日本。。初めまして！

even i'm back home for more than a week now... but memories went through my mind over & over again till i reached the point of not wanting to wake up from my dreams that felt so real...deep down, i know it was normal to feel like this...

rainy otaru came across my mind...
OTARU ~ 30km west of sapporo on the northern tip of hokkaido's shiribeshi district on the sea of japan side, it is a harbor & port facility city.

otaru canal ~ short & narrow but most remarkable of the past & most beautiful spot for picture


music from heaven that fills the city of otaru flews over my ears...
~ got this lovely music box from otaru music shop gallery ~



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magnificient mt. hakodate night view came across my mind...
panorama from the top overlooking the city & the fine natural harbor is considered to be one of the world's most magnificient night views


sapporo came across my mind...

i revealed a million memories with every little single thing i brought back from japan. every item had a history & i would talk & laugh with my friends bout' the memories surrounding it.. so many items, so many memories...i'm sooOo in love with JAPAN!! and hey... for everyone who came along : elvin, kelly, jin & angelic which is far away at tokyo for the past 8 yrs... i'm so delighted that i can share this beautiful moments with you guys & i hope to have many more beautiful moments like this together!... we cheered and reached for our glasses of wine...







and now i'm heading to this big city

TOKYO...
autumn / 8-16'C

15 millions population!! i'm finally here....... finally & finally.....HERE!
We flew from Chitose airport to Tokyo's Haneda airport. there are a few ways to reach tokyo city:
* from haneda airport, take a train to shinagawa station (by keikyu line), then from shinagawa to shinjuku station (by yamanote line) OR if u have big luggages, just hop on to their airport limousine buses http://www.limousinebus.co.jp/en/
* from narita airport, u can also easily hop on to the limousine buses. the bus stop at many different stations in tokyo.

well.... this night, i was standing at the Shibuya traffic light junction........ thousands of people crossing the shibuya streets... after a few mins, another thousands of people crossing the shibuya streets again!!
What are "they" doing here?? my mouth opened & closed like a goldfish. my forehead wrinkled in confusion, paused & glanced down at my friends as i stared from one group of people to another one group of people crossing the streets. i was too excited to see one of the busiest traffic light junctions in the world!! SHIBUYA...... u are simply BEAUTIFUL ~






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my legs were cramped after a long walk... but as i passes through the streets, i noticed that there were many elderly citizens sleeping under the flyover, along the roadside. my heart was cramped as well. are they homeless? where is their family members? why are they sleeping under the flyover on this freezing night? Their life are like wandering zombies, watching everybody else live theirs, while they waited for them to end...? i don't understand. i was immobile for a few mins.. reliving those every single scences that i saw...
12.00am... as i walk passed tokyo metropolitan building on my right hand side... that was a silent night in shinjuku...

09nov...
tomorrow will be my last day in tokyo... i smiled to myself.. relaxed back in the cafe chair in shinjuku, cooling november day that caused the trees to dance wildly in the wind...



i thought about wat i've learned, who i once was.. and who i had now become. i was a woman who had been given advises from dad & mum that i loved most. i now had a job that i loved and felt confident within myself to reach for what i wanted. i was a woman who made mistakes, who sometimes cried on a monday morning or at night alone in bed.
i was a woman who often became bored with my life & found it hard to get up for work in the morning. i was a woman who looked in the mirror & wondered why i couldn't drag myself to the gym more often? i was a woman who sometimes juz got things wrong!
but on the other hand... i think i was a woman with a million happy memories, who knew wat it was like to experience true life & who was ready to experience more life, more love, more memories!! whether it happened in 10 days, 10 months or 10 years... watever lay ahead.. !!
now that i finally have a chance to come to my DREAM JAPAN, i'm sooOooO happy.. so satisfied!! i juz do not know how to put my excitement in words!!
... i would juz open my heart now & follow where it leds me.. so in the meantime, i would juz live & GO ANYWHERE ELSE that i wanted to go later!!



shinjuku

tokyo tower

JAPAN... till we meet again...

narita airport