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I know I did! I decided to write this article because in order to convert my Singapore driving license to a Japanese one, I had gone through days and days of worries and uncertainties, so I hope that this complete guide will ease some of your anxiety for this rather complex procedure.

I had been holding a Malaysian driving license all my life until I moved to Singapore, and converted it to a Singapore equivalent. In March , I moved to Tokyo when the pandemic hit, and as you know, you are required to drive in Japan with an international license, which you could easily apply from your country before visiting Japan.

Seeing how highly unlikely for me to return to Singapore to renew my driving license, the only way for me to still retain the qualification to maneuver a road vehicle without being sent to the prison a is to convert it into a Japanese driving license.

And I did! And boy was it an anxious months-long affair. Note that once your existing foreign license has expired, you are required to enroll in a driving school from ground zero, which is a very, very tedious, time consuming and expensive process in Japan. So, I had about half a year to have my license converted before being disqualified into a complete noob all over again.

Well, the thing is that converting your foreign license is not so much a straightforward process, even though it is a much, much simplified version compared to acquiring a fresh one from the start. Looking at how the world is still constantly being flipped upside down by the mischief of Rona-chan, while most of us are itching to get on that next flight out of the country for some long-awaited vacay fun, it does look like international traveling is thrown off the window indefinitely for now.

I am sure even people who live in this heaven on earth called Japan maybe except me aha are looking forward to explore places outside of the island, as I have been hearing how some of my fellow friends in Japan miss visiting Hawaii, or New York, or Paris…. However, to be honest, after living in Japan for a while now, traveling outside of the country kind of intimidates me.

Given how much of a scatterbrain I am, I will probably misplace all my phone, camera and wallet under 1 hour upon arriving a foreign land. And then I am also stressed out about all the bargaining, having to watch your belongings attentively, getting familiar with tipping system, and… unknown hygiene. And so, I have found the perfect solution for those who are currently stuck in Japan but are looking for a piece of adventure abroad — to travel around the world, IN JAPAN.

This spring, I ventured off to Kagawa prefecture for more new discoveries. I have been to Kagawa in the past twice, in winter and summer. This time around I am back to witness this smallest prefecture of Japan dressed in all spring colors.

Read my previous articles on Kagawa here! Things have been slowly looking better for Japan and I have spent the first two months of the year busy exploring new places around Japan — virtually or not. The allure of Japan is simply endless. Today, I will be introducing a new itinerary to explore the Central Japan region.

We will be looking at 4 main prefectures: Gifu, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui , with Nagoya city as the base for this travel itinerary. The Central Japan Region is a year-round destination that offers an abundance of nature and delicious food every season. My favorite is still winter, though, given the inland of Central Japan gets plenty of snowfall in the colder months, making it a magical wonderland especially for tropical creatures like me!

Plan your next winter holiday in Central Japan by using the Takayama-Hokuriku Area Tourist Pass to enjoy five days of unlimited rides on designated JR local and limited express trains, the Hokuriku Shinkansen, and buses within the Central Region.

You can check some of their highlight spots at the Central Japan Travel Fair specially for Singaporeans! I am putting together a day-by-day itinerary, including some of the places I have been in the past, and some that I have not and would really love to visit, together with information I hope will be useful for your planning.

Here is a sample itinerary that can help you get the most value out of your Takayama-Hokuriku Pass:. Now that we have entered , I have been creating content for 17 years now. This is a special post dedicated to Hamamatsu City of Shizuoka prefecture, and also the final post of my Tokai journey. This most populated city of Shizuoka prefecture may be unbeknownst to many travelers who are too eager to make a beeline for the magnificent Mt Fuji, but if you scratch the surface just a little deeper, you will find Hamamatsu itself full of allures with plenty to offer, from the niche legacy for avid musicians to fun resorts for the entire family of all ages.

Think avant garde vocaloid keyboard, fresh mandarin-orange-picking, and delicious eels. Easily accessible from both Nagoya and Tokyo on the Shinkansen about an hour from Tokyo, and 1. Shizuoka is also home to Mt Fuji, although its neighbour Yamanashi Prefecture shares half the privilege as the magnificent mountain straddles right between both prefectures.

Izu was one of my most frequented resort destinations from Tokyo, given how easily accessible it is from the metropolitan. The journey was barely an hour. Nagoya has proved itself a charming city that has won a place in my heart, as you have read in my previous article.

To think that Nagoya is just one of the many allures Aichi prefecture has to offer, I truly wonder how many lives I will need to eventually see enough of Japan till I tire… which is never. I was ashamed how little I know of Aichi before the trip, given how this region holds some of the most significant historic events during the Warring Period in Japan, and is the birth place of the three greatest war heroes ever known in Japan — Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

People in Aichi are not shy to proudly boasts about their home prefecture, and they rightly should! Hopefully by the end of this post you will be convinced that Aichi is so, so much than just Nagoya. Today, we are exploring the third largest city of Japan, Nagoya. Nagoya is so widely known worldwide that many has mistaken it as a prefecture itself, just like Tokyo and Osaka.

Nagoya is but a city of Aichi Prefecture, but this charming city has so many allures in itself that I am dedicating an exclusive post to it. We will be looking at other attractions in other regions of Aichi prefecture in a separate post later on.

First of all, if I must be completely honest, Nagoya was never on my list of sightseeing priorities given how much of urban vibe I already get in Tokyo daily. Nagoya to me, was but a station seen out of the windows of Nozomi shinkansen whizzes through from Tokyo to the west of Japan.

Of course there are other bloggers too like Merry Riana , originally from Indonesia before she moved to Singapore. She has 1. A recent ranking by Alvinology. It was designed by her web designer. I cannot think of any other example to describe such an ad except this one ….

This ad by Xiaxue is not only misleading to consumers, but also insulting the intelligence of long-time readers of her blog… Did she really think she has lost her pioneer readers and that no one will remember what she wrote in her earlier blog posts? She was just trying too hard to sell a product she will never use — masking her lies behind hashtags … Was she trying to be funny satirical?? So how? Smart consumers will of course tap on the world wide web to look for other reviews or slimming centres instead of relying on just one source or limited sources.

I would like to highlight two bloggers from Nuffnang who do NOT use any hashtags to indicate if their ads are sponsored or not. A random check on other Nuffnang bloggers like jadeseah and jaynetham also revealed no hashtags even though there appears to be a lot of sponsored posts in just one page in their instagram accounts.

After all the noisy ruckus Xiaxue created since 23 Dec , she appears to have absolutely no impact whatsoever in the industry including her own colleagues from Nuffnang. Did he neglect to advise Xiaxue to check her own dirty laundry first before attempting to air the dirty laundries of others in order to avoid embarrassing herself?? Did she use oatmeal as shown in the video which was not made by her to begin with?

She failed to credit another blogger Miyake who was the real user and producer behind the video.. She probably selected a blue background to match the background color of the ad in the Maybelline website advertising that product. Xiaxue was attempting to promote a Foundation — and a popular international brand at that — that was supposed to have been applied on her face at the time of the photoshoot for the ad.

Did she even use the product at all?? Well, unless of course she wants to hoodwink readers that she used the exact same product 2 years earlier wearing the exact same dress, exact same hairdo and hair color. Nope, Xiaxue never did promote that product earlier than August She did promote OTHER Maybelline products though, like mascara and eyeliner, but not foundation, much less this particular product that was only launched in Note : This last section will probably remain open for updates unless pigs start flying and Xiaxue stops lying.

Disclaimers : 1. I am not with Gushcloud nor any other social media agencies. I am not Anti-PAP. Two main things that Xiaxue probably did NOT wanted readers to see …. Who should be held more accountable? Who is more unethical in this case? Is the industry only made up of Nuffnang and Gushcloud? If what she says above is true, why not spy on other companies too , why only target Gushcloud? Flora Isabelle WHO?

And in a magazine interview, Xiaxue also admitted that she makes a poor role model. Xiaxue did this ad in Sept … MaskedAd This ad by Xiaxue is not only misleading to consumers, but also insulting the intelligence of long-time readers of her blog… Did she really think she has lost her pioneer readers and that no one will remember what she wrote in her earlier blog posts?

What good would a wedding discount card have done for her? Consumers : whose review will you believe?