Sunday, May 21, 2006
Home "sweat" home
hehe. I'm back!! touched down @ Changi Airport at 10pm, reached home at 11pm, slept at 1pm, up at 9am! so unbelievable that i'm at home!!
Spent the morning and afternoon unpacking and catching up with my mum and brother. Apparently, my dad claimed to be uninformed of my trip, and said to my brother: so sad your sister didn't tell me about it... i feel like an outsider, whom she only turns to for money". ... -haix- sian diao. (oh btw, the $$ he's talking about is the 21st b-day present that i requested for, to help fund my trip)
Ahh~~ was so happy to be home!! my mum helped me changed the bed sheets and sprayed perfume on it, and turned the air-con on!! so sweet of her.. was so touched~~ so ytdy i slept soundly, as if i'm still in nara sleeping in the cold weather hehe.
anyway, talking about culture shock that i said i didn't have in the previous post, i wanna say tt it's only mostly true. Coz while kyoto and nara was fine, osaka was a different story. Wat happened was, we happen to put up in the area near the American Village in Shinsaibashi, which is a very HAPPENING place. notice the emphasis on HAPPENING. i must say i feel disconcerted, if not abit theratened, when i see punk youngsters dressed in all types of funky clothes filling up the street when only an hour ago girls were dressed feminiely and guys smartly along the streets of kyoto. To tell the truth, i was abit relieved not to have much time to spend in osaka. They're too...
exciting for me. haha. (but no, i don't have photos to show their punk-ness; i was more concerned not to attract attention there by being a tourist -bleah-)
Interestingly, i kinda felt the impact of the culture shock only when i returned to Singapore... hrm. lemme list them down:
01. when in the cab home ytdy, i saw 2 guys dressed in singlets, berms and slippers cycling along the road. --- Abit *dots* for me when for the past 10 days ppl are groomed even when they're opening the letter-box outside their house.
02. the toilet paper!!! --- wah, how i missed the toilet paper in s'pore. i don't know if japan is trying to be environmental friendly or what, but the toilet rolls there are miserably thin. -haix-
03. when i went down for breakfast with mum and bro. --- frankly speaking, i felt abit nauseated when asked to order food, coz they just seemed so heavy and oily to me for a breakfast! i can't believe it too, but i think 10 days in japan has changed my diet pattern. ah~ how i missed the yogurt and bread (not forgetting Mister Dohnut), the onigiri, and the pudding!!!
04. when i tried to walk past the lane made narrow by the supermarket which spills their display racks to the pavement. --- while there are narrow walking paths in japan, they're usually only in areas where low ppl traffic is expected. i really can't rmr even having to squeeze thru the same amount of crowd at the railways stations during busy hours.
05. when my mum dumped the chee cheong fun that i got from another location into her niang tou fu. --- ... hrm. dietary options are not as wide for me as ytdy i suppose. i can't really control what i eat anymore yea? -haix-
And of course, the ultimate shock came when my brother finally confessed to me that he is attached!! and to my horror, since last month!!! argh~~~ how can he not tell me earlier??? -sulk- well, at least i did get something for his gf..
anyway, i think i'm still buffering back to being a s'porean. hahaha~ now sorting out the photos. will post them somewhere when it's done~ guess i shd start listing down the places i've gone to soon b4 i forget them!!
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ic3snow said on 7:10 PM
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Post a Commentur little bro is attached!!!! *hoots* tt calls 4 a celebration!!! =p
welcome home dordor!!! i wanted 2 sms u one but dunno wat time u'll reach in s'pore on sat. =)
time 2 meet up 4 our ktv!!
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