ichiban!

Instead of recounting my boring week at school, here's a short photo recap of my week in Tokyo

Photos of Tokyo during the day...

and photos of the pretty night lights.

Tokyo Dome @ Suidobashi

Groupie (minus bro) outside the amusement park Tokyo Dome, which also had a really nice high classed hotspring place inside <3

Haha random shot of me while on this really fun indoor rollercoaster... we went on it like 7 times?

Japan's answer to space probe. Eurgh I've concluded that these 'drop' type rides make me feel really sick. I just don't like that 'my-stomach's-gonna-fly-outta-my-mouth' feeling =\ Give me a really scary rollercoaster any day!

By far the best ride was the 'Dolphin Coaster'... the drop was almost like a 90 degree fall! I was so freaked... especially right at the peak of the drop, coz at that moment you can't see anyone in front of you since they've gone down already!

The dolphin coaster went through a hole! I felt so proud of myself for going on such a super scary coaster... and I went on TWICE!

Me on the center-less ferris wheel! Heh it was pretty cool, there was a sound system inside the carriage where I could pick my own songs and control the volume and such... haha way cool =D 

The first thing we did was go into this horror house... BIG MISTAKE! It was so damn scary it's not funny >_< I actually don't think it was meant to be that scary, but we couldn't understand what the japanese lady was telling us and it just freaked us out! In the first part, she took us 3 girls into a really dark lift (I think it was just a fake lift anyways) and we literally spent 15 minutes screaming our heads off at NOTHING. It was just scary music and creepy sounds...! Then after a while I felt something tugging my arm and I screamed even more... yes I had my eyes tightly shut =P One of my friends dug her nails into my hand so hard that she scraped the skin off... haha  In the end, the lady was just trying to get us to calm down so we could get out of the lift and go into the actual horror house. Haha it's not our fault she couldn't speak english and had to touch us! This was definately one of the highlights of the trip XD

Onsen at... Oeni?

Us at the second onsen place... we got to pick kimonos and trot around in them inside the complex =D They're a pain to put on though!

They had the most relaxing foot-bath/spa... there's just something incredible about having your feet in 40 something degrees water while your body is still experiencing the 8 degree weather... ahhhhhhhh.

Harajuku - Japanese cosplay

On Sunday in Harajuku we got a taste of Japan's youth culture, with heaps and heaps of people near the station all dressed up in the cosplay outfits. It was like a completely different world! Most of them were freaking scary though... and some of the girls were wearing 30cm heeled shoes! O_O


Also eye-openning was this random English cosplay-er amongst all the Japanese people... haha how individual of her =D

Random photos

We experienced an earthquake! One night we were up talking at 3 something, and for a few seconds the ground just trembled. But it was over so quickly we didn't think much of it, until we turned on the tv and ta-daaaa! There was some earthquake report of something on... not that we knew what it meant =\

Yet another great invention by the Japanese... The baby holder. Haha it's so random. In some toilet cubicles, this is in one of the corners, and you're meant to sit your baby in it while you do your business, and when you finish you just press the button and out comes the baby!

An extremely cool Asahi ad in the train station. The photos couldn't capture it, but it was one of those 3D thingies where it looked like the ice and beer can was floating in front of you... haha we played with it for a while whilst the Japanese people just walked past in casually =P

The Japanese culture is so well mannered and ordered, what's not to love about it! Plus, the train seats were heated and every toilet I went to had heating and ass-cleaning functions. What more could you ask for?

Okay so I'm not bothered enough to recap everything I did everyday =P Lets just say I'm soooo going back to Japan, and through my extensive travels, Japan has to be my favouritest holiday destination =) Plus, heaps of the Japanese boys/men have really nice skin XD woot!

Next blog... Thailand! =D

back to reality

And so I'm back.... well, I've been back for a week now. Slowly creeping back into the reality of school life and everything that comes with it. It's been the hardest adjustment ever. After almost two months of holidaying, bumming and no worries whatsoever, coming back and being bombarded with a crazy workload as well as the thought of the next few months... I was completely and utterly blown off track! And so I successfully managed to daydream my first week of school away.

Then the weekend came, and nothing can explain the joy I felt on Friday afternoon =P It was like I was let out of jail or something (which, after watching Prison break, seems very scary indeed). But to sum up my weekend in one word - HORRIBLE. Haven't had such a shitty weekend ever. The nightmare started on Friday night, when I woke up at 9pm from my 'afternoon nap'. Felt pretty groggy already... so had a quick dinner and started on my legal summary. Worked until probably around 3am then finally went to bed. Now, everyone who knows me knows how much I love my sleep. But that night, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't freaking get to sleep! Usually when I say I 'can't sleep', it usually just takes another 15 minutes and I'd be dreaming away. I spent a good hour and a half tossing and turning in bed before I got really fed up and ended up turning the computer back on and continuing with my work. By 7am, when my room had lit up and the birds were chirping, I crawled back into bed and successfully went to sleep. Woke up at 5pm on Saturday afternoon... yes I do realise how whacked up my timing is =P Spent the rest of the day lazing around and finishing off legal, then at 4am I went to bed. Could. Not. Sleep. Again! I already went to bed later coz I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep if it was too early... but still, ended up getting up and watching random tv until morning again. Woke up on Sunday at 2pm, just in time for tutoring. Sunday night, couldn't sleep until 4am either, and thus couldn't wake up on Monday morning and earned myself another lateness.

And that was my awful weekend. It doesn't really sound that bad, but... I don't know how to explain it. I just felt crapper and crapper as the weekend progressed. It was a rather emotional weekend as well. I was so frustrated at myself for no good reason at all, and those nights I just sat up in the middle of the morning having some kind of inner war with myself for not sleeping... eurgh. I was on the verge of completely losing myself. Plus the fact that I was terribly homesick.. or rather, parent-sick. There's just something not-so-nice about coming home to an empty house, especially when I was randomly experiencing my all time low.

Well actually, it might not have been all that random. Today I discovered a possible cause for everything... damn PMS! Well I don't know how that could explain my insomnia, but it explains why I was reacting so crazily to it and feeling so horrible. Stupid hormones

But a new week has began, I'm sleeping relatively more normal and my parents are back  WOOT!

waaaaay overcooked

Holy guacamole! What an extreme first-day-back-at-school-after-assessments it was today. I'm not sure why, but I couldn't sleep last night and kept rolling around, so this morning it was quite a miracle that I got up. Well, actually I got up and brushed my teeth, then accidentally fell asleep again xD Still got to school on time though... I think I shall attempt to minimise my latenesses from now on - don't think it looks too great on my report. Hmmm no worries I had like 9 lates in 2 months?

So first thing back at school we get back our maths papers. HA! My marks are quite a joke... just as I thought I couldn't get any worse! Expect the unexpected aye... well right now I'm not expecting to ace anything in the near future so hopefully that'll come =P Well I did do better in my 3U than 4U, if that means anything, though I still got crapadoodles in both.

Originally had dentist appointment tomorrow afternoon, but since our semi's were postponed to then (we're gonna WIN! okay? WIN!), I left school at recess to go today. One word to describe the sensation of getting a filling: OUCH? Far out, it was the strangest feeling ever. First he checked the cavity out and he's like "How about we try without the injection (anaesthetic)" and so that's what we did. It was alright at the beginning, even though the screeching sounds of the instruments was damn scary... but then later when he got deeper... I don't know how to describe it! It was like fingernails on a blackboard... that... EURGH feeling. Haha though I think it was a funny sight coz I was wearing thongs, and I was probably tensing my toes... so the dentist kept asking me if I was feeling okay. My dentist is so funny though... he's really short and asian (with perfect english!), but he's really cute coz he always says "thank you!" for everything... like even for opening my mouth a bit wider or something really simple.

After that life-changing experience, I went to the doctor with my dad to prescribe some medicine for our holiday. HAHA my doctor's pretty cool too. He's tall, skinny-as, and asian as well . He cracks the funniest jokes, except I don't think he means them as jokes? And it's probably just me coz my dad doesn't find him funny at all... =P

Then after that, we went to HCF to do some random stuff... then met up with my mum and brother for lunch. Had a cold drink (don't think I could stand anything hot in this weather!) and my tooth started tingling... argh it's the weirdest feeling. After lunch, went to the bank to buy our travel insurance. But they were being awfully racist and not letting me buy it coz I was under 18 and under 18's need 5 working days to process applications. Damn ageist!

So then had to go back to HCF and buy it from there... and it was more expensive! How horrible. Then... umm... bought a corn (yes ONE corn =D) and finally went home. Washed all the bed sheets and stuff, and took the blankets out to roast. Oh em GEE it was hot today. Air con is my friend. Even sitting in the car with the AC on, my palms and feet were getting all clammy and gross. Hellooooo summer!

Wow. The length of this blog shows how exciting and fulfilled my day was =D In contrast with the lack-of-any-sort-of-life days I've been having lately, I was very grateful for today. Oh plus, we went and had yummy japanese for dinner tonight =) Tis always a bonus. But isn't it weird... how japanese food is so normal to us, but sometimes I hear Americans (well, not specifically or anything) going on about how in japan there are "weird restaurants with raw fish moving along a conveyer belt". Like HELLO?

Ahh... so satisfied today :)

...i HATE legal!

freaking legal is giving me the shits so bad. I'm not really sure why, I just know I'm fed up with it and I haven't even started studying... heh. Just the thought of having to do anything turns me off... but then sitting around doing nothing is killing me as well. What's haaaaaaaappening to me?! I think I might go crazy very soon... and it doesn't help that no one was home yesterday or today to share my boredom. So here's the equation:

hating legal + being bored as ever + home alone = a very PISSED OFF emily! :)

and we all love that don't we? Especially my dad. I've been snapping at him since Friday night (yes I'm a great daughter). Speaking of which, our semi-final game was postponed at half time (when we were winning 16-8!) coz the stupid courts have leaking roofs. Mmm how professional. GAR.

This sounds crazy, but I wish tutoring was on today. And that I went to work yesterday. I think being stuck at home for the weekend is actually making me crazy. I've forgotten what weekends at home are like... and now that I'm experiencing it, it's not all that relaxing and great. Can't wait til Wednesday. Like omgosh it's school! =D That's quite exciting. Must. Get. Out. Of. The. House. I've been at home for exactly 24 hours now... I'm starting to rotttt. Haha and I've been asleep for 14 hours... hmmm quite productive I say.

The only thing keeping me from running into the wall is the thought of Japan in 8 days =D How exciting =D =D =D

Okay so I just read through the blog and I sound like some kind of... weirdo. But I'm really not, I promise ;)