New Life Begins! ~Part Two~

Hello!

Nana yo!

Let's continue from my ~Part 1~ post ey! ;)

I was telling my story about how messy it was my arrival in Japan. Starting with delayed flight to getting lost around the train platforms to missing the station and eventually giving up and taking the taxi to the hotel and collapse from energy depletion.

The next morning I thought of going to get my bank account or my phone or something. I told my friend this and she told me that, the bank account, the school will do it for the students, as for the phone, she said, sometimes people from the phone company will come and promote some student discounts.

At the end of the day, I did not do anything related to my stay here in Japan since it will be settled by the school.

My parents and I wanted to meet up with my friend who helped me out with my application to Akamonkai. So, I decided to check the school out. There was two campuses, I couldn't contact my friend because she was busy so I just decided to check out one of the campus nearest to us at that moment.

We took a walk around Nippori, and ended up at Nippori Campus and... it was the wrong campus. Nippori campus are mainly from student who don't speak a word of English, so does the staffs. I had to explain to her I'm a new student and wanted to check the school out. One of the staff called the Main Campus and got my friend to explain to her.

It was all cool and fun but the Nippori Campus is.. much more smaller than the Main Campus. Thank god I got into the Main Campus instead. (Let's get to that later)

Nippori Campus

Around Nippori Campus

Since we woke up quite late, we decided to just head back to the hotel after visiting Nippori Campus.

On the way, we found a Hanko Shop also known as the Name Stamp shop. Went in and asked bunch of questions, the nice aunty who can't speak a word of English told me that for a foreigners, our names are sometimes too long. Maximum letter on a stamp is only 4 letter, in my case, I am lucky that my name have 3 letters so It came out nice and not cramped. The entire thing with the box cost me about 1200￥.The hanko itself is 1000￥. 

[Hanko Shop -- coming soon--]

We left the shop without making my Hanko because I wasn't sure if my short name is allowed. Told the nice aunty I will be back the next day after asking my friend.

On our way home, my mom saw a Shishiedo shop. She needed a face moisturiser because the water in Japan is very heavily treated that it's not quite suitable with our skin. Makes our skin feels dry-ish and doesn't feel nice. So who ever planning to come here, please prepare moisturisers for the days you are staying here.

After buying her moisturiser, we pass by a sushi shop called Taraku. My mom wanted to eat the Makis and it was such a feat to get the aunty and this girl who works there to understand that we don't eat pork or any kind of meat. It was hilarious we're like the entertainment in the shop for other customers. At the end of the day they finally understood us and my mom got to eat her first ever made in Japan sushi. Even my dad who don't normally eat Japanese food ate some of them. We even had our lunch there the next day. We ordered the same thing but we also ordered the tempura. No picture sorry :(

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Taraku Menu

Taraku

Temaki, Inari, Healthy Rolls, Cucumber Rolls

Mom's Favourite Kyuuri (Cucumber) Rolls

The next day, we went to Tokyo CAMII! Probably the only Mosque in Tokyo. I'm not so sure O-O

The mosque is beautiful and I'm pretty sure it was the highlight of my parents trip to Japan especially my dad. He bought quite a number of souvenirs and he get to eat some proper halal food too. There was a halal restaurant within walking distance near the Tokyo CAMII. The restaurant called POTOHAR. A Muslim Indian shop. It's a very very small shop, could only serve about 15 people max even that would probably be super cramp.

Tokyo CAMII

Also, while we're still in Tokyo CAMII, I met my friend from back home who I hardly ever met in Malaysia! Imagine that! I met her and her husband in Japan. Of all placesssss!!!!!!!! World is indeed small (>v<)

It's a small world after all!

We went back to the hotel stomach filled with delicious food! On the same day, we had the same dinner at a similar restaurant with my friend Hiromi who finally get to leave early for that day. This restaurant is just in front of Nippori Station in the building in front of the East Exit called Siddique. They too sells the same food as Potohar. The naan was HUGE and I am planning to have my last buka puasa at the same place again. 8D

[Siddique Restaurant --coming soon--]

To be continued!

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"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of." - Bruce Lee

New Life Begins! ~Part One~

Konnichiwa~~

Sorry for this super duper late post

I arrived in Japan on the 22nd June and was busy busy busy! When I thought I had time, I got busy again! O_O

So I'm going to write down in parts depending on my availability. Bare with me (^ /\ ^)

So, I got my application and visa and everything else done for me to start my new journey back to school in Japan. I was very excited and I feel very intimidated by my own long awaited dream. I chickened out a little bit but thanks to everyone who knew about me going back to school helped me a lot. Especially my mom and dad.

I got so confused to what I should bring and not to bring, since I'm going to be in Japan in Summer, I kept on thinking it would be super duper hot, which... well, for me it is extreme (even in Malaysia it's extreme for me but, heh!) the heat is almost similar but the sun burn is like I'm at the beach. I think I'm a little bit brown now, or.. slightly more darkish yellow.

The morning before my flight my mom unearthed my luggage and repacked for me because I packed wayyy to many unnecessary things. (e.x: books /art books I bought from Japan...(see picture) ;w; I could only bring one! Of course there's some doujins too!)

Full Metal Alchemist, you are back in Japan!

We took the taxi to KLIA2 the new Airport. It was a surprise that my uncles and aunties came and send me off, also, my friends from University. It was a nice and fun send-off. One of my auntie said she came to see me cry, but I told her mom and dad coming with me too. So I will cry in Japan instead which I did, a lot. Almost everyday (#only child card excuse used#)

Thank you for sending me off and  blessing me with lucks! (^ w ^)

The flight was okay. My seat was a little far from my mom and dad, but it's all good!

My mom made friends with a Japanese lady and her.. foster son maybe? Ayako-san and Markus-san (Markus is from Germany but he is taking his PHD in political science in Japan) They helped us a lot and gave us plenty of suggestions on where to go and where to eat, but I think, they are those Japanese who are a little bit more well off... so, they kind of suggested slightly expensive cuisine which I probably can not afford to have everyday.

The problem we had was that, our flight was slightly delayed and we arrived around 11pm. Thank god during the immigration checks everything went just fine. I got my Residence Card or we call it Zairyouu Card (see pic) and the luggage wasn't lost or anything.

Zairyouu Card / Residence Card

I thought of getting on to the Tokyo Monorail to Hamamatsucho then change it to Yamanote Line and to Nippori but.... Ayako-san told us to take the Keisei Line to Shinagawa then switch to Yamanote Line to Nippori because... because... I'm not really sure actually... she couldn't speak English much and even with Markus-san's help I still don't understand why we're taking another Line... But I was worried we missed the last train to Nippori.  Probably she thought the other Train Line should be okay.

Along the way... it was horrible. Things got out of hand because we took the route I'm not sure off. Since Ayako-san was nice enough to help us out, we kind of followed along. I would say it was a bad idea. We got onto the Keisei Line and then to Shinagawa station to switch to Yamanote Line but Ayako-san wasn't too familiar with the station since her daughter usually pick her up. So we went around the station to find Yamanote tracks, luckily there were nice people helping us out!

It was amazing. Those people who helped us... are ACTORS! Actorssss!!! The guys that helped us was cute.. not good looking handsome but a better GRADE than normal Japanese men... teehee!

One of them, I will call Megane-san (he wears glasses) went to help my mom. My mom luggage is huge so we think, since my mom was carrying the bag, Megane-san might have thought the luggage was slightly lighter. The moment he picked it up, his face turned red! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

The luggage my mom was carrying was one of the big heavy luggage, poor Megane-san carrying the heavy bag down the stairs. Yep. We were carrying the luggage up and down stairs because we couldn't find the elevator or escalator... It was horrid, but there were a lot of helpful people around to help us. I also made my first Japanese friend. Her name is Ayumi and she can't speak English at all. Only little words. She take the same train we are taking so she helped us point out where and when the stops are. During the train ride, Ayumi and I chatted with each other in Japanese... I had to crack my brain there and then to think of words and also to put the words into sentences Ayumi could understand. It was hilarious but fun! Mom was so amazed that I can actually converse with someone else in Japanese. It made me motivated more. Hahaha!!! (^0^)

This is also where I screwed up BIG TIME. The hotel we're staying is at Nippori Station, but I have no idea why I kept thinking it was at Nishi-Nippori. So, I insisted that our station is at Nishi-Nippori when Ayumi told me the hotel is at Nippori. So when we reached Nishi-Nippori station, got down and the train station keeper told me it's at Nippori, I re-check the map and yep! I screwed up. Thank god the last train to Nippori was still available and we did manage to get down at Nippori station and got out to the South Exit and voilà! Another set of stairs this time, it's a looooonnnnnggggg waaaayyyyyy ddoooooowwwwnnnnn. *sighhhhhhh*

---South Station Picture[Coming Soon]---

So, I gave up on checking out the map and decided to take the taxi, since we're so tired anyway and again... THANK GOD there was a taxi passed by and a nice old uncle decided to take pity on us and took us to the Hotel. It was already nearly 2AM. Again THANK GOD I asked my friend's help to tell the hotel we may check-in late and the hotel receptionist let us in.

Mystays Nippori in my opinion is one of the best hotel!

Seriously, even though I screwed up A LOT things worked out at the end and me and my parents pretty much collapse and slept till the Lunch Hour. The next day, we found out that the train station was reeeaaaallllyyyyy close. We spend 7000 yen plus for the taxi. Hahhahaha!!!!

To be continued!

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." -  George Bernard Shaw