Tag: japan
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Cleaning up the birdshit
It will have been one month this weekend since my mother’s passing. We’ve kept busy and we’ve tried to keep our emotions at bay for the most part, allowing ourselves only spurts of grieving. I still hope that maybe if I keep busy for long enough, I might let the passage of time dull grief.…
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CNA marketing VP, please rot
For sending out this email, the Channelnews Asia marketing and communications vice-president should rot – on earth first, alive, then reconstitute herself and rot in hell again, over and over. The same goes for any company or person who even contemplates her offer.
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It’s Chap Goh Meh, but here’s a Christmas story
While workshopping Kumar’s show last week, Selena Tan brought up this gem of information on how the Japanese celebrate Christmas. I would’ve teased Naomi for not knowing this Japanese tradition but a) she doesn’t take too kindly to criticism about her lack of Japanese knowledge, b) it is a rather offbeat kind of tradition. Before…
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Singapore’s Oskar Schindler
They either never taught us this in history lessons, or I just wasn’t paying attention. Thanks to a contributor on sammyboy.com, I found out that one of the heroes of the Japanese Occupation in Singapore was Japanese. Shinozaki Mamoru was a press attache with the Imperial Foreign Service and was assigned to Singapore before the…
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Imported traditions
Did I already mention that Kai can stand? Well, he can, among the many other things he seems to be picking up (literally and otherally) on a daily basis. Before the New Year, we also received Naomi’s updated copy of her family register from Tokyo, which now includes Kai and myself (my name being recorded…