Day 19. 13th Nov 04

Today's a saturday, went to Ueno to visit the Zoo.
We started the day off with McDonalds breakfast!! the first since our arrival.
the price is okay, but the portion is smaller than that in singapore. haiz.

Then we went to the park, which the zoo is located. Saw the last samurai's statue,
his dog, the tomb of soldiers who fought at Ueno, and went to a temple.
there we washed our hands with water flowing from a dragon's mouth.
left hand, right, then left again to drink the water. a ritual if we got the
instructions right. heh.

Then we went to get a lot each. fortune lot.
i got a japanese one, then when i asked for english, she showed me the OTHER
one with english. dang. anyway, the rest went to that one...while i still don't
know my destiny.haha. oh well, there, we paid 500yen for a wooden card, wrote our
wishes, and hanged it on the outside.

When we finally got into the zoo (600yen),
went to see Shuan Shuan and Ling Ling. sour sour and zero zero. but we were more interested
in Cha Cha, a red panda i think..like a racoon...spent more time with it,
since it ain't sleeping motionless on the ground like Shuan Shuan.
10 seconds with Shuan shuan is all i could take. maybe it's the freaking cold
day. Thousands of photos later, jas, who had taken photos at every exhibit, ran out of
battery...duh..anyway. the usual animals you see anyway. but it's comfortable
with the cold wind. For now. then we went to see penguins. They were mass sleeping.
looks like their heads got chopped..next we saw the pandas...the girls were disappointed,
i was kinda sighing. the pandas were locked in a cage only around 7 times their size...
poor thing...and to see them, their cage was in another cage...abit sad...
thought we could have a nice photo...saw an animal that hops and looks like
Pikacho..haha...the tail...in zig zag manner...kawaii neh!

after all the exhibits, while waiting for Jas to finish her reptile section,
the rest of us went to sit down. Legs were tired. We saw "michillin man" there..
a little boy, with thick winter clothes...damn cute. running around. his coat is
branded one okay. ELLE. when we were finished, we went to find a place to eat.
That's when we saw the market there. it's like our pirated goods galore place.
quite alot of cheap stuff. most prob pirated i guess? anyway. there are lots of
stuff there..too bad we went there too late..they close around 8+...
will go baack there for some shopping one of these days. Bought gao lak at 1000 for 4 packs.
eating one now as i type (sunday 8pm). After everything, went to search for a place to stay till next morning.

they want to gossip. haha..no lah. didn't do any of that at all.
went to Ringer hut at Musashikosugi. Ate a nice 480 noodles there.
sat there through the night ever since. they don't serve hot drinks there.
funny. their coffee is cold one too. so went to the vending machine and smuggled it in.
cannot eat our gau lak there too. cannot play cards there too. wah.
so we ended up playing "zing zhi mi ma" guessing some number which someone has alrready set.

we punished with water. cold water. so after that, most of us were quite cold.
Fiona was very cold. guess because she didn't bring her jacket along. only a
scarf. brave indeed. bingwen went to get pi pa lu for yh. oh well.
there wasn't much gossip today, cuz i guess everyone was still paiseh. haha.
anywya. At the end of the day, sent the girls back to the station for the first train.
wah. it was cold!!! Shaonan and me lent our jackets to Fiona, cuz i think it was
really cold. After which, Dam and SN cycled back and i walked quickly with them. heh.
end of story. straightforward. cuz i have to move on to Sunday's! see ya in a while!