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!

Holidaying @ Nippon

Wow, October is the month I spent the most in this year!

But it's a happiest month of the year!

Why?? Because it's a holidaying month for me!

 

Yes, I just came back from Nippon...

Went to Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe and Nara.

Konnichiwa from fortune kitty to all~

 

A wonderful trip that I explored to the second large city of Nippon, Osaka

Impressed with the peoples there, so civilized!

Liked the clean toilets there... world best toilets at Nippon!

Amazed with beautiful places and sceneries around Nippon!

A fruitful trip that I bought many good cheap stuffs there!

 

Nippon~ u amazed me! 

 

I am gonna share more here in my blog with my Nippon trip! Stay tuned!

It about October!

Oh, it's 10.10.2012... Kinda fast the time is passing...
October is about a month with busy works, busy outings with me!
And I am going for a holiday in October too!

Works, keep me busy and keep me moving up!
Going thru the obstacles and challenges at work,
I felt I still have plenty more to catch up...
Yet, It made me learnt, and keep improving myself.
I love this feeling at work, just move me up!

Busy at outing with friends too!
Knowing something new to me with a friend of mine...
It enlighten me, for me to know better of myself...
for what I want, for what I am looking for...
I will be moving on to get what I am looking for...

Oh ya, this is a month furkids not staying with me!
They were sent back hometown, staying with parent...
as I am going away for my holiday soon~
Heard from mama, they are doing well at hometown...
Missing both the furkids... wonder if they do miss me or not?

October... another happy month to me!
I love October 2012... ^.^

Happy Mid Autumn Festival.中秋节快乐

Happy Mid Autumn Festival

中秋节快乐~人月俩团圆

Happy Family Day

Month of Sept... It's about happy family!

Sister and kids came back and have a visit down here at PJ

Mama was here too!

 

Having lunch at Bulgogi Brother

They loved the meal here too!

 

Eric and me... Same old advice for him...

"Eric, please study hard this month and do your best for the final exam ya!"

Sis, if you read this, please show him...

wakakakaka... I am long winded, but I want my nephew does his exam well!

 

Celebrating birthday for four of them...

Sis and Eric borned at the month of August

While mama and Alice borned at the month of Sept

Happy Belated Birthday to all!

Opps, that's the actual birthday for Alice!

 I did wish her on that day...

 

There are peoples saying we look alike

Are we really look alike?

Of course we look alike, we are sisters!! ^.^

 

 

Another looking alike... Uncle and nephew

Yes, there's a chinese saying, nephew mostly look alike uncle

This is quite true ya.... they real look alike!

 

Mama and daughters...

Mama happy to have us coming together! I knew it!

I am happy too! I knew my sis is happy too!

 

Nothing beat the good times spending together with the family!

 

 

Positive overcome Negative

Work isn't that smooth lately, boss shared with me some challenges company is facing now. Once I have listened to him, first thing came into my mind is some sort of negative stuff... shall I start finding a job? After a few days of digestion and having more communication with boss, I have turned the challenges into the positive energy to push me up to another level.

I personally think the right valume of force to me is good. It will motivate me to achieve what I want to reach. I need to plan the future roadmap for myself, my team and the company. This is gonna be the time we will need to work harder and to get things happen in real.

There are still plenty for me to learn, much more for me to get improve, much much more for me to earn... So brain storming and strategy planning is started, and let's sail it to the goal!

First to move thing up, is to think and act positive!! I can do it!