Onsen in Gotenba...

As part of our silver week holidays... my hubs and I went out of town last Monday! We went to hotspring or spa in Gotemba Kogen Resort. It's our second time date to that place... we actually been there last end of winter. How I wish Sachan can visit this place with us too! Aside from spa, the facility have some interesting restaurants, shoppings, events and some sightseeings. Well... this time... we enjoyed the spa at KIRAKUBO and of course the colorful windmills all around the resort.

The colourful wind mills Yakisoba is trully yummy! KIRAKUBO hotspringYAPPARI ONSEN NO HOU GA SAIKO DA! やっぱり温泉のほうが最高だ！

Tour in Chiba!

Yeheeey ... we have a five days holiday this week!

I started my free day yesterday having a bus tour with Liza. Actually it was a mystery tour according to Yomiuri tour promo... and I was so excited what's the mystery behind that tour... well, actually... it's about a tour wherein nobody knows where they'll gonna take us... a surprise in other word! lol! But actually... we had some idea already on where to go according to some hints written in the guide line schedule. Yes... my hubs said we will be obviously taken to Chiba!

He was right... our tour was in Chiba!

Below is a Cosmos plantation in Tokyo German Village

Tokyo German Village

Sea coast in Chiba Well... it was pretty exciting! We enjoyed sight seeings, experienced harvesting and enjoyed the foods and many omiage like sanma fish, sweet potatoes, peanuts and even 1 kilo of rice...lol!

Looking forward to another bus tour... hopefully this autumn!

Above are photos from our bus tour in Chiba

Long time no see!

Minasan... hisashiburiiiiiii! At long last... i got this chance to update this blog. I was soooo busy this past few weeks.... nakakataranta at nakakalokah talaga of which to do first coz my work was all around! Sooo... after those busy days... heto naman ako feeling soooo tired, dull and languid due to over fatigue! I still be needing to recharge myself to regain some more energy... but how... how... how... ?
Oh well... I already can smell the up coming holidays here... from 19th to 23rd... gosh... i am so excited! I have some plans already like on weekend, i am going to a Mystery Tour with Liza... i dunno what is mystery behind that tour... it was liza's idea... tell u then...lol!
Another plan is that we are going to have a GOKOROSAMA gathering for the past Phil NAKAMA's anniversary event. This will be held at liza's place in Yaizu City on the 22nd and i heard... this is a barbeque party!
More plans but nothing is definite yet... i let u know then...
For the meantime... i posted some of my past escapades below... huli man daw at magaling, naiihabol pa rin... see... huli pa rin talaga... lol!


Well... one thing that probably making me busy was this Mafia Wars and Sorority Life games! I'm addicted to these games... and below was the result of my SL last Thursday... it was my first experience to become number one at the catwalk... thanks to all my sis, brod and friends votes!

I just tried to be on it... but I don't want to try it again... it took and consumed me a lot of time and effort! LOL!

Here they come, here they go!

New staffs came... some will leave... but for reasons. Yup... that's what happening always to our staffs in SAME especially the foreigners coz most of them are students.
Sooo ... another NOMIKAI or drinking gathering for them!

Last Friday, 11th... we held this welcome and farewell party of SAME at Dammaya Suisan. Many staff joined --- thanks for the effort of Satomi chan to gathered them!

We welcome our foreign staff-- Chou san of China, Fabi of Peru and Kousaka san of Brazil while Josh bid for goodbye coz he is leaving Japan to go back to America on the 18th.

SAME staff... Shizuoka and Shimizu office

Our SAME director... Odamaki san

...with his daughters!

Enjoying the foods and drinks!

Josh on his farewell remarks

This is fry-EBI

I went back walking alone... drunk... but it felt gooood!

A special day for Phil NAKAMA

Sept 9th year 2001 was the official day when we founded the Phil NAKAMA Organization. Last Sept 6th was another memorable day for Phil NAKAMA because this was the day we celebrated the 8th anniversary of our group.

We held the gathering at the Music Hall in Aicel 21. Inline with the program was the induction of the officers and new members of the group and of course the regional qualifying rounds on UTAWIT 2009 in Shizuoka.

We were new to the venue and we prepared everything by our selves in less than two weeks to be exact but i am so grateful to say that we did it! The event was a blast, the UTAWIT contest was stunning, the music system was great, the performers were amazing and the cooperation of everyone was super!

B4 them... meeee first!

with Irene, Beth, Joseph-- UTAWIT 2009 execom!Some of my girl friends...

The Fandango sa Ilaw

Induction Ceremony of new officers for 2009-2011 headed by Precy as President.Induction Ceremony of the new members Meeee and uncle Jo hosting the UTAWIT-Shizuoka The trophies courtesy of Philippine NAKAMA to UTAWIT 2009- Shizuoka winners. What's funny??? ...and the winners are...

Maritess and Uncle Jo's special duet number Lastly... I would like to thank each and everyone involve to Phil NAKAMA, be a member or not... for being a part of our group! For 8th years... we are still here and we owe that to each and everyone of us... thanks to all your support, hardwork, dedication and belief to our objectives!

Long live to Phil NAKAMA!

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After the event... we're sturving so some of us went together to Jolibee tropical restaurant for dinner. It's a buffet dinner in only Y1050. Amy... the owner only do this promo once in a month... only on first Sunday of the month. It's very reasonable and damn OISHI! We enjoyed the karaoke too except to Jonalyn's annoying voice... lol! I wanna kill the judges who allowed her to pass the audition in the Philippines... it's too unfair for Filipinos who really had talents! LOL! Just i love this woman for being so sport to admit what i been saying! hahahah! I know she wants to kill me too! hahahah! OTSUKARESAMA DESHITA!

Night picnic in Abe River?!

The Abe River HANABI TAI KAI or fireworks exhibition which was originally scheduled on July 25th has been cancelled due to continuous rains and it was resched last August 29th.... and if there some people who were glad it was resched ... well, it was me, Liza, Amie and Sarah!

Actually, we are always watching together that Hanabi Tai Kai every year ... but this year ... the date of the event got conflict to our Summer Live group event. So we prayed for hopes that it would rain on Hanabi Tai Kai's event (bad girls deshou?! lol!)... so they could resched it and we can have the chance to watch it!

Our mother nature had been so cooperative... our wish was granted! LOL!

This time... we watched the event by having a picnic with Phil NAKAMA group. We didn't expect that many friends will gonna join us... our big blue picnic sheet was sooo crowded!

We enjoyed eating, drinking and yelling together while watching the exhibitions. Gosh... i enjoyed everyone's company... and we are the only noisy group in there! LOL!

We reserved our group's place!

TANOSHIKATTA YO!

After the event... liza, sarah and yuta were my boarders... they stayed and slept at home and we been together 'til the next day... roaming around the city. Gusto restaurant has been our dining room for late at night meal and breakfast! It was also our first time to visit Liza's place in Yaizu when we drove her home.

Group discussion about Shizuoka

August was really another busy month for me... this time... my friend Kotomi-chan, a college student in Shizuoka University had this circle doing some symposiums on different topics about their interest in life...somewhat like pulong-pulong sa kaunlaran.

This time discussions was about cross-cultural. It was held in a restaurant named ITALI-TEI (?) near Parco last August 28, Friday night.

They had this topic about foreign residents view in Shizuoka. So... Kotomi chan and her group invited 3 foreign residents from Shizuoka ---that's me, Shajid from Sri Lanka and Ken from America as guest speakers and we were ask to talk about our experiences, opinions and some comparisons of the way of living here and our own countries.

...with Kotomi chan

We're divided in some groups and they change groups after every 30 minutes discussions.
I was surprised that they even asking me about the current economics and political situations in the Philippines... how could I answer that personally if almost half of the century of my life was already spent here in Japan... lol! Tough question... po talaga!

More than 20 people joined the discussions... and it was fun talking with them...

I was able to meet many Japanese and became friends.