Category: Asia Expat Living

Could be-for Expat at Large. He knows better than to have one in Singapore-call the President there a socialist and you get to have a room without a view at Changi Prison. Besides, its all the damn Prime Minister’s fault: E@L’s days as a beer-slurping, overly-lush-golf-course playing, high-cash-flow, tax-dodging, Philippino-village-supporting,

Back in the day-shuttling from work to Tokyo for Japanese class-one of my favorite things to see upon rolling into the Black Lion pub in Meguro, was to pick up the latest edition of Japanzine. ( The Black Lion was right around the corner from my Japanese class-thus it was

It has raised the bar too high for a certain part of the population. H/T to E @ L!

Not even I could pull a bar tab this big. Especially at the Old China Hand. However, according to Hemlock-someone did: Now that’s a pretty big bar bill-even at 7.76 HKD to the US Dollar.  There has to be a story behind it and there was:   Super Happy Hour

Looking for some excitement that cannot be found here in Shopping Mall. International travel-passports, planes, trains, tickets, lounges, beers, sweet talking your way into business class, bags, lines at immigration-the thrill of opening a hotel door in a new city. I did love it so………… Its one reason why I

Evidently, stocks are not the only thing that is down these days. It would seem times are tough for gold-diggers too: Haruna Hiraki pokes at the melting ice cubes with a perfect fingernail and frowns. She has never had to make a ginger ale last this long. It is 9.30pm,

Out of pocket for the next couple of days. Work is very busy and at night-I’m in the middle of writing a “mission statement” for myself: to remind of me of my goal to be where I want to be before the sun dawns on my birthday in 2010. (

Why Lehman brothers went down the tubes: Watashi to Tokyo reports that Lehman Brothers is one of a series of companies that have failed after renting office space inside Tokyo’s Roppongi Hills complex, leading some to believe that the place is cursed: The building was opened only 5 years ago

Big White Guy is back in Canada. He verbalizes what I have been feeling for the past 4 months: This may sound strange, but seeing so many Caucasian people all in one place feels a little odd. In other words, I’ve grown used to being the visible minority; I’m comfortable