photos! photos! photos! sapporo! 07/12/2008
finally!
last batch
this is my first visit to sapporo. thanks to arashi
this place gives me the impression that it's kind of lost in time... other than being damn dry... like beijing orz
geez... i haven't seen one of these movie billboards since... the 70s?? ORZ~~~
last batch
this is my first visit to sapporo. thanks to arashi
this place gives me the impression that it's kind of lost in time... other than being damn dry... like beijing orz
geez... i haven't seen one of these movie billboards since... the 70s?? ORZ~~~
photos! photos! photos! back-dated ones~~~ 07/12/2008
i'd been chased left, right, center by my colleagues, my mom, my best friends and a bunch of you darlings here for photos that i had taken with all of you for the last few months... ORZ...
so i thought it's TIME for me to do the horrifying task of organizing my photos for the last few months T__________________________________T
here are some interesting ones to share!
starting with me and my boy... in yokohama
hee hee~
so i thought it's TIME for me to do the horrifying task of organizing my photos for the last few months T__________________________________T
here are some interesting ones to share!
starting with me and my boy... in yokohama
hee hee~
yes, i'm nuts lol
i survived btw.
but first of all, i must say that girls will always be girls even facing the end of the world... probably.
ORZ...
yes, these aren't banshees, but me and one of my colleagues trying to de-stress our faces, if not our bodies, in the departure hall of the mianyang airport, which we spent a night in. (we were packed for a 'business trip' btw ><)
and you aren't seeing things...
that's really me in my arashi time con tee on may 14th morning around 2am in mianyang airport.
ORZ...
i mean, check out the ceiling of the airport...
well, fuck it.
if this place was gonna collapse any second, i'd much rather look good. LOL
there were broken light bulbs that fell all the way from the ceiling, and debirs and water all over one part of the floor of the departure hall of the airport. i guess the cleaners got lazy
debris from the ceiling.
erm... excluding the chopsticks and bento boxes
so who said airports were safe anyway?
and there was a tremour around 3am that got people nervous.
but by then, me and my colleagues were quite numb to the 'tiny' tremours after going through the big one the day before.
orz.
ok, back to my 'story' since the last post...
after the night of terror with tremours every 30min, and 1 slightly nasty one at 4am, we rushed to the airport hoping that we can get a flight out of mianyang on the 13th.
btw, have you ever seen any airport's arrival hall so completely empty at 6pm??
mianyang airport arrival hall on 13th.
i survived btw.
but first of all, i must say that girls will always be girls even facing the end of the world... probably.
ORZ...
yes, these aren't banshees, but me and one of my colleagues trying to de-stress our faces, if not our bodies, in the departure hall of the mianyang airport, which we spent a night in. (we were packed for a 'business trip' btw ><)
and you aren't seeing things...
that's really me in my arashi time con tee on may 14th morning around 2am in mianyang airport.
ORZ...
i mean, check out the ceiling of the airport...
well, fuck it.
if this place was gonna collapse any second, i'd much rather look good. LOL
there were broken light bulbs that fell all the way from the ceiling, and debirs and water all over one part of the floor of the departure hall of the airport. i guess the cleaners got lazy
debris from the ceiling.
erm... excluding the chopsticks and bento boxes
so who said airports were safe anyway?
and there was a tremour around 3am that got people nervous.
but by then, me and my colleagues were quite numb to the 'tiny' tremours after going through the big one the day before.
orz.
ok, back to my 'story' since the last post...
after the night of terror with tremours every 30min, and 1 slightly nasty one at 4am, we rushed to the airport hoping that we can get a flight out of mianyang on the 13th.
btw, have you ever seen any airport's arrival hall so completely empty at 6pm??
mianyang airport arrival hall on 13th.
it's good to be alive 05/12/2008
i flew in to mianyang, which is a small city in the sichuan province of china, last night.
it was a business trip.
didn't expect the sudden earthquake.
was having focus groups on the 16th floor of a building in mianyang all day.
around 3pm, it shook and swayed like it was on drugs.
i had a few earthquake experiences in tokyo, but really tiny tremors.
this one this afternoon was horrifying.
imagine the whole building literally swaying left right up down with no control and u donno when it will ever stop.
my colleagues and i were huddled and frightened on the floor.
when the shaking finally stopped after like 3-5min, which seemed like a decade, we went out of the room to see the office in shambles, tables and chairs pushed around till the partitions were all bent out of places.
the glass door of the toilet broke and the water dispenser broke so there was water all over the floor.
there was debris everywhere.
when we finally gathered our wits to get down the escape stairs, which was dark, it was a slow walk down coz the bannisters were broken and some parts of the steps were chipped.
first time i ever walked down 16 floors without complaining.
when we got out of the building, we saw there were crack lines in some parts of the buildings.
we were lucky it didn't collapse.
my hands and knees still shook for some time even after we escaped from the building.
the whole population of mianyang (a small city), was out on the roads.
the 6 of us, who weren't from sichuan, hitched a hike from an old, rusty pick up which took us to our hotel up on the hills.
coz all the cabs were rushing home.
by that time, we were smiling so madly, in contrast to what we experienced like an hr ago. the feeling of relief was as sudden as the earthquake. we could even laugh and joke about it.
the hotel was the safest place we could think of. coz it's like a resort with really low 2-3 story buildings.
they didn't allow us to check in as they were also evacuating the staff.
but no one left coz we all know it's probably the safest place in mianyang.
we couldn't connect by mobile phone coz the lines were dead.
but luckily the land line in the hotel's business center still could get us to our colleagues in shanghai who tried their best to give us assistance.
it's hard, coz the airports were closed.
so we had to stay over the night.
the hotel manager sold us some beer, which we needed desperately. lol
finally, they allowed us to check in after loitering in the lobby for hrs.
and heard that the homes of some of the hotel's staff/friends collapsed near mianyang.
as most of the phone lines were dead, they couldn't check if their relatives were alright.
then we found out that the earthquake originated in wenchuan. it was 7.8 on the richter scale.
i donno how bad was ours here in mianyang.
there was a nasty tremour at around 7pm that got us running out of the hotel.
at least that was a short, though shaky one.
heard that there will be another bad one around 12am.
we'd be out of the rooms in the next 30min to avoid any danger from the buildings.
and most of all,
thank god the internet and tv are working in the hotel!!!!
orz...
also, just found out that 3000-5000 have died around sichuan. 900 students were buried in the schools. 10,000 people wounded.
i'm really lucky not to be there at the epicenter. my experience in mianyang was bad enough.
i was supposed to go to chengdu this evening.
lucky ne~
hope i can get a plane back to shanghai tomorrow or wed.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photo/12052008/6/photo/photos-n-world-house-destroyed-earthquake-outskirts-mianyang.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-earthquake-kills-five-children-826416.html?r=RSS
it was a business trip.
didn't expect the sudden earthquake.
was having focus groups on the 16th floor of a building in mianyang all day.
around 3pm, it shook and swayed like it was on drugs.
i had a few earthquake experiences in tokyo, but really tiny tremors.
this one this afternoon was horrifying.
imagine the whole building literally swaying left right up down with no control and u donno when it will ever stop.
my colleagues and i were huddled and frightened on the floor.
when the shaking finally stopped after like 3-5min, which seemed like a decade, we went out of the room to see the office in shambles, tables and chairs pushed around till the partitions were all bent out of places.
the glass door of the toilet broke and the water dispenser broke so there was water all over the floor.
there was debris everywhere.
when we finally gathered our wits to get down the escape stairs, which was dark, it was a slow walk down coz the bannisters were broken and some parts of the steps were chipped.
first time i ever walked down 16 floors without complaining.
when we got out of the building, we saw there were crack lines in some parts of the buildings.
we were lucky it didn't collapse.
my hands and knees still shook for some time even after we escaped from the building.
the whole population of mianyang (a small city), was out on the roads.
the 6 of us, who weren't from sichuan, hitched a hike from an old, rusty pick up which took us to our hotel up on the hills.
coz all the cabs were rushing home.
by that time, we were smiling so madly, in contrast to what we experienced like an hr ago. the feeling of relief was as sudden as the earthquake. we could even laugh and joke about it.
the hotel was the safest place we could think of. coz it's like a resort with really low 2-3 story buildings.
they didn't allow us to check in as they were also evacuating the staff.
but no one left coz we all know it's probably the safest place in mianyang.
we couldn't connect by mobile phone coz the lines were dead.
but luckily the land line in the hotel's business center still could get us to our colleagues in shanghai who tried their best to give us assistance.
it's hard, coz the airports were closed.
so we had to stay over the night.
the hotel manager sold us some beer, which we needed desperately. lol
finally, they allowed us to check in after loitering in the lobby for hrs.
and heard that the homes of some of the hotel's staff/friends collapsed near mianyang.
as most of the phone lines were dead, they couldn't check if their relatives were alright.
then we found out that the earthquake originated in wenchuan. it was 7.8 on the richter scale.
i donno how bad was ours here in mianyang.
there was a nasty tremour at around 7pm that got us running out of the hotel.
at least that was a short, though shaky one.
heard that there will be another bad one around 12am.
we'd be out of the rooms in the next 30min to avoid any danger from the buildings.
and most of all,
thank god the internet and tv are working in the hotel!!!!
orz...
also, just found out that 3000-5000 have died around sichuan. 900 students were buried in the schools. 10,000 people wounded.
i'm really lucky not to be there at the epicenter. my experience in mianyang was bad enough.
i was supposed to go to chengdu this evening.
lucky ne~
hope i can get a plane back to shanghai tomorrow or wed.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photo/12052008/6/photo/photos-n-world-house-destroyed-earthquake-outskirts-mianyang.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-earthquake-kills-five-children-826416.html?r=RSS
macdonald boys at my door^^ 04/18/2008
geez... staring at this makes me damn hungry >"<...
