Chapter 6.2.1: Nihon wa Boku no Yume Nandakara! (Because Japan is my dream!)
Everything seems to be going well nowadays, my dream had already been fulfilled, mum getting transferred to another section of her job on july which is good as she wants a transfer as she hates her current boss, my dad is running his business together with my granduncle basically a travel agency, results from my previous semester had good results and if everything goes right, I might be able to go to Japan this September again. I'll start off with my trip in Japan, well at first I was not able to go as my mum didn't agree on it. Then I thought to myself, people who succeed always tries, and then I told myself "Don't just say it, DO IT!" so then I went to bug her again about it till she then agrees (thanks mum!). And so I was busy preparing for my trip, also had a brief discussion with aunt Michelle as we're going there together but from different places as aunt Michelle will be coming from Australia. We basically had a lot of discussion as we're new to Japan and we're not sure as to where to go. After done preparing, went through the japanese embassy of malaysia, renewed my passport, I finally am able to go to Japan. Dad, mum and Trish accompanied me throughout the wait for my flight. Then when the time came, I told em goodbye and told em to take care, but then as I walked down the escalator, I then shouted to my mum, "Thanks mi, I really appreciate what you're doing for me, also Di don't push yourself to hard or you'll end up breaking another bone of yours again". And waved at them as I was headed towards the immigration site. Then after going through the immigration, I sent to my mum an sms saying "Thanks alot, I really appreciate it, its been my dream to go to Japan and thanks to you its no longer a dream, I love you, tell Dad don't push himself too hard, if he needs help, ask, as he is no longer young and tell him I love him too. As for Trisha, tell her thanks for accompanying me, appreciate it" well.... thats roughly what I remembered what I sent (xD). I wanted to put into the sms telling Trisha not to skip too much classes, but then I didn't as I don't want my parents to worry too much for Trisha. My flight was a connection flight and trust me... the most boring parts of the trip IS the flight, as it IS boring and you're restricted to certain activities, especially if you're alone but thanks to their radio stations, I got hooked up to some new japanese songs (XD). So before getting to Japan, I will haveta stop by Hong Kong and wait for 2 hours+ for my connecting flight. So as I was unsure of what I should do there, I got myself a Starbucks coffee that cost me RM18+ (@.@) and found myself a free internet usage at a small booth in the airport. Thank god Jiann Yet and Yuen was there to accompany me as I was DEADLY bored. Oh yeah that reminds me, Hong Chun told me to buy him back some sex toys when I come back as I asked them what they want from Japan. So then I told him "NO WAY! I don't want to end up in jail for this". So then Jiann Yet was asking me to get him 1 too (~.~). We had a lil conversation that at least, cuts the waiting time, and had a lil laughter. Then it was time to leave, I told em thanks and went for my flight.
Day 1
Once I reached Osaka, it was 10 minutes earlier than scheduled, I thought that its good as aunt Michelle wouldn't need to wait for me so long, as their flight reaches at 8:20pm and my flight reaches at 9pm. To my surprise, I met them at the immigration site, and thanks to that, I get to skip a few people ahead of me (xD). So uncle Mike was saying "Daryl! You actually made it here, I thought you would not be able to join us", I then replied "Yeah to be honest I myself thought I wouldn't be able to be here today". So then he asked, "So... what did Trevor and Trisha said about it? Did they envy you?" actually, before my flight, Trisha and Trevor did told me some stuff that sounds jealous like Trish said "Daryl, you're very lucky you know that?" and Trevor starts saying "Now you cannot say that mum spoils me the most! You get to go to Japan". I do agree with them, but as just for this, I want to be selfish... I know its sad... but thats how I feel. Maybe its because i'm very close to my mum ever since I knew that she can go anytime and been taking care of her ever since. So I then replied to uncle Mike and told him "Yes they did say some stuff but they didn't show any negative attitudes towards it". After passing the immigration, before we're able to get off the airport, we go some luggage check, so this guy was checking my luggage and asking me in a very funny accent of english, so then I spoke in Japanese and he had a shock and started asking me questions. Well I had some problems saying some stuffs but I tried explaining it in english and somehow he understood. So then he was asking me lots of questions as if I were a criminal or something. After that uncle Mike told me that I shouldn't had spoke with him in Japanese which I somehow agreed as I find it troublesome. We asked around for the Ramada hotel, and waited for the bus. As we reached to the hotel, the receptionist was a guy who can understand and speaks english, but somehow his accent sounds homo (xD i know i'm evil) but he was helpful enough though, he told us we ARE definitely in Ramada hotel, but its the wrong Ramada hotel, the one that we're supposed to go is to Shin Osaka's Ramada hotel that is located in Nanba. And he told us to get there, theres 2 ways, one is by cab that would cost us 10,000 yen or train that will cost us around 300 yen. At first Gable was not so happy and feel abit frustrated as his face shows it all, so then he said "Lets just get a cab!". I was abit scared as i've brought only 70,000 yen and I don't want to spend 10,000 yen on cab (@.@). As the time we're there, its about 11.10pm, the receptionist guy told me in japanese that we could make it in time for the train if we rush there now. So then we decided to rush to the Midosuji line to get the train. Along the way towards the station, I brought em to the wrong way as I read the map wrongly (~.~). But somehow we're able to get to the station and get to Nanba. Then once we reached Nanba, I asked the cabs around if they knew where the Ramada Osaka hotel is, but had a hard time finding one till I met this young, geeky cab driver. He was so kind as to take the effort to call his contacts and looked through his GPS and maps. At first he said try asking the cab behind but then later he then said he roughly know where it is. Luckily thanks to him, we're not lost and his first attempt was a success, we reached there, exhausted. I am in fact surprised that the fact that Japan's taxi drivers are all well dressed. In Malaysia, you can sometimes see cabs with just singlets, but in Japan, their taxi drivers are like some businessman by the way they dress. We checked into the hotel, and then head to our rooms. About 10 mins after that, we went out to get ourselve stuffed, as we're all so beat and hungry. We had a nice supper as the food there was nice and cheap (but the portion was a lil). Then back to the hotel, we went straight to the toilet to have a sight of their toilet, as from what we heard, their toilet technology is very good (xD). And then later had a rest for the big day.
This is roughly what happened on the first day, and I will continue the rest on Chapter 6.2.2 and so on, till then look forward to it ya!? Sayounara!
"I CAN speak japanese, but not fluently and yes I do have problems with some of the words that I might not understand" - Daryl (a.k.a) Vash, Urameshi Kiddo, Wiegraf
Day 1
Once I reached Osaka, it was 10 minutes earlier than scheduled, I thought that its good as aunt Michelle wouldn't need to wait for me so long, as their flight reaches at 8:20pm and my flight reaches at 9pm. To my surprise, I met them at the immigration site, and thanks to that, I get to skip a few people ahead of me (xD). So uncle Mike was saying "Daryl! You actually made it here, I thought you would not be able to join us", I then replied "Yeah to be honest I myself thought I wouldn't be able to be here today". So then he asked, "So... what did Trevor and Trisha said about it? Did they envy you?" actually, before my flight, Trisha and Trevor did told me some stuff that sounds jealous like Trish said "Daryl, you're very lucky you know that?" and Trevor starts saying "Now you cannot say that mum spoils me the most! You get to go to Japan". I do agree with them, but as just for this, I want to be selfish... I know its sad... but thats how I feel. Maybe its because i'm very close to my mum ever since I knew that she can go anytime and been taking care of her ever since. So I then replied to uncle Mike and told him "Yes they did say some stuff but they didn't show any negative attitudes towards it". After passing the immigration, before we're able to get off the airport, we go some luggage check, so this guy was checking my luggage and asking me in a very funny accent of english, so then I spoke in Japanese and he had a shock and started asking me questions. Well I had some problems saying some stuffs but I tried explaining it in english and somehow he understood. So then he was asking me lots of questions as if I were a criminal or something. After that uncle Mike told me that I shouldn't had spoke with him in Japanese which I somehow agreed as I find it troublesome. We asked around for the Ramada hotel, and waited for the bus. As we reached to the hotel, the receptionist was a guy who can understand and speaks english, but somehow his accent sounds homo (xD i know i'm evil) but he was helpful enough though, he told us we ARE definitely in Ramada hotel, but its the wrong Ramada hotel, the one that we're supposed to go is to Shin Osaka's Ramada hotel that is located in Nanba. And he told us to get there, theres 2 ways, one is by cab that would cost us 10,000 yen or train that will cost us around 300 yen. At first Gable was not so happy and feel abit frustrated as his face shows it all, so then he said "Lets just get a cab!". I was abit scared as i've brought only 70,000 yen and I don't want to spend 10,000 yen on cab (@.@). As the time we're there, its about 11.10pm, the receptionist guy told me in japanese that we could make it in time for the train if we rush there now. So then we decided to rush to the Midosuji line to get the train. Along the way towards the station, I brought em to the wrong way as I read the map wrongly (~.~). But somehow we're able to get to the station and get to Nanba. Then once we reached Nanba, I asked the cabs around if they knew where the Ramada Osaka hotel is, but had a hard time finding one till I met this young, geeky cab driver. He was so kind as to take the effort to call his contacts and looked through his GPS and maps. At first he said try asking the cab behind but then later he then said he roughly know where it is. Luckily thanks to him, we're not lost and his first attempt was a success, we reached there, exhausted. I am in fact surprised that the fact that Japan's taxi drivers are all well dressed. In Malaysia, you can sometimes see cabs with just singlets, but in Japan, their taxi drivers are like some businessman by the way they dress. We checked into the hotel, and then head to our rooms. About 10 mins after that, we went out to get ourselve stuffed, as we're all so beat and hungry. We had a nice supper as the food there was nice and cheap (but the portion was a lil). Then back to the hotel, we went straight to the toilet to have a sight of their toilet, as from what we heard, their toilet technology is very good (xD). And then later had a rest for the big day.
This is roughly what happened on the first day, and I will continue the rest on Chapter 6.2.2 and so on, till then look forward to it ya!? Sayounara!
"I CAN speak japanese, but not fluently and yes I do have problems with some of the words that I might not understand" - Daryl (a.k.a) Vash, Urameshi Kiddo, Wiegraf
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