The Zoo near our house

3rd & 9th Nov -2008

We moved to our rental apartment just beside Nagoya University on the 3rd day after we landed in Japan. Without any internet and transport it's really hard to know around without wandering around.
The good thing is that there is a zoo ( Higashiyama Zoo ) just in a walking distance from our apartment. It's about 10 to 15 minutes walking only. The entrance fee is just 500yen (±5USD) for adult and it's free for kids until 15years old. The zoo itself is really big and even got a pond that can ride the paddling boat, an amusement park that has a ferris wheel and also a botanical garden and an observation tower called Skytower but the tower is in separate fee.
My kids seems to enjoyed the zoo very much.

at the giraffe barn

On the 2nd Nov we went for the 1st time, on the 9th we went with another friend from Okayama University. He and his family came to Nagoya due to he has a conference here in Nagoya. Due to he also got a limited time to go around Nagoya, we decided to go the the zoo.

With Athif's family

Eirfan and Yuri also really get along well with his elder daughter, their 2nd daughter is about Eiqmal's age.

Slide show from flickr set

Nagoya here wecome!!

Connecting fllight to Nagoya, originally uploaded by emrank.

27th Oct - 2008

Finally after 8 hours waiting, finally we are ready for our flight to Nagoya...
even we landed at Narita at 7am and there is a morning flight to Nagoya on 10am...but we cannot take that flight due the time gap are too short and we'll miss the flight if our flight from KLIA delayed or something.

In order to get on this flight , we need to go to the aeroplane by the airport bus. It was a very short flight,,, less than an hour and we landed at Chubu Centrair in Aichi.in the flight my kids got some toys from JAL too.


Eirfan pushing the bag to the arrival gate at Chubu Centrair International Airport

At the airport we been picked up by Malaysian student from Nagoya University and given a ride to the hotel in Nagoya. Finally our 26hours journey to Nagoya finished. It was a tired journey.

My kids were very tired - Royal Park Inn, Nagoya

Welcome to Japan

Welcome to Japan, originally uploaded by emrank.

Oct 27 - 2008

Our flight landed at Narita Airport at 7am( Japan Time ) and the immigration procedure took about 2hours...this was due to most of international flights landed here in this time period.
when we cleared the immigration, our bags already taken off the belt and ready to be picked up.


A shot after get out of the plane

while we were resting and made a call back home, the airport police came and get some details to all the foreigners.
where are you from, why come to japan blah blah blah....

Then the boring part starts....we need to wait until 4pm and there are less thing to do to accept wait,,,,,there was no free wifi at the arrival hall too..that's was the major damage hahaha..
only registered wifi & a vending machine type internet only ( a desktop PC with a coin slot ).


Yuri's 1st meal in Japan

After had our lunch we went to the observation deck to spend some time. But the wind was soo cold makes we ran back inside after few snapshots

Back inside i gave Eirfan & Yuri their sketching pen & paper to burn the free time

next post " Nagoya here we come"

Their first time flying

Eirfan's first flight, originally uploaded by emrank.

Oct 26 - 2008

This shot was taken just after we landed at KLIA from Senai Airport...
it was a short flight..about 45minutes only.... but...........
Yuri keep on crying & shouting more than half of the flight...
she was a little bit? scared maybe...she was never on other transport than a car....due to she was crying...Eirfan also join her lah...
Eiqmal also cried a bit.
The cabin attendance came and gave some sweets...only works for Eirfan... and Yuri keep on yelling "nak turun"( i wanna get down )..
due to tired crying..she fell asleep after that...
We got soo famous, thanks to Yuri hehehe
We landed on 7:30 pm.... but need to wait for the KL - NARITA flight until 11:30pm.
We decided to had some meal then headed to the boarding gate an wait there.

This what happen while we are waiting... they were tired & sleepy of course...
Eiqmal was sleeping in his stroller.
While they were sleeping i went to buy something to keep them accompany for the waiting time at Narita Airport on the next day.

The 7 hours flight went well and they also slept well ... lega rasanya ..kalau melalak jugak abis laa

The Fly Day

Family - Pahang side, originally uploaded by emrank.

Oct 26 - 2008
The day that our family flew to Japan due to my wife continue her study at Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.
Only family members from my wife side did the farewell due to my family was too far to come ... Perlis to JB is about 850km.
We took the flight from Senai Airport to KLIA then need to wait for KL - Narita in the midnight. Then wait for the next flight at the evening to Nagoya.... it was a hard schedule lor.
Also a tired one to hehehe....

Friends ( my kids daycare teachers ) also came for bye bye
At this time my kids still in the happy mood

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