Japan trip (Part 1)

Hello! I'm finally here to blog about my Japan trip! :D It wasn't my first time stepping into Japan, last time I went to Hokkaido, but not with my parents but my aunties and uncles! My parents chose Japan for this year's vacation because we haven't been to Japan yet as a whole family. What's great is, my cousins are joining us for this awesome trip too!!

This time we joined Apple's Japan tour, they said Apple has the best service and itinery for Japan tour. Seems the rumor is real!! We stayed in different hotels each day and they are around 4 to 5 stars, and they have excellent services. One thing I need to praise about Japan is that EVERY toilet of theirs are clean and fresh! They don't have water on the floor that makes you feel yucky, and most toilet bowls have heater (for winter time), and their high-tech has brought the toilet bowl to have those buttons where you can spray your butt after you've poo.

This Japan trip lasted for 7 days 5 nights. Total 32 (more or less) people in a bus, first I was quite worried because I haven't join Apple tour before. And next thing is do we have to wait for people??? But my worries are all nothing, I truly enjoyed this trip and although we didn't really talk much with other families but everyone of them are really good!!

On November 17th (Sunday) evening, we went to the airport. Our flight is at 11:50 at night, the flight took about 5 hours plus to Osaka!

 Me and ma cousin, Phoebe!

From Kuala Lumpur to Kansai airport, Osaka.

We reached Osaka in the morning. Cuz it's the Autumn season now, so the sky will get bright really early and the sun will set really early too. As known as, 日长夜短。We met the tour guide after reaching the airport. She was really cute and always has a bright smile!! To my surprise, she is a Malaysian and then moved to Japan and she got married there!

 Osaka's Kansai airport!!

Our first destination was Universal Studios Japan!!! The place is crowded like ........ It sure will be super crowded cuz it's so famous all around the world! For those much more exciting games like roller coaster will need you to queue for like... 1-2 hours, even worst, 3 hours. Only queuing up has took all our time and so we only get to play 3 games! Like dafuq right?! :(

Left to right: My sister, Gillian, Phoebe, me and Jiawen!

They have lots of characters for you to snap photos! Some even worse need to queue up to take photos some more oh my gawd T_T But people still really queue up to take photos with these characters!

Christmas is here soon!! 

 They said this Spiderman game is fun but we didn't get to play it cuz it's realllyyyyyy crowded T_T

After walking for quite some time, we decided to stop by the Jurassic Park to have a ride! My mum has this obsession with water games lolll. We also love it cuz it's very fun :P Of course, a long queue is a must for this fun game!

Some photos while queuing up to cure boredness! 

An amazing shot from my cousin! Yes, this is the one we played at the Jurassic Park! So fun so scared, everything all in one. When the car came down I felt like all of my problems were washed with the water! Lucky me who brought myself a raincoat, I didn't get wet at all! But others got wet hahaha cuz the splash is really huge just like what shown in the picture.

While queuing up, many people were eating some meat. The taste is so good we just can't resist to not try. 

It's the Turkey meat!!!! We bought too much and we can't finish them so we threw it away T_T So wasted right.... And they are super expensive lolll, but a nice experience eating the turkey meat!

Another interesting thing is, while we were eating the turkey meat, suddenly some random dinosaur came out from nowhere and many people fenced up and it was walking in a circle. Previously I saw this signboard at somewhere and I thought it was just a design... Turns out it was real O_O! 

The dinosaur literally looked like a real one!! Ok we didn't see real dinosaurs before but this is... quite cool! We kept on wondering how did the person inside get inside the body and walk... And my cousin found a zipper on it's butt lolll.

Next, we went to play Back to the Future ride! Not really sure what ride is this but we just went in to queue up and try playing. Turns out it's quite fun!! 

Had a short walk around Universal Studios Japan and there's a lot of Japanese students with beautiful school uniforms. Well, Japan is famous with their awesome school uniforms and it's really awesome, still. I don't know why they can go to Universal Studios although it's on a Monday... Maybe they skip school or whatever hahaha.

While walking, we heard music and we realised there was a parade going on!! We stopped by the crowd to watch the performances. Everyone was so professional and it's really nice seeing the parade with many performers and characters dancing around the music! By watching this you could seriously light up your mood! 

After that, we continued our last ride that is, Hollywood Dream! They have 2 kinds of roller coasters here. And the queue is like super duper crazy!!! Not gonna joke, when we first came in the queue was like so damn long until need to queue until outside -.- We gave up and went to try other rides, glad we did so lolll. 

Of course, there were many shops selling souvenirs. Regretted so much for not buying a single thing from Universal Studios Japan!!! Omg, what was I doing that time?! I surely wasn't in my right mind cuz I'm lack of sleep...maybe. 

 Cookie monster, Elmo!

 We 5 were sitting on a bench, observing people and blowing wind, lollll.

Finally, we had to leave Universal Studios cuz we have time limit for joining tour. Took some photos with the representative universal globe! 

Not to forget to mention, they have lots of vending machines in Japan!! You can find it everywhere there in Japan. They have the vending machines randomly on the streets haha, I didn't get to try buying anything with the vending machines though :(

To Harry Potter hardcore fans!! They are currently constructing a new place in Universal Studios Japan, that is The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Saw the signboards that it will be done in the year 2014, people who are Harry Potter hardcore fans don't miss this chance! :P 

We had our dinner at Amataro. It's a traditional kind of Japanese food where you can take the food yourself.. 

Just simply take whatever we like and put it in to cook, they were using plain water so there's no taste if we eat it without dipping the sauces! 

After having our dinner, we took a stroll at the Osaka street which is near our restaurant. So many shops but we were too cold to enjoy the shopping T_T

 The famous pose in Osaka! They said you have to do the pose and take photos with the person above.

That's all for my first day (well, counted as second day) in Japan. Will blog about the other days in next post and next next post... Bye! :D

My hair dye experience.

It's finally the school holidays! Actually we started our holidays 2 weeks ago but we still have to go back to school for the one-day trip and also to get our report card. I was quite satisfied with my report card, hopefully I can remain hardworking and of course, be more hardworking next year as it's an important step in my life!!

Well, back to the main topic. I've dyed my hair yesterday right after school. I've actually wanted something different this time. P/S: It wasn't my first time dyeing my hair, I've dyed in the school holidays for the past two years too. People might be familiar with this hair saloon, which most bloggers were sponsored by them - Number 76 style. They have very good hairstylist (well, I've never tried before but judging their photos). I've searched a little from their Instagram and found a hair photo I quite liked. It's pinkish brown base + purple highlights.

I was quite happy that time cuz I've finally found a hair color that I want and is satisfied with. What worries me, is that bleaching part which many people said it will hurts a lot, and of course it brings total damage to your hair. My hair is quite damaged cuz I've been dyeing for the past two years, so I am quite worried about that matter too.

Finally, I've decided to just try that color, since only brown is too common and also purple is one of my fav color. I went to the saloon I always had my hair cut at, and showed the photo to the hair stylist.

Elva wanted to dye her hair too so she accompanied me to dye her hair and have a hair cut! Both of my cousins were following too cuz they also want their hair to be dyed.

I don't know why the heck the photos' color turn out like this wtf -.-

My cousins who is bleaching her hair too, she wanted to dye her hair part blue.

Elva was cutting her hair first. 

 The hair stylist bleached my hair first for the purple color. 

Many people said the bleaching part would hurt a lot but it seems fine for me, 

maybe I was just highlighting a part of my hair so it didn't effect much. 

 LOL her hair is black okay, I don't know what's wrong with the photos T_T 

It wasn't like this in the camera....

For people who don't know, after you've bleached your hair, it will turn to a superb light color!

For special colors such as purple, pink, green, blue etc you have to bleach your hair or else the color will not be seen :) It's best to not bleach your hair, even so, bleach a little. Cuz it'll really damage your hair so make sure to take hair treatment if you're doing so! 

And finally, the hair stylist is finishing up my hair by dyeing it brown as the base~ 

Elva who had had her hair cut! Basically the hair stylist cut her hair to be more layered, and she wanted a fringe hairstyle too~ Spot the red highlights on her hair! She also dyed 2 parts of her hair red, it was nice with her brown hair! 

After few hours of dyeing our hair, we finally got the final result! I am very very satisfied with my hair and also thanks a lot to the hair stylist, he must be very tired cuz we has a lot of  "heads" to deal with~ LOL!

And this is the final result of my hair! Didn't get to take front and side photos of my hair.. I'm not quite sure if it is really like this at the back cuz I don't have eyes at the back -.- But still, I'm really satisfied with my hair color! Didn't regretted even a bit, I kept on looking at my hair whenever there's a mirror lolll.

Btw, I dyed my hair at the saloon at Mutiara's ground floor. The one same floor as Pizza Hut, and the shop's name called - Hot Headz! They give good service and especially, affordable and reasonable price! For people who wanna dye their hair but can't decide where to do it, find this place! :D

Oh yeah, I'm leaving Malaysia to Japan tomorrow for a week! Yayyy, finally a family trip and also my cousins tag along too~ Very excited for this trip as I've waited for hella long, might not get the chance to go online and blog cuz I heard that there's no free wifi in Japan.. (What.......?!) 

Have a good holiday everyone! 

S.Wine Cafe @ Publika

Hello!! I'm gonna blog about a cafe I've been to last Sunday. It was my cousin brother's birthday so his parents invited my whole family to dine at S.Wine Cafe @ Publika. It is a non-halal restaurant as it serves all pork!!! Regretted so much for eating my breakfast cuz I was sooo full that I can't finish the whole bowl :( My daddy forced me to eat my breakfast loll. Fyi, we were having lunch.

It was stated as clearly there, non-halal. But to my surprise, there were many people dining in the cafe too!! The food portion was kinda huge for a person, so it is advised to share with another person if you wanna enjoy more food.

Each of us ordered a bowl of pasta, oh damn, it was sooo good, but it was sooo huge lolll. 

 My cousin's pick - Spicy Bacon & Mushrooms 

This one is soo good!! But it is kinda spicy like what the title said, lollll.

 My pick - Pork & Beef Meatballs

Kinda regretted for picking this, cuz the taste is like typical-pasta taste. 

I wanna try something different!!...maybe next time

 My sister's pick - Sausage & Bacon Chunks

My lil cousin's pick - Traditional Carbonara

And of course, a lil desert before ending our lunch! I wanna order Mango Cream with Vanilla Ice-cream but too bad they don't have already T-T So we picked Crème brûlée with crisp! 

Amagadd, the bacon with the creme brulee was heaven, it melts in my mouth!! 

Finally, some photosss..

S.Wine Cafe

Lot 1A, 83-95, Level UG

Publika, No.1 Jalan Dutamas 1

Solaris Dutamas

50480 Kuala Lumpur.

Contact: +603 62091716

xoxo