AfIqAh AiSyAh ^_^

7.

free tissue papers are everywhere! they give you tissue papers as a way to promote or tell you something. hurm, it is rather creative, but do you really think that people actually read the papers that go along with the tissue papers, instead of just dumping the irrelevant stuff into the dustbins? well, it is a good thing for me actually. i don’t have to spend my money on them anymore! i can get them for free, and whenever i need one. yippee~ well, the only problem is now my school bag is already full with those stuff! waaa~ i guess i can open a business selling tissue papers starting from now on…

6.

i feel like i am beginning to be more concerned towards the environment. well, who doesn’t when the system of rubbish throwing is soOo systematic. i mean, i can even differentiate between combustible and non-combustible things. wow! that is a real success for me! i even have this feel of guilt when i accidentally throw some rubbish NOT into their respective baskets. it is like the sorry feeling towards those working at the rubbish department, who would have taken some extra time separating the trashes once again. hurm… not only i am an environmentalist, but i may be a humanist too!

5.

since it is already the end of june, we can feel the changes on the temperature. it is getting higher and higher that i get the feeling as if i am already in malaysia. yeah, good feeling! however, it is funny looking at people bringing along their umbrellas up and down, almost everywhere. actually, it is not something weird to use an umbrella when it is not raining, especially during summer. but i find it is kinda funny for them to use the umbrella even when we can see no sun. such as on cloudy days! hey, the sun is not even there, and it is also not raining. hurm, when i start to think of it once again, oh well, they might just want to be fashionable. their umbrellas are actually pretty cute and trendy. (maybe i’ll  consider of getting flowered pattern umbrella myself! ^_^)

4.

they have some weird but interesting gadgets! on the very first day we arrived at chiisan hotel, somewhere in a rural area of osaka, we were shocked to see how wonderful their toilets were. it is not like the toilets in malaysia are not impressive enough or anything, but it’s just how excited we were to see the modern toilets. they were fully automatic and they had a ‘musical button’ with them. it even had the volume control button. oh, how cool! do they put radio in the toilets? yeah, how lame of us to think of that. we finally found out that the button was just to control the sound of the flush. if you want the sound to be louder, just increase the volume. i can’t see any sense of them inventing such thing. why  do they even need such gadget? do they need it to cover…. oh, wait a minute! i think i am starting to get it! heheheh… you guys, start guessing!! ;p

3.

people here tend to have this , i-am-not-bothered kind of attitude. well, not exactly everybody, but i can say, 90% of them here, which is quite a big number, have that attitude. they are not really bothered when people actually drop something, or even come late during class. they won’t even take the slightest glance to those kind of people. just imagine in malaysia. if you were to drop your pencil case and a big sound went, bang! i am 100% sure that everyone in the class including the teacher will turn their heads around just to take a look at what just happened. and same goes if there were to be late comers. but this situation doesn’t seem to apply in japan. you might just snore in the class and i bet you that nobody will even bother!

2.

guess what, every hour seems like rush hour here. people are running like nobody’s business just to catch the train or just to cross the road so that they won’t miss the opportunity. personally i find it is a good thing! it really shows how serious they are about being on time. however, it is not like the end of the world or anything if you miss the train or the green light. the transportation here is really convenient and undeniably punctual. we can have trains in every 3 to 4 minutes.heheh.. but it is funny when i find me, myself running when seeing other people running. yeah, run girl! run! good form of exercise anyway! ;p

1.

the attention you will get from the people here if you wear a tudung. you shall get a lot of stare everywhere you go. in the train, in a restaurant, in the toilet, or anywhere else. just name it! most comments come from small children. it is interesting and funny at the same time, seeing small innocent looking children look at you with weird expression and start asking loudly to their mothers on things like, ‘mom, why do they wear that thing(the tudung)? don’t they feel hot?’ hahahahah!! and their mothers will give them a warning look and turn back to us with sorry faces and start apologizing. neh, don’t be sorry. not a big deal, really. i feel like a celebrity walking with many people looking. hey, you won’t get that much of attention in malaysia! how lucky of me to actually experience this! if you cross a street with all the cars waiting, you might just want to do like what i feel like doing. yeah, put a broad smile and confidently walk like a model! everyone in the cars is actually looking! ^_^

~ by afiqahaisyah on June 27, 2007.