My lower lips is swallon. Something like that, it's just darn painful. Edric said that my lips contracted when I was in Hokkaido, and now in the hot and humid Singapore, it's expanding back again.

I wonder how he got his O' level cert, hahaha.

It takes a while to get use to the weather here, walking under the hot sun, damn. In Hokkaido, walk and you freeze. Sweat? What's that?

See the amount of snow. Damn beautiful :)!

The thing about Japan is that, they have beautiful toilets. In Japan, it's the norm to put my hands under the tap and let the water run. Only if you want your hands to freeze though. Because in a sub-zero condition, you probably wouldn't want water on your hands.

But, urinating without washing your hands? Pretty normal in such cold countries.

The toilet bowls, as you people know, are advance. They wash your ass for you. The seats are heated up, when you sit on the toilet bowl, it will detect your presence and does all the necessary 'preparations' like clearing the cold water and replacing it with warm water etc.

Not only that, it has a remote control. Press flush on the remote and ta-da! Press the button with water splashing on a buttocks and it means "wash your ass."

Press the other one and it mean wash the women's private part.

Communication breakdown is a major problem in countries such as Japan.

I probably underestimated ANA's air stewardess standard of English. A bottle of water is much easier to handle than a cup of water. I can place the bottled water anywhere I want it to be, instead of putting down the stupid table. 

Probably with a SIA girl, I will just say "Can I have a bottle of water please?"

With an ANA girl, I will take up a sample, point at it and say "Water? Water? Water?"

Darn. They must be feeling so insulted, because I thought a sentence such as the above was too long. And in the Japanese language, the longer the sentence, the more polite it was.

So how to make "Water" sound polite? Repeat it 3 times.

Anyway the girls on domestic flights are BOOOO. The girls on international flights, such as SG-TOKYO, and TOKYO-SG are goooooddddd. You guys probably know that I have a thing for uniform, in other words, uniform fetish.

The food there sucks. Or at least, the food I have been eating for the past week. EVERYDAY THE SAME THING LEH WAH PIANG EH!

But the Ramen I ate at Narita Airport was nice. Talking about that, when I placed my order, I chose something which I don't know what it was.

I just saw the photo and pointed at it. The guy probably wanted to tell me, it's 'not available.'

So he did an ultra man cross "X". I got it. So I chose another. Problem of communication break down, your hands are the next best tool.

I was handed a device, which will alert me to collect my Ramen when it's ready. Amazing eh? Simple but good innovation.

The first being the automated soup dispenser which I have been praying for it to arrive in Singapore for don't know how long already.

I have been facing the problem of turning on the tap with a soupy hand. But in Japan, just place your hands under the soup dispenser, then move your hand a little more to the right and tada, everything is done automatically.

I'll continue with Hokkaido part 3 tomorrow, just came home after going out with Edric, Shaun, Timothy and Wen Kai.