Japan. Nippon. 日本
whoa so.. i totallly just woke up!!
i originally typed this up yesterday but i fell asleep int the middle of it! lol
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so ive been in japan for .. 4 days and i go home in .. 3 days!!!!! omg omg. i do not wanna go home! i dont wanna go back to school and work! ahh! but im totally coming back to japan again for sure!!
well youre probably wondering what i have been doing right!?
i dont really remember all the details... but if i do happen to remember ill just EDIT it in! heh ^_^
day0 -- DEC 28
arrived in japan. exchanged USD1500. got picked up by my auntie and headed out to gunma. we also ate at a place called big boy lol. finally drank some melon soda! its so cool how its green!
day1 -- DEC 29
stayed in gunma all day! barely got any sleep. was pretty upset because i only won one ticket on yahoo auctions japan and not 4!!! i totally needed four tickets so that me, my aunt, noka, and jen could go all together! so i spent most of the day trying to find other auctions to bid on! we went to a 100 yen shop; my little cousin was with me and he kept picking out stuff... he only knows how to speak japanese and i was like "MO II!" lol he would probably pick out the whole toy section if he could @_@ we then went to aeon and looked around. everything is so expensive! i only bought a pair of these cool looking earrings. noka and i got the same pair! i got silver; she got gold! yep yep. my aunt showed us the mini bar-like thing she owns. she owns this little restaurant like thing where she makes filipino food, heh. its called AMIGO. and then under the sign is says something like "filipino japanese cuisine" lol. i took a picture of it... will upload that later. we then had dinner at my other aunts house. the fried chicken was good. and we had some flan! yup. all three of us were tired so we went back to the place we were staying right away.
day2 -- DEC 30
headed out to tokyo today! took like 3 hours to get to the hotel! got lost and stuff... and i got kinda motion sick. my body was just really tired. i totally had jetlag... !! i was kinda mad/upset that my aunt had to come and follow me around.. under my moms orders? whatever. i kinda told her that i didnt want her to be there. i felt kinda bad and mean :( but whatever. i didnt come to japan be chaperoned. i want some freedom! oh yeah~ i also found someone selling some concert tickets on lj... so i commented and they called me up and luckily they had 3 tickets! yesssssss~ we also met up with nokas friend hiro and his friend takashi. my aunt was like 'can you ask your friend if i can come along' and im like -______- im mean @_@ but you gotta understand how i must of felt! she was also trying, more like insisting, to change my plans!!! ugh! no. err.
day3 -- DEC 31
went to harajuku and shibuya. harajuku is so cool. takeshita dori was as busy as i thought it would be. wasnt able to go to the johnnys shop since our ticket was for 4:30 and the concert was at 5:30! at 1 o clock we went to shibuya to meet up with the girl i was buying tickets from. apparently the other girl she was with was dilya! noka and i recognized her from her pictures. after purchasing the tickets we headed out to tokyo dome. we wanted to eat at this restaurant called wara wara but they were closed so we had some mcdonalds instead. the mcchicken sandwiches are so different here. theyre so good! i dont even eat mc d's in america. ack! these girls were finishing up their uchiwas there... we werent able to make any uchiwas since we werent even sure if we'd go to the 12/31 show. we probably would have been noticed more if we had our U S A uchiwas @_@ tegoshi probably would have looked at us more! SAD! totally making one next time! will definitely buy some uchiwa making stuff before i leave! we headed out to the actual dome around 2 and there was maaaaaaaaad people. i took a picture of it. the queue line for the goods was 4 hours long! at least thats what the guy that worked there said. so we just sat down for a while and met up with one of nokas other friends. people were starting to go into the dome so we got up and went too! before getting into the doors they check your bags and just ask if you have a camera. i just nodded my head and they looked in my bag and let me on my way~ they werent as bad as i thought. inside the lines for the concert goods was much shorter! we probably waited lke 20 minutes more or less? but it was just waaay shorter than the line outside! when it was my turn to tell the girl what i wanted... i was all ready to have to say everything in engrish... but the girl totally could speak english! it was very good ^_^ i must have been lucky! i was happy. buying the goods was such a breeze~ now for the concert..... omg............... like ... when it began i was so nervous. such a great feeling though!! i really cant explain the feeling. the concert was just so awesome though. waving my penlight and tegoshi uchiwa is so fun~ IDK... LIKE I REALLY CANNOT EXPLAIN THE FEELING OF GOING TO A CONCERT! you just HAVE to experience it for yourself. its that freakin' awesome.... even if i didnt understand like most of the MC! @_@ but like... im definitely going to go to more after this~ maybe ill try to record something next time. tegoshi is so hot. yamapi is much cuter in person. same for shige. and kchan! as for massu and ryo, eh. theyre alright lol. but oh yeah. my aunt left back for gunma this day so we were totally on our own! we took the train back by ourself... got a little lost for like 10 minutes but we found our way back again. heh. we got some conbini food for dinner and watched countdown live on tv! we thought it was on NHK but it was on FUJI! but i dont think we really missed anything.. i believe it started like at 1145.. but yeah. that was it. i kinda fell asleep watching it though so i must download it and watch again!!
day4 -- JAN 1
i made a VIDEO for this day! heh ^_^ im being all weird and corny and stuff but whatever!!! ill upload asap! and alll the pics ive taken will be uploaded when i get back cause.. im tired and lazy!! all i really did today was go back to harajuku and got alot more unofficial goods. finished shopping for kaza and shoonie. i totally wanted to go to another concert that i kept bugging jen and noka about it lol! so while we were in harajuku i bought a concert ticket!!! woot woot! concert no. 2! yesss! i went by myself too! i totally gotta hang of the whole train thing! coming out of the suidobashi station i totally saw some scalpers!! they were like "aruyo" i think they meant that they had tickets. they would just approach you! i wonder how much their tickets were.... i should have gotten a better seat. but whatever! i got to see news again!!! woot woot! this concert was alot better than yesterdays. 3 encores! tegoshi wish his hair in twists was chooo kawaii~ he took his shirt off in the end and it didnt even reach the crowd on the floor! LOL weakling!! yamapi and k-chan also took their shirts off during one of the encores. i didnt think they'd come back out a third time but they totally did!!! NEWS DAISUKI! TEGOSHI DAICHIKI! he is soooooooooooo good looking like omg. ryo sang code as his solo song today instead of ordinary. tegoshi forgot his lyrics to 'why' and it was just soo cute. pi and massu wave alot to the people on top! tegoshi doesnt :( or at least i didnt notice... bad boy! he should reach out to all his fans. argh. when the concert was over there wasnt as much people as there was yesterday so there wasnt any shoving. yesterday was just cuh-razy! it was like a river of people. (i should be typing this for DEC31 huh? lol) like we'd just go with the flow.. im surprised no fights broke out! but again were in japan... heh. it was totally busy cause of countdown. there wasnt even a second encore on the 31st cause of countdown. they totally kicked us out early! but whatever. the concert on the 1st was so much better. im glad i got to go to two~ ill just upload my vid ASAP. i dont feel like typing everything! but i have to tell you this!!! there was this lady who was probably in her late 30s or early 40s who liked tegoshi! her husband was there too! lol. for once its not yamapi! lol. she would sing all tegoshis lyrics and all. and she would yell out "YUYAAA!" and "KAWAIIII!" lol. well after the con was over. on my way out there was a bookstore selling old mags with news and news members on the covers. i mostly had everything.. so i just got three. got on the train and got back to the hotel at 930 and ate somemore conbini food! lol
the buttons on my coats are getting loose too! i needa do something about it! sad. im tired now. ill try either add in stuff later or just make a new post with all the things i forgot lol.
today i think were going back to harajuku to finish are souvenir shopping. we'll first get out ticket for the jshop. and then do the shopping cause its already like 10 AM! and we probably wont head out til like 1130.. so we'll get there at 12. and we'll probably have to line up to get into the store like at 430 or 530. we might or might not go to the aquarium today... but hopefully we can go to tokyo tower tonight and have dinner there~
i originally typed this up yesterday but i fell asleep int the middle of it! lol
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so ive been in japan for .. 4 days and i go home in .. 3 days!!!!! omg omg. i do not wanna go home! i dont wanna go back to school and work! ahh! but im totally coming back to japan again for sure!!
well youre probably wondering what i have been doing right!?
i dont really remember all the details... but if i do happen to remember ill just EDIT it in! heh ^_^
day0 -- DEC 28
arrived in japan. exchanged USD1500. got picked up by my auntie and headed out to gunma. we also ate at a place called big boy lol. finally drank some melon soda! its so cool how its green!
day1 -- DEC 29
stayed in gunma all day! barely got any sleep. was pretty upset because i only won one ticket on yahoo auctions japan and not 4!!! i totally needed four tickets so that me, my aunt, noka, and jen could go all together! so i spent most of the day trying to find other auctions to bid on! we went to a 100 yen shop; my little cousin was with me and he kept picking out stuff... he only knows how to speak japanese and i was like "MO II!" lol he would probably pick out the whole toy section if he could @_@ we then went to aeon and looked around. everything is so expensive! i only bought a pair of these cool looking earrings. noka and i got the same pair! i got silver; she got gold! yep yep. my aunt showed us the mini bar-like thing she owns. she owns this little restaurant like thing where she makes filipino food, heh. its called AMIGO. and then under the sign is says something like "filipino japanese cuisine" lol. i took a picture of it... will upload that later. we then had dinner at my other aunts house. the fried chicken was good. and we had some flan! yup. all three of us were tired so we went back to the place we were staying right away.
day2 -- DEC 30
headed out to tokyo today! took like 3 hours to get to the hotel! got lost and stuff... and i got kinda motion sick. my body was just really tired. i totally had jetlag... !! i was kinda mad/upset that my aunt had to come and follow me around.. under my moms orders? whatever. i kinda told her that i didnt want her to be there. i felt kinda bad and mean :( but whatever. i didnt come to japan be chaperoned. i want some freedom! oh yeah~ i also found someone selling some concert tickets on lj... so i commented and they called me up and luckily they had 3 tickets! yesssssss~ we also met up with nokas friend hiro and his friend takashi. my aunt was like 'can you ask your friend if i can come along' and im like -______- im mean @_@ but you gotta understand how i must of felt! she was also trying, more like insisting, to change my plans!!! ugh! no. err.
day3 -- DEC 31
went to harajuku and shibuya. harajuku is so cool. takeshita dori was as busy as i thought it would be. wasnt able to go to the johnnys shop since our ticket was for 4:30 and the concert was at 5:30! at 1 o clock we went to shibuya to meet up with the girl i was buying tickets from. apparently the other girl she was with was dilya! noka and i recognized her from her pictures. after purchasing the tickets we headed out to tokyo dome. we wanted to eat at this restaurant called wara wara but they were closed so we had some mcdonalds instead. the mcchicken sandwiches are so different here. theyre so good! i dont even eat mc d's in america. ack! these girls were finishing up their uchiwas there... we werent able to make any uchiwas since we werent even sure if we'd go to the 12/31 show. we probably would have been noticed more if we had our U S A uchiwas @_@ tegoshi probably would have looked at us more! SAD! totally making one next time! will definitely buy some uchiwa making stuff before i leave! we headed out to the actual dome around 2 and there was maaaaaaaaad people. i took a picture of it. the queue line for the goods was 4 hours long! at least thats what the guy that worked there said. so we just sat down for a while and met up with one of nokas other friends. people were starting to go into the dome so we got up and went too! before getting into the doors they check your bags and just ask if you have a camera. i just nodded my head and they looked in my bag and let me on my way~ they werent as bad as i thought. inside the lines for the concert goods was much shorter! we probably waited lke 20 minutes more or less? but it was just waaay shorter than the line outside! when it was my turn to tell the girl what i wanted... i was all ready to have to say everything in engrish... but the girl totally could speak english! it was very good ^_^ i must have been lucky! i was happy. buying the goods was such a breeze~ now for the concert..... omg............... like ... when it began i was so nervous. such a great feeling though!! i really cant explain the feeling. the concert was just so awesome though. waving my penlight and tegoshi uchiwa is so fun~ IDK... LIKE I REALLY CANNOT EXPLAIN THE FEELING OF GOING TO A CONCERT! you just HAVE to experience it for yourself. its that freakin' awesome.... even if i didnt understand like most of the MC! @_@ but like... im definitely going to go to more after this~ maybe ill try to record something next time. tegoshi is so hot. yamapi is much cuter in person. same for shige. and kchan! as for massu and ryo, eh. theyre alright lol. but oh yeah. my aunt left back for gunma this day so we were totally on our own! we took the train back by ourself... got a little lost for like 10 minutes but we found our way back again. heh. we got some conbini food for dinner and watched countdown live on tv! we thought it was on NHK but it was on FUJI! but i dont think we really missed anything.. i believe it started like at 1145.. but yeah. that was it. i kinda fell asleep watching it though so i must download it and watch again!!
day4 -- JAN 1
i made a VIDEO for this day! heh ^_^ im being all weird and corny and stuff but whatever!!! ill upload asap! and alll the pics ive taken will be uploaded when i get back cause.. im tired and lazy!! all i really did today was go back to harajuku and got alot more unofficial goods. finished shopping for kaza and shoonie. i totally wanted to go to another concert that i kept bugging jen and noka about it lol! so while we were in harajuku i bought a concert ticket!!! woot woot! concert no. 2! yesss! i went by myself too! i totally gotta hang of the whole train thing! coming out of the suidobashi station i totally saw some scalpers!! they were like "aruyo" i think they meant that they had tickets. they would just approach you! i wonder how much their tickets were.... i should have gotten a better seat. but whatever! i got to see news again!!! woot woot! this concert was alot better than yesterdays. 3 encores! tegoshi wish his hair in twists was chooo kawaii~ he took his shirt off in the end and it didnt even reach the crowd on the floor! LOL weakling!! yamapi and k-chan also took their shirts off during one of the encores. i didnt think they'd come back out a third time but they totally did!!! NEWS DAISUKI! TEGOSHI DAICHIKI! he is soooooooooooo good looking like omg. ryo sang code as his solo song today instead of ordinary. tegoshi forgot his lyrics to 'why' and it was just soo cute. pi and massu wave alot to the people on top! tegoshi doesnt :( or at least i didnt notice... bad boy! he should reach out to all his fans. argh. when the concert was over there wasnt as much people as there was yesterday so there wasnt any shoving. yesterday was just cuh-razy! it was like a river of people. (i should be typing this for DEC31 huh? lol) like we'd just go with the flow.. im surprised no fights broke out! but again were in japan... heh. it was totally busy cause of countdown. there wasnt even a second encore on the 31st cause of countdown. they totally kicked us out early! but whatever. the concert on the 1st was so much better. im glad i got to go to two~ ill just upload my vid ASAP. i dont feel like typing everything! but i have to tell you this!!! there was this lady who was probably in her late 30s or early 40s who liked tegoshi! her husband was there too! lol. for once its not yamapi! lol. she would sing all tegoshis lyrics and all. and she would yell out "YUYAAA!" and "KAWAIIII!" lol. well after the con was over. on my way out there was a bookstore selling old mags with news and news members on the covers. i mostly had everything.. so i just got three. got on the train and got back to the hotel at 930 and ate somemore conbini food! lol
the buttons on my coats are getting loose too! i needa do something about it! sad. im tired now. ill try either add in stuff later or just make a new post with all the things i forgot lol.
today i think were going back to harajuku to finish are souvenir shopping. we'll first get out ticket for the jshop. and then do the shopping cause its already like 10 AM! and we probably wont head out til like 1130.. so we'll get there at 12. and we'll probably have to line up to get into the store like at 430 or 530. we might or might not go to the aquarium today... but hopefully we can go to tokyo tower tonight and have dinner there~