- tokyo chapter: the supposedly tokyo tower outing -

currently listening to - ketsui no asa (aqua timez)
mood - sleepy..

... turned out to be just an eragon movie outing.

probably due to exhaustion (and because it's me, the sleeping beast) after 2 whole days of jump fest outing, on monday (18 dec) we woke up late in the afternoon. planned to visit tokyo tower (maybe just taking pictures of the tower without going up to the viewing place, coz according to the internet it costs money...) in the afternoon and THEN go watch a movie. which is eragon. a movie which one of us longed to watch because she's so crazy about the eragon novels........ since half the group woke up late we decided to book the movie tickets 1st, then go to tokyo tower, then come back to shinjuku to watch the movie..

it was quite funny that even though some among our group have been to kabukicho (it's said to be one of the red light districts in tokyo but who cares, let's just ignore the problem for now), i, an osaka person (= a foreigner), was the one leading the tokyo people the way to the cinemas... i had no idea why. we got lost (obviously, especially because it's me, the super houkou onchi) for a while, had some small conflicts among ourselves..... but thanks to the convenience store lady we were able to reach our destination in the end.

however, it's too late to go to tokyo tower by then. we had only an hour left before the show started. what to do. might as well just bura bura around the cineplex till the time comes...... so happened that there's a game center right in front of where we were. PURIKURA TIME!!!! muhahahahahahahahaha.......

- one hour later... -

i dont understand why it took us so long but we only managed to take 2 sets of purikura. and then it was time to buy popcorns. surprisingly, during the show, it seemed like our row of seats was one of the few which actually has people sitting on them... i must say, the cinema was big enough to make us few people feel lonely in there. the last time i felt this way was the time when i was watching howl's moving castle with 3 friends in toa payoh (singapore). there were less than 20 people in the cinema at that time. it's not like howl's not a good movie (anime?) or what, but that particular cineplex simply got no visitors...

anyway.... watched the movie till the end.. and it was...... i dont know. i personally prefer the lord of the rings to eragon for movies of fantasy genre. both storylines were extracted from long novels, but i think peter jackson and the others did a much better job in preventing the movies from being mere "summarised versions of the novels". though after reading the novels, you'd still feel that there are so many things that werent mentioned in the movies, and that books are still the best. in my opinion, that is. well yeah LOTR novels are kinda long and difficult to comprehend at some points....

that was what we did that day. i'd say it's not really a productive day but what the hell, i could still type an essay-long post about it...

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1) houkou onchi - directionless idiot
2) bura bura - laze around
3) purikura - shortened form of "print club". small decorated photographs commonly measuring 1 inch by 0.5 inch.

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sneak peak (a.k.a a reminder for myself):
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