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...

Maybe everything is meant to be broken but...

Seriously this is one of my all time favourite movies and the song is one of my favourite songs. at times, i wish that i could be Nicholas Cage and say those words that he said, and well, be loved and love like there was nothing else that mattered in this world... i have always believed that the first time had to always go right, but i finally figured out i was wrong, and that they are always second chances in life even though you screw up badly the first time, someone once told me something very simple, and it's one of my principles in life now, might sound stupid but,

You only lose when you give up... anything is possible, nothing is impossible...

CITY OF ANGELS - IRIS - GOO GOO DOLLS

One day of my life...

today is showa day... to people who don't understand what that means (like me also...) it translates to a holiday... well i'd like to share with everyone 1 very typical day i have here when i have no class.
activity 1
waking up...
i wake up by saying hi to mr. tiger, i won him at the UFO catcher machine in the supermarket with one try... so he is my lucky charm...
activity 2
since i wake up quite late, around 10am, i prepare brunch right away...
today i prepared my special 'murtabak like chicken' for my tutor, well actually he isn't, (my tutor was at a baseball match) but he pretty much takes care of me also... so i thought i'd return the favour... as you can see on his face, it tasted good... hehehe
i ate spinach fried with chillies and some sausages. sounds sad but it tasted good and well i just didn't have enough time...
activity 3
today is the inter-hostel-mates badminton and volleyball competition. volleyball was held early but i didn't take part so it doesn't matter...
say hello to my 23000 yen racket (RM750) hehehe...
i took part in our badminton competition, along with a few other foreign students and one japanese guy. well...there was around 15 teams consisting of 6 people in each team... we weren't much of wining team material... our team name... was... 僕らはマレーシアから、時々ヴィエトナム（we're from malaysia sometimes vietnam) we had 4 malaysians, 1 vietnam guy and 1 japanese guy on our team...this was the only picture i took when i was playing cause i was too busy trying to 'focus', well these two girls stole my focus away though muhahaha...
even though we were the black sheep... (baa baa baa...) we managed to get 2nd place which i consider a great great achievement... we won three 100 yen tickets to use in the school's shop (koperasi)...
but the best part was... i had fun... i made a lot of new friends... i'm being called ero-kawaii... which means flirty(?) and cute... hehehe... i'm making quite a name for myself...
our team, the six of us... the vietnam guy is squating (far right), his tutor, the guy how's shoulder i'm holding...
these are my seniors (who are one year younger than me... sob sob...) they said i have a cute smile... -.-"
these are some of badminton club members and some of my friends... hehehe...

the best part of today was buying my bento (box lunch) and eating it at the small harbour nearby while watching the sunset... taking everything in, and thanking god that i'm having a good time... i hope i can forget the remainder of my sorrowful love life and all those bad memories i once had from now on... it's time to move on right?

one more week gone by...

well well... one more week has gone by... i've been trying my best to get along with everybody... but they still treat me like an outsider... it's not like they don't talk to me or anything... but it's just that they still treat me as an outsider... it's not bad or anything, it's just that they are only three types of people around me, with the exception of my tutors and the other foreign students.

type a - the overly friendly and helpful type...
Me: yo...
A: gane... good morning.
Me: good morning.
A: how was badminton pratice?
Me: it was ok...
A: how's the weather?
Me: it's...
A: if anything is wrong you can always come to me...
Me: err...
A: don't worry... everything will be fine, earthquakes won't happen here...
Me: i didn't ask about earthquakes...
A: (talking to self) but sometimes there is strong winds and hurricanes...
Me: i think i'll be leaving now...
A: (continues talking to self) bla bla bla...

type b - the overly shy type
Day 1
Me: good morning...
B: (runs away)
Day 2
Me: Ah... how are you doing?
B: (looks at me with teary puppy dog eyes)
Me: i'm sorry, i swear i won't ask you how you are doing again!
B: (runs away)
Day 3
Me: good morning?
B: (shyly and quietly) good morning...
Me: wow, you finally talked to me...
B: (runs away)
Me: GOD help me...

type c - the cool type
Day 1
Me: good morning
C: youss...
Day 2
Me: hey what happened...
C: (cuts me halfway) YOUSS...
Day 3
Me: good...
C: (cuts me again) Youss...
Me: can't you say anything other than youss?
C: (shakes head) youss...

(stories may have been overly exaggerated for the fact that the writer is too free and is able to think of too much nonsense...)

hahaha, but at least i can see some of them turning around, the juniors finally accept that i'm their senior and greet me normally without the fearful look like i'm going to kill them anymore... the girls don't look at the floor when they walk by me anymore, they either greet me or smile at me... so it's not so bad anymore... well there still are a few people who fail to acknowledge i'm a living creature, but i guess asking everyone to treat me as a human seems impossible at the moment... but obviously... every 'gaijin' (outsider) seems unique here cause it's a far away place with not much foreigners around. so it's obvious they are going to need more than just the 3 weeks that has passed. maybe after around 3 months they'll get around...
and today... i hurt my leg (calf strain i guess) while jogging... and tomorrow is our 50m sprint test... die... hehehehe.... oh... and i nearly got hit by a baseball...

Finally... internet in my room...

Two weeks have gone by since school started. Met a lot of new people, joined the badminton society, did badly in my physical test, become shorter and fatter... Hahaha... but surprisingly enough, i'm fitting in quiet well, the people here are quiet like malaysians and they are extremely kind. As usual though they are always the hard part about doing official stuff like getting bank accounts and all kinds of stuff done, i'm halfway through that and i feel like a royal idiot cause this place is so different from kl... at a few times i felt like giving up, and going back home to my mom, but the fact is, i am here cause i want to make her and everybody else proud. it feels like years have passed by since my bestest of best friends left me at the airport and waved goodbye at me, i miss them dearly... i hope they read this often... (ya, sorry for not updating for 2 weeks+)
Classes are quiet though since the other students already studied the 'special' subjects for 2 years already... other than that, i'm doing quiet well, i'm quiet popular in school because, supposedly i'm huge! my nickname here would probably be 'DEKKAI' which means monstorous... i don't quiet like it, but at least some of the girls like me (ahem ahem cough cough)... as usual, there also are the pretty boys and pretty girls which i don't think i'd be able to communicate with them, so those people who i promised catalogs to have to wait... hahaha...
My tutor is a baseball players and always busy with practice but he actually takes time to help me to my stuff and is actually genuinely concern about me, so i like him. in the badminton club, the training is from monday to sunday, yup you heard me right, it's everyday... i'm trying to go everyday but it's really tough, luckly the seniors like me, so they let me slide most of the time... hehehe, the best part of being a foreigner is that i guess, people pity you... some more i look cute right, that's why i think they love me so much!

this is where i've been jogging recently

the best part of this place it the scenery i guess...

i look cool right...

Danger, waves!

A special type of sushi available only in few places like Gobo! Cheese melted onto half cooked fish!

thanks to this guy, we got to eat home made tako yaki(fried octopus balls)! thanks Teo senpai!


Our seniors and us at a sushi house after bowling...

I'm there...

Well i arrived a lot earlier, but i didn't have any internet connection to go online. Everyone don't worry. I'm using my seniors line to online now but I'll be hooked up in the next one month i guess. I stayed in Shinagawa prince hotel upon my arrival and moved to Toko hotel during my 5 days in Tokyo. I've been here in wakayama for around 4 days today. I have to cook myself cause the hostel people are not in to cook. I also learnt that i have to cook every wekend unless i buy a special ticket for meals on sunday and saturday... my room was a nightmare... the senior before me who used my room was extremely dirty and therefore he left behind a roach infested fridge for me... hahaha... it was kind of funny to think that i ws so grossed out... don't worry don't worry... the school cleaner cleaned the fridge for me and mopped the floor for me. the rest of the cleaning i did and my room is quite clean now. seriously wakayama is far from what i thought it would be, but i realized that all my life i never have gotten what i wanted before, and therefore, i'm going to make the best of what i have here. so far the people here have been great to me and i'll repay them for their kindness in being what i've always been... the weather here is cold, around 7-10 degrees. the wind makes it even worst at times. but here in wakayama, the wind is always here, and it makes it kind of even worst. to all my friends who read this post, i'm sorry, really, i'm very sorry that i haven't contacted you all yet, but the thing is, i really don't have internet or a phone of my own yet. i really miss all of you all, i can't write all your names down i'm sorry, but i swear i really do miss all of you already. until i have more time to write again, love gane...