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My experience of asking for discounts.

I came from a place where we could negotiate the cost for example taking a taxi or buying clothes. Usually the price listed buy 1 get 1 for free or 3 for .......When I first came to this country I tho

2023/01/31 04:08

Addressing people

Our culture back home was more difficult to call people. Usually for men, we call uncle and for women we call auntie. Let say the dialect of Teochew( a kind of dialect  Chinese) aunt's side of relativ

2023/01/30 13:49

Japanese has same culture.

When I was a little girl, my mother asked my two older sisters to help her milling rice. In those days we had a kind of round big double separated stones and a handle and a bigger size hole to put ric

2023/01/29 04:23

Addressing someone.

We have a custom calling someone over here. For example married couples. In my generation husbands call the wives ooi, choto or names. As for wives anata or names. When they have children they changed

2023/01/28 05:35

Not only English Language.

Today most people can speak multilingual. Japanese, Mandarin and so on. Of course for communication English, Mandarin and other languages are important. The company might want to employ people who can

2023/01/26 23:48

Setsubun Day

In Japan Setsubun Day falls on Feb 3rd.We have the similiar celebration like back home. Back home we eat dumplings milled from rice. In those days we children were asked by our mother to help rolling

2023/01/24 17:50

Celebrating New Year,

I have experienced two different  ways of celebrating New Year, One is in Japan and the other is in my home town, Athough both countries celebrate New Year but both countries celebrate differently. In

2023/01/23 13:57

Japanese are punctual and well-mannered.

Talking about being punctual Japanese are punctual. Not only people tranportation like  trains, buses are also punctual. If the trains or buses are delayed according to the schedule they usually apolo

2023/01/18 15:52

How sad it was to lose a pet who was so close.

Last month our pet dog named Kojiro suddenly passed away. It was with our family for more than 14 years. We knew sometimes he coughed but it  recovered soon. So we didn't take it seriously. There are

2023/01/17 16:34

Appreciation to the performers of lion and dragon dances.

Recently our family lost our pet dog. How sad I was! And so as the members in our family. No one said but surely they are sad because I am sad.. I tried to forget but our mind automatically can't forg

2023/01/16 03:46

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes.

Japanese Language isn't my mother's tongue. My mother's tongue is Teochew. I progress my Japanese by watching Japanese TV dramas. I've been in Japan for ages but to tell the truth I still make mistake

2023/01/14 05:34

Greeting Cards.

We have greeting cards like Christmas cards, New cards and so. Most countries start sending greeting cards earlier but as for Japanese New cards if they want the cards to arrive on the first day, they

2023/01/12 13:44

It is time to say goodbye.

Today our family was free so we went to visit Kojiro. I brought along what Kojiro loved. It is hard to say goodbye but I decided to say goodbye to Kojiro and I only think good memories of him for thes

2023/01/08 21:21

Winter and Summer.

I am sorry to say but I feel difficult to live in these two seasons. If there aren't these two seasons I could enjoy more here. As in Winter it is pretty cold and in Summer it is pretty hot. Luckily w

2023/01/06 07:12

January 9th

5 decades have passed. It was the day I left my country for the present place I am now in. I was sent by my mother, siblings, nieces and nephew at the  Changi airport. I arrived in Japan at night and

2023/01/04 12:48

Ebisan( the business of Osaka)

We have Ebisan in Osaka. It is the town of businesses. It falls on Jan 9th 10th and 11th. Usually people who are doing their own businesses visit the shrine and they buy stalk of bamboo with many deco

2023/01/04 03:46

Porridge of Nanakusa (7 kinds of veggies)

We have a custom of boiling 7 kinds of veggies to eat. In those days we just gathered 7 kinds of veggies but now we can get them in a plastic pack. Why do we have this custom? During New Year we had g

2023/01/03 00:53

Porridge of Nanakuma (7 kinds of veggies)

We have a custom of boiling 7 kinds of veggies to eat. In those days we just gathered 7 kinds of veggies but now we can get them in a plastic pack. Why do we have this custom? During New Year we had g

2023/01/03 00:49