Loosely translated, it means “grown-up women’s anime time”. 4 vignettes of 4 females at varying stages of life (based on 4 short stories written by award-wining novelists): Kawamo wo Suberu […]
Ode to Friends It’s true, having friends help widen one’s horizons. Someone proposes a crazy idea, another acts on it and then you find yourself being swept along. Buoyed, raised, […]
I’ve been wanting to say this from the very first episode: I’m a big fan of Juuni Taisen. With 1 more episode to go, we’re already down to the winner […]
After Typhoon Lan, a day of perfect weather The gamble paid off. A day earlier, we queued for over an hour at the Kanazawa JR ticket office because some shinkansen […]
As Close As One Can Get 100km away from Torino, along highway 50, there was a chain of lakes nestled deep in the mountains – the target. From the village […]
memory & reality disconnect – europe 15 years on i remember italy with fondness. the tragic history of pompeii; that to-die-for margherita at a roadside pizzeria in napoli, the grand and […]
yogyakarta is quite a mouthful. so call it ‘jog-ja’ if you will, as the locals do. yogyakarta? where? jogja lies in the centre-south of java island; java in turn is […]
i had high hopes for the reflection. because the title sounds quite cool. but after going through 4 episodes of reflection, i suddenly developed an urge to re-watch full metal […]
one day out of the blue, my mate asked: why are we going to ginzan? (ok, she meant, why, out of so many onsens, did i choose this one?) i gave […]
always expect the unexpected? it looked like we hit the jackpot when the sakura forcasts started rolling in: full bloom expected on 30 mar to 1 apr. wasn’t that perfect […]
