Spring is here and one of the events organised by the Malaysian Students' Association in Japan (MSAJ) was the Hanami & Welcoming Party to celebrate the newly arrived students to Japan. Moving to Chiba has given me the opportunity to attend activities and events organised by MSAJ, which are usually held in the Kanto region more often. The hanami party was held last Sunday at Yoyogi Park, which is one of the largest park in Tokyo.
It was supposed to start at ten in the morning, but Malaysians being Malaysians, we will never be punctual, right?
The reasons we were late was partially ours, as we mistakenly got down at the wrong train station, and also because of the wrong directions given by my junior haha!
We thought we can just walk to the park upon getting down from Yoyogi station, but apparently, it is much nearer if we'd gotten down at Harajuku station. Once we exited Harajuku station, we began walking towards the park and I called one of my junior to ask him about the spot where we were supposed to gather. Chai Ei then gave me a wrong direction that made us to go one big round around the park. Instead of turning right at a T-junction, we were told to turn left! What else, we had to take one big round while getting lost in the park-lor haha wtf!
We thought we can just walk to the park upon getting down from Yoyogi station, but apparently, it is much nearer if we'd gotten down at Harajuku station. Once we exited Harajuku station, we began walking towards the park and I called one of my junior to ask him about the spot where we were supposed to gather. Chai Ei then gave me a wrong direction that made us to go one big round around the park. Instead of turning right at a T-junction, we were told to turn left! What else, we had to take one big round while getting lost in the park-lor haha wtf!

With seniors - Su Sing, Min Ley, and Chin Chin (do you know that chin chin is a vulgar word in Japanese?).
After the lunch sessions, which was bento sets from Hotto Motto, some snacks and soft drinks, we had a Bingo game. The great thing is that there were prizes for the winners. The not-so-great thing is that most of the stuff were from 100 yen shop, and some of the stuff were quite weird haha!
One example was the dinosaur egg that Stella won.

"Your number got kena-ar?"

Stella with her dino egg. Go to Stella house a few months after this and you might catch a glimpse of Barney haha!
While everybody were busy checking out the numbers on their cards, someone spotted something suspicious underneath the blue sheet. It looked like a tail, of a dead animal. It was the golden opportunity for the mischievous guys to disturb the girls, just like how Yow Keong took a branch and tried to swing the tail towards the girls lol!
However, we later realised that it was just an artificial wool that resembled an animal's tail.
The Bingo game session took a break and the next slot was a mini photography contest. We were given a time limit of half an hour, to go around Yoyogi Park and snap as many photos as we like, and later come out with our best shot with the theme "Sakura". It was kind of a broad theme, but it was down to our creativity to produce our best piece of masterpiece.
So, it was a bonus to those was equipped with those canggih cameras. However, some of them didn't wanna lose out, as they used their iPhone to snap the photos.
So, it was a bonus to those was equipped with those canggih cameras. However, some of them didn't wanna lose out, as they used their iPhone to snap the photos.
After that, it was more and more of chit chatting and getting to know each other session, until the party ended at around two in the evening. Here are the rest of the pictures we took at Yoyogi Park. As you might notice, they are hardly any pictures of sakura in this entry, but our faces lol! That's because you can always search for sakura pictures in the Internet.
Here comes some selected pictures of the people who attended the hanami.
Fish and Agnes, who just arrived to Japan several days ago. I first thought that they were Japanese =.=

An ang moh girl was walking passed us when we were taking our group photo, and she randomly came in to take a picture with us lol!
Here are the rest of the random shots taken around Yoyogi Park, on our way to take the train at Harajuku station. It was a Sunday, and coincidentally, there was a concert going on nearby and the area was super crowded. We succesfully managed to walk through the sea of people and take the train to our next destination.
Later that night, we had a dinner with Cung's Taiwanese friend in Chiba.

This must be the biggest dog I've seen in my entire life. Look at the poor little white dog on the left haha!

A group of middle-aged guys, dressed up like Elvis and doing street dance at the park.

Only in Japan you can see girls dressing up like Barbie dolls and picnic under the sakura tress.
That's all folks. Thank you for reading.
6 comments:
it was fun!!! :D
later I brought the 2 of them to Ikebukuro to meet with another batch of juniors (same ABK). 無事だった lol.
@ clf:
of course it was fun, especially for some special reason for you, right? =P
I can tell some of the photo were not taken by your camera, unless you bought a DSLR which is highly impossible, because you didn't blog about it. :P
and I have lost count of the number of your hanami post. XD
@ kae vin:
yes, some of the pictures in this entry came from other cameras; and no, i didn't buy a dslr xD
never mind-lah, it's just once a year that i will blog about sakura =D
finally u are here in Kanto!there are still lots of activities right here:)
C u in golden week;P
lyk
@ anonymous a.k.a lyk:
yea, after being able to only see you guys have fun from afar for the last three years, finally i can join you guys from now onwards!
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