fuyu's travel log

leaving taiwan

2008-12-30T07:49:00.002+08:00

so... i made it to taiwan
now i am leaving again for MN
well that was quick

台湾に戻ったけど
今からアメリカ
早いね

還有看不懂的人嗎?
...
呵呵
好啦
現在要回美國啦
台灣掰掰

y supongo q no tendria q usar castellano
xq nadie q entiende lee, creo
y los q leen entienden ingles
ya da jaja

return

2008-12-20T11:58:00.000+08:00

so i've made... im home
又回到台灣了
聯絡我吧

airport diary

2008-12-19T14:36:00.002+08:00

I've been writing this type of diaries almost any time i was waiting for a flight at a airport
this is the first time i have a blog though

so, yeah basically Japan was fun... but i'm going back now
this time i'll be heading back to Taiwan for a week and a half and then its carleton and exiting winter term..~! freeze my ass off...

but i'll be a TA so that might be interesting

busy

2008-12-02T11:45:00.000+08:00

busy week... or maybe month...

update later?

power of purikura

2008-11-13T17:53:00.002+08:00

good purikura machines never stop amazing me

(note: taken at Cannal City, Fukuka, they are my students from last year. Nate or Andy might remember them)

fukuoka update

2008-11-08T06:20:00.001+08:00

i love it when youth hostels have internet

i am in suck one here at fukuoka, which turned to be the one a friend (andy p) stayed at last year when we were working at Japan

small tight place, but i can deal with it
also clean looking though
n.n

dance, dance, dance

2008-10-31T18:06:00.000+08:00

taught chicken dance yesterday for Halloween, clearly makes sense

midterms over

2008-10-24T14:27:00.001+08:00

finally... i finished my midterm...

in a class of 120 ppl, and a test scheduled for 50 mins... the dude next to me finished the test number one... in 15 min

wow...

half way

2008-10-22T10:31:00.002+08:00

half of my midterm exams are done.

the essay was ok, speaking as well
waiting for the last two written test

the main problem is... i am totally bankrupt
literally... last resort... would be expensive

plans for the weekend.
either USJ or Yukie's bday party on Friday
Going to help sell and make food in Kobe on Saturday
sport festival with my Otosan on Sunday

広島

2008-10-18T18:07:00.002+08:00

今広島のK官でいますよ
先広島城からもどっと
もうすぐ広島スタイルお好み焼きを食べに行きますよ

busy...

2008-10-17T11:17:00.000+08:00

下星期是期中考.. (mid term week coming up)
星期一考寫作 (Monday essay test)
星期二面試 (Tuesday oral test)
星期四文法 (Thursday grammar)
星期五讀寫 (Friday writing/reading)

暈... 而且我週末又去廣島上課，不是玩...好啦各半 (and I am going to Hiroshima, FOR A CLASS this weekend)
沒救了吧
はい～！がんばります

tokyo summary

2008-10-16T16:27:00.001+08:00

tokyo summary

the last weekened was a triple holiday (ie 3 day weekend) so I kind of decided to go to tokyo last minute with Martin
although the main goal/excuse was TGS, I think I was there more for seeying friends

friday afternoon, we (me and Martin) went to visit Sure before we left (don't know actually why)
but that took way too long... we were getting all pumped up about TGS and almost missed our shinkasen...
so we dashed all our way from Hirakata to Kyoto main station... luckily we made and even had time to buy some gift for Jon's host family
(we were going to stay at Jon's host family's place at Tokyo) we got some mochia (? green tea?) pudin and bean paste/mochi thing
all apparently specialties of the Kyoto region

The 3 hour Shinkansen ride went quite fast. The seats were wide, but the chairs were kind of hard... not very comfy
we had tea and onigiri that my host mom had prepared for us. good stuff haha

arriving at Tokyo main at around 9, we changed train and arrived at Shin-koenji by metro.
it was dark and raining a bit but Jon, like the good friend he was, stood at the station waiting for us
>"< i didn't see him at first, but he was there. some how he blended with the surrounding...
hair shorter than before, but same Jon

we walked a bit to his place and met his family. nice ppl, spoke some English, awesome house
apparently they were into western style and music. one of the rooms even had a collection of revolvers

the father was also suppose to be a good carpenter and made a good deal of the carpentry in the house

had good japanese curry for late night snack... tons of beef, yum... and we past out upstairs at the attic

***************

saturday morning... it was game show time~! gosh, it took quite a bit to get there. The site for TGS was at Chiba, like an hour away
we saw a weird, some type of express train that would get us directly to the site. It saved us 10min... but cost us an extra 500 Yen (~$5)
on the way, Jon and I were on DS playing FFRF, while Martin passed out with his iPod

waiting in line was probably the most exciting part some how. It just went on for ever... real long line...
it litteraly went up and down, back and forth around the whole building... we got there around 1015, but got in by 1100?

walked around in the show till my knees stopped working. Martin was still quite energetic and went to buy surveniers at the Campcom shop..
we stayed there all the way till the end at 5pm.

saw some cool RPGs and Resident evil previews. The 360 seems more asian friendly than before.. hmm tempting
RE5 was kind of generic, but cool. we weren't quite prepared and got our heads chopped off maybe 5 min into the game
we did stood 70 min in line waiting to test it though... at the Site we also saw other KG students.

Ernesto, Ricardo and then Eugene and some other kids i didn't quite know...

we left the site when the whole wide world was doing so as well... so the station was packed... so we just sat around for a while till maybe 1830
originally we were going to stay with the other KG kids but... nah... we were beated... went back to Jon's place
had more curry, yum, for dinner... and passed out again.

I was originally planning to meat Rie (who taught English with me last year at Kyushu), but she was flying back from Hokkaido and her flight got delayed
so it got too late for that...

*************
side note, Jon's family had 3 dogs(afro, yaya and ... can't remember). tiny, and cute... but poop a lot... all over the place hmmm
especially at our bathroom...

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Sunday morning, Jon had too much work and had to talk to Jess so he stayed home. Me and Martin headed out for more Tokyo tour
unlike some of the other kids who went to TGS again... we decided to do other stuff... Since it was Martin's first time at Tokyo and he loves his temples
(Tsubasa and Suika say he's searching for a place to go when he retires and becomes a monk)
I suggested him to go to Asakusa, big temple place that I've been to way too many times (I lived at a Temple next to it last time I was at Tokyo)
while I went to have lunch with Rie at Shiodome before her work

At Shiodome, I got to see a giant clock designed by Miyasaki that did some quite sound and action when it ran at noon. Of course I had to film it.
hurt my arms a bit, and the angle wasn't great but still a cute memory

went to the gift shop, got some gifts for my sister and other ppl

met Martin, Ricardo and Ernesto at Akiba

explored the giant Anime/Game store (10 floors, maybe, two buildings)
that took... maybe...1.5 hrs.... I bought 2 manga at the manga floor and 3 light novels at the novel floor
(the two "manga" turned out to be novels as well... i realized that on the train....)
we didn't stay long at the trading card foor.... either the AC didn't work there or ppl there didn't shower much
the we also went to Yodobashi-akiba... that took maybe another 2 hrs..

we saw a summo at some point, and ricardo took pictures shamelessly with full flash
kind of funny

oh... on our way back.. texting and crossing the pedestrian pass with the green lite flashing... i tripped...
pokkai style? ie 狗吃屎 in chinese... basically face down flat... made a huge hole in both my knee and jeans
BUT, I didn't get run over by a car... so that is good

tired... we want back to Jon's place and had great dinner. Meat loaf and oden(關東煮)....
couldn't finish it of course, although we all had 2nds, 3rds or even 4ths....

we got to have some of the puddin we brought at gifts as dessert
mean while, we had some interesting conversations with the mom and dad about life and stuff...
cool ppl...
after that we went out for a bit

met with Ricardo (Ernesto was lost) at Shinjuku and we HAD to explore the red light distric of Tokyo
because apparently Martin is a "good boy" and didn't know it existed

of course we didn't pay for anything, but we had to walk around the street and check out some stores
some one was having fun... haha not going to say who

it was fun when either Japanese or Black person would come up to us and ask what we were looking for and offer all type of service
kkkkk.... cute @.@? obviously... haha we just said no to everything and we felt pretty same in a group of 4

but at some point, we might have gotten way too deep into the district and we got surounded buy like 10 of them and that was kind of scary...
so... we were just like "we are looking for the eki (train station)" and hurried out of that place

after that, we hurried back to the station, almost missing the last train and went back...
again... we pass out... Jon might have done some hw... i didn't mmmm

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monday morning Jon had to leave with his family to some graves... not sure why, didn't ask so me and Martin packed up, said our thank yous and left
at shinjuku eki we left our big bags in lockers and headed for Harajuku

usually ppl go there for Cosplayers, Martin wanted to see some, but it was Monday (instead of Sunday) and a bit too early in the morning so there was none
so, i took him to Meji shrine. Huge forest for one in the middle of the city. nice walk, more pictures

rushed back b/c it was time to meet my Japanese friends that volunteered with me this summer.
At the station, I met Jun, Yuko and Saori. Saori apparently got lost on the way and they started making fun of her on how i was a better Japanese person
haha... the train system isn't THAT hard haha

from there we went to a Mac (in Kantou/Tokyo) or MacDo (in Kansain/Osaka) or better known as McDonald in the US....
waited a bit till Taro arrived. I was not used to seeying him without his glasses

had Okonomiyaki nad Manjayaki (?) at Shinjuku and Martin's wish to go to Tokyo tower overwrote mine to go to Tokyo U...
maybe a good decision though...

we were poor and young, so we took the stairs up... hmmm that was fun... I am glad I wasn't Yuko who was wearing heals hehe
all the way up to the "special" observatory was 1400 Yen (~$14) and we had to walk down as well.. although that wasn't too bad

when we were down, we had to go do what we needed. Martin and Jun went to buy souveniors, Yuko and Taro went out for a sig and I went to have a McShrimp
with Saori... hmmm I started being just thirst... wanted a bit of fry... but ended buying a whole set

this takes us all the way till almost 5pm. Taro hard his work so left early. From there we went back to Harajuku again, with hopes to see some Cosplayers
and meet Mayo. There was obviously no cosplayer, so we walked on the crouded street and went to have some bubble tea. Mayo didn't stay long, she had
to go to her badmin club but brought us lots of gifts. Jun also gave us some stuff before the had to go as well.

from there, me, Martin and Yuko went to Shinjuku again met Cory who just came back from some retreat/camp in the mountains
we had dinner at a Kaiten sushi place and went to a coffee shop to just chat about our summer and school here at Japan.

things seemed cool... Martin said weird comments that kind of made sense logically but not much in the context....
I'll not say them, but they were something a long the lines "I have to laugh when I see something funny"
that may to seem make sense, but we were talking about where I worked over the summer... it would make more sense if you knew what that was of course

we sat at the shop with a cup of coffee for a few hours and decided to check out Cory's place before going back. We said bye to Yuko at the station and went to
Cory's room. It looked like a rented appartment and her host mom a bit more like her landlord than host mom.. oh well...
things were cool

Martin and I went back to Shinjuku again, picked up our bags from the locker and went to our bus.
the seats were better than the Shinkanse, and included a blanket. I was exausted and quickly fell asleep till the next morning when we arrived back to Hirakata
and went back home, had breakfast, took a shower and went to class....

that concludes my weekend.

also, an important lesson about Japanese sex industry (according to cory's book)
when they say massage, they actually me sex
and health massage are bj, body massage is hj and bubble world is hot japanese bath followed by more action
hmmm euphemisms

睡眠不足...

2008-10-15T22:51:00.000+08:00

今天起的好早...0730...昨天又睡的晚...趕功課
東京回來後累到現在...沒力
上課不小心睡著了可惡
明明在5分鐘就下課的說..老師偏偏要問我問題

他問(日文...)

師:三明治裡玻璃菜要多少
我:えー？二つ

暈...要兩顆玻璃菜幹麻....

現在小豬脫離了無聊的日子，努力找活動參與
昨天下午就和一些學生想辦法編舞。月底可能有表演吧。
發了email給電影研究部和旅研究部兩個社團。
晚上又聯絡上FIWC關西的みゆき（美由紀）ie'星期三'的女朋友。下週末要到神戶女學院大學去幫忙她們義賣吧
校慶園遊會一樣，應該不錯

這週末預定去廣島，看和平紀念館。聽原爆生還著的故事。

復活~! TGS

2008-10-09T17:39:00.001+08:00

東京~TGS
出發~!!!

I'll be gone all weekend (Friday to Monday) at Tokyo
fuuuun~! maybe? so, if you can't find me, you know why

無聊中

2008-10-08T17:25:00.000+08:00

最近很鬱悶...有點閑
明明有很多事可以做...

可能眼前有些小障礙(修不好的電腦)
就很煩..沒動力暈

還要去多多認識點人吧
參加社團吧

有料理社就好了

CODE GEASS~!

2008-09-30T14:19:00.002+08:00

ok... not to ruin it for anyone, but for those who didn't like the first season, you probably should watch season 2

good stuff...

I just finished the last ep a few minutes ago... wow
watch it first and then we can scream together

i don't want to ruin it for you
Zero Requiem のために

梅田（大阪駅）

2008-09-22T12:42:00.005+08:00

梅田 (うめだ）is basically downtown Osaka

its japan...　プリクラ　大頭貼~!

奇異果冰
好吃...不過超貴嘿嘿

i'm a terrible person

2008-09-20T11:24:00.004+08:00

long weird night... i got home at 3 am last night, but my okasan actually was up waiting for... i felt terrible

that night... we had a "meeting..." and kind of rewrote out "constitution"
so, now... the new thing is:
-I have to be home by midnite no matter what
-i must be back for dinner on mondays and thursdays
-should have "communication" with her afterwards
-etc...

hmm,
although there was a reason behind all this...
i went to with some friends to look for this "concert" near a 7-11 at 9pm
clearly that was BS, and no such concert existed
so we ended up in a random, sketchy bar/cafe around the corner.
we did some stuff, i walked one of my friends who wanted to go back first back around midnite.
met other friends that were coming back from Karaoke walk them back to the dorm and then together sent one of the girls in homestay back by bike

on my way back with the karaoke kids, i met the guys from the club earlier
then i hanged out with them for at bit at the park, and then walked one of the guys back to his place as well

so by the time i finally got home, it was 3 am... hmm... bad planning?

alive again

2008-09-15T16:59:00.001+08:00

sorry i didn't have internet for a while
since the last time... i've to Kyoto, Osaka, Nara and been to a week of class
I'll send pictures and details next time ><

review test

2008-09-12T09:48:00.001+08:00

i have a review test.... if i fail i will end up in a lower level... which is means i'll have to retake genki 2... that will be going back to 103... hmmm that might be a problem

lately... my conversational and functional japanese went up, but... everything else went though kkkk ><

買手機...

2008-09-09T15:12:00.003+08:00

好貴喔...

猶豫不決...想買之iPhone3G....不過好貴喔
暈...不過一直想買支pda手機
不過

外國人登錄(Alien Registration) PM 1:48

2008-09-08T13:48:00.000+08:00

Currently I am stuck at the 市役所(City Hall)　waiting at the line for the to get my form so I can get the permission to buy a cell phone. The current number is 926, and mine is 931. All foreigners are suppose to register at the local town center within 90 days of arrival, so I am currently working on mine.

After leaving my host family this morning, with the bike they lent me, I went to school and met with the other guys at the CIE (Center for International Educations). We had lunch as usual at the cafeteria and then they went to pick up their phones at the Softbank branch store at the convenient school at school. Nothing special. I went to the parking lot to get to the parking to get here (the city hall) but I realized I couldn’t find the bike… I guess I’ll have to wait for everyone to leave and go back to pick it my bike up later… fun…

Meanwhile, I can only drink my tea and wait…

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Now playing: 陶吉吉太美麗今天妳要嫁給我
via FoxyTunes

看照片

2008-09-08T08:38:00.006+08:00

昨晚傳了些進電腦。現在看了一下。懐かしい…讓我想起了中國，好懷念喔
時間過的真快...暑假晚了，要開學了
新生訓練今天正式結束。

在寄宿家庭這裡沒有了網路，習慣了每天對著電腦發呆的我就只能看照片和台灣同學燒來的動畫。

看來看去，不知不覺的就開始p了機張。

三個人去等日出的那個清晨... 哈哈有點像夢境一般

吉兆的海真美、配上鹹鹹海風...蠻舒服的。

好想再像那天一樣20幾人一起去海邊玩。

(9:53am)

夜間大家一起在沙城堡邊放花火也成了永遠的記憶。

好想念中國、好想念廣東、好想念JIA、好想念大家。

Note: this is for the non-Chinese speakers out there. These are pictures from this summer in China. The one on the top was waiting for sunrise at the beach and the bottom was our whole group of volunteers playing with firework the night before.

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Now playing: 五月天-為愛而生07- 最重要的小事
via FoxyTunes

The room

2008-09-07T19:32:00.000+08:00

This will be my room for the next 4 months.

The upper left corner is my closet, where I filled up with jackets and sweaters that I probably will not need and the lower left corner is also filled with all my t-shirts and jeans. I have my laptop with me but no INTERNET here… so, expect updates from the middle of the day when I am at school. I like this nice little cozy space, if only I had internet. But I guess that will make sure I won’t stay home all day (since it is actually only a 5 min walk from school!)

(ps, I will fix the display time to actually match the time I wrote all this, since I have to do all this off-line.)

Today’s potential schedule:

-go to the city office to pick up the form so I can buy a cellphone

-get a global phone at Softbank, hopefully not too expensive

-figure out if I’m suppose to meet my speaking partner or not

-first class of the term: 4:00-5:20pm, Japan-China: Problems in Historical and Cultural Experience

(下午開始就有課... 4:00-5:20pm中國-日本:歷史與文化交流問題)

karaoke

2008-09-04T23:05:00.002+08:00

karaoke today

... Tsuba has an awesome voice...

sings a lot of the songs Yoyo (who's a girl, not bad singer) sing pretty darn well

wow kkk...

The place we went wasn't too bad, not many Chinese songs, but it was ok

it had Karaoke, ping pong, manga, ps2, massage chair, pool, etc

so...中文? English? 日本語？¿Español?

2008-09-04T08:36:00.002+08:00

有人抗議...說看不懂中文
but there are also complaints about ppl not understanding English...

there is no way i would write in both languages.... じゃ、どうする

ppl i've met so far

2008-09-03T21:50:00.008+08:00

other than my roommates, i've been hagging out with mostly asians lately

Taiwan, HK, China.. although they all have quite complicated history
meaning... lived in Canada, US, etc
good English, better Japanese, and I get to learn some Canton. Sweet deal if you ask me

So from top to down, left to right..

they are Sure, Suika, Martin, Tsubasa,

host family

2008-09-03T21:43:00.002+08:00

i got my host family assignment today
I just have a Otosan and Okasa
there are a few pros and cons... i feel...

pro:
-live 3-4 min from school, walking! that's closer than even the dorms
-have a relatively big house, 6 rooms
-don't speak English, I can get lots of practice

cons:
-no children... i kind of wanted a younger brother or sister... maybe a good thing too though
-retired... so don't know what they will be doing all day.. don't know what to do with them
-hobbies... are gardening and "making vegitable"...

can be fun

Carolina de Argetina

2008-09-02T22:54:00.002+08:00

La unica razon q escribo esto es xq su nombre rima?
jaja

chica rara q conoci hoy, vive a lado con Clemonce!? una tipa rubia de Francia
tambien habla algo de Castellano

tengo otro compa de unidad de España, del norte
buen tipo
los otros tipos de me suite so, Americanos, Aleman, Frances, etc...
falta concer gente de Japon... encerio... muchos extrangeros ya jaja
pero hablan bien kkk...

プレスメーンットテスト(placement test)

2008-09-02T22:48:00.002+08:00

なんか...日本語で何か書かなければならない感じあるから、今これを書いています
今日のテスト．．．まあ　　できた　
７レーボルがあってけど（レーボル１は一番易しい、７は一番難しい）僕はレーボル５に入るだと思う
それじゃなければ。。。ちょっと残念

まあ..

努力習慣中

2008-09-02T22:41:00.002+08:00

現在住在日本的暫時ｄｏｒｍ
去學校的路學會了　附近的店大概逛過了
應該活的下來吧　不知道寄宿家庭如何　　明天就會知道
慢慢等吧

ｐｓ都不能用我自己的電腦上網　　不太方便
科科

i made it

2008-09-01T22:50:00.001+08:00

i made it to my dorm... i am in japan now
>< ready to pass out of exastion but i'll survive hehe

airport diary

2008-09-01T07:28:00.007+08:00

again I am here at the Tauyuan international airport here at Taiwan (formerly know as Taipei international)
I've actually writen this type of aiport note right before departing quite a few time... but I didn't have a blog before, so here I am posting

btw, the last blog... I pretty much closed it because I never got comments... thus I stoped updating, and the vicious cycle went on... so, hopefully you guys can comment a lot... anything. just lets me know there is someone reading... bc i wouldn't have a blog if I can write my own diary

funny but dumb thing... my travel agent here in taiwan kind of... well... isn't the best. i got charged and extra $200+ for an extra suitcase i was not suppose to bring... damn i didn't know... damn he didn't tell me... my fault as well? hmmm.... my credit card wants to cry kkkk... I should arrive at Osaka (KIX) this afternoon... and another exciting semester is about to start

something i disagree with avery... (sorry?) you know what is cooler than taking pictures? filiming videos with a HD camcorder hehe

current plans 目前

2008-08-27T19:39:00.004+08:00

現在在臺灣的老家... 龍潭

星期日24號那大早告別了廣州的大家... 江口,晶音,monkey,lulu,佐和子,david .... 還有小優
大家吃了豐盛的早餐(有餃子,粥,蔥油餅,麵,茶葉蛋,豆漿...)

我跟惠穎,yoyo 去東站.路上載客村站換車.現下了車跟大家告別了
到了東站 .... 到香港　上飛機　　回到台灣

initiation

2008-08-27T18:35:00.000+08:00

my old blog is fuyulee but it doesn't work as well... doesn't work in mainland china (seems to be blocked)

also... the main language i think will be English... although there will be Spanish, Chinese and Japanese mixed sometime. so.... sorry?

hope things make sense and I will try uploading pictures to my pictures to picasa album
plz look forward?