Crossing the Rainbow Bridge

 It was a few months ago,I guess, when some of my friends from the same department planned to have one day trip in Odaiba,Tokyo. I am not sure whose idea it was, but it was a great idea to walk across the Rainbow Bridge. For whom don't know about Rainbow Bridge, it is a suspension bridge crosiing northern Tokyo Bay betweem Shibaura and Odaiba. This bridge is 798m long with a main span of 580m.(from wikipedia) It is actually an Expressway for vehicles and public transport. I didnt know that there is a walkway!! The rainbow Bridge has three transportation lines on two decks. There are two walkways on two sides of the bridge. It was a great time enjoying the strong breeze in the summer as Odaiba is an artificial island in Tokyo Bay,so it is windy. We went there in the early summer which was 35 degree in maximum! 

We also went to Tokyo Miraikan, which is the National musemof Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo. Then we went to the Tokyo Trick Art Museum!

Below are the pictures I took on the one day trip in Odaiba. Although I have been to Odaiba for many times, this time was the best one!

Please enjoy the pictures below because I love every picture and I edited each of them with my heart!!! hehehe..

Thank uu!!

This is how it looks like under the bridge! VEry industrial like right? in fact it is a port!

The entrance to the walkway! 

Under the bridge... you can see how strong it is!

We took the south Route

The members...

view from the bridge

There were this father and son crossing the bridge using bicycles.But they were not allowed to ride on the walkway so they have to drag them on a piece of "wood skateboard' lol

see how sunny it was!!! can you spot the train???

The train running on the track!

This is the expressway for normal vehicles.

Resting.

Boats racing on the water

Odaiba from the bridge

The illustration of the bridge.. you can see it is a double deck contructed

up, up, up, to the sky!

The framework of the bridge

whole panorama view of Odaiba city

posing ehhh..

approaching the goal!

a lunchbox after the walk

windsurfing!!!

selfie again!

guys posing!

Frisbee time! (UNDER THE DAMN HOT SUN)

us...

Visited gundam again. and yea, he was doing fine... may be just tired of standing??should let him sit on a chair next time!

 

There we go, to the Miraikan! the National Museum of Embracing Science and Innovation.

Posing again! Gundam style lol

huge globe in the middle of the building!

ASIMO, the robot, you know him? i have no idea who he is. hahahah

this robot dog can sense human's touch! brilliant isnt it?

Inspiration!!!

opppsss. gotchA!!

help me!!

The three men in the picture are actually drawn in the same size.

how many walls are there???

Rainbow Bridge at night

First Part Time Job

Finally, I got myself a part time job after thinking about finding one for years. I thought I can learn something from doing part time. I also wanted to do something else other than studying everyday. For the past 23 years, I helped my parents in their grocery shops and I thought that would make me tougher to overcome all the obstacle in part time job. But I guess I was wrong. Working for your parents and working for others is totally a different experience. I used to work in the counter in my parents' shop, and I was proud with my ability in using the cash machine. But working in McD is totally different.There are lots of menu to be remember and everything have to be very very fast. 

I applied for a part time job in a McD near my place in Tsukuba. 5min of cycling distance is quite near to my place and I decided to work there because I have a friend working there. McD has a very funny video for part-timer recruitment ,the Dancing McCrew video below!!

From the application to the recruitment, I took about 1 month. I remember applying for the job through McD's homepage and I went to interview, then submitted in my contract and I was handed my new uniform.... The uniform was renewed last July.They are mostly dark blue and black. We have blue short sleeves shirt, a pair of black jeans, a cap and an apron!

Welcome notes and some guidance from McD! How warming!

My uniform.. it came in a set with a cap, an apron, a pair of M marked jeans and a short sleeves McD shirt. 

 The first and second day were training days. I was train by a very small and kind lady,Fukuda-san. She teaches me everything politely with smile. I am glad that she's my trainer! On the first day, I was taught how to clean up the hall, and powder room, then how to make drinks. Making drinks sounds easy but for a beginner like me, there were too many things to remember!
The second day, I was taught to take order from the customers. I was super duper nervous in front of the customers. But I was lucky that most of them were kind and understanding. Oly a few that made some scary face when I did wrong on the orders. hahaha..

Tomorrow will be my third working day. wish me luck on learning a new thing! perhaps practice on the order taking part, and then may be proceed to burger making?? heheh. cant wait to learn how to fry french fries, my favorite food!!!

Me in the uniform!

I am back!

I am back! Haven't updated my blog for almost two months!! Too much happenings in these two months. I had fun at Tokyo Disney Sea,  crossed the Rainbow Bridge in Odaiba, had fun a Atami the beach, traveled to the Tohoku region, got an interview for my first part time job in my life, took the challenge to to be the an event organizing leader, got my first semester's results, went to two fireworks festivals, visited the American Pop Art exhibition held at the National Art Center at Roppongi, joined an international conference held in my university and so on....... 

So many happenings that I dont know where to start from!!

I guess I have to post one by one slowly.. 

Just came here to make some updates on my blog so that you wont miss me that much! or you might thought that I've gone missing or forgotten my blog. Just to assure you I didnt!

Tomorrow (2013/9/9) will be my first working day in my life. Wish me luck! i will tell you more about my first day working!(I hope I could take some picture of my orientation to show you!)

till then! XOXO

The weekend

 The 8th ASEAN Festival held in Roppongi yesterday. It has been a while for me to join such event since I left MSAJ this January. The ASEAN Festival is an event orginized by the Asean Youth Network in Japan, and it combines the 10 Asean countries , including Japan. This event is held every year during this time.

The Malaysian wear Fashion Show (photo from Facebook MSAJ) 

In this post,unfortunately I am not telling you about this event because I didnt take much picture of the event , and I didn't really see the whole event as I had fashion show practice and also talked to my friends whom i havent met for months! :p

Friends and juniors that I havent met for months! :) (photo credited to Natasha)

 I volunteered myself to be the model for MSAJ during the Fashion show session of the event after seeing the model recruiting page from MSAJ Facebook page.

the models

I was wearing indian race's wear, called salwar i guess. haha. Muguthan, my partner on the left!

I realized that I dont know mich about my country, Malaysia. the clothes that were shown during the event, i dont know what they call. haha! too bad. 

It reminds me of a lot of things the three years in Tokyo.

I remember I was one of the members of the Malaysian organizing committee and was in charged in recruiting models for this session, with Jun hao, TJ ,Siriphong and Nazaruddin last time. I asked around and begged friends to be the models last time using SMS, personal Facebook page etc. searched for dancing couch and a lot. social network was the key of making the preparation going smoothly. 

But this year, the organizer for fashion show , Fish Siah, had really great social network I guess. She and her partner Zed wisely made use of the Facebook page to promote the model recruitment and they actually managed to get models from different races, nationality and skin colors. There were Malaysians chinese, Malays, Indian, Japanese, and also African!!! and they also managaed to borrow malayaian traditional clothes from the Tourism Malaysia!( we had only baju kebaya, cheongsam and baju kurung back in the days.) I learned a lot from fish this time. Efficiency and network is important!

 Fish, giving a briefing to the models before the rehearsal. 

Practice posing. (Picture by Syakir)

Lastly, the main thing I wanted to tell through this post is about how I felt after this event. I realized that I love the feeling of making one event success with a team of people (even though I wasn't in the organizing team this year, but just contributed by walking on the stage) I enjoy the atmosphere when one group of people being joyous about the same one thing, especially on a thing resulted from hard works. I enjoyed the moment working on some project in one team. 

I guess I like working in a team. 

Contributing my little ability behind the stage is satisfying too. 

But when I say this, i realised too that I didnt really committed 100% in organizinv the Career Fair in the last 3 years. I found it stressful and mendokkusai sometimes. May be I have to re-evaluate my ability in teamwork. :) 

I was asked if I am willing to be the coordinator of MSAJ Career Fair again bect year, and i said NO! because I dont have the confidence that I can handle it. 

Its time to make decision again: to take the challenge or stay in my comfort zone.

thank you MSAJ and AYNJ for the great event! 

On the real stage. (Picture by Syakir)

Feeling grateful and touched

 I may not know about myself, my dream or my interest.But I am certain about one thing- I am loved. . 

The moment when you feel helpless, and there is someone who assist you through the fear. The moment when you have a broken heart, there is someone who stay by your side and listen to you. Then moment when you are bored, there is someone who stop their work on hand and talk to you. The moment when you need help in moving to a new place,and  there was someone who planned everything for you that you dont have to worry much. The moment that you cant make a decision and there is someone who analyst the situation and make you listen to your voice of your heart. They are my sister,my family,my friends, my junior, my senior... they are the people around me. They are not just passing by, but actually leave great impacts in my life.

All these moments, are always in my mind, should not be and will never be forgotten. Because it reminds me of how lucky and happy I am. 

Every little happening in my days,I am certain that I am a lucky person. Thank you, to you, and you and you. everyone who came across my life, making it beautiful and meaningful that I can't be more grateful than this.