Exactly One Year Ago Today - Day 1

This is what I did excatly one full year ago. I stepped into Japan for the first time! I decided to blog it because I did keep a small diary when I was there. Din have a blog then, so, now I'm blogging it. It's somewat like an anniversary for visting there. So, for the next 11 days, you'll read nothing else but my trip to Japan! おっほほほほほ．．．

Weather : 9ºC

Reached Osaka Kansai Airport at 7:49 a.m. (which is 1 hr ahead M'sia). Weng Yan, Jesse and I took the train to Rynku station to meet Junko and Chong kun. The station was really impressive but extremely complicated. There was a slight mixed up though. Weng Yan was told to be at the Rynku station but Junko went to greet us at the airport instead. We were feeling rather nervous when we saw no one at the station and we waited.... for like over an hr. I was scared obviously. Weng Yan wrote down Junko's hp wrongly. SHIT!!! I din even know how to work their public phone! I had to ask a stranger to teach me how to use. I was freakin nervous, my jap was such a mess. Luckily the guy understood what in the hell I was blabbing. Yup, the number was a hoax. Now, I'm really scared. Suddenly I remembered I had Miyazaki sensei's number and I called her. I managed to get thru to her...Thank you, GOD!!! 1 hour later, Junko and Chong kun came. 助けて　くれねぇ、ありがとう!!!

Grab a bite to eat at Rynku shopping mall and head on towards Kobe. We did pass the Universal Studio but we were dead tired and slept right through it. Went to Harbourland, saw many seagulls and could only drove past Nankin Machi (China Town) cos couldn't find parking. Drove up to Rokko San and I was really cold up there. We were standing at this clift and couldn't see the city below us becos it was too foggy.

We stopped at Junko's Grandma's house in Kyoto cos we were crashing at her place. He he he... we had nabe for dinner and it was really delicious. Pic below are the people I'll be mixing with up close and personal for the next 11 days. Clock wise starting from Granny, Chong kun, Jesse, Weng Yan, Junko sensei, Junko's mom and her dad. ようろしく...