japan day 2

What Singapore looks like from the air at night.


Mt Fuji from the plane.


Breakfast


The arrival hall, Narita


Domestic departure hall


Exhaust ducts for parking buses. so thoughtful.


50 seater domestic transfer


Crammed interior


Beautiful view from the plane.


My room costing Y5000 a day booked by Mr.J


First time on the subway. You know where you are.


A subway ticket


A normal subway, notice the open windows. No air cond just natural wind from the tunnel.


TV tower at Odori park. Popular landmark.


Busking on the road. a couple of intersections closed the whole day.


Shopping alley 7 blocks long. Tanakoji or something...


First Japanese meal. Yummy ramen in miso.


very noisy and smokey environment. dont know how they stand it, wait...they dont stand, they all sit...hahahaha


Expensive food shop selling sweets and chocolates.


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Some food feast over the weekend.


Hairy crab in miso soup. Must try!

McDonald tasting ice-cream. it melted really quick.







Back here for dinner


Japanese curry. Interesting.


Mic's dish


Prof's dish


Susukino, the entertainment district and only place open after 9 in the whole city.


Ferris wheel on top of a 7 storey building. Y600 a round per person.


Had trouble finding it coz didnt know it was on top of a building, keep on going round and round and wondering where it dissapeared to.


View from the top


View from the bottom.


Very busy.


Lovely 100 Yen shop. can find any and everything here.

japan day 1

So here is the start of the journey that ended last week. We start of at the airport at 10pm. Sorry photos in a haphazard order.


This one pretty. Thats why took pic.


Free movies


Waiting.


This is the reason why they have to be of a certain height before getting the job, else cannot reach.


The plane


The booklet in case you didnt know you were on a plane.

new microscope

New cheap inverted microscope. To replace our aging 20 year old one. Now we can see so much features of the cells everybody is wondering if their cultures were contaminated all along. Really a timely buy.

back

Back but tired. Will process all my pics and the girl's cam's pics and post up soon. Hang in there. approx 2.5Gb of data in pictures and videos!

Sapporo

flaviguy, Mic and boss is in Sapporo, Japan this whole week. On conference. Will start blogging again when I get back to Red Dot next monday. No posts till then; camera memory card full but no card reader to download on this shared com. Too bad.
Cya guys next week!

fire training

Went for some Fire Safety course and had a hands on practical with CO2 extinguishers on how to put out a blaze. Quite fun, especially watching the ladies with the heavy cylinder.

merdeka

Happy birthday Malaysia, my Lego and I salute you!

flowers bloom

The flowers opened wide today. Whole office smells nice.

flowers

Teachers day comes early this year. Bought prof a big bunch of pink roses. Should have taken a pic of it in the original wrapping, looked really nice.

fruit day

fruit day for all staff. register and get a pear and two kiwis free. Then go buy some other stuff. I got some champagne grapes and a big pineapple. good stuff.

parasites

Parasites of the Caribbean, coming to a microbiology lab near you!

tickets

Going to Japan in 2 weeks time and collected the ticks today with Mic. Found some very kawaii figurines at the ticket counter. took tons of pics of it, to the amusement of the lady at the counter.

The lift up to the office had a very nice marble deco inside:

colourful

Clearing up the PC in the darkroom of images more than 2 weeks old (which is about everything in it) and decided to defragment the hard disk.
Imagine my horror.

Terror's Bday

Nowadays need two cakes because the number of people in the lab increase. The fat quotient cannot decrease!
Terror Teren likes no, LOVES chocolate, so its thick sweet things today.