Magical wonderland of Disney

First and foremost, I would like to express my sincerest thanks to my host family who took me to Tokyo Disneyland...


Welcome....

Seriously, I'm having a hard time making this entry because....gawd, it's so hard to express the magical feeling in words!!
To really enjoy yourself there, all you gotta do is relax and ... enjoy! Nothing more fun than going back to being a kid. And so I was a montrous behemoth oversized and overgrown kid that day....heck I even bought myself a mickey headgear!! One warning though..... Disneyland definitely not a place for "I have matured mind " and "I'm a 20 year OLD man" or "are you kidding? I don't do cartoons at this age" kind of dudes....



Well, got off for an early start to Disneyland....it opens at 8. Me and my host family was there at 7.47...not good enough, still gotta line up. Lining up wasn't that bad because you have mickey's people all over smiling and welcoming you to his land. Once inside, we were instantly greeted by Chip and Dale...got no chance to snap any pic...kids instantly swarm over them, squealing, and all you see is a lump of legs and hands. Not daring enough to approach the massacre, I headed inside to a boulevard of beautifully decorated shoplots. Oh, yeah, forget to mention, since it's Disney, everything is western style. Anyway, right at the center is a guy with a piano...showing off his skills of "Shadow hand" ( Remember Wong Fei Hung?? No, well, it means really really quick hands) He was a dedicated dude jamming his piano with Disney tunes.


one of the beautiful ones..

And at the end of the boulevard, you instantly get a glimpse of the all familiar Disney Castle....I don't know how to describe my feelings accurately but at that moment....I mean, just after seeing a few cartoon characters and emerging from a uniquely beautiful sunroofed boulevard, you see something you have been fantasizing all the time while you were a kid....right in front of you!! It's like you have just emerge from a teleportation tunnel.



help....me....kids.....all over....


heh..heh...I uhh...grabbed the small kids by the collar, threw them into a pond and had Donald Duck all to myself..

While I busy myself taking countless shots of castle and things around, my host family were having discussions on where to head to....Westernland, Adventureland, Tomorrowland, Toontown or I-forgot-what-land-is-it-land...
Well, Westernland was about the old wild wild west...why am i sick of hearing the term wild wild we....eurgh...old west buildings, coasters and boat ride. Tomorrowland have Buzz Lightyear and Emperor Zurg....Toon town have Mickey's house, Minnie's house, Goofy, Roger Rabit .....hmm, funny I didn't see Bugs Bunny anywhere...Anyway, we were here and there and here...the beautiful letdown is that we had to line up for everything..rides, buy popcorn, drink water, toilet, you name it....


toon town...


this whole thing is a clock....oh, lookie, it's 12!

I enjoyed the rides especially Haunted Mansion but the thing that really bring out my buried kiddie spirit was the parades...We had about 4 parades in total....all in different themes. Watching the parades....It's amazing to see my fantasy world parading right in front of me. It's like living in dreamworld only to realise that I'm are awake...and as I try to grasp reality my mind swirls towards the magical world. It's like being there but feels like I'm actually elsewhere...drifting. Felt like I'm parading along with them dancing and singing. And they had to start the parade with 5 pixie fairies....then came the elaborately decorated floats along with Mickey and friends on top of it, waving and blowing kisses to loyal fans who brave the scorching sun and the burning ground. All the while blaring the hypnotic Disney songs on the speakers. Just like a dream, the parade ended when it felt like it just started. It's hard to bring yourself back to the real world after that....It's not as easy as swallowing the red pill but ... I had lil' difficulties walking with my eyes still mesmerize. My step-father asked me if I'm dizzy from the heat...i gave him a very stupid looking face and said...heat? huh? What's hot?....he gave me back a stupider face and pointed towards the sun....bummer.....





this one sprays water....hid my vidcam just in time... phew!!!


Well, we then proceeded to visit R2-D2 and C3-PO and had lunch afterwards...pizza and soda...very very american...and we had cheeseburger with fries for dinner. Just having back my brain returned from Toon Town...I found myself again on the sidewalk waiting to watch another parade...yet again sweet dizziness seized my brains and robbed me of my reality conciousness.


tit tit tit tut tut tit tut tut tot...

But had to say that highlight of the day was the parade no.3 which was at 8 at night. They had fire to go along with the parade...imagine the effect it had on me! I remained seated even after everyone picked their butts off the ground.
Well, exited the place at about 11 at night after waving goodbye to Pocahontas....she was the prettiest, sexiest and most charming of the day.





this pic....heh heh...forgive my randyness



As we walked back to the car, I just couldn't believe the day I had.....truly....truly...... magical.

Exam week...

Yo fellas....been wanting to blog for some time already....bout my trip to the magical land of Disney ....but got an exam coming up, wait a minute, it's not coming.....it's already exam day!! OMG!! omg...omg.....panic...panic.....

Well, yeah, it's exam and this is one exam I can't screw up so, got to study this whole week....funny, most of my friends are already jollying (their exam's two months later...) and I still have my butt glued to the office chair. When i mean glued, I mean G-L-U-E-D....I practically rolled on the four wheels of the office chair all the way to the library and up the stairs. Yup, that bad....

See you fellas back online two weeks later...

ENGLISH Speech Contest in Japan......

An announcement about a speech contest came two weeks ago. It came after my lecturer exalted and worshipped me like a god for 40 minutes during English class, dudes.....not exagerating, you'll know what I mean even if you are in Japan. They treat you like god even if you order McD in english...anyway, he mention about the contest and was asking if anyone wanted to join....funny, when he said "Anyone", he was having his eagle eyes fixed on me, I could have sworn fireballs shot from his eyeball toward me. Well, I couldn't reject him could I?? He was like " Randy, join the contest you s** o* a b**** !!! " Anyway, no one else join because they say they already have their class representative......sigh, me.

So, he told me to bring my speech to him for grammar checking after I write one. I came up with a speech titled cartoon culture...mainly bout how cartoon is changing our lives. Like all obedient student will, I brought it to his desk on time. Looking exited and all fired up, he clapped his hands once and said....."Ookkay, let's spot for grammar misses...." Took my paper and....was reading.....and suddenly, "Randy, WHAT is this?". For an instance I thought he didn't like my speech as I "exercised" some of my crap in it....as usual right?. Anyway, it goes...

"Randy....what does this word means?"

oh......"that" ....that means....

"and this?"

well, this means...

"oh i see.....and what about this?"

And so it went on for quite a while, me explaining what i wrote.

When he's finally finished reading my speech, he said," Randy, you've got to edit this! This is too difficult to understand!!" Guys...I did write my speech using simple english. He asked me to simplify it and gawd help me.....I don't know how to!! At last, he said nevermind and wished me luck for my speech. I was like ....Hey, wasn't that suppose to be grammar checking? Sounded like an english lesson to me! Anyway, was thinking....if my lect don't understand my stuff, how bout the rest of the audience??!

On speech day, I was the no.10 speaker out of 17. No offense but Jap english really is that bad. They did a superb job of mixing the "r" and "l" and a better job at speaking english that don't make sense at all!! It's like reading out a sentence that have no spaces between the words. try saying....Thesedaysviolentgamesareinfluencingyoungpeoplesmindand .....see what I mean? I had a harrrrd time trying to understand what the speaker is saying. But it's not only me, almost all of the audience were dozing off by the time it's my turn. Well, I don't blame them.....

And then it's my turn....and magic happened

The moment I start speaking, everyone looked up at me and stared with their wide goldfish eyes....they were like, "Oh my gawd....who on earth is that? Where he learned to speak like that....was he the blessed one in the phropecies? Is he....god?" I...uhh.....never knew that MY english could have made such an impact. Maybe it's just that I dropped all the lar- , lor- , mah- , one- , wor- , ah- ....you guys should try it too.

I don't think anyone save for the judges undertood my speech. But I won 1st prize anyway. Haha...made Malaysia proud.

A beautiful day at blueberry farm

Living in Malaysia, as hot as it is, growing blueberries and raspberries other than in Camerons are impossible. No matter what ADIDAS or NIKE says bout "impossible" growing blueberry in Malaysia, especially in Melaka is IMPOSSIBLE. Well, this explains about me being a "jakun" when it comes to blueberry trees.

Just as I thought life cannot be anymore dull than this, my friend's host family called and ask us to go to a farm that grows vegetables and berries. So, being a jakun that have never seen or taste berries other than jam before, jumped at it like a happy dog wagging it's tail. Went to sleep early the night before and woke up to a beautiful Saturday morning, took a shower and prepared myself for my first pick-blueberry-from-tree experience.....yes, that includes skipping breakfast. (Actually, I woke up late and missed breakfast, not because I'm greedy!)

The drive there from my campus took only about 10 minutes. We reached a house that is beautifully decorated, jap style, all wood and paper. The main stucture is made of wood and the walls are of paper. It's very cooling in there amidst the sweltering summer. Think I'll build one just like it when I get back to Melaka




...anyway, as we are entering the house, we saw a snake trying to slither it's way in, yep, the long slimy monster with that split tounge and beady eye....no one dared to reach out and grab the snake's tail....and Randy no hero too. He forgot his blue sweatpants, bright red underwear and his cape. So, no hero to save the day. The snake mocked at our cowardice, jeering it's tounge at us.....psst...psst...psst...




Well, the lady owner of the house, presumely bored of the snake said, "Oh, to hell with that sanke, let's head back to the back, we've got blueberries to chow on." Everyone nodded eagerly....girls because...come on, there's a freakin' snake there! and guys.....hmm, to compare snake and blueberry, we all just couldn't wait to put our hands on those blueberries...guys be guys.

At the back, there were about 9 blueberry shrubs, about Kenny's or Fook Hi's height.....the blueberries is about the size of mata kucing, have blue skin (obviously! why else would they call it BLUEberry?!), the flesh have the same colour as grape, have a gazillion little seeds..... and they tasted wonderful, sweet and a lil' sour. So, the mob were all busy, eating berries and taking pictures and eating more berries and snapping more pictures.





K, all the "ripe" berries are now swimming in Hidrocloric Acid in our stomachs. All's left are the unripe green ones. My senior, Nadia suddenly came up saying...."Hey! Let's try eating the green ones...we don't know what they taste like right? Who knows they are sweeter than the blue ones? Why not take a harmless bite?" jumping up and down looking all excited...(Can't help but think that she look a lil' bit like me at that moment, suggesting crappy nonsense). Well, the MGS girl said...."but the lady just now said that the green ones are sour....." Man, I was thinking ...isn't ALL unripe fruits green and sour? so why bother taking a bite? But then again, I got a lil' too curious and joined her with her quest for truth...... Well, ehem...we were...uhh....confirmed that green blueberries are indeed sour and not for eating. I, of all people on earth should have known that crappy nonsense are never good.

Anyway, the rest of the group were already headed to the raspberry farm ....we rushed to catch up with them..... giving them sour faces when they asked why we were late...

And oh, raspberries looks like this...




heh heh...can't think of anything better than a cute model with a cute fruit!



It's actually.....quite hairy and it looks like a bunch of small fruits camping together but it's not, it's a ..a...uhh...umm...together, all in one piece. The core is rather thick and when you pick the fruit from the stem, the core remains and you have yourself a hollow, red hairy piece of raspberry. Did i mention hairy? Yes, it's hairy and quite ugly...one of my jap friends said, yuck, It's got more hair than your leg!! Uh uh...Bad thing to say, I had SERIOUS doubt putting that piece of fruit in my mouth....took a deep breath, close my and eyes and here goes...chew, chew, chew ,Oh, ok, this lil' hairy berry is tasty!! It's sweet and oh, I don't know how to describe it, raspberry taste. They give your hand a red dye too...just like mangosteen gives you a purple dye.

While we're eating, a lil' girl that was along with us found two cute little frogs, one from the leaves, one from on top of the fruit. She so excited she ran around showing everyone her discovery and telling us where she found them (why is everyone trying their best to disgust me from eating the raspberries??) Anyway, that lil' kid manage to disgust evryone and had raspberries all to herself. By the way, she played with the two frogs all the time, tugging at one leg, squeezing their bellies and forcing them to kiss....eating berries seems to give that kid bright ideas...




Well, the trip ended like all trips to fruit farms end...eating jam. Not that I mind anyway. Jam's different from the ones they sell at stores. This jam taste just nice and not too sweet. It's so nice i bought myself two containers of them! Cost me RM28... And a pack of blueberries too....



So, there goes another wonderful saturday...this time purely dedicated to Blueberries.