Most friends can vouch for me that I am not a fan of vegetables. I don’t order them voluntarily, and if they appear in my meals, they were usually treated with polite disgust and they often ended up balanced perilously on the edge of my plate or in the company of other vegetables in an [...]
I can now truly empathise with the tourists who flock to Singapore during winter in their respective countries. This week brings a forecast of negative maximum temperatures, and that, I find laugable, because the word ‘maximum’, while still being factually accountable, has lost its relevance. What use is a maximum temperature forecast if it lingers [...]
Saturday nights like tonight get me wondering, of what it would be like at home, or on a night’s out at the movies followed by supper(s), or how the Internet looks like, or whether I would take an earlier flight back if such a chance arises. Saturday nights, without a book and with the exhaustion [...]
Heard, with disbelief and slight fear, on the news that it hasn’t even started snowing properly yet. There isn’t a lot of snow in Sapporo so far, but I have seen snow covered roads on the news in other parts of Hokkaido, so I just thought that perhaps the city doesn’t get much snowfall anyway. [...]
Somewhere in the Wikitravel entry for Okayama lies a suggestion: cycle the Kibi plain. So on the second day of my being in Okayama, I found myself, ever the avid optimist, at the Bizen Ichinomiya bike rental and handing over a ¥1000 bill in exchange for a bicycle and a route map. “どのぐらいかかりますか。” “まあ、二時間でできると思う。ゆっくりなら、4時間かもね。” (“How [...]
A slightly bashful confession: I really liked today’s dinner. Stir fried pork with beansprouts, with a minor appearance by xiao bai cai.
What have I seen of Sapporo so far? Frankly, not that much in terms of sightseeing destinations. Instead, I know the layout of the supermarket fairly well. And chicken is ¥118 per 100 grams this week. But, I know that I like this city. I like that though it is cloudy most of the time, [...]
Living here in Sapporo brings back some memories of my uni days in Brisbane. I eventually chose a 1DK room over a standard room in DK House because the former has an attached toilet/bath annnnnnnnd a kitchenette. I’ve gotten a little weary of hunting for dinner places (Japan has a lot of eating places, but [...]
Nagasaki photos I spent a lovely four days in the city of Nagasaki. For some reason, I managed to find myself at the Dejima Wharf every single day. I sought it out the first day when I was looking for the harbour terminal, and it was so lovely out there that when I got bored [...]
Photos of Kumamoto