And in a city...

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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Anybody keen on a spree from

www.haircutterstore.com ?

Really tempted to get this

Babybliss curling iron

Have heard raves about this curling iron and would want to get one of this and use it when my perm straightens. You can get hot air brushes or a hot pink flat iron too! from this site.

So if you are interested, please do drop me an email at luvmelots@gmail.com

Kiyo 到此一游 @ 6:53 AM

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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WE WILL BE THERE TO SELL ICECREAM!!

so.. do your part for charity and come and support us too =D

mark your calenders!!

Kiyo 到此一游 @ 10:28 PM

Saturday, April 26, 2008

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Finally! it's back to the city lifestyle! and final part of our journey

Really had enough of mountains..=p
but we didnt do much shopping too. Still prefer shopping in taiwan where everything is cheap and good!In japan, everything is good but not cheap =(

checked in Hotel Grand City after returning from Sendai.
This is a highly recommended hotel by me! or US! Darren likes the location too and although the room is small, it is really really clean. And why do we love it? Cos it has free water, free tea, free kopi and most importantly, free internet access in room. hur hur hur.. and they gave all guests a free glitter body powder..damn gian peng..
but i think we will stay in this hotel next time if we do visit tokyo again.

Flee kopi, tea...but not mee

Flee glitter powder too! =p

As it was a sunday, we went to yoyogi park.
It's very happening on every sunday where there's alot of people dressed up in cosplay costumes just to let people take their pictures.. so nice of them.

super crowded..

it was really hot, but they still stood there

Darren's favourite..

We zoom past the shops and went to shibuya next.
This is my favourite shop where all the toiletries/cosmetics has a ranking!

Finally, we had sushi for dinner =) the sashimi is so good! Darren ate 4 plates of pure salmon till the chef asked us "we really loved salmon so much yah?"

On the last day we went to Ameyoko where you can get alot of tidbits and that was where we bought the most stuff. Tidbits, miso for mummy and more tidbits.

we ate fruits too! on the last day of our trip. Very difficult to find cut fruits in Japan but they dont come cheap. 200 yen (2.80 sgd) per piece of that juicy melon. But you wont regret it. We ate 2 melons and 1 cupfull of strawberries.. simply heavenly... especially given the weather, they do not even need to put the fruits into the fridge! it's naturally cold while placed in the open.. hee hee

Our lunch (a ramen shop near Hotel Grand City) Very famous i heard..

and it's back home to singapore on narita express!

~ THE END ~

P.S. : Really wish to go again sometime soon.. maybe to hokkaido. The thought of tasting their fruits/food and sashimi just makes me drool again..

Labels: Japan Honeymoon

Kiyo 到此一游 @ 7:50 PM

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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we were starting to count down to home.
Not that we missed home.. but the sian-ness already set in as we knew that we are only left with 3 nights in Japan!

Sendai is a place Marcus recommended me to go, and I didnt regret. Matsushima, which has one of the top 3 scenery in Japan is really beautiful. But as Sendai is considered the northern region of Japan, it was freaking cold too as well.

We took the shinkansen to Sendai from Utsunomiya.

didnt get a full picture of the shinkansen cos i was too gan chiong to prepare to board. their trains really leave on the dot and usually they stop for about 50 seconds only.

took a video too. see how fast it can go! =D
~ watch video here ~

Anyway, we didnt do much on our 1st night in Sendai as the shopping places closed rather early at 8pm. =___= We bought a new luggage!! in Purple! Very big, very cheap as well and I permed my hair

I got this tourist booklet from the train station and was flipping through, thinking whether I should perm my hair or not. With the coupon, it was really really cheap. Cheaper compared to Singapore. But on the other hand, i have to go and perm my hair alone and i think it will be about 10 pm when I finished. =(

The thought of walking back to the hotel alone at night turns me off as it was my 1st time to Sendai and it was at least a 20 minutes walk away to our hotel.

Japan is considered a safe place but during that period of time, there was a case in the news of a "kuku" young man who went on a stabbing spree in the train station. He stabbed 7-8 people (1 died, 7 injured) for NO REASON. NO REASON LOR! I think they are highly stressed up people. So.. it made me think abit about perming my hair in the evening~... very kiasi..

But I decided to go ahead with the perming (yeah.. ai swee mai mia)while Darren stayed at the hotel to surf net and sleep.

Anyway, it was a great experience and after a perm, i took a taxi back to the hotel and ended up $15 poorer. Board the taxi already $8 liao leh... jin ho tan.

2nd day in Sendai! Matsushima!!

oh i love this place!! I followed the route Japan Guide recommended and we boarded the ferry in Shiogama to Matsushima. Great experience and scenery

there were alot of seagulls following our ferry as I think they are used to people feeding them. Really close to the nature.. but it was freaking cold. freaking freaking cold.

~ Seagull Video ~

~ Aboard the Ferry ~

Reached!

and why is Matsushima Bay known as the top 3 scenery in Japan?
Matsushima Bay as it name means "island of pine trees" have 260 tiny island surrounding it. It's formed naturally by the erosion of the waves..

At Zuiganji with naturally formed caves which used to house the dead people..

We saw really lovely flowers here and this is really a place photographers should go as there were alot of japanese ojisan with super biggie lens taking the surrounding scenery.
mine not so nice..=( dont noe how to compose. Anyway Matsushima is still a lovely place

they have some bridges that lead to some of the nearer islets where you can take a walk on the islet itself.

alot of walking.. so we took a rest

i think if tsunami really comes.. there will be no time to run.. i really doubt the distance stated there.. the zuiganji is pretty far from this point.