Prologue I have been procrastinating since… forever. A lot has happened since I came back from this trip and… honestly I didn’t really feel like writing this trip down, but I figured I may as well get it done and over with, since I did visit some new places this trip (despite being in the same cities yet again). Unlike previous trip journals, I’ll be focusing more on where we went instead of my feelings or thoughts during the trip. So this was a trip which I somewhat promised my Xiamen pen-friend that I’ll bring him along for, and so I did. The best part is – I planned the…

After 3 years of hiatus, finally I was able to get myself back in Japan. The airticket fare was expensive (I booked them right after Japan’s Prime Minister announced that Japan will allow visa-free, independent tourism again), but the hotels booked were surprisingly cheap. I guess the hoteliers didn’t get around adjusting their prices yet, when I made my room bookings. Heh. Despite what I said in the 2019 trip blog that I won’t want to travel with Bruno again, I had to this round, simply because my mom still didn’t allow me to travel on my own and she didn’t want to go with me on this trip. Sigh……

Prologue It was a trip that happened in Oct 2019, but I had only managed to finish writing and posting it in 2022. I’m such a procrastinator… This, will most likely be my last overseas trip with Bruno. I have finally came to realise that we are really not compatible – I get all upset with him during travels because he was just way too passive and I need to push him to do every single thing. He cannot react to situations and everything needs to be highlighted and instructed by me before he would go do it. This has made my travels with him very frustrating and I am…

Prologue This Tokyo trip was initially supposed to be just a short Hong Kong getaway. Until I realised that topping up a few more hundreds, I can visit Japan instead. I picked Tokyo for the short 7 days trip, and honestly it’s still wasn’t enough to explore Tokyo. This write up will not have too many words – my Dad passed away just a couple of days after I came back from the trip. Just a few days prior to the trip, I suddenly had a very bad premonition, to the point where I almost wanted to cancel the trip. I kept feeling that something will happen to me during…

All posts will be missing photos as I don’t plan to upload photos anymore… Most of these older travel journals were originally written with photos embedded, and I don’t plan to re-write them, so please ignore some of the weird sentence structures… (or you can visualise the photos yourself – I’m not stopping you. :D) Japan Trip 2016 Day 1 (13th Dec 2016) After months and months of planning, the day had finally come for a proper overseas trip with Bruno (the Manila Major doesn’t count since it’s solely to attend an event), and the destination was none other than Japan! Japan is a country where I’ve always wanted to…