Aloha~
Hi LJ, been a long time already :3
How's doing around here? I think I missed a lot of thing :x
About Arashi latest news : I can't wait for Nino and Ohno new drama :D
Once again Ohno will get to sing insert song (? I think xD) for his new drama and Arashi will also sing the theme song? (where did I read it again? I can't find the source...) while it's been decided that Arashi's new song titled GUTS! is Nino's drama theme song.
Other news is from me, I've had a chance to go to Japan last week! Yay~ It's a short trip from 22-27 March, so short and I still have many thing I want to do there. I've told a few of my friends about this and while at it, I want to share my experience here :D
warning : It's a bit fuzy, not that detail and might be not that understandable xD
This story begin when my university friend got a scholarship for a year there, let's named her A. Somehow me and other friend (B) start talking about going there and do a meet up with A. While we are looking for a ticket, one of airline company here have a promo tickets to Japan, the promo including round-trip airplane tickets and also hotel room. And so, we don't waste a time to take that promo and immediately booked it, that's a story since September last year xD Unfortunately C can't come with us :( After that, we just need to get Japanese visa and voila, we can go to Japan~ :D (well, some person said that it's hard to get Japanese visa but I get it easily, as long as all documents needed are there, you will get it :D)
March 22
Actually leave home at March 21, 10.30 PM because we need to go to airport first using midnight bus (11.30 PM). Arrived at the airport at March 22, 2 AM while our plane is scheduled at 8.30 AM.
So, after we arrived at Japan (I landed at Osaka while A lives in Kyoto), A fetch us at Kansai airport and then we go to the hotel where we make a reservation. (There is an accident when I forgot where I saved my train tickets but luckily I didn't need to pay again xD).
March 23
We make a trip to Kyoto where we eat omurice and also bought a few souvenir at Kyoto station.
We visited Kinkakuji and Kiyomizudera temple (in that order). To be honest, it's sooo tiring :p
Also, I fetched my goods (or I should say magazines) from A share house before we went to Kiyomizudera temple. After that we walked pretty long and passed Gion to the station. The temples are so pretty and I managed to get a few omamori (some kind of charms) for me and my family at Kinkakuji. After that, we go back to our hotel at Osaka and bought foods in convenience store at our way to the hotel.
March 24
USJ~~ (Universal Studios Japan)
It's full of people, like there is another city at Osaka. The queue... so loong O_o We arrived around 1 PM and go back around 8 PM, in that interval we just managed to ride 3 attractions and buy souvenirs and I'm sure we take less than an hour at souvenir shop.
The first ride is "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man", quoted from wikipedia it is a motion-based 3D dark ride. The queued is more than 200 minutes, the staffs gave us 3D glasses and we must return it after we've done with the ride. Before the vehicle start moving, the Spider-man come to us and warned us to go away because it's dangerous there, at the end of his speech he said "ee megane dana" (cool glasses you wear there) xDD.
The second one is "Hello Kitty's Cupcake Dream", basically we ride a cupcake shaped like vehicle and we can rotate the wheel inside the vehicle to speed up our rotation. This one is the attraction where we need less queue than the other two.
The last one is "Jurassic Park : The Ride", another amazing queue :p it's like a roller coaster with less turn, loop, up and down and shorter track in water :3 (sorry, can't described it better xD).
Too bad that we can't ride backdrop roller coaster (here) because they won't allow someone that wear something in his/her head like a hat and also a veil (B wear one). Also, it's 300 minutes queue! o_O
But it's still a fun experience :)
March 25
Go to Arashiyama (croquettes at Arashiyama is delicious!) and Kaiyukan (Osaka Aquarium). Met A at Arashiyama (the last 2 days she stayed at our hotel). It's a good spot for taking photos, at autumn it will be full with momiji and when we go there there are much bamboo :D I ate ice cream cone and dango there. After that we bought souvenirs, take a bunch of photos and then go to Kaiyukan :3 There are much... fishes (of course) and a few others at Kaiyukan. They group the fishes based on where they lived and make the temperature at each group different. I personally really like the seal. He is so cutee :D
March 26
Been raining since morning.
We went to Umeda where we bought a few requested goods from my friend and supposedly met A at Umeda station half an hour later. Unfortunately, we forgot how big Umeda station is and can't met A there. There was no wifi too so after an hour circling the station and tried to call her through coins phone we decided to go back to our hotel first. (thankfully it's close) At the hotel we managed to contact A. She is the same with us, has been circling the station but we've never met. She actually got our phone call and voice mail too but our voice mail is cut when I just want to said our waiting place xD Kuu, so annoyed but it's laughable xD Than we decided to met in front of a mall :p
At that mall, we ride a ferriswheel and grab a pancake as our lunch :p After that we visited Osaka castle, we are really unlucky, cherry blossoms supposed to bloom the next day so when we went there, just a few buds have bloomed. We didn't went in to the castle because we still have other places that we want to visit, it's Johnny's shops. Another unlucky moment, the shops already closed when we arrived at the station so we went to TOHO cinemas around there instead anddd, wacthing Kamisama no Karute 2! :DD Sho-chan, in a big screen :D There was Toma's movie too there titled Mogura no Uta, want to watch it but I should wait till the DVD leak come out first :p After that we go back to the hotel :D
March 27
go to the airport and I'm home Indonesiaaa :D Arrived at airport around 10 PM but finally home at March 28, 5 AM (Ughh, traffic)
Over all it's a satisfiying and tiring 5 days :D I want to go there again and stayed longer next time :3
See you again Japan~ Hope I can go there for another reason next time (Arashi's 15th concert) :D
PS : wow, it's along post this time :D
How's doing around here? I think I missed a lot of thing :x
About Arashi latest news : I can't wait for Nino and Ohno new drama :D
Once again Ohno will get to sing insert song (? I think xD) for his new drama and Arashi will also sing the theme song? (where did I read it again? I can't find the source...) while it's been decided that Arashi's new song titled GUTS! is Nino's drama theme song.
Other news is from me, I've had a chance to go to Japan last week! Yay~ It's a short trip from 22-27 March, so short and I still have many thing I want to do there. I've told a few of my friends about this and while at it, I want to share my experience here :D
warning : It's a bit fuzy, not that detail and might be not that understandable xD
This story begin when my university friend got a scholarship for a year there, let's named her A. Somehow me and other friend (B) start talking about going there and do a meet up with A. While we are looking for a ticket, one of airline company here have a promo tickets to Japan, the promo including round-trip airplane tickets and also hotel room. And so, we don't waste a time to take that promo and immediately booked it, that's a story since September last year xD Unfortunately C can't come with us :( After that, we just need to get Japanese visa and voila, we can go to Japan~ :D (well, some person said that it's hard to get Japanese visa but I get it easily, as long as all documents needed are there, you will get it :D)
March 22
Actually leave home at March 21, 10.30 PM because we need to go to airport first using midnight bus (11.30 PM). Arrived at the airport at March 22, 2 AM while our plane is scheduled at 8.30 AM.
So, after we arrived at Japan (I landed at Osaka while A lives in Kyoto), A fetch us at Kansai airport and then we go to the hotel where we make a reservation. (There is an accident when I forgot where I saved my train tickets but luckily I didn't need to pay again xD).
March 23
We make a trip to Kyoto where we eat omurice and also bought a few souvenir at Kyoto station.
We visited Kinkakuji and Kiyomizudera temple (in that order). To be honest, it's sooo tiring :p
Also, I fetched my goods (or I should say magazines) from A share house before we went to Kiyomizudera temple. After that we walked pretty long and passed Gion to the station. The temples are so pretty and I managed to get a few omamori (some kind of charms) for me and my family at Kinkakuji. After that, we go back to our hotel at Osaka and bought foods in convenience store at our way to the hotel.
March 24
USJ~~ (Universal Studios Japan)
It's full of people, like there is another city at Osaka. The queue... so loong O_o We arrived around 1 PM and go back around 8 PM, in that interval we just managed to ride 3 attractions and buy souvenirs and I'm sure we take less than an hour at souvenir shop.
The first ride is "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man", quoted from wikipedia it is a motion-based 3D dark ride. The queued is more than 200 minutes, the staffs gave us 3D glasses and we must return it after we've done with the ride. Before the vehicle start moving, the Spider-man come to us and warned us to go away because it's dangerous there, at the end of his speech he said "ee megane dana" (cool glasses you wear there) xDD.
The second one is "Hello Kitty's Cupcake Dream", basically we ride a cupcake shaped like vehicle and we can rotate the wheel inside the vehicle to speed up our rotation. This one is the attraction where we need less queue than the other two.
The last one is "Jurassic Park : The Ride", another amazing queue :p it's like a roller coaster with less turn, loop, up and down and shorter track in water :3 (sorry, can't described it better xD).
Too bad that we can't ride backdrop roller coaster (here) because they won't allow someone that wear something in his/her head like a hat and also a veil (B wear one). Also, it's 300 minutes queue! o_O
But it's still a fun experience :)
March 25
Go to Arashiyama (croquettes at Arashiyama is delicious!) and Kaiyukan (Osaka Aquarium). Met A at Arashiyama (the last 2 days she stayed at our hotel). It's a good spot for taking photos, at autumn it will be full with momiji and when we go there there are much bamboo :D I ate ice cream cone and dango there. After that we bought souvenirs, take a bunch of photos and then go to Kaiyukan :3 There are much... fishes (of course) and a few others at Kaiyukan. They group the fishes based on where they lived and make the temperature at each group different. I personally really like the seal. He is so cutee :D
March 26
Been raining since morning.
We went to Umeda where we bought a few requested goods from my friend and supposedly met A at Umeda station half an hour later. Unfortunately, we forgot how big Umeda station is and can't met A there. There was no wifi too so after an hour circling the station and tried to call her through coins phone we decided to go back to our hotel first. (thankfully it's close) At the hotel we managed to contact A. She is the same with us, has been circling the station but we've never met. She actually got our phone call and voice mail too but our voice mail is cut when I just want to said our waiting place xD Kuu, so annoyed but it's laughable xD Than we decided to met in front of a mall :p
At that mall, we ride a ferriswheel and grab a pancake as our lunch :p After that we visited Osaka castle, we are really unlucky, cherry blossoms supposed to bloom the next day so when we went there, just a few buds have bloomed. We didn't went in to the castle because we still have other places that we want to visit, it's Johnny's shops. Another unlucky moment, the shops already closed when we arrived at the station so we went to TOHO cinemas around there instead anddd, wacthing Kamisama no Karute 2! :DD Sho-chan, in a big screen :D There was Toma's movie too there titled Mogura no Uta, want to watch it but I should wait till the DVD leak come out first :p After that we go back to the hotel :D
March 27
go to the airport and I'm home Indonesiaaa :D Arrived at airport around 10 PM but finally home at March 28, 5 AM (Ughh, traffic)
Over all it's a satisfiying and tiring 5 days :D I want to go there again and stayed longer next time :3
See you again Japan~ Hope I can go there for another reason next time (Arashi's 15th concert) :D
PS : wow, it's along post this time :D