Marooned.

Quick update.. that will be filled up with details soon:

1. Michelle Ong is here! Whoohoo. Living in my little space. She’s one crazy, unpredictable girl. ♥
2. She brought goodies from home: CURRY. BAK KUT TEH. PANDAN FLAVOURING. TOMYAM. CHICKENRICE FLAVOURING. KAYA. She can live here forever, if she keeps bringing these for me. Heehee.
3. Oyasumi (Holidays) in 2 days !
4. Guns N Roses are FREAKING CRAZY AWESOME. Although they were about 5 cm tall from our seats – it was a greaaaaaattttt, LEGENDARY NIGHT!! (: LIVE & LET DIEEEEEE!!!
5. I am loving my GNR Tshirt. I’m going to wear it SOON.
6. There was a crazy long line to get souveniers after the concert – it was crazy long. Japanese do love their souveniers.
7. We met the craziest dude in the whole of Tokyo after GNR. I laughed so hard it hurt. Oh yeah, and he’s a metal rock singer in Japan, from Australia.
8. I love Harajuku. Went there with Nancy & Susan today. Love. It. & bumped into Perttu & Elina too. How random. And I took 30mins to find Nancy, but I spotted Pertty & Elina not once, but twice. How crazy is that?
9. Its insanely cold. I don’t do cold! Freaking hell. And, and, and, the sun is out so nice and bright, it makes me feel all paradoxical. Cos I do not feel the heat!!!! Although I am glad I am not feeling the humidity and melting away, like back home.
10. Ayaka is an awesome singer! I love that girl. She’s so cute & pretty and has an amazingggggggg voice!
11. We went to Ruby Room, it was an open mic bar night. It was awesome. Very cool.
12. Nights out with Ann, is always crazy. She’s been good (ie. mostly sober) for the last 3 nights we’ve been out. Very proud of her. (:
13. I cannot survive on 2 hours sleep, if the night before was spent partying. Although I did do really well in Japanese class. I got a “Subarashi!”. HAHAHA. I fell asleep 3 times on the train when I finally headed home… and I think I was standing up for 2 times out of those 3.
14. I finish my ceramics course on Tuesday. And I’ve seen most of the pieces I’ve finished – and I LOVE THEM. (: Its so Japanese. The way I learnt it here is soo different from what I did back home, and I can’t decide which I prefer. Although I think I learnt more skills from this sensei than I did the last time when I learnt it a few years ago.
15. I miss Mayjean Lim. WHY must you be in Australia?
16. I love Ann Soelberg.
17. I love Tokyo. I love Japan. I never want to leave.

Night world.

Oyasuminasai.

Ann and I visited Seoul, South Korea, last week, and before I forget some thoughts I have in my head, I’ve got to write some down. Photos are still in my camera, so that’ll have to wait.

Here is a soundtrack of our days in Seoul.

If you’ve been to Seoul, or seen ads from there, this gets stuck in your head. Ann and I had it stuck in our brains for a long time.
Chick Habit by April March

Ann’s song:
All Star by Smash Mouth

For the Oasis-love in all of us. Where the lyrics speak to me.

“The things that you’ve seen, slowly fade away.”
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“My soul slides away, don’t look back in anger I heard you say.”

Don’t Look Back in Anger by Oasis

My most favourite song, ever. Sing it to me, and I will melt. (I’ve probably quoted this song twenty thousand times).

“I know you know we’ve had some good times
Now they have their own hiding place
I can promise you tomorrow
But I can’t buy back yesterday”

I’ll Be There For You by Bon Jovi
(And I chose an awesome vid. Old school!)

I love it, Ann hates it. Its awesome. And I got 100% on it, with a certain someone. How am I to deny this song?
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Frank Sinatra leaves me speechless. And a simple promised serenade?
Under my Skin by Frank Sinatra

Back at One by Brian McKnight

Someone dance with me?

The weather in Tokyo has been awful for the past many days, probably a week since the start of rainy rainy rain and gloom. Supposedly a typhoon is going to hit Tokyo soon, but I don’t see any reports on it! I hope people are just telling me nonsense, and there will not be a typhoon, because there was the typhoon when we first arrived in Tokyo, early September, and that sucked big time. [Ok, I know. I have another like 30 days in Tokyo to pictorialize - soon! Patience!]

Anyways, I just saw the report, and its going to be sunny on Saturday & Sunday! LOVELY. Especially since Ann & I are planning to go to one of the Tokyo islands, Niijima, this weekend. Lovely!

Ann is my new travel best friend. Today we just went to get our multiple entry permits, with Perttu too, then we booked our flight to South Korea for the 14th Oct, and then booked the Demilitarized Zone tour in Seoul, then we are planning to go to Niijima this weekend. Pure wonderfulness. (:

Ok, time to hit the readings. I haven’t started any readings since this evening, which I’m supposed to finish for tomorrow’s class. I’m so so not going to finish in time. Its one huge stack, and this is not including the second class. Sigh. But I was productive on other fronts, like making dinner, eating, watching some Japanese television, vacuuming my room, taking a bath, washing my sheets, pillowcase, blankets, towel, and gotten price information for future trips – Taiwan!

On another note, the Yen needs to depreciate. I’m running out of money and I hate the rate so badly I don’t want to change the money I have in USD and SGD. Although I was forced to withdraw from my debit card when I absolutely was penniless, and there were no money changers. There is a serious lack of money changers – at all, and with good rates, even less – in Tokyo, I don’t get it! And the bank is taking too long to set up my account, I need some money transferred in from Singapore, don’t they understand! Very broke girl here, in a very expensive city!

Meeting all my friends make me sad that I’m leaving, and yet I’m so crazy excited about it. It feels so surreal that this time tomorrow, I’ll be in an A380 heading for Tokyo.

My bags are terribly unpacked, or more like overpacked. The huge bag and carry on are full, yet I’ve tonnes of things still not insides. HOW! I’m getting a bit worried, and scared to take things out, because I’ll feel annoyed with myself when I realise that if I brought it, I’ll be saving money over in Tokyo. I just want to pack everything into those few bags.

I was driving home just now, and throughout the way, it hit me how much I’m going to miss Singapore. But it’ll be very soon that I’m back, so I guess it’ll be ok. (:

So I’m going to Hong Kong and Guangzhou again.

Really excited for so many reasons. I’m finally going to be a proper tourist and do touristy things, instead of just shop. And definitely eat all the good food until I explode. Love love love.

I’m going to be hanging out with Nartz after so long, totally looking forward to that, especially cos she knows all the best cool spots in town. -Happiness.

Ok. I’m crazy last minute, with only 2.5hours before I need to cab down to the airport and check in etc. First flight out of Singapore alone actually, although i’ve flown alone several times, so its actually a new experience. I only just finished packing, I’m loading music into my ipod shuffle & handphone now. Very last minute I know, but I had to meet all my friends today, and say my “See-you-on-Monday”-s.

Bye for now, Singapore.

Picture via: bugbog.com