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My Coach obsession was my red sports car
Lioness in Japan | August 27th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I decided to come out of the closet and talk about something I have kept under wraps for a while. I’m fairly open in my blog but this was one thing I couldn’t write about for the simple fact that I was afraid the kangaroo would discover how crazy read more
My 30th birthday: Dinner
Lioness in Japan | August 24th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
“Baby, we are in same age bracket now!” I teased the kangaroo when I woke up on my birthday. He’s six years older than me and wonders why I have no idea what the original Battlestar Galactica in the ‘70s was like. That’s our new TV obsessio read more
My 30th birthday: Lunch
Lioness in Japan | August 22nd 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
As long as I could remember, food has always played an important role in my life. It isn’t just about sustenance but it is closely tied to history, relationships, family, tradition, and emotions. When I was a child, my father’s mood was determin read more
The Singapore Prime Minster dishes out dating advice
Lioness in Japan | August 19th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I had to post this when I perused the Straits Times today after lunch: *Make time to go out and meet new friends *Join a dating agency, be it the Government’s Social Development Unit/Social Development Service or a private agency. *Have realist read more
Update on our garden
Lioness in Japan | August 8th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
Okay the pictures below are of the housewarming card our friends gave us with an aromatherapy gift. This is just too cute and it represents the cosiness of our little pad. The kangaroo was so keen to have a vegetable patch in our garden, he got s read more
Look at what greeted me in my inbox today
Lioness in Japan | July 27th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
What a bitch you are. Sure you clearly did not like these people but did you have to post about them all on the internet? Most people with half a grain of decency would have not been so creul. Also your reply/ explanation is shit to be frank. I am no read more
I’m having a Chris Martin moment
Lioness in Japan | July 24th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
Besides loving Coldplay’s new album Viva La Vida, I think I am sharing a little bit more with its frontman, Chris Martin. He did an interview with Rollingstone and was asked how he kept his hunger for his career going, “You’ve got to b read more
What we say in the way we write
Lioness in Japan | July 11th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I got my first nasty comment in the history of this two-year-old blog, which set me thinking a lot in the past few days. I wanted to wait a little for some inspiration on how to intelligently create a response, rather than fall back on a simple rant. read more
Can’t be arsed
Lioness in Japan | July 7th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
Yes, I’ve been struggling with my energy levels today because of a whirlwind five days. After two cups of coffee, I still feel exhausted. Before a dear friend touched down at Narita from New Yok, I went out for a casual dinner and drinks to pass so read more
The moon cup
Lioness in Japan | July 3rd 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
Always a fan of trendy new stuff, I was highly tickled by the moon cup that a friend told me about. The manufacturers were obviously inspired by the connection of a woman’s menstrual cycle and the lunar cycle. New moon = flow comes to town; Full mo read more
Quarter-life crossroads…
Lioness in Japan | June 27th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
This lovely purple flower has been growing bigger and bigger in our terrace. I just had to take a picture of it. It’s the end of another week and it’s almost the end of June. That means I’ve been in Japan for 21 months already — wow, has it b read more
My massage adventures in Tokyo
Lioness in Japan | June 18th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
As I am typing this, my back and my right arm are terribly sore and stiff. It has been a rough few days navigating life with an increasingly painful backache. The kangaroo has been giving me massages with heat rub after hot showers and half-hour stre read more
The lioness has moved
Lioness in Japan | May 11th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
Heya, Lioness in Japan has moved to www.luiyuming.com. Yup, I finally got my own domain name. This idea has been incubating for awhile, and with the kangaroo’s help, I was able to update everything in just two days. Why did I do this? Well, I have read more
Someone special I look forward to seeing
Lioness in Japan | May 9th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
For the benefit of those who are still new to the Lioness site, I'm a dog lover — through and through. One of my ambitions is to own a couple of pugs one day but that would be much later in life as our apartment in Tokyo has a no-dog policy. This i read more
Bummed out
Lioness in Japan | April 16th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I am not feeling so well again. Ever since Nepal’s massive attacks of food poisoning in December 2007, my digestive system has not been 100 per cent. Coming from Southeast Asia, I was proud to have a cast-iron stomach that can tolerate food that ha read more
Back in business
Lioness in Japan | April 13th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
Last week was a little messed up because I had a four-day bout of stomach flu. But when I got better, my iBook got sick. She crunched away to a quick death on Friday. Fuming inwardly and cursing her, I went shopping for a few errands meant to be done read more
Apple dreams
Lioness in Japan | April 9th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I was missing online yesterday from about 4pm because my adaptor cable gave way. The wire was probably frayed due to wear-and-tear. By then, my battery was at 40 per cent. So I jumped online and checked to see if there was the same cable available in read more
An evening of Wii
Lioness in Japan | April 6th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
Yesterday night we hung out at Adrian and Kazu’s for dinner and some Nintendo Wii.After delicious seabass and sinful macaroons, we worked it out on their Wii.It was the kangaroo’s first time, so he was super excited.Ready…Get set…Go!We skied read more
A new look for spring
Lioness in Japan | April 4th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I was tired of the regular Blogger template offered so I thought I would do some customization.I tried to look for a picture that incorporated both Japan and a lion image — look what I found?!The banner’s a little louder than I normally would hav read more
I lost my wallet
Lioness in Japan | March 14th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I try to be careful but this side of me gets to me at the worst of times.I don't know where it went. Maybe it's in the office or maybe in mos burger or along the streets Shinguku but it's not at home.I couldn't pay for dinner. I feel awful.About a gi read more
A new identity
Lioness in Japan | March 10th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I realised that this summary doesn’t fit me anymore:A freelance journalist from the Lion City, aka Singapore, who lives in a shoebox with a 6 ft 3 kangaroo, shares her adventures in Tokyo, her new home.If you take a look to the right, I’ve writte read more
Not bouncing back
Lioness in Japan | February 11th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I had quite a big weekend — two late nights of heavy drinking followed by two horrible hangovers.Even though yesterday was spent watching environmental movie Earth and Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd, I still felt weary and sluggish. I highly recommend read more
Inu ga dai suki
Lioness in Japan | February 2nd 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I miss my cutey pie, Taffy. Last night, the kangaroo's Japanese client told him his wife bought a Chiba-inu when he was away on business. He wasn't consulted at all. I told the kangaroo I might surprise him one day. Hur hur hur.About a girl in Japan read more
Too hyper to sleep
Lioness in Japan | January 30th 2008 by Yu Ming Lui
I’ve always had patches of insomnia but this one is quite bad. I normally take melatonin or valerian root tablets to ease my active mind but tonight my usual remedies aren’t working well.So I took two and not one valerian tablets and was a little read more
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