Currently doing my Marcom project using Coca-Cola and I happen to chance upon this video...
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Quite amusing eh? I have nothing against CC in fact I like Coke more than Pepsi but, kudos to the person who came up with this. :P
12:13 AM
More photos from Japan...
Street artist (if that's what you call him) in some park.
His many colourful works and yea, they all look kinda alike eh.
Well that's his impression of me. Was wearing the black coat over a purple tee, hm and silver hoop earrings instead of gold. We could give him any amount we wanted to, 100 Yen or 1000 Yen it's all up to you. Me and my cousin gave him 1000 Yen each, which works out to be about 13 Singapore dollars or so.
Metal birds on a metal railing with knitted clothes. How very cute.
Gigantic takoyaki balls from a streetside stall.
Train carriage for women only? (Well that's because they think women don't hurt each other...)
Machine that dispenses coupons in exchange for food at one of the subway stations. Of course you have to pay.
Japanese pancakes like those we have here in Singapore. Look at the amount of red bean paste they give - well, that is the only difference.
Apple store(!!)
Speaking of which, I want an iPod video and a MacBook!
11:22 PM
Come back quick please. I miss you real bad. It's just not the same without you around..
12:54 AM
For you:
There is no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
And no song that I could sing, but I can try for your heart
Our dreams, and they are made out of real things
Like a shoebox of photographs with sepia tone loving
Love is the answer
At least for most of the questions in my heart
Why are we here and where do we go
And how come it's so hard
It's not always easy and sometimes life can be deceiving
I'll tell you one thing
It's always better when we're together
Mmm, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, we'll look at the stars when we're together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together
And all of these moments just might find a way into my dreams tonight
But I know that they'll be gone when the morning light sings
Or brings new things for tomorrow night you see
That they'll be gone too, too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find their way into my day to day scene
I'd be under the impression I was somewhere in between
With only two, just me and you, not so many things we got to do
Or places we got to be, we'll sit beneath the mango tree now
Yeah, it's always better when we're together
Mmm, we're somewhere in between together
Well, it's always better when we're together
Yeah, it's always better when we're together (mmm)
I believe in memories, they look so, so pretty when I sleep
And when I wake up, you look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time
And there is no, no song I could sing
And there is no combination of words I could say
But I will still tell you one thing
We're better together
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It's been a year and guess what, we're better off together.
11:54 PM
Touched down at the Tokyo Narita Airport at 7AM plus. It was freezing (to me) and I had to open up my luggage to get the trench coat out. I can't stand the cold but still it was nice and chilly.
I think in Japan there are so many vending machines everywhere that every 100 metres you walk you can see one. And it's not those cheapo canned drinks like ours here but nicely bottled ones. I bought a total of 7 (or is it 8) bottles, one a day during my stay there. Will put up a picture soon. I hope. The pictures on the right is the market near my aunt's place in Bandobashi... it's clean and nice and everyone is basically friendly.
We happen to catch a parade too! It was some Golden Week celebration parade or what; these people came from very, very far away to Yokohama which was the last stop.
This is some temple we visited at Asakusa. It was during the Golden Week celebrations and it was bleeding crowded. The weather was sunny with the occasional strong gusts of chilly wind thus I had my coat on. To me it was cold but not to the extent that I will shiver and teeth will chatter kind. The temple was smoky with all the incense and smoke, and I tell you temples in Japan make good money. Want an amulet? Pay XXX Yen. Want to make a wish or offering? Pay XXX Yen. But the amulets are nicely packaged, everything speaks of
packagingpackagingpackaging in Japan.
The fucking complicated subway lines. More than 30 over lines to Tokyo alone if I'm not wrong... From where we stay at Bandobashi, we gotta take a subway to Yokohama, walk a distance and take more trains to Tokyo and everywhere else. And transport in Japan wipes you clean of your money. Starting rate for taxis is like, 680 Yen? About $7-8 Singapore dollars! A train ride to Tokyo is about 500-600 Yen? Can't remember, too long ago liao. =X
Mos Burger at the street near where we stay. The Mos Burger in Japan is different from that of Singapore. There, the fries in the set meals comes
with onion rings. And onion rings isn't like Burger King's. It's a real onion ring with some flour coating, only thing the onion can't be bitten into half that easily. Hurhur. And they serve drinks in glasses and cups! And their milk tea tastes nicer than Singapore's.
Cafes and teahouses are everywhere in Japan. This one called Afternoon Tea is tucked inside a shopping mall in Yokohama (there are about 4 or 5 malls there?). I ordered a Strawberry Shortcake(!) and my cousin got a Mont Blanc, which is a pretty famous cake in Japan made of yam and cream and spongecake and whatnot. Both cakes were yummy and expensive at about 6 or 7 Singapore dollars...
P/S: Photos pathetically edited using Picasa, Microsoft Powerpoint and Paint.
PP/S: PS means post script! :P
12:02 PM
