Day 5

We just arrived in Tokyo at 7:30am this morning. Wayy too early for me, or anyone sane for that matter. We got to our hostel at 10:30am but had to wait til 2pm to checkin. Total killer! The obvious solution of course was to kill time by facebooking lol.

As soon as we got upstairs (that's dragging 18.5kgs up 5 flights of stairs!!!) I think we just konked out from exhaustion. And that's pretty much how we spent our first day in Japan.. exciting, huh? haha but you've gotta love the ikea boxes we're sleeping in. They're actually pretty spacious. Basically, they're like bunkbeds but instead of being beds, they are these big box/cabin things with sliding doors that you sleep in. They even come with a built-in light, shelf and powerpoints hehe. Pretty awesome, or so I think anyway.

Now, is it just me or is there some unspoken rule in japan that all girls must speak in a cute voice?? Because no kidding, every person I've come across so far speaks in that cutesy jap voice. Nothing wrong with it, but it's abit odd when you think about it lols.

I think it's about time for me to start budgeting and sticking to it.. I think I spent $550 in 3 days while I was in KL. Don't know how I did that when everything's so cheap over there haha. If I keep going at that rate, I'm gonna be broke by the time I get back.. BUT in my defence, I now own a whole heap of cheap anime and accessories, woohoo!

Me and Mai also got fake nails put on for the very first time... yeah, let's just say I'm never doing that again. They look awesome but god, they're so impractical! You can't do anything with them on. Writing's hard, taking stuff out of your bag is hard, typing's hard, taking your contacts out is hard. Basically, doing ANYTHING is hard. I don't know how those girls do it. I just got so sick of it the day after that I just grabbed my nailclippers and chopped them down to normal sane sizes! Sigh. Never again.

Anyway time for me to eat. All I ate today was aeroplane bread and salad, and a packet of chips, and I'm starving!

Day 3

Tuesday 17/03/09

Time's flown so fast that it's day 3 already. Perhaps it's a good thing that the computer at the hotels not working, and that I'm too lazy to go over to the net cafe across the road very often. This is only the 2nd time (and only because I have to write emails to my mum!).

We got to Kuala Lumpur at 11:30pm on Sunday (2:30am melb time) and to our hotel probably around 12:30 or so, so we were TIRED. But being our first night, we couldn't just sit in our hotel room so we decided to go for a walk around our neighbourhood. Quite a silly thing to do for 3 young girls to do at that time of night, but we didn't realise that til later. Now, the area we're staying in is kind of the nightlife/entertainment/sh

opping area (we're staying on Jalan Bukit Bintang) so it was still nice and alive even though it was past midnight. But I have to say, the amount of unwanted attention you get over here would astonish you.. I never had this problem in vietnam. People may have looked but they never said anything. Here, they look at you, whistle at you, call out at you. And not just once in a while, but constantly. It's really uncomfortable and extremely scary at night time especially when we're just walking down the road and suddenly there's 5 guys following us. I swear I wanted to turn around and say FUCK OFF. but obviously, that would be a silly thing to do in the middle of the night. This was all on our walk to the Petronas Twin Towers by the way (don't think I mentioned that before), and it was just our luck that the minute we arrived at the towers, they turned off the lights that were lighting up the tower. That was the entire reason we walked there in the first place to take photos, so we were pretty shattered and had to hike back to our hotel haha.

Anyway we're going to go back to the towers now and get a proper look at go up to the Skybridge and I'm actually running late now so I'll update later on!