Woke up late this morning close to 10am. Thank God the running nose is gone so I was able to start the day pretty fresh. The children were very cooperative and got ready within the hour, all dressed and breakfast done. We left for the zoo at exactly 11am, anContinue Reading

We took a SQ flight to Wellington, capital of New Zealand, with a brief stopover at Canberra. Our plane took off the night before at 12 midnight and thankfully I was able to sleep through till breakfast in the morning. However it was really cold in the plane and byContinue Reading

The next morning we headed out to Otaru to see its famed canal. I was a bit disappointed to find out that the scenic stretch is only about 500m but I suppose it does look postcard perfect. After lunch, we walked the Sakaimizo (?) shopping street towards Minami Otaru station.Continue Reading

I slept through dinner after reaching back to our hotel the night before. After fitful sleep, I managed to wake feeling slightly better this morning with the worst of my fever gone. However after our experience with the cold yesterday, we figured we didn’t really want a repeat so weContinue Reading

We collected our car early in the morning at 9am, a Toyota Fielder, and made our way towards Lake Akan. The scenery enroute reminded me of Christmas log cake with pine trees and many layers of cream. Thankfully it hadn’t snowed recently so the roads were relatively dry. When weContinue Reading

I’m catching up on a lot of trips I’ve made over the years but was usually too tired at the end of the trip to blog about it. I kept saying I’d get it done until I lost all my photos when my phone was stolen on one particular holiday.Continue Reading

After Mystic Messenger, I was wondering if there could be another otome game that captured my heart. Given how Cheritz seemed to know their stuff, I decided to pay another $58 to buy Dandelion and Nameless off Steam as they had raving reviews. I spent more than a month betweenContinue Reading