From Japan With Love.

If you ask me whether things in Japan (in general) are expensive? 

My answer is yes.

Everything is expensive, IF convert into RM.

Wait, actually not all things. Cosmetics (men and women) are a lot cheaper compared to Malaysia. 

Here are some of the things that I bought (mostly food stuff) that I would like to blog about. 

You may already know that one of the things that I wanted to get is as many different flavors of Kit Kat as I can find. That means most of my money will be basically for that purpose only. 

This Japan trip was a fully paid one so I only had to bring my own pocket money. I decided to bring 16,000 Yen (about RM500 plus minus) and U$100. I didn't want to bring a lot because I know I sure won't bring home the extra money. I did really spend all my yen and saved most of my US dollars. Such achievement for self control I tell you. 

It may seem like RM500 is very little but then, i bought back quite a lot of things wor. So, I was glad that I only brought RM500. Other than all the items below, I also bought two dresses for mom and her firstborn, clothes for Kelly and Sha Lynn, notto miss out the the bro-in law and boyfriend, two K-Palette Eyeliner and errr I can't remember already. 

Two K-Palette Eyeliner because it's so cheap in Japan! It only costs about RM30 there. In Malaysia, you can find them in Sasa and they cost about RM60 each! I only wanted to try this brand after watching the Clicknetwork TV: Tried and Tested and it looks like this brand really can tahan oil, water and very long-lasting. So, since so cheap, buy two and keep. Hah. Girls..

Moving on.

So yeah, shopping has been a lot of fun in Japan. 

Oh oh! If you want to get branded bags/purse, get it in Japan! It's so affordable here okay but too bad I didn't get any! When they got sales, seriously mad la okay. Don't compare to U.S. lah because that one like you have to travel so far. This one is good enough. 

Sidetrack a bit since we're in this branded bags topic. My colleague's brother came back from U.S. and got her a Michael Kors handbag and it only costs about RM800. Here for the same bag, it's RM1,800!

Crazy right?

Okay, so the goodies from Japan. Prices are plus minus you get it. Here we go :)

Elmo Cookies from Universal Studio Japan (3,150 yen = RM100)

Ninja Shuriken Cookies (a gift from the shop owner)

Packed Dorayaki (a gift from the shop owner)

Green tea snack-kind-of-biscuit (500 yen = RM15)

Japanese-style Pecan White Chocolate ((a gift from Hotel Rosa Blanca)

Hardest-cookies-in-the-world with a mini hammer inside (a gift from the shop owner)

Wasabi snack (dad's favorite)

700 yen = RM21

Strawberry Shortcake Crunch (can't remember)

Mini-different-flavors-cookies (65 yen = RM2 each)

Dars (100 yen = RM3)

 Mini Green Tea Kit Kat and Dark Chocolate Kit Kat

2 packets for only 500 yen = RM15

Red Bean Kit Kat (1500 yen = RM45)

Strawberry Kit Kat (1500 yen = RM45)

Vanilla Kit Kat (can't remember)

Raspberry Kit Kat (can't remember)

Sakura Matcha Kit Kat (1500 yen = RM45)

Quite proud of the total collection of Kit Kat that I managed to grab this time in Japan. I was really looking for the chilli flavored but couldn't find it anywhere. These are good enough. So happy lahh.

I saw these two pair of shoes and I immediately know both my dad and Vanessa would love it. True enough :)

A satisfied traveller I was. 

Thank You Jesus for all the blessings that has always been beyond all measures.

5D4N Osaka, Japan: Day V.

Update: You can now find the other days here: Day I, Day II, Day III, Day IV and first ONSEN experience!

We stayed at Kansai Airport Washington Hotel on our last night here. Reason being the nearest hotel to Kansai Airport. Also, if not mistaken most if not all cabin crew and pilots stay there whenever they have a flight to this land. So yeah. Early morning can see all the pretty ladies and handsome pilots. I don't understand why all pilots that I see are really good looking. Seriously. Not all cabin crews are pretty right? Heh.

Anyways, we had a simple breakfast at the hotel. Oh did I mention all the rooms in this hotel is a smoking room. As in ALL ROOMS! Minus point for that lah seriously. We walked in and immediately can smell already. They provide spray-on air freshener but I think it's just water. No difference eh.

Back to breakfast. After breakfast, I saw a small convenience store and quickly made my way there to see if I can last minute find anymore unique flavors of Kit Kat. One of my main focus this trip was to look for as many different types of Kit Kat I can find. Quite happy with what I got. 

It took about 10 minutes to the airport, and guess who greeted us at the check-in counter? 

Mr Muragishi, the Deputy General Manager of Kansai Foundation that funded us this whole trip. What an honor, really. He walked us in until to the gate where he can't go in. If he could, he would walked us all the way to the airplane I kid you not. God bless this man. He followed us throughout the whole week and he came to bid us farewell. His service seriously one of the best already. The only sad thing was he couldn't really communicate in English. Yeah. Thanks Mr Muragishi! :)

We went for one last shopping inside before heading to our waiting area to be flew back. As usual, being me I don't really like to bring back extra foreign money back so I managed to spend every yen at the airport which is not that much really. 

Selina and I purposely checked in together so we could sit next to each other again and we did! At the emergency area sumore. Massive leg room yay! 

They served us lunch and it was pretty yummy. Who agrees with me that MAS serves the best hot bun ever? Not that I've tried some other airplanes but seriously. BEST GILERR. For teatime, they gave us muffin and green tea ice cream which was super yummy. 

I waited for a few hours at KLIA before flying back to Penang. Upon collecting my luggage, I noticed that it has been mishandled :( It's quite new okay. So heartbroken. It was only when I wasnted to load it in the car that I realized the big crack and went back into the MAS counter to get it fixed. 

I went back home and realized that one of the four wheels were missing too. Just few days ago, I sent it to them to get it done up and now, they already called up to say it's done. Quite fast not bad.

That's pretty much all about my Japan experience. I shall be posting up about what I got from there and how much it costs (if I can still remember!) soon. 

Ahh, I miss Japan already. 

5D4N Osaka, Japan: Day IV.

Update: You can now find the other days here: Day I, Day II, Day III, Day V and first ONSEN experience!

Every morning, for sure I wake up before my phone alarm goes off. For sure. Thanks to the sun that shines super bright at about 5am. It's beautiful though.

Day four begins. That also means going home real soon. Sad and happy at the same time. Sometimes, my emotions are confused with each other. Sometimes. Life is difficult sometimes. 

Today, we will be travelling to Osaka! To be more chun, WE ARE GOING TO UNIVERSAL STUDIO JAPAN! *dances around and screams*

Universal Studio and Disneyland were never top in my must-go-to list but when the reality hits that I'm seriously going to one of it for free sumore, I was on top of the world. I'm not into cartoon stuff and animated things, but Universal Studio truly is a happy place. Okay, I will go to that later on. Let's continue with the day first.

Breakfast was good. Good because we finally get to eat western food. Quite jelak with Japanese food by then. Too bad no choo char in Japan. Haha. Their breakfast spread very different and exclusive. Can make own healthy drink and stuff. Very nice lah. Price also very good. I had a cup of coffee because I didn't know what else to take to complete my tray. Hah.

Saying goodbye to my room and Hotel Granvia Kyoto was difficult. Even more difficult than the first 3 hotels. Oh maybe same as Hotel Rosa Blanca. Hmm. Both I like leh! 

We pushed our luggages and boarded the JR train to the happy place. With train, it takes about an hour to reach. Three quarter of the time, we were standing. Japan has too many humans d seriously. 

After the long ride that felt like it took few hours, we finally reached Universal-City! Now, the excitement started to kick in. The heavy luggage seems lighter now. My feet suddenly don't hurt anymore. Dramatic a bit. 

We went in through the employee's way because we're special like that. Heh. We were greeted by Ms Yasuyo and then walked around the happy place like a boss. Nolah, not like a boss lah. Like a typical Asian got lah. Keep snapping photos and taking selfies. Hah.

Honda cars FTW! #foreverahondafan

Everything is such an eye candy. Everything is gorgeous and colorful and nice!

The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman 3D - most popular ride here. Yes it was but not recommended for those who has motion sickness.

This one also quite good but again, not for people with motion sickness. I almost puked my breakfast after those two rides. Of course I quickly force myself to recover. Many more nice rides waiting leh.

Best part: NO NEED TO LINE UP. We really walked in like some celebrities except we don't have a crazy crowd shouting our names and asking for signatures. BUT IT FELT AWESOME!

More pretty places, which photos can't really show. Too bad.

One of my favorite ride. They made it so real. Oh gosh I don't even know how to explain to you guys. It's too nice d!

For us, it was only 4 minutes. *grins*

The mini lake for the Jaws' ride. SO NICE OKAY! ALL SO REAL!

Lunch!

After lunch, it was time for a live performance at the Waterworld. This is something that blew my mind away. My first time of watching a live drama. They were so good. They even have real mini plane flew over the gate and landed on the water in front of us. They used real fire sumore. 

It's basically like those common story line that you see in the movies. Girl got kidnapped by some bad guys. Hero comes to her rescue and almost got killed and the bad men dies in the end of course. The story if typical. It's the way they did it that made it so wow!

I video some parts of it but watching in the video is not as nice. It's really good. I was not distracted at all throughout the entire show. Super good.

We sat on the Splash Zone but after seeing how wet people can get, we went a few rows back! Haha.

After the amazing show, we walked around for  abit more, did some shopping and it was time for us to get to our next hotel, Kansai Airport Washington Hotel.

We walked to Rinku Premium Outlets, where famous brands like Michael Kors, Burberry, Coach and Prada is found. There were major sales going on but I didn't bother lah.

We walked separately and met up again for dinner. We had one of the yummiest ramen ever. It was a great last night in Osaka. 

Oh this! The newest addition but only opening on the 15th July 2014! What is this!!

There's always time to rest and charge your phone while shopping. Hah.

Day four, done. 

Day four was a sad day but not as sad as compared to day five. Stay tuned for last day in Japan!