What a tiring week...

It's been nearly a week (maybe more...) since i've written a post right, well there are always reasons... First of all is by the time i came back from tokyo i've been flanked by so much homework and other activities that i didn't have time to even eat (literally!!!) for the past few days... On top of that, the people around me have become more harder to understand... and on top of everything else i lost my camera... I'll get to that later, but firstly, let me tell you about the golden week... Traveling was the worst, it took nearly 12 hours to commute to tokyo... nearly 3 hours of train and 9 hours of bus, the bus was meant for a 4 year old i think, cause i couldn't fit even half of my body into the seat (yes, yes i know how big i am, but the seat was really ridiculously small).
well when we reach tokyo, we headed to akihabara (the famous electric city), and i finally got my phone, and i got some stuff for my computer (chai ei wrote something funny about the first conversation we had when i saw him on his blog www.chaiei.wordpress.com go check it out if you are interested)... met up with my old roommate (who finally cut his hair!) and a lot of other of my seniors who i haven't seen in ages... i also met my batch mates who i had to part with when i reached japan. and then we traveled to the camp site by guess what? a public bus... try squeezing 30 something malaysians into a japanese bus and this is what you get...
alan slept until he looked like this... kinda sad right?
(if you can't read the letters near the arrow, it reads 'there was some poor japanese girls stuck here ><...)
well we reached quite late, and i found out... that... there are also forests in tokyo... sweat... this place had no reception for handphones... imagine this, this is the center for all of technology in asia, and there is no handphone reception!!! well i didn't have anyone to call so i guess it was alright... we had an hour to bath and make dinner, when you think of it, it doesn't sound hard right, let me get you the real picture, we had to start our own fire with our own fire wood with WET newspapers + we had to take our bath in the public bath... I, and a few others asked the others to bath while we start the fire... boy was i stupid, it took about 25 minutes to start the good damn fire... then i headed with the others to the ofuro (public bath)... you know at first you don't think much about taking off all your clothes and entering the place, until you are standing with your underwear and realize that some people are actually watching you so carefully... (vomit vomit!!!) well after blushing and trying to figure out how the god d*mn taps work i managed to clean myself and get into the tub of boiling hot water to relax (ok i know i'm exaggerating by saying it's boiling, but it was around 45 degrees Celsius for god's sake, i felt like an egg being boiled). when i returned to the fire, the girls managed to cook something for us to eat, some of our seniors went on hungry that night because of a miscommunication of food rations... thanks and sorry to those people... well at night we slept quite late trying to catch up on how everyone was doing...
three cobras together againall of us in the tatami room where we spent our first night
the second day was kinda weird to me i guess, we woke up early in the morning to wait for the other older seniors to arrive, and we all decided to make instant noodles for breakfast, here's the catch, there was no hot water... we had to boil it using the wood stove again... it freaking took an hour to making 'instant' noodles... well at least i had fun with the fire...
me cutting wood for fireme with 'MY' fire!elaine frying us eggs (see the oil? it could fill a gas tank...)cobra style sandwich eating! (thanks to the girls for letting us have that delicious sandwich!!!)
looks like doraemon forgot a few meals right?
well we then went and 'received' the seniors that came and proceed to go hiking...
our beloved seniorshiking up the mountain, can you believe nearly 60 of us got lost together for around 5 minutes? hahaha
i never really believed in camera tricks so much until i saw this picture, no randy is not some monster we found in the forest, he is one of my favourite seniors! :)
if you want it to be boring i can say they are both acting it out, but you can imagine it the fun way, the mountain giant killing the handsome prince... ( yes i know many people are going -.-" )

at the top of the mountain!
after having lunch and a photo session, we head back down to our camp site for the big barbecue... i found a small shinto shrine with coins at it's altar, i gave some and made a wish for a person to be safe... won't tell you all who she is, opss i said she, but i didn't say she was japanese right hahaha... ( writing out what i think in my head is kinda stupid right :P ) i didn't catch a picture of it cause i think it would have been disrespectful... the barbecue was a success if you consider each person eating about 300 ml of oil, 30 sausages, some mee goreng, a delicious fruit salad (thanks mj and friends for that), and burning your hands while you cooked a good barbecue... but overall, i really had fun, except for the part where i accidentally burnt Chan's face (i still feel very sorry and bad about that, gomen Chan...)
who the hell is blocking the mee that took us an hour to make?!our sausages and chicken being prepared by our suai ke...
james did start the fire, but, he went crazy after that... poor james...the juniors introducing ourselves... i was first... i just remember saying something about being a rotten banana... elaine's intro was the best i guess, cause she got an encore...the fire dying down after us finishing our intros...
the next day was fun though, we headed to odaiba, a man made island (according to lai). we saw the rainbow bridge and the big ferris wheel, fuji tv's science museum, the toyata showroom and a lot of other stuff. we also had a all you can eat buffet for lunch which had a chocolate fountain. i bought lots of sweets for my classmates... i hope they liked it...
at odaiba buying sweets for classmates!us at the pathway in odaiba near the monorail station...the chocolate fountain... (drool drool...)fuji tv's building, the big ball is made out of titaniumin the big ball... i saw these two kids playing... so cute...the view from fuji tv's 25 floor was just breath-taking...the rainbow bridge in the background and a replica of the statue of liberty...according to a sign nearby, this was the worlds largest pedestrian bridge... well it had some cool suspension cables, so i guess we can believe it...there were some cool wild flowers planted at the end of the pedestrian bridge...we stopped at a cool mall where they had a ceiling that changed from daytime to afternoon to evening and then finally nighttime...
after visiting all those places we rushed back to shinjuku and meet with our own college seniors and headed back to wakayama... during the bus ride back, i forgot to take my camera down with me... i thought i lost my camera forever, but guess what? after calling the bus company, they said they have my camera and said sorry to me... (i still don't understand why they apologized but, for those people who think japanese people are hypocrites eat this...) they said i'll have to pay for postage (300 yen) and guess what? 3 days later, my camera is back with me... ain't japan wonderful? it really took me long to write this post (over 5 hours over two days) and i hope it means something to the people who read it, i'm sorry if i missed out anything, and thanks to those who read it and made my time worth it...