Friday, February 23, 2007

Btw, both amanda and elizabeth got into the KL team for MSSM. Haha congrats to them!Anyway, it’s time for a long overdue post about the japan homestay programme xD


9 February 2007 (Friday)
Things started off pretty well, and the moment I met my host student (Yu), everyone kept saying how much we looked like =_=. Even his teacher was lauging and calling us twins!!
Anyway, Elizabeth and her host student (Takahiro), Ken, Yu and I went back to my house first before heading out for sate.

After that, we met up with Amanda and set off for Putrajaya. Haha I really dont't know why my mom always insists on bringing the Japs to Putrajaya. It's really pretty and all, but there's nothing there =_=. But we still managed to make the best out of the trip o_O Hahaha Amanda felt so dejected cause she was always the one taking the photos.

Later, we went to the Eye on Malaysia (before that, i always thought it was eye of malaysia... which makes more sense to me...). We were supposed to meet up with Tzu Ken, Ze Yen, Jia Min, Sabrina and their jap students...but when we reached the Eye, we found out that everyone was still at home. So, in the end, we went up on the thing with Sabrina...who was actually in the carriage(??) next to ours. Haha it was kind of a letdown, we all got pretty much bored after 1 round =_=. We ended up looking at the pretty little waves....

Us + Sabrina and gang


haha ken's balls...

Later, we went for dinner at Lake Club where we got tons of food and shared it with each other. Then we went to Chinatown, where Hiro and Yu bought tons of football jerseys which they wore for the remainder of their stay o_O

When we got back home, we got them to try a ton of Malaysian fruits like jackfruit, dragonfruit, papaya, mango, dukun, mangosteen, rambutan, guava, can't remember what else...and of course... xD

When he first smelt it...
After picking it up.....

And finally laughing at each other after they ate it xD Haha Yu and Hiro were really sporting compared to previous years. Plus, Yu has great facial expressions.

Their favourite was mangosteen o_O. And there's still one more thing I'm still feeling a bit guilty about... when we tricked them into eating cili padi. Haha since they didn't believe us after the whole durian debacle, Amanda and I agreed to it along with them..

Getting ready to eat cili padi

(like hell i'm gonna)

Hiro about to stuff the whole thing into his mouth o_O

I guess we should have stopped them from CHEWING IT THROUGHLY


Haha this was their initial reaction. I shall not post any pics about what happened later (cause i'm so nice). It took nearly 15 minutes for them to stop fanning their mouths. They used lots of water, ice and ice cream xD. Haha after everything, they asked me for some cili padi to give to their friends. I happily obliged them.

10 February 2007 (Saturday)
In the morning, we brought them up to the Petronas Twin Tower Sky Bridge. (Pic below o_O). Haha the day befored we managed to convince Hiro and Yu that we were going to the Sky Bridge for bunjee jumping and they freaked out. Summore when we were at the sky bridge, the tour guy made a joke about bunjee jumping...but the only words Hiro and Yu caught were bunjee jumping, and they started giving weird shocked stares at each other. I guess they thought we were serious about the bunjee jumping. Hahaha

Meh, then later we went around KLCC cause both of them were still souvenir shopping...haha when we were at shome Chinese New Year stage, my mom made them take a picture on a beca.

They didn't look very thrilled. xD

After lunch and some more shopping, we left for Batu Caves. But we didn't know they already went there....this is how we found out.. when we were climbing up:

Ken(or someone): Hey, how many steps are there?

Amanda(i think): I dunno, 200, 300 something?

Elizabeth (?): I think 271 or something.

Hiro: 272.

Then we asked them whether they'd been there before...and they said yea, on wednesday =_=. But they didn't mind going again o_O. Haha inside, Elizabeth and I tried scaring away a monkey. And the result...

One pissed off monkey. We were seriously getting ready to run. Haha then later we went to the Tian Hou Gong temple... at least that's what I think it's called.
When we went inside the actualy temple, we did the fortune telling thing...i have no idea what it's called. Haha this is what Hiro got:
If you think that's bad, look at Yu's:

He really looks like me in this pic o_O. Anyway, after we told them what their fortunes meant, all they did was laugh at each other xD. I got "Blessing of a Guardian Angel" haha. After that, we headed over to some terrapin pond.
Terrorising innocent terrapins.

After all this, I don't really remember what happened o_O. I know for dinner we all went for bak kut teh, which Hiro and Yu said was the meal they liked the most. It was the worst bak kut teh i've ever had =_=. We also went to TESCO to stock them up on Malaysian junk food like asam and orange peels and loads of other dried and pickled stuff. Haha they also like Rotiboy. I cant remember what else happened!

11 February 2007 (Sunday)
Okay, in the morning, we brought them to Lake Club for dim sum. Yu had to wear some weirdo batik shirt cause he was wearing a collarless football jersey o_O. Then we headed back to school for the closing ceremony.

The Chinese modern dance performed by Amrit, Jason, Chin Weng, Keng Yew and Chung tsang XD
Puan Rokiah dancing. hahahhahah

The Japanese basara.


Hiro and his friends trying to spread the joy of cili padi....by stuffing it into a custard pie or something.

And feeding it to this guy.

Haha right before they left, Hiro and Yu finished all the cili padi i gave them. They just kept offering it around and so many people just took it and ate it. o_O So i can;t be blamed directly!! Haha i can't post any pics of them cause i'll feel bad xD

Yeah, then after that they left!! It was really fun...in my opinion, the host students i had this year were a lot friendlier and more sporting.

If there's anything i missed out, you guys go post it!

K























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