The Reader

Last night, Jay went out meet his ex-colleague who was in town. While I was walking home in a windy, rainy night, he was enjoying steak at JW Marriot hotel with her. Yah, it's a her. Aigie asked me I not scared meh. I said he told me she is fat. Aigie replied, "he bluff one. haha". I trust him lah. But later when he came home, I jealously making comment, "why eat steak? You also didn't eat steak with me so long time liao, some more in JW marriot." Jay said, "asked you to go with me you said sian don't want to go yeng chao, now jealous ah?" I said, "did you guys kiss?" Yah, sometimes I can ask weird question out of the blue. Jay replied, "no we didn't kiss. we only make love." Haha. Needless to say, he was kena cubit by me after that.

Anyway, I watched this movie called "The Reader" last night while he was enjoying steak outside. It's an interesting movie. Maybe if you are the type 姐弟恋 then you shouldn't watch. Because it's a sad ending. The woman was 21 years older than the guy (who was only 15) when they become "lover". I am not sure if that should be called lover because all they did was make love after he came back from school, almost every single day. He even sold his stamp collection just to have some extra money bring her out for small vacation. And at a restaurant, the waitress commented, "hope your mom enjoyed the food", he was pissed and purposely kiss that woman in front of the waitress.

The movie got a big twist later on. Don't want to say so much because maybe some of you want to go watch it. But the fact is, when he met her later on when he was a middle-aged man, he took back his hand when she tried to touched his hand with her wrinkled hand. It's sad. How age plays tricks.. I bet he didn't think about this when he was having sex with her when he was 15 that time. Yucks... imagine now he is 40, and making love with her at 61... that's weird and quite sick (well maybe because she looked so old at 61 without taking care of her skin..)

So I am thinking, those young boy love older woman, would they regret when they turn 40 and their wife turned 60? or even 50? I really don't know... let me ask Jay this question tonight (which I forgot to ask last night) -- will you still love me if I am 20 years older than you??

p/s: this movie is actually not so much on love (even though a lot of those scenes), it's using a relationship between a teenage boy and an older woman to explore and evade questions about post-war German guilt... (geng or not? this kind of plot also can)

Tokyo CNY Trip

The tour has a total of 40 people including 2 tour guide. This includes a Taiwanese Family, 2 Malaysian (us loh), and the rest are very local local type of Shanghainese. There are many kids in the group, I guess because this group has a day to Disney Land, that's why. It let us witness how local spoilt their only one child. I have no comment on that.

First day, first stop, we went to a temple. The white ribbon like thing, is after you picked your 签, if it is a bad one, you just leave it with the temple and not bringing it home. Interesting..

I like the way they design the door with the big 草鞋:)

The street that is full of snacks. Yum Yum:)

This is called 人形烧, it's like the redbean bun that doremon love. It's very very very tasty i tell you. I regretted I only buy a few, I sapu all in the bus on the same hour. All habis. I felt like I am a doremon. haha...

I don't know why itenary includes a Toyota showroom tour. But it opens our eyes to Japanese car maker Toyota. Spectacular. By the way, a sports car is only selling at around 300K ringgit, Lexus. Damn nice.
I was shocked to see they have vending machine for car's catalogue/brochure! High tech. This is good so it controls wastage. I wonder when can our country (Malaysia lah of course), and our neighbor country (China) start doing this.

Night view of Rainbow Bridge. Quite nice. With the statue like the one in NewYork.

The hotel we stayed at is very good, I was so glad.

I have to tell you the toilet seats in Japan, even public toilet, are all having full function! This includes warming up the seats to warm up your cold butt in winter, and also can wash your butt and your xxx and can control water volume. Me and babe enjoy this more than the great hotel in Japan in the 5 days trip. haha...

Day 2:

This is a 火山口.

Hello Kitty is every way~~

We stayed in a tatami hotel that has the 温泉 facility that night. The local shanghainese all very excited and I think they went to the 温泉 more than 1 time. Me and babe are not that facinated. We just went once. By the way, everyone is naked in the 温泉...

Next day, we went to Mt Fuji. Tour guide told us we are very lucky because normally Mt Fuji is like a shy girl, out of 365 days in a year, maybe can only see her clear face few days only.

We also went snow boarding, because those kids want to play... it's not fantastic lah but it's a tour group so majority wins, we have to go. But, we did enjoy it eventually, although it's a very stupid game. haha.

See the Mount Fuji?

At night, we were brought to 新宿, it's very nice view at night, of the night life in Tokyo.

This street is called 歌舞伎町一番街, it's a street that is full of service for women (duck street?). Many japanese men who dyed their hair yellow color stand on the street to ask for "business". For prostitute, this post is called "mamee". I guess for this opposite service, this position can be called "daddy". Very interesting. The duck even have ranking of 1 or 2 or 3, and if I can read it correctly, it's only 100 ringgit for 2 hours (i think this is minimal charge). Hmm...

Every lightboard indicates 1 service center for this.. Got a lot of hotel along that street also. This kind of hotel, only can enter with 1 male and 1 female. If you are single, then sorry...
After visit this street guided by our tour guide (this is extra itenary for him. haha), some ladies in our group said, "can you bring us here again tomorrow while our kids are playing in disney land?" haha.. so funny:P The tour guide was speechless, so as the husband-们:)

Then we visit the 市政厅，very tall building, can see the whole tokyo city on top of it.

Then, we checked into the Sheraton hotel, very very near the disney land. I am at this age already, but don't know why I still very excited about tomorrow's itenary, disney land. Toyko also have Disney Sea besides Disney Land. I want to see Mickey Mouse, so, Disney Land is my choice. This is the Sheraton Hotel, the bed is 2 sets (the pic only captured 1), so the room is very huge. Who said hotel in Japan are very sempit leh? hehe..

Next day, DISNEY LAND!!! But... too bad it was raining:( But, I still enjoyed it very much. Practically played every theme park inside the disney land because the que is quite short:)

We took the disney subway (just 2 stops away from our hotel) to the entrance. Everything got the mickey mouse figure, I was so excited. I really love mickey mouse leh.
Will let pictures do the talking for the rest:)小人国:

This one is Pooh's:

Not every theme park can take pictures because some cars spin too fast, I cannot have time take pictures.

Then we went to toons town, and it is there I meet Mr. Mickey!!! So happy! I took a picture with him!:)

Toy's story punya Buzz Year

So fast, time to say sayonara to Disney Land and uncle Mickey... sob..
Last day in Tokyo: Tour guide drop us at 银座, it's like nanjing xi lu like that. Full of branded stuff. Local shanghainese bought a lot from there, Burberry especially. I look at the prices, not say cheaper than buy from Hong Kong also. Really don't understand why they so crazy over branded stuff in tokyo.

Me and Babe went into a toy specialist store in Japan. We bought crazily there because the toys there are so innovative. Bought some toys for Shi Liu and Shi Yong. Hope they like it. One of it is a robot bug that can move and turn based on heat sensor and sound sensor. Geng chao or not?

Accidentally let Jay see his best friend - Ultraman. He quickly get into a line, and asked me must take good shot at him. So funny. The Ultraman, Jay said, he a bit pai seh because he is almost shorter than Jay. So instead of doing the usual ultraman hand signal, he shook Jay's hand only. hahahaha... Jay was a bit disappointed. He wanted the ultraman do the ultraman hand signal one. hahaha..

And there's a shiseido flagship store - not selling Shiseido skin care products, but sell cake and chocolate. So weird hor?

Can you see there are people gathering in front of the bookstore next to the shiseido building? They are standing on the "road" where cars supposed to pass through. But they don't care. I thought got earthquake or what that people all came down. So I asked the security guard in Shiseido what's going on. He answered me in limited english "Star in Bookstore". haha.. no wonder. Got movie star lah.

And so, this concludes our Tokyo trip. I have a great time. This is the Toyko Bay photo, I snapped in on the bus on the way to airport~ Sayorana!