千八百五十八： Diet works!

Ok I'm very happy to announce that I've lost 3kg in a week and a half by good dieting & exercising alot. Must carry this on!! woohoo! weight is down back to 48kg (^.^)v

千八百五十七： Autumn

Been stuck with work the past 2 weeks after coming back to Japan, finally managed to settle down a little. & to start getting thinner. everyone says I've become rounder. :S

trying to actively :

• eat less carbo = rice?
• exercise more - have set up wii and playing shape boxing and going gym regularly and run abit more.
• eat more high fibre foods - cereal for breakfast (T.T)
• eat alot more vegetables & less meat.

The actions worked a little, have lost 2 kg since I came back.. hopefully can attain my ideal weight soon? or at least lose the tummy. grrr

We went to kyoto to see autumn leaves yesterday and it seems like there aren't that many trees that turn yellow this year.

The autumn sky was really nice but it was quite cold at Arashiyama yesterday. The time was about 4.30pm and the sun was already setting. Ryo said that Kyoto is always colder than Osaka because it was located in a basin.

The autumn leaves at the train station were the best looking ones :P

千八百五十六： Time Flies

Flying back to JP tmr, so fast.

had a fulfilling 2 weeks + in meeting pple & eating, despite the late nights doing work in compensation for leaving early for dinners. Mentally exhausted, a little reluctant to leave (again) but hopefully the next trip will come soon :)

thanks everyone for the wonderful 2 weeks

千八百五十五： Smatsby

ahahah !
Smatsby: spoof of the gatsby ad in SMAPXSMAP - the man keeps saying how come only his face changed to Kimura's face but voice didn't change. "Whats the point!? "



For the original ad -


the guy at the end says "even if it's a lie I'm happy." hahaha !

千八百五十四： Singapore

It's been a good week so far, I think i've been overeating again..

There is the fear of falling off the bed accidentally, and my back still hurts from the accident. I wanted to do more work this weekend, but the environment was down so I didn't have to feel guilty that I had time to play my DS. good progress in the game; unlocked 4 treasure map pieces over the weekend. It's so difficult because it's random for everyone, and they give you mini map pieces that could be from any where on the DQ world map & u have to figure out where that little bit of forest is from.

Did you know that you're not allowed to smoke while walking in some areas of Japan?

Sign on the roads at Ebisu (under Shibuya ward)

You are only allowed to smoke at the smoking areas, which makes it a relief for nonsmokers to walk in smoke free air. The main reason was to prevent kids from getting the 2nd hand smoke, and also, kids just at the height of the hand might get cigerette ash dropped on their heads if the smoker didn't realise that the kid was walking below their arm/cigerette height level. So the law is really to protect kids, which makes it hard for smokers to complain and say why protect the non-smokers :)

Had a good weekend so far, relaxing day yesterday at ECP just doing my own stuff while waiting for J to finish running. the only problem was that I couldn't go to the loo in the 2 hours of waiting . hehe .. luckily I didn't drink that much water. then had dinner at Old Airport Road, had a feast of Bak Kut Teh, Char Kway Teow, Rojak, prawn noodles & sugar Cane juice.

the delicious but very spicy rojak

work again tomorrow. yucks!

千八百五十三： Tokyo

was relieved to be home finally after a long week away.
But.. I'm back in SG this week until 28th Nov for work.

Was called back last minute last friday because one of the leads had to go back to his home country on a family emergency. :) Happy !!

managed to eat curry fish head for dinner last night, think mom will cook my fav salted veg duck soup this sunday.

tiring.. it was an ok flight yesterday, the airline helped me block the seat to empty out next to mine, most of the flight attendantss were courteous & helpful. I'll miss being a Star alliance gold member!!! hopefully more trips this year like this time so that i can try for gold again :S last chance to use the lounge this month!!

watched time traveler's wife on the plane.. cried buckets. kind of embarrassing, before that i was watching Ugly truth and laughing aloud. Rachel McAdams, her movies always make me cry!! like.. the notebook/ nicholas sparks stuff. (T.T) even the 2nd time i watched the ending i starting sobbing again. :(

back in office now, good to meet up with everyone again!

千八百五十二： 日向岬

Hyuga Misaki :


very very grand view of the pacific ocean. the noise from the waves is really loud, but the cry of the eagle can be heard over everything. Very scary that eagle, it came so close to our heads that i was kinda screaming and crouching in fear.

i bought a new hoodie jacket! it's so colourful, very comfortable too :) took a photo with the Miyazaki Mayor Moai Statue in the new jacket :

They built replicas of the Easter Island statues in Miyazaki to promote world peace:

also, very commendable, Tomoko's dad handdrawn this pic for all the guests at the wedding. super cool, he did this like 2 weeks b4 the wedding!

ok tomorrow will be heading to Tokyo, I've had enough of non-city life for a while.

千八百五十一： 鹿児島

sunrise this morning

Woke up at 5am to fly to Kagoshima (鹿児島）this morning for Tomoko's wedding this weekend. SJ also went for the wedding so he rented a car and we had decided to go Kagoshima, Sakurajima to see the volcano then drive up to Miyazaki, where Tomoko lives. However, after we went to the aquarium at Kagoshima, we realised that the volcano was obscured by i think volcanic ash clouds/smoke, so couldn't see the volcano clearly at all.

when the sky finally cleared to see Sakurajima a little -桜島

However, there was this weird fish at the aquarium which ate sand and spat it out. It also filtered the sand out from its gills. (notice the sand piling up below it's gill area in the video) very weird.

　

since we scrapped the Sakurajima plan, had to find places to see this afternoon. so went to a famous temple 霧島神宮 (Kirijima Jingu) which was tooo spacious and had too many steps then headed to a 吊橋 at the town of Aya - 綾の照葉大吊橋. Pretty cool, but it was really tedious to get there, drove for nearly 3 hours on a very narrow and winded mountain road and I never ever get car sick but this route almost pushed me there. I was starting to feel pukish when there was about 10km left, and my head was starting to hurt so forced myself to close my eyes and doze off instead. When we finally reached there, there was only 30 min left to closing time :( but. best thing was I saw a rainbow even though there was no rain.

a tiny bit of rainbow in the middle of the sky above the clouds

it was another hour drive to Miyazaki City, finally reached the hotel. Super tired!! Tomoko is going to take us to 日南海岸 area tomorrow finally no more mountains, can see the sea!!

千八百五十： Blah!!!!

not very happy with work lately. so many redundancies, so many people who don't know they are wasting other people's time, so many irresponsible people. what's wrong with them? what are they making other pple's work difficult?

supposed to be packing for miyazaki trip tonight but totally don't feel any mood for packing. am very tired, have been finding it very hard to get out of bed for the past few days. I don't know if it's because my back hurts or because I went to the gym or because i've been consistently getting up at 6am to make breakfast.

discovered how to properly steam fish with the steam over microwave just now. (don't follow the guidebook, don't use the tray provided) I haven't drank coke for nearly a month. don't know how I survived; feel the craving for coke every day every meal actually.

been trying to run every time I go to the gym, so far 2 times a week, either before yoga or after yoga. but weight still hovering at 49kg. :S trying to go back to 48.. but the back injuries are worse than i thought. can't tilt my head back properly anymore, and i can't turn my body when i lie down to sleep. the moment i turn, i wake up in pain.

feeling very tired.... where is my first pay check...

千八百四十九： 招财鸭

Finally managed to break the 500K barrier in bejeweled! was going to puke or go blind from the attempt to break 400k this week.


ok this ad about an insurance company is damn funny - about the manekineko （招き猫） + manekinekoduck （招き猫ダック）

The dancing cat is so lifelike & the tune is so catchy that i hear Ryo singing the song in the shower. hahaha ..

Was supposed to go gym today but felt very lethargic so just did some yoga at home, went to the supermarket & watched MR Brain at home. A pity it's only 8 episodes, because i really liked such shows like Hero where Kimura showed all those 推理 skills.

Lazy to go out, decided to just wear whatever i have to Tomoko-san's wedding party. trying to read the Nintendo book but am stuck in dragonquest DS. not very happy at work, too many 黒暗 happenings and people trying to be stupid. thinking what I should do..