It's the last day of 2009.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
新年快乐！
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Osaka Japan
Back from Japan!
Went to mainly these few places in Kansai Japan:
1. Osaka Namba/ Dotonbori/ Shinsaibashi area + Universal Studios Japan
2. Nara (experienced snow!)
3. Kyoto
Stayed at the Dotonbori Hotel throughout. The hotel was quite okay, rooms were clean, they had my fave type of toilet bowls (!), and they even gave each female guest Shiseido amenities, and the toiletries were all from Shiseido. The toilets are a little bigger than those on the cruise.
Learnt/ noticed a few things:
1. Osaka's people stand to their right, not left (like in Tokyo) in train stations' escalators
2. Though Kansai's train lines are less complicated than Tokyo's, we could still get lost HAHA
3. Their bus is like China's, enter from the back, exit by the front
4. The people there are extremely polite and helpful. :D :D
5. The people there walk extremely FAST! VERY VERY FAST!
6. The young women there have a standard way of dressing- leggings with high heels and a huge overcoat.
7. They have so many Uniqlo stores there
8. Many cosmetic stores there too!! (With shelves of beauty products costing so much cheaper than in Sg)
Things that I love(in no particular order):
1. The polite people
2. Their high-tech toilet bowls HAHAHAHA
3. Shopping for souvenirs at the Glico shop and the Universal Studios store
4. Rides in Universal Studios
5. Their cool vegetable drinks and chocolate bread!
Unexpected rewards:
1. Experienced snow in Nara
2. Bought boxes of Shiroi Koibito from Kansai Int Airport!!!
3. Bought some Shiseido toiletries from the one of the cosmetic stores
4. Experienced a unique farewell at the Kansai Int Airport from the JAL crew. (Since it was Christmas eve when we left) They even stood at the runway to bid us goodbye!
5. Some bird pooped on Shirin's umbrella at Nara. HAHA :) I was laughing all the way.
Not so good points:
1. Their cold windy weather.. (The wind was so strong in Nara that we had to wear masks)
2. Our feet hurt from all the walking
3. We were kind of lost in the fast paced life in Osaka (since the people walked so fast that we had to try not to block their way esp in train stations)
More pictures some other time. They take so long to be uploaded. :(
Bye
Oh yeah, a belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in advance! :D
Went to mainly these few places in Kansai Japan:
1. Osaka Namba/ Dotonbori/ Shinsaibashi area + Universal Studios Japan
2. Nara (experienced snow!)
3. Kyoto
Stayed at the Dotonbori Hotel throughout. The hotel was quite okay, rooms were clean, they had my fave type of toilet bowls (!), and they even gave each female guest Shiseido amenities, and the toiletries were all from Shiseido. The toilets are a little bigger than those on the cruise.
Learnt/ noticed a few things:
1. Osaka's people stand to their right, not left (like in Tokyo) in train stations' escalators
2. Though Kansai's train lines are less complicated than Tokyo's, we could still get lost HAHA
3. Their bus is like China's, enter from the back, exit by the front
4. The people there are extremely polite and helpful. :D :D
5. The people there walk extremely FAST! VERY VERY FAST!
6. The young women there have a standard way of dressing- leggings with high heels and a huge overcoat.
7. They have so many Uniqlo stores there
8. Many cosmetic stores there too!! (With shelves of beauty products costing so much cheaper than in Sg)
Things that I love(in no particular order):
1. The polite people
2. Their high-tech toilet bowls HAHAHAHA
3. Shopping for souvenirs at the Glico shop and the Universal Studios store
4. Rides in Universal Studios
5. Their cool vegetable drinks and chocolate bread!
Unexpected rewards:
1. Experienced snow in Nara
2. Bought boxes of Shiroi Koibito from Kansai Int Airport!!!
3. Bought some Shiseido toiletries from the one of the cosmetic stores
4. Experienced a unique farewell at the Kansai Int Airport from the JAL crew. (Since it was Christmas eve when we left) They even stood at the runway to bid us goodbye!
5. Some bird pooped on Shirin's umbrella at Nara. HAHA :) I was laughing all the way.
Not so good points:
1. Their cold windy weather.. (The wind was so strong in Nara that we had to wear masks)
2. Our feet hurt from all the walking
3. We were kind of lost in the fast paced life in Osaka (since the people walked so fast that we had to try not to block their way esp in train stations)
Universal Studios Japan
At the Kyoto Tower
Our hotel- the Dotonbori Hotel
More pictures some other time. They take so long to be uploaded. :(
Bye
Oh yeah, a belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in advance! :D
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
15 Dec 2009
A very meaningful song, in my opinion. This song, "Little Wonders" is from a Disney movie, "Meet the Robinsons" and the ultimate message of the movie is 'Keep Moving Forward'.
Some of us indeed hold on to the past for certain reasons such that we do not allow ourselves to turn the next page of our lives..
The song lyrics, to me, mean that it is some of these 'little moments' in our lives that make up who we are, and it is hard to let go of these special moments. As such, keep moving forward is the message, and though letting go is hard, it is the only way we can move forward.
Little Wonders by Rob Thomas
Let it go,
Let it roll right off your shoulder
Don't you know
The hardest part is over
Let it in,
Let your clarity define you
In the end
We will only just remember how it feels
Our lives are made
In these small hours
These little wonders,
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away,
But these small hours,
These small hours still remain
Let it slide,
Let your troubles fall behind you
Let it shine
Until you feel it all around you
And i don't mind
If it's me you need to turn to
We'll get by,
It's the heart that really matters in the end
Our lives are made
In these small hours
These little wonders,
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away,
But these small hours,
These small hours still remain
All of my regret
Will wash away some how
But i can not forget
The way i feel right now
In these small hours
These little wonders
These twists & turns of fate
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away but these small hours
These small hours, still remain,
Still remain
These little wonders
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away
But these small hours
These little wonders still remain
Some of us indeed hold on to the past for certain reasons such that we do not allow ourselves to turn the next page of our lives..
The song lyrics, to me, mean that it is some of these 'little moments' in our lives that make up who we are, and it is hard to let go of these special moments. As such, keep moving forward is the message, and though letting go is hard, it is the only way we can move forward.
Little Wonders by Rob Thomas
Let it go,
Let it roll right off your shoulder
Don't you know
The hardest part is over
Let it in,
Let your clarity define you
In the end
We will only just remember how it feels
Our lives are made
In these small hours
These little wonders,
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away,
But these small hours,
These small hours still remain
Let it slide,
Let your troubles fall behind you
Let it shine
Until you feel it all around you
And i don't mind
If it's me you need to turn to
We'll get by,
It's the heart that really matters in the end
Our lives are made
In these small hours
These little wonders,
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away,
But these small hours,
These small hours still remain
All of my regret
Will wash away some how
But i can not forget
The way i feel right now
In these small hours
These little wonders
These twists & turns of fate
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away but these small hours
These small hours, still remain,
Still remain
These little wonders
These twists & turns of fate
Time falls away
But these small hours
These little wonders still remain
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
9 Dec 2009
Yesterday (8 Dec):
-Went to Velocity/ Novena Sq for lunch with mum. I tried Mos Burger for the first time yesterday! (quite hard to believe)
-Bought our favourite Chocolate Bowl bread from the bakery at Square2. :)
Today (9 Dec):
-Took a long long bus ride with Shirin (about 1 hr) from home all the way to IMM to meet dad for lunch. Ate at wan zai before visiting Best and Challenger in our attempt to purchase our spare camera battery, but sadly both places didn't have them.
-Shopped at Giant to buy some things before dad sent us to the Singapore Science Centre. It was raining really heavily that time, but fortunately our dad sent us there! :)
-Tickets to Body Worlds + Science Centre cost $13 each (total 26) so we kinda paid $4 in coins and the remaining were in notes, but the counter staff was so friendly! HAHA
-Body Worlds was great, amazing, and it really opened my eyes! :D It was like a very detailed Bio lesson, haha. Shirin was trying to rush through the whole exhibit, but I took my time to read the explanation and observe the exhibits.
-Pictures not allowed in there, so we could only use our eyes.. I especially loved the plastinated giraffe and horse exhibits! :D
-The exhibits are plastinated, so they aren't really made of real human/ animal water & fats, but the bodies are from people who are willing to donate their bodies for such research purposes.. Besides if the exhibits were real flesh it would be decaying... More info on plastination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastination
-The Science Centre exhibits were not as interesting as the Body Worlds one, but we could take pictures there.
-Time flew past in a whizz, and it was soon 5.30pm.
-Dad picked us up after work (his office is nearby), and we met mum at Thomson Plaza where we had our dinner. Bought some groceries before heading home..
Can't wait for next week, when dad will be on another week's leave!! Haha, he has to clear his "leftover" leave days which are brought forward from last year.. We will surely be going to Chinatown again!!! HAHA ilovechinatown
Then it'll be Osaka soon! :D
P.S. I feel guilty for spending so much money.. :( :S :S
-Went to Velocity/ Novena Sq for lunch with mum. I tried Mos Burger for the first time yesterday! (quite hard to believe)
-Bought our favourite Chocolate Bowl bread from the bakery at Square2. :)
Today (9 Dec):
-Took a long long bus ride with Shirin (about 1 hr) from home all the way to IMM to meet dad for lunch. Ate at wan zai before visiting Best and Challenger in our attempt to purchase our spare camera battery, but sadly both places didn't have them.
-Shopped at Giant to buy some things before dad sent us to the Singapore Science Centre. It was raining really heavily that time, but fortunately our dad sent us there! :)
-Tickets to Body Worlds + Science Centre cost $13 each (total 26) so we kinda paid $4 in coins and the remaining were in notes, but the counter staff was so friendly! HAHA
-Body Worlds was great, amazing, and it really opened my eyes! :D It was like a very detailed Bio lesson, haha. Shirin was trying to rush through the whole exhibit, but I took my time to read the explanation and observe the exhibits.
-Pictures not allowed in there, so we could only use our eyes.. I especially loved the plastinated giraffe and horse exhibits! :D
-The exhibits are plastinated, so they aren't really made of real human/ animal water & fats, but the bodies are from people who are willing to donate their bodies for such research purposes.. Besides if the exhibits were real flesh it would be decaying... More info on plastination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastination
-The Science Centre exhibits were not as interesting as the Body Worlds one, but we could take pictures there.
-Time flew past in a whizz, and it was soon 5.30pm.
-Dad picked us up after work (his office is nearby), and we met mum at Thomson Plaza where we had our dinner. Bought some groceries before heading home..
Can't wait for next week, when dad will be on another week's leave!! Haha, he has to clear his "leftover" leave days which are brought forward from last year.. We will surely be going to Chinatown again!!! HAHA ilovechinatown
Then it'll be Osaka soon! :D
P.S. I feel guilty for spending so much money.. :( :S :S
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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