Living in Japan
Voting overseas as a Singaporean
Well, the Singapore election was held yesterday. The mood and ambience felt a little different as compared to the previous election. Are Singaporeans getting more concern how the government works? Or they are just unhappy with how things are handled?…
A year later with a baby.
HFMD is probably an abbreviation most people have heard of. What exactly does it mean – it will be a surprise if someone has not heard of its existence. Well, for those who have no kids, to give the benefit…
How to pass the JLPT N1
Here’s my experience of how did I manage to pass the JLPT N1. I believe each candidate who pass the test has a unique way of learning the language. I assume the supposedly most typical and logical way is to…
Reflection of living in Japan
Four years – really do not seem like such a long duration. As I continued to go on with an absolutely normal life in Japan, having a full-time job, travelling via train daily on weekdays to office, relaxing during the…
The art of learning Japanese Language
Learning a new language can be an arduous journey. Well, at least for me it is. Sometimes reading online and learning that some people just could take up a language so easily, or in my case, passing the JLPT…
The art to overcome rude remarks in a Japanese workplace
Has anyone working in Japan ever encounter such situation as the title above? I have, and just had encounter one the other day in the office. The only emotion I could feel in the first place was anger, followed by…
Project Post-Mortem
This will probably be my first and last experience to do a post-mortem discussion about the failure of a project. Post-mortem originated from the meaning when a human is dead, particularly unnatural cause of death. The forensic will conduct…