Konichiwa...

Apa yang anda bakal baca dan saksikan nanti mungkin tidak bersesuaian bagi ssetengah pihak. Oleh itu, budi bicara pembaca adalah diperlukan.

Moshi2. Guess where I'd be this time?.

Haitttt...Susah betul buat visa ke Jepun ni. Mungkin sbb I pgi sendiri, Kedutaan Jepun nak surat pengakuan bank mengatakan akaun masih aktif (of course U needed to show a lot of amount saved and for this, I withdrawed all my money saved from KWSP), surat pengesahan dari majikan dan salinan harta yang dimiliki (Thank God, I fotocopied my surat pengesahan pemilikan rumah I) serta itinerari sepanjang berada di sana. Waiting for 1 month, finally my waiting a.k.a grieving period was over. And you know what, for 1 day, because of the joy and happiness due to my prayer answered, I slept with my air ticket and visa next to my pillow. Yeah, that's very true story of me.

Segala kegumbiraan bermula sbaik mencecahkan kaki ke dalam pesawat. Aliran adrenalin semakin pantas sbaik di sapa pramugari Jepun brkebaya biru. Ayunya dia....

17/8/2007 (Fri)
5 hours sleepless flight passed. Yeahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! Yokoso Japan (Welcome to Japan)-that was the first Japanese phrase I saw once stepped in the airport. I needed to get shuttle bus to the Shibuya Station to meet Edhuan there (Edhuan was a Malaysian student there. He was Masami's friend. Masami ialah kenalan yang baru dikenali semasa bercuti di Taman Negara Mulu. I didn't even know Edhuan). I didn't speak or even write Japanese. U know Japanese-only a few able to speak English. I didn't even bring Eng-Japs-Eng dictionary there. So, it's quite difficult for me without all these. But as a survivor, I managed to get the station.

The good thing about Japan was, they have public locker so i did not need to bring my heavy luggage here and there. So far, I didn't find even single public locker in Msia. Simpan je bag kat locker lepas tu jalan berlenggang.

Memandangkan hari tu hari Jumaat dan zuhur pun dah masuk, Edhuan bawa ke masjid kerana dia ingin sembahyang Jumaat. Kat bahagian perempuan, ada seorang perempuan Jepun sedang mendengar khutbah Jumaat yang disampaikan dalam bahasa Pakistan kalu tak silap. Masjidnya kecil sahaja dan dibiaya mlalui derma2 org Islam di sana.

Lpas smbahyang, barulah ronda ke Asakusa, Tokyo Dome City dan naik Tokyo Tower utk tgk pemandangan bandar Tokyo.

18/8/2007 (Mon)

From Tokyo to Kyoto by Shinkansen(bullet train) which cost me 13,090 yen (abt RM 437). Mahal gak kan?. Tapi bila lg nak rasa naik kan?. This time, money doesn't matter. Kyoto was famous and known as a Cultural City. Just watch these transformation....The Making of a Geisha......

Mcm raja kapoor la pulak

Watak Utama The Memoirs of Geisha

U know what?. My mum even couldn't recognize me when I showed her off the last photo. She said, who the hell is this Yop?. No lah, mestilah org tua sopan bila berkata. I je yg mnambah2 crita spya lebih umpphhh. Sorry mek. Poor me....mak sendiri pun tak kenal.

Malam tu I jumpa makanan pelik2. Ni dia, daging kuda mentah. Nak cuba juga tapi bila fikir cara sembelihan, tak jadi lah.

Memandangkan lakonan I dalam Memoirs of Geisha dan The Last Samurai di dah lama brlalu, I pun dah banyak yg lupa. The best visited places in Japan were Tokyo Disneyland dan Universal Studio. Felt like we turned back time- jadi budak2 balik. Until now I still can feel the excitement!

In conclusion, Japan was really really GREAT! As good as Egypt! But in my opinion, the bad sides of Japs: they were so alcoholic and live free sex life! The rest, they were very helpful, very hardworking, very obedient, very civilized, and very very very ..................( so many +ve values).

(Universal Studio, Japan)

(Tokyo Disneyland)

(Great Buddha, Kamakura)

Sayonara.

Written by,
Yoyop san.