Hi hi my friends! I’m back home safe and sound! I’m so happy to have been able to see my friends from this blog in person in Malaysia and Singapore! I’d appreciate so much for the time and help from the local friends while my stay in those places.
Back in Tokyo, what do you think I enjoy most and I miss most?
I enjoy the climate, the weather here. It’s spring with cherry blossoms starting to bloom! It’s not too cold, not too hot. 
Actually I had a little bit of cold in Singapore after too much sweat and wet a bit in a heavy rain, and then into too strong air-coned shopping mall. Wow…how nice it is to be able to stay without air-con here.
I miss foods. Now I know why people say how foods over there are so good. To be honest, I never expected foods that much. What I saw in my guidebook never looked tempting to me. Especially “chicken rice” with white chicken (not grilled brown color) picture never made me feel like trying it. I cannot eat very spicy foods, which also made me scared of the local foods. Once I went to Thai restaurant in my place (Japan), I barely could eat anything after all. Some warnings from my guidebook also made me scared about the local foods. I mean warnings such as…possibility of getting diarrhea, dysentery, type A hepatitis, or cholera from foods or plates or tap water used to wash the plates especially from food stalls.
But the truth was different. The foods were terrific!! I wonder what my prejudice and all these negative images were! I have liked western foods so much so far, but I know I will get bored if I keep eating them. But when it comes to Malaysian/Singaporean foods, I was eating them at every meal from breakfast. I never felt like eating something else. I never missed Japanese or western foods, either.
Followings are some photos from my trip. Many people think that I am a Chinese or Korean student. (LOL) When I travel, safety is the top priority. My next task will be to learn Chinese or Korean to enjoy pretending myself! ^ ^ haha!

What do you call this drink? A plum was inside. It was good!
But I was scared to eat at food stall like this.

I could’ve tried food court like this, though. But I was too tired to stay there. To be safe, I mean, not to suffer from fever or heavy cold, I was having more sleep than hanging out by myself since I came back from Singapore. It was OK, as I was too busy until then.

Each food stall looks nice, but how about the kitchen? Is it hygienic?

But I tried hawkers in Singapore, because those places were where my friends took me.

After I took some photos at Merlion, it started to rain. It was too late when everyone started running! I had an umbrella with me, but the rain was too heavy.

I found many Japanese things in Malaysia. In Singapore I was so busy seeing my friends one after another that I couldn’t find any time for shopping by myself.

This is originally “
Pocky” by Glico, but why “Rocky” in Malaysia?
Well…it was such a wonderful trip to both cities: Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. I should’ve stayed in Singapore more because I had only a few hours per friend and I feel so sorry for that.
It was however the moment that I felt all my efforts to this blog were paid off when I could finally meet my local friends. They are the friends from this blog who I will never be able to know if I didn’t start this blog. I hope I can get connected with world-wide friends thru this blog and I’d love to see them again in Tokyo if they are to visit here!
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