Some minutes back I had my last supper in Japan
As I have written in my earlier posts, the last days have been tough to pass. But overall if I look at my experience in Japan, it has been a very pleasant stay. Here are my two cents on what I feel about this country:
Landscape:
Japan has been [...]
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Sayonara
Posted in Japan on May 25, 2006 | 2 Comments »
A weekend to remember
Posted in Japan on May 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
So it was just 5 days to be counted and my last weekend in Japan. The eagerness to touch the land I love the most, to inhale the air, I have grown up on and to touch the face of my niece has been growing and in sch situation, sitting in house is a difficult [...]
Meeting a Monk
Posted in Japan, People on May 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I entered the shop and all of a sudden was addressed by another shopper ‘Namaste’. It was an old occidental man in Black Jeans and orange T-shirt, folding his hands in Indian way. I was surprised to hear Hindi from him. Immediately I folded by hands in response and replied ‘Namaste’.
I think he was not [...]
Guideline or Customer Satisfaction?
Posted in Japan, Nostalgia on May 4, 2006 | 1 Comment »
When in India, I had heard a lot about punctuality of Japanese people. We had a joke going on in India: The ‘S’ in IST stands for 'Stretchable' and not for 'Standard'. So I was all praise for people who were punctual. But one of the experiences that I had here was nothing sort of [...]
Feeding the Lions
Posted in Japan on May 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Hazaaron khwahisen Aisi ki har khwahish pe dam nikle (thousands of breath-taking wishes are there) and this was certainly the one which could have taken the breatth away – literally – that of playing with and feeding the lions.
This weekend, it became a reality to some extent. We took off to Beppu, where we went [...]
Nakanoshima
Posted in Japan on April 9, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The week had been hectic with so many slogging hours and skipping lunches and dinners. The ups and downs on personal front made it all the tougher. All the body wanted was sleep and rest and food. At the same time, the mind was craving for some hours, free from all the worries, both personal [...]
University Searching
Posted in Japan on March 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Today I tried to find another avenue for hindi books. The library staff at city library had told me that the university library would have Hindi books. So I decided t0 go to University library.
I took the name of the station where i need to get off the subway, but could not remember the it. [...]
Hindi Books in Fukuoka
Posted in Japan, Nostalgia on February 6, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Since I came to Japan, I had been looking for some books to read and had not been able to do so. In almost all the shops that I visited, I found only Japanese books..
Finally I was told that there is library very near to my house. I thought it would be a small [...]
Sambhar Rice in Tokyo
Posted in Japan on February 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I had been planning for a long time to go to the capital of the land of rising Sun. but every time, I tried, I failed for some mundane issue arising in office.
Finally I thought of giving it a try one more time and decided that even if any issue comes up, I would be [...]
Nagasaki
Posted in Japan on January 15, 2006 | 1 Comment »
That day, inspite of the clouds, the sky had turned much brighter than usual, no one would have thought what’s coming there way. Or probably there was no time to think. It just happened in a flash. The clock stopped and the time changed. The temperature saw a surge (more than 3000 C) and almost [...]
