Kumamoto Castle
I had a couple of free hours on yesterday Sunday morning to check out the first of two sights I’m interested in before meeting the college staff. Unfortunately, while Saturday – my day of arrival to Kumamoto City – was
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How do you say “yummy” in Japanese? – Part 2
My first proper Japanese meal in Japan was in an exquisite restaurant in the KKR Hotel. The hotel isn’t very big, and seems targeted primarily for business travelers from what I’ve observed. There’s hardly any families in the hotel. Instead,
How do you say “yummy” in Japanese? – Part 1
I wasn’t kidding when I wrote yesterday that my first meals in Japan was fast-food. Here’s the picture to prove it! And that was just lunch – a teriyaki chicken burger of sorts, orange squash and fries. For dinner, I
Kamitori and the City
There are apparently two large shopping districts in Kumamoto City. The closer one to my hotel was Kamitori (上通), but from my initial fact-finding on Google Maps seemed too far to walk, which was a bummer as that meant that
Arrival and Accommodation
If there’s one thing to say between Singapore Airlines and Changi Airport, it’s that the national carrier gets to depart from the airport’s newest and swankiest flight terminal. Unfortunately, the boarding gate assigned to my flight was the one that
Preflight Checklist
Packing for a working and business trip is really different from packing for a vacation. Specifically, the kind of clothes that go into luggage on a business trip aren’t the same as what I’d wear if I was going just
Google Street View
One of the tools I used in conjunction with Google Maps while planning for the San Francisco trip earlier this year was Street View. Not only could you check out overhead satellite imagery, now you could even zoom into street
IDD No More
I first got into network chatting in 1992 during my first year in NTU. All students were given network accounts and Internet email address. Back then though those network accounts weren’t normallyused for studies. We used them mostly for leisure
Will I Believe…? Part 3
Well, I’ve already posted about niggling annoyances with my new MacBook. So, to balance things up a bit, here’s part 3 of my series of posts on whether I’m falling in with the crowd of Apple Faithful – or not
Google Maps Buddy
There’s a couple of sites that I rely on a lot whenever I make a trip overseas: one’s Tripadvisor, and the other is Google Maps. The latter is especially handy, since for every journey I have to plan for during
日本へようこそ
“Welcome to Japan” Ling has had a fascination with visiting Hokkaido for ages now on account of the amazing flower blooms they’ve got each season. I’ve technically been to Japan before – but only in Transit and at Narita Airport,
American Midwest
Here comes the proverbial post on traveling and destinations I’ll like to visit at some point! Ling has visited most of Europe (I’ve only been to Denmark bleh) so whenever I bring up Central Europe for instance as a possible
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