Hachimitsu, I Shrinked The Teacup

I was called to the office last week to take something. They informed us that it is something from Sado. I know it was going to reach us sooner or later.

When I went to take that stuff, what I saw was just a box like this.

Seriously, I almost forgot about making a yunomi (teacup) during my Sado trip early last month. If you had seen what I did during that time, then I guess you will get what I am trying to say here.

Just take a look at my ever-so-cacat-ed yunomi.

I admit mine was among the most frequently teased yunomi that time. They were saying my yunomi is so big, short and wide. Okay fine. I didn't disagree on that but I guess I did pretty well on my first try with these geli stuff.

When I opened my box, I was just shocked!

It looked nothing near to the initial yunomi which I last saw before we left the factory. The size had actually shrinked. It shrinked almost into two thirds from its initial size. They did tell us that these yunomi will shrink when they are placed inside the fire. But I never thought it will turn out so differently.

The shape of my yunomi was so nice that I was beginning to SS that time. Even the rest were saying mine look so nice. My Japanese language lecturer even told me that mine look different from the rest. Not different from the rest as in abnormal though.

She said mine is like the ones the Japanese use during the tea ceremony. Talking about that ceremony, I'm not very sure about the detail of the tea ceremony, but I do know that they tend to turn the cups a few rounds before drinking it.

Okay, enough of my SS-ing session before you guys begin to puke after hearing me doing the enter-the-basket-and-carry-it-myself activity. By the way, to make sure that my teacup will not look like just another teacup from some stores, there's actually a carving of my name on it.

To be honest, I was surprised with myself as well. I never thought I could actually come out with such a product and shrinked the teacup like that.

NOW, EVERYONE CAN SHRINK. Even engineers.

Yakiniku

It is becoming a common thing for us to go out and have a meal together after the exam is over. In the last exam, we went with our tutor to have ramen. This time, we went to have 焼肉 (yakiniku). The restaurant is called Cha Cha. It sounds more like a night club, isn't it?

The restaurant applies the eat-as-much-as-you-can policy, which is more commonly known as 食べ放題 (tabehoudai) in Japan. For around 1550yen (RM52), you can actually eat as much as you can within two hours.

Previously it was just the four of us but this time around we had some extra companies. One of our classmates and also Teong Rong, who came down from Hokkaido to catch Nagaoka Fireworks Festivals in the weekends, joined us as well.

Here are some of the meat we ate there. Fresh chicken, pork and beef.

First, yaki the niku.

Then after you have yaki-ed the niku, you got these to eat.

Actually, we didn't eat just meat. Instead, we ate seafood as well. Ika (squid) was one of the seafood we ordered, besides big prawn. We ordered corn and my all time favourite, potato as well.

They had this thing as well where we could yaki the ringo (apple). The apple is cut thinly and smeared with some butter while we yaki them. It was nice as we could actually taste the sweetness of the apple as well as the taste from the butter.

They called this 焼きりんご (yaki ringo).

Before we leave, we camwhored a little bit. These are the three Japanese - all my classmates.

from left: Tanaka (my tutor), Tomi and Tsubata (Yan Kuang's tutor)

As for the three of us, we did some silly pose. We thought we wanted to feed Teong Rong with prawns and sugar syrup.

Tiong Rong like kena forced only

But when I turned over to face the camera, this is what happened.

I almost fed his ear

Instead of feeding him in the mouth, I almost poured that bottle of sugar syrup into his ear.