Some Jazz in Autumn

Salam<3

It's autumn already<3

Today, it was a little bit tiring but amazing! I did a volunteer in this one event near my town, aimed to unite people in town with music. It's called Power Jazz, and one of my friends is it's staff so I decide to see what is she and her friends doing.

Unfortunately I had a meeting to attend (wow sounds like a busy lady hah?lol) so I couldn't be there until the main concert but although I only stayed there until around 2pm, I could feel how exciting what they are doing. They invited soooo many musicians for main concert, had few free gigs in main street of town, many restaurants and cafes gave support to them and held night shows in their shows, and I was really amazed.

My only task was to pass out leaflet but I quite enjoyed it, many people came asked me where am I from rather than what event we were doing!lol One man came and asked "Are you Indian?" and I said "No, I'm Malaysian" then he stared at me really closely and said "You looks like Japanese and sound like Japanese too, we are same Asian, I won't know that you were foreigner if you are not wearing that(hijab)", so I just giggled and gave the leaflet. It was quite funny and scary at the same time haha. Then this lady and her husband came, the lady asked me what we were doing do I told her that we have big jazz concert this afternoon and if they don't have much time, they can enjoy free gigs near the Starbucks around there. She was surprised and say "Oh you speak Japanese really well!" and she and her husband walked away while still talking about ME and not the concert!lol I guess I (I know, it's not me by my hijab :p ) really attracts people, till people cannot focus on what I are doing. hehe I think it was funny. Another man came with his friends, all of them were carrying analog cameras, gosh I want one!, and he suddenly talked to me in Malaysian language/Indonesian language "kamu dari mana(where are you from?" so I replied "I am from Malaysia". He said that he lived in Jakarta for 5years. We talked in Malaysian/Indonesian and he and his friend asked to take a photo of me. So I smiled, posing with my leaflet on my hands.

It was really nice to had a chance to converse with local people, especially people in town. When I was walking back to my university's hall, a man in wheelchair talked to me as if it's a natural thing to do. Note: It is reaaaaaally rare for a Japanese to have a conversation with random people on street, they won't talk to you unless they are sweet obachan(auntie) or curious ojiichan(grandpa).lol We walked together untill the university, and there is a zebra cross, and we crossed together. I think they made it(carriageway) slightly curved so that rain water will not go into road but into drains at side but that slight hill is  big to people on wheel chair, he said "I always have trouble going up this". Although he was quite fit(he is an athlete representing Tokyo!) and we people without wheelchair usually won't notice that the road is slightly curve or won't even bother about little bump about 2cm dividing roadway and pavement, but for people on wheel chair, they are really big obstacles. Traffic light became already red when we just crossed for 2/3 because the man had trouble crossing the road. I tried to help him to climb up? the bump that separates roadway and pavement but I couldn't do that easily, until a man who was near us came and helped me. It was really embarｒassing because I couldn't push the wheel chair. :'(

Ok I talked too much. Let's see some photos I took. :D

This is our uni's hall where the concert was held. 

Bicycles

Musicians entertaining people in town :D

I'm not good at music but I really enjoyed listening to them.

Another photo of gig.

This is my uni, people come like it's a park and I like it

A kid comes with his mother. How adorable!

Thanks for reading!

My Painful Experience

This afternoon before iftar, I'm going to Shinjuku to take a bus to Hiroshima, my second hometown!wooohooo Semoga pergi dan balik selamat je xd pape..aminn

The otherday, I fainted several times in train station. I was going back home after went to school and my Ikebana teachers' to returned back a book that I borrowed from her. When I was in train, I felt sleepy suddenly,　gave some yawn, felt dizzy and I knew that I'm going to faint because this was not the first time it's happening. So I walked out from train, waited some seconds until it stops. I managed to went until my second last station where I had to change train somehow, and I thought I could make it until my last station. There was a waiting room there so I though I could rest there. So I naik escalator and hoped I can go till the exit but then........ Rasa macam tangga escalator yg bergigi2 tu kena kt muka n tangan. An I remembered that I was falling down the escalator stairs and a man kept say "危ないよ" or "watch out" but I was like "what is he talking about? and why am I falling down a stair, I took an escalator"

Then my become clear suddenly so I stood up and left the escalator as if nothing happened bila dah sampai atas. haha. It was about 20m to the waiting room and I tried to reach there as fast as I could but then again boooooom, I fainted, a few seconds later I woke up again, tried to walk to exit then booom, but this time a lady came to me and I went to the side before I faint. cari spot utk nak pengsan secara tenang.hehe When I was sitting against a wall there, I heard that lady and a pakcik called some station staffs so the staffs brought me inside their office. Oh and should I tell you that I fainted several times during that a few meters walk? lol.

There was a small room with a bed there, they told me to take rest as much as I want and they left me with a glass of water. I could feel that my body needs sugar and water, so I read the dua' "Allahumma lakasumtu(you continue it untill end, :p)" and　had the water. I slept about 30mins, say thank you to the staffs and went back home.

What I was impressed is that there were actually somebody cared about me, a weird-looking gaijin(foreigner in a little bit rude way to say) in this Tokyo. You know what I mean. Most Japanese try their best not to bother or say hi or even make an eye-contact to people that they know (ugh, sometime if they know you, they will try to avoid making an eye-contact so that they don't have to greet you, wt%). That's why I did not hesitate to sat in the station like a homeless person, I knew people will stare at me even if I was totally fine and being normal so I didn't care about what they will think of me when I was totally sick. But then, the lady and some other people (I heard some people ask me ok or not but I couldn't see them) asked me I'm ok or not and called the staffs.

One more thing, there was a female staff and a male staff when they came to take me inside of their office. When we got there, the male staff called another female staff to hold me the other side. Em I mean, so that both of staffs that hold me are female. cam die care yang sbb sy ni ppuan, biar ppuan yg pgg sy. How thoughtful, isn't it?


And the reason why I bla blaing about my fainting experience is that this evening I'm gonna take train, quite long, about 30mins, before iftar and I'm a little bit afraid that I might fell again. It's just a little bit traumatic about trains because the last time I fainted last year, it was in a train to Shinjuku too. :( hmmmmmmm

Due to that precious(huh?) experience, I got few bruises on my hands and body, it hurts when I want to sleep. :(((

Ok enough for today. I'm going to a vacation, so please wait for the picture I take there!
and happy fasting<3