Furu Anime Panikku

I’ve been back for nearly 3 weeks, and yet, not a single proper post about my trip has been up. Anyway, here’s the start of the Japan Trip 2009 series of posts. I hope I don’t slack off.

Really long shopping street

My first week in Kyuushuu was rather slow paced. I was mostly hanging out with friends, and usually, Japanese people don’t really having their picture taken. On days that I hung out with my friends, I brought the camera along only for a few scenery shots. Sometimes, the camera was never taken out of my bag at all. As you should be able to infer, I don’t have too many pictures.

The following are the things that I did in Kumamoto:

- Visited Mount Aso

My luck was cursed that Sunday. It took a long 1 hour ride from my friend’s house, and minutes after I arrived at Mount Aso, there was a warning signal. It turned out that the volcano had decided to be an ass and start puking out volcanic gas. I only managed to snap a few shots before we were forced to leave the area. Phew, I stinked of sulphur for the rest of the day.

We headed down a little and there was this really nice field where horses graze during the weekdays. Finally, some beautiful nature greenery which Singapore sorely lacks.

Also, here’s something rare. A brown Lawson.

- Visited Suizenji Garden

While I’m fond of parks in Japan like Ueno park, I don’t exactly have a liking towards parks that charge an entrance fee. There wasn’t exactly much to do in Suizenji Garden except eating delicious ice that doesn’t give a brain freeze.

Yes, this image is from a past post, but I can’t help but emphasize on how awesome the ice is

Also, we visited the shrine. I got a crappy omikuji saying that nothing good would come of liking the current someone whom I had an interest in. True enough, I got rejected a couple of days later, and all contact was cut off after 3 weeks. Damn, out of the all the times I’ve gotten an omikuji, it’s only accurate this time.

- Watched Evangelion 2.0

I don’t have to wait till the 1st quarter of 2010 to find out what happened in the movie. Eva 2.0 felt a lot like the End of Evangelion. Here are some spoilers: The new meganekko doesn’t play an important role in this movie except aid in the cashcow milking. Also, Shinji and Eva unit 01 almost became god-like, but Kaworu decided to stab him with his man saber lance during the transformation, ruining everything.

And that’s all the interesting stuff I did.

My friend’s dad’s Fender Stratocaster. He’s a real cool dude. He even has his own band and they perform on a regular basis

The rest of the time in Kyuushuu was spent in Oomuta, Fukuoka and Kagoshima. I wouldn’t be writing about Fukuoka and Oomuta, since I was there mostly to meet friends. Nothing interesting was done. On the other hand, Kagoshima is a great place that I’d like to go back to. It’ll be awesome if I could visit Yakushima for a hiking trip. Kirishima too.

Next up, Kagoshima. And that includes the beautiful Sakurajima.

P.S. Pss… I’ve a special story that I’ll post soon. If you have me on Facebook, you’ll get what I’m talking about.