Crows ZERO is COOL

29.07.08

Filed Under: Japan with 6 Comments

It’s been a while a movie that can make me become so excited. Last week, I watched a Japan 2007 hit movie called “Crows ZERO“. Crows ZERO is a film based on the comic book Crows by Hiroshi Takahashi, and was directed by Takashi Miike. The story involves around a bunch of bad students in [...]

Bon Odori 2008!

14.07.08

Filed Under: Japan with 5 Comments

Last Saturday, the long awaited annual Bon Odori festival was finally arrived! I’m very excited about this event because it was fun! Bon Odori in Malaysia was celebrated in less associated with Buddhism and more with Japanese culture. This year’s edition was a little different because I was one of the volunteer staff there to [...]

Amazing Japanese style web designs

29.06.08

Filed Under: Inspiration, Japan, Web Design with 4 Comments

Japan is a country that has a very rich and unique styles in designs and culture that balance between usability and aesthetic, modern and traditional. I really like the traditional Japanese styles of designs, patterns, and colors which implemented into modern living lifestyle. Well, web design is no exceptions too.
Recently, i came across this great [...]

Cool Japan photos at ReallyJapan

26.05.08

Filed Under: Japan with 13 Comments

As you guys might know that I’m a Japan freak. I just love Japan and would like to travel there some where in future. Recently, Ruben Frosali are so kind to share his point of view of Japan with his photo blog ReallyJapan. His photos are creative and very different from other Japan photos I [...]

Learn Japanese language with free podcasts in Itunes

11.05.08

Filed Under: Japan with 4 Comments

First of all, sorry for the lack of updates on this site because I’m quite sick for these few days and still haven’t fully recover yet. Well, last few days I stumbled upon on this article about “Learn 35+ Languages for Free in Itunes” and discover that actually I can also learn Japanese language for [...]

Japan Golden Week

02.05.08

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In Japan, there are a series of holidays from late April to early May which they call it as “Golden Week”. During Golden Week, many companies are closing to let their employees to have a long nice rest and many Japanese people are going off for long vacation. So during this period of time, leisure-based [...]

Welcome spring with sakura songs

26.03.08

Filed Under: J-Pop, Japan with 14 Comments

Spring is just around the corner. When thinking of spring season, many people will thinking of the warm and beautiful cherry blossom or sakura. Around the end of March to beginning of April is the best time to view the blossoming sakura or o-hanami in Tokyo and Kyoto area. Sakura is a very beautiful flower [...]

What is Kanto and Kansai?

28.02.08

Filed Under: Japan with 5 Comments

I always had a question when checking a drama’s rating, why they split it into two categories which is Kanto region and Kansai region? I also came across these two terms when watching dramas where it sounds like there is big difference between them. What is Kanto and Kansai and what is their history?
I found [...]

Moneygami: The art of paper money folding

11.02.08

Filed Under: Art & Design, Japan with 6 Comments

There is a Chinese quotation said that money is not everything, but without money you can’t do many things, including this. Introducing the art of moneygami, where origami meets paper money. I have seen many people use money paper to fold a heart shape or something simple, but Hasegawa Yousuke has taken paper money folding [...]

Aoyama Thelma feat. Soulja - Soba ni iru ne

06.02.08

Filed Under: J-Pop, Japan, Lyrics with 12 Comments

Aoyama Thelma is another new female singer that I enjoy listening recently. On the 23th of January, she released her latest single ‘Soba ni iru ne’ featuring another spotlight artist Soulja. They had been collaborated before when releasing ‘Koko ni iru yo’ in September last year. Some might had guess, ‘Soba ni iru ne’ is [...]

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