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The 20th of Sept went by quite smoothly. Yep, that was the day of our wedding celebration in Taipei. I might put up a separate post about wedding celebrations in each of my home cities at a later stage (fingers crossed). What I will happily do is share about our belated honeymoon trip to Japan. We stayed in Osaka and travelled around the Kansai area in between, visiting Kyoto and Kobe. It was my first time to Japan and it was T's first time to the Kansai area (he had only been to Tokyo before). I was pretty excited, as Japanese cuisine tops my list. Could not wait to see and try everything in Japan! We arrived in Osaka around 2pm. Osaka is an hour ahead of Taipei (and I only found that out after realising the time on my watch lagged behind my  iPhone. Ha. Fail…). We took the airport limousine bus to the city, which pretty much landed us at Namba Station, where our hotel was situated.  Here are some snippets of Day 1! After leaving out luggage at the hotel,we s...

A belated post. But my first trip to America is surely worth blogging about. Most people are surprised that I've never been to the States up till now. Well, I guess I can cross off my 3rd continent now. Europe, Africa, South America etc will have to wait.  We had a uneventful, albeit slightly bumpy flight to LA. I was doing my best to follow the advice of beauty program gurus (namely, cleanse and moisturise face,neck and arms every 3-4 hours in a long haul flight), so I was armed with a cleanser, toner and 2 masks. It was very dry on the Eva Air flight, and I hate sitting for long periods of time. So it was great to walk around for a bit when I needed to use the washroom to cleanse and moisturise.  Got to LA and queued up for the LONGEST time at immigration. The Asian officer was VERY unfriendly. But I expected nothing more from the infamous American border officials. So after answering a few questions, he slowly stamped my passport and let me through.  I was...