Twinkle twinkle... who's it shining?

capital T.

ignore the title. i wasn't in the right mind to think of any other word, or phrase, or letter, that will do. *grins*

capital T. you may be wondering, "what the heck?". well okay, i'll get to the point. this entry is about tokyo. the capital of japan. starting with the letter T. *dodges tomatoes from the audience*

calm down. you can't blame me if i'm the most senseless person in the world. anyway, let's get on to the real thing. last january 4-5, i went to tokyo with my host mom and my host sister to watch ballet. wait, the ballet didn't last for two freakin days. let's just say we went there for the ballet, but took our own little tour as well. *winks*

we took a 7+ a.m. bus on the morning of the fourth. as usual, i dozed off. nothing special, really. and when we arrived at tokyo, we went first to the hotel where we were going to spend the night. kkr hotel. it was still too early for check-in then (check-in starts at three), so we just left our baggage and went on to another round of train rides. our first stop? shibuya. the ultimate shopping place. *dances around*

shibuya was indeed a great place, but it tired me out so much that i wasn't sure then if i'd hate it or love it. there were so many people (especially girls clad in all sorts of clothes, with their eyes surrounded by thick black paint), and it was so hot and crowded that i got dizzy with all the commotion. *faints* okay, i love sales and bargains, but i guess i'm not that up for the event i encountered in shibuya. and to add up the fact that everything was still expensive even if it was a sale day. it was crazy, really. or maybe i'm just the one who got crazy. i wasn't up to buying anything as well because i haven't received the money that my mom sent me. hit me. i was getting paranoid then. hehe.

thinking about it now, i missed an ultimately good buy. there was a shop selling everything for 315 yen. even glam accessories and the like. aww, i wish i had bought somethig. oh well, serves me right for being paranoid. *sweatdrops*

i spent most of the time mailing karr, chatting about almost everything under the sun. of course, koi bana wasn't out of the mail-exchange. i wonder how many yen i dropped just within the day. *lol* my mom should kill me; i'm an irresponsible child. *wails*

we ate omelet for lunch. it was good. *drools* the cute guy on the other table was glancing at me. i should have thrown my plate at him; the stupid bastard was with his girlfriend. but i guess i didn't want to waste the omelet, so i just let him be. *belat*

after overcoming the adventure in shibuya, we rode this extremely cool train (i forgot what it's called, but it's the train that goes smoothly high above the ground). we went to this place near a tv station to look for some place where i could buy cheap souvenir, but in the end we went back empty-handed. *sniff*

we went to the hotel and met up with my host mom's friend. she's a very glam woman, obviously rich. *dollar eyes* we hung around at our room until dinner, and i had shots of the view outside the window (including the tiny orange needle which was the tokyo tower). *lol*

dinner was great. i wonder how rich people tend not to get irritable at the formality. we sat there and chatted ladylike, while we ate by candlelight. to flourish the scene, there was this girl playing the piano. and we could see a good view of tokyo from there, too. *smiles*

i took a bath that night, and mailed karr and my mom. really, it's so cool how everyone's phone in here could send emails. *wide-eyed*

the next morning, we dolled up ourselves and went down for breakfast. i was glad because my host mom told me "kawaii", and her friend marveled at how i arranged my hair (which wasn't really complicated, believe me. japanese girls just tend not to wear their hair in different ways). so anyway, the breakfast was also good. buffet. we got to rest until 11, and finally, we checked out. where we went? azakusa.

it was the ultimate japanese-themed place. i got to buy some souvenirs to bring home (and they are really, really simple ones, so if you're a friend of mine who's reading this now, don't expect me to bring you home what you're looking forward to, really). and we also got to go into a temple-like place, waft smoke towards ourselves to wash away the negative aspects of our being, and take pictures with the big red thing with japanese characters painted on it. i really don't know what it's called, but it is famous enough to be the cover picture of a book.

finally, we got to go to the place where the whole trip lead us eventually: the ballet. the story wasn't one that i know of, but i understood the plot all too well. i just got to sleep at one part where the girls just kept on dancing and dancing without other events happening. *bonks self* the dancers were good; most of them were foreigners. the setup was great too, and the orchestra was cool! *beams*

after the show, we went home by the bus provided by my host mom's ballet school. i wasn't that sleepy. and the girls at the back were so noisy. anyway, my seat gave me great chances to take pics of the tokyo tower. close-up. i'm not sure if i took good pictures though. *grins*

i was surprised at how my host mom's ballet teacher said the departure time after the short break would be 7:15, but she was shouting at everyone to get on by 7:13. like, what was the point of setting a departure time? *shakes head*

my host dad picked us up at iida station, and i wasn't sleepy when we arrived home so i just did my vain thing. you know you know it. *lol*

so, there goes the story of another trip. i know, it's boring or whatever flame you may throw it, but this is my blog anyway. nyahaha. *grins*

see ya! God bless.. *peace*

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