Humid.
That is the word to describe summer in Tokyo. It is 27degree celsius today but there is this horrible sticky feeling that makes you super irritated as the still air clings on to you.
Managed to check in my 35kg luggage at Changi Airport, thanks to a very nice SIA lady..(had to do some unpacking and lug my countless 8days magazines in my not-very-hardy Adidas bag). Slept on the plane, so tired! Thanks to my brother`s insight, i changed my seat online and it turned out that there was an empty seat next to mine (yeah! more space to stretch) on the nearly full SIA-ANA flight to Tokyo.
All was good, even managed to grab a light bite before going catching the 9am Airport Limo bus bound for Shinjuku. Was delayed for about 45min at Changi Airport due to congested air traffic, but hey i cleared immigration pretty quickly because i can go to the Japanese passport queue (tada! with my queued-up-for-2-hours Re-entry permit).
Pretty worried that my Samsonite will come out from plane losing a wheel or with a broken handle but thank God it managed to survive the throwing and handling. All went well till i arrived at Shinjuku JR station and there was NO upriding escalator to my platform. Armed with a 5kg laptop, one backpak, one duffel bag of magazines and a 35kg Samsonite.. there was no way i could carry the luggage up let me see, 30 flights of steps!
Went to ask the station control guy if he could reverse the escalator to make life easier for me, being the typical polite Japanese, he offered to manually carry the luggage up for me. He got a rude shock when he realised how much 35kg weighs in the shape of a innocent-looking red suitcase. HA! But thanks to him, i managed to board the train and reach home safely within 2hours of leaving Narita.
Being the cleanliness-freak i am, dragged my sleep-deprived body to vacuum and mop my floor, wash my aircon filters, and change my bedsheets. And by the end of the cleaning up, my whole t-shirt was drenched entirely in sweat. Whoever tells me that Singapore is warmer is definitely wrong!
My laptop couldn`t connect to the LAN and i was super stressed. I sort of knew this was going to happen when i lugged my lappy back to Singapore and got my brother to reconfigure it. Spent about 1 hour praying for the internet to work, gave up and went to take a nap after bathing.
Woke up in the evening, tried for another 2 hours, screamed, shouted, scolded myself and finally prayed.. ( i am really horrible at pc stuff.. all the DNS, IP don`t make any sense at all) Called up my trusty tech friend in Singapore, realised Japanese routers are made differently, dug out my instruction manual and kept praying.. finally managed to make it work after fiddling for 4hours.
Went for dinner with Xinyi and Yihui...it`s great to see them again! My Mandarin deproved due to lack of use in Singapore (Singlish is not exactly the same as Taiwanese Mandarin right?) haha... time to pack my bag for school tomorrow... must go to school early to get a good seat in the new classroom.
i realise how expensive things are in Tokyo again. *grrr*
