finally stepped into Japan!

ok... *wipes off some dust from the blog*
i guess i'm so lacking in mood to type long stories, my blog is collecting dust... cuz any more updates will be juz about work- which i can't say too much either. Of cuz life isn't all about work, but it's quite routine... weekdays work; sat go out wif polar bear and sometimes with AS peeps; sun i rot at home... then occasionally got other outings wif colleagues, ex-classmates etc etc

so... routine lifestyle makes mi lazy. And i'm used to being lazy. haha~ plus now got time online i'll be tryin to catch some anime... oops... ya so i'll try to update my blog more often, but i guess life is quite peaceful now and i'm not thinkin so much le... sounds like signs of becoming old... :S

anyway, onto the tokyo trip~

prologue:
well, we've intended to go Korea... then extend a few days for free n easy... but i realised i'll be v tired after that and got not enuff leave lidat... + we always having difficulty queueing at the uber long queues during the NATAS... so, after finding out that air tix to tokyo has dropped abit.. we decided to change our destination to tokyo

the bad thing about f&e is that gotta plan... i'm feeling lazy and polar bear's bz.. lucky we manage to plan somehow... cuz eventually the whole trip we really sticked to the itinerary for the most part (which i tink is a feat cuz usually wun)

day 1:
the flight's at day 0(28th apr) and it's a night flight on the fattest plane A380... the biggest boo-boo that night is polar bear actually checked in his camera with his luggage -_-" so we got a disposable camera which we haven't used finish (yikes) and relying on my lousy 2.0 mega pixel camera hp... juz anyhow snapped some shots on the plane... thought we could explore the plane but we couldn't... :(

and as usual, i suck at sleeping on transport... they gave us snacks (some buritto wraps which aint v tasty) at around midnight going to 1am and i ordered johnny walker red label on the rocks (which isn't nice i find) to help mi sleep faster... but juz when i finally could fall asleep at like 3am lidat... i got woke up in less than an hour to eat breakfast =_= zzz totally no appetite.. plus food isn't great... the egg is like overcooked and rubbery... @_@

reached narita at around 7+am... was feeling groggy yet kinda excited... the walk from the gate to the customs is kinda long... then gotta go thru all the temp scan... and they got this machine that takes in both ur thumb prints and a picture :O quite amusing... then when checkin our luggage before exiting the airport... i was called to get mine checked along with polar bear's... then that custom officer tok to us in chinese o_o" is that guy from china i wonder? even at the customs? wow

bot airport limo tix... took airport limo tix all the way to shinjuku.. polar bear sleeping for most of the journey... well again i couldn't.. then got off and started scouting for the hotel... luckily there's a map along the street and we tried to figured out where... found the hotel... it's v new and quite impressive... left our luggage... and headed off to find... breakfast/brunch/lunch

went to the keio and jr shinjuku station interchange... got kinda lost around... tried to ask the information counter about day pass for trains, realised there's no cheap pass that allow ride on all the different companies' metro/train line.. decided to give up on the thought and get tix everyday... decided that we should have curry rice for lunch... curry rice cost around 500+yen per person... not bad~

further loitered around exploring... finally found takashimaya time square.. expensive stuff they're selling, found kinokuniya beside takashimaya... their piano scores section is confusing and overwhelming... gave up... headed over to the other side to check out what's game taito... realised to our horror and happiness that it's the arcade.. filled with UFO machines @_@
that's where i got my first prize... the monster hunter walking cook cat (SD version) but subsequently lost some money in attempt to try and get a second one :S headed into a shop that sells like tons and tons of AV... the collection is like wow... @_@ all sorts really.. but v ex wor

so after exploring more, we headed back to hotel... noticed a long queue @ krispy kreme and wondered if it's that delicious. we checked in... found the room kinda small on 1st impression, but it's really clean and neat.. the tv channels are v family oriented... no mention of vending machines for AV channels as zn has mentioned :X

the rest of the day is spent @ suginami animation musuem, eating dinner at ogikubo.. then headed back to shinjuku's tokyo metropolitian govt building for night scene at their observertory.. well the latter's a disappointment as the interior is too well lit... plus we're scammed into walkin uber long dist under the tunnel to the building... zzz long and cold walk
after that was back to exploring arcades and shop + supper @ standing sushi bar.. which is good!!

day 2:
to be continued @_@