1st nov
we reached home and slept around 6am, then woke up at 10am to meet mingeong for breakfast/lunch around sakuradai.


had sukiyaki udon

and oyakodon/soba set

not so bad for my last meal in japan

stella looking chui

then i went to cancel my softbank account only to realise i couldn't access the data inside anymore with the sim card gone... sighsss. so all my contacts are gone gone gone.
around 1pm, stella and mingeong sent me off to ikebukuro to take the airport limousine to narita.
my luggage was horribly overweight but through an hour of discussion with the supervisor and my travel agency (mandarin world, DON'T ever ever buy from them, they like to shirk responsibility and are damn rude. located in orchard) i was finally granted 30kg, but i had to hand carry the rest. ughhh.
and so my 6hours long flight began... i was sad that i couldn't taken pictures (it was in my luggage above, and i didn't want to trouble the people to move away so i could take it...) of the plane food because there was an appetizer which had a hotate and salmon. i love flight food.
and i finally reached singapore at 12am, my family being there to fetch me.
we went to eat roti prata at this crispy prata house and went home around 230am.
i'm finally back in singapore. so i guess this blog would have less and less updates since i won't be snapping so many strange photos again.
it's back to my singapore life (;_:)

31st october
stella took the day off to accompany me on my last day in tokyo. we decided that it would be a eat-a-lot day so we started off wandering in ekoda (cos we saw a good ramen review in a ramen magazine)
bought a yakisoba bread (it says okonomiyaki bread actually...) at a random bakery

we chose this ramen restaurant cos it looks pretty appealing




ordered the limited autumn edition

it looks really awesome but actually it's one of the worst ramen i've ever tasted. it's supposed to be a thin shoyu flavour but the soup was horribly salty and stank of tonkatsu (pork). luckily we shared a bowl if not i would have died.
after lunch, we headed to ikebukuro and shopped around tokyu hands looking for stella's big birthday card. i saw a couple of posters which i took a liking to and started snapping them. luckily i wasn't caught ;p

they just look so marvelous... i wish i could create something like that...
we then stopped at a cream puff cafe and slacked there for a while. stella was again studying her menu as usual.
she had a cream cheese ice cream puff with mixed fruits, and a matcha bubble tea

while mine was a matcha puff with mixed fruits

we stayed there till we felt there was too much smoke polluting our personal space and left for dinner at this tendon ya. i hate restaurants which allow smoking, it doesn't really make a difference whether you have non-smoking spaces/smoking spaces because once someone smokes the whole place becomes a smoking area.



shared a bowl of tendon (lots of mixed tempura), it only costs 500yen and it tasted great

stella finally drank her chocolixir but she said it wasn't very good. i find it not so bad, just a tad too sweet.

back at sakuradai, we found a ramen shop that has a lot of people queueing for it


wowwwww... we didn't to eat it eventually cos it was closed the next day (;_;)
later on, we went out again to meet stefan and daeyoung for karaoke till dawn xp
we bought lots of food in

the new mac's corokke burger was great

the manager of the store realised we had a lot of outside food and gave us a warning. seems like there are cameras in every room... scary.
we still had fun singing anyway.
stefan's german song

daeyoung's korean song

and stella's chinese song (ye zi by the twins, quite nice)

and my blood+ i was too excited with the animation scenes :D

no idea what's with stella and her raise-your-hands though.

7th july
it's stella's birthday! whee we decided to give her a surprise by visiting her house unexpectedly. however, our surprise failedbecause she had already figured something like that would happen when mingeong said she would go over to her house to play. atarimaida (obviously)! if you suddenly want to go over someone's house on the day of her birthday it's just ayshisugiru (too suspicious)! (-_-`) sheesh.
anyway we stopped at macdonald's to write stella's birthday wishes.

i managed to get her address and we scouted around for her house...

tried to sneak around but she already saw all of us via her visitor's camera. so it was quite baka of us to hide.
so here's her wonderful house! which i'll be moving in soon.



since there was no dinner we decided to walk arund the precinct and get groceries. and cook at her house.

ta-da!



and of cos how could we forget the cake?

couldn't find a lighter... so make do with this ;p

japanese birthday cakes always give very long candles. nice!
on the way home, junho decided to sit by himself.


so we took a lot of weird photos of each side. haha. it was a fun day. :D