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There is a small fishing island called Tashiro (aka Cat Island) in northeastern Japan, where 100 people and larger number of cats live, and it was hit by the Earthquake followed by the Tsunami on 11 Mar. The island was just a minor part of the huge devastated area where all infrastructures were knoc...

Dear tinkerbell88, Thank you so much for the advice. I went to Brown Rice Paradise and found some henna & indigo mix packs. Glad to know about that! :) Dear l'ange qui passe, Try Brown Rice Paradise at Tanglin Mall? Heard the stuff there is organic and natural, with a well-stocked range of products.

I am a lover of henna and use it for my hair coloring and treatment frequently. I normally buy packed leaf powder products in Little India and apply by myself at home. So far I try to pick up the products that are seemingly natural and contain no chemical stuff based on looks and smells, but I am st...

Those breweries develop constant battles for domestic market shares and every beer lover has different opinion and preference in Japan. Sales-wise, Kirin and Asahi always compete for the largest share (over 35%), then Suntory and Sapporo (10 to 15%). Probably best sellers include Kirin Ichiban Shibo...

Those bath houses or pubs have had only local-based customers who all had common sense and knew unwritten rules for proper attitude in the facilities. Probably the business owners had a kind of headache for the foreign new comers who did not differentiate the traditional bathhouses from recreational...

Bathad, thanks for many outspoken comments. It is sad to say but you are almost right and I understand except for some weird quotations you pasted such as IBM’s recruitment policy :roll: Note most of the Japanese non-functional groups are operated by old males and they have had a big sense of discri...

earthfriendly, oh yes what shall we do with the fact that politicians or corporate executives are less responsible than gangsters! :???: I’m based in Singapore and was able to catch up with both international and Japanese mass media here. I understand what you mean… obviously Japanese media have bee...

Japanese people are individually admirable. The refugees who once experienced the hell and have lost everything still are collected, considerate of others and can behave with dignity. They will never give up coping with the adversity. There have been few lootings and no riot by the panicking people....

Hi Tex thanks for the info. I've never known there are so many different types of night fragrant flowers in the world! I will look for this plant as well and want to try the smell! Cheers, Hi, perhaps you were looking for Saussurea obvallata also known as Brahma Kamal. Large White flowers, long and ...

English one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polianthes_tuberosa

Thanks for the info. I will be busy with exploring the Botanic Gardens

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Thanks, I am very interested. Will go to the Botanic Gardens later and try to smell Tembusu (some heritage trees seem to exist there!) :) Currently all the Tembusu trees are flowering. You only smell it during the evenings. You will see small clusters of tiny white flowers all over three! It is heav...

Not durian unfortunately, though the smell seems to be sweet for some people lol

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Wow exactly!! I found some Ilang Ilang flowers just below my apartment window on the ground! Amazing~

ev-disinfection wrote:Ylang Ylang flower and the night blooming Jasmine.

http://www.tropical-plants-flowers-and- ... smine.html

I feel for the last few weeks some plant smells so sweet after dark. I guess it is a kind of tropic flower or something planted around town, but have not been able to identify which. This is not the first time, but during my stay in Singapore for some years, I sometimes have experienced such nights ...