Syed Afifi SAR Al-Idrus: Dream of places to travel and learning.

The countries I must visit.

I have a dream that I want traveling and learning their culture by visiting other countries other than Malaysia. The countries that I want to visit are Japan and Korea. The factors that influence me are the culture, beautiful scenery, music, games, anime and manga, information technology aka it gadget. All of these factors are the biggest influence to me and make me has a dream or mission to visit that countries to learn, more get information and better understanding on their ways of living. Most of the information of that countries I can looking on the net but I need to experience on their culture and ways of living by my own so that it also can improve my knowledge and understanding on the country that I travel to such as Japan, Korea, France and others.

Japan becomes my first country that I want to visit because of the anime and manga. Anime is commonly defined as animation originating in Japan and a large audience in Japan and recognition throughout the world. Manga consist of comics and print cartoons. The medium includes a broad range of subjects: action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery and other. In Japan, there is one specific place for anime and manga collector that being calls Akihabara. Akihabara is a major shopping area for electronic, computer, anime, and otaku goods, including new and used items and there is the first place I want to visit. In there, I can see all the action figure, latest anime and manga and games for gamer like myself and Akihabara is like a heaven to diehard fan aka otaku in Japan term. At Akihabara, there is also it gadget such as headphone, iPod, portable games console like PSP GO. I also like Japanese fashion and style of wearing cloth and hairstyle.

The Japanese culture very interesting such as Traditional Japanese arts include crafts like ikebana, origami, dolls, lacquerware, pottery and ceramics performances like bunraku, dance, kabuki, noh and rakugo and traditions like games, tea, ceremony, Budō, architecture, gardens and katana. J-Pop music influence around the world and most at American and European including me that very influence to their music and most at my free time I will listen to their music. I also love Japan cuisine like sushi. In Japan, the scenery there very beautiful by just looking at the picture on the net therefore I need to experience myself by travel there.

Korea becomes my second country that I want to visit because of the beautiful scenery, music and cuisine. Seoul is the most places in Korea I want to visit and Korean Folk Village is a living museum of traditional Korean life and culture. At there are numerous replicas of traditional houses of the different social classes (peasant, landowner, yangban) and the various regions to learning and experience the traditional Korean life. I like to listening music like K-Pop and J-Pop during my free time and watching Korea and Japan drama are also my hobbies. This are two countries that on top of my travel list.