The Story Of a Nobody

I really have the effort to write this, hoping you can guys can spare some of your time reading this. Since I have nothing to do at 8 in the morning and some of you asked me about how's Japan so I think I just write about it here. Read at your own risk. Saturday, 2nd August 2008. After a week of tiring and annoying visa applying process finally this is the day. I'm going to the a-fucking-mazing Tokyo! The flight is scheduled at 11 p.m, so today I'm just chilling at home and cant stop thinking of what will I do there. Then at 7 p.m, Erik came to fetch me and send me off to KLIA. Thank you la weh. Pacak,Eyzat, Ezat Paan is also following. Thanks again okay. And Ali,Ayie,Azrix and Haiqal tag along with another car. Thanks also you guys! Terharu do. Then when we reached KLIA, first things first, we went to KFC to eat. After that they send me straight away to the boarding gate. I was alone after that, omg im so scared u know since this is my first time going overseas. After that, I have to lalu all the security thingy bag checking thing everything kan then I entered the plane. I just sit and wait for the plane to fly. 11.30 pm sharp,the captain announced that they are going to fly the plane and asked all the passengers to wear their seatbelt. My thoughts that time was the captain is so cool. And I want to be like him,a pilot. Since I cant see anything outside I just watched some movies,listening to some music and sleep throughout the 7 hours journey. The foods are also not bad. Ok laaa,not that nice but still eatable. Thank you guys! Sunday,3rd August 2008. I arrived at the Narita Airport at 7:40 in the morning,expecting that my cousin is already waiting for me at the arrival gate. Sadly, she wasn't there so I tried to call her cell. Trutt,trutt... No answer. 2nd try,still the same thing. 3rd try,confirmed! She's either still on her bed sleeping or is on her way and didn't realize that I called her. So, I just find a place to put my luggage. Then go out and then light up my last stick of Dunhill cigarette and I really regret that didn't buy extra in KL, Japanese cigarette is so light, I cant even feel the smoke. Japanese government is so strict,we can smoke anywhere we want instead they has this kind of see-through room for people who wants to smoke. So,I went there and smoke. After that I tried to call my cousin again and finally she answered! She told me that she's already there and we met. Then she took me to a restaurant for breakfast. And the 1st meal I had in Japan is pancake! And the fucking pancake cost me almost 30 ringgit! I know that the food there is a little pricy,but I didn't expect it to be that much. From that moment I have kind of put this intention not to eat much to save my cash for other important things than foods. Then we have to wait for my other cousin to arrive She's from South Korea and she will be there at 1:30 pm. We have to wait for another 5 hours there. Aaaaaaa,I'm doomed. "What to do what to do,have to wait for another 5 hours ? Then what should we do here?" I ask myself. Then I went to a comfy sofa,sat there and sleep until my other cousin came. After that we took some picture then took a train to Komagome. The place where my cousin live. Then she sent me to a place I supposed to stay. It's a school-dormitory! Yay! I'm so excited! Then she introduced me to her friend, Khairi, who is also a Malaysian student there sponsored by Petronas. He's a smart boy perhaps. That day I'm staying in his room. Then after a little chat with him, I fell asleep. So damn tired u know. 7 hours of flight,5 hours waiting,the journey to her place some more,what do you expect? Then he woke me up at 7:30 p.m and tell me that my cousin asked him to wake me up and told me to wake up to go for dinner. Then meet my cousins with 2 of her Korean friends,also a student there. They are ok la,kind of cute. But they are 21 and 25, na'ah,too old for me. Then we took a train from Honkomagome station to Harajuku. Omg I'm so excited! I'm going to Harajuku. That's like the place that I really want to go! Then we had our dinner at Sushi Kaiten. omg sushi wtf? I dont eat sushi! i dont like the seaweed. hakhak. That's the only part I dont really like about Japan,the food. Blergh,I cant even stand the smell of seaweeds. Then we went to the Takeshi-ta street,right in the middle of Harajuku to get some crepes. The crepes here are super oishii. Bought a berry berry flavour,they put many berries with whipped cream inside. So very delicious. Just arrived and on the way to Komagome. Some jakun moments. This is what the smoking room looks like. The telur ikan sushi. The taste was like euwww. I feel like puking after eating this. Yummy! Look at those crepes! Monday,4th August 2008 Kring kring kring! The alarm clock ringing at 8:00. I woke up real fast. I mean like,really really fast. Damn cant wait to go sight seeing,shopping and everything. Called my cousin to ask her to come pick me up. Kring kring,again,unanswered. Haiyaa, dah buat hal dah. Then I ring her phone again and again and again. Look's like someone didn't have enough sleep last night. So I left her a text message asking her to be quick. Then haaa!! Suddenly I remember, I have a friend here. I knew her from MySpace for about a year. Never thought that I can meet her there. Her name is Makichu,but she asked me to call her Maki. Lol. Her name sounds like maki hamun. hahaha. But she's very cute! I like her. She is very nice ,willing to wake up early just to go teman me to Harajuku. Then we went there together,went shopping,haiyoh,really shok ar this Harajuku place,many chun t-shirts,shirts and jeans. I buy 4 tshirts and a jeans. Then we went purikura-ing. It's something like a photo sticker machine like what we have in Sungei Wang. Except for it is nicer than sungei wang punya la. Then we just go wandering around,have lunch then went to yoyogi to shop again. Omg,Japan is so damn clean u know! I didn't even see any rubbish on the street. Time goes so fast then it is nearly 4:30 pm and Maki got to go to work. I was like "alaaaaaaaa,why u have to go so fast?" Then she replies with her cute voice "I'm sorry,I gotta go to work. We hang out again later okay." And then sadly,I sent her to the train station and called my cousin back. She said that she's going to Ikebukuro and asked me to go back to her place to meet her. But I was so confident I told her to meet at Ikebukuro. Then we met at Ikebukuro, go to sunshine city. It's a big supermarket with many kind of retail stores. That place is nice. Try guess what I did there? Of course shopping laa. Then went to Shakey's for dinner then we went back home. So,this is Makichu. She helped me a lot. Thank you much! Hope to see you again. I miss you like so really crazy now. The Harajuku signboard at JR line train station. I did much shopping that day. The main reason why I'm broke now. Tuesday,5th August 2008. Today we decide to go to Akihabara (Akiba), which is known as the electric city. It's something like Low Yat but of course, bigger and better. Then we just walk,and wandering around as usual. Yeah,I'm on holiday. what do you expect? Then we got a Swatch special promotion, 1 watch for only 2,000 Yen equals to about Rm 60. Thats cheap! Both of my cousins borong it lah,what else kan,girls. haha. I didn't buy even one because I dont wear watch.Then we went to find a smoking area since me and my cousin sangap already. See! We have to find a smoking area if we want to smoke. That's something nice about Japan,that's why it is so clean. That's when we go into a store,which sells cigarette and they provide smoking area,and I need to drink so I just ordered a mango drink. What I didn't know is the mango drink is mix up with white wine. Then after ordering it,I just drink it lah. The drink is nice but I feel a little but I just drink it anyway. Then my cousin wants to have a sip then after she drank it,she feels weird too and ask the guy who mde the drink. Then he answered lah that the drink has white wine in it. I was like "Huh?! U put white wine in it aa?" I was shocked and I was sad,he ruined my alcohol virginty. Damn! After a long time trying not to drink at all then accidentally drinked it. But the taste was kind of good la. Haha. This is Akihabara. Coincidentally,this is where Pop shuvit took their picture too. One of my favourite picture of myself. Hohoho The cheap Swatch watch. Wednesday,6th August 2008 So today is the 5th day of my journey in Tokyo. We were planning on going to to a beach which is located in Odaiba. When we reach there,we saw this cool indoor theme park and decided to just go and take a look of it. Inside the theme park, I looked at this Initial D arcade game and it's very different cause we can drive it in the car itself. There was this Prison Break game,and if you want to know I really love Prison Break. Then a ghost house which is vey cool because of their effects. Their effects is very nice I tell you. Then you know how it goes. Suddenly we canceled our plan to the and camped inside the theme park instead. It was all worth it. The theme park was really nice. I enjoyed playing it. Shame that my camera battery is gone and I cant take pictures. I only manage to capture 2 pics of the building. sobsob :( The indoor theme park. It is called Joypolis. What a nice name right? Thursday,7th August 2008 Today we went to Shibuya and Shinjuku ( alaa,the very famous place with buildings and busy street and neon lights and everything). And they want to go to a eat-all-you-can place but I don't want to waste time and I separated with them,went sightseeing and tried to talk to those kawaii girls pretending to ask direction to have some little chat,and maybe, u know, getting lucky. HAHAHA. But I tried at almost 20 people and none of them can speak english. :( damn I wish I know Japanese. They are so adorable,I cant forgive myself if I don't talk to them,or at least try. Actually I was planning to save my money to buy ticket for an event called Summer Sonic there. The ticket will cost me about Rm 450. I know,a little expensive but it is worth the price of the ticket as some of the world's best band will be performing there such as COLDPLAY,man,that is my favorite band!,Panic at the Disco,The Fratellis,Tokyo Police Club,Alicia Keys and many more. BUT,the shoe store,they are really mean,they robbed my money without me realizing it. It's their fault that they have so many nice shoes! I bought 3 pairs and suddenly, I have used almost half of my money. But it was good eventhough I have to give up the Summer Sonic, at least I can wear these shoes for at least 3 years. Later that night,we went to Asakusa and Ginza. We arrived a little late at Asakusa,which is the tourist attraction place. It is where they sell souvenirs for tourists such as keychains,kimono,those fancy ninja costume for kids (if they had sell one with my size,I've probably bought it). We didn't hang around there long cause the shops are closing and we decided to go there again later. We headed to Ginza afterward, there's nothing much there. Just some designers brand boutique there. But there's a Nissan showroom and they were promoting their new car,Nissan GT-R (R 35 btw). Yeah,it's the latest version of Skyline GT-R. And I tell you,cars are cheap! But the fuel and the road tax and the parking is like trying to kill their own citizens. That explains why most of them only use bicycles. Okay,back to the story again. They sell that car at a very unbelievable price of Rm 240,000!!! That's so cheap man! After that, my cousin invited me to go hang out at her room with her friends. She wanted to introduce me to her friends. She lives in a girl dormitory so practically I have to sneak in. How am I going to do it? Hehe. There are not so many muslims in Japan and my cousin is wearing head scarf and if you are wearing a head scarf, people will automically consider u as a muslim GIRL. U get the point right? So to sneak in, I have to wear a head scarf. And I DID WEAR THE HEAD SCARF! Later after that her two friends, Koreans, Ai (pronounced as ayie) and Kim entered her room and hangs out. I tried to interact and talk with them but again,they dont know English! Luckily my cousin is willing to be the translator. I talked in either English or Malay then she translated it into Nihongo. The bright side is, I learned some new word. "Daijobu" it means nevermind. And I ended up using that word over and over again. As we are planning to go to Disneyland tomorrow and it's already 3 in the morning and we were supposed to go out at 7:30 a.m, I didn't sleep that night worrying that I can't wake up tomorrow. I left my phone at her place to charge it and I went back to my room. The colourful neon lights at Shibuya. Asakusa. I look like a sakai. The thing behind me is called Kaminarimon. It's so totally mine. Friday,8th August 2008 After the tiring sleepless night yesterday,I went out early without having my breakfast and waited for my 2 cousins at the Sugamo-eki station. We promised to meet there at 8 a.m sharp. I arrived 10 minutes early. Tick-tock,tick-tock.it's already 8 but they haven't arrived. Alaa,janji melayu kan,so I just wait for them. 15 minutes passed,still no sight of them. 35 minutes passed, I'm losing my cool. Tried to call her but shit! My phone is at her,and I kind of memorized her number,find a phone booth,called her. Wrong number! I knew it,I had a short term memory. Cant do much,try pushing my luck and called the number but I changed the last digit,still no luck. After the 15 try, I give up calling her. I walk another 700 meter to go to her place and tried to ring the bell and nobody shows up. Then I went back to my place which is her college,they must have kept her number. So I tried to ask the receptionist and they said that they only have her house number.But I know that is her old house number cause her family had just moved to Indonesia and the number that she's giving me is a Malaysia number. Cant stand the stress I went to smoke for a while then tried to ask the receptionist and yes,she was stupid! They have her number! That's when I got in contact with her,but it's already 12:00 in the afternoon so we're just too late to go to Disneyland. And after meeting up with my cousin,she told me that if we are early,we still cant go there because the train had a problem. She said someone just committed suicide at the railway to Disneyland. Stupid Mutha-F*****!!!! If you want to die,go find other railway. You are such a helpless person and now you want to take everybody's fun? Then we decided to go to Asakusa again as we didn't get the chance to shop yesterday. After that,we all are so tired so we went back,take a good nap,then go out again at night. That night we went to Tokyo Dome! The roller coaster was like WOW! I ride it, screaming, shouting scarily like an old retarded guy. The roller coaster is called as the Thunder Dolphin. you might not see it from this angle,but when you ride it,at certain points,it will feel so vertical. And the ferris wheel is called the Big-O. It is actually the first ferris wheel without the center in the world. Saturday,9th August 2008. So today we are really going to Disneyland. Omg Omg Omg, I'm so excited! This is my first time ever going to Disneyland or they call it as Disneyrando. Hahaha I really love their english accent. See how hard they are trying to make things sounds cute? Back to the story,we guys woke up early and I turn to be the earliest one. See,I told you I can wake up early if I want U know. Then I called my cousin's phone (this time it only takes 1 try to call her) and tell her that I'm ready. So we meet at the train station. Then what else,we go la! Then we arrived at Disneyland, the first thing we do is put our vain ass at the main entrance gate and snap as much pictures as we could. And I ended up being the vainest of them all. I couldn't help it. Lol. Then as usual we ride all the rides,do the usual thing people will do at any theme park. It was fun! HAHAHA! I look so funny! Sunday,10th August 2008. Today is the last day of my trip. huaaa :'( I'm indeed sad and happy in between. I'm sad that I have to go so early from this very beautiful place with very beautiful people and very beautiful culture that I hadn't had the chance to discover. So,after a week we've been waking up early which is,not our routine I'd say,so we woke up at 1200 pm today,then went to shower then we go to a Imperial Palace. It's an ancient castle or yea,palace. Personally,I'm not a very big fan of architectural thing like this so what I do is just wander off at a park with very beautiful trees somewhere nearby. Then we go to a place with a samurai statue,it's a very nice shit! Seriously,if I can I would've just take the statue back and put it in my garden hohoho. After that,we go lunch then go back to room to pack things and I took a short nap there for the last time. Then I cant really what I did until Monday. Aiyoo,I knew it,I'm very nyanyuk one! Monday,11th August 2008. This is the time that I really didn't want to come,time to go, time to go from a place that is so close to my definition of home. So,yeah,I'm very sad now. My MH88 MAS Airlines flight will take off at 130 pm,so to avoid being late and the worse,missing the plane,the last thing I would like to happen,we went to airport from my cousin's home at 830 am. That's 5 hours before my flight yo! However,something bad happen,the train that connects to the Kaisei train,which is the train that will bring us to the Narita Airport,broke down! I started to think is it a sign telling me that I should just live there. lol. Then after the train went back,it's 11 something,so I think we can just make it at 1, 3o miutes before departure. So,I might make it just on time. And yeah,my instinct was right,we make it right at 1 pm. But it was just half right. I got it wrong at the boarding the plane right on time. The rules here are a little different. They say that you have to check in at least an hour before the departure time. I was like "WHAT THE FUCK?!" , then what to do, I beg the authority but they say I just cant make it. So the worse thing really is happening. I was scared to death. The authorities are mother fuckers! Luckily my cousin are there to pujuk me back. And she bought me a new ticket for a flight to Kuala Lumpur,and it wont be today. It is tomorrow which means I have to sleep at the airport for a day and the first thing that came into my mind was, "Oh shit! What amI going to do for a day?", my cousin is a very great person! She brought a novel and told me,it's the best companion after psp. And I was bored with the game in my PSP so I give it a try reading a novel. That's when I developed a new hobby which is,reading. Nothing much happened that day,I wish I still have another 100,000 yen,so I dont have to go back tomorrow,enjoy another few weeks here. :( Tuesday,12th August 2008. So this is it. The flight is departing at 10:30 am,and I'm already at the check-in zone at 8:30 am,before the counter is really open not intending to do the same mistake like yesterday again. So,when the door is open I said goodbye to my cousin and go into the plane. And there's this one gay-oriented steward I think he greets me "cantik topi,dik." I acted as innocent as I can,I said thanks and just go in to find my seat. Then another waitress greets me in Japanese,but when she greets others,she either greets in English or Malay. I was like,why does everyone keep speaking Japanese to me. I'm not a Japanese (even if I wish to be one),I'm a Malay. Damn. Then the flight departs off to Kuala Lumpur! Yay! "Goodbye you beautiful modern country! I'll come again later! Maki,wait for me,I promise U I'll go there again!"