Sunday, December 16, 2007
FAT

Howdy people!!

Greetings from Japan, at Mount Fuji Base, K's House!

Okay. First of all. Let me say.. Walkergal is FAT and she FARTS every now and then! =.=
All thanks to the food here. Humph.

These days at Japan. Well. I must say there are many things very different.
After about 5 days at Hokkaido.. the main catch there : SEAFOOD and HOTSPRING.

I met really great people from my tour bus. Its actually a big tour group of 90 people and they split us into 3 groups. My group is the smallest.. 20 people. Best! And the best part is, thank God that there ain't trouble makers. All are cooperative and I really appreciate all of them. =)

Now let me elaborate on my tour group. There is a family of 8, a couple who brought both their parents and 2 little sons along. The little son is soooooo cute. Walkergal did an illegal shot of the little boy and oh boy its SOOOOO GOOD. Haha.. I'll post it when I've the time. :)

I made great friends.. and in fact, there is this group of 4 gals from N T U!! They had graduated last year. Haha... and they know how to speak Japanese... one of them been to Japan last year. So she gave me some shopping tips at Tokyo. Oh, she was from SCI too. I think I have lots of chances of bumping into SCI people orh.

My tour at Hokkaido ended on 15 Dec. After that, its my own 3 days of free and easy at Tokyo. I had my first hand experience moving from ANA Hotel to my budget Sumisho hotel at Tokyo. Hurhur... Its challenging for a first timer like me.. to move around Tokyo.. using their transportation of trains.. after a long continuous ride on a nice coach for 5 days at Hokkaido... OMG. Thank God, I did it fast and well. I think if I bring 2 obaasans walking round and round without getting to the destination successfully, I'll be skinned to death. Perhaps its like fattening the sheep during Hokkaido and getting killed in Tokyo. But one thing, Sumisho Hotel doesn't have internet.... =.= Hence, this is walkergal's first internet using in Japan. They have 4 pc stations of free internet broadband for anyone to use!! Oh boy.. I logged on to Msn today and saw so many emails had bombed my email.

Let me briefly explain a bit about the trains in Tokyo. There are many lines. Everyone knows that. But do you guys know that at the same railway track at one particular station, there can be multiple type of trains stopping at that plaform? It just means one thing. You can't travel with your eyes closed.

Its like even if you are at platform A at Tanah Merah waiting for train to go back to Boon Lay, the train that arrive at your platform a few minutes later, it might not be the train that will bring you to your destination. It could be another type of train that goes to another route after leaving your platform. You got to recognise the train or look at the destination of that train that is displayed sometimes near the head or the sides of the train.

So, my first day of free and easy, I went to Harajuku.. the famous place of shopping.. I went there with mummy.. and we walked and walked and walked.. till our legs were soooo tired and its so so so COLD. =.= After that I stoned on my way back on the train... I could still remember vividly how tired my legs were like that before.. in Beijing. It was when walkergal and her besty were walking out on the streets from early morning till late night... doing retail therapy all the way... it was damn damn cold... and our legs were damn damn damn tired from walking. Hahaha!

Back to Harajuku.. the place have lots of clothes... well.. from the guidelines that the gal from my tour group had told me, 1 - 15 July each year is the summer sale of Tokyo.. so its best to shop in Tokyo from 8 July onwards.. cos from 1 July, its only 30% discounts... 8 July onwards, everything is around 70% discounts!!

Yeah... today I brought them to take some pictures of Mt Fuji... we took a long 2 hours journey bus ride from JR Shinjuku to Kawaguchiko Station at the base of Mt Fuji. All thanks to HostelWorld.com, I got a room for the night very cheap for the 3 of us!! They speak really good english and the room.. is really nice and cosy. Tonight is budget eating!! Its so COLD outside.. no transportation.. its impossible to bring the 2 obaasans out with me to enjoy nice hot ramen outside the hostel. So I brought them to buy some beers and instant noodles... woot! Its so nice and warm in the hostel... not gonna be good if they fall sick.

Tomorrow, it shall be another 2 hours journey back to JR Shinjuku and some last minute eating out before I say sayonara to Tokyo.. Till then..

This is FAT Walkergal signing off from K's House Mt. Fuji.