Late late..! I’m late in writing this week blog post due to holiday mood is striking me. We just had a Lunar New Year celebration last week and it completely turned off my brain for many things. Interesting event happened to me was when I flew back to Singapore from my hometown. (Yes, holiday is over). I found out a movie which I haven’t watched and wanted to watch – Pokemon: Pikachu I choose you (ポケットモンスター キミにきめた). I missed out […]
Month: February 2018
Global citizen
I have two very interesting encounter this week from my recent travels On my way back to Singapore from Haneda airport. I met a Japanese grandma who travels with her grandchild. She can converse in Japanese but doesn’t seem to be able to read Japanese anymore, and she has difficulties to read and fill in the immigration form. She asked me in Japanese how to fill in the form. She’s Bolivian. Another one is during my Grab hitch ride to […]
The lessons from traveling alone
Have you ever travelled alone? Or often travel alone either for leisure or business. For me, I don’t usually travel alone for both cases. Well, flying alone to other place is normal to me, but usually I’ll meet someone at the destination and going travel together. When you’re traveling with your friends in those foreign land, it’s very comforting to always have someone to converse with in language you are comfortable to speak. In cases of the place of destination […]
Shed the tears, and stand up
I’m not sure if I had shared this before or not, but I saw this in my note book again recently. My sensei said, there is a life lesson related to a kanji word 泣く (read: naku) meaning to cry. That when you remove the tears, you’ll get 立つ (read: tatsu) meaning to stand. So I think sometimes you just need to stop crying and stand, hey