Japan
Osaka Castle Park Bairin Plum Garden
There aren’t any Sakura blooms yet in February, but thank goodness for plum blossoms, the earliest trees that signal spring.
While we were in Osaka, my sister and I, with our friend Erlyn, visited the Osaka castle (or Osaka-jo, they call it). My most favorite part was walking through the...
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Japanese Coins
If you’re looking to buy silver coins, I’ve got a whole lot of them!
Just recently, I came back from my 7-day leisure trip to Japan. Shopping around, one tends to accumulate coins. I had intended to use them all up, but in the end I still had about 1...
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Travelling to Japan
I have to get myself some acne products by tomorrow, because come Thursday I am flying off to Japan! 🙂
It’s the middle of winter in Japan right now, and last I checked the temperature in Japan is around 3°C to 17°C. Yikes!!! I am definitely bringing boots, a coat,...
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The Perks of University: The Japanese Version
Check out the floor-to-ceiling flat screens at NAIST, Japan. Nope, it’s not a projector. It’s pure LCD, baby!
It doesn’t look that big here. I think that because the screen is so big, it kinda makes the wall look not that high. But take a look at the people standing...
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My Robot Deja Vu
Okay, so I’m browsing BoingBoing (one of my favoritest websites in the whole wide web evarrrr!), and they have a post on a Japanese sunblock commercial featuring a fembot. (Their beef is that it’s creepy, but I don’t think she is, then again I’m biased.)
The screencap looks familiar so...
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Japanese Temple
I’m not good at night shots but I think I did this one justice… What do you think?
One of the most famous temples in Kyoto. Argh, I wish I could tell you the name, but Japanese names are just too hard to remember! But if you’ve been to Kyoto,...
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Turtle Power
Have you ever seen so many turtles congregated together in one spot??? These are turtles in a lake in Kyoto, just bumming around, catching some sun, livin’ the life…
A normal day in scenic Kyoto…
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Japanese Dragon
This is a dragon dance from a shrine on a Kyoto weekend. This was my first time to witness the Japanese version of the dance.
There is a large Chinese community in the Philippines, so Chinese dragon dances are commonplace, especially around February during the Chinese New Year. The Chinese...
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