Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Dining in Japan – Part 2
Continued from the last post, and covering Days 09 to 18! That’s a wrap for our posts journaling selected dining experiences this trip. Next post: Final Notes!
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New Car Project 2022 – Part 2
The two models we checked out were the Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid 1.6 DCT Sunroof (A), and the Kia Niro Hybrid 1.6 SX (A). We’re not car experts at all, so don’t have a deep sense of what finally mattered in
New Car Project 2022 – Part 1
While looking through the blog notes here for our purchase of our Mazda 3 seven and a half years ago, I realized something funny: the oddities that we noticed with the then new car persisted for the next 7.5 years.
Kansai – Japan 2022 – Planning – Part 1
With most of the world – or Asia at least – finally emerging from the almost three year long pandemic, the travel bug has pretty much hit home to many of us here on this island. We have, after all,
Foldable Bikes – Part 2
Our first post of 2021! Beyond our certainty that we needed two bikes and of the foldable variety, we knew otherwise little about bikes themselves. At this point, and several days after picking up the LitePro and 3Sixty, we’re still
Foldable Bikes – Part 1
The wife has been musing since last year whether we should enjoy Singapore in more outdoor fashion, especially given how much money the government here has pumped into building numerous parks, outdoor facilities and nature reserves and sanctuaries just so
Xiaomi Viomi V2 Pro Robot Vacuum
Covid-19 has certainly change everyone’s lives a lot. While our little island has been spared relatively well from the virus’ onslaught elsewhere – thanks largely to our government’s foresight and immediate action starting in mid-Jan – there’s nonetheless an unmistakable
Musing about smartphone tech
The outbreak of Covid-19 a month ago here in Singapore really put a big dampener on people’s morale here. But credit really goes to the government here for reacting fast, decisively and with great foresight such that the local transmission
Chinese New Year 2020
The Lunar New Year period this year in 2020 lands on the best possible date, weekday wise: eve on a FRI, and as both proceeding public holiday days are on weekday days, the country declares the following MON as another
Chūgoku & Kyushu/Japan 2019 – Itinerary
A week to go before my 11-day trip to the southern half of Japan for the first of two Japan trips this year, and I’m finally about done tweaking my leisure itinerary that wraps around the work segment of the
JooJoobs’ Leather Bifold Wallet
One of the annual things I’ve found myself doing is replacing a worn wallet. They get wrecked/tear/go moldy really fast! I reckon it’s a combination of things: the way I carry wallets – usually in my back pocket – and
Google Play Apps – 2018 Edition – Part 2
Continued from the last post! Textra The days of SMSes – short for Short Message Service – are gradually fading. There used to be a time when I had to closely watch the couple hundred SMSes that are bundled in
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