Archive of my posts from my time in Japan
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all had a great day yesterday (and are having a good boxing day today). I went to Church and had a baking class yesterday, so I had a good Christmas! The cake I baked: I’m planning to work on my graduation essay over the new year break. What about… Read More Merry Christmas
I finally managed to go to Yanagawa (with my family)!! Unfortunately, it rained the whole time, so you can expect some rather dreary (but hopefully still pretty) pictures. For our trip, we decided to get the Nishitetsu tokumori ticket that includes the train tickets, the boat ticket, and a lunch set at one of the… Read More Yanagawa
Ok, I’m back with the second part about my trip to Itoshima. In the previous post, I stopped after our visit to the salt factory. So after we had our fill of the ocean view and salt pudding, we decided to head towards Meoto Iwa (夫婦岩). Finding this on Google Map’s was a little bit… Read More Exploring Itoshima (Part 2)
One weekend, my mom decided to rent a car and explore Itoshima, a place that she’s wanted to go ever since she heard about the oyster huts. As the navigator, I found a really good blogpost by Fukuoka Now that we (somewhat) followed. And in an even greater stroke of coincidence, the car rental company… Read More Exploring Itoshima! (Part 1)
Here’s a food-filled post (because I’ve been strangely unmotivated to blog lately). Last week, I went for my second wagashi class! This is what we made: The flowers are 水仙 (suisen), and the white thing is 花びら餅 (hanabira mochi). Both are new year sweets, or so I was told. My flowers aren’t very good though… Read More Wagashi Class + Line Cafe
Because my mom and brother are here, I’ve been going out a little bit more than normal. So one day, we managed to go to Yusentei – a garden located somewhere in Fukuoka. We knew about it because the tourism portal kept recommending it, but getting there was pretty difficult. There are no close trains… Read More Yusentei Garden (友泉亭)
I’m back! This week somehow is my presentation week (luckily I’m not actually speaking, just part of the team), so I’ve been rather busy with our analysis and helping brainstorm how the presentations should go. And asking the other teams lots of questions :p Anyway, let me just finish the Sasebo recap. After our cruise,… Read More Sasebo Part 2 – Kujukushima Aquarium+Food
My mom and bro came to Japan last week, and for the weekend, we decided to go to Sasebo. Our main purpose was to go apartment hunting, but we managed to squeeze in an afternoon of touring! And due to the many, many photos, I’ll be splitting the post into two parts – Part 1:… Read More Sasebo Part 1 – Kujukushima (九十九島)
I hope December is treating you well! Personally, I can’t believe that we’re already at the end of the year. Where did the rest of 2016 go, and why does it feel like time speeds up as I’m getting older? On the last day of November, two very important things occurred. The first is that… Read More I Passed my First Driving Test!
Are you ready for some picture spam? Because I went to Dazaifu with a friend to see the autumn leaves and obviously I took lots of pictures! (ok, only about 20 plus, but still!) This was the ticket that we took: It contains the tickets there and back, free umegae mochi (which come to think… Read More Autumn Leaves at Dazaifu