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)
One year and one week ago, I published The Nutcracker King, which marked the start of my self-publishing journey! To be honest, I had intended to write this on the exact date, but I forgot when I started self-publishing. I definitely haven’t “made it” (whatever “made it” means), but I do want to write a… Read More One Year Publishing Anniversary
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
This post was requested by someone on Dayre, and I decided to share it here as well! Ok, this is one of those posts where I need to start with a disclaimer: Disclaimer I will be using third party accounts (very generalised, non-identifiable kind) when I can, but this post is ultimately an anecdotal post. Where… Read More On Being an Asian Foreigner in Japan
Despite the fact that it’s getting colder, I’ve been eating ice-cream. This is basically inspired by RocketNews24, which reported on the Haagen Daz ice cream that looks a lot like mapo doufu. Being a naturally curious person (and because the ice-cream sounded good), I decided to try it out and… It really does look like… Read More Ice-cream that doesn’t look like ice-cream
