Happy New Year everyone!!!

And hello hello Singaporeans!

This is us invading your precious land and i’m going to spawn cute babies all over your beautiful country lolol.

No la. Actually i have been so stressed out by the whole relocation thing.

In Kuala Lumpur, we finally have our own beautiful apartment that allows the existence of Champon and made friends with a grand total of one awesome neighbor, I finally found the perfect school for Junya and he’s just settling down to a wider social circle, and all these will have to come to an abrupt change. read more

So we are finally settling down to our new life in Singapore after one week!

So thankful for the danna who came here early and put together all the furniture in our new apartment.

Everything is falling into place except for a few minor things like a microwave (come to think of it that’s super important), TV (that can come later, or we can even do without it), more toys for Junya to keep him engaged, etc. We also haven’t installed any phone line/internet in our apartment so that’s probably the biggest problem! read more

Before i forget, let’s do this and see what happened in year 2015!

Actually this pretty much sums it up.

Baby, babies and more babies.

I went back to my 2014 post to see what kind of things that i wrote (i didn’t even remember if i wrote one, that’s how much your baby is messing with your brain).

And i wrote that my resolutions for 2015 were:

1. Be as happy as i did in 2014!!! If not more!

I think it has been a very happy year.

It wasn’t as smooth sailing as 2014 because i got really busy with motherhood and our family had less time spent together because of work. I was quite stressed out with some issue (and still trying to sort it out), and i was really depressed for a short period of time when the haze was haunting the whole country. read more

The danna went back to Japan for work, and i took the opportunity to order lots of stuff from Japanese online stores so he could bring them back.

And these are the kind of things i bought:

They say that when you become a mother, you just forget to buy things for yourself. I have come to realize that it is so true.

This is a shopping haul post, which probably will be of zero use to you since it’s exactly the kind of thing you can’t buy if you are out of Japan. But if you are thinking of shipping it from Japan, you can always find these on Akachanhonpo online store and also general drugstores like Matsumoto Kiyoshi. read more

Everybody knows the health benefit of green tea! In fact it has such goodness that it is also a popular ingredient in beauty products.

How do you like your green tea to be and how do you usually drink it? For me, it is the default drink every time i visit a Japanese restaurant. It’s almost as if you don’t need any other choice.

My favorite type of green tea is Matcha (Yes they are both green tea but there’s a distinctive difference!), i love it in everything including ice cream, chocolate, and any sort of desserts. Matcha is so much love!! However Matcha is has much higher caffein than the usual loose-leaf green tea, so now that i am pregnant i am sticking to lighter version of green tea. read more

Today we celebrate our third wedding anniversary.

We spent our first anniversary in a Hakone ryokan with an extra family member in my belly.

We spent the second anniversary in our little apartment in Japan, eating combini-bought Christmas cake and other assorted tapao from food market, with our 6-month old Junya.

This year, we are in our newly rented apartment in Singapore, trying to adjust to our new temporarily life in a new city, with the 18 month old Junya, and a 19 weeks old baby in the belly. read more