2 Days to Australia, 30 Days to ORD, 62 Days to the awesomest trip of my life (yet)

just found out i'm going to japan before the tokyo-hakuba trip with my family! when papa told me, i was super surprised man! what's more, it's in Kyoto, the old-tokyo, where we can see old warships and shogun castles and all that (Samurai X's story was set there), so it'll be a different experience! when i was young, i used to find all that history stuff boring, though it was fun running through the castles in england, the musuems were just dead boring...but now i feel a yearning to know more about things, about what happened in the past that shaped humanity to be the way it is now...and of course, i'll do my best to post stuff every single day that i'm there (nov 27-dec 8) and post stuff of the girls there or sth :P

so how do i feel about ord-ing? as jason was joking with me yesterday after a great meal or sliced fish soup at potong pasir: 'at first i was afraid, i was petrified...' haha we didn't get beyond those 2 lines cuz we forgot. But it's all true, at first i was afraid; army had become my comfort zone for me, a life that i found my place in...and i was lazy to leave it for something new and better. it will not be all peaches and cream after ord, there's stuff to do like getting a job, making sure you have enough money to live by, focussing on my songcraft and guitar, creating awesome music with my band, yet at the same time studying for business, preparing myself for uni...and back to the job and money bla bla bla bla...it doesn't stop. i guess the point of all of this: self-sufficiency and independence.

but to hell with the planning and all that. there's only a certain extent to which you can plan your life. as the bible says: man makes his plans, but God directs him. i'm excited that the future's uncertain, anything can happen!

P.S: decided to do some publicity for hakuba, a major snowsports area, and the second stop in our trip :D hence the wall

7 days to down under...

it's been a while i guess, and many things happened, both exhilarating and depressing, joy and despair, i guess i've felt the full spectrum over the past few weeks. anyway, this blog's still useful to me, cuz i can post useful information about japan! for example, i'm posting a list of free wifi spots in tokyo so my laptop will be of use to me in japan! like, for posting images, vids, and more importantly, consulting the map in google earth (i practically uploaded the 'itinerary' of tokyo on there, using googearth to plan the places to go, interesting places to visit, instead of the usual rin-of-the-mill experience of using travel books and visiting boring musuems)

another thing about itnerary, i didn't really plan a 'meet-this-timing-at-this-place', scheduled, proper itinerary kinda thing. maybe it's just me, 'cuz i hate meeting timings and i love to just get down and dirty exploring a new place, losing myself in the experience thing, be it japan, jb, paris or switzerland! i've met with some objections of planning in this manner (like an ocassional 'eee' or 'why-so-fucked-up' look thrown my way). Well, i say to those who think this way, if you keep on making snide comments and snide faces at me, why don't you come and plan it your way? i DID ask for help, but since no one was willing, i was left to figure things out on my own. so unless you're willing to help, pls keep your negativity to yourself :D haha

that said, i still love the mix of ppl i'm going with, i couldn't have asked for better company man :D let's have tons of fun and go crazy in a crazy country (if you don't believe me, take a look at the newest reality game show, 'i survived a japanese game show')

ikezoue!

josh

links to wifi: http://www.freespot.com/users/map-e/map_tokyo.html

PS: changing the wallpaper! still deciding...hmm