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These days I’ve been quite busy finding hotels for my trip to Malaysia and Singapore. As you may have been familiar with it, but I like to use Trip Advisor whenever I find accommodations for myself especially for international travel.
I have to say that sometimes reviews look a bit exaggerated and I am often confused between bad ones and good ones. But after all I have to convince myself that each one has different way of thinking. If I think it’s good, then I just try it. That’s it. What I like most about this website is “CHECK RATES!” function. While many reservation service sites open, I often like to settle at either BOOKING.COM or Hotels.com.

What about domestic travel? Of course, Trip Advisor again! But actually when I travel inside Japan, I’d rather check out Jalan first. Comments and ratings left to each hotel registered at Jalan are trustworthy. What I like about Jalan is that I can save points which I can use for my next reservation through Jalan. This means I can get discount just because I make a reservation through Jalan first of all, and also that I can have my points deducted from total amount of payment. The points are valid for about 2 years. In order to make reservations through Jalan, membership registration is required. I also enjoy their email newsletters even while I cannot afford anything.

*Disclaimer: the image is from one of Jalan’s email newsletters.

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Japanese singles say that they want to get married but they cannot find a good partner. This is becoming a social problem today, and many of them work harder to meet someone to tie the knot. Work…what? Konkatsu! Activity for marriage!

According to the statistics, one out of 2 singles of the age between 30 and 34 is not married. In fact, many of my friends are serious about Konkatsu. Some take cooking classes, matchmaking parties every weekend, and always ask me to introduce someone to them. I have no idea why they have to struggle so much because they are all nice & kawaii girls to me.

Herbivore men may need to be more active to meet women. Some of them are too shy to talk to women. Anyhow Konkatsu-related businesses are growing in Japan thanks to those people. You know most of Japanese people are very shy and so they need someone to conduct the situation for smooth communication with strangers.

Here’s a sample video that introduces a man who takes a lesson “how to make Omiai (blind date) successful” at a Konkatsu agancy.

Konkatsu lessons

cooking lessons (@5,000yen)
styling fee (10,000yen/month)
party (5,500yen)…Usually men have to pay way more than women.

GREEN single’s bar (Konkatsu bar)

Major Konkatsu-matching agents
Onet
Bridal Net
SunMarie
Nozze
zwei

However, some women pay more attention to the requirements to her partner such as how much he earns yearly and they repeat hopping Konkatsu parties one after another to expect next one should be better. Well…it depends, but I think that marriage is give and take. A man and a woman help each other.

I have a friend about 40 years old who joins one or two of the above agencies. She dated several guys but she was so much disappointed to hear they asked her to stay at home, do things around him to support him so he can concentrate on his work. How outdated these guys are! They should stay with their mom forever~!!

Is Konkatsu sort of activity popular in your country, too?

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★100 yen shop★
everywhere

Do you like 100 yen shop? As you may already know, unless priced, everything is 100 yen and it’s pretty simple. In fact, when we hear “100 yen”, it sounds cheap. But don’t be cheated! If you take a close look at some items such as snack or candy, you’ll see some of them are more expensive than those of supermarkets’. The container is smaller in order to make it 100 yen, for example. It’s often possible that you can get things cheaper at drug store such as MatsumotoKiyoshi, discount shop such as Donquijote, and DIY store. Most well-known 100yen shop is DAISO. CAN DO is also popular. When it comes to online 100 yen shop, we have 100emon and 100 yen shop doumu. If you want to buy bulky things or so many pieces of goods at a time, online 100 yen shop is a good option. My hubby used to shop from either of them and was quite satisfied with what he got. Kawaii 100 yen shop in the city area is Natural Kitchen. This is really nice! I love to shop here! Especially if you like natural and simple taste, I’m sure you’ll like it. Stores are often inside the station mall in Shibuya, Yokohama, and etc. Kawaii 100 yen shop a bit away from city area is Seria. But I’ve never visited it as there’s none of this store in my area. SHOP99 is 99 yen grocery store. Everything comes with small portion or small number of pieces, and is ideal for single life!

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I wonder when it was last that Japan was said to be a country of nondiscriminatory society. Time has changed and today many Japanese workers suffer from the difference between regular employment and irregular one. In Japan when we do the same job, our salary or social security is different whether we’re hired as regular employee or not. (Yes, this is very unfair!) In fact, many temp-workers have been fired and they turned to be homeless these days.

Japan used to be nicer to the poor and the weak of society but watch this video to see how these people are striving today. They are not lazy. They are doing as much as they can to make their living, but they can not get out of working poor. They are not anything special. Such people can be next door, and this can happen to anyone under such bad economy.

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★Sneakers Special★
5/SEP/2009 on air

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***Sometimes it seems an error occurs that video is not corresponding to the title of the post, even though the HTML code is corresponding. To avoid this, click the title of the post before you just click to play the video. Sorry for confusion, I have no idea why this error happens.

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