Japan

Nihon ! or Japan...i suppose i have a thing bout this country; its not just because my name is a japanese; Well thats another story..in this blog, i'm prolly gonna talk about the japanese part XD

nihon de ikkitai desu~

(i dont even know if i wrote it correctly)

There are a lot of things i feel good about it, such as :

• Culture; Well every country have plenty of culture too..but somehow japan culture interest me more ? (dont ask, coz i have no idea why too)
• Language; I've been trying to learn japanese by myself, tho i learn some words but its not enough for me to watch some japanese movie without subs
• Anime; Ahh alright, i'm somewhat an anime otaku...i guess
• Toys; Seriously...who can make better toys than them ?
• Technology; well its seems most of high tech gadget comes from there (i said some)
• Music and Movie; well this part is kinda biased on personal preferrence
• Food; i love sushi, especially unagi, ikura, uni, salmon..well most of japanese food........prolly because i'm also an asian so i'm kinda stick to it better~
• Game; i supposed everyone know about this part already...nintendo, playstation, ect
  
• TV show; i have watch plenty of tv show from other country (comedy/other type) most of them are lame....not saying there arent lame tv show in japan but those that are good are really good.

well i supposed thats about all i can think atm~ it would be mean if i dont tell the bad sides too~

i've read some bad things from japan too, such as:

• Criminality; i mean..the crimes exist in every country, but the punishment for the criminals arent really good punishment for their crime...there are few crimes i read about and i cant really cannot tolerate the punishment...even thinkin about it makes me boiled and sad
• Community; i've seen some places in japan where they dont accept foreigners..i wonder why..but i guess its just about language barrier, i've been in china before..and seriously its like 1 in 1000 people able to speak english even for a simple english
  
• Economy; read also that Tokyo is somewhere in the Top 10 most expensive city in the world...a small apartment which only consist of kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and a storing area could cost up like US$600 per month~ and its really small......
• Jobs; well i cant really tell bout this part since i havent taking deep research about it but i supposed it would be quite hard as in the working hours~ and most of job are job-for-life type which sometimes could be a bad thing...
• Transportation, well as some of you may know...eventho japan have various type of transportation but they mostly using train..and they are common in being squezzed into a train especially at the rush hours~ which i dont really like @_@
  
• Suicide rate; from time to time, i kept hearing there are high suicide rate in japan........its confusing how many people suicide, i mean between all those who suicide there must be some semi-sane people and that scares me a lot....i kept thinking is living in japan really that hard ?

and so far thats what i've read; but it doesnt lower my hope to ever living there...hope it will be a good decision if i ever decided to live there ^^

in http://www.dannychoo.com website, i've gather a lot of information if i want to make a plan to live there ^^ its a good site for anyone who have interest in japan; too bad i havent become a member in his site..tho i want, but i dont have the luxury atm cause of few problems.

well i suppose thats about it for now (>^_^)>

Okonomiyaki

A Japanese pizza..thingy~

i love foods, sometimes i always look out for foods that i haven't tried when i'm going to some places.
(=^ _ ^=)

When i went into a mall, i encounter this small food shop..i was thinkin "oh a japanese food shop
Okonomiyaki....never heard of it", so i went inside and tried it.

There are few japanese people as the chef and waiter/ess..i asked for a teppan seat, so i can see how they made it.

While i was waiting, the owner of the shop approached me and hand me out a japanese newspaper......but....i cant read japanese (T o T) perhaps i look like a japanese to her ? it remains a mystery.

After waiting a while, its done..when i saw the size of it, i'm thinkin its actually served for 2 person coz its quite big, but i guess i can handle it alone; Since i like spicy food..i put quite a lot of okonomiyaki sauce. It taste GREAT !! so great until it burned my tounge (x_x) but then again Yebisu beer cool it out.

After i search for some information, i learned that there are few types of okonomiyaki and the one that i had is Hiroshima style of okonomiyaki...i wonder what other okonomiyaki taste like...

oh well, hope to find another type of unfamiliar foods around (=^ o ^=)

A figure's life

Yotsuba, the icon of Yotsuba & I comic book being materialized by Revoltech Company.

When i saw Yotsuba the first time, i saw the action figure before the comic book; which kinda not interesting for me in any way but somehow it manage to stick around in my mind for a while until i finally decided to buy the comic books.

And i fell in laugh.

After that, i felt an urge to get her action figure that i saw earlier...and she became my 3rd Revoltech. I'm glad i bought her because she was the first human Revoltech i own and it leads me to another direction of action figures collecting.

After quite some time, Revoltech announcing another version of her, Yotsuba DX which is quite the same with few minor changes and loads of accessories; thus Yotsuba Twins emerged. That picture was taken somewhat long time ago, i bought a.....i dunno what people call it but i guess i can say that its a bicycle-finger(?) because i was thinking that it might fit her photoshot...and i was right (=^ _ ^=)


side note : pic was taken using Sony Ericsson K810i Cybershot