Last night Miss Universe 2007 pageant was held in Mexico City. There are 77 contestants for this event. Out of these 77 beautiful ladies, Riyo Mori of Japan won the title of Miss Universe 2007. She was born in 24 December 1986 in Shizuoka, Japan. Hmmm.. 4 years younger than me. Can consider to make her as my girl friend… haha just joking. She is the second Japanese to won this title in 48 years.

Last Sunday, I went to Shibuya with my friend to take a look how is the fashion in Shibuya a.k.a. Fashion City. Shibuya was packed with people and mainly ladies who came down here to hunt for cloths. The popular landmark in Shibuya is the Shibuya 109 building. In this building, you can find all sort of ladies fashion like accessories, shoe and cloths. I went inside the building and all I can see is ladies shopping for cloths. Here you can find a lot of beautiful ladies.

For guys, you can go to Shibuya 109-2 building to find guys fashion. You have to go up to 5th and 6th floor to find guys fashion shop.

How to go to Shibuya: Take the JR Yamanote Line in Tokyo. As long as you able to take this line, you can reach Shibuya because this Yamanote Line circle around Tokyo City. So you won’t get lost.

Shibuya

When I first arrived here, I was suprised on how Japanese drives behave when on the road. If there are pedestrian trying or wanted to cross a road (using zebra crossing with no traffic light available), cars have to give way to pedestrian to cross first. It is a good practice to give way to the elders or the young ones to cross first. Now I feel safe crossing the road here compare to Malaysia where I have to look left and right many times before I can cross a road. I wish Malaysia also can practice this practice to make the roads safer to pedestrian.

I walked around the backlane around my area last few days. Most houses don’t have compound like what we have in Malaysia and don’t even have parking lot in the house.

Houses In Japan

In Japan, most of the optical shop provide free spectacle cleaning service. It is so simple and is self-service. They will put a small device outside their shop. You just have to soak your spectacle into the water in the device. Then press a button to activate the device and it will do the cleaning. After 1 minute, the device will stop. You just take out your spectacle; soak it inside clean water and wipe using tissue paper. Here you go…. your sparkling clean spectacle.

Today I ate Tempura for lunch in tempura restaurant and cook spagetti with tomato sauce myself at home. I like the tempura here because it taste nice and is fresh… They only fry the tempura after you order it. The tempura set I ate today just 500 yen which is the cheapest. They got a lot of varieties including vegetarian set. Below are the pictures of my meals…. hehe.

Last Sunday I went to Akihabara with my friend to buy some electronics. When we got out from the Akihabara train station, we saw a group of people gathered at one place and taking pictures. I was very curious what is happening there and I thought got famous people in town. One of the Japanese guy was talking in Japanese language (which I don’t understand) trying to promote something. So I try to squeeze in to see who is in the town.

Then I was shocked when I saw there are 3 Japanese girls there promoting their own adult video. My friend said it is just bikini video and not porn. I also think that it is just bikini video. I come from Malaysia where the culture and law doesn’t permit the people to do this kind of thing. This is the first time I saw it and I was shocked (culture shock).

When you go to places like Akihabara in Tokyo, you can see some Japanese doing performance at the road side. They’re not asking you to give them money for their street performance but to promote themselves in the entertainment industry by produce CDs and sell it.

In Japan, you can rent a studio to record your songs and produce your own CDs at a cheap rate. After produce it, is up to you how you want to promote your CDs. For Japanese, they will do street performance to promote it. If a record company interested to sign you up as a singer, then you will become very popular. That’s why you can see many new singer’s CDs come out in the market very often.

For those who has talent and know how to sing Japanese songs, you can try your luck here in Japan. You may not know that one day you will become famous like Ayumi Hamasaki or Utada Hikaru. Click on the picture below to view some photos on the street performance.

Street Performance

I received some comments that some of you want to see Japanese girls picture and some want to see what is the fashion in Japan. So I decided to put up some photos I have on Japanese girls. These are the few for now… I will add more in the future… Enjoy!

Last Sunday night, I made a trip to Ginza in Tokyo. Ginza is a Up-Market shopping street with branded shop like LV, Prada, Gucci and etc….. The main street is full of light during the night and it is so beautiful. It is like Hollywood in Tokyo. You also can see a lot of expensive cars in that area like BMW Z4, AUDI TT and Mercedes Benz. There is also a big Apple store selling IPOD and MAC with a very big Apple logo outside the shop. For those who want to get there, take the JR line train to Shimbashi station and walk about 5 minutes to reach the main street of Ginza or take the Tokyo Metro subway to ginza station.

Ginza