Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts That Give Back

1. Buy someone a goat (card) ($39): Help Oxfam Australia distribute goats to vulnerable families, which can be used to provide milk for the family’s nutrition and even sold to pay for school fees or tools. 2. Guide Dogs Victoria 2013 Calendar ($19.95): Proceeds of the sale support the training of guide dogs in Victoria. [...]

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Holiday-ing in Japan: I Hauled Japan Home!

Okay, in hindsight, it’s probably not that much but when I was packing for home on the last day of the holidays, I had problems stuffing everything (including Tim’s shopping) in the luggage :P I went a bit bonkers at Matsumoto Kiyoshi. It’s a drugstore chain that sells a crazy amount of Japanese cosmetics brands [...]

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Holiday-ing in Japan: 50 Highlights

Travelling to Japan for holidays is so different from travelling there for work. There are no expectations to blend in at all. I’m a gaijin (foreigner) and I’m not afraid to show it! :P Everything in Japan seems so different, yet familiar in many places. If you’re planning a holiday to Japan, I highly recommend you [...]

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Time Flies When You’re Having Fun

Hello hello dear readers! Just a quick note to say I’m back from my 9-day holiday in Japan, and it was fabulous! I haven’t been back for 6 years and it was so good (yet feels quite strange) to visit the land of the rising sun once again. From Tokyo to Kyoto and back to [...]

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