I wish you all happiness, good health, better and higher-paying jobs success, all the best!Thank you all for making my year 2007 more wonderful!
I look forward to knowing you all better this year…
and I look forward to meeting new friends!Today, let’s offer to the Lord our failures of the past and our hopes for the […]

Didn’t have time to take a photo of something messy so I browsed through my collection and found these photos of messy Shaynna:

Messy means a toddler eating chocolate:

Messy hair, smiling face:

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you are all enjoying the holidays!

I wasn’t that adventurous on food during my first stay here in 2001-2002. But this time, I’m braver at trying out food and drinks that I considered weird. Here’s a list of food and drinks that I find interesting. Most of these are now my favorites.
1.) Green tea ice creamAs you open the […]

My first home in college was a neat boarding house, but mattresses were not provided, so I had to buy a new one. However, after a few weeks, my roommates and I woke up with itchy and reddish swells all over. Much to our disgust, we discovered that those were doings of bed […]

My alarm went off at 7:00AM but it’s “that time of the month” and I’m having my share of monthly pains. A part of me wanted to go to work, another part screamed that I was supposed to take the day off because it’s Christmas day! In the end, I decided to dwell on the […]

A few more minutes and it’s gonna be Christmas. As I laid down on my bedroom floor, beside me were 5 empty bottles of beer, I thought of home…
Nah, I didn’t drink even a single drop of something alcoholic. First, I only drink when I badly need sleep, but I no longer do that. Second, […]

I went out this afternoon, not with a Japanese guy, but with a Japanese gal and a friend, Akane-san. Since most of the Japanese are not Christians, Christmas here is celebrated not like the way I am used to.
Indeed, some Japanese families now practice gift-giving but for those who are single and/or available, Christmas day […]