My吃吃喝喝玩玩日记: JAPAN!!!

I've been in Japan for one month plus now and seriously, its enough for me to discover the HUGE diff between Japan and Malaysia... One of the largest diff is the culture here especially the 上下関係（dunno its correct anot, in other words, senior-junior relationship). Here, the older you are, the more "powerful" you are (erm.. i don mean age, if not foreign student wud be the king!! lol) its like 5th-year senior is the greatest and it follows down. Every morning the junior must greet seniors. The boy hostel would show greater diff compared to girls' hostel. They would bound 90 degree wif a huge "UUZ!!!" to greet the seniors.. So, d guys always complain that they were awaken by the "UUZ" every morning... imagine how loud is that!! haha... I even heard frm my friend saying that when he passed through the toilet, the junior who was rinsing his mouth immediately threw out the water and greet him!!O.O
well, its juz a little better for the girls', but still the same... there was once when i went to ofuro(the japanese public bath) and there was a 1st year junior already waiting as there are only 4 functional shower there and there was only two unoccupied shower.. At first we said that its ok for her to take the shower first but she insisted that we should go first.. so, since we can't convince her then one of us quickly take the shower and asked her in. And after she undressed and ready to take the bath, a fifth-year senior came in. Then the other japanese who was bathing told her that she should let the senior take the shower first... that time i was like thinking "hello, she's naked now, are you asking her to put back the clothes and wait??" so, we all took a short bath and asked the senior to take our place instead....(hmm... but i still gotta say that it feels good when they greet you with a 90 degree bow! =))