I’ve never, Ever packed so much stuff for a 1 week trip before.

 

 

Only after I found out that it was ‘strongly encouraged’ that I comply to the Salsa Cruise Themed Nights, when I scrambled to assemble the most daring, blazing, challenging sets of costumes to follow these themes:

 

1.  23rd : ALL WHITE NIGHT

2.  24th : GLOW PURPLE NIGHT (OMG)

3.  25th : CELEBRITY NIGHT

4.  26th : FORMAL NIGHT

 

With the exception of the themes on 23rd and 26th, I came to a near panic when I had to think of what to wear for GLOW PURPLE.

 

Did I have to find a PURPLE Barney suit and hang some GLOWING Xmas lights around myself?

 

I personally wouldn’t mind, but I wouldn’t be able to see what the heck I’m snapping at while wearing the big purple head.

 

And for CELEBRITY NIGHT, the first person that came to my mind was Michael Jackson, but I thought against it. Firstly, he’s a dead dude and I don’t think it’s that all great to impersonate a corpse.

 

Secondly, I need both my hands to hold the camera, so I can’t afford to be grabbing my crotch all the time. Or pointing to my nipple.

 

 

See la. Dressing up is more hard work than shooting itself. Aih.

 

Anyhow, I shall do my best. Be sure to follow me on Twitter here as I will be twitting whenever there’s reception on board the ship!

 

Also shooting with me are Dwayne Foong and Bryan Lyt. I’m so excited I can’t sleep. Tomorrow the bus will leave 1U bus station at 10am, and I’ll be going down with 10-15 others to Singapore, where we’ll put up the night at Ritz Carlton.

 

 

I sure hope that they allow purple dinosaurs to check in.

 

Cheers!
EVo

 

I gave myself a scare last night!

 

All along, Friday the 13th was never a bad day for me…but until last night, I almost had the Osaka Fire Department jump out of their pajamas at 12am.

 

We came back late last night and being the tired asses we were, I was laden with stuff and had a little trouble lifting the bottles of water up on the table.

 

 

Little did I know, or remember, that all these barang were loaded right on top of the stove.

 

As I tried to stuff the bag of water furthest to the back, I thought I smelt something burning.

 

AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, EVERYTHING WAS SET ON FIRE.

 

Paper, plastic bag, tissue, was blazing like a barbeque pit. I wish I had a pic of it mannnn….but as camho as I am, i would be completely out of my mind to turn around, run into the room, grab the camera and come out and take a shot. I dare not think of what would happen if I did that wei. Parents and bro will be CINCAU HANGUS liao.

All I could snap was the remainder of the ‘barbeque’….

 

 

 

Almost kena bakar also can camho. With my aksi vacuum penuh gaya.

 

 

And I kinda toasted Mum’s next day breakfast. Sorry Ma.

 

 

 

So as if to compensate for last night’s mishap, I had the luck to stumble into a very interesting shop as we were walking in Namba area today.

 

 

 

Round the corner and you will find…

   

 

Wah, I like Saturday the 14th   xD

 

Cheers!
EVo

 

P.S. To my commentors, I’m trying to open your blogs as well, but the connection’s not allowing me to..ai. Looks like I gota wait til I’m home then hop on ur blogs.

P.P.S  My apologies for the ridiculously short post. I have an early day tomorrow…visiting Osaka Castle (which honestly, may not be as interesting as today’s findings. Heh)

 

 

Wide lens wide lens wide lens! I’m going crazy! Ohaiyo Gozaimasu peoples yamateh!

 

Surprised that I’m blogging so soon after my previous post? I’m surprised myself too, but I found out know why. It’s because I have a camera with me kekkeke. I find that words come out easier if there’s pics to accompany them.

 

 

Besides, based on my personal experience that regardless on whose blog, if I see a paragraph of words more than 4 lines, my eyes will terus skip to the nearest picture. Heh.

 

So this is Kansai Airport. Although the name sounds like Kanasai, it’s actually better than that. A little too compact for my liking though. Then again, Japan’s all about getting the most done in the smallest amount of space or time right.

 

 

One thing really cool is the integration between Airport <-> Aerotrain <-> Terminal <-> Train to mainland <-> Subway. These Japanese think of everything.

 

Airport  -  connects  -  Train station

 

Then it directly connects to the subway.

Oh my wide lens make the subway look as wide as an aeroplaaaane weeeeee. Ok la too shiok sendiri already.

 

After an hour’s worth of changing 5 trains, lots of stairs, and hunting around for the hotel (complete with 4 bags of luggage), we finally checked into Weekly Mansion Otemae.

 

And it is EVERYTHING that I imagined a Jap service apartment would be like. Low ceiling, low door frame, cute sofa in center of living room, long narrow passageway, kitchen built-in to the side of the wall, two bedrooms, small but very cosy. Blending in to the local culture has never been this fun. The only thing missing is the Tatami mats lol.

 

 

Osaka city is pretty much to my expectation of a metropolitan city. It’s bustling with activity, roads are busy, but the air actually smells clean. You can see buildings for miles, there’s hardly any dust in the atmosphere. It’s so clean that you wana set camp and sleep by the roadside for the night.

 

 

The sidewalks are usually loaded with little cafes. We stopped by this one for an expensive ~RM100 breakfast of 4 people’s pastries and coffee.

 

Taxies are INCREDIBLY expensive in Osaka though. The 45 minute ride which we took today after breakfast to the customer’s place cost us not RMB 30, nor RM 30,nor USD 30.

 

It cost us RM 300. FML man.

 

In some parts of the world, you can rent a nice sports car for a whole day with that amount of money.

 

The taxi we got was a simple one with nothing special in it. Nothing. Except that the windscreens are amazingly clean with not a single stain whatsoever, not even a dead bug. But who the hell pays RM 300 for a clean windscreen taxi you tell me?

 

 

But, there are a couple more interesting things about Osaka taxis which I’ll reveal later

 

Dinner after a 4 hour meeting was at Shio Di Japanese restaurant, where I discovered Sake for the first time.

 

 

That kinda makes me a noob, but I’ve got nothing to complain if it was served by a cute waitress hehe.

 

Bokehlicious shots above are props to EGo’s camera. So I’m not the one snapping at the girls ok.

 

So after we we were sent back to our hotel for another whopping RM300, I realized 2 things about Osaka taxi drivers:

 

1.  Their dashboard at night looks almost like the car from ‘Back to the Future’ movie. This taxi has more screens than the ‘Operator’ in Matrix yo.

 

 

2.  All drivers wear gloves that 100% resemble Mickey Mouse’s gloves. Check out the driver’s glove on the above pic and compare with this one.

 

Oh, the cuteness. No wonder Disneyland is so popular in Japan LOL.

 

Be back with another update soon! G’night peeps….O-yucky kuda-misai!

 

Cheers!
EVo