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, neo-colonial sex-tourist days might be… Continue reading Tea Party time in Canberra?

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 popular with me. Good beer… Continue reading Charisma Man…….

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 has just begun, and the… Continue reading A really big night in Wanchai.

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 am jealous of e @… Continue reading Out the door……

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, she is in an outfit… Continue reading Declining market….

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. ( God willing). I’m going to… Continue reading Mission statement……..

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 in 2003. But in 2004,… Continue reading So that explains it!

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 encountering 98 Chinese faces for… Continue reading I know the feeling…..