Money not Enuff

I had curse the F word,

I had uttered romantic words that could make the birds dance in rhythm.

BUT.......!!

I had/has/will, never ever ever say,

"I HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY AND I DUNNO WHAT TO DO WITH IT!"

Life sucks

Real Size Gundam in Odaiba

久しぶりにwent back to my "home" for last year, Odaiba to witness the giant anime character came to life. The 18m tall 1:1 scale of RX-78-2 Gundam model. It will be there from now onwards till end of August, so Gundam will be joining me for the Odaiba fireworks too. I hope he will consider putting on Yukata(浴衣) for the Hanabi festival （花火大会). Here for more details.

18m tall is around 11 me stack together.

Gundam will move and tilt his head, shine light-saber torch, and spray water to the audience as finale.

Awesome Gundam.

At first, I wanted to wait till the night to see the lighting effects, but I allocated longer-than-I-thought-it-would-be-shopping-time for my shopping spree in Odaiba. Mainly coz I ran out of money. So I reached Gundam earlier, snap a few photos, and too tired to wait till the night.

Then I saw this long line people queuing up. It turns out to be you could walk under the gigantic robots and snap picture of him from upclose. Like really really up close, like, down there.............

I am pretty sure Gundam was a bit shy himself letting all this although tiny, infinitesimal, worthless human to walk underneath him and take picture from his down there.

So he decided to disguise with thick mustache and nicely trim eyebrows.

"no one recognize me! no one recognize me!"

I am not sure what his archenemies will think of his new look.

Me, one of the worthless human snapping his picture from down there.

Then I touched Gundam's leg, pray pray and hope I pass my final examinations.

Finally, the soft side of Gundam.

Arh.. so sweet....

S.A.L.E.S

You wont wanna mess with the Jap girls when they are in shopping mode. It's nasty!


Arigatou Michael!
SALES!!!!!!!


The preparation for Fuji Rock Festival'09


I find this cute little shop hiding out of the main street very cute.

It's sales season in Japan. Every year during January and July, it's shopping spree! And its really dirt cheap. A pair of bottoms from H&M only 500yen! 500 yen I cant even get a meal of decent food here! I love summer sales! :)

You know you are in Japan long enough when..... [update]

-1) You pronounce "network" as net-to-wa-ku. "system" as si-su-te-mu. "cut" as cut-to.

0) You spell "レベジイ"　(Revenge) as rebenge.

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1) You wave your hand to turn on the light. (Most of the switches are motion-detector)

2) You wave your hand to turn on the light when you are sitting in the toilet for too long. (The light goes out because of long period motion-pause time.)

3) You nod your head like there's no tomorrow even talking thru phone. Sometimes till the extend of bowing 90 degree. "Hai! HAIII! HAIII!!! Wakarimashita!! HAAAIII!!!!" (nod nod nod bow bow !! )

4) You buy everything from convenient store (sebun-erebun, aemmu-piemmu...) ranging from beers to disposalable underwear.

5) You stopby every 50 steps to buy drinks from vending machine.

6) You buy umbrella from a vending machine.

7) You buy instant noodle from a vending machine.

8) You buy chocolate bar from a vending machine.

9) You buy battery from a vending machine.

10) You have all sorts of point cards, Tokyu card, Yodobashi card, Pasmo, Suica, Yamada Denki card, Sakura-ya card, Nanaco card, Ikea Family card.... (or is it just me?!)

Help me update.

July dy!!!

I purposely open the "butt-shape" colourful rainbow graph [ It's called the contour graph you retard! ] and matching it with my awesome happiness Spongebob calender I got from the 100yen shop in this photo to make me look smart and look busy. The papers are bunch of scribbles as last minute work for assignment due the next day. Btw, they are in bunch of greek's symbol and equations and equations! They made me look smart too, but I have no idea what they mean.

It's July! in one month time, it's end of this first term and off for Summer holiday!! Wuuhoo!! I cant wait to go home. I could smell the taste of Nasi Lemak, Maggie Goreng, Bak kut teh and Dimsum in my the corner of my mind dy! Kenot forget Teh Tarik. ! **drool**

I will be having one month of Summer Holidays in Japan before heading home! Money money money, in a poor monbushou scholar world, so have to decide between Fuji Rock Festival 09 jam pack with lineups like Oasis, Franz Ferdinand, Weezer, Lily Allen, Ben Harper, Jimmy Eat World, Jet, Fall Out Boy!!! or, Nagasaki Hiroshima!!! or.. Stay home... Worst.. stuck with lab work.

Out.

You can have My Job

Hi, meet my three-week-old toothbrush.

Deep down in me, I think my braces never parted with me ever since that last appointment with my orthodontist decade (singular, decade!) ago. My metal teeth is embedded in me. I thought toothbrush can last for three months?!

Poor student like me in an expensive city, cant even afford a decent toothbrush.

Sleep-less

I tried!!

Sleeping early, waking up early.

Nope. Not working.

I am going fishing in the seminar tomorrow morning. Might be able to catch some salmon. :)

Instant Passion

Today, I had the urge. To get an SLR. For real this time. Stood up, got dressed, and off to Yodobashi.

I was standing there right in front of the camera stand, holding it on my hand, thinking... and walk away!!!

In the end, I bought whole series of Shiseido products instead. Gosh, when will I feel I am ready for the upgrade?

Every.thing Talks (Literally)

In Japan, everything talks. Literally! I mean, the vending machines, the escalators, the turning vehicles, the lifts, the trash cars, the ticket machines, the ATM machines (my biggest "phew" is they dont yell out the amount $ withdrawn), even the traffic light have birds chirping sound.

So, if you are in Japan, these are some of the sound you should recognize.

Vehicles:
Emergency Car is turning right.
"救急車は右に参ります。"
QQ sya wa migi ni mairimasu. (no, not cute!)

Escalators:
Please be careful of your legs when getting on and off the escalators.
"降り乗りの際は、足元には十分ご注意ください。"
Ori Nori no SAI wa, ashi moto ni wa jyu bun go cyu yi kudasai.
(No, not hami-SAI in hokkien).

Traffic Light:
"Tew... Tew..... Tew.... Tew...."
(Dont get mad, no body cursing you. I believe this is also not Hokkien or Canto).

Lift:
The door is closing.
"ドアが閉まります"
Doa ga shi-mari masu.
(Nope, Shit is definitely not coming.)

Busy.Busy.Busy

I am so freaking busy since last week. Wanted to leave a good impression on my presentation, practice and practice, yet I got so nervous I couldnt form a proper sentence in the beginning.

Then, it was exam, assignment,quiz, then tmr is another presentation.

Amidst of all this busy-ness, yet I cant refrain from peeping into my new fiction book.

Wuah! The book Lolita is so erotic, in a good way. The language are superb. Gonna rush rush rush, get all my work done, and indulge in my reading! YOS!!

Jealousy kills

A guy in my lab did this rollover picture in his lab member page. I was so jealous!!!

So, I consulted a programming master name Ahmet...

Muahaha!! Roll over (your mouse lar, not literally, duh!) to see my chubby face.




End note: My amazon order came in today. Did you know that except paying via credit cards, you could also pay in any convenient store in Japan? Paying in 7-11 (pronounce: Sebun Irebun) is the best coz all you need is just to print out the bar code and pay at the counter. (instead of pressing complicated buttons on the auto teller machine). So, there's no reason to own a credit card here unlike in Malaysia who has to go through whole loads of applications and then kena cut for a RM5 debt. Damn pissed off! @_@

Depressed

Sometimes, when I am depressed, I thought of others in this world, who are suffering way more than I do, I will try my utmost effort to cheer up, and hopeful that everything is gonna be all right.


Depressed button

YES. Imagine yourself to be an emergency button in the toilet, everyday sit there silently, watching different people walk in and out of the cube, even the most sexy beautiful chic walk in, she might also have constipation or digging her nose behind close door........

NO Wonder the button is depressed.