Saturday, May 31, 2008

Something exciting..

Here's the thing I was pretty excited about. I'm going to Japan for 3 weeks! Alright... Most of you already know this thing, nothing new. Big deal. Hey! I'm really excited over this trip okay!

Met up 4 times with the groupie, last night being the 4th. Let's recall a bit.

We had an ice-breaking session at Alif. It was just a normal supper with the groupie members (sans Zee) plus JJJ. Oh oh oh! That was the night we sent Wy off to airport too! It was kinda for me to repay my gratitude. Wy often drove me home, so I ought to do him a favour too.

The next time we met up was at West Coast McDonald. This was the 1st official discussion meeting too. Based on a template itinerary that Cui has, we started planning our route for the trip. Zw was not in the discussion because he was not feeling well. Oh! I had the WaCh-MaCh-WaCh monthly gathering before this meeting too.

The 3rd meet up, also the official 2nd discussion meeting, was at National Library. Well, it was supposed to be at National Library, but we met quite a few problems and didn't manage to get a good spot there, so we moved to the McDonalds at Bra Basah there. Prior to this meeting, each of us has to research part of the itinerary to do as homework. Basically, this meeting was to plan what we going to do and allocate the days spent at specific areas. Ah! Zw was out in this meeting too. He had to meet up with his Taiwan trip's member for their discussion too.

Last night's meeting was quite an emergency, at least I felt so. Why? Because the accommodation might be an issue already! A few lodgings which we shortlisted previously are already fully booked! This is not good! Cheap, accessible and good lodgings are not easy to find. So we gotta find our accommodation ASAP and book them! That was the aim for yesterday. Actually, come to think of it. It was today that we met up. I started to pick them up at around 12am+. It's today! Alright. Back to topic. I was doing quite intensive research on the accommodation around all the areas we will be visiting. It was quite hard, and considering I was doing last minute work. LOL. So typical me. Well, at least we kinda managed to settle for the accommodation and the baton was passed over to Cui for her to do the contacting of the lodging.
Hahahaha! Zw was out again, he's in Taiwan.

Something to clarify first. Zw did not pang seh us for the discussion or what. It's really because of the timing that we set. So it's not his fault or anything.

So, ya! I'm still going to Japan after all!!! And it's extended from 1 week to 3 weeks! Great!! Damn, I have no money...

I'll write another post on the Japan trip details another time. Basically, this is the route. Fukuoka (Kyushu) -> Miyajima (Hiroshima) -> Okayama -> Osaka -> Kanazawa -> Takayama -> Mount Fuji -> Tokyo
Woot~ From the west to the east! But we are not going north to Hokkaido. No time. No money. So Tokyo is the last stop. Banzai!!!!!

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