Am I Becoming Insane?

Since I hadn't been listening to this kind of music, it just surprised myself. I've been listening to something more pop or rock in the past. I don't know what changed, but just feel like listening to this with full volume recently (of course I don't do that because it's too noisy for people around me). I downloaded one of their album fully few weeks ago and have kept listening to it.

I've had some chances to listen to something similar to this, but wasn't really interested at that time. Although it was something not annoying, and also not my taste; I just had neutral feeling. Timing is interesting. I found that interesting that I might have gotten chances to enjoy them more in the past, but it didn't come into my heart at that time. So, it's something new for me from now. But maybe everything comes up to me when it naturally has to happen :) I'm happy that my world of music got a little bit widened :P

My Golden Week

It passed by so quickly. I think, GW in this year was the GW that I spent the thickest time :)

As I told in my last post, my 1st day of GW (May 2nd) started by working. I came back home next morning, and went shopping with my sister. After that, we met up my friends and went to a Turkey restaurant. The master is foreigner (I'm not sure from which country he is from) and he is a very funny guy. I don't say the foods are that yummy nor the service is perfect (actually, the service is kind a halfway and the master treats us in kind a funny way), but the price is reasonable and we can see a belly dancer dancing without being charged :) The ornaments in the restaurant are nice and especially the atmosphere that the master makes is nice. I found it easy to talk to people that I don't know at the restaurant because the master speaks to the customers with making fun of them and it makes everyone laugh.

At 8pm, a dancer in a blue dress appeared and started dancing. After a while, the master started naming customers with funny nicknames (for example, a foreigner was called American; I'm not sure if he is really American. Another person who wore stripe shirt was called vertical stripe), and he made us dance with her in turn. I didn't get a strange nickname, but was made dance as well (-_-;) I can't dance at all, I haven't belly danced in my life. I tried to mimic her but of course it looked weird and ugly at all (my sister took a video with my camera), lol. But it was fun, I enjoyed.

Next day, on 4th, I went to a mountain to see the view from the observation platform of the mountain. The name of the view is commonly known by "地獄のぞき(The look of hell)" because the platform locates on the precipice that is sticking out above the forests. Firstly, we were planning to go up by a cable car and coming back on foot. However, when we got to the cable car station, we found that we had to wait for an hour because there were a lot people. So, we changed our plan and went up on foot. The mountain didn't seem so tough, but being contrary of the idea, we got so tired because the course we chose had lots of steps in the beginning!!! Anyway, we went up to the top of the mountain, saw the view or hell (lol) and saw some Jizo and a huge Daibutsu which is much bigger than that of in Kamakura, and came back.

Last day, on 5th, my sister and I went to shopping in our area. I didn't really plan buying any clothes because I bought some the other day, but I changed my mind when we found some T-shirts of USAVICH. Once we found such a thing, THERE IS NO REASON THAT WE HAVE TO REFRAIN FROM BUYING THEM (being poor will be a reason tho, lol). We crazily took a look of those T-shirts and chose which to buy. We even bought one for our brother as a souvenir :P So we were satisfied...and my wallet went empty...

Thus, I spent a thick time during my GW. How was yours??? I hope you enjoyed your GW as well :D

May Started

My Golden Week started by working.

Since May 1st is Saturday this year, there are 5 consecutive off days for most people. Some people get April 30th as well. So, such people's off days are really "whole a week". ENVYYYYY! However, I'm not gonna complain about it. As I've mentioned in past posts, I'm a person who wants to go on a trip whenever I have long off days, but only when it is kind an "off season" for Japanese tourists :)

For my coming next trip, I got to work on one of those holidays by myself. I'm so excited!! It really doesn't matter for me to have a tough schedule in May because of that :) It's not too much to say I'm alive for the trip. Hopefully I'll experience something more that I've gotten in Cambodia. I was reading my travel guidebook again and again a month ago, but stopped it after a while. Now, the trip is coming soon. I'm gonna start taking a look of the book and make plans again. It's still unbelievable that I'm in Vietnam almost in 2 weeks. In past few weeks, I made my last previous reservation for the trip; booking a hotel with a pick up service. Since I'm getting there very late at night, I chose the safeness :) When I get there, I'll see and decide if I go to the city from the airport by myself or booking a pick up service again when I'm coming back from Hue.

As I mentioned before, I have some small wish lists that I want to accomplish during the coming trip. I'm not gonna tell about the detail now because I want to write about it when I come back (please wish me luck to come back safely!). At least, one of the wish lists is almost being realized; going on a trip with a big backpack which I already bought soon after I decided to go. So this is gonna be my debut trip as a backpacker, HAHAHA. Even I don't have much time as what backpackers are thought to be in usual, I'm gonna enjoy myself as much as possible :P

Now I'm making a list of what to bring. My backpack is 50ℓ and that is 15ℓ smaller than my suitcase. I have to pack things I need beside keeping some space for souvenirs :)