Hey everyone, I just came back from Okinawa and it was great! I spent about a week there with my sister and I have so much to share (and I just realised I haven’t even blogged about my birthday, yikes!). While I’m going through the photos, I thought I’d write down the itinerary and a… Read More Okinawa Trip Master Post
I am now officially funemployed. (While I wish I could take credit for the term, it’s something that my sister created) It has been a strange experience so far. I am still on a ‘work schedule’ with regards to my sleep patterns, and I’ve been dreaming about work for the past two days. And while… Read More Last Day of Work
I decided to bring my mom and bro fruit picking while they were here because this is something that you can’t do in Singapore (mushroom picking, maybe? I’m not sure if the mushroom farm allows that). We decided to go to 樋口果樹園 (higuchi kajyuuen) because my coworker recommended it and because the grapes she shared… Read More Picking Grapes and Pears in Imari
Hey everyone, I’ve got a fairly big announcement but I think everyone that read the title already knows what it is. After five and a half years in Japan, it’s finally time for me to go home. It’s not because of Japanese society or my job or anything — I’ve got some family stuff going… Read More Time for Me to Go Home
I was intending to ration these stories and read them slowly, but I read the first one, realised that I remembered it, read the second one, awoke another memory, and then ended up finishing the book in one sitting. And you know what? This was a fantastic trip down memory lane that scratched a book… Read More The Girl with the Green Ear by Margaret Mahy
Every week when I make my way to Church, I pass by a display about the Nagasaki Bio Park. There are lots of nice photos of animals and more importantly, capybara plush toys which made me want to visit. And with my mom and brother in Japan, I finally had an excuse to go. Nagasaki… Read More Nagasaki Bio Park
2019 Edit: Henn na Hotel has, sadly, decided to greatly reduce the number of their robots from 243 robots at their peak to 85 robots (as of Jan 2019), with the number of entertainment robots being reduced the most. The third and newest wing does not have any more robots. Reasons for this decrease are: … Read More Staying in a Robot Hotel (Henn na Hotel, Nagasaki)
My last stop was the Imari-Arita Ware Traditional Craft Center: And in keeping with the wind chime festival theme, the entrance had wind chimes as well. They had a miniature model of the kiln as well too(: There are two rooms that feature Imari and Arita ware, and I thought this vase was really interesting.… Read More Okawachiyama Part 3: Traditional Craft Center + Painting a Cup!
You can read the first part here. After making my way from one end of the village to the other, I decided to take a break for lunch. There are only a few cafes in the village, and not all of them were open, so if you’ve got picky eaters with you, I’d recommend having… Read More Okawachiyama Part 2: Lunch + Rest of Village
So yesterday I decided to actually use my rest day to go out. I decided to go to Ookawachiyama (大川内山 – link leads to their Japanese website), which is a place that I’ve been wanting to go for a while. Originally, I planned to go there on the 22nd of July, because there was going… Read More Okawachiyama Part 1: The Village
