Japan

My Green tea ice-kacang.. But I still prefer the Green Tea ice-cream from Minami, Dunedin though...

The gurls in Kobe -- Mabelle taking the pic.

China town in Kobe..

CCC New Zealand!!! Awwww I miss home!!

My Loft that I am suppose to sleep in. But I really cannot bring myself to sleep in there.. so claustrophobic...

The height is only 90 cm.. I can hardly sit up if I were to sleep in it.

Ladder climbing up to my Loft.

As you can see, I now sleep on the floor in my "spacious lounge"!

Arrived in Kansai, Osaka on Friday morning.. surprisingly the flight didn't seem long at all despite the 8 hours I have to wait in Singapore airport... perhaps I have lots of things on my mind....I still hear Mark's soft voice when he sang for me in the airport, and I still hear Ronald's guitar strumming, and I still hear Cheong's soft whisper of : "At least one of us is getting outta here.." when he hugged me goodbye...

The guy (Aaron Koh -- profile- born in Perak, Moved to Singapore, and migrated to Perth) that picked me up didn't hold the company's sign in the airport as he thinks he looks foolish doing so.. and because of that, I waited (didn't know how this Aaron dude looked like) and after waiting for about half hour, I finally rang the office and spoke to J.Tessensohn, our superior (the man that hires the foreign staff), JT then rang Aaron to confirm he is actually in the airport...and scolded Aaron as well... errr whoops.. Sorry Koh, didn't mean to get you into trouble..Thought it would be awkward silence all the way from the airport to my residence.. but no, we talked non-stopped which was good.

This Aaron dude compensate well by at least lugging my 25 kgs worth of luggage through the heat, onto commuters, and finally to my apartment whereby he fix my air-cond and TV as well upon checking in. He also spent me lunch... hmmm... I am beginning to think all the foreign staff are friendly in Japan based only on one dude...And he took me to places to shop for essentials. AND even gave his advice on which toilet paper to buy (those with "groove" so it feels better)... errr.. ok..

It's so hot here 36 degrees heat wave.... sweat like shite man!
Dinner was planned with most of the foreign staff, to welcome me and Laura (Scottish chick) at this place call 280 whereby all dishes are 280 Yen. Cheap! Food is so cheap and gorgeous here if you really know where to go... And it is a pleasure to get to know all these foreign colleagues. Mostly Canadian Asians (dual citizenship I think, from HK and Taiwan) and One Irish, and majority of Aussies though, and some Americans.

The next day, went to Kobe for a day trip with the female colleagues... 5 of us had a blast even though we hardly knew each other.. I think when every one is on foreign soil, everyone tend to look out for each other, and stick to each other... the gurls treated me and Laura well, and took us sightseeing.. :)

One of the Singaporean chick is called Mabelle... and the Irish dude is Mark.. hmmmm....According to Mabelle, her apartment was broken into when she first arrived 9 months ago, and the burglar stole her underwears and bras... scary....So after hearing her story, I leave my not-so-nice bras on chairs in my apartment, and safely stow my sexy ones away so if anyone breaks in, they will go for the ones they can see on the chair.. ahhahahaha

Oh, according to those foreign staff that has been here for about 2 years now, they hardly speak any Japanese and they can get by... I will tell more about my experience in shopping for groceries and my observation of Japanese people in my next post. :) What can I say? The shopping was eventful and the people are damn colourful. Haha. Tune on... I need sleep now..