日本游记 ~ 第二篇

怀着对日本的憧憬来到这里，有惊喜也有失落。

日本街道很干净，同事超友善热情，空气很好，去哪里都很有安全感。

人人都遵守交通规则，乖乖等着人行道灯转绿对急性的我来说可真是煎熬。

在这里他们都排队，哈，我喜欢！

开车的转弯前记得不要猛踩油，偶尔有人或自行车在斑马线上，你一定要停。

日本MM的校服真的很kawaii哦，短裙高袜子在这冷天气很显眼的 *o*

每当看到结伴上学小孩的黄色帽子，就觉得一天很美好。

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人家说日本小电器很便宜，科技很发达，可以找到很多新的电话，新的玩意儿。或许是的，但怎么会看到转盘式古董电话还会出现在办公室？！

在这里工作一个月来，发现他们有种想法：旧的还可以用就继续用，坏的还可以修就继续修。公司一直发更新软件给客户，但他们就没有update，反正没有投诉保持原状就好了。

他们用的电话大都一个样，flip phone, 或者 slide phone。难道日本的电话都只有这两个款吗？

大多的日本人英文还不是很好（几个日本人都这样跟我说），或许是不敢讲，还是真的不是很好，好几次拿着地图才刚开始：shi-mi-ma-sen, can you please... 他们已经急着摇手走开了。运气好的遇到英文很好的路人就很热情的带路。法国的Philippe说，这和Malaysia很不同。就算遇到不懂英文的，都会用身体语言尽量帮忙指路，所以很怀念在Malaysia工作的日子。

在日本短期工作应该还是蛮好的，况且在日元很强的时候。在这里生活嘛，第一要做的是学日文，要习惯11号代步的日子，然后不要对比Malaysia的价钱，你会很心痛买东西的。

当然不是每个人或地方都这样，我看到只是一部分而已。以上只是个人意见，如有雷同纯属巧合^o^

日本游记 ~ 第一篇

在人来人往的车站，突然感觉到一股无形的压迫感。挺直的西装，华丽的装扮，几乎是所有男女的写照。他们有着一样的表情，没有感情的表情。牛仔淡妆平凡的我，几乎就要淹没在人群中。

赶紧把耳机套上耳朵，听着跳跃的音符至少让自己抽离压迫的人群。

来了短短不到一个月，这是第二次听到自杀事件发生在其他部门同事。同事说日本人或许不是很善于处理压力，虽然犯罪率不高，但家庭暴力事件还是蛮多的。心灵上的伤害比身体伤害更痛，或许是这样吧。

每个人都会有工作或生活的压力，每个人都有释压的方法。有些人喝上两杯，有些人发牢骚，有些人去旅行，只要是有效的，都应该偶尔放松一下自己，不要把自己抓得太紧。

送你周杰伦的稻香 ~ 珍惜一切，就算没有拥有

Here I come, JAPAN!!!

Never thought I could be so happy after my boss told me that my UK training was canceled. People say sometimes good thing happen after bad thing. It's true, I lost a chance back to UK, but I got a chance to go Tokyo. Bravo! Boss always told me it's not easy for Japanese to accept woman as engineer, especially Asia woman, but hei, here I am, finally.

It's rush and tight plan, I have to apply for visa in China so that I can be there as soon as visa applied. God know the Japan visa application is so complicated in China, even I'm not Chinese. It's not easy to get in and out of China, I think.

Holding my breath on JAL flight, experience my first time in Japan. Lucky being Malaysian Chinese, we can speak most of the main language. Once in Thailand, and again, now in Japan. Really a strange feeling when people around talking the language that we don't understand, can finally understand my UK colleagues' feeling when they work in China.

Airport always give a first impression for new comers, lucky me can understand some of he Japanese words, which is similar to Complicated Chinese. People is polite, and they queue! OMG, this is really hardly seen in China... I love the people.

City is clean, though it gives me different view at day and night. The city is old, house is small, feel like kampung at day; it looks mystery with ancient traditional feel at night. I like the city at night.

There are many vending machines and convenient shop in Japan. There is 3 : 1 ratio for people : vending machine, every vending machine serves 3 people, it's a lot! You may find many types of convenient shop, 7-11, Lawson, am-pm, Family Mart etc. Different convenient shop has their own special products, the local know how it works, for me, just another convenient shop.

特色Unicolor

Present to you, Unicolor Restaurant....

中国有个不错的网站，介绍很多不错或很差的餐厅。介绍你http://www.dianping.com/

因为点评给这店的评价蛮高，所以去看看。没有失望，还有了一点的惊喜。

今晚有热搞生日会包了大房，我们只好在另一个角落用餐。只有3-4台桌子，反而落得清静，不喜欢太嘈杂的地方。服务员很热心的解释，因为包场生意比较忙，还示意有需要可以按铃，蛮贴心的，可惜铃坏掉了。。。

很别致的餐具

食物上得很快，色香味俱全，没有令我和BF失望。很surprise会有东南亚菜，虽然那炒面有点凉了，但那辣椒（sambal）很够味，蛮贴近家乡的味道。饼干奶昔不错，不是很甜，刚刚好，OREO料很够。土豆泥好像是smoked，特别。海鲜焗饭有很浓的cheese味，料很够，吃得很够劲。看，冒着烟的肉骨茶味道还可以的。食物价钱可以，不贵，下次我带你们去吧！

店里有些小游戏，在这里适合情人朋友聊聊，聚餐。我和BF就这样在那里玩着小游戏，就这样度过一个relax的晚上，以后会常去的。

只是有一点，小房的空气不是很流通。本想再点饮料，但碰上邻座客人吸烟，一时房里充满了烟味，就算他们只抽了一根烟，还是受不了，结果我们就走了。或许大房空气流通会好些。

Party Night

After 6 weeks of hard work, it's time for party!

Let's start with a pleasant dinner...





After dinner, at the coconut bar...






After few drinks...







At the dance floor...






The singers are amazing, they are good!

放他？抓他？

曾经有人说，如果你绑不住他/她，就放他飞。如果他注定是你的，飞累了就自然会回到你身边。

听起来好像没有错，如果他不是你的，任你一哭二闹三上吊也留不住他。就算用责任留住他的人，留下没有灵魂的皮囊又有什么用？但，到底有多少人可以这样放身边的他飞？又有多少倦鸟会拉下脸皮吃回头草？

男人女人都应该知道什么时候要抓紧，什么时候应该要放松。男人不喜欢被绑，大部分女人也不喜欢寸步不离的男人。收放自如的高手就可以得到幸福。抓又怕他死，放又怕他飞，如何拿捏的准就要考你的功夫了。

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Long distance 的感情会不会成功？

如果两个人基础打得稳，那感情比较经得起考验。越轨之前想起远方的他 / 她，感情、责任或许可以提醒自己，悬崖勒马。

如果两人相识不久，感情不够深厚，外面的野花野草比较容易动摇他 / 她。经过比较之后，他 / 她或许会选择身边人，毕竟远水不解近渴，近水楼台先得月。

如果你问我远距离的感情有没有结果，一要视乎两人的感情够不够打败情敌，二要视乎外面的诱惑大不大。我的忠告：不要给自己和他太多有艳遇的机会，心情低落时最好约同性朋友在家聊。没有诱惑，就没有机会出错。

Ancient Xi'an

~~~ 1^st Day, 06-June-08 ~~~

A sunshine morning, we depart from Shanghai on FM9203, reach airport on time 10:30am. It was a nice sunny day, take a deep breath, and we start our free and easy Xi’an trip.

We took Airport Bus Line 1 instead of Line 3 as stated online, guess the info has out-dated. Bus ticket costs RMB26 each, include RMB1 fuel surcharge. Since when we have to pay fuel surcharge for bus riding, surprise! Airport Bus Line 1 takes us to Bell Tower（钟楼）where Lines 2 to railway station. We reached Bell Tower about 12 noon, found there are buildings with old Tang dynasty style and famous landmarks. There are many ah Gong ah Ma (the elderly) approach you to sell the city maps, very hard sell by keep shouting and following us along the way, scary.

Once we break away from the passion nanny, we took a taxi to 7 Days Inn Hotel, RMB6. It’s a nice and comfort hotel, receptions are friendly, we have good impression once step in the lobby. Hotel breakfast is quite cheap, you have option for Western or Chinese style breakfast buffet at RMB5. The breakfast only ready at 7.30am, it is pity we don’t have time for try it, as we have to leave hotel at 7am to catch the tour bus tomorrow morning.

We took our quick lunch at the restaurant next to the hotel. We ordered HuiGuo Rou（回锅肉）, Mushroom Vege（香菇青菜）and 8 pieces of local recommended Fried Pan Cake（煎饼）, very full and economic, only costs us RMB32.

After lunch, we check-in hotel and rush to our room. The room quite big and clean, is worth the value and impressed. This hotel becomes one of my favorite choices, and we will visit again next time at other city. I recommend it to you, 7 Days Inn http://www.7daysinn.cn/

After lunch, we start our first spot, Tang Paradise (大唐芙蓉园). It is a very big theme garden. Xi’an Qujiang River (西安曲江), as an aggregation of Chinese ancient garden and architecture art, is called one of the pioneers of Chinese classical gardens. Check it in http://www.tangparadise.cn/en/index.php. Tang Paradise compound is huge, you may spend a day in it. There are shows and performance in Tang Paradise, you may search online for the schedule and plan your trip, so that you don’t miss the show.

We took a light dinner in the garden with fried mee and fried sweet potato. It was a budget meal but soon we were regret when we saw a nice buffet dinner at RMB 25 per person. Oh no...

After dinner rush to other attraction point, there is a free ticket to Theme Park included with entrance ticket. The Theme Park located outside the park, the officers were not friendly when giving the direction, so we spent some times to find the entrance. There is a Fortune Temple (财神庙) at the exit, crews will pass you 3 joss sticks for praying and convince you to donate after praying. We know a fact, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, so we quick turn around after praying. Without realised the value of the free ticket only RMB 5, but the minimum fare for each ride is RMB 10, so you have to pay another RMB 5 or 10 to take the ride. Felt like cheated, moreover the rides are not interesting, so we left the park.

As the Theme Park located outside Tang Paradise, we need to use the ticket to re-enter the garden. They have a practical way to avoid others using our ticket entering the park. Before we went out from the garden, officer request us to present the ticket and take a shoot of us just like at the airport custom. Officer will counter check the ticket and our photo before allowing us re-enter the garden.

Continue walk around and taking many photos, we went to the Zi Yun Pavilion (紫云阁) to watch the most famous show is the Water Screen Movie (齐天大圣 - 水幕电影). There are 5 types of seats: Free for sitting on the blue mat on ground, RMB 30 for free seats at the staircase, RMB 50 for 2^nd & 3^rd floor seats and RMB 35 for 4^th floor seats. We don’t use to sit on the ground, so we bought the seat on the high floor with a good view, 2^nd floor center seats.

Before the Water Screen Movie starts, Float Parade (花车巡游) comes as the opening. When the Float Parade just started for 10min, the area suddenly black out. Checked with the crew, found out the power was cutoff. We were quite lucky that the parade remains after 20min rescue. The Water Screen Movie starts right after the Float Parade, the main attraction we were interested. Tang Paradise crew spent about 30 minutes to get the power back on. The Float Parade start over again afterwards and we have a wonderful night with the Water Screen Movie. The movie took about 15min and it is worth, impressed.

Basically the garden close after movie and all the visitors rush to the exit for buses and taxis. Due to the limited taxi and a large number of people waiting, also we don’t have good skill to fight for taxi, we decided to take bus. Luckily there is a bus passes through hotel area, 609 stop at South Gate (南门). We walked about 15min to reach hotel, so tired...

After taking bath and planning tomorrow trip, we date with Mr Zhou, good night zzz…

~~~ 2^nd Day, 08-June-08 ~~~

There is tourist bus No 3 (游3) departs from Train Station to Qian Tomb of Tang Empire (乾陵) everyday 8am. Luckily this morning we woke up early, we managed to grab 2 seats before the bus getting full. The bus departed 7.45am and took 1.5hrs to reach Qian Tomb. Qian Tomb entry fees cost RMB 45. Recommend you to ask for tour guide service, only RMB 20.

Basically not much area to visit at Qian Tomb, we took photos on the statues n walk around. We didn't climb to the top of the small hill, the entrance of the tomb coz don’t think we could come back to car park on time to catch the only bus to FaMen Temple (法门寺). Personally felt that RMB 45 is too expensive as only famous spot is Wordless Memorial Tablet (无字碑).

As explained by Tour Guide, the head is where the entrance of Tomb on the north of Liang Hill, then the two hills on south of Liang Hill (梁山) being called the breast of Wu ZeTian (武则天), with the SiMa path (司马道) as the neck.

“乾陵修建于公元684年，经过23年的时间，工程才基本完工。气势雄伟壮观。梁山有三峰，北峰最高，在海拔1047.9米。南面两峰较低，东西对峙，中间为司马道，故而这两峰取名叫“乳峰”。”

The entrance was found but Qian Tomb is not being dredge up as China has no confidence they can protect the Tomb with the current technology once it’s open. Until then, we would not know for sure what precious things were hidden there.

We depart to FaMen Temple 10.30am from Qian Tomb, the journey took 1 hour to reach there. The entrance fees is RMB 28/p. The most important and must visit spot is the underground basement which keep Buddha Royal Item, SeLi (舍利子). These SeLi was kept in the basement over 1000 years ago. We were so unlucky there was electricity power cutoff that day, it’s too dark and SeLi can’t be seen clearly. The rest not much special, we spent about 1 hour to finish viewing around.

After that we quickly find a restaurant to please our stomach as we plan to take the 1st bus back to city. Ordered 2 local dishes, Vega fried egg, 黑木耳炒鲍鱼菇 ，and noodle 一口香臊子面. Wish to order cold drink but too bad they didn't serve it, strange. The lunch costs RMB 52, the price is reasonable, especially it’s tourist spot. We manage to get on 1.30pm bus direct go back 2 Xi'an, there is no bus go to Qian Tomb from FaMen Temple, so be aware and plan your trip well. Sleeping time again, the journey back to city took about 2 hours.

We visit Drum Tower (鼓楼), Bell Tower (钟楼) and managed to reach there for the last performance time with our speed 100km/hr. The next thing must visit is City Wall (城墙). We rent a two-man bicycle, plan to have a full view of City Wall. It is my first time ride on two-man bicycle, not as easy as I thought. Ah Boy manages it very well, so I’m the supporting at the back. The city look different when we view from above, strongly recommended for tourist. The bicycle is RMB40 rent for 1 hour. Believe the night view will be very beautiful, but we have one more place to go.

Cycling was too tired, it’s time to sit back and enjoy the music fountain at Square of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda (雁塔广场). The fountain is big and you will have different view standing on different side. Choose a nice spot, don’t stay too close unless you don’t mind getting wet after the show.

It was a rush, tired day, we got into sleep easily after shower.

~~~ 3^rd Day, 09-June-08 ~~~

We reached Train Station by 8am and took the bus No 5 (游5) to Tomb Figure of Qi Military Forces (兵马俑). That was a normal mini bus, took 50min to reach there. China knows how to make money. The car park is quite far from the entrance, then another 1.5km path to reach the main area. If you are too tired or lazy, you may pay to have Golf Cart drives you in “near” to the main area, but you still have to walk some distance, so suggest you save the money.

Finally, we have seen it, the great Tomb Figure of Qing Military Forces, it is convulsed and impressed. There is a 360 degree full view projection screen of History Show, not bad. Audio guide is not recommended here, you may read the same description sign as the explanation from audio guide. We spent 3.5 hours viewing around, witness the great Qing Dynasty, then took the 1.30pm bus back to city.

We have the local snacks at Islamic street (回民街), tried the famous dumpling at贾三灌汤包子, various biscuits (黄桂柿子饼) and some souvenirs. Back to hotel, pick up our luggage and head towards Xi’an Airport for return flight to Shanghai.

Surprisingly we found Xi’an city very clean, far cleaner than Shanghai and Shenzhen. The sky is blue, free from haze, and chill too. We like Xi’an, we will come again.