Uncle carried Rey for most of the trip.


in Otaru


Sapporo ramen






Our lunch box.


The polar bears enjoying their cold winter while we're shivering. I want their fur coat!


Nana is grouchy, because her shoe sole is falling apart. I had wanted to show you the photo of her shoes (with crossed handiplast but she claimed she has deleted the photo without my knowledge!!!) See the crabs?


buddies


Rey sheltering himself from the snow.


I don't know why but whenever Nana comes to Japan, she will spend loads on bottled drinks. We have vending machines in Singapore too what!


Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, the supposedly most famous zoo in Japan. But seriously, I believe we have the best in Singapore liao. Cannot fight with Night safari and S'pore Zoo.


I'm surprised I didn't feel car sick while travelling in the bus.

ok, finally back to my blogging routine (just for the meantime). It is really hard to concentrate on writing a new post when you have a shadow looming over you (cousin nana) to nag at you to finish up posting.

It was snowing all the time in Hokkaido. Rey got to make his 1st snow ball, and Nana experienced having near frozen fingers. she cried like a baby. We had open onsen in falling snow too and we eat the crab buffet ( i have eaten better grade, sweeter crabs actually) too.

The Hokkaido trip was great if I minus the Kansai passengers. They are the worst of the ugly Kansai people I have ever come across. The trip will be almost perfect without them. So what if you speak Mandarin? They assumed we are from China and simply showed their discrimination against us. Their stares, the rush to get off the bus before us and complaint to the guide that we're not Japanese all show the ugly side of Japanese. Some changed their attitude when they found out we're from Singapore instead of China because they heard us speaking English most of the the time. What's so wrong with China by the way? Heck them, their Japanese kanji (Chinese characters) originated from China, and the knowledge of rice planting is also from China! On the other hand, we showed the more gracious side of Singaporeans by letting the more gentle eldery alight 1st, offering XO when we thought 1 of them is sick, treating the bus guide to a delicious cream puff. Hey, we're more civilized than them. People always have a good stereotypes of Japanese (always polite, graceful etc) but that is because they haven't met the Osaka people. I'm giving up the idea of showing them around Osaka.