Japan – Random Detox

Cuteness

March 17, 2011 Japan by Flisha Leave a Comment

Let me show you two cute things I brought home from Japan. The above picture is of my cute phone accessory! It’s a squirrel! So kawaii! 🙂 Japan is the home of the cute – I could hardly stand it and I wanted to buy everything I saw. This is...

Osaka Castle Park Bairin Plum Garden

March 9, 2011 Featured, Japan by Flisha 2 Comments

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...

Japanese Coins

March 6, 2011 Japan by Flisha 1 Comment

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...

Travelling to Japan

February 22, 2011 Japan by Flisha 1 Comment

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,...

The Perks of University: The Japanese Version

August 6, 2008 Japan by Flisha 2 Comments

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...

My Robot Deja Vu

July 26, 2008 Japan by Flisha 7 Comments

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...

Japanese Temple

July 24, 2008 Japan by Flisha 16 Comments

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,...

Turtle Power

July 14, 2008 Japan by Flisha 2 Comments

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… Related Images:...

Sakura

July 14, 2008 Japan by Flisha 1 Comment

These are, I believe, cherry blossoms. But I could be wrong. I don’t know, I probably am. Hehehe. But they’re beautiful anyway. This is another photo from Kyoto, from one of the temples I visited. Click on the pic for a closer look. It gets even prettier. 🙂 Related Images:...

Japanese Dragon

July 10, 2008 Japan by Flisha Leave a Comment

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...