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Fukuoka-Matsue-Osaka: Day 07 @ Matsue Station and Matsue Castle

Posted on 15 Sep 202312 Mar 2026   by CY

I just realized that I haven’t actually said much about what this work trip is about and where we’ve been. For posterity’s sake, as always, here’s what the 14 day trip entails: Day 01 to Day 04: Arriving via red-eye

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The Blossom Hakata Premier

Posted on 10 Sep 2023   by CY

My first place of stay this 14 day work trip to the cities of Fukuoka, Matsue and Osaka. This is a four star establishment in Fukuoka, and – coincidentally – roughly opposite Royal Park Fukuoka Hotel that I stayed in

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Fukuoka-Matsue-Osaka: Day 03 @ Fukuoka and Canal City

Posted on 9 Sep 202312 Mar 2026   by CY

While planning for our year-end trip this December again to Japan, the wife mused that next year, we really should be going to other places. I was a little amused by that: there’s so much left to still see in

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Fukuoka-Matsue-Osaka: Day 03 @ Dazaifu

Posted on 9 Sep 202312 Mar 2026   by CY

My first post-pandemic overseas work trip, and a fairly long one at that even: 14 days in Japan and the cities of Fukuoka, Matsue, and Osaka. Given the length of this trip, I didn’t apply for extensions before or after

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Xiaomi Mi Pad 6

Posted on 15 Aug 202315 Aug 2023   by CY

It’s been a while since I’ve had an Android tablet: i.e. four years. An early generation Asus Transformer TF101 tablet that the missus bought for me on a birthday more than ten years ago, followed by the Motorola Xoom 2,

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Thule Accent 26L Backpack

Posted on 5 Aug 2023   by CY

The five year old Thule Subterra 30L backpack has fared up very well: it’s been my daily bag that I use at work, and also dual purpose as my carry-on backpack when I fly, and even when I’m touring. However,

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Bellroy Tokyo Work Bag

Posted on 5 Aug 20235 Aug 2023   by CY

I’ve never really been a bag person. As in, while I do occasionally develop the sudden intense interest to look closely at what’s available over the course of a week, bookmark several web sites, watch probably hundreds of videos on

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Chubu-Kanto – Japan Dec 2023 – Planning – Part 1

Posted on 14 Jul 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

Our planning for our usual family year-end vacation started months ago in March: I had an indicative period of travel that would span just over two weeks, and wrote up two general itineraries for travel to Japan: one for Kyushu,

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10 Days in Hanoi – Final Notes

Posted on 21 Jun 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

This was our first trip to Vietnam, and we count our blessings that our ten day vacation there was largely accident- and incident-free. None of us got food poisoning – vs when I came down with that in Koh Phangan

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10 Days in Hanoi – Equipment Comments

Posted on 21 Jun 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

The first of the last two posts in this series covering our ten day trip in Hanoi: about the image and video capturing experience of the trip. Our last trip to Japan in December last year saw me bringing a

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Drone Videography

Posted on 19 Jun 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

This was the first time I’ve flown a drone overseas, so, well, lots of anxiety! But the experience turned out to be pretty good, due in large part to the mostly good weather we had, and also the sheer performance

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10 Days in Hanoi – Itinerary Retrospection

Posted on 18 Jun 202311 Mar 2026   by CY

All things considered and comparing with our itineraries to other places, e.g. Japan and Taiwan, we kept our itinerary for our 10D9N in Hanoi comparatively light. This was largely because we were uncertain of our ability to safely navigate Hanoi

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