6 more days to Linkin Park Live in Tokyo.
Hoah!!!!!!
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Experiencing Something Shocking.......Priceless
Few days ago I worked out in the gym, and was taking common bath at the gym. they have artificial hot spring, so was soaking myself up, and relaxing... aaaaa.... such as life...
After couple of minutes, elderly lady (of course naked) came in to the common bath room, and started to unpack her toiletry in the shelf provided inside the bathroom. the shelf is in front of the hot spring, so naturally her back was turned towards the hot spring, aka me.
By chance, I happened to look her way. Thus my gaze was right on the spot of her naked bottom.
I noticed something white.
I paused, and turned to look at it again.
There was something white stuck between her bottom...
For a moment I thought it was perhaps tanpon string.
No no no, think again Nams, she is in her 60s, she's already in her menopause for sure. But then... no, it could not possibly be... but then again...
The conclusion I reached shocked me and gave me doubt. I saw the lady's bottom just once more.
It's... it's...
TOILET PAPER
The moment I realised what it was, she disappeared to the shower area. there were two elderly ladys in the hot spring with me. one of the lady said to the other, "there was something stuck wasn't it?"
So I'm not the only one who discovered the truth...
But after couple of minutes, the lady with the toiletpaper returned and decided to go in the hot spring.
I believe it's unpardonable to go inside a common bath without properly washing yourself throughly. if this was your house, fine. but this is a common bath. to make thing worse, it's the fitness gym. you exercise and sweat.
EVEN WORSE WHEN YOU HAVE TOILT PAPER STUCK BETWEEN YOUR CRACK.
so the moment she soaked in, I got out without a word.
As I was walking towards the bathroom door, by chance I looked at the bathroom tile.
The remnant of toilet paper... wet...
orz
("orz" looks like a person on its knees with it's head bowed. common in japan to express lassitude or feeling depressed lol)
After couple of minutes, elderly lady (of course naked) came in to the common bath room, and started to unpack her toiletry in the shelf provided inside the bathroom. the shelf is in front of the hot spring, so naturally her back was turned towards the hot spring, aka me.
By chance, I happened to look her way. Thus my gaze was right on the spot of her naked bottom.
I noticed something white.
I paused, and turned to look at it again.
There was something white stuck between her bottom...
For a moment I thought it was perhaps tanpon string.
No no no, think again Nams, she is in her 60s, she's already in her menopause for sure. But then... no, it could not possibly be... but then again...
The conclusion I reached shocked me and gave me doubt. I saw the lady's bottom just once more.
It's... it's...
TOILET PAPER
The moment I realised what it was, she disappeared to the shower area. there were two elderly ladys in the hot spring with me. one of the lady said to the other, "there was something stuck wasn't it?"
So I'm not the only one who discovered the truth...
But after couple of minutes, the lady with the toiletpaper returned and decided to go in the hot spring.
I believe it's unpardonable to go inside a common bath without properly washing yourself throughly. if this was your house, fine. but this is a common bath. to make thing worse, it's the fitness gym. you exercise and sweat.
EVEN WORSE WHEN YOU HAVE TOILT PAPER STUCK BETWEEN YOUR CRACK.
so the moment she soaked in, I got out without a word.
As I was walking towards the bathroom door, by chance I looked at the bathroom tile.
The remnant of toilet paper... wet...
orz
("orz" looks like a person on its knees with it's head bowed. common in japan to express lassitude or feeling depressed lol)
Friday, November 2, 2007
NAGASAKI, Day 2
okay, back to my trip blog.
oh, Happy Belated Halloweed by the way! Tokyo got hite by typhoon directly. *sob*
but we still held da party. i very much appriciate those who came (although were soaking wet lol). if we held it next year, i think we ALL can dress up in costume! (plus more ppl)
So anyway, Day 2 (Oct 10th, Wednesday)
all the remaining pictures are here (sorry, facebook people only)
Surprisingly, mum and I woke up early in the morning to head to Shimabara. it's about 2hrs train ride from the city. needless to say i fell a sleep during da ride.
so we finally got there, and head to Shimabara Castle.
the castle is surrounded by a lake, which was covered in lotus leaves. it must be beautiful during the season when the lotus flowers bloom...
the main castle tower
and the view from the top of the castle
this is the famous Mount Unzen, which erupted in 1991 and killed 44 people. it's still an active volcano you know. scary stuff.
Shimabara bares a sad history. a history of war between the Japanese government and Christians (mainly peasants), known as the Shimabara Rebellion in 1637. thousands of people were killed.
and the leader of this rebellion was a 16-year-old boy named Shiro Amakusa. and he was supposedly an extremely handsome.
found his bronze statue within the castle's garden.
handsome? hmm....
next we headed to an area within the town where lower ranked samurais' premises (total of three) are.
the walkway to the premise.
Love these stone fences, remindes me of Okinawa.
found a friendly cat. *muaaaaaaaks*
this was one of the premises.
so lets see inside the house...
(local lady was cleaning the room, which at first scared the living daylights out of me lol)
after a while, it was time to leave Shimabara and head to Unzen Onsen. so we headed to the bus stop. we had about 20 minutes, so i bought some local sweets known as kanzarashi.
it's made out of shiratama dumplings (made out of rice flour. sticky and chewy), filled with syrup made out of local springwater, honey and sugar.
it wasn't as sweet as I thought, and it was goooooood....
the bus came and we rode for about 40 minutes through the mountains.
Unzen area is famous for onsen (hot springs). what I really wanted to see in Unzen was the Unzen Jigoku (literally means Unzen Hell). woot!
it's an area where, due to active volcano, enormous amount of sulphur gas is emitted, which to early locals, looked like hell itself. Thus the name, Unzen Jigoku (Unzen Hell)
the moment we stepped in, it was STINKY STINKY STINKY!!!
I've never smelt such strong sulphur smell in my life!! stinks stinks stinks!
I love this signboard
it says:
Keep Out It's Dangerous Within Hell
I'm sure LOL
I don't know how could I let you all understand how rotten the smell was, so decided to express it with my own face.
can you feel it? no? didn't think so.
they sold Onsen Tamago (Hotspring Egg), which is usually eggs boiled in hotsprings, but in this case, eggs were steamed with extremely hot sulphur gas. we decided to give it a try (salt included in da bag)
taste?
just like your average boiled egg. tasted good coz we were hungry lol.
there were stray cats which were aiming to get eggs from the tourists. yes, I love cats but no, I did not give any eggs of mine. they get enough eggs from other tourists. what? me? mean? couldn't be.
but I thought for a moment. these cats live a pretty good life. they won't be needing to look for food since tourists will give some of their eggs to them (they are pretty fatten up for a stray cat!), and the smell of the sulphur is so strong, that fleas won't come any closer (the cats didn't seem to mind the stench of that place though). Plus, despite the smell, the ground itself is relatively warm (due to the volcanic activity) so they won't freeze during winter. I couldn't bare the smell. I started to have migraine (seriously). humph.
Lastly we headed to the most active part of the Jigoku area, known as Daikyokan jigoku (Screaming Hell).
apparently the sound of the steam coming out sounds like dead people in hell screaming.
what do you think?
we walked for a pretty long time, and after we left Unzen Jigoku, we found a hotspring for feet (that literally means for feet only), and yes it's free and is open to everyone.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
I wish we had enough time to go to hotspring and take a bath, but we had not time for that. because there was like only one more bus that goes back to Nagasaki city lol.
We also went to a local Shinto shrine, where there was a friendly stray cat. *yum*
too many cat episodes? I'm sorry, I can't help it :p
Also found a hotspring for your hands. so cute lol
whilst we waited for the bus, I bought a local soda (the history of this soda is pretty old. I think they start producing this in early 20th century).
not bad.
the bus back to the city was loooooooooong..... it took about 2hrs. 2hrs bus ride! by the time we got back it was already dark (9ish?).
When we got back to city, I bought another local famous soda at a convenience store near our hotel, called "Banzai Soda".
it's the first soda in Japan to ever be of mass production. It goes back to 1904. I prefer this soda more than the onsen soda at Unzen. Banzaaaaaai!!!!!
oh, Happy Belated Halloweed by the way! Tokyo got hite by typhoon directly. *sob*
but we still held da party. i very much appriciate those who came (although were soaking wet lol). if we held it next year, i think we ALL can dress up in costume! (plus more ppl)
So anyway, Day 2 (Oct 10th, Wednesday)
all the remaining pictures are here (sorry, facebook people only)
Surprisingly, mum and I woke up early in the morning to head to Shimabara. it's about 2hrs train ride from the city. needless to say i fell a sleep during da ride.
so we finally got there, and head to Shimabara Castle.
the castle is surrounded by a lake, which was covered in lotus leaves. it must be beautiful during the season when the lotus flowers bloom...
the main castle tower
and the view from the top of the castle
this is the famous Mount Unzen, which erupted in 1991 and killed 44 people. it's still an active volcano you know. scary stuff.
Shimabara bares a sad history. a history of war between the Japanese government and Christians (mainly peasants), known as the Shimabara Rebellion in 1637. thousands of people were killed.
and the leader of this rebellion was a 16-year-old boy named Shiro Amakusa. and he was supposedly an extremely handsome.
found his bronze statue within the castle's garden.
handsome? hmm....
next we headed to an area within the town where lower ranked samurais' premises (total of three) are.
the walkway to the premise.
Love these stone fences, remindes me of Okinawa.
found a friendly cat. *muaaaaaaaks*
this was one of the premises.
so lets see inside the house...
(local lady was cleaning the room, which at first scared the living daylights out of me lol)
after a while, it was time to leave Shimabara and head to Unzen Onsen. so we headed to the bus stop. we had about 20 minutes, so i bought some local sweets known as kanzarashi.
it's made out of shiratama dumplings (made out of rice flour. sticky and chewy), filled with syrup made out of local springwater, honey and sugar.
it wasn't as sweet as I thought, and it was goooooood....
the bus came and we rode for about 40 minutes through the mountains.
Unzen area is famous for onsen (hot springs). what I really wanted to see in Unzen was the Unzen Jigoku (literally means Unzen Hell). woot!
it's an area where, due to active volcano, enormous amount of sulphur gas is emitted, which to early locals, looked like hell itself. Thus the name, Unzen Jigoku (Unzen Hell)
the moment we stepped in, it was STINKY STINKY STINKY!!!
I've never smelt such strong sulphur smell in my life!! stinks stinks stinks!
I love this signboard
it says:
Keep Out It's Dangerous Within Hell
I'm sure LOL
I don't know how could I let you all understand how rotten the smell was, so decided to express it with my own face.
can you feel it? no? didn't think so.
they sold Onsen Tamago (Hotspring Egg), which is usually eggs boiled in hotsprings, but in this case, eggs were steamed with extremely hot sulphur gas. we decided to give it a try (salt included in da bag)
taste?
just like your average boiled egg. tasted good coz we were hungry lol.
there were stray cats which were aiming to get eggs from the tourists. yes, I love cats but no, I did not give any eggs of mine. they get enough eggs from other tourists. what? me? mean? couldn't be.
but I thought for a moment. these cats live a pretty good life. they won't be needing to look for food since tourists will give some of their eggs to them (they are pretty fatten up for a stray cat!), and the smell of the sulphur is so strong, that fleas won't come any closer (the cats didn't seem to mind the stench of that place though). Plus, despite the smell, the ground itself is relatively warm (due to the volcanic activity) so they won't freeze during winter. I couldn't bare the smell. I started to have migraine (seriously). humph.
Lastly we headed to the most active part of the Jigoku area, known as Daikyokan jigoku (Screaming Hell).
apparently the sound of the steam coming out sounds like dead people in hell screaming.
what do you think?
we walked for a pretty long time, and after we left Unzen Jigoku, we found a hotspring for feet (that literally means for feet only), and yes it's free and is open to everyone.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....
I wish we had enough time to go to hotspring and take a bath, but we had not time for that. because there was like only one more bus that goes back to Nagasaki city lol.
We also went to a local Shinto shrine, where there was a friendly stray cat. *yum*
too many cat episodes? I'm sorry, I can't help it :p
Also found a hotspring for your hands. so cute lol
whilst we waited for the bus, I bought a local soda (the history of this soda is pretty old. I think they start producing this in early 20th century).
not bad.
the bus back to the city was loooooooooong..... it took about 2hrs. 2hrs bus ride! by the time we got back it was already dark (9ish?).
When we got back to city, I bought another local famous soda at a convenience store near our hotel, called "Banzai Soda".
it's the first soda in Japan to ever be of mass production. It goes back to 1904. I prefer this soda more than the onsen soda at Unzen. Banzaaaaaai!!!!!
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