she was sent to the hospital. the doctor said that there's a blood clot in her left side of the brain so now her whole right side of her body is paralysed. and she still hasnt woken up yet. doctor said that chances of her recovering is minimal and they discourage eldery patients to undergo operations at this age. i went to visit her yesterday at the icu and she still hasnt woken up yet. im scared.
i pray that she'll be fine, Insyaallah.
anyway, i just came back from the NUS "malay" camp. it was a blast, definitely. but missing 4 days of training is not really exciting, really, knowing very well that when i return back for training im gonna get a whole load of shit from coach and nicholas. so i went back for training yesterday and yep, i got what i anticipated.
our flight to Bangkok had a personal TV and i watched Little Miss Sunshine. we transferred to another airplane to Narita Airport. Thai Airways food is goooooood. but too bad during our journey to japan i was still on a diet. so i could only eat half of whatever i was served.
it was raining throughout the whole day and night on our first day in Japan. it was so cold nak mampos, i thought the rain wouldnt stop. it didnt, until the next morning. it was so cold i had to row with my track pants and jacket. thank the heavens the following days were pretty hot and dry. but the abrupt change in weather made my lips crack and bleed. :(
the rowing competition was held in this small town near tokyo called toda koen.
so there's no high rised buildings and not much shopping to do except grocery shopping. and shopping is definitely a no no in japan. the things there are freaking expensive. like one banana costs about $1.50! one bloody banana not a special banana with more banana flavour but freaking normal banana which tastes like NTUC banana or cold storage banana and its not even del monte banana! but i love their yogurt and the many many many kinds of food you can never find in singapore.
FOOD.
food there is great la. what else is there to say. singapore's halal ramen ten jap restaurant is nothing compared to the real thing, pls.
i look forward to meal times all the time so we can walk around the town to search for food. pretty exciting exploring new places to eat.
this is where we had our first lunch
this was my first meal in japan - udon noodles with egg and cucumber and some stupid tasting chilli slices and cold soup. yummmy.
at first i poured the whole soup into the noodle bowl then the next day we discovered the correct way of eating this dish. mix some red chilli pepper and one of the many sauces they provide you with in the cold soup. use your chopsticks to grab some noodles and dip them in the soup, then slurp the noodles up putting your mouth at the edge of the bowl and push the noodles into your mouth using ur chopsticks. haha. yummmy okay.
the ambience of the restaurant seems like it appeared straight from your tv screen while you're watching a jap drama serial
and the menus are so cool cuz u dont understand anything and u look like a kid reading a picture book, facinated by the pictures.
ordering food is exciting, thats for sure. the waiter usually doesnt understand a word of english, which makes it all the more fun. we will be trying to explain to him with so much animation that we dont want pork. and each of us having different diets makes it even more interesting. i will usually order noodles with soup and egg or vege. nic and his sons will go for various seafood dishes and wai mun will always want his food to come with an extra bowl of rice. we got so pissed trying to explain to them what we want we had to look up the net for translations. i found out that butanike is pork and we remember it as "butang ni ke?" :)
suba noodles with spicy soup and spinach and pot stewed egg
my favourite- spicy pasta. :)
the biggest meal i had- udon noodles and cold soup + rice with brinjal curry + salad
our welcome tea- boxes of sushi, marie biscuits, pokki sticks, chocolate sweets, fanta and green tea and beer.
the national training centre where our dorms are located.
oh i shared a room with 7 other hong kong girls. they're really nice. but a little messy. look at the condition of our room.
and on our last night before we leave, we went out of the training centre to the nearby river to play with fireworks. even though i hardly understand what they're saying, it was really fun :)
and then they invited me for supper as well, thats when i ate octopus ball and realised that it tastes like chicken.
okay then there was one day after the race when we went out to town, supposedly to shop but then again, everything in japan is just too expensive. i feel like a malaysian shopping in singapore. haha. anyway, we took the train to Shinjuku.
check out the train system. woots.
excited okay. :D
they closed the streets to cater to the large population of shoppers.
hoho. LARGE is a word too small to describe the number of people in Shinjuku. my goodness, its worse than the worst peak hour condition, worse than the worst great singapore sale atmosphere ive ever seen before. and its a normal shopping sunday. we visited Isetan shopping centre which is like supposedly a very high end shoppoing centre. and its so annoying that they obey the "stand on the left of the escalator" rule even though there's no one walking up or down on the right side. and it was freaking packed nak mampos i swear so imagine lah, everyone squeeing on the left side, queuing up to take the escalator.
culture shock lah, definitely.
and the way they dress up. felt like im living a scene from a movie made in japan. and ohmygawd despite not being able to shop, it was a feaking once in a lifetime experience. i like.
nice hor the way they arrange their fruits in the supermarket.
and its so frekaing cater for the filthy rich, this box of 2 rock melons costs 31500 yen which is equivalent to S$393.75 - for rock melons.
and we went all the way to tokyo and had lunch in the most expensive indian restaurant ive ever been to. one dollar for a plate of rice. hurhur.
oh and tokyo itself has more than 6 million vending machines, did u know? fast fact! fast fact! haha. its everywhere, i swear. this is one selling cigarretes at a selit selit at a housing estate.
and japan wouldnt be japan without the seafood. yuck. this is our first dinner. raw suqid and fish, they're so fresh the stink is so strong. yuck. i ate beancurd that night.
smelly like hell, really.
and thats us busy rigging our boats. stupid boat. or maybe its my stupid rigging.
random signboard.
they call me M Rafaee. and yes, i was lousy.
thats Nihon Uni Boat House where our boats are kept and where there's the Nakata look alike. hot okay. hahaha.
and yup, that us. :)
and nic called me the black japanese. he wanted to leave me in japan, okay. :(
okay cool. so when i reached singapore noone picked me up cuz i dint tell anyone when im coming home cuz i didnt know what time i'll reach home. but okay, so i bought popeyes and ate alone, okay. damn sad but nevermind. coach was pissed when i went training the next day cuz we didnt even get into the semi finals and he was being so freaking sarcastic about it lah. and he makes full use of it to tell me that i should train twice or more a day, one session a day is not enough. he called me lazy.
and i'll tell u more about the NUS camp soon. grar. i miss camp. i miss the people and i have to go visit my grandma now and there's just so much to do. argh.
next time then.
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