读心人？Mentalist? いるんですか？

One of my favourite hobbies when I was still in Japan was to catch the thrice-weekly dose of Arashi 嵐 via the television variety shows. Back...

Why you will fail to have a great career - My 3-cents worth

Have you watched the TEDxUW video starring Larry Smith on the topic of "Why you will fail to have a great career"? Of course, the ...

Transition....

The first name I had for my blog is "QQ's Sandbox" as I would like it to document with my life experiments, my life experience...

Last Day...

Last day, in my house. Last day, in my little town.Tomorrow, I will embark on my last trip on JET to Hokkaido, and then back to Singapore, o...

Stepping into the digital era

On 24 July 2011, 12 noon (Japan time), Japan has officially crossed the analog border and stepped into the digital era. All television broad...

What happens when the garbage collection days are over?

This is my current challenge. How to keep my apartment sparkling clean, free from all garbage for the new owners of my home, and also for th...

What I hate most about Japan.... Spiders

It's official. I simply hate the 梅雨 (tsuyu) season and mostly.. the spiders that comes with it. As a tropical gal, I know how to coexist...

KTVing in Japan vs Singapore

KTV is probably the 3rd thing I missed most after I left Singapore. Surprised? Japan is the so-called motherland of KTV or karaoke. This ver...

Nationality = Birth Country?

Often, new Japanese colleagues would ask me if I was originally from China, after I self-introduce myself as a Singaporean Chinese. I would ...

How do Japanese wives manage the household finance?

By coincidence, I came across a TV program special, 『がっちりアカデミー』, on how Japanese wives manage the household finance. It was so interesting t...

マル・マル・モリ・モリ！

可愛いね！This is the theme song for the Japanese drama マルモのおきて, currently my favourite jdrama for this season. It is a very heartwarming series ...

How to cancel NHK subscription?

Back to blogging some helpful tips for JETs or any foreigners planning to stay/ work long term in Japan.Counting down to the last few weeks ...

Random Numbers

Decided to do a blog post on some random figures associated with my one-year adventure in Japan as a memento. This post will be an on-going ...

5 Lessons I Learnt from the Japan Earthquake

It has been a week since the Japan Earthquake. *Sigh* What a long week. For the first few days, with the continuous bombarding of bad news l...

Worry looms....

School continues over here. Everyone seems to be back to normal. There aren't any real damage here. Thank goodness! Apart from the tremo...

I'm safe and sound!

Dear family and friends, who have been worried for me, first, I must thank all of your love and concern. *HUGS* It's really in hard time...

Do you know...? Trivia about Japan

This will be an ongoing post, as I collect more trivia along my adventure in Japan.Trivia 1Do you know... the green lights for traffic light...

Coupons... and I don't mean the discount ones

What I find interesting is, Japan has given coupons another meaning. Coupons to me, are advertisements with dotted lines for us to cut out, ...

Maybe I wished for too much snow?

Woke up this morning, and had a big surprise. There is about 1-2cm of snow in my area. Very rare for a place where snow doesn't stick, i...

I am stalking snow...

Disclaimer: QQ is a gal who has lived all her life in sunny Singapore, hence her snow experience is only one brief encounter. And she was to...