Mount Fuji Journey

A great weekend indeed... Here is my journey to the famous Mount Fuji... With original plan was to go with friends and climbing from 5th Station of mount fuji at altitude of 2300meter.. unfortunately, with raining and unstable weather forecast, the trip was cancelled. This allowed me to change my plan and started from 1st station at 1450m. With last minute plan, i decided to go on very early morning of saturday. My journey started from Tsurumi, the place i staying, to the town of fujiyoshida with some trains...

Here is the "tough“ fuji kyukou train that bring me to the town of fujiyoshida..

The entrance of the yoshida trail at the town of fujiyoshida, altitude of 850m

I've decided not to take the bus to the 5th station, instead, i took another "bus" to the 1st station at altitude of 1450m, 30 mins from fujiyoshida town. At first, i was expecting a BUS, you know, it's climbing season in August! oh my God, when i saw my "bus", it was not a bus! it was a van! i guess there was very very less people start climbing from 1st station. In the van, there were 4 human included me. 1 was the driver, 2nd was a granny who staying there... 3rd was a young guy who seems to stay there too.. the last one was me... the van took us to a place named "umagaeshi", the starting point of 1st station, i was the only climber in that van.. hooray, climbing alone...

the first station! it was raining heavily, without hesitation, i started my journey in the lonely forest without doing warm up because i lazy as it was raining heavily... after a while, i realized i've injured my left leg, shit.... so for the whole journey i was carrying the injury to the top.. after 1 hours and 50mins climb and nearly lost in the middle of nowhere in one place, i've reached 5th station! at 2300m. gonna rest for a few hours before continue and to dry my clothes.

So for the next few hours, i was resting and eating energy bar. In the whole journey, from bottom to top of the mountain, i've eaten 2 kitkat chocolate bars and 7 soyjoy fruits bars and 1.5liter of isotonic drinks... nothing else, so while waiting, i took some photos

After having enough rest, i started my journey again from 7.15pm, from 2300m til 3775m. Some parts were tough and some parts of the mountain were easy. There were lot's of people and traffic jam when i started to climb. But without much rests, i decided to climb as fast as possible to grab a good place to see sunrise at the top of the mountain. Hence, i tried my best and finally reached 8.5 station! here it was! the critical point! i've decided to climb continuously until the top without stopping at 9th station, this allowed me to pass lot's of people and finally, when i reached there, i was one of the first few and managed to grab the last available front row seat at the edge of the mountain! great! but i've to sit down and wait for 3 hours before sunrise at temperature of 5 degree celcius... very very cold...

It was cloudy sky so not able to see the sun but the whole journey was satisfying.. =D

My check point time at every station!

oh! I love you my beloved slipper from Malaysia! climb to the top by wearing this! a little bit cold at 5 celcius but it made a huge contribution in my journey =D

梦想

每个人，心里都存在着梦想。有谁的梦想是想在高空中飞翔呢？我也很想像小鸟般飞呀飞，无忧无虑，自由自在。但现实里，却不想因工作而飞，只想一个人，或两个人，为休息而飞，为知识而飞...心里一直都在徘徊，会不会遇见一位同样理想，同样梦想的朋友，知己或伴侣，一起飞翔呢？若有一天，真的给我遇上了，就会好好珍惜...加油吧！决定是自己的，路，怎么走，也是自己的抉择。。。梦想，在我心里，永不消失。。。

Fireworks, Malaysians, Harajuku

6 working days in a week, which day was the best? yeah, it was saturday... less-than-10-phone-calls-per-day day... very relaxing... can concentrate fully on my own design project... and it was a no-overtime day... finished sharp on 4.45pm... headed to Meijijingu gaien for fireworks show with my long-time-no-see fellow malaysian friends... the original plan was to watch the fireworks together for 1 hour, at the end of the day we watched it separately because couldn't find each other, the area was too crowded... So we headed to Harajuku for some coffee breaks (for yu xuan, it was lunch) after the show... talked a lot, until the last train of the day...

everybody's life becoming more and more interesting... talking to fellow malaysians is always the best thing to do... no need to worry about using which language, just campur and rojak every language available to us... i believe for malaysians, using only a single language to have a conversation is quite difficult, that's why we take times to adapt to a foreign culture.. lol...

wish everybody best of luck!

challenges i faced in my job

In everywhere, there are challenges... i like to listen to people's challenges and difficulties so that i can learn from them... whoever we are, whatever we do, we are all trying to help human live better... we may pray different God, but our DNA are the same... we maybe physically different from animals and plants, but our fundamental building matters are the same, atoms... in this world, what we see may be different from person to person, but we are all matters... and of course, there are anti-matters too.... for my working life, i believed that i've learned enough technical knowledge in my university that i could survive easily anywhere... but no, the things i experiencing now are completely different. Do you get frustrated when you don't know what all people are talking about in a meeting? yes, i do get frustrated, everytime... Do you get frustrated when u can't catch the caller's name properly when answering calls in the office? yes, i do get frustrated, everytime, everyday... i hope i can do better but that's all my ability, for now.... these are just the 2 examples out of many... my mood & emotion were lowest at some points in the past, thinking about what was wrong with me... how could i not able to understand the orders given to me... that's suck..

that are challenges... and to solve it, there is no other way, just keep on fighting... i'll answer the calls & target myself to be able to catch every single name mentioned in the phone calls, without asking for a repeat... i'll get familiar with every on going projects to catch a thing or two in meetings.... under my boss's so called "work-directly-without-training" scheme, i'll complete the first design project that i received.. before deadline!.. that are my targets and challenges, found myself more energetic after 2 weeks of holiday, thanks to my family and friends...

well, apart from challenges, workplace do offer a little bit more... just like this! souvenirs!!! =D =D =D.... u have no idea how much they like to travel.. and bring home cute souvenirs everytime! =D