【東北】Hiking at Nasukashi hill side

【Volunteer program 2010】

Hiking at Natsukashi hill side

那須甲子

located north of Tokyo

This is a continuous post from my trip to Tohoku at yr2010

(blog post here)

Just before the earthquake

Actually the hill side that we hiked is not that big

Just wanna show the 

beauty of the nature

So lets start to hike!!!

We joined the junior high school boy scout gang 

for hiking

They are so CUTE!!!!!!

Later you will see how cute they are

Hike into the woods

in a line so that we would not get lost

Of course there are resting time

for drinking water

Continue hike hike hike into the green green woods

Till we saw a small river

That will be our destination!!!!

The river is so CLEAN!!!!

and very chilling!!!!

The view in the hill side is awesome!!

Fresh air!!!

Nice scenery!!!!

relaxation MAX!!

The boy scout is very disciplined

All of them line up and wait for order

After their captain set them off for lunch time

they need to be independent

to open the can by themselves

and learned how to survive in the nature

Can you open a can when you are 9 years old??

These 2 kids are sooooooooo CUTE!!!!!

The right one is so Handsome!!

hahaha

Too good looking for a kid

I hope I have such cute and good looking kid in the future!

After lunch

and some water activities in the river

is time for us to go back before dark

Hope you all enjoy the beauty of nature in Japan!!

See you all in next post!!

【静岡】Ride with Japan Electric Car - Leaf

CAR talk time

(I do not know much about car though)

well

after HYBRID generation

Now Japan is promoting
Fully ELECTRIC Car (EV car)

No Ekzos = No Smoke

No Engine = No Sound

very ECO

★★★★★

I rent and had a ride with Nissan Leaf 

日産リーフ
(Exterior look at here)

Car price at 2,990,000yen (RM98k)

Japanese Government is encouraging the people to use EV car

so 780,000yen is being subsidies

So this car is only 2,200,000yen (RM72,600)





★★★★★

My experience with the EV CAR

The car is very POWERFUL

in driving up the mountain

and very STEADY in Highway

It can run up to 120km/h easily

but the electric consumption is HIGH

when you use for mountain and highway

SO

You will need t search for Charge point all the time

a bit troublesome

as the car Battery tank only can charge up to 150km

40km will be reduced if air conditioner in on

and distance will reduced twice faster for driving on mountain and highway

watching the meter of the battery

like watching stock market

up and down

★★★★★

There is 3 common types of charging point in Japan

100V, 200V, Speed Charge(400V)

If you use 200V

1 hour charge up to 3～4km

(very slow)

Usually Speedy charging point is recommended

but the charging point is limited

Speed charging point will cost you 30～60mins

to fully charge (110～150km)

very time consuming

★★★★★

When we searching for a charging point

an EV QUICK sign will be shown

which is the place for Speed charging



It looks like a petrol station

but it is individual

the number of station around is very limited



Get the pump

and plug into the hole in front of the car



Then press the start button

then after sometime

The input voltage and ampere will be shown

and so as the battery's percentage 

Since it is under government campaign

It is FREE for charge

Just leave your car at the charging spot

and leave for meal break or toilet break

of course you need to lock your car

EV car is very comfortable, spacious, soundless

BUT

the charging system is a bit troublesome

good for riding in town

but not for long distance

unless you willing to spend time waiting for charging

I had a great experience with this EV car

【Event】Comic Market 2013

Comic Market 2013

Comic market is Japan LARGEST public gathering

you will feel that 

"Where on earth these people come from????"

Comic market have exhibition and sales of self-published publication 

centered around manga, anime, video games, and other related genres

In Japan we used to call it as 「Comike」「コミケ」

more than 600,000 people visited this event this year

The crowd is amazing!!!!!

(No second time for me though)

read more here

if you want to know more about the history of the Comic Market (Comike)

★★★★★

The next comic market which will be the 85th times

will held from 

Dec 29 (Sun) ～ Dec 31 (Tue)

Winter season

This period will be a holiday for most of the Japanese

so it will be SUPER crowded

(more info here but only in Japanese)

(English here but less info)

★★★★★

It will be held at Tokyo Big Sight

near Odaiba

I went on the last day

and still the people at the station is so crowded!!!!

The station staff even control the number of people

entering the station to avoid over congestion

after getting out from the station

the path will lead you to the Tokyo Big Sight building

where most of the exhibition will be held

not only Comic Market

The building looks like an upside down pyramid on 2 pole

Anime and Manga lovers from all over the world

purposely fly to Japan to join this event

Some even stick their fav character on their cars and Bicycle

After following the path prepared by the event

you will be lead to the free area

where all the Cos-players will be

This year (Maybe because it is summer)

There are A LOT BIKINIS around!!!!!

See all those Humsup guys grabbing their camera

toward the Bikini Girl

But there is a rule in Comike where there are guard will stop you from taking photo too long

 The guard will go to the cos-players with lots of crowd

and start to countdown in 5 second

you will need to stop taking photo and go away after the countdown finish

(strict rule..... haha....)

My friends all tell me that

"Why you don take photo from the FRONT??????!!!"

Most Japanese are Flat or Fake boops

You want see flat one?? or Fake one??

You can see GUYS cos-players are very LONELY

you can easily take their photo from front

hahaha

Sailor moon is there too!!!

Sailor moon might be outdated so less people around her

Since is SUMMER

The weather is SUPREMELY hot and melting!!!!!!!!

Some cos-players even black out

and they call for Medic

We also cannot stand the heat so we went in

All we can see is people mountain people sea

人山人海

日本語というと「人ごみ」

Just look at their HUGE costume

and just imagine the heat of 40 degrees with humidity of 99%

This is almost equal to suicide

Why the event do not have room with air-condition

for them to cos-play



The enterprise exhibition session

is more to video games

Some people in front

I doubt they are the voice actress

giving some talk or something

attracted those Geek オタク

HUGE gundam look-alike figure

I don watch anime so much

So I do not know what character it is

If those who like anime a lot

You might like this event

We finished the enterprise part

then walk down to the free area session again

more and more cos-players coming up!!!!

This girl a bit lansi

or maybe is the rule

a guy asked to take a picture of her

then she said no photo allowed while moving around

means no photo shooting when cos-players is walking around

You can only take photo

when the cos-players are standing in certain photo shooting area

(I heard they said)

This is character from Kingdom Heart

There are the marios too

(They are too high and too thin for Marios though)

I caught a photo from the front

you can see

it is FLAT!!!!

Or maybe is a HE

(0.0)!!!!!!

There are lots weird people

with weird costume

or not even costume

standing around

Just see the CROWD!!!!

on our way to the station

We decided to take the taxi instead of train

too crowded and too tired

gosh......

you can see that the participants are all in costumes

There is a rule in Comike that

You cannot wear your costume from your house!!

You must change your costume at the changing room they prepare

as they duwan to cause trouble or unwanted problems to the public

E.G. wearing a bikini in the train will attract all eyes to the boops and pervert that try to touch it

and some of the cos-players

with HUGE weapon or gadget that may

hurt and frighten off other people too

I saw from TV that some of the cos-players spent few k ringgit (100,000yen above)

for making those costumes and gadgets

Just really cannot imagine

their craving towards ANime and cos-play

Well

Just go ONCE and thats more than enough for me

I am getting more dark after this event

gonna wait for my skin to get white this coming winter

Good Comike experience

but not planning to go for a second time

during the SUMMER

maybe will consider Winter but think about the crowd

I might give up.....

【Penang】Shoe Shopping@Prangin Mall

SHopping @ Penang, Malaysia

Prangin Mall

Beside Komtar

One of a signature place in Penang

Run through Gurney... Queens Bay....

The shoes just not my type

some is normal design

but high price (above RM80... 2500yen)

where the design and quality not worth for the price

★★★★★

Then

My last destination in Penang for my shopping

is Prangin Mall

★★★★★

(Japan outlet the cloths is more cheap so I just look for ladies shoes only)

Well I am NOT into those branded shoes

I am more into the DESIGN than the Brand

★★★★★

Of course sneakers need to buy Adidas

(It will cost you around RM60～RM200 for an Adidas shoe)

If you go to an Outlet in Japan

You will get crazy entering Adidas or Nike shop

The shoes are so COOL!!!!! Various variety!!!!

most important is CHEAP!!!!!!

★★★★★

So I just simply walk into a shoe store in Prangin Mall

Here is what I got

Some slippers for SUMMER

Punk style slipper @ RM20 (660yen)



Elegant low heels @ RM23 (750yen)

Platforms with shoe lace design at the heel @ RM70 (2300yen)  

Can be used in Autumn and Spring if wear with leggings or stockings

Pumps that suitable for 

Office wear

All seasons!!!!

i LOVED these pumps as the material are very soft

and comfortable to wear

Black Shining pumps @ RM25 (800yen)

White cute pumps that easily goes with my lacey dress

@ RM40 (1300yen)

Velvet Platforms with gold belt @ RM80 (2600yen)

Red Velvet Platforms with half black heel @ RM80 (2600yen)

Averagely I can say is cheaper than Japan for the lady shoes

These velvet platform shoes

I was aiming for it since last year!!!

But it cost around RM150 to get it in Japan

and although is cheaper to get it online

You will be worrying whether the quality is ok or not

and the size is ok or not

Since I can get all of these shoes with the design that I like in 2 shops

I can save a lot of time!!!!!!

Sometimes it is very hard to get a comfortable shoe

at a reasonable price

either is

Cheap → material Hard

Expensive → material soft maybe or just paying for the brand

When you see it your love one

Then faster get it!!!!!!

I threw away few shoes

as I walked a lot in Japan

that makes my shoes spoilt and had to say Goodbye to them........

★★To the girls★★

Prangin Mall is the BEST place for shoe shopping!!!!!