Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Dreams do come true - 1

Hey everyone! here comes the first set of pictures of Japan. Those pictures are from the first 5 days. Enjoy!

Going into the plane from paris to narita airport tokyo.
The real beginning of the adventure!So much excitement at this moment.XD


The start of a new day from above the clouds on the way to tokyo.


Arriving to narita airport. Seeing Japanese signs everywhere brought tears to the eyes!
(I was still not believing im finally there and was waiting for myself to wake up to find that it was another Japan dream! lool ..but luckily it was real this time^o^)


On the way to ANA intercontinental hotel that is located in Roppongi.
I guess this pond is part of the imperial palace...for me it looks like a sea of green tea!(^▽^)Ocha no ahamado san, at this point i remembered you! lol


The Jordanian me posing like Japanese ^^
This was in the international youth conference.
During this event, i spoke Japanese like i never did before.
And it felt good hearing "nihongo jouzu desu ne!" like 1000 times!..but it was very troublesome to keep saying "iie iie mada mada desu ne!" lool
In this event we put on our national custom,,although the dress code was formal. We were told by ex-participants that we wont need formal clothes,only the leader needs to bring it,so no body brought it ..but it was required in many occasions! Thank God Japanese consider the national dress as formal!
And for you who are going next year : BRING YOUR FORMAL CLOTHES!!


Seeing the sun for the first time in Tokyo..maybe that was after 4 or 5 days! The weather was humid and rainy most of the time, yet still hot...tsuyu desu.



The Discussion Session Environment course members.The institutional visit.This was the first activity of the busy discussion session days. Taken infront of the MIRAIKAN.


Inside the miraikan. There was an Asimo show,please notice it in the background because the background is more important here!:D ..actually we were not supposed to stop an watch it since its not part of the environment demonstrations..BUT all of us forgot all about the environment demos and came to the asimo corner! lol after all being with asimo face to face is a rare chance that i couldn't miss!! XD Unfortunately i only have this stand-still picture of asimo..other than that i only took videos of asimo in action.




Rainy night adventures in Tokyo streets. Most days we were busy in activities,,so we had free time during dinner time only in those days, so these pictures were from the Jordaninan delegation dinner hunting adventures lol
Upper row : Dania san, Afkar san,Ahmad san,Leader san and Samer san.
Lower row: Khalid san, Samar san and me san :p
2 people are not present


During one of the 2 free days. Finally my first encounter with Akiba!!!\(^▽^)/
Akiba discovery subgroup
Starring : My boots, wasabi kun boots and ahmad san boots :D





Akiba. L in his original land! waah i always remembered death note each time we enter metro stations!!


To be continued
                                  つづく

7 comments:

Unknown said...

thats seem REAL COOL!! LIKE KEWL COOL@_@!!!!!!
i want i want!!!
:'( japan :'(

hiro said...

Yay!! Shibuya! Akihabara!! LoL..

You were so busy in Japan!! So you took JR and subways? I am still lost in Tokyo very often..^^;

Anonymous said...

Yay, Asimo!

I read in a magazine that Honda was the first company to successfully make a humanoid robot walk upright. They used a concept called 'Zero-moment force' (I think the term is self-explanatory for the engineers (and engineer-would-bes) out there). If I recall correctly, Asimo is an evolution of that robot.

Another interesting thing is his name: people think that he is named after 'Isaac Asimov' the famous sci-fi novelist, but I read that that's not the case.

Interesting! no?

Amani AbuQdais أماني أبوقديس said...

s-chan, yea very KEWL! i wana go back(T_T)

Hiro san,
lol (^o^) yea we used the JR and subways. Specially the Ginza line,,the hotel was closest to tameike-sannou station,if we wanted to go to akiba we would go to shinbashi first and then take the yamanote line. going to shibuya was easier since its the last eki on the ginza line..he he look at me,i still remember very well :p kaeritai(T_T)

Sameru san,
yea..asimo wa subarashiiXD
regarding the name, i was thinkin that since Japanese say it "ASHImo" the meaning should be associated with ASHI or ASHIMOTO : steps. Checking wikipedia today, i found that i was near correct.
From wikipedia:

"Officially, the name is an acronym for "Advanced Step in Innovative MObility". Honda's official statements[1] indicate that the robot's name is not a reference to science fiction writer and inventor of the Three Laws of Robotics, Isaac Asimov. In Japanese, the name is pronounced ashimo and, not coincidentally, means "legs also" (from Japanese "脚も")"

Anonymous said...

youre like otaku!!笑
its totally hot thesedays here in tokyo. you might have come to tokyo in good season...maybe.
got to sleep! good night!
ヨルダン今何時?
ashimo looks coooool..zzz

Mohammad Habjouqa said...

私さんの写真はどこ????
Just only boots!!!!

Amani AbuQdais أماني أبوقديس said...

sumimahen!! :( i will publish the next "episode" now..this is where your first appearance is!
WHERE IS MOHAMMEEEEEDD :D