1st week in Japan

Finally I came back to Japan. My 1st meal was "rice ball" at the seven-eleven convenience store. :) Just rice and salmon egg but taste was really nice! 1 rice ball and a bottle of tea were only 5 dollars.
 It took 2 and a half hour to get my home town from Haneda by train. Not too bad.
I have missed Perth every time, but I am getting ready to live here.

I clean my room. There are a lot of stuffs because my parents keep all my clothes since I left here 20 years ago. I found old bank card and it has 30000yen ($300).Yeah! (^^)v
I ordered my mobile phone. Xpedia. It was cheapest at the moment.
I renewed my drivers license. My drivers' license was expired, so I had to go the main office to get drivers' license. I took photo, eye test, lecture and setting up password for 2 hours then I got it finally!!

The next day, today I started to drive! I am so happy to be able to go around by myself. I will introduce my new car later. :))
I went to the city health centre to do exercise and Zumba. 500yen($5) per 2 hours.
I did bike and Zumba. This Zumba is only for 20 min but the contents were good. The centre is very clean and a lot of machines. I was satisfied even only for 2 hours. Actually there are swimming pool but different cost. And we can not wear bikini in Swimming pool. WOW, that is unusual. bikini is not good for swim but usually it will not be banned.
Anyway I got information abut Zumba near my house. So I will try that later. :)

I realize I am looking for fitness before looking for job. :p I should look for job, yes I will!

Travelling Thailand - Diving in Koh Tao -

Actually diving in Koh Tao was not so great. I think too many people are diving there and temperature is too high. Many corals died before and now they are getting recovered.
Thermocline happened in all dive points, and the visibility at the deeper place was very bad.

Diving in Koh Tao is easy and we can dive 2 times in the morning and 2 times in the afternoon.
So we can arrange flexibly. But...I did 4 dives for 3 days...Usually people are diving only in the morning or afternoon. You know if you dive more, you have a chance to see more things..That's my idea. Also this is the area whale sharks come around. But not often though.

There are a lot of gobbies, trigger fish, anemone fish, butterfly fish and shrimps.very pretty.

I think here is the place to enjoy the beach life.

I love anemone fish. :))

Travelling Thailand - visiting my friend-

I visited one of my friend in Bangkok at the last day.

I joined a Zumba Class where she always joins.
Some songs the instructor has are same as ones I did in Perth. I enjoyed it very much.
We had some coffee&tee after Zumba and chat for a long time. :) It's fun to talk about some Zumba, Japan and funny things with them.

I haven't seen my friend for..10 years? I realized a long time was passed and I felt I came from somewhere very far away. Her 2 daughters are cute. Younger daughter was crying for a long time but the way to cry was cute for me. I want to see them again.

We went to the park there are some squirrels and they are so cute. When we gave some snacks, they came to very close to us and they held the snacks with both hands and ate upside down. The park has some training equipment too and many people were running and exercise there.

Finally we went to the Japanese restaurant "Aoi". Then I could ate Salmon egg!! very good taste. Actually there were a lot of Japanese people and shops around the area I was very surprised. Around Siam is very convenient and probably a lot of European live there as well. So probably a lot of things happens there. Many buildings are still being constructed.
Bangkok has been extended a lot!

Travelling Thailand - Bangkok -

I stayed in Koh Tao for 4 days and I moved to Bangkok and stayed for 3 days.

Bangkok was very hot! I did not do anything at the first day...
Second day, I tried to join the Zumba class but the instructor was in holiday..So I went to Siam.
Siam has a big shopping centre and the event of Korean singer was at the day. So there were a lot of people there. I just had coffee at TomTom and I explore the centre. The stuture of Mcdonald was Thai version and the sign of Toilet was cute. :p

I got the train and the train system was not so complicated. a kind of Zone system. My hotel was convenient place and just 30B ($1) to Siam for one way.

I tried another Zumba class at the night. I could walk to there and the name is rumpree dance school. Actually there are many kind of school in Bangkok. There are Kumon and Art school next to this dance school. The floor was small but good enough to do Zumba. The instructor was American woman and a bit different music she used, but it was fun. :))
Bangkok was hot, so I sweat before I did Zumba.:o

Small shops were lined on the street at night in Bangkok. very traditional and unique but I was scared to eat food there. Food looked nice but I could not stand smell.:( So usually I ate food at the hotel.

 

 

Travel to Thailand -Samui and Tao-

I visited Tao Island and it's my second time. Last time was 7 years ago and Samui airport was very small and counter and port were just a tent on the sand. BUT! No more. Samui became international airport and very modern air port now. The new port made us to get on the boat very easy. A lot of change! When we use the Samui Airport, we can get free wifi, free juice and coffee & tea and snacks at the airport. There are nice cozy sofas. That's very good airport.

I booked the accommodation in Tao Island but the air condition at my room was broken just on the day. So they upgrade my accommodation to the very nice air conditioned place. I was very lucky!

Tao was changed. Now it's hard to find the Thai food restaurant. Many western food and sport bar. Many Australian, NZ, European but not many asian people now. Most food and drinks were 100B. Massage for 1 hour is only 300B. Cheap!!
 Having dinner in front of beach was really nice.:))

But I was disappointed the place were developed too much. People in the Island were more friendly before and the roads were more clean before. Actually the ocean was not clear either.
When people come to Island more and more, it's good for economy but we have to be careful to maintain the environment.

Last Zumba Class in Perth

I went to Zumba many times for a last week I left Perth. But! there were many stormy days. :(( One day the area was black out and we could not use power for a while. The instructor used iphone to listen music and just she sung songs sometimes for 20 min. Probably it's really hard for the instructor but it's a kind of fun day.:))
Monday class was my favourite class and one of my friends finally joined the class with me. It was very fun. I went to Tuesday's class as well. Tuesday was the last day in Perth, then I cried sometimes. 10 years in Perth are long time and I really missed people there and I could not believe I could not see them next day ..as usual. The instructor gave me some souvenirs at the last class. I am so glad and I used them at the next class in Thailand. :))

Her Zumba classes were very fun! and their program ( music and steps etc.) was very good quality I realize. One day, I want to join her class again.

Last Dinner

I went out for dinner some friends before I left Perth. But one is very special for me.
The life in Perth was not so easy. Once the company I worked had closed down around that time I tried to get PR visa. PR visa cost me a lot and I could not get it. I was really hard to live on at that time and I had serious financial problem. Then I met one family who run the take away shop. They helped me very well. If I could not meet with them, probably I could not live on in Perth.
I argued with them sometimes but I was very happy with them and it's valuable experience for me.
I really appreciate them and now they are like my second family. :)

I had a dinner in North Fremantle. It's quiet and nice place. Unfortunately the day was vegetarian day for some of the members but I was not, so I enjoyed salmon. :)) The desserts with custard were nice too. Really nice dinner for me. Our Hong Kong works joined it too. They were really funny and very fun to see the other parts of character.

I miss them very much!!

Cute shops

I've never eaten there but I was always fun to see them.
1. Lolly shop- I believe a lot of people love to eat them.

2. Pie shop- There are so many pie shops in Perth. I love this sign but I've never had pies here. :p
A lot of bubble tea shops there!! but.. any difference between shops??

What's on in May in Perth

I went around Perth city in 2 weeks just before I left Perth.

There were events of International food festival in front of the train station in Perth only on Friday.
A lot of lots of people there. Many various food there too. It was fun to see the food I've never seen.

At that time I found the aboriginal art shop and some products are very nice. But art itself is very expensive. My flatmate got very nice aboriginal arts at Melbourne and they are really good and not so expensive..under $40. um..Probably the price in Perth is higher than any other place.


The streets in Perth city are decorated by seasonal flowers every time. The flower in May was Pacifica. It was very blight and nice around Café area. :))