Moi in Japan

The almost 2hours bus ride from Narita Airport to Shinjuku is totally worth it!

Somewhere in the middle of Shinjuku..Holding hands :) Lunch was Tonkatsu: Deep-fried breaded pork cutlet served with shredded cabbage. Happily grinding the sasame seeds.It was really fun..My friends and moi had a competition to see who can grind it the fastest.
Of course i lost.

The tonkatsu sauce (which is kinda sweet n sour) is added to make it into a dip. Honestly, i prefer eating the tonkatsu minus the sauce.
The Pork cutlet was so tender and chrispy!! Yummy~
It was so so good~ You know what's so funny? I realise that you can never go wrong with food in Japan. Everything just taste so fantastic here!! You can just walk into any restaurants in Japan and order something, and you will never be disappointed with the food. (Hmm...am i being too biased here?)

I don't care! I just LOVE JAPANESE FOOD!!! Even the shredded cabbage tasted fabulous~
After lunch, we headed over to the electronic area in the shopping mall. One of my friend was thinking of getting a digital camera. We approached one of the sales lady and that's when we realise we have a small lil problem. We don't speak Japanese (at all!) and the sales person couldnt really understand English. There we were trying to communicate with her in English whether the camera has a worldwide warranty and stuff and she was like replying in Japanese!

*faint*

Moi turned to my friend and said in chinese "I seriously don't understand what's she talking about."

Suddenly, this sales lady looked at us and replied in CHINESE "I can speak chinese!"
Turns out she's from China and came over to Japan to work. Super funny!
After that, we were all like good pals and communicating in chinese.

Came across this cute lil Digital audio player in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head!!
Awwwwww~
Moi is seriously thinking of getting a Polaroid camera!!! Is it just me or does the photos taken using a polaroid camera somehow makes people look prettier??
Moi was so so so close (><) to getting one but Tom thinks it's a total waste of money :(

which is kinda true in a way, cos YEN$$ is super high now!!
Oh well, I'll get it when YEN$$ comes down..HEHEHE :)

Dinner was Kani kosen Bento (crab and ikura). It's another one of my favourite dish!
I did feel a lil tiny bit bad for eating all those Ikura i.e salmon roe... I mean all those baby salmon eggies.. eaten by MOI!!!! MONSTER!!!

Sorry for the lack of photos this time. I think I'm getting too lazy to take photos.
hope this lazy phase will pass soon
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14.11.2008

My dearest Cousin,

I am sorry for not catching up more often.
I am sorry for not being there when you need me.
I am sorry for thinking there's always tomorrow.
I am sorry for being caught up in my everyday life.
I am sorry for not saying goodbye.

All the tears that i shed while standing by your hospital bed, knowing you can't hear me...all my sorrys are just too late. The things i would give up just to see you smile again, the smile that would lit up the whole room. Our laughter. As you and me used to gang up against your elder brother, Andrew. How he always looked at us in desperation and said "You two rascals are so alike". There's just so much i wanna say to you. But can you hear me? Can you hear me from where you are now?

It hurts really bad. When someone whom you know your whole entire life just goes away. One minute there, the next minute like "pooof". The six of us were so so close when we were growing up. Your mom would bring the 3 of you over to our home and we would just messed up the entire house. Our dreams. Our little secrets and promises. All these reminisces of the past. What happen to our dreams of growing old together?

You were so brave and so strong. A true fighter. Always so cheerful and optimistic throughout the whole ordeal. Never letting your loved ones see the pain you were going through. But life is so cruel sometimes. You were so young. So much ahead of you. I keep asking " Why? Why u have to take her away from us?"

I did a silly thing yesterday. I logged into friendster just to see your profile and your photos. I cried while reading through your ambitions and your fav things in life. It just feels like you were still with us. I posted a message in your friendster account. I just missed you so so much that it's really painful.

:(

My dearest Christina, take care wherever you are. You were the best cousin i could ever wish for. I would always remember you. All our fond memories together will be forever embedded in my heart. You hate pple to cry over you. I will be strong. I will not cry anymore. Promise. (maybe sometimes?)

Dr. Seuss -- "Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened" and i can just see you smiling back at me
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curls curls curls

Moi have been dying to curl my long hair.

I didn't wanna do a permanent perm (in case i super hate it) so Moi finally decided to buy a Hair Curler!

I chose this Philips model cos the temperature is adjustable (100-180degrees)and the 32mm barrel is just perfect for those big wavy curls. Ermm, cant rem how much i paid for it..probably around S$50?
I brought the hair curler along for my 8days trip hoping to use it when im overseas.
While shopping around Japan, i bought this Lucido-l hair curl lotion which supposedly helps to make the curl last longer.

Problem is: The wordings are all in Japanese!! Moi had to ask my Japanese colleagues to help do a translation. It looks like a lot of words but my colleagues just say "Ohh, you just spray it to your hair. Wait at least 10-15mins before curling it."

Ermmm..OKAY?!?
TATA! Me with my curls!!
Pardon the messiness (It's my first try!)
It's not as easy as how i imagine. First of all, moi kept burning my fingers on the the hot barrel
-_-"
At 150 degrees. it's seriously no joke! Then, the hard part was curling the hair at the back. (i got no eyes behind me) Lastly, MY ACHING ARMS!!!.. holding my arms up for almost half an hour was so so tiring..bleah~

I guess im pretty happy with my curls :)
And im happy with my Philips hair curler. Read in the forums about how some hair curler takes donkey years to heat up, some with uneven heat or not hot enough. I would say mine is good enough. It can get really hot i.e 180 degrees and heat up in just one minute.

Plus Plus...the curls lasted the whole day!! Only start to turn a lil limpy at night.
This is how it looks from the back
moi also came across this video from lucido-l webbie showing videos on how to curl your hair
http://www.lucido-l.jp/library/roll_style03_movie.html
Moi watch it and seriously... It look simple but IT"S NOT!!

Im gonna practice n practice from watching all those videos and hopefully, my curls will be as nice and chic as those pretty japanese girls. GANBATTE!!!

happy curling ;)
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It's still ME!

Finally went about changing my blogskin...The previous one was getting kinda borrringggg and kid~dish. Moi actually took this from a particular female blogger, make some changes to it and tata!! The New Moi..or should i mention The New Moi and Tom too? cos he's kinda in my blog as well..

Moi spent like 4hours trying to figure out how to upload the photos on to the sidebar (super troublesome!) and then Tom came around and just show me in like 2 minutes!! Grrrr...

IRRITATING

This is still WIP, gonna slowly add in other stuff next time... Moi just asked Tom how he find my new blog look and he actually have the nerve to say he prefer the previous one!! Grrr...gonna take all his photos down!! HMMPH