Japan

Kono bachan

May 8, 2011

This is for a special lady, who’s also a mom who’s dear to us. She is a lady whom I met one summer, 11 years ago. Kono-bachan (Grandma Kono) is my husband’s grandmother (his mother’s mother). The first time I met her was before I got married to her grandson. She was ‘only’ 83 years [...]

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Japan and a parent’s nightmare

March 24, 2011

Photo credit My brother who works in Yokohama, Japan’s second largest city after the capital Tokyo is back in the Philippines temporarily with his wife and 5 month old baby. He and his small family are among the thousands of foreigners who left Japan after a radiation scare (and most recently, water scare) that gripped [...]

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How to Donate to Japan from the UAE

March 17, 2011

The Consulate General of Japan in Dubai has released an official statement as to how to donate to the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami Relief. Here is the contest of the statement in case the link above is broken or does not work: Donations for 2011 Tohoku district off the Pacific Ocean Earthquake The Consulate-General of [...]

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Tweets from Japan in the midst of catastrophic quake

March 14, 2011

I found this viral post in Facebook and I am reposting this in the wake of the earthquake catastrophe in Japan. Here are tweets from people in Japan, real life eyewitness accounts on how the country with people who are sometimes seen as ‘cold’ on the outside, emotionless, mechanical like robots acted in times of [...]

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Earthquake in Japan

March 13, 2011

As you might already heard by now or seen in television, a massive earthquake measuring at an intensity of 8.9 on the Richter scale hit the northeastern part of Japan (red circle on the map below) triggering a 10 meter high tsunami that literally swept the coastal towns. It was unbelievable to see the devastation [...]

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Valentines Day in Dubai, and in Japan

February 14, 2011

Photo credit There’s not much to say about Valentines Day in Dubai as it is the same as in other countries. Although it is worth mentioning that February 15 is an Islamic Holiday – Prophet Muhammad’s birthday so hotels are gearing up for a “dry night” starting from the night before. No music and alcohol [...]

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More snow talk

January 17, 2011

I am not in a geographical position to talk or whine about snow unless I am inside Ski Dubai but since my father in-law called and brought the topic to light, I thought I’d further indulge. Here are some photos taken some years back when my brother, who has never seen snow all his life, [...]

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The snow, my father in-law and I

January 11, 2011

It’s cloudy and cool in Dubai as I’m writing this. Of course by “cool” I only meant not disgustingly hot. You winter wonderland people would probably laugh – It was 20C (68F for you non-Metric folks) at 8:30 this morning. It’s almost 5 PM now and about 25C outside, with a lot of big clouds [...]

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