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Hola ! before i start , i am back safely from Japan and i'm really grateful for that .

gotta be thankful for all the seemingly small things after all ,
never mind that i sorta detest long plane rides cuz i can never seem to fall asleep on planes .
and not being able to fall asleep/not sleeping irritates me quite a fair bit .
that aside , the trip was a good experience and i'd be sharing some photos with y'all here .
sorry that the pictures are gonna be phone quality still cuz i haven't found a camera i've fallen in love with yet . recommendations anyone ?

reminder to self to also clear my work report within the day of rest i have left .
also to work on my pending pieces including birthday designs as time doesn't come by so easy after all . i really need more time you read ?

truth to be told , i have been feeling quite tired from since i went to japan till now ;
not sure if it's physically , mentally or both and that makes me rather frustrated ,
angry and absolutely feel like venting it on someone (no one in particular in case u were wondering) .
i'm still keeping it in though so i suppose it's all good .

moving on to happier things ,
it's been busy since i came back , thor with friends as well as afa with merl .

thor: the dark world was a good movie for me :D
i liked the storyline , characters and all .

my favourite character would of course still be loki and needless to say i don't think this will change .
although loki isn't my type per se , i really like the way i can feel his character is portrayed .
loki is perfect because he is imperfect , he lets his anger lead him , he also mostly disregards and does not give in to the soft emotions that he has which makes him strong but also vulnerable .
loki is raw and full of emotion which makes him a complicated character with depth , plagued by his own inner demons and i like that .
i secretly wish for him to be an anti hero though :)

afa was also catch up time with merl although we got tired super early .
but anyway , here are some photos of the wig merl and i got before photos of the japan trip :)

what d'you think ? personally i've always loved wine red hair :D
although i gotta straighten it more to see if i really like it cuz it is too wavy for my taste .
(presumably for yours too . icks i just can't do this wavy shit)

i justify this purchase as it is cheap and good quality XD
it is also my only purchase from afa as the shirt i wanted was left with xl size . *grumbles*

andddd

here comes the long awaited japan photos finally ~

day 1 ;
technically even though the period i was out of Singapore was from 27th October till 7th November ,
my flight reached japan late in the night on 27th October (11:30pm) .
so after checkout , collecting our luggage , buying some food and whatnot at the convenience store and taking the shuttle bus to the hotel , we were all ready to call it a night .

thankfully all the hotels we booked were oh so cosy .

here is the only photo for day 1 (27th Oct) :
2 cute doggies spotted at ueno park :D

day 3 (29th Oct) ;
our first hotel change !
since we are having it free and easy , we woke up not so early , proceeded to check out of our first hotel and head to our second hotel which was at our favourite location - ikebukuro .
also bought umbrellas which was useful to use throughout our trip .
from here i occasionally started documenting photos of my food .
29th was a shopping day and meet up with rini for dinner day :D

here is my first ootd which i changed out of cuz it was raining and the weather was too cold :x
second ootd- paddington bear coat borrowed from merl *xoxo*

our lunch ~ mad love the onion rings . if only they had it here :(
petshop ~
first dinner with rini in japan at otoya :)
shopping haul 1 , shiba inu coin purse .
the currency in japan works in a way that only the $10 and above are notes .
the rest are in coins so can u imagine all the $2 and $5 sgd we have in the form of coins ?
haha definitely need a coin pouch !
shopping haul 2 , what's shopping without new clothes really?
 shopping haul 3 , new leg warmers :3
day 4 (30th Oct) finally brings us to ueno zoo and shopping at akihabara
i really wish they bring in carton lipton milk tea here too .
in japan , bubble tea is scarce and milk tea limited so i survive mostly on soft serve ice cream .
here is our lunch from the convenience store
 some pictures of the animals from ueno zoo
as you can see , some of the animals are their own class of lazy .

even after hunting for it , we didn't get to see the red panda though *sulks*
here's why:
our dinner part 1 ,
yummy chicken curry at ueno park
and akihabara has zoids ! so much want !
quality does oddly seem lousier though .

day 5 (31st Oct)  we moved house for the third time .
i effectively brought home a backache from japan too thanks to all the moving around :(
our new home was at minami-senju !
since we were tired from all the packing and moving about ,
day 5 brought us to akihabara to do more shopping for a second time .
after shopping ,
we brought our luggage to rini's dorm at myorenji as we were going on our wakayama trip together from 1st to 4th November and surviving the trip with only our bagpacks (with our clothes etc packed inside of course) . this call was so we could save time and effort on 1st November making it easier for us .

only 2 photos for day 5 as yours truly is too tired . hahaha .

furthermore we cabbed back as the train service ended halfway and the cab was sooo expensive .
jamie fell sick too so she stayed up till 5 and i stayed up till 3 despite how tired we were :(

come day 6 (31st Oct) ;
extended the checkout time cuz jamie only got to sleep around 7am and sick people need more sleep to recover . but all was good as we had yummy gyoza for brunch that really made my day .
went to tokyo skytree before heading back to our hotel to prepare and meet rini to take the bus to wakayama . bus journey was from 11pm till 7am , and bus was much more comfy than airplanes !

brunch place
brunch foodz
more pls ?
haha here is us on our walk to tokyo sky tree
 tokyo skytree !

dinner was yummy salmon sushi which i forgot to take a photo of and one piece bread
day 7 (1st Nov) ;
we are whisked away to shirayama area by bus .
we saw engetsu island , climbed senjojiki and visited an onsen :)
guess mood may be a little low here at times cuz jamie lost her phone on the bus trip :(
but nonetheless we managed to enjoy it :D

we went to a footbath
also the debut of our tour guide , pek sia . rini was helping us to take this photo

this is engetsu island
senjojiki
had ramen again for brunch .
fish soup base is actually quite yummy too ~
can tell you rather honestly that i dislike red egg yolks though . too sweet for my liking .
desserts

onsen
 on our journey to the hotel

super delish late late dinner .
salmon and mushroom cream base omu rice .
doesn't look like much but has got to be my favourite omu rice eva .

day 8 (2nd Nov) ;
went on a tour bus trip to shrines and nachi falls .
super nice interior for the tour bus
me and jamie in the hotel yukata before setting off (sorry order is abit jumbled here)
 this is probably what i loved best

complimentary tour lunch .
super simple yet tasty . sorta miss japan food now !

k now for actual tour pics
calligraphy book rini bought !
 so anyway , somewhere around here i fell
grazed my knee and was quite pissy for awhile , lucky it tided over fast enough !

seafood rice gratin dinner which i super love too .
day 9 (3rd Nov)
did more walking around shrines ! this one is apparently a power spot in japan .
hahaha at this point in time was quite wary about shrines and falling down ,
but enjoyed the view and food still :)

early morning desserts

 crowded street and shrine areas !

lunch was grilled beef with rice . super tasty too although i'm not a fan of beef .
one of my resolutions are too eat less meat !
afternoon dessert and super light dinner
sandwich was really goood . much better than the cake !
random mascot shot at the train station

day 10 (4th Nov) leaves me and jamie alone again .
reached the hotel late at night , day 9 food may have been for day 10 ,
i'm not too sure and i'm a little lazy to investigate further .
(not sure what happened to the early part of the day too , could've been in day 9)

here is a photo of our new home for a day
pretty lights on our way here
cool eh ?
this is sakuragicho which is also close to cool spots !

day 11 (5th Nov)
went shopping at sakuragicho , visited the pokemon center , moved our luggage to our last and final home at asakusa in the evening and shopped at asakusa .

brunch
sights
 desserts and pokemon center
dinner was yoshinoya at asakusa .
no pictures for that . here is our new place !

deliciously comfy !

day 12 (6th Nov)
shopping at asakusa and ueno , both nice items for ourselves

brunch

 desserts
 merchandise :3
 new choker !

day 13 (7th Nov)
spent at haneda airport , had the best ramen and gyoza here !
 yumz . pasta for dinner and jamie's new luggage

ok you can tell i'm getting lazier and lazier can't you ?
this post took up alot of me to write .

hahaha special thanks goes out to all of you who asked about my trip and updates :)

special thanks goes to tiger too for accompanying me overseas for a second time , and having rough transportation here and there like so !

 left behind at rini's for his own safety during the wakayama trip!

oh and it's also officially my birthday :D

birthday post up soon if i am not too lazy .
time to open my first present from mummy !

goodnight to all of you , thanks for reading . xoxo