In Memory Of BUTCH.....

Well, I received the news sorta late, and as much as I wanna avoid it, I just can't! This dog above is not even mine, hell! It doesn't even recognize me after so many years I've been to his owners house...but now, his DEAD!? I mean, so fast? I haven't finish irritating it enough yet. Butch is the 1st and only dog(besides Fifi) that I really played with & which I dare touch.....cos he DOESN'T bite...even a single bit...he just barks non-stop. As sad as it is, I think that Butch misses Gary too much after he left for Assusie. Such that even have dire consequences on his health I guess? Well, as what Chris said, we should not mourn for his death, but celebrate his life....as a damn good companion...Gary, I hope you can get along with yours too...we all know how much you loved Butch....may he be in peace, and that we all misses him...ALOT....
Picture taken by me during the 2005 New Years Day in Gary's house. His mum told me to take Butch's pic cos he looked cute hiding behind the balcony door....well, his cuteness will always last...will really miss him when I'm back in Penang...

Its normal to you, but not to them!

I was supposed to blog this last week, but my wireless server went 'kuku'.....and now it comes equipped with firewall, which not only slows my internet to just 1mps, I can no longer download anything using limewire anymore....haih...pity!

Anyway, back to my main topic, which is just another crap I noticed after all this while of observing Japs....and guess what, I found some 'stuffs' that would have been very normal in M'sia, but totally not over here! Its either very strange or unexceptable to them.

1. I noticed that when I count from 1~5, its closed palm1st, lift tumb, index finger, & so on, but here, its the opposite, hands opened, close tumb, close index finger, bla bla...I felt really wierd doing it their way!

2. Still about fingers, ppl here don't have our 'horn' shape fingers which represents the no. 6. I used it once b4 & the Japs in my class thought that I was making some sorta funny joke....then scold me for trying to lie to themwhen I explain to them later....They can't accept it kua? Here, to show numbers more than 5, they use an extra finger from the other hand to add to it...example, no, 7 means your 1 palm fully opened, plus 2 finger placed in the middle of that opened palm....wierd huh?

3.Attend sports! Japs in my college are divided into 2 groups, in sports not not in sports. Those involved in sports attends it EVERYDAY! That includes Saturday also k! Damn pia! Unlike in PFS(I don't know bout other schools), I only attend house parctise once everyweek, and 1 or 2 more days for sports...and thats all! Here, attending 4/6 days is considered BAD! So its either you come or you quit! I think I'm no longer in kendo club anymore kua? I ponteng like gila! Lost interest dee, now gym nicer to play! hahahah...soo sorry la captain!

4.Malaysian education system! Know what, of all my stories about M'sia, this is probably the hardest to explain to them dee...It might be normal for us, Chinese schools, English schools, Malay schools, Malay ONLY schools, pure boys/girls school, form 6, etc....but since there is only JAPS school here, its supa hard to explain to them about our school system la! When I say Chinese & English(so called only la) school, they think that it teaches things about China(and anti-Japansese sentiment with it) & US or UK. I have to tell them SOO many times that we study according to M'sian syllabus but using other language only. Then they all go "Har? How do you teach something about M'sia in other language other than Malay?"(They don't know that their English class is worst! English in Jap, tak masuk akal at all!)

They don't have pure guys/gals school here too, so its something new to them....Malays ONLY school is easier to explain la...just need to say racial discrimination, then special treatment to Malays, they understand dee...simple! Form 6 doesn't exist over here cos after form 5, its uni dee....no such thing as wasting 2 years & still risk not entering any uni!

5. ME! I myself is hard to explain also k! The best question was from this guy who asked me about my mother tongue....well, my mother tongue is Chinese, my national language is Malay, but I speak mainly in English....and that guy goes "Huh?! I don't understand?" I continued telling him that my I study in BM in school, talk to gang & my mother in English, some other friends & dad in Chinese. Should have seen his face that time, blankly staring at me for 5 secs, then said "I don't understand why you do such crazy things, but you are great! Can speak in so many languages." Then walked away shaking in disbelief that there is such a wierd 'alien' here in Jap...haih...

Unforgetable....

There are just some things during my entire trip that I don't think I can forget that easily.....some awfully tired moments, pain in the ass momets, crazy moments, but most of it are just unforgetable...truly unforgetable....and here are the top 3:-

No 3. THE POLAR BEARS!

Don't let this pic decieve you that this huge cuddly lil' teddy bears are sleeping comfortably on the rocks with icy cool water beneah it....its 32C at that time! With no air conditioning, roof as shelter, its amazing these polar bears can even survive these harsh weather without going crazy.....even we humans at that time was like shouting "HOT! HOT!" If I'm not wrong, these bears can only be found, err....either north or south pole rite?(forgot where dee)...how can the Jap gov let them sun tan to death? Wheres the SPCA la?? Pity them oi!
Picture was taken at: Asahiyama Zoo
Reason for entering my top 3: Just pity them la...imagine I have to go throught their lives now....I sure go gila from the heat dee..

No 2. Chin Wooi's Dream

I did mentioned before about Chin Wooi's 'I won't leave Hokkaido without it' wish rite? Well, no suprises, it came true....well, it wasn't actually that hard, its just the money part that hurts! With about 2000yen, 2 hours of makan time, we didn't waste any of it at all (Yes, there is a time limit for ALL buffets in Jap!)....This was the 1st time that I actually ate non-stop for a buffet for the entire 2 hours, well, its not just me, even Fook Hee that usually eats the least didn't stop muching too! Boon also complained that he shouldn't have gone to the toilet cos it wasted him a few minutes of makan time.....really not enuf time la....agree Boon?

Why did we become some hungry ghost? Look at our table la....theres the(from the left) baby octopus, 'Hairy crab', salmon, HUGE scallop, more salmons, more 'Hairy crabs' , more HUGE scallops & sausages...that green thing u see on our plates, thats called melons, whats so great? It cost about RM7 a slice, I took 4...thats the reasons!


We actually ate like ghost, we finish the entire basket of crab(2nd lvl, 3rd from right) and also the salmons(1st lvl, 1st from right), 3/4 of scallops(not in pic though)....which scared the shop owner so much, she didn't even refill it after we wiped it all out! She even asked us to stop when the time was up....damn funny! You should haved seen her face! I think we are in her 'BAN' list now dee....haih...
Picture was taken at: Asahikawa City Centre
Reason for entering my top 3: Never ate so much for so long in my entire life...just unbelievable!

No. 1 GALS!

We were bathing when we 1st saw them(nono! we din went to the wrong section, just saw them outside)....thanx to Boon's special 'Kau Lui' techniques, we ended up chatting, eating & also exchanging stories till about 12 midnight at the bath house(I meant outside the bath house)...Don't talk bout looks la, it was good to know that they don't run when they see M'sians, and was friendlier than I thought! They are a bunch of Uni students from Kyoto who went there for a short holiday trip....but Japs still like to do something that never amuses us, that is to take pics of us non-stop, like we were from another planet or soon to be extinct...not a bad experience though, as they ranked like the 3rd Jap gal that I have talked to(sad to say this, but my current college is no different from PFS...). I would like to thank the owner of the place(he was the camera men) for sharing with us the famous 'Escargo' that I wanted to try for like ages dee...NICE!
Picture was taken at: Asahikawa City Centre
Reason for entering my top 3: Cos I met a bunch of friendly Jap ppl who are 'young' and the conversation isn't about school or books....but about FUN!

Been There, Done That!

I know I have described all my places dee, but I bet you ppl have no idea where have I actually been rite?! Where is, Nagoya? Kisarazu? Nagaoka? blabla...well, hope this map helped!



This is the Hokkaio part...our journey was until Asahikawa in Hokkaido before turning to 'R' Gear....Hokkaido is soo HUGE, we couldn't finish the entire area without another 1 week, which so happen that we don't have...pity...THATS ALL FOLKS!! 3 weeks of my hols!

p.s. Chris, I use paint only ok! Don't complain bout the pics not nice. I know nuts bout comp software and my Adobe Photoshop skills, I returned to teacher dee(If there was any...)
ALL PICTURES ARE RIGHT PROTECTED BY ©J.C. and if, for any reason, you wanna steal, copy, cut, scan, take picture, plz tell me 1st la...

Don't Worry.....be Happy!

This is the 3rd blog in 2 days.....some ppl even said that I'm mad dee, not being myself, selfishly not thinking but other ppl's eyes n so on....blablabla....but WAIT! I din't force 1 ok! Anyway, I'll cut it short cos theres 'something'(those who knows knows & those who doesn't, sorry la!) coming up soon.....


This is Furano, Land of nothing but nature...according to the phamplet la...


Its soo kampung, that it makes S.P look like KL! No building here seems to be taller than 2 stories...


Even the horses here look so sleepy & restless....it doesn't even 'smile' for this photo a single bit even after we promised it an apple later...

FLOWERS~~AND ONLY THAT!

If you think why 4 guys would be interested in flowers....try asking yourself what u wanna get for your gf next time for valentine if its not something called 'flowers'....if u think its only roses, then, how 'out' u r dee la(according to a mag I have)...But this sunflower is DEFINATELY a no no!


The entire area is covered with Malaysian Flag colours...


And purplelish white flowers....


Rows and rows of unidentified flowers...


Lavenders(our main purpose to go to Furano
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More sunflowers....

and another row of flowers....this pics are taken from all different places but not only you ppl, but I have a hard time differenciating which is the same and which is not...


CHEERS! I love this place da most, this is the wine factory up on a hill And with FREE wines, I took 2 cups of every flavour...damn! Was it good! And if u think we're those 'Kiasu' ppl who just drink and leave, guess again, I bought a total of 8 bottles of wine while Fook Hee got 7, Chin Wooi got 2 & Boon got 3....totalling more than 600 bucks! We all drunk dee I guess? Kena curse by the shop keeper....well, I don't plan to drink all la...need to mail some to my sis(another big wine lover!) too...


If you can't read this, this is a 'cheezee' factory situated far...far...from the wine factory, with bicycles that we rented, it took about 1 hour of cycling just to come here...and the cheese? Well, free of course, but I don't really like the taste(still prefer the cheap salty Cheesedale type)...this is where Chin Wooi did his best(I did mine at the wine fac)...muching down his so called 'teatime'...he seemed to like it alot....

Ok! see! Finish dee....damn tention rushing all this while watching my mage fight those goblins & while chatting....Ozzs!