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Saturday, June 24, 2006

omg! I just got to korea and... I THOUGHT I DIDNT HAVE INTERNET FOR A WHILE!!!! DX. Thankfully, it finally connected. YEAHHH!!!! :D:D:D >-< V. It's at "very low" signal level so I'm worried that it might not connect tomorrow morning, but eh, I HATE HOPE!! :D:D. And right below are the 13 days worth of entries ._.;; soo... eh... take your time reading I guess, although it's mostly about me ranting about not being able to talk to liza :p. I'll see you people tomorrow!
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Day 2
:at the writing desk:
I bring a GREAT news!! ......well, at least to me anyways. *ahem* I saved a bunch on my car insurance by switching to Geico! .... *cough* I SOLVED THE POWER PROBLEM! YAYY!!!! :D:D sooo I'm running on 100% battery and straight-from-outlet power! :D anyways, here's the entry.
So today, I actually had a good sleep! It felt good when I woke up >-<. Today we were to go to an art museum then go to an electronics district, where I might find a solution to the power problem. So, as usual, I took a shower and had breakfast and waited for my bro to get his hair done, and left for the museum. we left at 9 today, so we didnt run into the stampede of agent smiths in the subway, which was a good thing. the museum is supposed to house the... thinking man (you know.. the statue of a thinking man?) and the "hell's gate" statue, so I was expecting it to be all huge and high tech and such but nahhh not really. It was just as big as... an ordinary art museum? (although it's not like i've been to so many art museums before). They lined up the arts so that the arts become more modern as the people proceed, and I noticed that I liked the ones in the very beginning more than those in the end. I mean... those modern arts are WEIRD. I'd see a photo-realistic oil painting over a modern painting any day. Anyways, the museum trip didn't last long; we were out of there in about 1hours and 30 min. So... the time came. we were going to the electronics district.
the first thing I noticed when I got out of the station and into the district was the loud booming noise of... mario jumping and getting a coin? so.. well, I knew that I was in the district immediately. First, I went to the source of the mario noises. The noises were coming from the "New super mario brothers" advertisement, which were being emitted by 2 large speakers of a videogame stand. I tried the nintendo DS lite there, and noticed that it's MUCH more convenient than the original nintendo DS. I'm definitely going to get that once I go back to the US. Anyways, after that we went to a 4-story arcade, where I played some maximum tune for a few minutes. It wasnt too pleasant being there, because of the cigarette smoke; almost everyone in this nation SMOKES HIS/HER LUNGS OUT. I really can't stand cigarette smoke. After that we went to a place which was... the otaku paradise. In one building, they had mangas, animes, hentais, videogames, videogame/anime sountracks, and figurines (which consisted of 80% gundams). I found final fantasy 12 there, which was being sold for about 68 dollars US. That beats buying it for over 100 in the US, but I'd rather wait for a few more months to get the translated version for 50. Oh, and they have WHITE psp's and ps2's here! they were pretty interesting. But we lost interest soon and left the building. In the streets they had lots and lots of stands for games, cellphones, cameras and whatnot... but there was this ONE particular stand that really stood out--It was very rundown-ish, but it was GODLY to me.... it was a random stand... THAT SOLD LAPTOP CHARGER PLUGS! LOL!! I mean, out of all things in the world, a stand that sells laptop charger plugs specifically?? I seriously lucked out. I immediately bought a plug without the center thing, and we proceeded to look into other stores. But with the plug now in my bag, I couldn't stay lingering around in this place anymore-- I really wanted to go back into the room, and work the laptop. So I did that. It was heavenly, being able to talk to liza and friends without worrying about the battery power! My mom and bro went out to shop for clothes again, but I stayed in the room, chatting away. I stayed online the remainder of the day, except when my bro had to butt in and use the laptop. Today was also the day of the soccer match between Korea and Togo, so I went to watch that in 10pm; no one was left online anyways. It kinda looked like korea was going to lose because it was losing by 1 goal in the beginning, but the team turned the game around in the second half. it was all good >0< So, now that I'm done... imma go to bed. byebye! oh, and <3's for you liza :D

Day 3
:in the living room of grandparents' house:
Today was my last day in Tokyo and the first day in my grandparents' house! Tokyo was fun, and I'd love to come again with friends or something. (well, staying there does cost a wallet or two, so that's a problem... but still!) here's what I thought about this place:

-Metro system is convenient; almost everything's translated in english, and the trains get you to places fast and easily.
-Lots and LOTS of men and women in suits. There is not a corner in tokyo where you can't see a businessman/woman.
-from what I have observed, more than 50% of the japanese are smokers. As a result, the air indoors is HORRIBLE.
-foods are EXPENSIVE, and the portions they give you are miniscule.
-Even middle-aged men go by the trends.
-this is not just for those in tokyo, but for the entire japanese population: THE JAPANESE NEED DENTAL CARE
-There are LOTS of white guys here.
-If you're asian, they will talk to you in japanese.
-These people love compact cars. the car population is divided into 4: 60% compact, 30% mini vans, 5% sedans, 5% sports cars.
-the commercials here are funny xD

...hmmm, that's all i can think of right now. now onto how my day went:

As soon as I woke up today morning, I got on the computer. Because now I dont have to worry about battery, and since today morning was the last time that I can get online in japan. internet is not available in the part that my grandparents live, soo I cant get online for at least 10 days, until I get to my other grandmother's house in korea. (i'm not sure if i'll be able to get ahold of internet in her house, but i'm hopeful.) I talked to Liza and Lea the entire time until 11 am, when I had to go; the time might have been short, but liza and i had a great conversation >w<. We predicted that something dramatic will happen the moment we finally meet each other again. xDD. It's really amusing to know that asking would have been so easy, because I thought a little too much on that matter before asking ._.;. anyways, after all that we left the hotel room, and got on the shinkansen. the train ride costed 105 dollars US PER PERSON!! i didnt know that the shinkansen costed so much x_x; The train ride lasted for about 1 hours and 30 minutes, and it was quite comfortable while it lasted. If the plane ride could be that comfortable, I would enjoy plane rides :/. After the train there was a very long waiting time until 3pm, which I'd rather not talk about... because seriously, NOTHING happened during that time. x_X. Then there was the bus ride. bus ride with the old people. xD. I basically slept for 2 hours in there and wrote a little of the xanga entry for the remaining hour. I finally got to see my grandma for the first time in 2 years after all that; she had not changed one bit, but it seems that the neighborhood around has changed a bit. According to grandma, there was a big flood while we were gone; because of that, the bus station where we used to get off from the bus got destroyed and got replaced by a circle-K (convenience store). Her house was not affected, though. Her house has become even more technological than before; she got 2 new air conditioners, 1 FREAKIN HUGELY WIDE SCREEN TV, 1 new refridgerator, a new washing machine, and a new laptop (which she does not use). I was really impressed by the TV... maybe I should take a picture of that. My grandfather changed alot though: he has lost alot of weight... he's not so big anymore. I guess it's a good thing in a way, but then not really. He's fine though, it seems. I realized that I probably got my whistling ability from this grandfather, because he whistles nicely and also he's the only one in the entire family (both sides) who can whistle tunes. Oh btw, although He's 89 years old, and he STILL brings home the bacons. xDD He's a doctor, but he also likes to paint and sing. He's truly great. :]. Anyways, I'm going to go to bed now sooo byebye! I love you liza! >w
Day 4
:Living Room:

Ha, i'm sitting in the same spot that I wrote the entry yesterday xD. Not too much happened today, but it was still quite nice :D.
I woke up in 5 am. Why? because I dreamt of... being married to a MAN. I didn't realize while I was dreaming, but I realized once I woke up. I did go back to sleep though, and woke up again in 8am. After getting breakfast, I sat down and played a little bit of halflife 2. I really wanted to play the sims 2, but the damned game crashes every time I run it on the laptop ._.; . After a while, I realized that playing a game with the laptop on the floor was quite uncomfortable; So I moved to the desk in my grandfather's room. There was no chair for the desk, and there was an exercise equipment (which was no longer used) in place where a chair should be for the desk... So I moved the exercise equipment and I saw it. There was something on the equipment... a big black thing... it was a FRICKIN HUGE spider. Being an insectophobic, I backed away screaming. Seriously, that was the biggest spider that I have ever seen in my life; not even on photo have I seen one this big. So anyways, after my grandma and bro disposed of the gargantuan monstrosity, I moved the laptop away from the desk (I no longer wanted to use it there) and to the dinner table. I played the game until my grandfather came back for lunch, and I started to get ready to go out for today.
Today's schedule was Lunch at "Veil"-Bookstore-Electronic Appliances store-Bookstore/gamestore-department store-grocery store-home. So, let's begin from the restaurant. I SAW A GTR PARKED THERE!! [gaasp]. [sanity returns] Ahem, I had Spaghetti with alfredo sauce.. you know, the white spaghetti? yeeeah :D. After that, I went to the bookstore right next to the restaurant. The bookstore and I go wayyyy back--It's an awesome place. I didn't buy anything this time, but I'll come back later and get several stuffs. After that we went off to the appliances store, where I tried all the computers and laptops there to see if internet was available. They were all offline. -_-; I moved onto the electric piano section after that, where I played an electric piano that costs over 1000 dollars x_x; It was really nice-- It had all the pedals, it had the "piano feel" to the keys, and it sounded beautiful. It only had 6 different sounds on it though. After that I went to the bookstore/gamestore place. That place and I go way back also :p. I changed my mind there-- I decided that i'll get a psp instead of the DS because... the DS doesnt have too many fun games on it yet. And I am now financially affluent enough to buy it too! (<-- got over 800 dollars from parents and grandparents ^-^;;). If the psps were in english here, I would have gotten the white psp, but they're in japanese. ;-;. I rented "corpse bride" in this place before leaving btw. And after that... I just looked around in the department store and the grocery store.
Corpse Bride was a good movie! I liked the victor guy-- he could play piano nicely! and... that scene where he's playing the piano with emily was awesome! it was so cute... Liza and I have to do that with something one day. I actually want to watch the movie again... I shall do that tomorrow morning. xDD.
So eh, yeah. Now i'm out of things to write about. :p. byebye! Here's a heart for you today also: <3! :3

Day 5
:Living room.. again:

The weather forecast was wrong-- instead of the day being incredibly rainy today, it was sunny. I guess it's a better turn of events, because staying at home all day would have sucked. @_@;. So, I woke up and did all the routine morning thing until my grandfather came back for lunch. (you know, breakfast, shower, game, tv..) Grandma decided that we'll get steak today for lunch, soo we went to this one restaurant that we had not been to before. That place was quite empty-- there was about 1 other person in the restaurant. I could see why soon. One 250 gram steak costed 40 dollars. 4000 yen. The steak tasted good enough, but still... 40 dollars?! I know I'm not asking to go to this place again now :p. After that we went to the bookstore to get some stuffs then to the department store again. With the purchase I made in the store today, I solidified the idea of getting a psp: I bought the initial D: street stage for psp :D. That made the expenditure so far to be at about 25000 yen, which is about 250 dollars... But i still have alot left in me wallet :D. I'm so happy x3! Anyways, after that we came back home and watched corpse bride again until we left for onsen (japanese bath house). That onsen and I go way back also XDD. There was a guy with tattoo all over his back o__o; and... we came back and... I began... to write this entry? xD so yeah. I feel out of it for writing today... I've thought alot about Liza today though! XD so mhm, yeah. I wish I can see her again soon. Love you Liza! <3

Day 6
:Bed room:

Hrm... no point in saying the usual morning stuff again, so let's cut to the chase. xD. Today we went to the bookstore/gamestore to return the corpse bride dvd then to the OTHER bookstore/gamestore (which I had not been to yet). Nothing notable in the usual bookstore/gamestore, but the other one amazed me; That other store... sold games at extremely low prices! For example, a kingdom hearts 2 was being sold for 20 dollars, and ff12 for 40! They also had other games out with skimpy price tags... it was too good to be true. My mom thought they were selling preplayed games, because the store buys games also... but still! the games were in MINT condition! (they even came with the plastic cover that new games come in!). If i could understand japanese, I woulda definitely gotten the ff12... it was such a fantastic deal! Other places have it out for about 79 dollars each around here! I ended up not buying anything here though, cuz of the language problem. Oh, i forgot. I went to this one store that sells basically everything too. They had a really cute teddy bear that liza would surely LOVE, but... carrying a plushie in a bag or the trunk would be a bit of a problem so.... I had to give up on that idea. O|'''|_. It wouldnt be good for it to be crushed and stuff right? I hope i didn't make a bad choice back there... ;-;... er... I'll buy you an even better teddy when I come back!! \\x_x;//. I really miss her... I wish I can see her again soon ;-;. Oh oh by the way, I saw 2 anime series on tv that I know today! maybe it's cuz it's weekend, but I saw Tsubasa Chronicles and Naruto today! Normally they show animes that I've never even heard of xD. I can't wait to see what will be on tomorrow, which will be sunday. x3 I'm done now, soo byebye! oyasumi :D. <3<3<3

Day 7
:Bed room:

Today is sunday :o. It must be saturday over there... hmm. It rains very often these days here because it's raining season now. There has been only 1 clear day so far ever since the day I came to grandparents' house. :o. I like the rain, but this is sorta more like... humid air + rain soo I don't like it so much here xD.
I went to the guruguru sushi place for lunch today :D.. you know, the place where plates with 2 sushies in each spin around in conveyor belts? I woulda loved it normally, but I had breakfast a little late today morning so I could only have like 5 plates of sushi x_X. There were the days when I had over 30 plates... that was such a long time ago xD. Oh, and I found a parked skyline GTR in the sushi place's parking lot :D... I've seen a several already but I've never had an opportunity to take a picture of it until today x3. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it before... on the day we came to japan, our bus sped past a GTR xDD. Kinda funny how the bus went faster than the car :p.
Anyways, we went to the department store place after lunch, where I found "itadaki street" for psp. I've been wanting to try that game for a while now, but it's not available in US. What the game basically is is... it's a monopoly-ish board game where you get to use many different final fantasy and dragon quest characters in boards that are styled after final fantasy and dragon quest games. I bought it without much thought... but now that I've read the instruction manual, (or rather, looked at the pictures and read some words,) I am sort of worried that I won't be able to understand the game for a while cuz.. It's more complicated than I thought x_x;;. Ah well, I'll seek help from gamefaq... surely they should have something that should help.
By the way, are UMD's supposed to be enclosed in those... plastic case things? I've never seen one ever soo.. I'm kinda confused @_@;. I'll figure out once I buy my psp.
I've been having dreams every night ever since I came to this house, and I've thought a little today. It's strange; a dream feels so real while you're dreaming but it feels so unreal once you wake up. Right now, me asking her that morning feels something out of a dream... it's such a happy memory that it feels very unreal-- and that's what really unsettles me, because I feel like I'll come home to find out that such thing never happened. Ofcourse, I know that it was not a dream, but... I really want to see her soon. ;-;. At least, I'll get to talk to her in about 6 days. :D.... (hopefully. ._.;;)
I'm so going to give you a huuuge hug and not let you go when I finally see you again... x3 I love you, and thanks for being such a kawaii-no ga-ru friend to me :D. I'll think about you until I fall asleep tonight! :3. byee~ >-< //

Day 8
:Bed room:

Heyy~ :D. I dreamt of a "friend" getting a purple lexus sc for birthday last night xDD.. it was so random. Hmm.... wow, nothing interesting happened today ._.;... Oh, I drew Cloud! Hrm... huh, I guess that's about it... oh! I bought a small teddy bear-ish bear for liza today :D you know... the one that i talked about 2 days ago? Yeeeah. I got the smaller version of it though... the bigger one was much better but.. like i said before, it wouldnt fit in the trunk nor the bag without getting crushed ._.;; It's cute, nontheless xD. I hope she likes it.
Hmm.. yeah, I'll end the entry early today... I dont have much to write today :p. Bye~ <3

Day 9
:Bed room:

*"On air" sign lights up*
Hiii~ it's meeh again :D. Today I went to another department store in a place about an hour away x3. I had been there several years ago once, and I remembered yesterday that the place had an arcade soo I asked that we go there xDD. The way to the place was quite interesting; we went through mountain roads that looked like some place out of Initial D anime XDD. It seriously wouldn't be so surprising to find out that people race in the place at night... it has a series of sharp turns and S-turns (chicanes?) and the road is quite narrow (1 lane each side). It'd be so fun to drive there :p. My mom says that grandma's an expert in mountain driving, cuz she used to live in a place where she had to drive through many very sharp turns every day to get to markets and such... and the place used to snow very often too, she says. Lol, by the way, I noticed these days that grandma is no "grandma driver"... she speeds, she parks in handicap parking lots (even tho she is not supposed to ._.;), and she tailgates sometimes (and she means to do those stuffs too!). XDD. Anyways, the department store was much bigger than the one nearby here... and indeed it had an arcade. But the problem was, the arcade was for little children... so it had all these "mushiking" cardgames and fake coin-games. All I played there was that one matsuri drum game from Taito... I forgot its name. It's a rhythm game in which you play that one japanese drum thing that they use in festivals. That game impressed me much; the game had ALL KINDS OF SONGS! For example, they had zelda theme song, mario theme song, "ichirinno hana" from bleach, doraemon song, this one naruto opening song, mahou sensei negima opening song, a bunch of dragon quest songs, and even the numa numa song! XDD. I played the game for a while :D. I saw BB guns on sale over there too, and they had M4A1 for about 5000 yen... it was expensive, yes, but it had full auto capability and stuff. xD. I woulda liked to buy it but.. buying that just so that I can mess with it for 4 days is kinda a waste ._.; So I didn't. And... that was it really. It was rather dissapointing, cuz the place was not as interesting as I had expected. But ah well, I had fun playing that drum game xD.
Hm... so yeah, I'm leaving this place for Korea in 4 days ;-;... I'll be able to talk to everyone once I get to Korea (hopefully), but still... this place is such a fun place to be. Maybe I should take more pictures of this place before leaving so that I don't forget what this place looks like after I leave :o. Anyways, that's it for today. Bye, and i'll talk to you guys in 4 days :p... and i'll talk to YOU in 4 days also :3. <3

Day 10
:Bed room:

Yay, it's been 10 days since the first full day in japan! That's all good, yes. Anyways, lets talk about today then. Today morning was a very lazy-kinda morning. I woke up in 11am (that's 4 hours later than normal o_O) and... had breakfast then played games. Normally we leave the house in about 12:30 or 1-ish after grandfather gets his lunch, but today we all had lunch at home soo we stayed until 2:30. Everything felt very slow-paced until that time :o. First we stopped at this... place that sells... hrm, basically everything. My bro and I watched this reeeeeally odd (mid-low budget, more like) commercial for a window cleaner that was being shown from a tiny TV in the car accessory section there. For some strange reason, they kept on emphasizing the word "SUZUKA CIRCUIT" (that's a racing circuit in japan) in the commercial, even though it's a commercial for a window cleaner. How random. Oh, and they had this light accessory thing in the place that spelled "red" as "rad". It was quite entertaining xD. After that, we went to the department store (the one nearby) again. I tried to convince my bro to get himself a psp here, because i thought it'd be awesome to buy the white psp in japan... but at the same time, I didn't want to get screwed over because the japanese one might not be able to play the games in america. (sorry, confusing sentence there.) I wasn't successful at that though, so I decided to buy the white one myself. Buying it turned out to be not too bad of a choice, because it turned out that I can change the system language to english. Now I just have to hope that american games work on this psp. (I'm pretty sure they do, because japanese games apparently work on american psps.) We got home afterwards, and I played the games that i bought all night afterwards except for the time when I had dinner and went to the onsen again :P.
Oh yeah, I dreamt last night also. First dream was about my dad asking me to find something which I could not find... and he seemed mad about it too. I ended up giving up the search. The second dream was about me being with liza. It woulda been a very happy dream if it were just at that, but in that dream, she sorta didn't recognize me. o_O; she started to ignore me in the end ._.; It was a rather sad dream ;-;. Hmm, anyways, I'm going to bed now. byee :D. <3

Day 11
:Bed room:

Hola :D. There's 2 days left until the day I leave Japan for Korea, so I'm starting to get ready to leave. I could swear that today was wednesday, but it turned out to be thursday o_O;. That sorta caught me off guard. Hmm, there are 2 days left in japan; only for 2 days I'll be able to walk around in this house this year, only for 2 days I'll be able to go to the usual stores this year, and only for 2 days I'll be able to drink melon soda (melon soda = <3) this year. But on the bright side, that's only 2 days until I might have a chance at talking to everyone! yayy! I really hope I can mooch off of someone else's internet connection in my grandma's house in korea, cuz I'll probably wither and die if I don't get to talk to liza soon. LOL. Seriously, I miss her so much that I've been having dreams about her every night for the past 3 days... and none of them were pleasant dreams. Last night's was the worst... DX. *ahem* anyways, so yes.. I hope I can mooch off of someone's connection there. Today we wandered around in the usual stores, because we're running out of things to do in here ._.;. We went to the sell-everything store and 2 different bookstores.. the sell-everything store for my brother's clothes, and the bookstores for psp games. I didn't buy any psp game though; none of them were interesting except metal gear acid, but that game would be impossible for me to play without english translation. That 4000yen FF12 was hard not to buy, but one, Final Fantasy in japanese is impossible to play, and two, I'd have to mod my ps2 in order to play that. Therefore I decided to wait for the english one to come out in US and left the store. And... that was all there was today. o_O. The remainder of the day was all PSP, laptop, and movie xDD. Hmm... so yeah.... i should sleep now. Bye bye~ <3

Day 12
:Bed room:

This is the last night in Japan! Although it's sad to leave here, I'm looking forward to talking to everyone! To think that I might be able to talk to everyone tomorrow.... KYUUU!! >w<. By tomorrow night, I should be in my other grandma's house in Korea... wow, such a different place in just a few hours. Lets see... Mom, bro and I will leave this house for the train station in 9 am, we'll board the train to Nagoya in 10:30 am, we'll then board this... "mini-train" (that's what mom called it o_O) to the airport , the plane to inchon airport in 4:30 pm, and we should arrive to the airport in about 6:00 pm, soo I say we'll get home by 8:00 pm... that's 4:00 am in the morning in the US O|'''|_. If I can find an internet connection there, I'll upload all these entries to my xanga first, then.. maybe I'll wait around for people until 12am. Hmm... yeah.. that's what I'll do tomorrow. By the way, I think I might be doomed for buying the PSP here, cuz I discovered today that the UMD's have area codes DX... I heard from bro that a friend of his plays initial D on his psp, so I'm hoping either the US's UMDs are of area code 2 or "all", or there are ways to make psp's code-free. BLAH! DX. Those frickin' japanese D:<. Hmm... this laptop's warm... it's like an electric blanket lol. yay for randomness outbreaks :D. So I'll just perfect akina and akagi downhill for the remainder of the day today and sleep... bye :D <3

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

	((I'll post the most recent entry later... i couldnt finish it cuz i was too busy watching the soccer game XDD;;; sorry!))
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Day 1
:In restaurant for lunch:
Heyyy~ hisashiburidana! xD. Soo, lets begin by talking about my sleep. I slept for about 5 hours total, including the time from the airplane. Sooo I'm sorta more tired that i would be at this point if I had slept more, but i'm fine. GENKIDESU! >-< /!
I finally got to talk to Liza and friends! and as a result, I now am much happier and my laptop battery level is at critical low. I just hope i can get this entry online before the laptop shuts itself down.
Today, we went to this... tourism place with an ever-running arcade and a Toyota car showroom-ish place. we tok the train to the place, at about 8 in the morning... and I learned that EVERYONE out in Japan in 8am on a weekday is a businessman/woman.--In crosswalks, it looks like 20 million agent smiths are coming in to attack. (and apparently in tokyo, each intersection has 6(!) crosswalks, and ALL of them open up in one time! it looks like floodgates opening when the green light comes up :o)
Hrm, food's here soo i'll continue later.

:In the bed:
I...am...TIRED!! @_@ but the entry must continue! so here it goes:
So, we got off the train and got out in this tourist spot place called pallette town. It was only 9am or something ish, and no one was there yet. Like, not even employees. or managers. so we decided to go to the arcade first, which ran 24 hours a day according to the brochure. The place was HUGE! it had all kinds of games, except shooter games. They had a separate section for racing games and... that section consisted of 3 rows, with each row having like 30 machines. o_O;. They had... 4 initial d's, 2 battle gear 4's, 5 F455 challenges, 4 maximum tunes, and many, many random racing games. And also, there was a section for cue pictures! a HUGE section! alot of the machines they had were the same ones cue has, but these only costed 400 yen. that's 4 dollars in US! YAY! so mom, brother and I took one, and it looks pretty nifty. :D:D
Anyways, after all that we went to the Toyota place. That place was interesting; they had all their cars in the showplace, and anyone could just slip into cars and check it out and all that. I took a pic inside a lexus SC. ;D. They also had gran turismo 4 realism machine thing that you could play, which was interesting. They apparently also let people test drive any car they had there, but... I dont speak japanese nor do I have a license in japan. ... so yeah. Then we visited the souvenir store then left.
After that we went to the downtown place, where my bro and mom shopped for clothes. I'm not a clothe-crazy person, unlike my bro; I just followed them around, not really paying attention to anything. lol. That general area was CHAOTIC! It was so packed and it was very... ADHD ish. Oh, and a cup of coke costed 600 yen there, which is 6 dollars US!!!!! MADNESS!! D:< so in conclusion, i didnt like the clothe shopping part of the day. It was nothing but madness. And I couldnt get the tool to fix the charger problem either. D:<
But the last part of the day was interesting though; we went to tower records, wher eI brought cds for Liza,Lea, and Kristen. I bought kokia and Asian KungFu Generation, So I'll have them choose which they want. They had more than 6 floors of cds in the store!! it was amazing. They had a sountrack section too, where I seriously wondered if i wanted to buy "More Friends FF" and "FF020220" cds. I didnt get either. And blahblahblah, I came home just about to faint, and here I am! Okay now I'm gonna go to bed now. Love you Liza and I'll talk to you tomorrow!

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Sunday, June 11, 2006

YAY here's the first xanga entry in 3 months! and i'm im japan as i'm writing this! COOL!!! :D:D:D okay i'll post the first 4 days worth of journal things here in the next 4 days, cuz... it's not likely that i will get ahold of internet while im in my grandparents' house.
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Day 0
:Just got on Airplane:
Well, this trip is certainly different than any of the previous trips that i've been on before from the beginning! (I mean, for one, I've never written stuffs like this on trips before!)
So, I woke up in 8am-ish, ate breakfast and brushed teeth and all that morning stuff. Then in about 9am I got online to see who was on, and found Liza and Connie! Yay! So.... you know... we said bye for the last time and stuff then I left at about 9:30am.
Now here's the first unusual stuff: I'm taking ANA to Japan this time, instead of Korean Airline or Asiana Airline. Never been on this before, nor did I expect to go on it like... ever. So anyways, we went to that check in place and it turns out that the airplane that I'm supposed to take changed from 747 to 777! I guess this plane is luckier by a 7, but still. This one's tiny compared to 747!

.... whatever

So then I sat in the lounge place in front of the gate and turned my laptop on. with 0% brightness and 3/4 cpu, it says that it'll stay on for 2 hours and 40 minutes. Boo. I did find a wifi connection, but i couldnt connect to it for some reason. so there went the hopes of talking to Liza again before going on plane. After that I got on the bus thing along with like.. 15 billion people (I did wonder how powerful that bus was o_O) and in about 15 minutes I got on the airplane.
Another unusual stuff: it turns out that mom, brother and I are not sitting together. Soo.... I sorta ended up sitting in between 2 complete strangers-- Complete JAPANESE strangers. This never happened before-- we've always sat together in trips, for the past 18 years. lol. So yeah, this is going to be one hell of a flight. Eh, I'll continue later for now.

:Almost out of Airplane:
Okay, there's about 40 minutes left in the fliht and I am... much better off than I expected. muchomucho thanks to the individually placed TV screens and their little videogames. we dont get any of that stuff in Asiana or Korean airlines. Impressive. It was amusing enough to keep me occupied for the past... eh, 9 hours? It's a record since I didnt have to take out my gameboy at all for the entire trip. Food was pretty good too. The only bad thing about their foods was their bread. They were not warm at all, but rather COLD. like... so much that I chewed on butter. But it was good overall-- I cant beileve that it's already been 9 hours. Soo in conclusion, I give ANA about 4 stars. lol.
Now, I just heard from the captain that it is RAINING in Tokyo right now and also that it is 14 degrees celcius there. I seriously did not expect to get my butt frozen on the first day of my trip... my SUMMER trip. xDD. But ah well, I'll be sitting in the hotel all day today anyways.
I realized something by the way: the charger plug for my laptop wont fit in the outlets over there because of that little rod thing that sticks out in the middle. So, until I can pull that thing off, I need to conserve the battery like MAD.
Anyways, so hopefully I'll get to talk to Liza at night here. If not, I'll just leave a message or something... actually, here's a message for her now: I miss you already! T-T I <3 you and I'll talk to you soon!

:In hotel room:
Okay it's 5:15am in the US right now, and I see no one online in AIM. Yes, I did manage to get internet connection... FREE! :D:D:D [dances] but yeah, the charger plug thing problem is not solved yet, so I'm running on battery right now. I now have 2 hours and 10 minutes left on battery.
This hotel.... it's.... UBER. like... one of the bests i've ever seen. I mean, it's so uber that.... that.... the toilet cover opens by itself when someone approaches it! and... the shower room lets you listen to the TV that's in the room! like... the sound is played INSIDE the shower! crazy. and eh.... yeah thats about it for hotel for now. (mhm, yes I'm kinda tired lol. I basically pulled another allnighter, cuz i havent slept ever since I left except for like... an hour.)
I did manage to get the internet connection but.... how am I going to tell everyone to check my xanga? hrm... I don't know. I'll try to stick around until 12 here, which would be 8am in the US... but then I'll be like... dying. lol. ah whatever. maybe this is the power of love. xD. so yeah. <3<3<3 from me to liza! :D

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