When you see this number, you know what it means right? That’s right, the maximum weight a suitcase can be on a flight. Self control is a huge factor for humans. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to do much. And restrictions such as 23kgs help us stay in control too. That’s why my suitcase […]

Christchurch New Zealand is building back and doing it right. Personality abounds, although there are still the same chain stores, there are some really cool places that show off the characteristics of the city. Thats the way to do it, and I’m glad they took their time at doing so, although it’s easy for me […]

Overall, I'd say Japan. The cost of living in NZ is so high people struggle just to stay afloat let alone start a business. Housing is the main cause of this, quite obviously. People spend so much of their income just to put a roof over their head, plus the no capital gains tax thing […]

We have contrasting ideas when it comes to work in NZ and Japan. In NZ, there is a high minimum wage, I believe it will be $20 in April, which is about 1350 Japanese Yen. In Japan, the minimum wage varies by prefecture, but in Yamagata it is currently 790 yen, about $11.20NZ. That’s almost […]

If you had the ability to turn off your dreams at night, would you? It would depend on how often you have nightmares, I guess, but because you have dreams that might give you pleasure, would you give that up to stop nightmares?

3.11 taught us a lot. Basically, that there is more to life than worrying about ongoing disasters. By no means am I saying this to be insensitive, but when you’re pummeled with sad news nonstop for days on end, it gets a bit repetitive. 3.11 taught me that it’s ok not to be on top […]

Words can be spoken in different ways, different tones, different stress, different volumes, different accents, different pitches, different combinations, different statuses, and each different way includes a different identity. This identity is something that you can’t just make up by stringing words together, and it’s this identity that both makes languages human, and languages culture. […]