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• How to make learning Japanese less painful

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 18:47 in expat musings

  It’s the time of year again for the dreaded JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test; you can read about my experience last year here). I have a love-hate relationship with language learning: I need the skill, but it is f—ing hard to master...

• San Francisco: Could I live here?

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 02:33 in my travels

  This is a question I always ask myself when I visit a new city. I’m not tired of Japan yet but I love to contemplate what it would be like living in other countries. There are so many places in the world to live in and it would be a pity to remain ...

• NYC to Toronto: I was just in the neighbourhood

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 06:48 in my travels

  My good friends are scattered across the globe so when I set foot on American soil, I thought I should zip over to Canada to visit one of my oldest friends from Singapore. She was planning to have her engagement party on the weekend that I decided to...

• How I said goodbye to Singapore three years ago

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 17:42 in blast from the past

  I arrived in Tokyo officially on Oct 1 2006, 730am. Every year, I try to remember this date as my “moving-overseas” anniversary, but this year I’m a bit late. But that’s not to say I’m less reflective once I recall this time of upheaval th...

• 24 hours left in New York

  Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 19:08 in my travels

  I’ve been in New York for two weeks now and the days are becoming blurred with non-stop work in the morning, sightseeing in the arvo, dinners and drinks. New York is such a famous city so I don’t really want to make a laundry list of photos and p...

• Looking at New York from the sky

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 08:49 in my travels

  It’s quite impractical to wait for quintessential New York experiences on such a short stay, so I chose to start off with typical touristy rites of passage type places. The Big Apple is an impressive, dense city so I had to see what it really look...

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