really good) and “Hate that i love you” (did i say i love mushy songs?).
War in Gaza or not, Rihanna is still coming to town!
Rihanna Live In Kuala Lumpur 2009
Date: Fri 13 Feb
Time: 8.30pm
Venue: Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil, Selangor, Malaysia
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It’s been raining a lot lately. When you go for the concert, remember to bring along your ella ella e.
Since i have talked about what TK would like for Valentine’s, how bout what i might like! 😀 (*hint hint hint hint*)
Most of the things i want won’t be available locally though but that’s not an excuse! One can always buy them online from USA, UK and Japanese websites using vPOST., have it delivered to his home address and surprise the girl friend when they are having their romantic Valentine’s candle-lit dinner. Hehe.
I would want to have one of these (i’m not greedy one!).
that’s a lie. i want all of them.
Nintendo DSi
You can buy Nintendo DSi on Amazon!
BUT THEY DON’T HAVE PINK!!! Do you believe it? NO PINK!!!
Atrocious. Just atrocious.
2. A really, reaaally nice winter coat.
Maybe something like this. From Victoria Secret.
Btw omg i found this too on VS. Some shiny stretch boots.
From Victoria’s Secret too. Can it be bought with the coat and counted as one item? 😀
OMG i really really really want them! If you were to buy them for me, please use vPOST.
vPOST is this international shipping provider that is at least 20% cheaper than the rest!
(Note how i’m being so kind and sensitive towrds your wallet.)I really love those stuff sold in international online boutiques lo budden the shipping so ex! So i always didn’t buy them la cuz not worth it. Sometimes the shipping alone is even more ex than the item itself.
But with vPOST, that’s no longer stopping me! Some items with vPOST shipping included are even cheaper than those found in our local malls! So i think vPOST really makes online shopping from US websites a lot more affordable!
So now you can buy online items from USA that are yet to be released in Malaysia, online items from USA websites that DO NOT ship to Malaysia or items that are found relatively cheaper in USA than Malaysia retail outlets.
Eh I’m not done with my shopping yet.
3. World Peace
(Just to sound more bimbo. And note how it comes after a pair of shiny boots.)
4. New Costumes
(Note the plural.)
Cupid costume!! Damn cute! i wan.
Nurse!! i wan.
Army Nurse waaa so wild. I osowan!
Ok this is for the coming Halloween!
Okay this is for next Christmas
(Note how girls cannot think straight when it comes to shopping, from Vday her mind jumps straight to Christmas.)
Actually I bought one from 3wishes.com before one (wtf so many ones!!!111oneoneone) and shipping was so freaking ex! I think if not mistaken it was almost USD55.
This costume i bought. I’m pirated. (Note the pun!)
Hmm… now that I have stumbled upon vPOST service, I can shop and ship through them for all future occasions! Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, National Day (just another excuse to shop), friends’ birthdays, Cheddie’s birthday (of course her mom deserves something nice too)…
OMG guess what i found!!
JUICY CRITTOURE by Juicy Couture
I wanna buy these for Cheddie!
Check out the names. Doggy Pawfume and Shampooch!!! So punny!
And Omg i found Dollcena on Amazon.com!!
I will force my friends to collect these cute little thingies so i will buy one for their birthdays muahahha.
I have 5 of them now in my collection. Please bookmark this page, in case you don’t know what to buy for my birthday in the future.
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vPost is so convenient and reliable, and it’s available in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia and India. If you have friends, colleagues, ex-classmates, relatives working or studying in these countries, they can use the service too.
Good News:
vPost is launching Europe and Japan shipping service to Malaysia locals very soon!!!
JAPAN!!!
Meaning i can buy my MaryMagdelene cheaper!!
And i wonder, can they ship a person back? 😀
Everyone knows the kawaii way. Just randomly go to some girl’s blogs and you will see 99 pictures of the same pose and same expression that will make really good Spot The Difference game.
But i have met someone who is the master of all camwhoreness. All bimbos pale in comparison. This person can come up with 100 difference poses and 100 different expressions in 10 shots. And this person is not even a girl.
He is Yuuri.
He is really shy, soft spoken, obedient. He has become one of my favorite people in this world. He is irresistably adorable. But when camera is pointed to him, he is like a Lycan exposed to full moon.
And he is to teach us How to camwhore 101 poses in 3 minutes–Japanese style .
Ready?
Hai chiizu.
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4 (Note how he poses completely different from his brothers)
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10 (The thing with taking pictures together with him is that you never know what he’s doing until you look at the picture. Very fun one.)
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END.
I bet you can’t even come up with half of them (i know i can’t).
The rest of 82 have to pay. Thanks.
is what the whole world needs.
Nah. Toilet post on demand. Reader Yan said si = choy (shit = fortune) so it should be lucky to blog about it during CNY wor.
There are two types of toilets in Japan. One is the Washiki (和式), traditional Japanese squat-toilet, and the other type is Youshiki (洋式)-modern toilet.
Today we will talk about the modern toilet. There are a few special features on their toilets. Some makes them one of the best things ever created for human and some are just plain bizarre.
1. Seat Warmer
is a blessing in winter. You take off your pants and your butt immediately meets the pre-warmed seat that will just makes you go ahhhhhhh damn shiok i wish i can sit here forever. (I get that feeling every single time and srsly i literally go ahhhh but i try to not sigh in delight too loud in case it sounds wrong!) Because going to toilet can be a really tragic experience if the toilet seat is not heated (sometimes i’d rather tahan my pee than to sit on icy cold surface that freezes your butt until your pee also cannot come out).
2. Million rolls of toilet paper
You will never ever have the “use hand or call friend to help” dilemma.
This is a toilet in Aeon mall. The most i have seen was 10 toilet rolls in one single cubicle.
3. Sound Princess
I’m sure some of you have heard of this already! It’s called Otohime (音姫), literally the sound princess.
This is what i found on wiki:
Many Japanese women are embarrassed at the thought of being heard by others during urination. To cover the sound of bodily functions, many women flushed public toilets continuously while using them, wasting a large amount of water in the process. As education campaigns did not stop this practice, a device was introduced in the 1980s that, after activation, produces the sound of flushing water without the need for actual flushing.
The thing is hor, i once tried using it out of curiousity (basically it will be activated by just a hand wave) and i felt more embarrassed than ever. The recorded flushing sound that came out from the machine sounded exactly like a recorded flushing sound that comes out from a machine. I mean, just, i mean, oh, i dunno. I’m baffled.
4. Bidet
Also called washlet. It has a few functions. Two nozzles that squirt water to clean 1-anus and 2-vulva. It’s like a shower head, you can chose between direct squirt or a softer spray pattern. And then you can also put it on massage mode, adjust the strength and temperature. Then it has a dryer feature and a “power deodorize” feature. I didn’t have enough time to finish experimenting all of them.
The age of the high-tech toilet in Japan started in 1980. with the introduction of the Washlet G Series by TOTO, and since then the product name washlet has been used to refer to all types of Japanese high-tech toilets. As of 2002, almost half of all private homes in Japan have such a toilet, exceeding the number of households with a personal computer.
Their toilets are like handphones. Got series one. The most updated one comes with a remote control with 38 buttons.
5. Small trash bin
I dunno why but their toilets have the smallest trash bin ever. So small it looks like it can only fit 2 sanitary pads. Those cleaners must be damn free, have to change them every so often!
6. Toilet wipes
It’s some antiseptic wipe you use to clean the toilet seat. Some toilets also provide those sheets you place around the toilet seat (like those on an airplane) which you can flush down the toilet.
7. Auto trash bin
They practice excessive cleanliness until they refuse to even touch the trash bin. Just place your hand over the censor and the lid will open automatically. Then you throw your trash. The lid closes automatically after 5 seconds.
On the label it says “contains deodorizing and anti-bacterial treatment”.
8. In touristy places like Disneyland and USJ where gazillion of people are queueing up to take a piss, they normally have a staff in the toilet to guide you which cubicle to go to, (“the next customer, please go this way to the left”), so you can never cut queue or cheat (queue between two cubicles grrr I Cannot Tahan List™).
In conclusion, Japanese toilets are AWESOME. Somebody should start a cult worshipping them.
Oh wait. Yasuo already did.
This is like a semi private entry, a food log of all the nice things i have tried during my Japan trip. Because it’s pretty boring (i post it just for my own reference. It’s nice memories), and some of the pic not too great, and way too many pictures, so i’m breaking this entry into two parts. In case everyone gets tulan while waiting for the pix to load.
One day TK brought me this for breakfast and i was shocked. Yakisoba noodle in bun. Are you serious. But it was quite nice. Cuz their buns very nice one!
If you want you can click to read the rest of this post! (But if you are uber hungry or on a diet better not la. Cuz got like 60 pictures of fooooood.)
Who the hell created CNY? I’m so bored. T_T
All my friends are also bored to different levels of death but we cannot do anything because we are like, all in different kind of places. Some sien in KL. Some sien in JB. Some sien in Kuching. And i’m sien in Seremban.
I finished reading American Gods. Now i’m feeling very disturbed. I try to blog abit and i find myself writing like him. I try to not get angry watching some of the local crap shows. Seriously, how do these artists survive when they only sing a few tong tong chiang songs every Chinese New Year? Then i realized i cannot not get irritated. So i try not to watch them after all.
I try to not to play my Christmas songs too loud.
I wonder if food is all one can think of when one reaches the zenith of boredom. I try to not think about the small mountains on the table outside comprised of cans of different kinds of yummy cookies.
Tanaka San and Suzuki San grew very big.
Mom suspects they are both female because there isn’t any humping yet.
They eat everything.
T&S with Cheddie. Together they are like one big blob of fluff.
It has been the longest time i haven’t seen Cheddie. Maybe like, i dunno, two months? She went hysterical on me. She has to be next to me 24/7.
So at night she sleeps with mom in the other room as usual. I went online in my room. Before i went to sleep i used the toilet outside my room. That was when Cheddie started barking non-stop from the other room. She could smell my scent and she wanted to come to me. We just ignored her. But she continued barking for the next half an hour or so, till it sounded like whining and crying instead of barking.
She wanted to sleep with me.
So mom let her out of the room and she wiggled her way into my room (she looks exactly like a fish when she does that). And then she slept like a baby next to me, quite and peaceful.
I doubt there’s any dog in this world more manja than mine.
Really just like a human baby! She’s almost 2 years old leh!
I did some spring cleaning and i decided to sell some of my clothes off again! Most of them never worn before. But this time i’m doing something different.
Inspired by the Japanese Fukubukuro (福袋), namely Lucky Bag concept, i decided to sell several items together as a set! Bad thing is, you don’t get to choose. Good thing is, they are at a much much lower price.
Preview.
Hope over to Wardrobe to have a better look!
PS: Wei! Comment a bit la! Where are you people? I don’t quite like the idea that you all seem like having fun outside and i’m typing alone at home! T.T Faster tell me you are nuturing fungus at home too!
I had to resist the temptation to type “Merry Christmas” into that title box. God knows I have been doing it for how many years already. But i reckoned i have to stop being so delusional!
And i’m listening to “It’s Snowing Slowly” by Starlite Chamber. Neh, the one in Oli’s video you all say very touching one. And i heard it snowed a lot a lot in Nara yesterday.
Talking about song, you know i listened to Eva Cassidy’s Songbird 37 times yesterday? It’s a soundtrack from Love Actually. And i thought it sounded really familiar, but couldn’t make out which scene it is from. So i spent half an hour searching Youtube for it, and found out it is when Sarah and Karl’s intimate scene in the apartment! That’s my fav fav fav scene of Rodrigo Santorooooomgheissohot. You can watch it here.
This year i dread CNY a little less, because touch wood, don’t you think it is less hot than usual? Must be the cold current from North or whatever. And then yes la it’s very boring but i can blog ma. I wanted to blog about toilets in Japan, but where got people blog about toilet on CNY one. So suey. Choi choi choi.
So i’m gonna show some food pictures. Since everyone is in an eating mood anyway.
These are what we had on Oshōgatsu–Japanese New Year.
Wiki:
The Japanese celebrate New Year’s Day on January 1 each year. Before 1873, the date of the Japanese New Year) was based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar and celebrated at the beginning of spring. However, in 1873, five years after the Meiji Restoration, Japan adopted the Gregorian calendar, so the first day of January is the official New Year’s Day in modern Japan. It is considered by most Japanese to be one of the most important annual festivals.
Some of the Osechi dishes have special meaning to it, just like Chinese New Year food. They also play a lot of food pun! 😀
For example,
Happy Niu Year!
You wanna see more food? Or are you on a diet?
This is the USJ i’ve been talking about la! It’s in Osaka. Not the Subang one. 🙂
Standard picture
We went there on the 31st December 2008, because they had a 2009 New Year countdown party and would be open 24 hours!
The party were gonna start 7pm and we reached about 6pm. And the queue line was already super long!
Night illumination so pretty!
Funky Town. The dancers were great! So cold and they were wearing skimpy dresses :/
Went for the Jurassic Park ride OMG IT WAS SO SCARY I ALMOST DIED.
Seriously. And it was soooo cold and everyone was wearing transparent rain coat. So nobody told me it was a scary ride! We went on it, saw some raptors and long necks and T-rexes grimacing at you yea yea yea whatever la yawn.
And before i could say anything the boat took a steep, steep steeeeeeep plunge into the water. I could really feel my heart getting detached from my body i swear. I very chicken one! When it comes to theme park rides. I would rather die than to play the jet coaster. (Ok doesn’t sound exactly right.) I heart my heart very much thanks.
By the way the pink thingie i was holding is a special edition Christmas Churro stick! Churro sticks are soooooooooo yummy!
And since when Malaysia has it!?!?!? I was shopping in i dunno The Curve or 1U the other day and i saw Churro sticks! Because the first time i saw it was in Disneyland and OMG it tasted sooooooooo good!!!!
Went for Spidey ride.
Gimme money or i keeeel you.
JAWS
We only managed to go on two rides, before we had to secure a place for the countdown.
They sang some churchy song in a boat. Then a looooong fireworks it was so beautiful! I really wanted to cry at that moment because it was so beautiful!
After the countdown, we went to the toilet and queued for at least 30 mins. And it was soooo cold outside! But then the toilets in USJ or Disneyland are impossibly clean. You think like a million people use them it should be quite disgusting la but no lo! It is ridiculously, inconceivably clean. Toilets in Japan are the best thing ever created. Especially in winter, they have the seat heater, you sit down and your butt feels soooooo warm and after that you can use the bidet (wiki: is a low-mounted plumbing fixture or type of sink intended for washing the genitalia, inner buttocks, and anus) then dryer and deodorizer. Aiya i can talk about their toilets whole day. Maybe i should blog an entire separate entry about it. Ze Awesome!!!
After that we went back to the car and rested a little. At 4am, i refused to wake up but i know i had to, if not we didn’t have time for the rides! The tickets were valid till 1st Jan 2009, 8pm, but we had to rush back home to have Japanese New Year lunch with the family.
So we went back to the park at 4am. I think it was 0 degree then. So cold can die.
Were so shocked to see so many people spend their new year in Snoopy House. They slept everywhere.
The parade was nothing comapred to Disneyland la. Saw snoopy and kitty and whatnot.
Pink cafe. Pinker than cheeserland.com confirm.
Candy store.
Sho kiut
Elmo cookie!
This is the cutestestest!!! Spidey cup ramen!!
COOOOOOOOLD
We played this thing called Ring Fling (!!!).
And won an Elmo. That day really Elmo overdose. Like srsly.
I think it was nearing 6am.
Sunrise. So beautiful.
🙂
<3 USJ.
It was 7.30am and we had to rush back to Nara for family new year lunch. Didn’t have time for other rides. T_T
Ok now i want to blog about the toilets in Japan.
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