Mar 14 2011
Last Thursday, I traveled to Osaka in Japan with my wife to go on a brief holiday and I planned to do a few things including getting a ride on a bullet train and checking out the Nintendo 3DS. Unfortunately, due to the earthquakes and ongoing aftershocks, I wasn’t too keen on trying the bullet train especially …
Mar 13 2011
Western people are growing accustomed to an increasing number of electric or automatic gadgets. Things like rubbish bins with automatically opening lids, garage doors and automatic reverse packing in cars are just a few examples. However, even for us western people, the concept of an electric or automatic toilet can be a bit of a …
Mar 11 2011
Most people would have seen or heard the news about the quakes in Japan over the last couple of days and my wife and I were certainly not expecting to be experiencing it first hand on the 35th floor of The Ritz-Carlton in Osaka. There is nothing like the sensation of a building swaying from …
Mar 08 2011
I’ve always been fascinated with trains even when I was growing up and when I learnt back in school about the high speed rail services that operate in Japan I thought about how neat it would be just to hop on for a ride. Luckily, my wife and I are going on a holiday to …
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