Blogs from Saitama, Japan, Asia - page 5

All the women in Sanaes family have been spoliing me endlessly all week. Sanae started the treatment on my birthday and it was continued at my birthday party with Sanaes parents on Thursday night where Oka san made a collection of all of my favourite Japanese foods for dinner, Sanae bought me a cake with my name on it and I was plied with presents from Sanaes parents, grandparents and friends from home that had posted things over care of Sanae. On the Saturday Sanae and I ventured to the country to visit with Oba chan (Sanaes grandmother) where the spoiling continued with more presents and a never ending supply of food: pears, grapes, purple sticky rice balls, botamochi, pizza, okonomiyaki, ginger, 3 different types of takuwan, pickled cucumber, miso soup, yaki soba, large red ... read more

The easy way to wear a Kimino; Using Yukata (Lightweight Cotton Summer Kimino) and Lazy Bow - a bow that comes already tied with a clip, as the other way is just too hard! Photos by Sanae, Modelled by Leah, Costume and Design by Sanaes Mum... read more

Oka san (aka Sanaes Mum) has been soooooooo good to me since I got here so I searched high and low for a thoughtful present and practiced my Japanaese constantly throughout the day so I could say Okasan, Happy Birthday perfectly in Japanese (which I did - Yay!) Not much else to say about it, the sashimi party was great and a wonderful lady is an other year older!... read more

It's strange, I've been in Tokyo for nearly four months and the longer I've been here the more of a tourist I feel. I mean, sure, I now eat rice for breakfast, can push my way with the best of them on public transport, no longer take the free tissues they hand out at the station and I can't remember the last time I used a knife and fork, but.... I really feel more western now than when I first arrived. I've been trying to pinpoint exactly what it is thats making me feel this way and have been finding it really hard to do. Its small things. Tiny insignificant things that get my attention that confuse me endlessly simply for the fact that the mindset behind it is so completely different from my own. I ... read more

For some reason whenever I live in a different country to my home country, I, along with all housemates get sucked into a different type of CSI. London was my time for the original CSI (Vegas) and Tokyo has turned into the time for CSI: Miami to shine. In other words, Sanae and I are hooked. So, to coincide with the dramatc and exciting finale of season 4 Sanae and I decided to devote our theme night to our current favourite show and play a game of "Follow the Evidence", a spin off of the CSI Vegas themed game my friend Katie and I used to play in London called "The Evidence Suggests" The cast Leah as Calleigh Dusquene - cheerful and beautifully accented bullet expert Sanae as Eric Delko - sex crazed half latino/half russian ... read more