today was a great day for me, actually a really relaxing day but little bits of fun here and there, was rewatching GossipGirl Season 1 and skyping until about 4am then I told myself I had to sleep despite how awake I was ... D: so woke up 2hours later at 6am, extremely groggy but dragged myself to the bus stop where daddy glenn's daddy came to pick me up and brought us to Bukit Batok.
sat outside Joycey's house, trying to guess her reaction with Glenn, we both failed.... D:
anywayz coaching was pretty easy, just some really naughty kids who roll away themselves, met a new friend Euray, who I cannot decipher whether he's local, what race, and... idk he looks like a combination of many things. Facebook says he's from Italy! but his surname is Tan. O_O?
Some of the kids are better than me ! malu max @@ but thank god glenn took the intermediate students and wowzee glenn's an awesome teacher hahaha *inspiration* mmm packing back the skates and guards are like @@ so hot and heavy and soaked in sweat D: glenn even said that the stench is considered good zomg joyce, let's prepare to die. HAHA
but this seems like a fun job wheeeeee im gonna learn to skate nicely muahahahahaha and accomplish my dream of skating from home to serangoon central buying a cone icecream and skating back home.
hmmm after that had the wonderfulicious A1 porridge waaaa :DDD and met quote glenn "wow sexy" JunHong on the train, lol ~ everyone's slowly getting to know glenn . yay! travelled all the way back home for a shower !
Then... it was about 3pm and I decided against napping so went to NEX to watch "Mr. Popper's Penguins" with JH ! ^^ Don't you just love Jim Carrey? The storyline is actually kinda nice and touching, [[: a seriously good watch! Then met Eugene and successfully pranked Joyce with our combined power :x
Locking open class with ashley, eugene, joyce, daniel, juncheng and jenine was tiring for some reason, halfway through I just felt so drained, but okay after watching two seniors students freestyle + choreo I feel super inspired ^-^ time to trainnnnnnnn and bring out my flava wootwoot!~
Kay well done to me for managing to blog a few days consistently :DDD !
xiexie ah eugene [: !
used to wallow in self pity. excellent, just what I need.
im actually very grateful to eugene who puts up with my nonsense and takes whatever photo I want :x
oops?
more about this another day! when photos are up. hmm had a pretty good time actually, watching the digital dance, racing cars with eugene daniel joyce junhong and yoongshin [: took silly photos, jump shots and learnt some floormove. "sweep the floor" quote sean haha!
okay well, things are gonna get weird soon, hmm.. back at home spent time drawing with my sister [: cute thing, drew a house and drew many animals and said "jiejie you're the house" .
at least I did what I came home to do, now I can go out guiltlessly, open class tomorrow [: !
after 5 nights of intensive bombastic makeup, my show's finally overrrrr, haha though someone told me something about the show which really upset me, but no worries, its over its over, I'll not do it again.
Hmm... after all that fun and photo spam and hugs and drinking lotsa Rockery, I finally have my tuesday nights free again! :x and okay today had a free facial with Joyce, WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A BODY DETOX SPA but nooooo just had to change it to a painful facial!
but okayokay $120 complimentary facial I can't complain, my face needs healing.
and tonight ruined it all over again, with my tearful heart to heart talk, goodness, I've never cried so much with someone else before! wa we're just like two waterfalls. ._. my face hurts .. idk why the right side stings so much.
haiyoyo.. nevermind!
mehh there's so much drrrrrrrama going on and I think I'll just .. be quiet about it all, since I'm always so slow at reacting and no one tells me shit so I have to find out the hard way like through someone who heard it from someone who eavesdropped it from someone who stalked someone and etc..
Feeling so poor now that I'm jobless for 1month! waaa. okay, I'm so gonna chiong skating sessions and I really think I'm gonna turn down the Miss Singapore events helper job though it seems so fun, the pay's peanutz. bleah. So much for a big production firm!
okay maybe im confusing people because a few days ago I wrote a really angsty post about my life, but today I was thinking and thinking really hard on the way to meet him and my other friends. Of course there were many things on my mind, mainly my future.
all this talk about moving next year is really scaring me, because I have to learn so many things and probably the hardest yet easiest thing is making new friends. I feel like a frog in a well sometimes, I really wish I could bring everyone I know with me, especially my happy family [:
I feel so scared to lose people but at the same time I always wanna know more people. *sighs ayesha what the hell do you want?!*
Anyway this post isn't about me, it's about him, and also how great god is. I really have no idea how everything was planned out so nicely, its freaky too that I actually have to trace it back so far to find the actual beginning of our story. I have had a paradigm shift today, now I understand why "everything happens for a reason".
So our main character today is Alex. That's not even his real name haha it's Ong Zhao Xun, but okay Alex is so much easier right? See for a long time, I've been trying to step out of my box, trying to be more courageous. Since young 'til JC graduation, I've never had a close guy friend, yet I always wanted one.
No joke, all my friends were girls, of course I was acquainted with guys, but I don't ever talk to them unless they're my desk partners, or I'm asking questions school-related or I'm doing projectwork with them or like we're at chalet kinda thing.
Otherwise, I don't contact guys, except my brother [:
So of course, I decided maybe I just don't feel comfortable with guys in my school, so after graduation, I tried at work! So at SPH, I tried really hard to interact more with guys, first Taufiq, then Brendan... and after he got to know Jo, I decided hmm.. Sinyean! who is still a wonderful friend [: but gahh when you don't see each other every day it becomes hard to be close. ):
Then... Alex came along, now how we met and started as friends is a really curious story which I have to rewind really really far back all the way to my parents. But in any case, our friendship really cannot be put in words, I can only say a big huge THANKYOU to our most wonderful awesome amazing fantastic marvellous fantabahubalicious creator.
thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.
thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.thankyou.
and that's barely enough..
So let's begin... (now it took me immense effort to recall so many things)
If my dad didn't want to break free, he wouldn't have gone to UK.
If my mom had better academics she wouldn't escape her family
and go to UK.
If that didn't happen they wouldn't have met.
If they didn't meet, there wouldn't be my brother
If there's no son, my mom wouldn't have wanted a second child
to accompany him
Thus, I was born!
If my parents hadn't had so much differences, they wouldn't
have divorced
If so, my dad wouldn't have married Haslinda
If she didn't marry-in, our family wouldn't be so torn up
If me and bro liked her, dad would never ask her to
try and be friendly to us
If she didn't try to, she would never have brought me to O School
If I never tried HipHop, I would not have ventured to Studio Wu
If I didn't always turn up early for class, I wouldn't have met Cassandra
If it weren't for her, I wouldn't want to learn to skate
If I have no heart to skate, I wouldn't have looked for skaters online
I would never have met Daniel.
If I didnt meet Daniel, I would have not met his ex Joyce
If Joyce or me was born in another year, we wouldnt have
studied together
If we didn't, we would never have became best friends
If we weren't close, she wouldn't have suggested taking part in Chingay.
If I chose not to take part, I would not have known Eugene.
If I didn't meet Eugene, I also wouldn't meet Jack.
If that night I was busy and didn't accompany Jack to Scape...
I wouldn't have met Alex.
Isn't it incredible? Maybe it sounds like a load of bullshit to someone else, but to me it's just fate, and absolute wonder how everything falls in place. So everyone really does have a purpose in each other's lives, and everything does happen for a reason, be it good or bad.
Today I was actually feeling alittle moody maybe because of Mr.Monthly Visitor, maybe because it was the long bus journey, maybe it's because of my dad's refusal to talk to me, but everything compounded together made me quite cranky.
In the evening, on the bus ride home, Alex and I did the most ridiculous things together, and after I alighted from the bus my mind started racing again.. started thinking about my life and what my life is really about now, what I hope the future will be.
I don't even know how to put it in words that the people around you really really can make a darn big difference in your life, so here's my to first close guy friend, mr.omg-what-you-too-are-you-fucking-serious-where-have-you-been-all-my-life-you're-too-damn-awesome-to-be-true Alex. Oh gosh what a long title . :x
Okay to end, I shall dedicate a song to awesome you[:
Joey McIntyre - Stay The Same (hmm apparently there's no like normal song on youtube, all live versions, so this is the female version, not as nice though D:)
I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be
If you could realize, all the dreams you have inside.
Don't be afraid if you've got something to say,
Just open up your heart and let it show you the way.
Believe in yourself.
Reach down inside.
The love you find will set you free.
Believe in yourself, you will come alive.
Have faith in what you do.
You'll make it through.
Don't you ever wish you were someone else,
You were meant to be the way you are exactly.
Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are.
When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.
And I hope you always stay the same,
cuz there's nothin' 'bout you I would change.
aye will do her best to help smexy monsta alex whenever he needs it[:
aye wanna see you realize your dream kay!
first time wearing new skates
first time urban with chloe and glenn and joyce
first time prawning
woooohoooooo~
yesterday was a good day!
before I was born, my parents already hated each other. but before me, there was my brother, who my mother claims was an accident, but her love letters from overseas proved otherwise.
before I was born, my parents already filed for a divorce, but they were too poor.. starving, stinging, living in a one-room rented place.
god knows what happened next.
as young as I can remember..
since primary school, cooped up at home, only allowed out to go to school, driven home right after school.
no going out with friends
no going home with friends
no telephone calls
no television
no computer
no nap time
nothing
just go home and study until it's bedtime and time for school.
make mistakes in homework and I can caned . nonstop.
ask for a break from work and my skin got pinched until it bled.
you like that?
one morning, I was narrating a chinese paragraph aloud, it was a new book. my parents don't speak chinese at all at home, so my only chinese experience is in school. I was in kindergarten then. I made many errors in the passage. my mother slammed my head against the table and scolded me for being stupid.
I had stitches on my forehead and a suspicious scar now which my mother claims was another accident where she dropped me as a baby.
maybe thats why i'm so dumb.
if you ever envied the part of me of being mixed blood, you're so wrong.
it's a nightmare.
my mother hates my dad, which means hates all of him, hates his family hates his religion. which means hates all muslims. and what am I? by birth and by choice, pure muslim.
even though I'm not that devout,
do you know how awful it is so see your mother, tear up every single photograph since you were born with your dad in it?
do you know how painful it is to see her rip apart all the religious books (imagine burning a bible infront of a christian)
do you know the agony of being forced into a temple, with incense dripping on you and breathing in the nauseating scent.
do you know the internal struggle you feel when she makes you say the prayers aloud?
no you dont, you guys don't know anything, don't know the madness I endure.
but you all know the fucking hot weather in singapore, do you know, on the other side, if you so much as wear something that's sleeveless or even threequarters pants, as a girl, you're automatically classified as wild, unrefined, loose.
maybe some of you don't feel it, but that has always always been the biggest insult to me from my dad. and some ... of you non-friends, you bastards ever called me that, I swear I cannot forgive you.
do you know how tough it is, to be brought up in this purely english-speaking family, if my GP grades drop below A, I get yelled at. but that's not so bad, without any chinese background, if I drop below B I also get yelled at, much worse.
For all my friends out there, you very well know what kind of grades I had for both languages, you don't know how much pain my ears and eyes have gone through, please please don't ever say you envy me.
you know when kids are abused, they grow up to be abusive? they grow up with disorder?
do I look like a troubled kid?
there was a night, I was probably primary 1 or younger, it was way past bedtime, my mother stormed into the room, and caned my brother and me while we were sleeping.
I just screamed and cried and could not go back to sleep.
another day, we got caned so badly, my brother vomited and passed out.
no one escapes her, even my dad. assaulted by the clothes pole with a hook-thingy to pick up the bamboo sticks, even his back and shoulders now littered with scars. 3 slashes across the back from her fingernails. when my dad called the police, she tried to stop him from going to open the door and ripped his shirt apart.
she climbed to the third floor on the house and hurled perfume bottles to the first floor where I was. can you imagine the horror?
let's skip all the abuse, tonight, after a pretty tiring day from moving around, I got a call, and got yelled at about every possible thing imaginable,
she
hates my looks
hates my dressing
hates what I do
hates that I'm in a musical
hates that I'm short
hates that I'm fat (yeah you all probably wtf?!)
hates what I eat
hates that I don't want to study locally
hates my school (River Valley)
hates my teachers
hates the phone I'm using
hates the schoolbag I use
hates the way I pack my things
hates the people I mix with (you must get out of your religion, you must become a buddhist, and marry a chinese)
everything
absolutely nothing about me she likes.
its the worse worse worse feeling alive, to be so neglected, to be so criticized, to be so looked down on especially by someone you thought would always accept you. someone you thought would always support you, give you love and advice.
never
ever
in my life
have I heard her say
"I love you"
to anyone.
Forget that, I have a stepmother and a halfsister.
a stepmother who never talks to me or my brother. would rather proclaim my maid as her daughter than me.
a stepmother who lies to my dad about how I bully her at home when he's away.
a stepmother who never takes care of things when dad's away.
Okay, maybe skip that, because I don't really care about her, then there's my dad who constantly scolds me on my attire, my room, questions who I go out with, when I'll be back, what I'm doing, and oh my favourite: stalks my facebook.
Then there's the time when he looks at me with a disappointed face and say, why are you so chinese? you can join them now, you don't care about our family values anymore. (you must find a muslim husband, otherwise you're out of this family)
Alright that's still fine, ignore all that, there's always friends right? Everyone has friends.
unfortunately I'm stumbled across probably more bad than good friends, until recently.. I don't even know how to guard myself, how to warn others that bad people exist everywhere, in the sneakiest possible ways.
I admit I'm not the best friend, infact I admit, I'll use you for my own gain, just like anyone else would, it's just that, I'll not use you, destroy you and run away... to all the mean people in my past, I truly am sorry for the way you turned out, and how stupid you all are. I forgive you. I will never forget you especially, the one who specially created a blog just to express your hatred towards me and rallying people to support you. Oh thankyou so much.
and also you who made me crawl under the desk, dropped all my things, stole my stuff and happily declared to everyone I stole your true love, who until now, still isn't together with you -.-
I don't wish to scare anyone, neither do I want to complain all day as though everyone else has no problems. it's just I needed a venting space, I wish I knew another who suffered like this, someone I could actually compare psychological damage with.
Now forget everything, at this very moment in time, at least I'm grateful for the good people in my life, especially my brother. the happiest times of my life are probably spent at Scape, besides pre-school days. *group hug*
everybody, my name is Ayesha and I am not proud to be a mixed-blood. Oh yeah, you don't know how desperate, both me and brother want to be a pure race.
After a torturous long wait at SMU, I missed the Singapore Audition …. )): I really wanna be King Julian! Ahhhh and so my dearest brother has agreed to film me in the different hotels of Hokkaido as an audition showreel. @@ scary much.
So after a restless and disappointing Tuesday with only 6hours of sleep and no food, I had my first meal (dinner) at Terminal 2! Killiney Chicken Rice!
Yumyumyum, with added satisfaction from nom-ing BK twice, mac thrice, Carls’ Junior, Wendy’s, Long John Silvers, MOS burger and KFC.
And so we flew 7hours to Tokyo, Haneda Airport and transited to another 2hour domestic flight to Sapporo Airport. Whew.. Tired much, I hate it that we have to sit in one darn spot for so long with such constrained space, just tilted my head here and there until I was sure my neck was about to snap. X_x
Being the post-spring season, the sun rose at 4.30am, I kid you not, by 5.30am, the sun was blinding us all through the tiny airplane windows as though it was 10am in Singapore. By god, the weather was chilly there, reminds me of when I was in HongKong! About 20degrees but the wind is soooo strong the temperatures were like 16degrees outdoors, and 11degrees at night!
Stop 1: Porotokotan, the Shiraoi Ainu Village.
What a tongue twister, try and say Porotokotan as fast as you can as many times as you can! HAHAHA. Poro = water lake, toko = village, tan = big. Haha so cute ‘big lake village’. We saw bears and ainu dogs and the tribal costumes and watched their tribal dance and their tribal instruments which sounded exactly like a Didjeridoo.
LUNCH TIME! we had an awesome misosoup steamboat, and I saw giant Krabbys and Kinglers oooh. Shells as big as my head and legs as long as my hands D: ! mutants @@. Teehee, we were so lucky, salmon for our first meal! :D
Stop 2: Hell Valley, the Sulphurous boiling pond Jigokudani
What an awfully smelly place this was! D: but it was all worth the sacrifice because near these geysers(supposedly hot as hell) were Sakuras in full bloom! Wooot.
Stop 3: Noboribetsu Manseikaku Hotel
As we suspected, the beds were futons! Wahahaha so comfy and soft, and we managed a 3hour nap before a horrible-to-me-buffet-because-i-doubt-much-things-are-halal-so-just-ate-icecream dinner. Cup noodles to the rescueeee ~
What comes to mind when you think of JAPAN??
HOTSPRING SPAS! WOOOOHOOOOOOOOO
Our hotel had both an indoor and outdoor one and jeez you know you really have to enter the spring butt naked. And there I am with my long hair falling over one shoulder, tummy flat from a sad buffet dinner, clean from a shower. However everyone else there startled me, ‘cause they were mostly old ladies with triple rubber tyres, sagging boobs, mini jungle down there and messy bobs of hair .. good lord I felt like a model. So away with my self-consciousness, I just dropped my clothes and dived right in. Ohh boy the water is soooo heavenly, it made feel like jelly after I came out, soft and wobbly..
I guess it must have been the temperature change from Chilly outside to warm indoors to soaking in hot pools and then back to the cool hotel room, which made me dizzy and dehydrated and about to pass out anytime.
Thus ends Day 1, we embark on our lovely journey the next morning to the Ninja Village! But thanks to mommie, we were late! and oh dearie me, the bus left without us ): and had to back up and make a round to pick us up! Well done mom.
Stop 3: Date Jidaimura (Edo Wonderland)
Good lord was it cold that day, 12degrees in the day! And with the merciless wind, it dropped to 9degrees. Oh godddd, and I was just wearing a skirt with leggings, a teeshirt and a jacket! Ahhh *freezes* So this ninja village is a reproduction of a feudal-era village. We watched a ninja show in their theatre. Like wow! The ninjas moved at lightning speeeed zoom here and there! Swish swish phwiiing pah!
I bought Shurikens for my dear dancer boyszx: Alex Tanna Eugene and JunHong, so heavy and sharp and .. pricey haha. You know what, the most troublesome part of holiday to me is actually looking for gifts for friends @@”.. haiyo always can’t decide what for who and whether it’s good enough or not, but hell, if you guys don’t like the shurikens give ‘em to me and I’ll hurl them at ya !
Then, (as per requested) my brother bought a super cool ninja-sword umbrella which he carries around looking absolutely awesome and macho like a real samurai. So in times of need, he swiftly whips out his ‘sword’ to defend against falling water!
LUNCH TIME! we had a wooden boat of steamed food, haha literally steamboat. Quite similar to the lunch before, but there’s chicken this time! :DDD instead of salmon and lotsa veggie and mushies and tofus. Kinda bland but chilli came to the rescue!
Might I add that in Japan, well at least in Hokkaido, there’s a tonne of vending machines! And they sell all kinds of things! Like zomg look at this.
Stop 4: Kiroro Flower Farm
We stopped here to do fruit-picking at ‘Sakuran-bo-yama’. June’s the season for strawberries! Soooo many, so overwhelming! Full to the max and this was right after lunch! Waaaa. *feels tummy* .
Stop 5: Bear Ranch
OHHHHmygod! THE BEARS ARE MAD CUTE!! There’s baby bears and big bears! Wow-O-wow! There’s such cuteeeee raccoons too ! :D they stand up and clap their paws when they see the biscuits/apples in our hands. Awww!~
Stop 6: Lake Toya & Mount Showa
We went to this hugehuge lake with a mountain behind it, haha literally shan-shui scenery, double whammy! It’s so peculiar that this mountain is orange while the other parts of it are green. Apparently it used to be a farmland but evolved into a volcano in 2 years. O_O!
Checked-in at Toya Sun Palace, woohoo another hotspring, but not as fabulous as the previous one D: aww heck the yukatas are darn comfy to wear
Had a horrible night with mum and bro arguing and both started crying. Sighs. Stupid family.
Next morning!
We head to OTARU!~ 2hours drive zomg, sleepy max, I can never listen to the guide, despite all her interesting stories, the coach is simply too sleep-inducing. Anyways Otaru is awesome, the sun is up and the fog is goneeee, good good weather *likes*
Had a mini pitstop for our busbus to nom some food then it was our turn to nom, yet another seafood steamboat again :D bought stuffies for my fwenzzah: Joyce Dengyin Eeling and Pamela. Ahh left with Dinnie and Natasha D: WHY DO I HAVE SO MANY FRIENDS?!
A short ride later, we reached..
Stop 7: Otaru City, the most picturesque Japanese City!
Goodness gracious me, it’s like stepping into an entirely different world! There’s chimes playing through the streets like Disneyland and so many pretty buildings and lampposts and benches whooopwhoop!
LUNCH was seafood again but yumyum there was fish and hoho lotsa wazzabeeiii
We entered the Music Box Museum: Otaru Orgel Doh which is like stepping into a dream. There’s also this steam clock given by Vancouver to Otaru, powered entirely by steam! Phweeet!~ We drove about an hour to check-in at ….
THE HILTON!
Soooooo grand and had the most lovely hotspring ever! Besides me, only one other was at the outdoor bath, and I sat there and soaked myself, staring out into the wilderness hoping to see a wild bear but ohwell only some little birds [:
The hotel lobby also had free laptops with internet access, thus my little notes to my dear peeps whom I miss dearly~
Itzah good early morning on Day 4. Mommie snored soooo much throughout the night I almost went deaf. Jeez, so harddddddd to fall asleep sleeping with a bear. ._. Okay so up at 6am, early start to an incredibly boring day. Bleah.
Stop 8: Asahikawa Otokoyama Sake Brewery
About 2 and a half hours drive away, good to catchup on sleep heehee. We sat in the coach for soooo long but the actual visiting of the place was about 20mins. -.- ‘cause the wine is only made in the winter season, so only the museum section was open where we saw the olden equipments like their barrels and wooden sieves and etc.
Stop 9: Douwamura Takinoue (Fairytale village Takinoue)
Coming to this little hill took another 2hours or so, oh dear god, my neck hurt sooooo badly sitting in that stiff position trying to snooze. Okay so this place is actually just a big meadow… or like a big hill. Just big grassy plains and a small town surrounded by more hills . what makes it special is only only the 2weeks where the shibazakura pinkmoss blooms, towards end of may and early june. Otherwise the rest of the village looks pretty normal. So this special pink moss started from a single tangerine and spread across the entire hill. Yuppp, quite amazing but so sad that it only lasts for awhile.. so.. what do the people working there do when the flowers aren't in bloom?
So you know what that means? It means that only a handful of Singaporeans, specifically 105 of us from the 3 batches of NamHo Travel will ever get to see this mass of pink flowers in 2011 !
These two waterfalls are like representative of “husband and wife” one broad and one thin. The rapids were beautiful but sadly it started drizzling there so we just snapped a few shots and hurried back to the coach.
And that’s it! Zomg right such a boring day … lemme talk about what I like about Japan.
Toilets!
Their toilets are soooo awesome, seriously beyond awesome, it makes the pooping session enjoyable you know! See firstly everything is so clean! The floors are never dirty, the seats are clean, the toilets can flush magnificently well, always completely gone, not those leaky flushes yuckkkk. And then the toilets are all stocked with many rolls of tissue, about 4 per cubicle, and there’s also the sanitizers inside. The toiletbowl itself is also a nifty contraption, it can detect your presence and the seat comes up, it auto heats up and it can spray warm water at your butt too :D awesome right. I kid you not but even in those secluded little village in the outskirts of town or up in the mountains the toilets are simply spick and span!
AND there’s the Magic Mirror as well! Japanese peepul sure are ingenious! In the bathroom the center of the mirror has a heater behind so when you come out of a steamy shower, only the sides of the mirror are fogged up, so you can still see yourself ! wow or what!
ahh, the last night of hotspring wasn’t that enjoyable either! It was somehow mad hot in there though the thermometer showed 42degrees, the same as the previous night.. hmm.. weird.
It’s ze last day of da tour.
Stop 11: Biei Potato no oka
Hmm.. actually nothing here, not that spectacular view but ohwellz its supposed to be a photostop on our itinery. We tried the Lavender icecream, brrrr sucha weird taste, some steamed corn and the famous rockmelon of Hokkaido. Naise!
Stop 12: Furano Floral Farm(Tomita Farm)
Ooh what a flowery day, another flower-viewing place, but this place was much more awesome, I spotted red and yellow tulips! :DD and some pretty flowers of all sorts of colours! "eye candy" woot.
Look at the cute map :D just dashes of colour!
After lunchie, we said byebye to the wilderness of Hokkaido and headed to Sapporo City! Longlonglong journey, neck hurting again @@..
Ahh in Sapporo we can finally see people walking around, the previous days were pretty .. lonely? With only us tourists and some village people, but Sapporo looks normal haha, like normal city life. So our city tour begins!
Stop 13: Odori Park
This is sucha pretty little garden in the middle of the streets, like flowers blooming everywhere, Pink Tulips! :DD there are BMXers and skateboards and happy couples walking around. It’s just smack in the middle of two roads with staircases leading underground to a shopping alleyway. Cool, like citylink but abit… more spacious :o
There’s also the Sapporo TV tower at the start of the garden.
So we drove past the old parliament house and pass the historic Tokeidai Clock Tower, a Russian style monument built in 1878 by students of Hokkaido University in gratitude to the Americans who founded their school.
Yupp, so we had a barbeque dinner to conclude our day [:
Stop 14: Okay, so the next day is supposed to be free & easy day, turns out it wasn’t, haha we went to another garden, hooo I have no idea what’s the name of the place, ‘cause its out of the itinery, but it was a pretty place, lotsa tulips woooo!
Stop 15: Ishiya Chocolate Factory.
This is place is coooool or whaaaaat! So many animated things like the dolls, the garden gnomes, the trees, the LED screen and etc.
They also have this water angel pet which can only survive below 0degrees wtf?! I never heard of sucha creature.
*took immense effort to capture that*
Stop 16: SHOPPING :D at Sapporo Station Shopping Arcade + Daimaru
Fyi, Daimaru is like Takashimaya which closed down in Singapore D:
Okay nothing to do there but nomnom some cakes and had lunch! :xx we no go department stores
Stop 17: SHOPPING :D at Factory Outlet Mall
Started raining here though ): but was a damn big place overflowing with shops and was soooo tired from walking that we only bought a pair of dunks and we sat down to rest after that. LOL.
Stop 18: Sapporo Airport
To hunt for more greentea kitkat for Tanna then to Haneda Airport then to Changi Airport then homeeeeeeee [:
