I read an article the other day about how one should have a "job" (like a serious hobby that takes up time and energy) outside of their real job to make life worthwhile and to make the real work better. It got me thinking about how for many years that "outside job" was cosplay. Although, admittedly, I've been doing less and less of that these past ( Read more... )

Going to Japan tonight (11.55PM flight!) for a two-day worktrip and flying back on Wednesday. It's really just a worktrip, I literally have like 2 hours tomorrow morning to myself and maybe 2 hours after dinner on both nights (not very useful since most shops will be closed by then), but at least there will be immersion in Japanese language for a ( Read more... )

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAREST CRAZY BERN!

Haven't done one of these for a while (both the huge ass birthday greeting and a meme)...

( The year 2011 in 38 questions )

I was in the shower thinking of when I'm able to bring down my four rolls of film (1.5 from London trip, 1.5 from going to the Railway before it closed and Fort Canning, and 1 from Japan 2011) to develop, and I suddenly had this urge to finish blogging my travel photos on Livejournal. I've been putting them up on Facebook for so long but I never ( Read more... )

I'm back. There's work tomorrow, and I haven't checked my work email in days. It's going to drown me tomorrow morning, I can just feel it. I think I cried a little when I was at the airport this morning, but all in all, I'm fine, I'm kind of happy to be back, I'm sad to leave, but it was still an amazing holiday, and I feel recharged to tackle ( Read more... )

There is nowhere as shocking as the common female bathroom and locker area in Japan, especially in a capsule hotel. You see all these bleary-eyed ladies in various states of disarray who look quite okay or actually a bit not-so-good, and then watch them pull their hair, do their makeup, dress, and suddenly turn into one of those impeccably-dressed ( Read more... )

What was probably going to be a harrowing experience in any other country or any other season was actually pretty okay: I arrived in Osaka, Japan, and was patiently waiting for the 10.45PM shuttle bus to the hotel, when it became 10.50PM, and still no bus. Another hotel shuttle bus pulled up and the uncle from that bus looked a bit worried for me, ( Read more... )

Leaving in slightly more than an hour's time... Sitting in the departure lounge! This is the first time I could sit in here without taking advantage of my dad's or my boss' ability to access it, all my corporate travelling this year and last means that I've been upgraded to an Elite Gold Krisflyer member, and I can enter lounges and get my baggage ( Read more... )

I’m flying off to Osaka and Kyoto this Friday for a super short trip, coming back next Wednesday. Everyone at work seems to think that I’ve already visited Japan this year, but no. This is my first trip this year. And I’ve been dying to go. Originally I wanted to visit in maple-leaf season (紅葉), and it was supposed to be a post-birthday November ( Read more... )

My office network used to block all things Google (Gmail, google maps, google docs etc) but now everything works. But now my office network blocks the new-blog-post function of LJ. Everything else works, comments, reading posts, but just can’t get to the new blog post page. So I’m typing this in an email and mailing it to myself. O_o ( Read more... )