Naminoue Shrine, first torii

second torii

wash your hand first

make your wish

a lot of Taiwan people came and make greedy wishes, no god will give you money

cute dog, sit very quitely

hey look at the handsome guy

Confucius Temple, did he know Japanese?

Went to the fish market to see a show

which was cutting open a tuna!

wow

finished, RIP

RIP in my stomach

cheap water

jail rabbit bag!

time to go home…

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looks familiar? check out the painting in the last photo of Day 2

People tied their wishes on the rope

it seems that Kangxi Emperor was here before

constructions work ruined the photo

Taking photo here was forbidden, I might “accidentally” press the shutter

there was basically nothing left there

Emperor’s seat

beautiful model illustrated how god was worshipped

vending machines not only sold drinks

Visit to the stalactites cave

On the way down to the cave, lion monster again

many stalactites

out of the cave, shops selling beautiful glass stuff

I love Xmas

I don’t like stitch, but stitch was also everywhere in Okinawa, this piece of glass worthed >10000 yen as I remember

Peace memorial park, for people who died in World War II

People putting flowers in front of the cornerstone of peace

So many names on so many stones, sad

Expensive dinner, rainned heavily after that so headed back to hotel…

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sunrise without sun (facing west)

getting brighter

and brighter

Walked around the hotel after breakfast

red and yellow leaves

another angle of the hotel

inside the wedding place, this is the triangle stuff in previous hotel photo

a stone couch

First place of the day: Ocean Expo Park, which is much smaller than Ocean Park in Hong Kong, and there are roller coaster that sort of things.

seeing some sunshine finally

view outside the aquarium

People could touch those seastars!

fish

fish again

another fish

eh…lobster?

one of my favourite pics

square fish

jellyfish, obviously Ocean Park has more types

stupid looking fish

highlight of the aquarium, like a giant screen

which is for these sharks, largest sharks in the world

another angle

getting real close

very close

Had some time left after the aquarium, I walked to the beach

lol

outside the aquarium

reduce temperature natrually

girl, who had absolutely no idea I took a photo of her

LOL

Second place: pineapple garden, nothing worth taking photo…basically sell you products, but offers free trial like wine, juice, pie which make you want to buy them, and you got a chance of lottery if you purchased 3000 yen or more, and I got the 2nd prize, which is a bottle of wine but I trade it with 2 bottles of juice (by pretending I was underaged)

The next sightseeing place is where Fei Wong shot a movie there which I have never heard of, basically it is a piece of land of grass where 10000 people can sit on. And the following photos are the view from that big piece of grass…

elephant stone

Not staying long there, and then we went to see the US Military Base (from the outside of course)

couldn’t see any F22 or stealth bomber….

And night had come…and we were at the “souviner street”


bottles of sand, if you look closely enough the sands are of star shape.

can someone tell me what it means?

lots of tshirt

painting on the wall of the restaruant I had dinner at, and it will be in the next day journey.

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There were nothing to do while waiting to get on the plane so I used my iPhone to read all the news  available and sent message to people who needed to work (while my father got my macbook and watched the stock market…).  I thought the plane was parked outside the gate but I was wrong. We needed to get on a bus-like vehicle which needed to wait for everyone to get on before travelling to the actual location of the plane. Most people on the vehicle were complaining because there were only like 9 seats on the vehicle and hundreds of people needed to keep standing for like 15 minutes and the exhaust air was flooding into the vehicle. There was also an additional 5 minutes travelling time on thing before we finally arrived at the plane location.

The plane was a small one and have quite a number of unoccupied seats so I could get a window seat. Lunch was OK, what can you expect?

Arriving Okinawa, plenty of clouds…

Nice view 1

Nice view 2

Nice view 3

Nice view 4

Nice view 5

On the ground, background features some Japan Self-Defense Forces plane

Cute Pokemon plane

Nothing special between the journey from the airport to the hotel.

View from hotel room balcony, so beautiful

Sunset without sun

This lion monster was everywhere in Okinawa

I mean everywhere

Hotel lobby

Traditional Okinawa performance in hotel

Everywhere!

And this great show (a little bored for the old ladies part though) marked the end of the first day.

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1. Night at the Museum 2
2. Angels & Demons
3. Tokyo!

Night at the Museum 2 is super fun, no matter have you watched the first one or not, I am sure you will enjoy this one. Angels & Demons is awesome, the whole film is tight and there is no one second that you would find it boring. Dan Brown (the author of the original Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code) is absolutely a genius, looking forward to his new book too.

And finally, Tokyo! is a very different type of movie, which is consisted of 3 short films by 3 different directors (one of them is the director of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which is also an amazing movie). Personally I like the first and the third part of the movie the most, I am not going to talk about the content but if you are interested you can go to the link and read the user comments which some of them describe the movie briefly.

I highly recommend everyone to check the about movies out.

The movie is pretty good as an action movie, with lots of eye candies. The transformation effects and the fighting scenes are really stunning. It would be better if Megan Fox appears more (since she is the second selling point of the movie lol).

However in terms of the viewing experience, I felt that the video quality is not as good as I remembered when watching Batman Begins, absolutely not as “crystal-clear” as promoted. I also found that Transformers 2 had too much rapid camera movement, which make viewers not so comfortable on that big ass screen.

All in all the movie is not as poor as people rated and I enjoyed it. Will definitely watch this again at home when the blu-ray disc release.

These new shows are awesome, check that out if you have time