I am drinking these teas at a good pace! Hopefully I can keep this up without aggravating my gastric (people with high caffeine tolerances: I want to be you when I grow up). Today’s sencha is from the Musashi-kaori cultivar and comes from Masuoka-en. First Impressions Interestingly, the tea is pretty tightly packed for this… Read More Tea Review: Musashi-Kaori by Masuoka-en (Sayama Tea #2)
As someone who’s made her fair share of relationship missteps over the years, How to Have a Better Relationship with Anybody intrigued me when I saw it on NetGalley. It’s a look at relationships from a Christian perspective, and I found that it complemented God’s New Community and The Meeting Class quite well. While those… Read More Book Review: How to Have a Better Relationship with Anybody by James Hilt
I hope you guys like sencha because my tea posts for the next two months are going to be all about sencha (and one about matcha)! My teas from Sayama have arrived and I realised that I ordered…. nine different types of sencha! All are from different cultivars and I think only two are from… Read More Tea Review: Fukumidori by Ohnishien (Sayama Tea #1)
According to WordPress, this is my 1000th post! The first post appeared in 2014 when I was blogging about my life in Japan (this blog has undergone many changes, including a move from blogger to WordPress). I don’t know if it’s my true 1000th post, but I still thought it would be fun to celebrate… Read More Childhood Favourites: Was Five Run Away Together inspired by the Secret Series?
When I was younger, I had the most wonderful neighbours (they’ve since moved out of Singapore). One day, my friend suggested we gather round in a circle, dim the lights, and use a torchlight to read East aloud. It was a magical experience and still colours the way I view the book. East is a… Read More Rereading: East by Edith Pattou
I’ve read The Screwtape Letters a long time ago, so I was pretty surprised to find out that there’s a (very short) sequel: Screwtape Proposes a Toast. Of course, I bought this. Screwtape Proposes a Toast is a collection of essays by C.S. Lewis, put together by him shortly before its death. It opens with… Read More Book Review: Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C.S. Lewis
I’d wager that almost everyone has heard (and maybe tried) of milk tea. You may even be in the habit of adding a splash of milk and a spoonful of sugar in your tea. But how did these habits come about, given that tea in China is drunk straight? In The Tale of Tea, George… Read More UniversiTEA: Why do we drink tea with milk and sugar?
I posted about rereading Lola Rose on Instagram in May and someone messaged to tell me that The Suitcase Kid was their favourite Jacqueline Wilson book. It sounded really familiar (I might have read it in Primary School?) so obviously I had to hunt down a copy and read/reread it. The Suitcase Kid is about… Read More Book Review: The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
This Kickstarter book had me at “Sherlock Holmes meets Cthulhu”. While I haven’t read the Solar Pons stories or been able to find August Derleth in the library, which means I went into this collection unfamiliar with the main characters, I still enjoyed this short story collection very much. A little bit of backstory: August… Read More Kickstarter Book Review: The Necronomicon of Solar Pons edited by Derrick Belanger
Last Saturday, I met a geisha online!! This would be my second time meeting a geisha (first being the Kimono competition in Kyoto) and my first time meeting a Hakone geisha. As a quick background, Geisha (or Geigi) can be found in the following prefectures [1]: Kyoto : Kamihichiken Geigi (上七軒芸妓)、Gion Koubu Geigi (祇園甲部芸妓)、Gion Higashi Geigi (祇園東芸妓)、Pontochou… Read More I met a Geisha online and you can too!
