My relatives were just back from Hokkaido last few weeks and they are starting to miss the trip there. A trip to Hokkaido is quite expensive, if I’m not wrong, i think per person already cost about 3K plus for 1 week... Stunning right? Roughly about 2-3 months salary! OH MY GOD!!! But then it’s alright since they are working… It won’t be that sinful to pamper yourself once in awhile =)

Alright, back to topic, they shared their experience there with me, and kind of really make me feel like going there for my first overseas visit! I heard from them that Hokkaido has really beautiful natural landscapes! Here it is…


Hmm!! not really attractive... But then this is the only natural landscape photo I got from them.

Let’s talk about the food. My cousin told me that much of Hokkaido's population lives by the sea, and consequently seafood figures heavily in Hokkaido. I took some photos from her blog. Now, see what she meant?



They had also been to city area. Even the commoner, Ah Pek, is so talented! Just take a look at this!


Street painting! AWESOME!! Isn’t it ? He proved to those who say that old people are useless wrong! Really admire this Ah Pek! *salute*

Continue with city area, they were given a rare opportunity in knowing how porcelain souvenirs come about. This is the process of porcelain and glass-making:



And…Finally!! This is the end product!


Nice right? =)

Just like Singapore, they too, also have trishaws.



I always thought that Japanese are so developed to the extend that all of them enjoy high standard of living, high aging population and low infant mortality rate. However, when I look at this picture somehow I think that I’m wrong. Despite that Japan is a developed country but then that doesn’t mean that everyone is working in very comfortable environment. Simply just take a look at the photo, serving tourists with polite smiles and working so hard despite of such strong sun, and it’s just for a living.

I also did some of the research on Hokkaido! Here, this is the link this is really extremely helpful website not to be missed if you are planning to go Hokkaido. Not only they provide the various places of interest, they also provide useful contacts (address and hotline of accommodations) and information such as route search and festival and event. If you are lucky enough like my relatives, you might also see miracle as in trees blooming with Sakura flower. Especially not during this season of May. Overall, layout and appearance of this website is attractive and user friendly as well! Plus the content of the website is really a great help to those tourist whom are visiting Hokkaido. I think they are really quite confident with the content which they provide. This is because, they did not provide any search function for the visitors.

Alright, I shall end my dream holiday now.


Reflection on Practical 6
I’ve learnt about criteria to evaluate and compare a website.

This are the criteria:
- Purpose
- Coverage
- Authority
- Accuracy
- Currency
- Accessibility
- Presentation and Arrangement
- Usability
- Overall Quality

With these, I will be able to save much time looking at websites which is more informative to me rather than to browse almost every website just to search for the information I want. Plus, this criteria will be able guide me to much more precise resources.