Time Flies...

We all are working adults now... Sister and Cousin Mabel are mummies now

A conversation with my aunt, Samyi, trigger my thought that time flies real fast...

Samyi: you girls are adults now, which you girls were used to be the kids at my tuition class

Me: Samyi, ya... I'm now at your position, as the aunt to my nephew and niece. You are seeing us growing elder, while I am now seeing the kids growing up!

Samyi & me: Times real flies by fast!!!

 

From left: Sister, Samyi, Me and Mabel

Samyi is like another mama to us, she is my mama's sister

She looked after us, taught us with good study and care for us

Thanks for everything you have done for us... Samyi! We all love you!

 

The kids remind us that we are elder now, tho' I don't find myself getting elder :p

From left: My nephews, Eric, Jackmon, and my niece, Alice

Hardly get together, but they treasure the times of getting together! 

Happy Shopping

Super duper happy with my Nippon trip

As I bought many quality stuffs with good price...

Souvenirs, candies are not too cheap yet not too expensive... I should say with average price :)

Clothing there are cheap, as I got those clothes on sales!

Uniqlo is cheaper as compared to here, blouse and pant are 30%-50% cheaper than here...

H&M is having great sales where I managed to get the dresses with RM28 each only! And those are the dresses with good quality, no lipstick mark, no torn threat, no dirty mark... absolutely a good piece of quality dress!

Bought the magazine came with free tote bag, and have myself an Agnes B tote bag at RM480...

What a fruitful trip I have had! Lolssss

 

Kobe, You are Cool! Nara, You are Beautiful!

The one and only place we came to Kobe, Rokko Park

Cottage Terrace, a restaurant up at the hill top of Rokko Park

That was the evening with temperature below 10 degree celcious

There's a watch tower with film projected on it, so we watched the tower with film playing

One shot I made on the tower, love the colors... just like the colors of Windows XP...lolsss

 

Another one and only place we visited at Nara, Dong-Da-Zhi

A temple with Buddha which is also the UNESCO World Heritage site

Great achitecture of the temple amazed me!

Another unique you found here... there are deers walking freely here

You can hug the deers, feed the deers, touch the deers...

Just make sure you don't make them mad... else they will chase you, kick you...

But overall, the deers won't attack you if you don't mean to hurt them.

I love this beautiful place, and this is the place we found the maple trees have turned red!

 

Kobe, you are cool! Nara, you are beautiful!

 

Ancient Kyoto

 Just happened that was the Kyoto-Jidai-Matsuri Festival at one of the day (22Oct) of our trip

So we managed to attend to this traditional Japanese festival

The locals and foreigners all sit near to roadside to enjoy the parade

I was talking to an auntie, and she told me about the festival briefly

That's all about their authentic old fashions of various periods and characters at ancient times of Japanese

 

After the parade of the traditional festival, we visited to the Yasaka Shrine near to Gion

This is a temple with many lanterns, and with free admission

Gion is the place popular with the profession of Geisha, which has existed since old times of Japan

There were many tourists at this area to wait for Geisha to come out from the premise

as they hope to take the pictures of the Geisha here

It's not easy to take meet them here, as they will be performing in the premise rather than walking out, yet we manged to meet 2 Geishas who walk towards the premise, they are so beautiful!

 

We have the temple day out at one of the day of our trip

We first came to the Kiyomizudera (pic: bottom one) near to the Higashiyama district, a temple built with wood and with a platform supporting by wood pillars

Then we went to the Ginkakuji (pic: upper right), a temple with a small sandy hill and Kinkakuji(pic: upper left), a temple painted in gold built on top on the lake.

All three temples are awarded as UNESCO World Heritage sites

The temples were at the area surrounded with nice scenery, great temples with awesome building structures built since old times of Japan

We were there too early, the maple trees yet to turn to red

Good time to be there would be early Nov everyyear, to see the surrounding with red maple trees!

  

Arashiyama is another place with a world heritage site there, the Tenryuji Temple

This is a temple for the believers to study the religion, it's another beautiful temple!

 

Walking down from the Tenryuji Temple, we came to the Bamboo Grove and Togetsukyo Bridge

Bamboo Grove is a very beautiful place, that was with bamboo plants at the surrounding

Togetsukyo Bridge is leading us to the small town at Arahiyama, where we enjoyed our souvenir shopping and have our tou-fu meal here.

We have missed to take the Sagano Scenic Train as when we were reaching the train staion, the train was left and the next train was an hour late. Not to waste our time, we proceed to next sight seeing.

 

A small tip from me, to go the Arashiyama, our experience told us that, we should take the Landen train and drop off at the second last stop before reaching the final stop at Arashiyama, to take Sagano Scenic Train here. Riding on the train to enjoy the beautiful scenery found here, then stop near to Bamboo Grove and walk towards Tenryuji Temple and Togetsukyo Bridge. If time permits, you can even have a foot bath at the hot spring near the train station of Arashiyama. 

Amazing Osaka

Osaka, one of the major city of Japan

I have had my amazing holiday here and  have learnt the city living here

Osaka is a clean city, I don't feel the air pollution here, rubbish here and there

Peoples here are majority very polite and civilized

City is well structured and organized with good public transportation system

 

Osaka Castle is one of the famous tourist spot that the local and foreigner will visit to

This is the remained builing left in this big fenced up center area surrounded by 2 rivers

Similar to the Beijing's Forbidden City, which is surrounded by a river too

Local will be visiting there, to understand the history of Osaka

We as the foreign tourists don't understand their language well,

so we enjoyed seeing the building and sceceny there, and have photography there.

(Yes, almost all of the tourist spots places converse in Japanese, hardly heard the English)

Yet, we knew this is the place to find out history of Osaka from the different kingdoms of old times.

 

Another good one to go is the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan

This is one of the biggest aquarium in the world

The aquarium is located next to the sea, design with a walk path walking downward the aquarium for different habitats set for different marine lifes

The specialties in this aquarium is their whale shark, and the giant stingray

Teresa was here to see her whale shark, that she wanted to see in this trip

We have spent few hours walking in the aquarium, and there are seats available in a few places of the aquarium, so we can rest while enjoy seeing the marine lifes in the aquarium.

 

 

Most retail shops in Osaka will be closing by 8:30pm or latest by 9:30pm everyday

They are practicing the 8 hours working life even in the retail industry like the departmental stores

Yet, some restaurants and karaokes will be opening for 24 hours

The happening night lifes are found at areas near Shinsabashi, Ebibashi, Dontoburi, Shinsekai...

We were having great shopping spree at the last 2 days of our stay there.

I managed to get some quality clothes and bags with attractive reasonable price.

So happy with shopping there! I shall share more on what I have bought in my next post~

 

 

Having fun day out the the Universal Studio Japan!

Experienced the 3D motion master rides

Running around the theme park to look for Snoopy and Elmo...

Bit disappointed as we could not locate them, so no picture taken with them!

Yet, managed to take picture with Kitty (specialty of USJ)

That's near to the Halloween, so Kitty was asking me to pose like 'ghost' with her...

Cutie ghost ever... right?! hahahahaha...

 

 

Tempting and Tempted

 

One thing i like about Nippon is buying magazines there

I don't understand the language, but i bought the magazine...

Why?

As it came with a handy bag (majority tote bag) FOC when you buy the magazine

 

See the magazines with the bags packed together?

Just pick for one you like!

 

I love this tote bag so much... Yes, I bought the magazine! lolsss

It cost me 690 Yen, which is about RM28.00

Francis was calling this magazine bag!

 

Teresa bought the magazine with the kitty tote bag...

Like the kitty furry tail attached with the bag...

Her magazine cost her 600 Yen, which is about RM24.00

 

Before leaving Osaka, Teresa found another tote bag she liked!

Yes, its a Agnes b tote bag came with Agnes b magazine.

This cost her 1300Yen which is about RM52.00 

 

The tempting and tempted deal we found at our Nippon trip :)

Satisfaction October. Beautiful November

The working day at last day of October was a a satisfaction one!
I have got my solution worked as expected! So happy!
October ended with a satisfied full stop.

Beautiful November is here...
I plan for a more healthier lifestyle...
I work for a more satisfaction achievement...
I live for a better me... Happy November!