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Monday, February 14, 2005
V-day, Sis' trip and Maeda Sensei
happy v-day to all! well, my first 寂しい v-day since a long time ago, think i gotta jio some guy frens to watch movie or something together... just like the good old days in hall 6, used to have a movie nite for those without partners to get together...
my sister came last thursday and left yesterday.. sob sob... it wasn't until she left that i felt the full extent of how much i missed her and my family... suddenly felt so lost and lonely after she left. Sis, if you are reading this, thanks for visiting again and hope you come again soon!
She arrived on Thurs afternoon, her S$2k+++ Fendi bag was drenched because some guy's waterbottle spilled in the overhead compartment. so after checking in, we went to Tokyo's biggest Fendi boutique at omotesando to seek help. thank goodness, with the miraculous use of rice paper, the water was sucked out, and from the outside, no visible stain can be seen. i had a nice little yellow fendi paperbag which was stuffed with extra rice paper... and i can see more gals looking at me cos of the Fendi paperbag! haha... guys, if you wanna attract gals' attention here, you now know what to do!
Fri, together with some of my frens, I met up with Maeda sensei, our japanese teacher from bunka language school, who was back here visiting. had a great buffet-style lunch, during which we were mainly interrogating her about her Singaporean boyfren hahaha... boy, did that guy move fast or what? Guess the highlight was when asked if she missed her family and came back to visit them, she replied, "no, for shopping", with a sly smile on her face... haha.. good old maeda...
afterwhich, i met up with my sis again, and we headed for ginza, where i had my first 500 yen coffee in a nice coffeehouse right in the heart of ginza. total for 2 was 1500 yen i think, not too ex for jap standards, but for me, S$24 for coffee for 2 is plain gross... but it was a nice experience nevertheless... as expected, with my sister, i will definitely have some experiences with her that i will never get alone or with my frens here... nice... i also became a shiseido member, after my sis splurged 2150 yen (S$35) on a shiseido facial cleanser for me. she got me a new pair of shoes for 12000 yen too (S$192), this time as my birthday present.
we headed for odaiba afterwhich, and had a nice birthday dinner with a fantastic view of tokyo bay. dinner at Rin Creative Dining (6F AquaCity) cost nearly 6ooo yen (S$96) which I thought was really cheap considering the great food, nice ambience and scenery (although portions are small). The waiter offered to give us free desserts after learning about my upcoming birthday, but we declined as we were already fillled to the brim!
on sat, we headed for hakone for some onsen... first for me. set off late because of sleep haha... whole day turn out to be train train and more trains... anyway the onsen exp was good.. just a little not used to looking at tools of different shapes and sizes all around me... wonder how it will be like in the gals' side.. hmm... my sister said she was surprised at how well-endowed the jap gals are... hmmm..... guys, stop fantasizing! haahahaha...
although a little short of time, we pressed on to gotemba to check out japan's outlet shopping scene. we managed to have only 1.5 hours there (after traveling for 1.5 hours there), and of course time wasn't enuff.. acc to the shopping specialist, it looks spookily like those in america, which i also agree.. however the price wasn't very much cheaper than normal... america's outlet shopping (and canada's i must add) still have the best steals... the whole atmosphere was very nice and warm, maybe because it looked like america instead of japan hahaa... to top it up, it started snowing a bit... cool...
sun was the day of departure for both her and maeda sensei. since i was sending my sis off at the airport, i said sayonaras to maeda sensei as well. after check in, my sis and i went off to have some bite before she departed. coincidentally, we went to a restaurant where maeda was! ha. she was like just seated with her parents 3 tables away. didn't say hi then, cos my sis told me not to bother their private time. afterwhich, we walked a bit, and proceeded to the check in counter to say bye to maeda sensei. that's when i met her parents. my sis proceeded to go through immigration first since time was almost up, when maeda was still in line for check in. it was crazy, as although her flight was supposed to be at 1730, only at 1725 did she manage to check in, and there were still many ppl in line behind her. anyway all she had time for was a quick goodbye to her parents and she left through immigration too....
afterwhich, since her parents were heading home towards shibuya, we took the train ride back together. boy did i have a scary time or what? on the train, i was asked to sit in the middle of them, so we could talk better... so i was like bombarded from left and right in japanese... haha.. super sweat! best of it all was that the train ride was 70 mins long! free jap lessons according to Maeda-san, sensei's mother haha... fortunately, her mum can speak good english, because she studied in london for 5 years when she was young. her dad can speak french, after studying it for 4 years. as much as i tried recalling my french so as to speak to him, i couldn't... sigh... too long out of touch... must go and pick it up again soon! had some revelations of maeda sensei from her parents... must say i am pretty impressed by her now...
as usual, photos later =)
updates: pics!!
sis and i
maeda-sensei and me
altogether - from left: calvin, fangyi, yuhui, tsutsen, maeda asako, jianrong, eng hong, watashi
altogether again
sensei and me again
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