Yokohama

Had a pleasant surprise in the morning watching japanese news while munching on my half crap toast and the 4th instant noodle breakfast in a row - it is going to be 12 degree celcius in tokyo today! Too much cold weather can be detrimental to one's insanity, as it makes the neuro connectors in the brain snow thus creating a traffic jam. Finally no more shivering beneath those layers of down, wondering why the hell am i shivering with so much protection on.

Took a train ride to yokohama today, with the journey's length more than equivalent to a trip from boon lay to pasir ris. Too bad we didn't take the bullet train, or shinkansen, otherwise the time taken would be halved. As usual the train station would always be crowded, something like orchard station times 3. I suspect that either the japanese are too boh liao and derive multiple orgasms from watching the train operator honk his bell, or that most of the japanese people are unemployed and spend most of their time making japan look like a major economic power by sprinting around the station in circles. After an hour plus or so we reached the Sakuragi-cho station. Below is a picture of the view out from the station, but alas i got it from the web. Note the large ferris wheel and the weirdly shaped building - they are nothing worth mentioning about.

Yokohama, as we all know (or about to know), was one of japan's major sea port during the restoration period now transformed into a scenic place to suck foreigners' yen dry. Ok, other than that it also houses some offices which i don't bother finding out what they are. But remnants from that era still exists with the edifices of eropean-styled buildings scattered around the vicinity, like the red brick warehouses just by the bay. Basically what we did today was to prance about excitedly once we were out of the train station and point with our fingers at the tallest building in japan, the Landmark plaza shopping centre, at the same time snapping away hurriedly as if there's no tomorrow. In short we did what all foreigners are supposed to do.

We also paid our precious yen to get a pass up to the 79th storey of the building to get a bird eye's view of japan (I paid 800 yen after imposing as a high school student - the adult fare is 1000 yen haha tan dio). Heck, we even managed to spot the picturesque view of Mt. Fuji from there! After performing every foreigners' duty (in case you still do not know, it is to gape at everything that shows off the japanese's technology and take pictures, then splashing their precious yen on expensive memorabilia), only then we were satisfied at having fulfilled our preordained destiny and left the observatory tower. By the way it only took a mere 50 seconds to travel the 79 storeys, at a whopping 720 m/s maximum speed.

Then we walked around and i pee-ed alot at various toilets and walked a mind-boggling 10 km at least until 7 pm and we left for ikebukuro for dinner. Ok i lied but i shall not tell you what i lied about. Oh and some hong kongers just bought a 5000 yen snow crab and offered me a generous small piece of the leg while i was typing this! Yummy delicious oh boy i'm in heaven you don't eat any better crab than this i tell you its sweet to the tongue and the taste lingers on your taste buds long after your oesophagus sucked the meat into your tummy much like how the bitter taste of a snail stays stubbornly in your mouth.

Alrite i gotta go can't update much coz someone wants to use the computer sob sniff sob sniff i'm crying i want more crab!