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7-days Trip (Part 1-Aichi and Nagoya)

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:16:57 +0200

Benernya judulnya adalah acara lab buat meninjau mantan sitenya Aichi Expo 2005 kemaren.. tapinya berhubung Aichi sudah sangat dekat dengan Kyoto -well.. gak deket2 amat sihhh.. 2 jam ngereta lokal lahh.. tapi mayaaannn.. bandingin ama dari Tokyo donggg..-.. akhirnya brubah deh judulnya jadi "Acara lab plus kunjungan ke iche" .. .

Anyway.. berbekal ikan asin hasil masakan Rachma -dorm-mate- plus telor asin hasil perburuan di Ueno kemarennya -iiihhh.. Qnoi banget siii pake telor asin.. haha..-... brangkat dari rumah jam setengah 8 donggg.. dengan lari2 ngejar kereta express jam 7.34 yang gak kekejar juga -hiks.. telat semenit-.. akhirnya nyampe di depan Suzukakedai Eki jam 8.35 -janjiannya jam 8.30-.. berharap orang2 gak protes karna telat 5 menit. Ehhh.. kecewa.. ternyata yang lain datengnya lebih telat.. gimana siiii?? katanya orang Jepang gak pernah telat?! Trus jalan 15 menit ke stasiun bus -katanya!!! ternyata ke depan gerbang utama, berhubung busnya ternyata carteran- .. ehhh.. disana udah ada sensei yang berbaik hati nalangin expenses trip ini dan yakkk.. jam 9.10 berangkat tanpa sensei. Lho? Kok tanpa sensei? Soalnya ternyata sensei datengnya baru besokannya.. Nyusul doi ke Aichi..

Sampai di Aichi, langsung keliling2 sitenya. Trus ke Aichi Daigaku buat diskusi en nyimpen barang -di kamar yang gedenya 3 kali lebih besar daripada di dorm.. hehe.. asik banget!!-. Berhubung gak ngerti sepatah kata pun.. akhirnya waktu pada diskusi, bengong aja dehh.. sambil terkantuk2. Abis diskusi, trus makan malem -dengan cheesy pizza yang enaaaaaakkk banget!- .. baru deh jalan2 keliling uni-nya. Besokannya acaranya sama, kecuali kita sempet jalan2 ke hutan gitu -lupa namanya-.. trus sempet singgah2 buat dikasi tau nama2 pohon -berhubung sensei hobi banget ama yang namanya pohon- .. trus sempet foto2 dehh... Abis itu.. diskusi, makan2.. sensei balik ke Tokyo, dan kami masi tinggal semalem menikmati kamar nan luas tea..

Besokannya, langsung ke Nagoya. Bareng ama Kin-San, Iseki-San, Miyashita-San, dan Hara-San, ke Nagoya Jyou (Castle). Wahhh.. castlenya indah dan luas.. katanya sih dibangun pas Edo Period -01-.. ..ehehe.. muter2 disana.. ikutan nonton film 3Dnya.. trus naek ke lantai yang paling atas buat liat2 pemandangan Nagoya. Sampe diatas.. bukannya ngeliatin pemandangan, malah sibuk bikin stempel gratisan dibantuin Hara San.. pas mo liat pemandangan, taunya udah mo jam 5, jadi orang2 udah pada diusirin gitu.. ahaha.. untung masih sempet curi2 liatlah.. ...

Pulangnya.. janjian ketemu Yukari (JPYnya SSEAYP'04), temennya Iche.. taunya ketemunya baru jam setengah 7 malem. Padahal ceritanya mo naek kereta paling lambat jam setengah 9. Nyantai nih makannya... Makan di tempat yang namanya .. ngngng.. di Yama Chan..

Disana makan ayam enaaakk dehh.. trus ngobrol2.. sadar2 ternyata jam 8.10. Langsung deh lari2 ke stasiun kembali, yang kalo jalan normal itu sekitar 10 menit jalan. Waaaaahhhh.. malem itu, kembali si Q ngerepotin orang2. Ku-San (temennya Yuka) ama Hara-San jadi lari-lari demi si Q nihh. Ku-San lari duluan beliin tiket, Hara-San lari duluan ngambilin barang di locker. Waaahhh.. heboh deh malem itu.. -Yuka-San, Ku-San dan Hara-San.. Doumou arigatou gozaimasu!!!!- ..untung nyampe dengan selamat di dalam kereta 3 menit sebelum keretanya berangkat. Phewww...

Nyampe di Kyoto.. Iche sudah menunggu dengan manis di platform 2. Jadi deh platform 2 penuh dengan teriakan2 kecil "waaa.. icheee.. waaa.. qnoiii.." kami.. ihihihihi.. Sampai di Kyoto Eki, ternyata perjalanan masih berlanjut ke Ohbaku slama setengah jam. Maklum.. Iche tinggal di pinggir desa sih.. -ahahaha... sori che.. gue kan harus jujur nih ya.. ... tapi gue tetep sirik ama tempat tinggal lu.. -.. Jam 11.45an.. nyampe juga akhirnya di tempat Iche.. Huwaaahhh.. What a day.. What an interesting day.. What a tiring day..

Nyampe rumah Iche.. masih sempet nelpon si cinta udahannya.. ternyata doi lagi agak2 sakit.. -apa mo mulai sakit ya?-.. karna cape jadi ga ngobrol banyak juga... pas baru nyampe.. udah dikunjungi ama temen2nya Iche.. -heheh.. Iche sih yang dikunjungi.. -.. ya udah..ngobrol dulu ampe jam setengah 2an.. Baru deh tidur... Hoahhhmmm... jadi ngantuk...

Well.. kayanya udah waktunya nih nutup bab Aichi dan Nagoya. Udah nyampe Kyoto sih.. Besok lanjut lagi deh ya.. Jaa.. mata neee... O Yasumi!

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-01- In 1610 Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered the construction of Nagoya-jo to solidify the Tokugawa authority in Owari (Nagoya and vicinity). The castle was completed in 1612 and Tokugawa's ninth son Yoshinao entered the castle in 1616 from which he governed over Owari. Nagoya-jo is famous for the 2 golden shachihoko that adorn the top of its donjon. That is why it is also known as "Kinshachi-jo." Kin means "gold" and shachi refers to the killer whale type mythical creatures that sit atop the donjon and other castle structures. (http://www.jcastle.info/castle/nagoya.html)

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what's your color?

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:59:57 +0200

I got a quiz from a link that a friend sent me.. it said "what's your color?".. normally I won't pay attention to.. but this title captured my attention...

After several questions, here's the result:

Akino, your true color is Brown!

You're brown, a credible, stable color that's reminiscent of fine wood, rich leather, and wistful melancholy. Most likely, you're a logical, practical person ruled more by your head than your heart. With your inquisitive mind and insatiable curiosity, you're probably a great problem solver. And you always gather all of the facts before coming to a timely, informed decision. Easily intrigued, you're constantly finding new ways to challenge your mind, whether it's by reading the newspaper, playing a trivia game, or composing a piece of music. Brown is an impartial, neutral color, which means you tend to see the difference between fact and opinion easily and are open to many points of view. Trustworthy and steady, you really are a brown at heart.

I'd say that it's so ME!

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Shimokita - my favorite spot to do shopping

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:56:31 +0200

yeap.. why? coz it's all in here! check the review on http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200604290089.html .. so if you plan to live in Tokyo for a few months, you can also consider to live somewhere near Shimokita (I dont know the rent prices, though). It's not as busy as Shinjuku of course, not as fashionable as Shibuya of course, not so popular as Roppongi of course, but just at the right amount of everything..

And also.. it has one of my favorite shops, which is "Beaux Arts". They sell everything, from clothes to shoes, from kitchen utensils to carpets, from clocks to notes, everything.. in a tasty style. (Check out the tagline: "We sell a tasty life") .. .. Well, not so much stuffs and choices but quite okay. And also for Uniqlo-ers, there is one big Uniqlo store on the second floor of Gourmet City -in which you can also find cheap vegetables and meats for your daily food, especially at night when they have 50% discount-. Yeap, Uniqlo is there too, and has quite a lot of sale t-shirts and pants. So basicly, you can find everything in Shimokita..

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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:45:55 +0200

I unintentionally found a review on the latest book of Alexander McCall Smith's today, at Asahi Shimbun homepage. And I suddenly remember that I love the series of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Bostwana very much from the very first time I read them (thanks to Mbak Tari ). I agree so much on what it says at the review, as quoted here: "these are cheerful books that leave you feeling good about humanity no matter how much men and women wrangle or how much everyone sweats the small stuff.". I think these books shows many moralities that is believed by African people, yet it is written in a simple style and reader-friendly (=you dont have to use so much space on your brain to understand what it says ) that by the end of reading them, I'm so sure that you will want to go to Africa. Well, in spite of the fact that it looks like everyone want to go to Africa, hehe..

As what it says on the title, it's about the first ladies detective agency in Bostwana, set up by a woman called Mma Ramotswe, and has a staff called Mma Makutsi who has 97-percent score at the Botswana Secretarial College. Mma Ramotswe thought that it must be a pity for Mma Makutsi who has such a high score, a very fine and smart lady, to spend her time working for the agency which is not so future-promising. But on the other side, a good business must have a secretary -or so she thought-, so if Mma Makutsi decided to work for the agency -which she did-, then Mma Ramotwe has to hire her.

This Mma Ramotswe also has a fiance (in the latest book I read, he's still fiance, but the book after that I think he's already became a husband), called Mr. JLB. Matekoni who owns a Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors and well known as the best mechanics in town. The stories are mostly about clients and their various problems, small problems, like for example... a woman who suspects her husband seeing somebody else, or a missing child, or a person suspected to do some fraud, small stuffs like that, but it's very interesting and written in such a way that made me curious on what will happen next or how Mma Ramotswe will solve the case.

Well, I am not going to talk more about the book, but I will suggest you, my friends, to read them. It's so nice and funny and gives you a feeling of .. mmm.. how to say it... humanity might be the most suitable words to complete my sentence. I just love the books, as well as other books that brought this kind of sense to me. Maybe.. because I think when we live our life, sometimes it is such an ordinary life -either busy or not- that we dont bother to look closely at other people and get a sort of humanity sides on it, we need a reminder to remind us what it is like. And these kinda book work out really well as a reminder for me.

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*you can also check http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200605130131.html for the review the latest No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Botswana series: "Blue Shoes and Happiness"

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welcome to my cozy little corner ;)

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:40:00 +0200

Hai friends..

Akhirnya.. Setelah nyoba2 beberapa blog.. kayanya ini deh udah yang paling enak.. hehe.. pnasaran nih mo bikin blog, makanya niat banget ya si Q?

Nah.. berhubung udah nemu yang enak, mari kita mulai berblogging ria. Maksud dan tujuan utama berblogging adalah benernya sih buat berbagi2 cerita, skalian nyimpen 'diari'lah buat diri sendiri.. berhubung males gitu ya nulis diari beneran, jadi udah deh, blogging aja.

Ya su.. the door is about to open, now I welcome you to my corner. Hope you'll enjoy my thoughts I share in this cozy little corner..

Have a nice day, you all.. and cu in a while..

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