Ewwwww

What We Saw in an Aquarium

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This is a part of family of eel.
I thought it was weird, but interesting.
I had never liked an aquarium, but I love zoo much more.
However, I learned an aquarium is fun place to go.

We watched Dolphin stage, and it was so cute and fun too!

Fun TimeWith My Sis

Second Day in Okinawa


My sister and I got in fight a lot.
However, during this trip, we did not argue about anything.

Driving With My SiS, originally uploaded by yikada.

We did sightseeing togehter.
We went to Spa together.
We ate good food together.
We shop togehter.
We danced together.
We went to an aquarium together.
We chat a lot during this trip.

I did not know it was this much fun to travel with my sister.

Hello Okinawa

First Day in Okinawa

I went to Okinawa with my sister from last Friday to Sunday.
It was the first time for me to take PTO and also first time to travel with my sis by ourselves.
Look! Doesn't it look like Hawaii??
Yeah, Okinawa made me miss Hawaii so much!!

It rains hard pretty often in Okinawa.
It doesn't rain for a long time, but it suddenly starts rainging there.
We rent-a-car and it rains so hard on the way from the airport to our hotel.
I saw this jeep next to us, and thought a Japanese jeep buff was driving.
But it was actually American army's jeep.
It was real.
I wonder what they were doing...
When I took a couple pictures, they stared at me, so I got scared...
Seriously, there are so many Americans in Okinawa.

This is our welcome fruit in cour room.
We stayed at such a great hotel!
Huge room, huge beds, nice, view, and a big balcony.
Oh my god, the sound of the ocean made me be sleepy so much.
I went to bed at 9:30 at night.
Ah, what a luxuary trip!

No Jetlag

Too Busy To Feel Jetlag

I was too busy to take any pictures today.
So I took a can of Spam which I got from Hawaii.
I love Spam rice ball!

Today I had to be surprised at piles of papers and tons of e-mails.
It was incredible.
I took so much time to check all e-mails and response to each of them.
Time went so fast today.
I had testing of so many kinds fo sweets already for work, so I did not eat dinner tonight.
I had a couple of appointments and several meetings already.
I should not complain this time, because I was inda on vacation till yesterday.
Therefore working hard after vacation is something I should do without complaining, I know.
Normally, when I come back from the US, I get jetlag, but I had not time for it today.
I wanted to go home early, but unfortunately, since I was out of office for conventions and Hawaii trip for more than a week, all the projects of our team were behind.
So I did overtime, and I was late for English lesson.
Yes, I had my student at home tonight.
It was the last lesson since he is going to graduate college.
I will miss him.
It was hard for me to keep teaching after work, but it was such a good experience.
I appreciate him.

My boss suddenly decided to make me go to Tokyo on business tomorrow.
Ahhhhh, lately, I can’t stay in Osaka much.
I gotta go to a convention and research for Organic and see some people.
I will have a meeting at late at night there too, so maybe I should stay a night there, but I will come home.
So it will be just a day trip.
I don’t want to d anything this weekend.
Give me a break!!!!!!!!!!

MAHALO!

Good Bye Hawaii

I woke up 7 in this morning, and had breakfast buffet.
We left hotel at 10AM and left to the airport.
We did last shopping, and posted some picture cards.
I really had a good time in Hawaii.
I feel myself so lucky that I could travel with all my colleagues.

We took North West again, and it was horrible like the way to go to Hawaii.
This time my seat was next to my roommate.
We chat a lot and had a good time.
Taking picture on the airplane is the last thing I do.
It is such a tourist thing.
I travel a lot, so now I feel embarrassed to take picture in the airplane.
But we did.
And It is kinda nice picture.
Being normal tourist is not that bad.
It just annoyed a lot of local people.

Anyway, I feel sad that I have to say good bye to Hawaii.
I always love Hawaii.
I will be back to Hawaii soon, I hope!

What A Relaxing Day in Hawaii

Don’t Wanna Go Home

Today, we woke up early and went to “The Original Pancake House” which is my favorite Pancake place in America.
Five of us went to the place and had 5 kinds of panckes.
Of course we got hella full.
So we decided to walk to shopping center and took a walk for an hour.

And we went back to beach and hung out by the beach.
We all bought new bathing suits and we wanted to show off.
We were going to go there only with girls, but of course there were male colleagues around the beach close to our hotel.
So we were kinda embarrassed.
I was the only one who has dark skin, so I got lots of sun tanning.

And we went back to hotel to take a shower, and left to “Cheese Cake Factory”.
Look how messy our table was.
We ate many kinds of cheesecakes like we do at work.
We have to taste each of them, so we used our own folks and took a bite from each cheesecake.
We were totally full and I had a stomachache because of eating too much.
But I was so happy to lied down in a beach and took a nap there on Monday, which we always work.
And we could take a shower as many times as we want, and had alcohol from daytime.
How nice it was!
Everyone went off to shopping, so I decided to take Lomi Lomi massage.
I went to Spa and took it for on hour.
I felt sooooo good.

And I went back to a shopping mall, and had dinner there.
I threw up at night by the way, not because of drinking too much, but I had upset stomach.
This happened last night too.
How come I can’t control how much I eat…
On the way back to hotel from the restaurant, we did some more shopping and went back to hotel at 11PM.
Most of stores in Hawaii open till 11PM.
From 11PM till 2AM now we stayed at one room and chat.
The guy who kept talking was hilarious.
Everyone was sleepy, but nobody could stop him.
It was like a trip that we had in high school days.
We have to go home tomorrow, but I don’t want to.
I don’t have confidence to go back to work from the next day we go back to Osaka.
Anyway, I should go to bed not to be late for tomorrow meeting in the morning.

Too Much Italian in Hawaii

Shopping and Eating

My roommate woke up at 6 and left to diving lesson.
I woke up at 8:30 and had breakfast buffet at the hotel.
I went to Alamoana Shopping Center and did lots of shopping.
I bought such a cute dress at DKNY, and also I bought other stuff too.
I saw a DKNY dress on Vogue and I was dreaming to get it.
I tried it on, but it looked like I am pregnant, so I bought a different one which is even cuter.
I had Jamba juice which I missed a lot.
Banana Berry!! It tasted good as usual!
I wonder why they don’t sell it in Japan!
I forced lots of my colleagues to have one.

After shopping, I went to Italian restaurant with my bosses and their wives.
We had Italian, and I was in charge of ordering.
I talked with my dad about the menu beforehand, so I ordered well, but they were too much.
And also I got pretty drunk after I said goodbye to them.
Probably, I was a little nervous in front of my bosses.
I checked my e-mails and I saw some boys from our company.
They saw my shopping bag and asked me where the store is located, so I took them to the store.

Lots of walking and eating in Hawaii.
So far, I had such a good time in Hawaii, which might be the best time in Hawaii ever.
We are going to “The Original Pancake House” tomorrow morning and will go to beach.
I bought bikinis last night, so I can’t wait to wear them!

8/13 in Thailand

1st Sightseeing Day in Thailand

I got 9 days summer vacation from work this year.
I was pretty sure to go abroad, but have not decided where, but maybe to the US.
Last month, my friend, Ayako, asked me if I was interested in going to Thailand.
Thailand is one of the countries where I always wanted to go.
So soon I decided to go to Thailand with Ayako.
We departed separately so we arrived there at different time.
I arrived there earlier and was very hungry, so when Ayako arrived, we ran to a place to eat.
We were so ready to eat, but the restaurant we entered, there was no English menu.
We had no idea what it says, we even could not guess.
Therefore, we showed a guidebook and pointed picture on a book.
All the dished they brought was extremely hot!!!
I was so nervous if I can keep eating Thai food during this trip.

So this is a collage of our first day of sightseeing in Japan.
I took so many pictures and wanted to put all pictures, so I made a collage.
I was amazed that how beautiful all the building in Bangkok.
On 8/13, we joined a tour in Bangkok.
We went to Wat Arun and a temple of Emerald Buddha in Bangkok on this day.
We climbed up the high “thing” at Wat Arun, it was very high and very scarly…
However the view was excellent.
Also when we were at a temple of Emerald Buddha, we happened to see a changing of the guard ceremony.
After these sightseeing, we went to a hotel to experience Thai food Buffet.
Since we were in a tour, we got to be close to other people in our group, whom we would not usually be able to be friends.
After we separated with this group, we went to eat Thai Suki and took subway to go to luxury spa!
Each room has a shower, sofa, bed, etc, etc.
It was 2 hours long, and still much cheaper than spa in Japan!!

Anyway, we got so many experiences on this day in Bangkok, which was hard to summarize.

PHILIPPINES 2

The Second Day In Philippines

We had breakfast at closest restaurant from Shangri-La hotel in Manila.
It was pretty good Philippine breakfast, but the problem is that servers and we can’t communicate well…
During this trip, I asked Ryan to speak with people in Philippines most of the time.
It was very difficult for me to understand their English, and was hard for them to understand my English.
Since I relied on Ryan too much, and finally my English became really bad.
Ryan asked me, “Are you tired? Your English is getting bad”
I was laughing because I knew that I was not trying hard to speak well.
He started talking with me in Japanese, and we communicated in Japanese when we were by ourselves.

It was Ryan’s idea to go to Borocay.
He got a flight tickets for us to fly to Borocay, which is 1hour away from Manila by jet.
Somehow he booked a flight for us to go to Borocay separately.
I was fine with that, but after I he left me at the airport and I was not sure when my flight would leave, I was getting nervous.
Finally I got on a jet, and fell in a sleep.
When I got up, the door of the pilot’s space, and saw him reading newspaper.
I saw the flight attendant was struggling with her headache.
Some white stuff from outside came into the jet.
I got scared and started getting upset.
When I finally got to Borocay, I was so tired and upset.
However, after I saw this beautiful beach, I became soooo happy.
How could I keep being upset after I saw this!
We headed to our hotel by jet boat.
Kids who came to pick us up from the airport helped us carrying stuff.
We assume that they were under 18 or so, but they worked really hard.
I felt people in Manila are quite different from people in Borocay.
After I spent half a day in Borocay, I thought a lot about my work in Japan.
Anyway, the second day in Philippines was a good day.