Japanese TV

Have been wanting to update for days, just about whats happening here and stuff but blogger wouldn't open.. now when i was able to log in, i have nothing to say.. so im writing about japanese TV.. boring probably unless you've seen it..

I’ve seen a couple of episodes of various dramas while in Japan.. Some were quite interesting, interesting enough to keep me entertained without understanding 95% of what was being said LOL. Here are a couple, im listing them so when the season’s over I can search for them online and watch them. I’m too impatient to wait week in week out to see what happens, so I prefer to wait until the season is over and I can watch the thing in one long drama fest ;)

My favourite is Bara no nai hanaya. Katori Shingo from SMAP is the lead.

I’ve also watched some eps of Saito-san which is quite funny.

Binbo Danshi, staring Oguri Shun. I didn’t like this one so much but I think I might of seen a boring episode.. the whole thing is probably interesting.

1 Pound no Fukuin, kazuya kamenashi’s newest drama. I don’t know what to make of it really, him falling for a nun LOL but the episode I watched was hilarious.

Edison no Haha, this is really good. About a teacher and this little naughty boy. I watched 2 eps and really enjoyed them

Sasaki Fusai no Jingi Naki Tatakai, this drama is being advertised everywhere, billboards, TV, everywhere but I have no idea about it except that Inagaki Goro from SMAP is the male lead.

I watched quite a lot of TV in Japan, for someone supposedly on holiday. Since my bro got up late every morning and we came back to the hotel early every evening, I had a lot of time and nothing to do. So I averaged about 4 hours of TV a day.. I watched so many interesting shows, and its interesting how I enjoyed them all without understanding much of what was being said.. its amazing actually LOL. OK, the stereotype about most Japanese shows being funny and whacky and bizarre as hell, is true! LOL but that’s a good thing.. I really enjoyed the show..

I’d like to talk about every show ive seen but I cant remember them and you’ll be bored to death, you have to see them to know what I mean ;)

There were these 2 guys on TV, wearing tight tank tops and tight speedo shorts, I saw them daily on more than one show. They are so hilarious.. at the beginning I hated them but then I got into them.. LOL I don’t know how to explain it.. On one of the shows they had to eat everything that baskin robbins sells.. took them 2 days and was funny as hell.. Watch this video of them if you want, maybe you’ll understand just a little bit of what im talking about.. (its about exercising in different situations, during a funeral, at an eye exam, while putting out a fire LOL)

Anyways, all I have to say is I LOVE JAPANESE TV! It’s the best!

Cheers

11,12,13

I should’ve written before, I’ve forgotten all that happened.. but my last days in Japan, I just wanted to enjoy every minute.

On day 11, I think, we went to Tokyo station to meet fefechan and her brother.. I wore my longest top/dress LOL coz I didn’t want her brother to see me in my trousers, and I looked so stupid with my coat shorter than the dress LOL.. oh well, never mind..

My bro had a fight with me while we were waiting, he wanted me to sit down (god knows why) and I wanted to walk around the platform coz I was tired of sitting.. anyways, he almost made me cry.. horrible boy..

Then fefechan arrived and we took the train to Disneyland.. it was nice to finally go to Disneyland although im 21 years old LOL we really had fun playing on all the rides.. and comparing anything there to what it would be like here.. LOL.. it was really fun and cold..

After that we left together (their bro and mine left 5 hours before us or something), and we almost missed our stop.. we saw everyone get off but we didn’t think we reached Tokyo station so fast so we remained seated.. until i noticed where we were LOL and we hurried out of the train.. then I left the girls and continued on another train to get to the hotel, being such a nice sister ;) I bought my bro dinner on the way.. Then I guess I watched TV, cant remember..

Day 12, it snowed in Tokyo! After I’d taken a 9 hour trip to see snow, 2 days later it snowed in Tokyo! (im glad I got to use my new umbrella LOL) We went to Harajuku again, kiddyland and oriental bazaar again! And I went in a couple of nice shops there.. I found this accessories place called Accessory Square Louis Novelle Club which has really nice stuff and I spent a fortune there.. Then we went to shibuya again to Friday’s and had lunch there.. Then we went to Akihabara for the 5^th time maybe LOL and my bro got stuff for his car.. then I stopped at the hotel’s conbini and bought loads of sweets to bring back home..

Day 13, we left for the airport..

Today:

I gave everyone their presents.. and put all the others in bags to give them to people.. going to show everyone photos next.. it seems so weird to be home.. and I really wish I was back in Japan.. its nice to be home but Japan is kjust so cool.. hopefully, next year I’ll go again.. I’ll be working by then (hopefully) so need to ask for money, just a travel companion LOL..

That’s all for now.. hope fefechan’s enjoying her last day in Japan..

Cheers

EDIT: i wrote this yesterday

day 9 photos

This is the ice cream i had, ive seen it on TV so i bought it, its a thin layer of stretchy mochi and then ice cream, it was yummy.. but ice cream when its snowing is not a good idea although the Japanese do it all the time.. when its freezing outside you find them ecting ice cream..This is a tiny snowman we found.. we tried to make one but without gloves its was so hard..

This is the hida no sato, noticed the frozen lake.. so cool

All the other photos are either snow photos or movies.. so thats all your getting for now..

Day 9 and 10

On Sunday we got up really early in order to board our shinkansen at 8 from Tokyo station. It took 2 hours to Nagoya with mainly views of the sea/ocean, but I enjoyed the ride. The people on the train were all chatty and excited and all of them had their eki-ben with them (bento bought from the station for long journeys). At Nagoya it was so cold, probably -5 or something but no snow. Then we boarded another train to get to takayama which took 2 and a half hours. The ride was full of really beautiful views especially towards the end when we could see the snow.. We arrived at takayama at 1:30 pm to a town full of snow, but it wasn’t falling, just there from before. We went to a place called Hida no sato (hida folk village) which looked amazing, its full of these old houses with sloped roofs and you can go inside them and see what they have in and how they used to live.. but after an hour going around the village, it was enough. The town is so small we walked and walked and couldn’t find anywhere decent to eat, (or anywhere with an English menu), finally we found a hotel and asked them and they directed us to McDonalds. After lunch we bought some gifts; I found some cool Japanese crockery mugs that I got for my mum,dad, and nana.Then we decided we didn’t want to take a chance with the ryokan,to go all the way to it (its at the end of town) and find its really horrible. So we went back to the hotel we passed earlier on and stayed there for the night. There was nothing to do.. my bro made me watch sumo with him for an hour and then at 6:15 we both went to sleep LOL.i got up at 8:15 thinking its morning, I went to the window and found it was snowing.. such an amazing sight, I stayed up for an hour just watching the snow falling.. then I went back to bed, woke up at 6 AM, and boarded our train at 7. By 12:30 and after one train transfer we reached Tokyo station. We came and checked in at the hotel first and rested for an hour then went to Akihabara again, my bro wanted to get an RC car (I think that’s what its called). A car that works with a remote control, but not the kiddy kind, the kind that works on plane fuel.. anyways, it took us 3 hours, and walked around everywhere (the guys at every shop gave us a map to another place..) and finally he got it.. and it weights 10 kilos or something, so he decided we were going to take a taxi to the hotel..Oh and in akiba we stopped at that Indian place were we had the cheese nan before and we had some , yumm..

Once we got here I just glued myself to the TV LOL I watched 2 doramas, one with the guy from SMAP and one with kame..

PS in shibuya the other day we were buying stuff and waiting to pay and the lady in the shop noticed the key ring on my bag, and she pointd and she was like ‘yamapi!’ and I was like ‘daisuki desu’ and she laughed and showed the other older lady.. LOL.. and on the train today a young guy was sitting opposite me and didn’t even notice me then I saw him look at the yamapi key right, then he looked up to see who was sitting there, and he saw me and he was shocked LOL I could see his face change, he didn’t expect it.. LOL

Anyways, today we’re meeting up with fefechan at Tokyo station then going to Disneyland together.. im so excited to see her (considering we don’t even see each other in our country).. im sure we’ll have lots of fun ;)

Bash, where ARE you? I think I’ll call you later on today..

Just one more day left here after today, and on the 24^th we’re leaving early in the morning, our flight from narita is at 10 something.. I really don’t wont to leave, but I miss everyone at home.. I think I might cry on the way back LOL I love this country so much.. hopefully, I will come back again.. I will try my best.. maybe this summer?! Maybe next year.. but most of all, im happy coz I finally got to live one of my biggest dreams, and I wasn’t disappointed by it.. I LOVE YOU DAD for making my dream come true :)

Day 7 photos

This is a guy from a band called 'bank band', notice what hes wearing? ;) ive seen a lot of guys and girls with them around their necks, im sure they dont know what it is.. just looks funky to them..

A show i found on one of the channels teaching Arabic to Japanese people ;)

View of the rainbow bridge from DECKS

DECKS Beach Tokyo (the guys sitting there were playing cards, it was freezing cold and they're sitting outside playing cards!!)

I didnt take many photos since we were in malls and an indoor park.. just a f

Day 8

Today we went to Shibuya. First of all we walked for miles tryin to find a book store called Book 1^st and couldn’t find it.. then we went to Tokyu Hands which sells everythings, it has furtniture, bags, cosmetics, stationary, shoes….ect everything. We only went to the floor with stationary and I bought sooo mnay cute stuff from there, we spend about a 1000 just on stationary and the cashier looked at us like we were crazy. Then we found a ‘thank god its Friday’s’ ;) and had lunch there, their menu is diffenrtn than ours and the food was amazing. Then we walked around some more and I found a place called funky street, little corner shop, it was so cool and funky, and I got some cute stuff there.. Then we went to Tower Records. I’m not sutre how many floors they have, but we only went to two, they sell music CDs and DVDs and some magazines. And I bought more CDs, SMAP and WaT ( a new band I like), and my bro got some weird Japanese jazz or soul or something..

Then we found a shop selling traditional Japanese stuff, the store is about half the size of my bedroom, and we spent another 1000 there, we bought half the store. LOL. They had caps with kimono fabric designs on them that were amazing.. plus other stuff…

Then we went to see HAchiko statue which is a statue of a dog, the story goes that a man had a dog who walked with him to the station everymorening and then waited for hm to come back from work and walked back with him, this happened for years, until one day the guy died at work so he never returned but the dog kept coming everyday and waiting. And so when the dog died they built this bronze statue of the faithful dog.. we took some pix of that.. and then come back to the hotel, on the train we were sitting and then at one station a lot of people came on and two old ladies came and stood infront of us to hold on to the rails and they had suitcases with them, so I told my bro to get up and told them to sit down..LOL they were surprised, they didn’t believe it, they were like ‘hontou ni? Ii desu ka’ (really? Is that ok?) and I was like ‘hai hai dozo’ and they sat down and kept saying thankyou like 10 times LOL. I would never sit down if I saw an old person standing but I noticed all the young people sitting and no one getting up for old people to sit.. so I guess they really were surprised.. LOL..

AND I broke my promise to never go to starbucks, it was so cold on the way back and I wanted something hot so I stopped at starbucks, and I hated myself for it later..

Tomorrow were getting up early and going by shinkansen to takayama, it takes 4 hours, and 2 trains.. hope all goes well..

Fefechan just messaged me saying she arrived safely.. yokatta ne.. im glad you arrived safely and cant wait to hear what your first impressions of Japan are ;) please blog about it, yeah?

Bash, where are you? You aren’t commenting these day??!! Hope everything’s fine..

That’s it for now.. might upload pix if I can.. TC everyone :)

Japan Day 7

Yesterday, my bro got up at 12 and we left to odaiba at 1. To get to odaiba you cant go by normal trains, you have to go on the yurikamome, which is an elevated train that drives on its on, no one drives it. Its really nice coz you get to see lots of nice views. We went to a place called Becks beach, which is a huge shopping complex, and the outside is all wooden decks with a view of the sea.. really nice.. anyway, we went to joypolis first which is a sega indoor theme park, it was ok, nothing fantastic, I enjoyed the haunted house the most and kept screaming without realizing..it was fun but my bro wanted to leave so we didn’t stay that long. Then we went to a place called mediage right next to it which is a mall too and found a nice Italian restaurant and had lunch there.. after that my bro wanted to go akihabara again to see some engine for cars, not real cars, little remote control ones, but not the toy ones, the ones guys buy that use airplane fuel.. after that we went to McDoanlds and picked up some pie on our way back..

Not a very long day..

PS I don’t know what it is with eating, I just don’t get hungry.. everyday I only have one meal and even when I do im not really hungry I just eat coz my bro wants to.. its weird.. I should stay here maybe I’d lose some weight..

Fefechan is now on her way here I guess, I hope she arrives safely.. Can’t wait to meet her.. I hope you like it here as much as I do.. and omdedetou on finally fulfilling one of your dreams too ;)

Tomorrow we’re going by the shinkansen (bullet train) to takayama, I think it takes 2 hours and half or something.. we’re going to see the SNOW! Then we’re spending the night at a ryokan (which I hope will be nice) that has a private hot bath (onsen) in the room.. then the next morning we’re coming back here to the same hotel..

I still haven’t planned anything for today (except for going and reserving the shinkansen seats), I have to check my papers and see where we can go.. it’s a weekend so everywheres going to be heaving with people..