Today was Mr.Tan's farewell. I think i ruined his last Dona with us :( Horrible D couldn't come out. My A was super flat because the instrument's mouthpiece was new and it couldn't fully go in so it was flat! It was so saddening :( Kind of felt bad for him, cause it was afterall his day, but everybody all left before him x) Well, see you soon mr.tan! cause it's not going to be goodbye :)

Another bad thing happened, my home phone line has gone crazy! It's like broken. Sometimes when i pick up the phone, there is no engage tone. And sometimes, it miraculously recovers! Sheesh, i don't care man. I called the singtel people and they're coming down tmr to check it out. I hope my phone can be fixed or not my internet will be irritating as well :( I'm starting to think my internet itself is crazy :(

Not only that, my laptop has abandoned me. It can't be turned on. Well, whenever i press the on button, there is light but the screen remains black. I know, it may sound as if the screen's broken, but believe me, i know when the screen's broken and when my computer's broken x)

Oh sighh, my photoshop and nice music's all inside :( I hope my life doesn't get worse than this :'( It's as if all my ways of communication have been cut off. I've come back to use my old computer and remembered why i disliked it so much - it's uber slow! :( Well, i will learn to appreciate it now :) At least it stood by me all this time and still allows me to use it, haha!

*hugs computer!*

something's wrong with my hotmail email. i cant seem to navigate around anything once i reach the site. hmmm. odd.

well, sorry to some people who have been experiencing some problems with ym blog as well x) its got to do with the windows live myspace picture gallery thing which i have recently embeded to link to my japan pictures. i dont know how to fix it though.

well tmr's the christmas party and there isnt any plans about how to go to melissa's house and whatsoever. this is just so weird, feels as if everyone's forgotten about it xD

dont feel like saying too much here today. need to recharge my camera. went back for a band practise yesterday cause we'll be playing a last song for mr.tan before he leaves to study abroad. i think i sound absolutely horrible! maybes my reed's dead, i dont know. my sound just doesnt come out sometimes. leblancs are honky x) or is it just me and my lousy skills?

sighh, ah well. looking forward to tmr :)

Here are the photos :)

*Updated on 16 Dec 08

I'm back from Japan! Yup :) Oh I'm quite lazy to post every single detail on what happened but i will do a rough summary.

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First day
Today's flight day. Plane ride the entire day from 8.20am til 9pm xD Yeah, we transitted plane from Narita to Osaka. It was really tiring!

Second day
Woke up in the morning 6.30(Japan time). Went to universal studios today. It was cold! Shivering! I didnt know the maritime and continental moderation thingy was so effective in moderating the temperatures! Cause Tokyo, which was nearer to the sea, was much warmer. Its 4 degrees compared with 16 degrees. Camera died today :( Didn't even take many photos the day before, guess i just didnt charge over the past few dont know how long x)

The spiderman ride was great! Didn't have much time to explore the place, only half a day. So we didn't get to ride many things :( The cold was eating so much into us that we didnt even have the mood to ride any rides that were exposed to the bare wind. Well it was fun in total!

Third day
Moved out of the current hotel to go to Nara. I have been moving hotels every single day. Really tiring. You got to constant pack your luggage and stuff. Well today was cold as well. Went up to the temple (uhh, forgot the name xD). Saw wild deers walking about, some sitting under the shade of trees. The deer there really do bow their heads to you before you feed them. So cutee!

We fed them too, but there was a deer that snatched our packet of deer food away xD

Saw a school fieldtrip as well. Big groups of high school students. Love their uniforms! Wish we had seasons here in Singapore. The japanese school boys in their winter uniform look good! :)

Our tourgroup hired a Maiko (is that how you spell it?) for us to take pictures with :)

Then we went shopping in the underground streets or something at night near Tokyo TV Tower.

Went back to the Hotel and then my family and i went shopping outside on our own at night. Got lost when coming back and my mum went to ask for directions with the little japanese she learnt when she was younger xD

Forth day
Set out for Mount Fuji today. Went to see their .. uhh what are they called? The moutains had smoke coming out from its sides xD Well, you'll see in the pictures the next time i upload them :)

People were going up the mountain to this small yellow hut to purchase the black eggs or something. The eggs were black because there were some minerals in the hot groundwater used to cooked them. These eggs were only black on the outside and normal on the inside.

Oh pardon the bad english, feel really tired now and the song im currently listening to is interfering with my thinking xD

The sky started to turn dark at around 4pm so it was completely as dark as 8pm in singapore at around 5 to 6pm.

Went to collect some spring water at night. The water tasted pretty fresh and normal. It's amazing that they would taste this way when theyre not even processed or anything.

Stayed in a Japanese styled hotel tonight. The entire tourgroup was told to wear the Yukata for dinner this night and we all did xD Slept on the tatami (is that what you call them? xD thats what the tourguide called them). Didn't go to the hot spring thing. Dinner was absolutely filling! Everyone had one set meal to finish. We all sat on the floor yes :)

Fifth day
Set off for the fifth station on Mount Fuji in the morning. Saw a small patch of snow and it was cold! Well didnt get to see it snow from the sky though :(

Then we went to Hello Kitty Land today. It was pretty empty today. Perhaps cause its a weekday and many people are still working. But i have to say something! The students in Japan dont seem to go to school. haha! Well its like i see students everywhere and anytime. 9am, 1pm, 4pm. Shouldnt they be in school or something at 9, 10am??

Sixth day
It's disneyland day the whole day today! It was much bigger than the one in Hongkong and their management's really good! Wore Marie's (the small white cat from Aristocats) cat ears for the day xD Was quite accomplished today cause we managed to ride a number of nice rides :)

Watched their parade. It's Tokyo Disneyland Resort's 25th Anniversary this year. Lucky us to get to see it xD Bought some souvenirs here :)

Went for Japanese barbeque thing the night for dinner. It's like seoulgarden, you take the stuff and you cook them except there wasnt a soup thing to boil fishballs and stuff. It was pure cooking of meat. Quite fun to do xD

Seventh day (last day)
We went to Jusco today to do last minute purchases of japanese goods for souvenirs. Went to Daiso too. There were so much stuff that my eyes crossed when i came out. Oh was so tired cause we had to wake up so early every morning and i guess my internal clock just cant take it xD

Tried the macdonalds in japan. My auntie went to buy this "cinnamon melts" thing, it was really sweet. Like little donut balls (you can see them in the pictures) but they dont have holes in their centres. I ate their Mcflurry and its quite nice. They mixed in cake pieces of something, really nice. Not as sweet as the cinnamon melts though xD

Well, home sweet home! Reported to the airport at 3pm and we walked around and waited for our flight. Oh so sleepy! Felt like vomitting on the plane, perhaps i was too tired.

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**There was this city i went (forgot which) where there was a no smoking sign printed on the floor. It was a cool idea xD The people there actually obey that! Really good, no smokers :)

Got static almost every 10 minutes on the 1st day cause of my shoes! I guess the rubber must be of good quality that i keep getting charged up as i walk in the carpetted hotels xD So irritating, Was like this too when i went to the universal studios, static! I've never gotten this much static in a day before!

Their showers quite troublesome to use cause got 2 knobs - hot and cold water. Must turn both at the same time so it wont be too cold or too hot. Everytime you turn it off, you need to experiment with the knobs to get the perfect temperature again. Ah well, there were 2 or 3 hotels near the end that provided great temperature adjustment thingies.

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Tours are really really tiring! I think even til now i havent fully recovered from exhaustion and still feel like puking when im too tired just like what im feeling now as i blog. All right, shall end here then.

Looking forward to visit Japan again though :)

I feel so heartbroken! All these movies always do this to me!

I just watched "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" on television last night and it has left me heartbroken! Haha, i dont know my heart feels so empty!

It was a lovely movie! Chiaki and Makoto! Ohh man :(

I really love and dislike these cliff hanging movies like korean movie "Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox", Japanese "Spirited Away" and "Brave Story" xD There is no exact ending, its like some sort of opened ended movies. I cant do this sort of things too often! It gives me heart attacks, haha. The worse thing is the people get separated! Urgh, so annoying!

Well spirited away did have an ending but it was separation! I know its a must to have this sort of endings in various movies, but i dont like cliffhangers :( Oh well, i guess im free to ponder about the ending.

But its quite sad sometimes cause in some open ended movies, you know its not possible for the 2 people to ever meet up again. And there isnt an ending to confirm their reunion and stuff, its just so heartbreaking! :(

Well, i have to credit the japanese and koreans for creating such lovely movies :) Really well planned and thought out and it is deep in meaning. So far, not a single one has failed to impress me and leave me heartbroken and hanging on the cliff xD

I love all these movies <3