Archive of my posts from my time in Japan
Time for part 2 of my travel series! While I could quite happily spend all my time at Aso, I had to bring my relatives around the Aso area as well. Ok, I also wanted to go to Mount Aso (retracing my ROCS3 steps!). Day 2: Aso Farmland – Mount Aso (and back!) We had… Read More Aso by Train Part 2: Aso Farmland to Mount Aso
NaNoWriMo is over, I’ve won and I went on a really awesome trip with my aunt and uncle! We went back to Aso, Kumamoto, and since I can’t drive, we basically had to rely on the train. Since I was told that you basically need a car to get around Kumamoto, I figured that I’d… Read More Aso by Train Part 1: Aso Farmland
Hey everyone! Sorry for being even more MIA than usual. NaNoWriMo has me in its thrall, and I took a five day holiday last week sooooo rushing to catch up on word count now. On the bright side, I have a whole series of travel posts coming up. There’s this guest post by my oh-so-awesome… Read More Guest Post by Joanna: Beppu – Welcome to hell
So, this is one of the books that I’m reading for my Ghibli class (it’s so much cooler [and shorter!] to say ‘Ghibli class’ than Hayao Miyazaki’s World class). It’s not one of the assigned readings, but it was very helpful for the first paper: Spirituality in Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro. Now, although this book… Read More Book Review: Religion in Contemporary Japan by Ian Reader
Other title of this blog post: My cousin comes to visit! But no matter how I thought about it, all I wanted to share were cute photos of the animals. After all, I’ve already written about Nokonoshima and the owl cafe many times (links lead to search results) and there are only so many times I can… Read More Animals, Cute Animals Everywhere!
Aaand, I’m not now longer with Softbank. Or have an Android phone. I’m now using an iPhone! If you remember my old post about my first handphone, I mentioned I chose it because the specs seemed better. *rant ahead, feel free to skip to the next paragraph* But, my phone ended giving me a lot… Read More Changing Phone Carriers in Japan
I’m really really believing that the old adage “it never rains but pours” is true. One week, I’m having a nice, quiet, completely un-blog worthy life, and the next, I get a new phone, go for a few seminars and have family coming to visit. So, by my count, I want to share about switching… Read More Two Business Seminars!
You always think that scams are something that don’t happen to you. But in an amazing coincidence, a scammer tried to part my money and I using the exact same scam that I read about yesterday. If you haven’t heard, this is the LINE scam that’s making its way around Singapore and Japan recently (click… Read More Beware the Line Scam!
Nokonoshima, that beautiful island near my place, had a Cosmos light up recently! Well, the last day was yesterday (and it was only on weekends). One of my classmates, who had actually gone there, told me it was beautiful, so yesterday, I went there in the evening with a new friend from Church. And woah.… Read More Nokonoshima Cosmos Flower Lightup
I’m going to be upfront with all those of you who’ve never met me in person – I am terrible at cleaning. I mean terrible. Even after I try my best to clean, my house still looks like a pigsty. It comes with having too many books and not enough space. (Hi Nic! Feel free… Read More My experience with house-cleaning services in Japan