from nagaoka with love

 This is the most needed one... although it was only one night trip, we really enjoy ourselves and had a whale of a time there.   since Johor was having a public holiday last Wednesday, I thought why not reward ourselves with this shortest getaways ever after all the covid thingy we gone through for the last two weeks. We played tourist in Malacca, the historic city after long years of not going there. We went for the river cruise along the Malacca River, The Shore Sky Tower, and sightseeing around Banda Hilir.  The cruise was something that one should not miss when one comes to Malacca. The Malacca traditional settlements along the riverbank, the beautiful night scenery, row of shops with their own unique decorations to attract customers, the mesmerizing mural on the building are just overwhelming even this was not our first-time experience the cruise. On the second day, we walked around Banda Hilir since many of the attractions were only within walking distance. In...

actually during the chaos caused by the earthquake and then followed by the nuclear radiation leakage last march, we took a chances to travel to the southern area of Japan as a way to chill ourselves.  One of the place was Hiroshima which ironically is the first city in history to be destroyed  by nuclear weapon in world war II.  It has been 66 years since the first atomic bomb which dropped by the US Army, Hiroshima City now has developed dramatically and you will see no sign of suffering of the blast.  Except for the only building that was preserved as a memorial to the people who were killed in the atomic bombing tragedy in 1945. It is known as Atomic Bomb Dome.  The building was first named as Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition, before the bomb detonated almost directly above the building. There were large numbers of people died from the effects of burn, radiation and other injuries compound by illness. if 66 years ago, they faced the thre...

The story took place in Akihabara, last week.  We were about to leave Akihabara station and i was looking at the map to find our stop station and the fare as well.  As this wasn't my first time there, it was easy for me to find our way.   Earlier, I saw a man(Japanese) was talking to other man (foreigner)  as if the Japanese was guiding the foreigner on how to get to the foreigner's place.  Hubby wasn't with me, Ari was fell asleep and the weather outside was super cold, and because of that he just  waiting for us inside the station while i treated my sister on her shopping agenda. I was then approached by the same Japanese, asking me my destination. He dressed in suit, but his attire was rather shabby plus his stinky mouth but with his very fluent English. " Three of you, where are you going?" (me, my sister n her husband) " Kameido station", i replied, was trying to be polite and just let him to guide us. "Here is Akihabara, the n...

The second part of ucu's is a trip to Tokyo or Disneyland to be exact.  But unfortunately, the weather was bad and Tokyo town was flooded by snow from very early Friday morning until the next day continuously. I did checked the forecast the day before and even they stated it clearly rain, i just pray for contrarily and hope for some miracle to happened.  We arrived at Disneyland before 7, had our breakfast inside car and continued sleep until 9am.  After wake up, the snow still falling heavily and the temperature was damn cold.  We headed to the main entrance and were about to queue until both of us decided to call off the Disneyland trip and switch to other places as planned. We really know that we couldn't stand staying outside for a long hours with that cold, and for sure we won't get to play all the rides and it was not worth it to pay such thousand yen for that.  So we said good bye to Disneyland and wish to be here in spring while ucu was a little bi...