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  I guess my follower of this blog should have realized i am a huge fan of Japan, in terms of not just drama and music, but everything!!

SO how could I miss the IPC spring festival this year!! Actually i nearly missed it, because the weather was not very frenly and i couldnt find a company until last minute yesterday night, thanks again Shirley! U made my day!! haha

Okay, perhaps I explained this before, IPC stands for Internation Pacific College, is a local international college offering mainly english and other course for oversea student who not using english as their first language. So every year, the college will hold the Spring festival (used to known as Sakura festival) during Spring as most of their students are Japanese. As we know, Japan are famous with their sakura, cherry blossom, and also 'hanami', means flower viewing. So IPC is just having a public festival to welcome everyone celebrating the arrival of spring.

Thanks god, I made it earlier this year, and the sakura are very good to me this year. Why did i say that? Well, I arrived nearly 3pm last year, just as soon as before the closing ceremony. Thus, the sakura were not blooming last year, and i missed all the good food and fun events there.

Luckily, i got a ride today, thanks to Shirley. Her Malays fren come and give us a ride, but took us nearly half an hour to find a car park because Summer hill (where the festival held) was so crowded.

Anyways, got there around 12 smthing, just right for lunch time! =P

Before that, i ran to the sakura trees beside the river, and yes, they were blooming beautifully! I was afraid to miss the great chance for photos, so i just had photo shot despite of having food first.

The weather this year was not great, it was drizzling while we arrived, but this didnt ruin our mood to explore the festival.

There were so many fun setting like

japanese games room?

japanese ghost house,

culture sharing hall exhibiting traditional Japanese toy like daruma

this toy, saw how arashi played with them in the variety shows...it called kendama, actually quite fun to play with!

and origami...

and totoro toy was displayed too, oh my can i have it??

the japanese traditional dolls, ningyo

and also many promotions of japanese posters and Japanese calligraphy around.

Well, actually there were also other exhibition for Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnam etc....however hehe, u bet it, i only paid attention to Japanese exhibition.

but did capture this korean display~

Okay, now what? FOOD!!!

There were also plenty of food stalls around, and those Japanese stalls sellers were dressed up in their Japanese kimono.

I bought this!! The japanese crepe! Finally, saw this so many times online and even with my eyes in Pavillion (Malaysia), now finally having it!

it contains chocolate and cream mainly, i ordered mix banana and strawberry in it, omg, tastes so delicious!!!

Of cause, desserts wouldnt satisfy us, we went to the other stalls where most international stalls located.

Nevertheless, Japan still caught my heart, we actually had a long queue for our vegetarian tempura don.

I was hesistated about to buy takoyaki or tempura-don initially, then found out they were actually just using those pre-packed frozen takoyaki balls which i can get in some Asian grocerries. So I made up my decision for tempura-don.

Then, i was rang by yen to go to take photos with her and Anges near the sakura trees. COOL!

I was surprised to meet yen and Anges too at the festival, without knowing they were actually going too.

I was patiently waiting for our turns to take photos with the famous sakura tree (it was the isolated sakura tree and well-blooming), while enjoying my tempura don.

SOon, it was our turn!

Actually did a few jumping shots too, but failed.....due to my camera, it dislikes jumping shoot by the way.

Yen and Anges did a good job! Because they just kept on jumping, lol.

This time, I didnt really got to see those performances which were at a few different spot around as there were so much fun things around! There were also maid cafe where all waitress were dressed up like maid servants, Japanese flower arrangement (Ikebana), carp streamer (koinobori), japanese tea house etc...

However, we had lack of time, and there were too many things around...haha...I must come back next yr if I am still here of cz. haha

Thumbs up for IPC spring festival!

ANd lastly before we left, we also watched the famous taiko performance, for me...AGAIN...haha