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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
onjuku beach... 7/23
onjuku beach is located in chiba prefecture, supposedly one of the better beaches near tokyo... well you can judge from the photo yourself whether the beach is nice or not...
me thinks not bad lah... at least better than east coast and maybe sentosa...
sand is the smooth and fine ones, not like the grainy ones found in most beaches in singapore...
beach hot or not is debateable, but the bikini gals were sure hot!! but too bad no photos... dun wanna be thought of as a voyeur lah.
anyway nothing much lah, we played a bit of soccer, a bit of volleyball, slept in the sun, played a bit in the water... what else can we do on a beach rite??
to think in singapore, beaches are so accessible, yet i dun really go to any; here we have to travel like 2 hours one-way to go to one... i must be mad... ha...
here's a group photo without me, i was taking the photo of course... hehe...
all happy faces before suayness struck...
anyway in the afternoon, an earthquake happened... the epicentre was at chiba, where we were at... and it registered a strong 5 on the japanese scale (max of 7). i felt the earth beneath move of course, and it was a pretty cool sensation. i mean imagine you are standing on siloso beach and the sand and the ground underneath it are trembling... hehe... it lasted for a short while only lah, and no tsunami too...
so of course we continued our day on the beach as if nothing happened.... until we decided to head back home. we reached the ulu train station, and found quite a few ppl waiting in the station (not at the platforms though)... kinda weird.... the station officer explained that the trains stopped service because of safety concerns due to the earthquake.
what to do? wait lor... the suay saturday streak started here (rem the fateful fuji trip just a week ago... and it will continue the week after too, but must wait for my next post to read about it...)... we waited from around 630 pm all the way till about 1130 pm... finally a train came. we were fortunate that there were train services extended due to these delays, and so we got trains that took us until kamata (i think), just a stop before kawasaki. we reached there at around 2 am... because some ppl were unwillingly to part with their money, they walked back to dorm from there, which i heard took another 2 hours! me, with 4 other guys, we took taxi back - which took us 15 minutes or so. not too bad, cos we paid like 600 yen (9 SGD) each only.... considering japanese standards, quite cheap liao lah.... (although if you think about it, 9 SGD can use 1 taxi per person back in Singapore, so here it is 5X the price!!!)...
it's crazy... but hey we are living in a crazy world today... and i am living in a crazy country now... since we are at the topic of money and price, shall end this post with a quote...
"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. - Jackie Mason"
;)
posted by winz at 3:08 PM
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" I had enough money to last me the rest of my life, until I bought many things." - 千金小姐 ;p
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