First time to Oita

Made my first ever trip to the neighbouring city of Oita (Prefectural Capital of Oita Prefecture). Shopped @ Uni Qlo and enjoyed myself tremendously. Bought Home clothes, Pyjamas and running clothes. I like that shop quite a lot.

We also had the most amazing Korean Dinner ever. Well... it was perhaps my 2nd time having Korean food... so I wonder if that counts. Anyway... the bottom line is... it was really good food!

After returning to AP House, we decided to make our way up to "Beppu wan" to have a look @ the night scenery of Beppu City. It was great! We ate, drank (no alcohol), sang, jumped around and finished off with Thor's not-so-amazing Stories. In any case, I think everyone felt a lot more relaxed and happy... even though we only got back to AP House @ 1am.

Have a look @ some of the photos below and visit http://picasaweb.google.com/furrysnag/0421 for more! Oh there is also a very short video of something that "Hello Kitty" lovers may consider buying.

Beppu wan participants (ex. myself) : Jun (Korea), Thor, David (Australia), Michelle, Jenelle (Hawaii, USA), Kyoko (Japan), Kane, Tingting (Thailand)

View from Beppu wan. APU Campus in the foreground, Beppu in the middle and a bit of Oita in the background on the left. Point-and-shoot camera has limitations. Sorry.

Not-so cool jump into the frame...

Red train on the right, blue on the left. We took the blue one from Beppu to Oita.

Aymmetrically divided bench near Oita Station.

Random pavement shapes...

Thor trying to pick up a poor Thai Girl off the streets... with 100yen???!!! (Starring Thor as himself, and Dione as a poor version of herself)

To all you "Hello Kitty" lovers out there...

Those were actually Hello Kitty table fans... by the way...