~Kobe City~

I went to Kobe on Friday morning after getting my re-entry form done.Chatted lots with the office people who drove me to make the re-entry form.Next,cycled to the Shiroko station,beginning my highlight and most anticipated programme of the week,the trip to Kobe City. These are some pictures I took before meeting up with the rest..Which consist of Michael,May Ching,Kim,Clement and Chin Leong. Noticed that Kobe city's architecture is a lot different then those in Osaka city,Nagoya city etc.Oh this is my first time taking a train myself to somewhere as far as Kobe.Was cheated by the internet which gave me a cheap option but didn't tell me I have to add money to actually take the Limited express.So I had an adventure of my own,changing trains without consulting the info that I can get from phone,but went back to the basics and asked around.The train people were really nice,and one of them even gave me a map,pointed every place he explains and told me patiently which train to take,to change etc.Arrived safely to Kobe..haha.Nothing beats experiencing everything oneself.

Met the rest and we went to Chinatown!! Had dinner there,buffet style.My my,when is the last time I tasted Chinese food?3months ago!! Then jalan-jalan,took pics,jalan more....

It was cloudy so we cancelled our original plan to go up the hill to have a nice Kobe city night view. Went around the park,the port and took pics instead.(Why not even one of them dare to go in the Ghost Mansion with me???)As I was supposed to stay at May Ching's senior house,so we left early.Nice sempai you got there May Ching.(she even made us breakfast...So touched,dahlah let me stay at ther place)The next day,went to have a look at Akashi kousen...Then had a nice cake breakfast on top of the super delicious porridge Kun-san made..

Went to visit the Akashi bridge,said to be the longest suspension bridge..Nice nice.Then we had pool game organised by Michael with the MSAJ students at Round 1.Clement and I got 3rd.Luck?Who knows...Then more makan and we headed to the hill..Only to be greeted with a super 'cool,thick'...FOG...so there goes our 1500yen,going up all the way to the hill,disappointed not being able to catch the famed-night view of Kobe city.. We then went for MI3,which was superb.Then bid Michael goodbye after he took us around Kobe city,us going to karaoke,him heading back. Thanks a lot.

It was my first night staying up all night.Singing and dosing off in between.Karaoke is so not a good place to stay overnight.Morning came,and we went up to the hill to see the some early foreign settlement's amazing houses.Head home because of the lousy weather and it was too early for us to do anything.Me made another great attempt to come back.Simply just take the trains that came,(of course according to the map,its on the same rail,just nearer station)made at least about 4times changes,not wanting to wait for one hour for the next 'fastest' train after missing it within a short toilet trip of 3minutes.Anyhow,didn't get much sleep on the train afraid of missing the station.(And why is it this empty one ler????REally nobody takes Kintetsu one marrr????Scare me thought it was a last station,took the wrong train or something)Without the help of a watch and handphone(amazingly both battery died out),I took trains based on instinct and map and thank goodness reached back safely,1hour before the rain starts pouring here..Lucky huh? Well,I loved the adventure....But not so much as the test I'm going to face tomorrow..sighh....
The fogggg....
The famouse suspension bridge...
Those who went for the pool game..
One of the earlier settlement's building...
The empty carriages of Kintetsu on my way home...