Za Burogu of Megane JJ

World Cup fever!

2010-06-30T21:49:00.000+09:00

Just a snippet of the various players playing in the World Cup.

Neko-channnnnnnnnn

2010-06-30T21:46:00.000+09:00

UEC International House mascot ftw!!!

Food adventures!!

2010-06-30T21:44:00.000+09:00

Many different food adventures!!!!

First up is some Hello Kitty omiyage from Michael =O

Next up is an overdue picture of the Fujiyama burger from Fuji-Q. Beasty.

Next are various Italian food from Kadri's birthday. Enjoy.

Next up.... fantastic Indian curry (expensive though) Look at the size of those naan!

Finally... home made dishes! Pasta, karaage and prawn toast (prawn toast was freshly made... just a few hours ago from this post! Crispy with yummy Kewpie mayo!)

Fuji-Q!!!!

2010-06-17T00:02:00.003+09:00

Fuji-Q. Awesomeness in Japan. A theme park that holds 2 Guiness World records (used to be 3).

Our trip started off with us waiting for the bus...

Warning - Picture overload

Fail by Fang Lin and Naoki's interrupting fingers. Take two!

Disgusting Oa! Followed by Oa's home...

We arrived and Shinde was already scared... さすがおじいさん！

This is the first ride with a world record - Fujiyama. The highest I think it was in the world? You will hear about this later...

Try to look for me! And other people you recognise... Highlanders!!

This is the first ride we went on - PaniClock. A good warm up I suppose.

We made our way to Eejyanaika(ええじゃないか) which no one understands... It's the red one you see there.

Pizza-La!! Didn't get to ride this.

Now this is the start of Eejyanaika... waiting in line and lots and LOTS of worried looks XD Look at the Guinness World Record.

By the way, try looking for the Highlanders!

This was it... That sharp drop you start off falling backwards... then it moves forwards... AHHHH SO FUN!

Next was the haunted hospital... SO FREAKY. We were so scared.... People out to jump out and going in a bunch of people just freaked us all out because we all scared each other unconsciously... Some guys chased us and we ran so fast and never looked back XD HURRY UP WAKASU

Didn't ride this one, but it's like the Giant Drop at Dreamworld.

Picture of the loop for Dodonpa (keep this in mind) and a ferris wheel.

Fake Fujiyama x 2

Welcome to the most awesome ride of Fuji-Q - DODONPA. This used to have a record for the fastest rollercoaster I think, but not anymore, but still has fastest acceleration supposedly.

Lots of smokers...

Naoki's weird feet O____O

Highlanders to amuse you during the 1 hour and 40 minute wait which is considered short,

Feet stars!

Time for the ride!!!! 3! 2! 1! Launch off! Me: What the.... WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! (just imagine)

After the ride.... these are the stats. Check these out. Just look at them.

Awesome view of Fujisan!

We wanted to ride more but I ate a Fujiyama burger (pictures later) so me and Fang Lin went to try other rides which failed so we took lots of photos! Hence we had no Fujiyama =( Walah:

Fighting the Red Highlander!

Final group photos!

And.... a curry bun stick. Yum!

The end.

World Cup

2010-06-16T23:24:00.000+09:00

World Cup opening!!!! Most people joined in the party room for this =D

Some sushi I ate from the night - thanks for buying Naoki!

Halftime break - Mexican flag + Marcela!!

When Africa scored... poor Jose.

But when Mexico scored... ooooo yeahh!

Cooking Party June 5th!

2010-06-06T11:00:00.001+09:00

Another cooking party!! I actually made 2 dishes on this night...
First one being....

Chicken skewers!!!! SUCCESSSSSSS

Followed by cucumbers with sesame oil, and other stuff XD

Success number 1

Success number 2

Jenny's potato salad

Naoki's something

View of a lot of food (actually there was less food tonight, some people didn't cook)

Sleeping Jorge

Thanks to Fang Lin and Jenny for their help with my dishes, and sorry to Fang Lin I forgot to take a picture of yours XD (but don't worry it tasted good)

MINE TASTED AWESOME quoted by all who ate my skewers *smug*

Etegami!

2010-06-06T10:50:00.003+09:00

Etegami! E = drawing/painting, tegami = letter. A lot of us signed up for this optional class, in which we designed etegamis to send to anyone we like. It's a type of traditional Japanese artwork.

First we had to make a seal. This is the kanji for my surname, Kwan.
Traditional Chinese = 關
Japanese kanji = 関
Simplified = the one below:

The seal was made by first drawing the outline of a rubber onto a piece of paper, use a 4B pencil and write your character for your seal, rub the end of the rubber onto the paper, then cut out the "reverse side" of the character that is now on the rubber. Understand?

My first etegami - an owl! Fukuro desuuu.

My second - Yakko-san! According to the teachers, Yakko-san is some kind of comedian from the old times that sang and danced.

A photo of all of the etegamis drawn yesterday.

Jenny's - it's a splitting image XD

Fang Lin's - yea... cool!

Jorge with his - same smile!

Indian Curry! - Karendo

2010-06-06T10:41:00.003+09:00

Woops! Photos in reverse order again.

Anyway, Karendo! Indian Curry (according to wiki they have this curry in Pakistan too, so apologies for any mistakes) near Chofu, recommended by many people, lead there by Jenny and ate together with Jenny and Fang Lin. DON'T STOP READING NOW, COOL STUFF AT BOTTOM!

This (actually really small) bowl of rice came with...

This bowl of Curry Udon. Quite tasty, but not so spicy compared too...

Kheema Curry! It looks slightly weird, but it was really tasty and really filling and quite spicy. Yum!

Pickles of some sort.

Salad and pickles (sorry for not rotating some of these)

Now here comes the interesting part! The restaurant decor is amazing - it reminds me of real old-school restaurants, but not the least bit Indian/Pakistan/Japanese. It just feels really homey.

(please rotate counterclockwise)

Similarly for this one. (counterclockwise)

NHK Open house

2010-06-02T18:41:00.002+09:00

On Saturday the 29th, we had an "excursion" to the NHK research lab, where they had an open house of their latest technology. Notable mentions include:

Context-aware TV User Interface
Face recognition, facial expressions etc. all add to the TV experience. The TV turns on when it senses you, turns off when you leave, pauses when you read a magazine, shows the name of the actor that you point at etc. AMAZING.

Full-resolution Super Hi-Vision Camera System
According to the guide, cameras nowadays use 2 million pixels, video cameras that is. This new one has 33 million pixels, and required 4 TV panels to show the full detail.

Super Hi-Vision Theater
6o fps, 22.2 multichannel sound system and 7680 x 4320 pixels. Watched some of Kouhaku on that, and it's like you're watching people on stage. This was totally epic.

There were lots more but these stunned me the most.

There were also a series of stations where you received stamps on a piece of paper and at the end you were rewarded with some random things like the badge and phone strap below.

Random Keitai #3

2010-06-02T18:34:00.004+09:00

Chopstick fails again!

Another okonomiyaki night with Fadiya and Galuh at my table!

This one is modanyaki (Modern?). Behind it is a motto modanyaki by Fadiya and Galuh... XD

A charm from Kitakyushu (heart GG)

Epic feast at Tenya - me and Jorge had an oomori tendon udon set. Epicness. And also in the photo is Michael's fat stomach. EDIT: Note the large number of cups... Jorge and Michael drank a lot of water and we pretty much finished a bottle of the Tenya sauce on our tendons... XD

Another awesome dessert from Ministop. Mango ftw!

Oa and Jason. Brothers from different countries. And we wore the same vest on the same day LOL (i.e. today)

Random Keitai Photos #2

2010-05-27T08:58:00.004+09:00

Chopstick breaking fails. First one is at Genkiya (oh I love Genkiya, why is your soup so wonderful?)

Forget when this one was.... but epic fail.

That's a playing card there. I flicked it from about 2 metres away and it landed perfectly! (All other 51 cards landed about less than a metre away from me on the floor)

Gintama wootz!

New pictures of my room! Everything is so organised *smug*

Roffi the murderer

2010-05-23T15:07:00.002+09:00

Breaking news from the International House. Roffi strikes again and kills off one Chinese girl (Fang Lin), one Taiwanese old man (Shinde) and one Thai guy (Oa) with the deadly, unknown, bubbling dish as pictured below. Since last night, Oa has recovered but Shinde is still sick. Possibly diarrhea. Status of Fang Lin unknown.

YOU MURDERER ROFFI

Source: Oa.

Another free-loading adventure!

2010-05-23T11:40:00.006+09:00

Freeloading off China and 学食 =D
edit: also Thailand
edit: also Taiwan LOL sorry Shinde XD

Fang Lin's

Shinde's

Yu Jia's

2 x Du Li Peng's (name correct かな。。。)

RICE

Oa's

Hiroki's/学食の

Also Du Li Peng?

Aftermath (there was so much to eat we had lots of leftovers)

What did I provide? The juice of course. You can see the bottom of the orange and apple juice bottles in the first two pictures.

Update!

2010-05-16T09:56:00.002+09:00

Sorry for the lack of photos, haven't really done much interesting stuff lately and I tend to forget my camera XD

Thanks to Waqas (is that spelt right? sorry if it isn't, Wakasu?? XD), Linda, Liang Jing, Yang Shun and Nana+Roffi for all the food last night! (I like free food)

"Can I have some more?"

Keitai Pics!

2010-05-16T09:32:00.010+09:00

Photos from my Keitai (mobile)! These photos aren't of the highest quality, they were on normal settings =)

Super spicy burger ring lookalikes but taste muchhhhhhhhhhhhhh better and spicy and crunchier.... saku saku.

Flower made out of chocolate wrapper!

Conan movie! Went and saw it and understood most of it... surprisingly =O

Akio desu. Fang Lin ga shinderu. Gohan mo.

Chopper photos! Admire the cuteness...................................

I made the bottom one - steamed egg with pork. Yes it looks a little bit weird (and you can see the two spoonfuls that we ate) but it tasted yummy!... said Fang Lin.

Taiyaki!!

Random night sky.

Random curry from C&C House

Photos from Jindaiji trip from ages ago. Naoki with Shinde's camera inside the beanie

Eating chips at Tammy's apartment. Free food!

Leaves from Jindaiji =D

/end Jindaiji

?!?!?!?!

Gotta be careful of....

Bursting balloon inside of jacket!?

Blurrrr

Linda's food!

Fang Lin's food!

Lee Doo Won's food! (random breakfast in the morning)

Tomoya! He went to UQ for a month and rode the 454 from Indro =O

Kadri's food! (outstanding)

Mister Donut's food! Actually this odd shaped one tastes really good...

Freshness burger food! I like Mos Burger better though...

Cool cat

View from the City Hall in Chofu

Random leaves on campus

Korean food again!

Lee Doo Won again! Great chef (but spicy for me LOL)

Linda!!!! Slightly cut off

First ever photo wasssssssss Hachiko!

Nikko trip - Day 2 Round-up

2010-05-05T15:43:00.009+09:00

Day 2! Everyone was quite tired from walking heaps...

Wake up Yen Yu!!

Very sleepy...

団長（だんちょう）Shinde up for another day

We took a short walk in a nice park near where we were staying (which was joint to an old run-down supermarket that is no longer in use)

This river + bridge made for some fantastic photos:

Jump photos!!!!! First one failed majorly

Let's try again!

Naoki-chan and Naoko-obaasan.

Fang Lin reliving her childhood.

King Roffi and his two loyal guards.

Kosagoe - the place we stayed (if you can read it)

Heading again to Toshogu with a nice long river and short waterfalls.

A guy swinging a big pole to ring a bell... looks heavy....

Part 1 of my lunch: Curry Pie!!! It sounded so weird and looked just the same that we tried it... and the curry was chouuuuuuuuu umai!

Part 2: Nikuman!! A simple bun with some meat inside, wasn't too bad.

After lunch we went inside Toshogu and other such temples:

Sleepy guide... 辛苦了

Random sky pic:

Bus trip back to the train station - time to head home!

Sleepy train ride home:

Sleeping... or not???

The end.

Birthday!!!!

2010-05-05T15:36:00.001+09:00

Thanks to everyone who sent me e-cards, mails, comments and presents!

Nikko trip - Day 1 Round-up

2010-05-05T12:31:00.021+09:00

Golden week start!!!! Yayyyy xD
Around 20 of us left for Nikko on the 1st of May around 5-6am T_T
Sleepy photo at the train station:

Photos on the multiple trains that we rode:

Our tour guide/leader Shinde actually changing his smile for once~

Kadri took this - turns out I use this same face so many times T_T

Paparazzi photo of Kadri!

Yes we were actually tired... >__>

Creepy...

Arrived!! Map of Nikko at the train station!

On the bus to head up to the mountain~

Off the bus - ready to take the cable car lifts/whatever they're called.

And Naoki here didn't bring warm clothes so I had to lend him... kodomo poi!!!

Akio Vs Jason - Battle of the cameras?

Tongue number 2.

Look carefully at the state of my shoes... keep this in mind.

Jenny behind me...

...Jorge in the front. This is only one of 3 trips on the chair lift (this sounds better than cable car), we took 6 trips in total going up and down.

BEGIN THE SECTION OF POSES ON CHAIR LIFTS!

Kodomo poi! 裝可愛!

I'm ... not ... paparazzi...???

You look scared =O

Recovering from the early start~

I dare you to fall...

Dreaming about something... errr....

Typical Liang Jing pose.

いたそう。。。Meditating?

Model pose from Indonesia

How NOT to pose...

Fadiya Superman Number 1

Flying...?

Umm... no comment.

Classy....

Ninja...?!?!?!

END OF CHAIR LIFT PHOTOS

There were random patches of snow around the area... And the first to throw snow was Hiroki... kodomo poi.

Group photo!!! Poor Tomo was taking about 5 photos so he wasn't in many, so thanks Tomo! (Nin Nin!)

From here we began our (actually quite) dangerous trip up to the top viewing point... the view was spectacular.

Strangely enough this table was extremely extremely warm...

Fadiya Superman No.2

Akio the sign post.

Only one of the dangerous no handle snowy/muddy sections; many people (including me) slipped!

Jorge the Conqueror

Poses on top of a rock almost near the top!
NOTE: From here, please look carefully at sneaky Roffi who is running into the background of so many photos.

The view from the top + Jorge

Why so serious Tomo?

Thanks to Fang Lin for this photo!

Dorobo!

Time to head back down... with nice photos again!

Remember my shoes before? This is the aftermath of a war between my Puma's and the muddy snow.

We then went to see some waterfall... but it was kinda hidden but nevertheless looked wonderful!

We then went to Toshogu temple... however it was too late so we didn't go in until the second day, so watch out for the next post if you haven't read it.

Gyoza (dumpling) flavoured chips... what?!!? They actually tasted like gyoza... @__@

Sunset from the train station... a nice finish to the long walking.

Scary sleepy Akio

Planning for the next day.

Multicultural dinner!

2010-05-05T12:27:00.001+09:00

Exotic dishes from all over Asia!! Thanks to the awesome chefs!

Korea by Ii Doo Won (/fail spelling)

China by Liang Jing

Thailand by Fah

Crepe Party

2010-05-05T12:15:00.003+09:00

Old photos from the crepe party... including messy eaters and our wonderful chef Linda

Thanks Linda! They were delicious and we all loved them!

Okonomiyaki Night!!

2010-04-25T10:33:00.004+09:00

Okonomiyaki mixture - pork and kimchi!

Zhuang Wei trying to flip hers... (I hope your name is spelt correctly *sweat*)

KANPEKIIIII!

For dessert we had GYOZAAAAAAAAAA....... with anko (red bean paste)... ?!?!? It was kinda like some kinda pancake/crepe and we put anko onto it and wrapped it up. Naoki just happened to wrap it up like a gyoza (dumpling)...

Just a tad small for dessert... just a tad...

Jindai Botanical Park - Omoshiroiiiiiiiii

2010-04-25T10:27:00.004+09:00

These heart shaped leaves were in the Tropical Flowering Tree House as well, but they were too special; they needed their own post.

And... this tree which quite frankly... looks like a toilet...

Jindai Botanical Park - Tropical Flowering Tree Room

2010-04-25T10:09:00.005+09:00

Jindai Botanical Park - Outside Greenhouse

2010-04-25T10:04:00.003+09:00

Infamous show girl Naoko-chan!

Linda... with sneaky Naoko-chan No. 2.

Jindai Botanical Park - Bubble Mania

2010-04-25T09:58:00.003+09:00

Jindai Botanical Park - Outside Greenery

2010-04-25T09:52:00.002+09:00

Jindaiji - Soba Ya + Temple

2010-04-25T09:46:00.003+09:00

At a noodle restaurant and temple with peoplezz - also Super Naoki reveals his hidden abilities...

Ajinomoto Stadium

2010-04-24T22:32:00.003+09:00

There was a flea market here... HUGE!

Welcome Party!! Part 2 - People

2010-04-20T11:32:00.006+09:00

Just random photos of people, including dancing to Wonder Girls - Nobody, eating, playing games (where all the kouhais/juniors had to guess names of each other) and just random ones of people~

Also for some reasons the photos are in reverse order in which they were taken... weird =S

Welcome Party!! Part 1 - Food

2010-04-20T11:16:00.004+09:00

Welcome party for all exchange students, since the final two arrived a few days ago - we all had to prepare dishes... Me and Fanglin worked together to make this prawn dish with Thai sweet chilli sauce.

Cooking brocolli and using peeled prawns (peeled by hand)

Covering the broccoli with a pot... no lid T_T

Fanglin spilt dry noodles... zannen!

Finished product!!! Decorated by me =D

The actual party food!!!

The aftermath... Notice the bottom right hand corner... our prawns and broccoli are all gone! Eaten within the first few minutes *smirk*

And finally.... dessert!

New Phone!!!

2010-04-20T11:10:00.001+09:00

Random April Snow???

2010-04-20T08:41:00.002+09:00

.... What??? It happened a few nights ago... These are photos from the next morning...

Weird...

A Handsome Japanese Man, named Envy // 在日本的帅哥, 叫羨慕

2010-04-15T22:46:00.003+09:00

XIAN MOOOO

Mega トリオカレー / Mega Trio Curry

2010-04-14T20:10:00.006+09:00

I am so full. This has to be one of the craziest and biggest dinners I've had in a while. It's name: Mega Trio Curry - Mega Torio Kare.

The trio contains Roast Katsu (deep fried pork), Hanbaagu (burger patty) and a Vegetable Croquette. It costs 598 Yen and contains a whopping 1679kcal... kilocalories???

Before (photo taken from wrong side... woops!):

After:

Extreme energy intake ftw?

P.S. This is from the cafeteria...

Yakisoba Bread!!!!

2010-04-14T09:27:00.003+09:00

Omg... Yakisoba Bread. If you don't know what yakisoba is google it... NOW!
Yum.... Only 120 Yen for one bread too! (P.S. the other bread is a croquette (?) bread, but it was only so so)

New hobby - Fixing pianos.... what?

2010-04-10T08:57:00.003+09:00

The piano in the lobby is... well.. old. Linda and I went about fixing it. We fixed F and F#!!!!!! And C and E are horrible and get stuck T_T Oh well... Good teamwork *hi5*

Linda's fingers on the stupid E T_T

Jorge's fingers... on the fixed F

Adventures in Korea (in Japan)

2010-04-10T08:45:00.004+09:00

Drinking apple juice in a bowl...?!?! PLUS Korean goodness.... ah, OISHIIIIII

And.... Korean bboys *cough* dancers.

Dorm Photos + Sakura

2010-04-07T10:27:00.004+09:00

FIRST POST

2010-04-05T08:20:00.002+09:00

HI

I'm in my room, I don't know where this internet is coming from but I'm not complaining xD

I'm having... SO... MUCH... FUN XD The people here are fantastic, some of the nicest people I've ever seen - they talk as if you've been a friend to them for ages, there's so many jokes and laughs that go around...

And some of them (the Chinese/Tw people) have been dishing out their Mandarin, and I struggle to keep up xD Although I just talk in English, so it's like a half Chinese, half English conversation xD

BTW SAKURA IS AWESOME /done

We went to a park in Shinjuku with lots of sakura (and people) and it was SO COLD but very nice and pretty.

/really done

I'll upload photos later.... maybe.

I bet no one reads this because for some reason only sites related to google are working atm, hence MSN isn't, hence no one knows the link to my blog XD

/signs out for now

BLOG LOL

2010-03-31T16:53:00.000+09:00

YAY JAPAN BLOG YAYYYYY!!!!

Pity I'm still in Brisbane.