Japan

Street dancing in Japan, oh my!

October 7, 2009

It’s summer and while sorting out photos (a task that really doesn’t end, hey) in our home PC, I found this video of Pristine (looking very dwarfy 2.5 yrs old) and I in a street in Matsumoto, Japan where we previously lived. There was a summer festival that involved a lot of street dancing. I’m [...]

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Swinging in that side of town

October 5, 2009

** Photos taken during our trip to Japan in the summer of 2008. ** The hubz’s hometown is located in Northern Japan. Away from the big, bustling city of Tokyo. If you haven’t been to Japan, Tokyo is a great place to explore and if you have gotten tired of it, I always recommend taking [...]

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Vacation time came faster than a bullet train

October 1, 2009

  Vacation time has come! I will be on vacation for a couple of weeks but have posts lined up for the coming days. So that means, I won’t be absent blog-wise! There will be some new feature while I’m away to keep you entertained: features about either Japan or Dubai on Mondays - need to get [...]

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A trip to Ghibli Museum, Mitaka, Japan

September 7, 2009

While living in Japan, I fell in love with animes by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki since my then Japanese boyfriend (promoted to husband a few years later) M, introduced me to the movie Laputa: Castle in the Sky. When the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Japan opened in 2001, I was antsy. I’ve seen all the [...]

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To Japan, again

September 3, 2009

A little less than a month from now, we will be off for a vacation to attend a wedding in Japan. We didn’t really plan to travel this year if my brother in-law didn’t decide to get hitched. We’ll only be in Japan for two weeks since Pristine has to attend school and we need to [...]

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Omikoshi parade in Japan

August 17, 2009

So we heard that there’s a a matsuri, Japanese festival in the hubz small town – a mikoshi parade and children are invited. A mikoshi is a portable Shinto shrine, carried in the streets by dozens of people. They can be very expensive as they are often gold plated and sometimes encrusted with diamonds, rubies and [...]

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Rural Japan in summer

August 3, 2009

Summer in Japan is a vibrant season. I love how everything is so green and the weather is warmer. My father in-law’s rice paddies come to life. Obviously, not all of the places in Japan are chaotic, teeming with people and having the rush that the big city of Tokyo has. This rice paddy is [...]

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Japanese summer festival

July 6, 2009

Summer in Japan means a lot of outdoor celebrations or “matsuri”. The matsuris are usually held in temples, “jinja” and the whole place is lit up with these paper lanterns. When we went to Japan for vacation last year, my in-laws invited my brother and his wife, who just got married in summer of 2008 [...]

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